I’ve been listening to Rene Hewitt’s “Sunday Mix” for the last hour. This well crafted set is hosted on Rene Hewitt’s site ReneHewitt.com along with a collection of other mixes from himself and other DJs. In addition to hosting mixsets, Rene’s site contains industry information, club news, and a large collection of relevant links. There is also a DJ profile page, which contains extensive information about a number of DJs. I found the DJ profile page very interesting, because it goes into a level of detail that is sometimes missing on other sites.

Rene Hewitt has had a rich history in music and DJ’ing. He has DJ’d alongside many of the other big names that we associate with house music, and he has played in some of the most popular clubs in New York. He was also involved in the history of house documentary “Maestro-The Documentary“I haven’t seen this documentary, but it is definitely on my “to see” list.

The “Sunday Mix” featured here is another deep house set. Now, when I say “deep house” I’m referring to the fact that much of the set is slightly lower tempo–perhaps around 120bpm, and it is sort of has the “deep house” feel. Having said that, I don’t like putting mixes in strict boxes and labelling them. This mix contains a number of tracks that I would say have a slight disco-house sound and the tempo does move up and down a bit. So I’m using the term “deep house” quite loosely. In fact the mix gets quite upbeat as it progresses.

There are lots of nice vocals in this mix, and some very clever bass lines which have that real “house” feel. Keep an ear open for a house mix of “Time after Time” that comes in around 60 minutes into the set. Very nice.

Stream the mix.
Note: I have noticed that sometimes .rm files attempt to download fully before playing in the Real Player. To get around this, open Real Player first, then select File/Open, and copy-paste: www.renehewitt.com/SundayMix.rm
into the location box. This will stream the mix. I don’t know why this happens with .rm files. Maybe its just my system.