I got word from my awesome Sweetwater rep. today that my APC40 will ship on the 29th or 30th of the month. I can’t wait to get my hands on this thing.
Thankfully, it works with Ableton Live 7 as well as 8 because I am still stuck on 7 at the moment. Upgrading has not been in the budget with Capitals playoff tickets being added to the expenses. They should just add 4 rounds of playoff tickets to season ticket packages, and simply reimburse or credit account holders the difference if the team is eliminated early or doesn’t make the playoffs. Would make budgeting much easier.
I played the second DC Raves Radio House Party on Saturday Night and recorded my set.
A lot of the same tracks I played in Seattle, but some other stuff too. All psytrance with some breaks thrown in for good measure.
At least my laptop didn’t crash halfway through this time, which is good.
Tracklisting:
Ananda Shake - America’s Dream
Indra - Killing The Music
Braniac - Hyperphysics
Dapanji - Attention Please
Dapanji - LSD 25
CPU - Expander
Adam Freeland - We Want Your Soul (Club Mix)
Dylan Rhymes feat. Pablo Decoder - Ctrl Z Remix
CPU - Music
CPU - Morning Drop
My good friend Andrew (Kid Amiga) invited me out to play his latest party in Seattle this past weekend. I’d never been to Seattle. It is a neat city from what I saw, and the party people out there are good folks. I don’t get many opportunities to play psytrance here in DC, so I figured I’d drop some on the west coast. People dug it.
Anyway, I recorded my set. 54:08 of full-on psytrance. I’m mostly happy with it save a couple transitions and the fact that I didn’t pay any attention to harmonic mixing, but considering I bought most of the tracks on Thursday night, and got 2 hours of sleep between then and my set, it came out okay.
Here’s the tracklisting:
Dapanji - Attention Please
Michele Adamson & Dino Psaras - Firewall (GMS Remix)
Ananda Shake - America’s Dream
Indra - Killing The Music
Brainiac - Hyperphysics
Dapanji - LSD 25
Dark Psy - Nord Is Back
Dark Nebula - Orbital Elevator
RypTide - Untitled Weirdness Outro
Here’s a recording of my latest set, played at a friend’s birthday party in August. I haven’t listened through it so I make no guarantees as to its quality. Unfortunately the recording I normally do internally with Ableton Live did not work so I’m relying on the external recording that was done.
Tracklisting (I think):
Tripswitch - Shamanic Tea (Manasseh Remix)
Illy Noiz - Don’t Break My Heart (Backbone Remix)
Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince - Summertime (Hybrid Remix)
Matthew Adams - No More, Anymore! (Elusive Remix)
Illy Noiz - Viberreal
Akufen - Installation
Alexkid - Love We Have (w. Ian James Whitelaw)
Akufen - Deck The House
Akufen - Jeep Sex
Robag Wruhme- Wortkabular
Tiefschwarz - Benedict
Deadmau5 - 1981
Feist - My Man My Moon (Damage On The Backseat Remix)
Samantha James - Rise (Johnny Fiasco Mix)
Here’s my set from this Wednesday. The last track was cut a little short. At some point I’ll re-upload a file that doesn’t have five minutes of silence on the end, too…
Tracklisting:
Ott - From Trunch To Stromness
Asura - La Chanson de Carla
Shpongle - A New Way To Say “Hooray”
Ott - The Queen Of All Everything
Hallucinogen - Gamma Goblins (”It’s Turtles All The Way Down” Mix)
Entheogenic - Spaced (Shulman Remix)
Hooverphonic - 2 Wicky
Digital Mystery Tour - The Blooming
Celtic Cross - Khatmandu
Ott - Rogue Bagel
Tripswitch - Roll Your Own (Youth vs. Subsonar Remix)
Tripswitch - Deer Park
Tripswitch - Indigo
Tripswitch - Tomahna (Kuba Remix)
Ott - 382 Seaside
Abakus - Apricots
Thievery Corporation - Exilio (Rewound By Thievery Corporation)
Younger Brother - All I Want
I’ve wanted a monome for a long time now, and this just makes it worse. So many neat things you can do with this device. If I was more confident with a soldering iron, I’d buy a kit and make one. They aren’t really *that* expensive.
SenseSurface lets you attach physical controls to an LCD screen directly over the on-screen controls. Pretty neat in theory but not sure how it would work in practice. Perhaps a secondary monitor, with all these stuck to it would be handy? Not very portable though.
I just grabbed Intua Beatmaker for my iPhone. I’ll post up a review and maybe some samples in a bit.
Jamming with folks again reminds me that I need to upgrade my copy of Ableton Live to take advantage of the tempo nudge feature, if nothing else. Playing with folks that aren’t midi-synced to your perfectly synced performance makes things a little wonky and that tempo nudge would simplify staying in sync with live musicians.
I need piles of money so I can get all the gear I want. Still need a padKontrol, and I’ve been eyeing tons of other stuff… I also need more space so I can start bending these toy keyboards I bought months ago.
I’ve got a gig coming up at Beyond on July 23. My set will be a combination of live and DJ stuff, and should be good times. Come out and buy me a beer!
