{"id":69,"date":"2026-05-25T16:55:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T20:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/terrahertz.org\/?p=69"},"modified":"2026-05-27T12:01:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T16:01:28","slug":"mix-terrahertz-merck-mix-1-spring-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terrahertz.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/mix-terrahertz-merck-mix-1-spring-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"Mix: Terrahertz – Merck Mix 1 Spring 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2019s FTP server. Apparently Gabe didn\u2019t touch a single bit of the audio though, so it must have just been me glowing about finally being a \u201creal\u201d DJ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can check this one out on Discogs<\/a> too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Download here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tracklist:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Lackluster \u2013 haloaw (Merck 015)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Adam Johnson \u2013 sensible imposter (Merck 016)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. MD \u2013 fres core (Merck 002)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Machine Drum \u2013 Vim\u2019s one more record to bits and pieces mix (Merck 011)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Machine Drum \u2013 uptown (Merck 012)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Blamstrain \u2013 linja (Merck 013)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Proem \u2013 negative reinforcements (Merck 006)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Esem \u2013 square lamp (Merck 014)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. Adam Johnson \u2013 autopop (Merck 016)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. Kristuit Salu vs Morris Nightingale \u2013 dope soft intake (Merck 009)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  11. Proswell \u2013 jasmine my serious flower (Merck 002)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  12. Syndrone \u2013 ifni (Merck 002)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  13. Blamstrain \u2013 alive in arms (Merck 013)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  14. Lackluster \u2013 strateface (Merck 015)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  15. Adam Johnson \u2013 traber (Merck 016)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  16. Kristuit Salu vs Morris Nightingale \u2013 ethno cen (Merck 009)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  17. Esem \u2013 upward instlr (Merck 014)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  18. Sense \u2013 250600 (Merck 004)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  19. Blamstrain \u2013 etkno76 (Merck 013)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  20. Machine Drum \u2013 riveurs enjienrd by Brothomstates (Merck 011)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  21. MD \u2013 untitled [Ilkae packing slip remix] (Merck 003)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  22. Machine Drum \u2013 hello my future [Tstewart remix] (Merck 011)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  23. Machine Drum \u2013 yo what uh yeh [Secede\u2019s dirty indian mix] (Merck 011)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  24. Esem \u2013 cee (Merck 014)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    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\u2019s tunes. The plan was for Gabe to burn some CDRs of the mix and take them to the 2003 Winter Music Conference in Miami […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","category-terrahertz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terrahertz.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terrahertz.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terrahertz.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terrahertz.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terrahertz.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/terrahertz.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/terrahertz.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terrahertz.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terrahertz.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terrahertz.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}