Category: digital dj
Scouring through the blogs once again on this mix. It’s summer so leaning more in the direction of trance and blissed out beats, setting the scene with an airy reworking of a Florence and the Machine track before traversing a path towards Agoria’s strung out Grande Torino. Tom Stephan beefs things up a little (twiddling [...]
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dependence_Jul10_kiterae_popround - Listen now |
Well, one day we’ll be back in the sizzling hot sun of summer – stoop parties, hoards at every ice cream parlor, hanging out in parks with boom boxes blaring a boisterous roughneck soundtrack. Well, here in SF we’re still not quite there yet, but let’s start getting in the mood. I originally posted part [...]
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iod_SoundclashDancehallVol2_part2 - Listen now |
Well, it all started with this remix of the MJ track ‘Stranger in Moscow’ which was unfamiliar to me as by the time History came out, I’d largely lost interest. Well, that track didn’t even make it onto this mix in the end. I ended venturing a little further leftfield into more tribal territory. Don’t [...]
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Strange_Love_In_Moscow-Kiterae - Listen now |
So, this mix started some months back under the glow of an Indian summer. Finally it sees the light of day – just in time for what these Americans call The Holidays. I’ve been digging back into the past with wisps of drum and bass and old skool trance (303 workouts), mixed up with some [...]
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fadingshineofsummer2 - Listen now |
In terms of rappers that have been around the block, there are few that have traveled further than Rakim. From the early days with Eric B, The R established himself as one of the true legends behind the mic. Blentwell feature a great showcase from Elmattic tracing the history of this boy with the golden [...]
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RakimTheOneTrueGod - Listen now |
Amazing what happens when you get together 4 fingers and the new Akai Ableton controller with aesthetics borrowed from a ‘seventies dancefloor. “The APC40 Ableton Performance Controller in action!” screams the headline. More wrist action than a spotty teen during rainy summer hols.
The wonderful Square Productions (no, I have no idea what that means) really do go in-depth when they cover something. Recently they highlighted some of their choice picks and plumped right in the middle was that man Matthew Dear. I missed him when he recently passed through San Francisco, so matching the expectancy of his [...]
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MatthewDear-BodyLanguageVol7 - Listen now |
This latest installment in the Best of the Blogs series in some ways becomes a continuation of the recap of 2008 posts we’ve been running. Many of these tracks showed up on other blogs’ lists of the best of 2008. Maybe it’s because it’s winter and the days are short, maybe it’s because I have [...]
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clear_out_the_cobwebs_jan09 - Listen now |
The other big treat for me on a recent night out in Liverpool came in the shape of an anonymous-looking CD from fellow beat-mongerer Dax. We take the year-end as an excellent opportunity to exchange tunes that rocked our boat over the previous twelve months. It’s great for me to get some insight into the [...]
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dax_xmas08_kiterae_mix - Listen now |
With more and more producers/DJs salivating at the potent promise of touch screen interfaces, it was only a matter of time before the omnipresent iPhone entered the arena as a music playing device. In this video presentation, Christopher Willits goes through the steps of hooking up an iPhone to a Mac over a wireless connection [...]
