2024
November
This mix goes hither and thither, yet the tracks seem somehow related to one another—different, but able to hang together. Imagine that.
August
This is a lively techno mix built for handling existential quandaries and fuelling the need to press on, no matter what.
2023
July
This is a breezy mix full of sunshine, sand and sea. In summer it’s the perfect place to be.
This mix combines vinyl and digital releases, some from this year and some from much older times.
2022
November
I had a lot of fun mixing these hefty drum and bass numbers. Things get dark. Things get trippy. And things get rather hectic, ripping through 46 tracks in just under two hours.
September
This mix is a simmering, laid back slow burner. Perfect for this charred and thoroughly baked end of summer.
June
These are some of my favourite songs to soundtrack the start of summer for this… time of life.
This mix is completely off the cuff. It turned out pretty good for something thrown together so I thought I’d share this little trip down memory lane.
May
This mix is a techno Odyssey.
April
I love music that captures conflicting emotions. Songs that are dark, ecstatic, emotional and most of all viscerally danceable. I’ve been listening to these tracks a lot lately. It’s time to shake things up.
January
This is a mix-heavy affair of my favourite rave tracks right now. Let’s go for a (t)rip, shall we?
2021
December
This mix is meant to be a reprieve. A time to breathe and shoulder through the worst to get to anything better.
October
This mix is a long one at just under two hours. It’s a collection of my favourite tracks right now, most of which have a touch of drama while keeping the groove strictly on the dancefloor.
August
This mix is meant to be uplifting and was made to celebrate a life well lived, and a life worth living—free of inhibitions and fear, and full of love.
May
This mix is rife with dreamy drama and sleepy tension. It’s inspired by night walks, feelings of yearning and relentless insomnia.
March
This mix brings together uniquely textured tracks and builds in intensity as it progresses. It’s inspired by sleepless nights spent ruminating about the past and uneasily anticipating the future.
January
This is an eclectic mix of storming techno numbers, retro house grooves, sinister synth stompers, foggy organic jams and more.
2020
December
This mix is a collection of songs I’ve been listening to a lot lately. It’s meant to brighten up these long winter nights and take you somewhere warm for a while.
November
This mix is a heavy one. It’s an imaginary rave complete with smoke, lasers, a quaking soundsystem, and most importantly, a room full of sweaty fist pumping friends.
October
This mix is eerie. It’s a spooky time of year and an unsettled time of life.
2011
March
This mix is a sprawling epic, inspired by the need to move on, and wanting to never let go.
February
This mix is reminiscent of my earlier posts on jimrebel.com—it’s upbeat, eclectic and references a number of styles, including electro, house, vocal, and more ‘progressive’ song structures.
January
This mix is inspired by irrational fears—real, imagined and otherwise.
2010
November
Part One takes off on a runway made of pins and needles.
Part Two is a tearful glance at an old photograph rife with smoke filled memories of friends and past lives.
Part Three is a long shot, a dark breathless omniscient landscape, a closed eye in the sky.
October
This is a mix-heavy hour and a half, tripping through a range of sounds all squarely aimed at the dance floor. Turn the lights down.
August
This mix mingles stripped down punchy tracks with more expansive and emotive tunes. The mood is jaunty, sinister, and heartfelt.
July
This mix takes a mucky kaleidoscopic flight that starts off in dark branches, and slowly angles toward a golden slice of moon in a warm night sky.
June
This mix is fueled by amazing memories, as well as a great sadness that a like-minded individual and friend has died. The punk music in this mix is a fairly typical play list from the old days. These songs really bring me back to the best years of my friendship with Kevin, and the politics of this music will always resonate with me.
May
This mix floats between eerie tensions and uneasy openings. The tracks are like my garden—organic, spacious, somewhat orderly but messy in places, and potentially delicious.
April
This mix is casual and uplifting in a spaced out kind of way. It’s inspired by the fresh spring air blowing through my open window.
March
This mix is full of smoke, dusty photographs and reminiscence and is an aggregate of my favorite tracks to come out for a long while—there’s definitely a vibe here that references a lot of the electronic music that makes up the foundation for what I listen to (and listen for) in current releases.
February
This mix is, for the most part, a heavy one. It is dedicated to anyone who has ever stood up to corruption, convention or ‘common sense’ and said “No. Things don’t have to be this way.” You are my heroes.
January
This mix is a space epic, inspired by all the other inhabitable planets out there.
2009
December
This mix is a festive toast to comfortable company, and some of the best cooking and baking I’ve ever eaten in my life.
November
I’ve been really into two fairly specific styles of track lately. One is spacey and moody, ethereal or ‘ghost-like.’ The other is more organic, with sounds sampled from ‘traditional’ instruments. This mix marries these two styles and incorporates a definite ‘tip of the hat’ to the classic early 90s era of electronic music.
September
This is a travelling mix, so to speak—inspired by a lust for life… and rain on the windshield.
