After Gabe Koch (the founder of Merck Records) had become acquainted with some of my earliest mixes, he asked me to put one together and make it exclusively from the label’s tunes. The plan was for Gabe to burn some CDRs of the mix and take them to the 2003 Winter Music Conference in Miami as promos. Apparently Gabe liked the mix enough that he decided to press up 1,000 legitimate CDs, and thus the Merck Mix series was born.
When I got my personal batch of discs and label swag as payment for the job (because neither I nor the label was in the position to talk about cutting a check) I could swear that the mix sounded better than when I uploaded the WAV files to Gabe’s FTP server. Apparently Gabe didn’t touch a single bit of the audio though, so it must have just been me glowing about finally being a “real” DJ.
You can check this one out on Discogs too.
The tracklist:
- Lackluster – haloaw (Merck 015)
- Adam Johnson – sensible imposter (Merck 016)
- MD – fres core (Merck 002)
- Machine Drum – Vim’s one more record to bits and pieces mix (Merck 011)
- Machine Drum – uptown (Merck 012)
- Blamstrain – linja (Merck 013)
- Proem – negative reinforcements (Merck 006)
- Esem – square lamp (Merck 014)
- Adam Johnson – autopop (Merck 016)
- Kristuit Salu vs Morris Nightingale – dope soft intake (Merck 009)
- Proswell – jasmine my serious flower (Merck 002)
- Syndrone – ifni (Merck 002)
- Blamstrain – alive in arms (Merck 013)
- Lackluster – strateface (Merck 015)
- Adam Johnson – traber (Merck 016)
- Kristuit Salu vs Morris Nightingale – ethno cen (Merck 009)
- Esem – upward instlr (Merck 014)
- Sense – 250600 (Merck 004)
- Blamstrain – etkno76 (Merck 013)
- Machine Drum – riveurs enjienrd by Brothomstates (Merck 011)
- MD – untitled [Ilkae packing slip remix] (Merck 003)
- Machine Drum – hello my future [Tstewart remix] (Merck 011)
- Machine Drum – yo what uh yeh [Secede’s dirty indian mix] (Merck 011)
- Esem – cee (Merck 014)