Reflections is much more than a seven-hour promotional Bruise Your Body Breaks mix. It is a deeply personal journey filled with unreleased music, memories, emotions, and moments that have remained hidden for many years. Some of the most meaningful pieces were written during one of the hardest chapters of my life, while my father was slowly passing away, and in the months after we lost him. Today, through 77 Deuce Records & Entertainment, this piece of our lives can finally be shared with the world.
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Seven hours. Live turntables. Unreleased music. A tribute to Jiggabot. Released through 77 Deuce Records & Entertainment.
Some Things Are Made for Yourself First
There are things you create for the world, and there are things you create for yourself.
Reflections was never created for the world.
It was made for us.
For years, this mix lived in private, played in quiet moments, listened to alone, kept close in the way that only the most personal things can be kept. It was not a promotional tool. It was not a career move. It was not designed to grow an audience or build a brand or generate streams. It was a collection of memories, a container for emotions that had nowhere else to go, a musical diary written during some of the most difficult and most beautiful chapters of our lives.
Today, after all these years, 77 Deuce Records & Entertainment has been entrusted with the rights to finally release Reflections to the world. And I want to take a moment: a real moment, not a promotional one, to explain what this mix actually is. Where it came from. What it cost to make. What it means to finally let it go.
"This isn't just another DJ mix. It's a time capsule of our lives, our struggles, our love, our loss, and ultimately, our healing.", DJ Natural Nate®
Because this is not just another DJ mix.
This is a time capsule of our lives.
Seven Hours Is Not a Number: It Is a Commitment
Let me start with the obvious question: why seven hours?
The answer is simple. Because that is how long the story needed to be.
A seven-hour live turntable mix is not something you do casually. It is not something you do for attention. It is not something you do because it looks impressive on a streaming platform. A seven-hour live turntable mix is a commitment, to the music, to the moment, to the people you are playing for, and to yourself.
Every transition in Reflections was performed live on turntables. Every blend was manual. Every pitch adjustment was made by hand and by ear. There were no sync buttons, no automated beatmatching, no software correcting mistakes in real time. Just records, a mixer, two hands, and seven hours of uninterrupted focus.
That is what Bruise Your Body Breaks has always stood for. That is what The-Lost-Art.com was built to prove. That is what "Prove The Mix" means in practice, not as a slogan, but as a standard. You show the decks. You show the mixer. You show the performance. You let the music speak for itself.
Seven hours. Live turntables. No sync. No automation. No shortcuts. Just records, a mixer, two hands, and a lifetime of music.
Seven hours of that.
Seven hours of live turntable performance, unreleased music, personal memories, and emotional honesty, all captured in a single continuous mix that was never supposed to leave our home.
Until now.
The Songs That Were Never Meant to Be Heard
I need to be honest about something that is difficult to put into words.
There are countless songs throughout this mix that we never intended to release publicly.
Some of the most meaningful pieces in Reflections were written during one of the hardest chapters of my life, while my father was slowly passing away, and in the months after we lost him.
I don't say that lightly. I don't say it for sympathy. I say it because it is the truth, and because the music deserves to be understood in the context in which it was created.
When you are watching someone you love leave this world slowly, when you are sitting with the weight of that, day after day, carrying it while the rest of life continues around you, music becomes something different. It stops being entertainment. It stops being craft. It becomes the only language that can hold what you are feeling when words are not enough.
"Those tracks carried so much emotion that I simply couldn't bring myself to play them live. The memories were too raw, too personal, and every note brought me back to those moments.", DJ Natural Nate®
Those tracks carried so much emotion that I simply could not bring myself to play them live or include them in mixes for others. The memories were too raw, too personal, and every note brought me back to those moments, to the hospital rooms, to the quiet nights, to the grief that does not announce itself but simply lives inside you, changing the shape of everything.
For years, those songs stayed private. They were not ready to be shared. I was not ready to share them.
Reflections became the place where they lived: a mix that held all of it together, that gave those songs a home without exposing them to the world before the time was right.
That time is now.
The Older Songs: Music That Had Never Found Its Place
Beyond the tracks written during grief, there is another layer to Reflections that deserves its own explanation.
We also used a lot of older songs in this mix, music that had been sitting in the catalog for years, sometimes decades, that we had never put into a production mix before.
That is not an accident. That is a choice.
Over the course of a career that spans nearly thirty years, you accumulate music the way some people accumulate memories, quietly, constantly, without always knowing what to do with it. Some tracks get released. Some get played live. Some get included in mixes that go out to the world. But some tracks just sit. Not because they aren't good enough. Not because they were forgotten. But because the right moment for them hadn't arrived yet.
