Rob Curtis - 10 Years of Production

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This is a special episode for me, a milestone really. 2013 marked the 10th year since my very first release was published. To commemorate the occaision I have put together the first podcast I have ever done that features a tracklist comprised entirely of tracks by yours truly. Original tracks, remixes I have done as well as a couple of choice remixes that others have done of my original works.

At first I didn't really know if I would be able to pull off a full mix of my own stuff but as I started to dust off some of the old tracks things began to come together quickly. Before I knew it I had over two hours of music on my hands. Once I had the basic layout down, I began to do a number of edits and reworks to knit the individual tracks together better and give a better flow to the whole work. What you are hopefully listening to now as you read this is the outcome of about 20 hours of meticulous editing, re-mastering and tweaking of these tracks to work together as a whole.

My journey as a published artist began back in 2003 when I entered a remix competition held by Release Records out of Toronto. The track to remix was by Medway and was titled "Trauma". It featured a cool little spoken word sample by Ice Tea and some really cool stems to play around with. Back in those days I was still very much walking the line between trance and progressive house and my mix is a wash of reverb tails and big crashy booms. Somehow I managed to catch the ear of the folks at Release and they picked my mix among the hundreds that they received and released it on vinyl.

It seemed fitting that I should start this mix off with the track that started me off. Over the course of the two hours of music in this mix, I travel in a lot of different directions from the more traditionally progressive to trance, tech house, deep house and even breaks. Please enjoy this journey through time and sound and help me to celebrate 10 years of releasing music to the masses!

Tracklist:

1. Medway - Trauma (Rob Curtis Mix)

2. Medway & John Morgan - Toobin' (Rob Curtis Mix)

3. Rob Curtis - Backeia (Dale Anderson Mix)

4. Rob Curtis - Faded Too Deep

5. Rob Curtis - Dense Waffles

6. Rob Curtis - Quicksilver (Anisotropic Mix)

7. Marcelo Castelli - Montevideo (Rob C's Punta Del Este Mix)

8. Rob Curtis - Eclectic

9. Rob Curtis - Twilight

10. Rob Curtis - Clandestine

11. Rob Curtis - Body in Motion

12. Wes Straub - Lost in Humidity (Rob Curtis Mix)

13. Rob Curtis & Jerome Robbins - Starkid's Theme

14. Rob Curtis - Hollowed Out

15. Rob Curtis - The Assessment

16. Rob Curtis - Backeia