Welcome to Podrunner. I'm Steve Boyette, and coming up is an hour of great music at 112 beats per minute, called XIX.

It's called that because this mix celebrates 19 years of free Podrunner workout mixes. And I got to say, it's a pretty good

one. The first half is a wide variety of styles, from uplifting but chilled deep progressive house

to several types of organic house featuring musical influences from around the world.

But when you hear the slightly disco-y house music around halfway in, the vibe

is going to shift to funk for pretty much the rest of the mix, because nothing gets people moving

and liking to move like funk. You'll go forward into the past with a modern remix of BT Express's

Do It. Funky brakes from Pico, who's a regular on my Groove Electric music series,

a remix of the theme song from the 1977 Richard Pryor movie Which Way is Up,

and capping it all off, big, loud, down and dirty, stompy glitch hop,

which you pretty much never hear on Pod Runner, but which you

can certainly find on my Groove Electric funk mixes. It makes me happy that a mix that manages

to be so wide-ranging and yet so cohesive is also Podrunner's 19th birthday mix, because it

brings together most of the elements that I think make Podrunner not

just a useful workout tool, but also a fun one. And anytime you can use the words workout and

fun in the same sentence, you got a good thing going. If you think so too, and maybe want to

throw a little birthday present Podrunner's way, head over to Podrunner.com and make a

contribution or purchase. It all goes to keeping these mixes online for your workouts, whenever,

wherever, and however you want to use them, commercial free. So you're kind of buying yourself a present,

too. In fact, one of those presents is coming your way right now.

It's an hour of XIX at 112 BPM to celebrate 19 years of Podrunner, so let's get this party

started. Have a great workout. Have fun. And keep going. The

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