August
This mix is wistful, eclectic and is the third part of what has become a summer trilogy including the Flotation Device and Hot and Bothered mixes. It is inspired by the joys that can come with change, and the ability to comfortably let go of the past.
July
This mix is lively and fun. I mix up the beats a bit as well. There are breakbeats, ‘bmore’ beats, lo-fi and hi-fi beats… and plenty of bass to shake things up a bit.
June
This mix is all about the lighter things. It’s more a pound of feathers than a pound of lead, if you catch my drift, and is inspired by how a good laugh can sometimes change everything.
May
With this mix I go back to basics: make it sound like something is either happening, or about to happen. The result is a stormer—perfect for road trips to old cities, visits to small islands, and flights, both international and fanciful.
March
I’ve never been very good at celebrating milestones in my life, but today I’m happy to say that this mix roughly marks the two year anniversary of jimrebel.com. This mix is fraught with tension, and was heavily inspired by the voices a seventh cup of coffee can bring to a sleepless mind.
February
This mix is a bit spooky. It’s inspired by the breathing sounds I heard in the hallway the other day, and how I felt when I called out and realized there was no one there.
2008
December
I’ve been busy preparing to move and settling in to my new job so this mix is a bit off the cuff and packed with nervous excitement.
November
“Lightening Up” is a small collection of tracks that I’ve been listening to a lot lately. I think the tone of the mix reflects my own tearily happy mood. It’s sure nice to get some good news.
September
This one is a mix-heavy affair, and was inspired by my old disco 7“s from when I was a kid. If I hadn’t listened to those tracks thousands of times during my formative years I’d be a different person today.
August
This mix swims darkly. I’ve selected these tracks mainly for their texture and moodiness—reflections of light on the surface of a deep and ever present abyss.
July
This mix is a bit of a long’un at just over two hours, and it’s a tribute to enjoying the simple things this summer like stashing a bottle of vodka in your beach bag, drinking a spiked slushie on the bus or enjoying a nice cold six-pack in the parking lot next to the beer and wine…
June
This is something of a Lifelike tribute mix. I think that Lifelike is the best remixer of 2008 (so far) and his tracks are so perfect for summer. Here are my favorite Lifelike tracks and a few songs that have a similar vibe in a fifty minute mix that’s just perfect for beach ghetto blaster action this season.
May
This mix is much more subtle and spacious than my last few mixes. It runs just over an hour and has some of my favorite tech-style tracks from the past month or so…
This is a small mix (37mins) of slightly more minimal tracks that I think makes a friendly companion to the spacehaus mix.
April
This mix starts off in a chaise lounge at a day-party in my backyard (or yours), then after smoking too much weed it decides to go for an uneasy (yet psychedelically meaningful) walk. A little later it comes back to the party and ‘drinks the fear away’ while pumping up it’s bike tires to go for what turns out to be the sweetest, most epic seaside bike ride of all time.
This mix is a little different. After the crazy intensity of my last few dancefloor-centric outings I really wanted to make a mix with some of the more ‘indie’ sounding songs I’ve had on repeat lately…
March
This is a minimix compared to my last post; it’s 18 tracks in about 50 mins. I start out heavy on the dancefloor, take a brief vacation, and bring it home fully tripped out.
2007
December
I’d recommend a bottle or two of champagne to go with this mix… but then again I’d recommend a bottle or two of champagne to go with just about anything! Enjoy.
October
It’s Fall, a time for change. And since I’ve had so much on my plate lately, I’ve been spending way too much time procrastinating and sifting through all of the the rad new releases of this past month. Here are twenty five of the sickest offerings of Fall 2007 in a 58 minute mix…
September
These are 28 of my favorite new tracks squeezed into a 60 minute set that I hope will appease even the most easily bored electronic music fans…
August
This has been an incredible season for tracks. Anything from low fidelity indie disco treats to spooky vocal numbers to hands in the air dancefloor fillers to tricked out classics to weird heavy rollers to dance rock remixes… and on and on. It’s all here in this fresh multinational mix…
May
These are some of my favorite rock inspired tracks from the past year or so (and the past couple of weeks), with epic interludes scattered here and there to space out your head…
Here’s a selection of some of my favorite tracks from the spring of 2007. This mix starts on a sweaty Berlin dancefloor and ends up tranced out in a field somewhere.
April
So much music I hear these days is completely centered around immediate gratification; catchy maximalism to get drunk and rock out to… and I’m all for it. But there’s another part of me that craves something deeper…
March
I’m spinning mostly techno these days, but I felt compelled to do a tribute mix for Jackie Mittoo, the Keyboard King of Studio One. He was a true genius on the keyboards, and I could only imagine what kind of music he’d be making with today’s technology if he were still with us.
February
This mix is a heavy hitter. When I’m rockin’ it on the dance floor having some laughs and exchanging hi-fives this is what I want to hear…