There are songs in Reflections that were produced years before this mix was ever assembled. Songs that lived on hard drives and in crates, waiting. Songs that were written in a completely different era of this career, before the world record, before the Breakspoll ranking, before the mainstream documentation caught up to the underground history. Songs from the early years of Bruise Your Body Breaks, from the first seasons of The-Lost-Art.com, from the periods between the milestones that the history books tend to skip over.
"Some of those older tracks may surprise you. Some may feel like they belong to a different era entirely, because they do. That is the point. Reflections is not curated to sound current. It is curated to sound true.", DJ Natural Nate®
Those songs deserved to be heard. They just needed the right container.
Reflections became that container.
A seven-hour mix is long enough to hold everything: the new and the old, the polished and the raw, the music made for the world and the music made for ourselves. It is long enough to let older songs breathe alongside newer ones, to let the full arc of a career speak without being edited down to a highlight reel.
When you listen to Reflections, you are not just hearing a DJ mix. You are hearing a catalog: a living archive of music that spans the full length of this journey, much of it surfacing publicly for the very first time.
Some of those older tracks may surprise you. Some may feel like they belong to a different era entirely, because they do. That is the point. Reflections is not curated to sound current. It is curated to sound true. And the truth of this career includes every chapter, not just the recent ones.
We are grateful that those songs finally have a home. We are grateful that Reflections gave them one.
A Tribute to Jiggabot: The Heart Behind Everything
More than anything, Reflections has always stood as a tribute to Jiggabot.
Jenna Marie Lemieux, Jiggabot, is my wife, my creative partner, my co-founder, and the person without whom none of this would exist. Not The-Lost-Art.com. Not the Rave Royalty Collective. Not the productions, the broadcasts, the community, the legacy. None of it.
She has been there for every chapter of this career: the early years when we were building something out of nothing, the years when the underground recognized what we were doing before the mainstream ever noticed, the years when the documentation finally caught up to the history, and the years when the grief was so heavy that music was the only thing that made sense.
Her unwavering love, her strength, her creativity, and her inspiration shaped every moment of this journey. She is not a background figure in this story. She is the story.
The artwork for Reflections says it clearly: *DJ Natural Nate® vs Jiggabot Production.* Two figures facing each other through a glowing portal, one looking back, one looking forward, both connected by something that transcends the physical. That image is not accidental. It is exactly right.
"More than anything, Reflections has always stood as a tribute to Jiggabot, whose unwavering love, strength, and inspiration helped shape every moment of this journey.", DJ Natural Nate®
Reflections is, at its core, a love letter. A love letter to music. A love letter to the journey. A love letter to the people we have lost. And above all, a love letter to Jiggabot, who has always been the light in every dark chapter, the constant in every storm, the reason the music kept coming even when everything else felt impossible.
This mix is for her. It has always been for her.
77 Deuce Records & Entertainment: The Right Home
When the time came to finally release Reflections, the question was not whether to release it, it was who to trust with it.
77 Deuce Records & Entertainment, Seven Seven Deuce, has been entrusted with the rights to release this mix, and that trust is not something we gave lightly.
We are deeply humbled, incredibly honored, and sincerely grateful that this piece of our lives has found the right home. 77 Deuce understood what Reflections was from the beginning, not just a DJ mix, not just a promotional release, but something personal and irreplaceable. They treated it with the care and respect it deserved. They understood the weight of what they were being given.
That matters more than any streaming number or chart position ever could.
The release of Reflections through 77 Deuce is not just a music release. It is the completion of something that has been waiting for years to be finished: a chapter that needed to be closed properly, with the right people, at the right time.
That time is now.
You can listen to the full seven-hour mix on SoundCloud right now, released through 77 Deuce Records & Entertainment, performed live on turntables by DJ Natural Nate®, created in honor of Jiggabot.
This is Reflections. This is our story. We hope you feel it.
What We Hope You Feel
I want to say one more thing before you press play.
We hope that as you listen, you don't simply hear the music.
We hope you feel the story behind it.
We hope you feel the late nights in the studio when the grief was so heavy that the only way through it was to let the music carry it. We hope you feel the love that went into every track: the love for the craft, the love for the community, the love for each other, the love for the people we have lost and the people we still hold close.
We hope you feel the seven hours not as a number but as a journey: a journey through everything that music can hold when you trust it enough to carry the things that words cannot.
"We hope that as you listen, you don't simply hear the music, you feel the story behind it.", DJ Natural Nate®
We hope that somewhere in those seven hours, there is a moment that reaches you. A moment that makes you feel something you needed to feel. A moment that reminds you why music matters, not as entertainment, not as background noise, but as the most honest language human beings have ever found.
Because one person listening is better than none.
And if this mix reaches one heart, if it helps one person carry something heavy, or remember something beautiful, or feel less alone in whatever they are going through, then it has done everything it was ever meant to do.
Thank you for listening.
Thank you for being part of this journey.
This is Reflections.
, DJ Natural Nate®
