Pesto Music asked me to do a DJ Mix that coincides with the release of my wife Sandra's new track coming out on their imprint April 20th, 2008. Sandra's new track called "Higher" will be coming out in two EPs. The first one (Pesto 011) will include Jay-J's (Shifted Music) mixes and Jon Silva's aka The Mulder (Pesto Music). The second EP (Pesto 011R) will have remixes by Justin Michael (Hermosa Recordings), Thomas White (Natural Rhythm), and our own Torin Rea (WCC). We've already passed out some promos to a few jocks and we are getting great feedback. You can hear Jay-J's vocal mix in my set (track 11). If you are part of the Pesto community you will get this mix as an iTunes Podcast. If not you can download right here. You will also notice that this mix is at higher bit rate. The mixes on this site are at 128kps but as of the PestoMix they will be 192kps. Bandwidth is getting cheaper so I'm passing on the savings to you :)

Tags: Pesto Music, Sandra Lima, Mixes, Jay-J

WCC RADIO EP002 (February 2008) is now ready for download. If you are wondering why it's here after EP003 then read the entry below. The point is that it's here now so you are getting two shows this month :) The first hour is deeper and darker than I usually play but the mix brings the soul back in hour two. Check it out and let me know what you think of it by rating it after you've listen to it. Enjoy!

Tags: SSRadio UK, WCC, Radio Show

WCC RADIO EP003 (March 2008) is now ready for download. Some of you are probably wondering where is EP002? Last month when the radio show was schedule to air on SS RADIO the WCC was also playing live at BALANCE here in LA. We did a live broadcast from the club that a lot of people got a chance to tune into. Unfortunately the recording of the night had some glitches. Torin is trying to fix it and if he can we will post that set. I then promised that I would record a new EP002 and post it even if it was late. My life got crazy during February (read the post below) and I wasn't able to do it. I still want to do an EP002 not to break our streak so hopefully I can get that done with in the next week or two since I'm finally coming back up for air.

I'm really happy with this EP003. It's Deep, Jackin, Funky, and Soulful and I have for you a preview of my wife Sandra's new track "Higher" that will finally be out before the summer on Pesto Music. There will be remixes by Jay-J (Shifted Music), Justin Michael (Hermosa Recordings), Thomas White (Natural Rhythm) and of course Jon SIlva (Pesto Music). There are also a couple of other remixes floating around including a WCC remix by Torin Rea. What you hear in the set is Jay-J's dub mix. His vocal remix is also slammin and has the quality you come to expect from Jay-J. Justin Michael's remixes are pretty amazing also. Think "big room Dennis Ferrer" type. Thomas' version will of course be Jackin' a la Natural Rhythm and I'm sure the very talented Jon SIlva will have some nice surprises for us since he is the one that did the original mixes. I'm also looking forward to hear what Torin is cooking up.

Tags: SSRadio UK, WCC, Radio Show, Sandra Lima, Pesto Music

Wow. February was one of the craziest month that I've ever had. Because of this, the site and the mixes have suffered. I've had a few people emailing me wondering if I had disappeared and quit the DJ biz :) I think a lot of the newer people don't know that I'm not a "professional" DJ and that I do this as a hobby. By "professional" I mean I don't make my living out of it (I've been DJ'ing for over 20 years). What I really do for a living is Visual Effects for feature films and mainly TV commercials. I own my own VFX company and I am the main artist. This past month was completely out of control. One job after another non stop. I am not exaggerating when I am saying that I was working 12 to 14 hour days every single day in February (including the week ends). I even had to find somebody to replace me for my residencies because I just could not take myself away for a few hours to go DJ. I was mainly working on a feature film that's coming out this fall called City Of Ember and a Fiat commercial that will run in the European Union. If you live in Europe and see a TV commercial with a bunch of Fiats driving in the Moroccan desert that's my work. Most of the cars are CG (created in the computer) but they look photo real.

On top of that my best friend in the whole wide world, Geronimo my Great Dane, got really sick and ended up in emergency care for a few days. We found out that he has a genetic heart condition that is common in big dogs. I knew this would happen one day (I've had Great Danes all my life) but not this soon. He is only 4 years old. My goal right now is to make his quality of life as good as possible for what ever time he has left. I'm optimistic that he will get better so I'm not writing him out already. My last Great Dane lived until he was 10 1/2 years old (their average life span is 7 to 9 years).

Again, thank you all for your patience. I do this site and my DJ'ing for the love and passion I have for House Music and because I like to share it with the world but sometimes life gets in the way.

Friends of our in Québec City are looking for a missing person that is part of their family. If you live anywhere in the Province of Québec, or Canada for that matter, please take a look at this link for the French info and this link for the English info. You never know, you might have seen Marilyn in your area. I hope you have.