ECLECTIC BEATS

Unconventional sets and experimental stuff.

Burningmax DJ blog

Bring dance to the east,
to the west and in your heart.
Add a tambourine.

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All those weird DJ sets with rock and roll, african beats, or experimental stuff.

I like to escape techno and go eclectic every now and then, even if just for a set.

Listen, download, share and enjoy. And dance. Good speakers or headphones and an open mind recommended.

AnjunaBeats 25 Tribute

AnjunaBeats 25 Tribute

2025 was the 25th anniversary of the London-based label AnjunaBeats, that I’ve been playing for years. A tribute is due. Get ready to fly.

Burningmax plays COD3QR (Part 3/3)

Burningmax plays COD3QR (Part 3/3)

This is not techno, acid house, breakbeat, electro, bass music, trance, dub, nu-jazz or drum’n’bass… this is a journey through all that. And this is my tribute to my favourite electronic music label, COD3QR, the French production powehouse led by...

Burningmax plays COD3QR (Part 2/3)

Burningmax plays COD3QR (Part 2/3)

Second part of my tribute trilogy dedicated to the French music label COD3QR, led by Captain Laurent Garnier. 3 hrs DJ set, a true journey.

Continuum Series [Ten 1hr DJ Sets]

Continuum Series [Ten 1hr DJ Sets]

Welcome to Burningmax Continuum. A 10 hours dance journey in 10 DJ sets between recent banger releases (2025) and timeless rave classics.

DreamCore // After-Rave Chillout

DreamCore // After-Rave Chillout

What is DreamCore? The hardcore soundtrack for your dreams. A leftfield / downtempo rave. A 3hrs sound journey for your after-rave chillout.

Party with Burningmax // A Trilogy

Party with Burningmax // A Trilogy

Last weekend I djed for a friend’s 50 birthday party and it’s been lots of fun. At first, I was supposed to play for the whole night but I decided to launch a “call for djs” among our group of friends, and a couple of them signed up. They were...

Welcome To My House

Welcome To My House

Welcome to “My House”, a 4hrs Rogue House Music mix in planet House Music, from Chicago to acid, deep, tech and all things underground.

Burningmax Time Machine: 2009

Burningmax Time Machine: 2009

Introducing my new Burningmax Time Machine project. Starting today I will publish every month a mix that goes back in time. Not so back anyway, I’ll keep it contained to this century. Let’s start with the first instalment in the Burningmax Time Machine...

Lux (Burningmax Aeternal Remix)

Lux (Burningmax Aeternal Remix)

Last in a long series of remixes of Schaltkreis Wassermann’s 1982 classic “Lux”, here comes my remix version, Lux (Burningmax Aeternal Remix).

Burningmax presents AGNIXAM :: Spiritual Dance

Burningmax presents AGNIXAM :: Spiritual Dance

This is a demo I got ready to pitch Bhakti Festival 2018, a spirituality festival, with a session of “Spiritual Dance”, a new experiment based on techno rhythms fused with mantras and songs of all spiritual backgrounds: Hindu and native American chants...

Burningmax :: Smells Like Boom Spirit

Burningmax :: Smells Like Boom Spirit

Playing trance and psy-trance is definitely fun. I still prefer progressive techno, but every time I play trance I definitely feel its power on decks. And on the dancefloor. I have been going to Boom Festival, home to psychedelic and psy-trance culture, for the last...

Burningmax Live – Fuck Ecstatic Dance This Is Spiritual

Burningmax Live – Fuck Ecstatic Dance This Is Spiritual

I’ve never really understood the trend of Ecstatic Dance. Don’t get me wrong, I have a very active “holistic life” so I know it all about it, but as a DJ and most of all as a raver, I simply cannot understand (nor accept) those sudden swings...

Burningmax Live 15 :: Live At MART

Burningmax Live 15 :: Live At MART

This is the DJ set I played at MART (Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Rovereto e Trento) last night. The Italian contemporary art museum invited me to play a live set for “Hungry Like The Woolf“, a dance party inspired to Virginia Woolf and the Modernism,...

In-Flight Entertainment 02 :: Nairobi

In-Flight Entertainment 02 :: Nairobi

Technically, this one has not been mixed while flying, but while hanging out in a Maasai Mara Lodge in Kenya, right before flying back to Italy. I mixed it at a very low volume and no pre-fade listening (hence the couple of mix fuckups), so I could have been able to...

Burningmix 07 :: Rave and Roll, Babe…

Burningmix 07 :: Rave and Roll, Babe…

It’s only rave and roll and we like it, oh yes we do! =) BURNINGMIX 07 :: :: RAVE’N’ROLL, BABE :: MIXDECK TRACKLIST :: :: Dead Souls – Mademoiselle Caro + Franck Garcia :: Silver Surfer, Ghost Rider Go!!! – Trentemøller :: I Gotta Rokk...

Burningmax special projects :: Remixes

BURNINGMAX REMIXES

Remixes and reworks of some amazing tunes, and a tribute to some of the producers I love.

Burningmax special projects :: Burning Man Sets

LIVE AT BURNING MAN

All my Burning Man DJ sets, live from Black Rock City and other burners dancefloors.

Burningmax special projects :: In-flight Entertainment

IN-FLIGHT ENTERTAINMENT

My solution to those long boring flights and trips: make a new mix to creatively kill time.

Burningmax special projects :: 420 Sessions

420 SESSIONS

A few stoner downbeat sessions to celebrate that 420 moment of international celebration.