This weekend, UK vet Dave Seaman continues his Australian club tour, spreading the word on his Renaissance: The Masters Series release. If you’re catching him this weekend, this mix should prime you perfectly. Dave was also good enough to answer some questions for inthemix.

In 2010 you came to Australia for the Good Vibrations festival, which is a pretty different proposition from your own tour! How have the festival visits here compared to the club shows?
Yeah, they’re obviously two very different propositions. While I enjoyed Good Vibes and the Space Festival/Summadayze New Year’s Day that I did earlier this year, I must confess I’m looking forward to coming back to do some club shows again. I’m a creature of the night and I’m not sure that electronic house music translates that well to a tent in the daytime. For me, festivals only really come alive when the sun goes down.

You’re no stranger to mix-CDs. How much time is spent searching for the right records to showcase on the Renaissance: The Masters Series mix?
It’s roughly a three-month process from reaching out to everybody for new music to handing in the finished product and I’d say half of that time is spent filtering the music down to the final track list. It’s all about the flow for me so there’s a lot of emphasis and careful consideration that goes into the programming.

Do you feel it’s an inspiring time at the moment for the type of house and techno that you are drawn to?
Actually, no. There’s way to much derivative music saturating the scene right now. A lot of unoriginal, uninspired, disposable rubbish to be frank. Of course, there is still great music out there but it’s getting harder and harder to find it amongst the chaff. The great acid house dream of anybody being able to make music is turning into its own nightmare. The democratisation of production hasn’t necessarily been a good thing.

We’re featuring your September mix on inthemix. What can you tell us about that mix?
It covers quite a lot of different stuff in 60 minutes actually. There’s fantastic new singles from Sasha, Boys Noize, Funk D’Void & Solomun, a wonderful bootleg of Jamie Woon’s Night Air by Jaap Lightart out of Holland, one of the best pop records of the year in Joe Goddard’s Gabriel and even a happy hands in the air summer anthem moment from Paul Weller of all people!

Tracklisting

1. Other Lives ‘For 12’ (Sander Kleinenberg remix)
2. Solomun ‘See You Everyday Alone’ [Diynamic]
3. Joe Goddard feat. Valentina ‘Gabriel’ [DFA]
4. Jamie Woon ‘Night Air’ (Jaap Lightart edit)
5. Guy Mantzur & Avi Algranati ‘Toys 4 Boys’
6. Kiko ‘Pool Beach’ [Ideal]
7. Ricky Ryan ‘Mona Moon (Roger Martinez mix)[Vapour]
8. Funk D Void ‘The Duke’ [Outpost]
9. Boys Noize ‘Adonis’ [Cocoon]
10. Sasha feat. Krister Linder ‘Cut Me Down’
11. Spirit Catcher ‘No Way Out’ (Jim Rivers remix) [Systematic]
12. Paul Weller ‘Starlite’ (Black Van mix)

Friday October 7th @ Roxanne Parlour, Melbourne w/ Jody Wisternoff
Saturday October 8th @ Geisha, Perth
Sunday October 9th @ Barsoma, Brisbane