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!
A friend of mine asked me to record a 90-minute mix for Funk The War, which is planned for March 19, 2008 to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq. This mix will be the part of the soundtrack for bunches of students dancing in the streets of Washington, DC in a peaceful (at least I hope it stays peaceful) protest of the Iraq War.
Most of the tracks are edited in some way by me, on the fly by extending, adding breakdowns, glitches, sampling some of my own original loops, etc. Fun stuff.
Enjoy!
Tracklisting:
01. Freestylers – Feel The Panic (Banned Mix)
02. Edwin Starr – War (King Britt Remix)
03. Cevin Fisher – Music Saved My Life (Pete Heller Remix)
04. Camille Jones – The Creeps (Dance Edit)
05. Deadmau5 – 1981 (Original Mix)
06. Michael Jackson – Thriller (Electro Mix)
07. Kasabian – Me Plus One (Jacques Lu Cont Mix)
08. The Crystal Method – Born Too Slow (Deepsky Green Absinthe Dub Mix)
09. Hybrid – Dogstar (feat. Perry Farrell)
10. Ctrl-Z – Chemistry
11. The Doors – Break On Through (BT Rmx)
12. Myagi – Funkgrinder (Dopamine Remix)
13. Digitalis – The Ride (Kid Blue Remix)
14. Myagi – Absent From Skull (Splitloop Mix)
15. Screwface – The Day The Earth Stood Still
16. Tone Deaf Junkies – Noxious
17. Lemon Slide – Bust A Cap In Ya S
18. Black & White – Punisher
Current TV has the full video for Scotch Mist, an hour-long recording of Radiohead performing In Rainbows. This is getting me through work this afternoon.
As an aside, does anyone know an easy way (preferably a Wordpress plugin) to automatically syndicate what I post here in my music blog directly over to ryptide.com so that folks that want just the music can get it here, and get everything else, PLUS the music at the main site?
For the 3 or so of you that read this, I apologize for the lack of content. I went and upgraded to Leopard after waiting a while and reading comments of people with my gear that weren’t having problems, even though I knew M-Audio hasn’t updated their FireWire drivers yet. Of course, I was not as lucky as some others… So I can’t really put out recordings of on-the-fly DJ mixes, as I can’t cue at the moment.
I am working on some non-DJ stuff more along the lines of live performance and live remixing with some actual hardware (keys, guitar, etc) but none of that is ready for public consumption yet. Soon I hope.
A few DC locals are starting a little something up that I hope pans out. Our first jam session/get together is tonight. I can’t wait!
Threw this together late last night. All tracks I hadn’t warped yet so the warping might be a little off in places, and I know the phrasing is off in two of the transitions due to one of my favorite things about psytrance — the tricky little beat-skip. Here it is anyway. Continue reading ‘Quickie Halloween Mix’
This has been out for a while, but I have been torn between the Korg padKONTROL and M-Audio’s Trigger Finger. I was looking at the Trigger Finger for DJing because it has faders and more assignable knobs… But now I’m thinking I can just keep using my UC-33 for levels and grab one of these for live drumming and sample triggering. It’s less knobs, but the ease of programming and the X-Y controls make it much more desirable to me.
Since I got into Ableton Live, I’ve really just been DJing with it, with some looping and effects and running more channels of audio than I was able to do with my traditional vinyl or CD setups. More and more though, I’m getting a little “bored” with just playing someone else’s music quite so much so I’m wanting to get more into production and live remixing again. I’m thinking the padKONTROL lends itself to that quite nicely. Would be great for live drumming, sample triggering and studio drum programming at the very least.
I just bought an Axiom 25 this summer to use as a main keyboard. It’s only 25 keys, but I’m really just getting started so I don’t need a full keyboard just yet. I could definitely use the X-Y controls and the nicer pads on the padKONTROL though. The Axiom 25 has pads, but they aren’t very nice.
Unfortunately though, all gear purchases are going to have to wait until after the holidays, which means I need to figure out how to get the pads on the Axiom to assign to another channel different from the keys. I’m pretty sure it does that… And maybe I can program my really old Kaoss Pad (I bought the first version, ages ago) to act as a simple X-Y control.
I’ve rendered to audio my set at Beyond on 10/03/2007 and made it available for download here. Ableton Live is really handy that way. Instead of hauling around some sort of recording device, or having the laptop have to actually record audio as I’m playing, I can have it record my key presses, knob twists and fader movements and render the whole set out as audio. Makes it easy to tear down when you need to clear a small DJ booth, and makes your laptop less likely to crash and burn while recording your audio as wav directly onto the disc. Continue reading ‘New Download: Live DJ Set from Beyond 10/03/2007′
