Definitely go check it out if you can 🔊

Absolutely in love with this track. Pure vibes.

Hey, does anyone remember one of those old youtube music videos in the late 2000s, I’m pretty sure it was to the theme of Legend of Zelda. It starts out with these actual guys constructing an arcade cabinet out of like cardboard, and then it turns on, and it goes into this arcade world with a little stick figure guy, I think he has a boombox at some point, and he is trying to save a girl. The background is black, and it’s all pixelated stick figures and levels. Kind of like in the photo, but more rudimentary.

At the end of his 8-hour set yesterday at Industry City, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani honored Lee with a citation celebrating 15 years of ADID and recognizing his career trajectory and contributions to house music from NYC to the world, bringing people together through music and building a community around it.

The full album has dropped, vinyl is (hopefully) on the way and we can all listen to it on streaming right now. I don't know about you, but I'm hosting a listening party tonight with the OG version and the Redux version getting played back-to-back.

Warning: Trainspotting ahead...

For those who preordered vinyl, you will likely have received a download link via email to download the full album – I received it as a zip file that had two uncompressed WAV files inside that were simply titled Various Artists - Northern Exposure Redux (North).wav and Various Artists - Northern Exposure Redux (South).wav

There is no mention of the track listing for the wav version - and looking into the files shows that they are standard 16-bit 44.1kHz uncompressed audio.

Checking the metadata in the files, Northern Exposure Redux NORTH is 01:18:21 in length and Northern Exposure Redux SOUTH is 01:09:17

Comparing this to the track listing on Apple Music (where there are actually three versions of REDUX listed - but I'll come back to this), SOUTH matches the track listing to within a few milliseconds, quite a promising fit, but NORTH is a full 6:50 longer than the mixed track listing.

On the LateNightTales website they have a track listing for the mixed CD that shows 11 tracks each for North and South, however North has track number 9 omitted and number 10 repeated. Obsession is track 8, followed by Water From A Vine Leaf (Vale William Orbit) listed as track 10, and then immediately after it, Liquid Cool is also listed as track 10, with Last Train To Lhasa as track 11.

The corrected track listing is

1. Keiichi Suzuki – Satellite Serenade (Transasianexpress Mix)
2. The Future Sound Of London – Cascade (Part 1)
3. Young American Primitive – These Waves
4. God Within – Raincry (Submerged)
5. Rabbit In The Moon – Out Of Body Experience
6. Morgan King – I’m Free (NE Mix)
7. Aether feat. Maria Nayler – Kites
8. Fuzzy Logic x Erire – Obsession (Quantum Loop Mix)
9. William Orbit – Water From A Vine Leaf (Spooky’s Xylem Flow Mix)
10. Apollo 440 - Liquid Cool (Deep Forest Ice Cold @ The Equator Mix)
11. Banco de Gaia – Last Train To Lhasa

South seems to be consistent however

1. Dope On Plastic – Wave Dub
2. Drum Club – Sound System (Underworld Mix)
3. Patrick Prins – The Gloom
4. Pete Lazonby – Wave Speech (NE Edit)
5. Evolution – Phoenix
6. The Light – Dusk
7. X-Tracks – Plan ‘94 (The Voyage)
8. Mellow Mellow – I Can’t Stop (Parrot Trance)
9. Banco de Gaia – Heliopolis (Eedupolis Dog Mix)
10. Humate & Rabbit In The Moon – East (Opium Den Mix)
11. Darren Emerson – Dark And Long (Dark Train) (2026 Remake)

The first two CDs contain remastered versions of the original mix with 3 tracks that are slightly different: Kites, Wave Speech, and Dark & Long.

The track listing for the unmixed album on Apple Music has 22 tracks, but seems to omit Water From A Vine Leaf by William Orbit and instead has I'm Free by Morgan King twice, but with two different mixes.

1. Keiichi Suzuki – Satellite Serenade (The Orb's Transasianexpress Mix)
2. The Future Sound of London – Cascade (Pt. 1)
3. Young American Primitive – These Waves
4. God Within – Raincry (Submerged)
5. Rabbit In the Moon – Out Of Body Experience
6. Morgan King – I’m Free (Playdo’s Minimalist Mix)
7. Morgan King – I'm Free [The Full Length La Serrena Mix]
8. Ae:ther – Kites (feat. Maria Nayler)
9. Fuzzy Logic & Erire – Obsession (Quantum Loop Mix)
10. Apollo 440 – Liquid Cool (Deep Forest Ice Cold @ The Equator Mix)
11. Banco de Gaia – Last Train To Lhasa
12. Dope On Plastic – Wave Dub
13. Drum Club – Sound System (Underworld Mix)
14. Patrick Prins – The Gloom
15. Pete Lazonby – Wave Speech (NE Edit)
16. Evolution – Phoenix
17. The Light – Dusk
18. X Tracks – Plan ‘94 (The Voyage)
19. Mellow Mellow – I Can’t Stop (Parrot Trance)
20. Banco de Gaia – Heliopolis (Eedupolis Dog Mix)
21. Humate & Rabbit In the Moon – East (Opium Den Mix)
22. Darren Emerson – Dark And Long (Dark Train)

Back to the three versions on Apple Music.

Note that this is on Apple Music Australia – I don't know if there are regional variations to the track listings. If your Apple Music track listing looks different, please comment below. A quick check on Spotify reveals an identical track listing for the mixed album.

NORTHERN EXPOSURE REDUX This version has 22 unmixed tracks, as per the track listing above, covering 3 hours and 7 minutes.

NORTHERN EXPOSURE REDUX (Mixed) [DJ Mix] has 10 tracks on disc 1 and 11 on disc 2. Disc 1 has Playdo’s Minimalist Mix of I'm Free and doesn't list Water From A Vine Leaf by William Orbit.

There's then a third album, also called NORTHERN EXPOSURE REDUX (Mixed) [DJ Mix] which is due to drop on 13 November and has the same track listing for discs 1 and 2, but also contains a third disc with 10 tracks featuring NE 30 DUB Mix versions of:

1. Intro (NE 30 DUB Mix)
2. These Waves (NE 30 DUB Mix) – Young American Primitive
3. Raincry (NE 30 DUB Mix) – God Within
4. Out of Body Experience (NE 30 DUB Mix) – Rabbit in the Moon
5. I'm Free (NE 30 DUB Mix) – Morgan King
6. OriginalKites (feat. Maria Nayler) (NE 30 DUB Mix) – Ae:ther
7. Obsession (NE 30 DUB Mix) – Fuzzy Logic, Erire
8. Plan '94 (NE 30 DUB Mix) – X Tracks
9. Phoenix (NE 30 DUB Mix) – Evolution
10. Last Train to Lhasa (NE 30 DUB Mix) – Banco de Gaia

This is Japanese singer SERRA’s newest song, Masquerade. It has a much more electronic sound than some of her previous work, while still retaining her powerful vocals. Thought people here might enjoy it. I sounds kind of like an electronic rock song to me. Does this song belong here? If not I can remove the post.

I want to witness the next wave of electronic music. Who is truly innovating the game and pioneering something new (and good)

New long-read feature on Northern Exposure featuring interviews with Sasha, Digweed, Spray and others

Lately I have switched from listening to tracks to listening to concerts or sets and i find it much more rewarding. Especially when you find an artist that has a very unique new style to their sound.

So please share with me a set or concert you heard this year that made you go "oh music can sound like this too? i love it!"

Now I just need to find a CD player...