I've been at work piecing together some minimixes in preparation for an upcoming podcast series that will all but supplant my current Midnight Sessions series. Here's what I've got so far, to give you a taste of what will appear.
Hardcore Minimix
Omar Santana, Prophet - Power Pill (Original Mix)
Captain Tinrib, Disturbed - Something Heavier (Original Mix)
John O'Callaghan, Kearney - Pendulum (Original Mix)
Showtek - We Live For The Music (Original Mix)
various loops and samples pulled from:
Jody6 - Rock That Beat (Original Mix)
DJ Snyder - Just How Low, Exactly?
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Grab-bag Minimix
Tiesto - Lethal Industry
BT & Mike Doughty - Never Gonna Come Back Down
Pendulum - Different
Way Out West feat. Tricia Lee Kelshall - Mindcircus (Gabriel & Dresden Club Mix)
Amon Tobin - The Lighthouse
Union of Knives - Opposite Direction
Schneider TM vs. Kpt. Michi.gan - The Light 3000
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Monday, February 16, 2009
Saturday, February 7, 2009
A bit about myself...
I'm a nineteen-year-old college dropout with an affinity for music that sounds like a brain. I began DJing when I was fifteen. The hobby grew into an obsession but eventually subsided back into a hobby. Could I be a world-class superstar DJ? Perhaps. But then would have to have to pose for pictures with Tiesto, and that simply will not happen.
The music I enjoy and play simply has no place in the limelight. It finds its place in the darkest corners of the room, the crowd that you carefully avoid, for fear of being pulled into their godless, hedonistic desires. A place where the saliva, sweat, mucus, and frothy discharges of a forgotten generation mesh and collude to become a single, heaping mass of pure, inexplicable pleasure. The beautiful and the brainy, the nice and the nasty, the gorgeous and the hideous. All of these have a place in this world of distorted drum beats, quickening two-step, a dry snare and a vicious bassline.
It's music that pushes the boundaries of sonic pleasure, much like S&M pushes the boundaries of sexual pleasure. It's the kind of fun that is born from the needs and wants that run in your veins, not in the vessels of a polished society.
Previous to synthesizers, the only oscillations and vibrations that had been heard were produced by strings and soundholes. Previous to the drum machine, percussion was limited by the acoustic environment on hand and the coordination of a flesh-and-blood human being. Now we can make sounds that had never even existed in imagination! The oscillations of sine waves and circuitry gives way to sounds that no human previous has ever, in the history of hearing, ever encountered! The best beats heard now come from the fusion of man and machine! The creative, unbound spirit of man given control over the precision and range of machine!
Aesthetes and gray-hairs may argue that allowing the impersonality of machine access to the purely human process of composition will be the death of music, but I and many, many others will argue nay! The machine is simply a tool to allow us range to sounds, and therefore ideas made manifest, that the world has never heard before!
The technology will bring us together to interact as human beings. We touch, we play, we talk, we scream, we love, we hate, we live and we die. To all things a season, and to all people, a sound. The sound of feeling, running, breathing, hearts pounding, hips moving, feet stomping, heads shaking...all of it is human! All of it is beautiful!
The music I enjoy and play simply has no place in the limelight. It finds its place in the darkest corners of the room, the crowd that you carefully avoid, for fear of being pulled into their godless, hedonistic desires. A place where the saliva, sweat, mucus, and frothy discharges of a forgotten generation mesh and collude to become a single, heaping mass of pure, inexplicable pleasure. The beautiful and the brainy, the nice and the nasty, the gorgeous and the hideous. All of these have a place in this world of distorted drum beats, quickening two-step, a dry snare and a vicious bassline.
It's music that pushes the boundaries of sonic pleasure, much like S&M pushes the boundaries of sexual pleasure. It's the kind of fun that is born from the needs and wants that run in your veins, not in the vessels of a polished society.
Previous to synthesizers, the only oscillations and vibrations that had been heard were produced by strings and soundholes. Previous to the drum machine, percussion was limited by the acoustic environment on hand and the coordination of a flesh-and-blood human being. Now we can make sounds that had never even existed in imagination! The oscillations of sine waves and circuitry gives way to sounds that no human previous has ever, in the history of hearing, ever encountered! The best beats heard now come from the fusion of man and machine! The creative, unbound spirit of man given control over the precision and range of machine!
Aesthetes and gray-hairs may argue that allowing the impersonality of machine access to the purely human process of composition will be the death of music, but I and many, many others will argue nay! The machine is simply a tool to allow us range to sounds, and therefore ideas made manifest, that the world has never heard before!
The technology will bring us together to interact as human beings. We touch, we play, we talk, we scream, we love, we hate, we live and we die. To all things a season, and to all people, a sound. The sound of feeling, running, breathing, hearts pounding, hips moving, feet stomping, heads shaking...all of it is human! All of it is beautiful!
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