Side A
Artist	Song
Excerpt from The Simpsons	Mr. Sparkle
Groove Armada	At the River (Original Mix)
Nalin and Kane	Beachball (DJ Iceys "The Sea" Mix)
Major Force	Return of the Original Art Form
Pete Heller's Big Love	Big Love (Dronez Mix)
Big Time Charlie	On the Run (Original Mix)
Eclipse	Makes Me Love You (Original Mix)
Abbacadabra	Mamma Mia (Mamma Marys 12" Mix)
Lustral	Everytime (Nalin and Kane Remix)
Moby	Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? (ATB Mix)
Jennifer Lopez	Waiting for Tonight (Original Mix)
Faithless	Insomnia (Armands European Vacation Mix)
Orbital	Chime (Original Mix)
Orbital	Chime (Ray Keith Mutation)
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Madonna	Ray of Light (Sashas Twilo Mix)
Sasha	Xpander
Underworld	Cowgirl (Original Mix)
Cevin Fishers Big Freak	The Freaks Come Out (Sharp Freaks at Trade Mix)
Morel	True (The Faggot is You) (Remix)
Yaz	Situation (Club 69 Mix)
Basement Jaxx	Jump-n-Shout
Chemical Brothers	Hey Boy Hey Girl
Daft Punk	Burnin
Stardust	Music Sounds Better with You
Backstreet Boys	I Want It That Way
Westbam vs. Red Jerry	Wizards of the Sonic (Matt Darey Remix)

Comment:

Quite possibly my favorite mixtape ever--definitely the one that I am most proud of, technically. I mixed this 110-minute baby with two pitch-control CD players and a crappy Radio Shack mixer (so each side is pretty seamless, even with the mix of house/pop/big beat/breaks/trance tracks), and based it on the setlist I would have chosen if I had been asked to DJ a huge NYE party (with the "midnight" moment taking place during the giant breakdown in "Insomnia," near the end of Side 1--I have a very active imagination). Of course, I never got that dream DJ gig (though I had a great time that night, if I remember), but this tape made a hell of a workout mix for many months after. I thought I had lost this tape in a recent move, and just found it in a box in the attic. While I'd love to remake this in a tighter form on CD (I'd use different remixes for the Jennifer Lopez and Underworld tracks), I'm still glad to have rediscovered my little Maxell gem. Good times.

(And don't give me any snobby crap about the Backstreet Boys track--it's meant to be a break before the massive closing tune, and you know it was the best pop song of 1999, hands down.)

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