tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63267587767260996352024-02-18T18:24:43.413-08:00Mishtanegativity's 3 CentsAll of Solid K's cents will accumlate here, three by two.Haszarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10310782553633739684noreply@blogger.comBlogger105125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6326758776726099635.post-31282115621905871032015-04-23T18:06:00.000-07:002015-04-23T18:06:05.312-07:00LONG LIVE CARTOON BEATSIf you are <b>reading this blog</b> or <b>subscribing to it</b> you should head over to <a href="http://cartoonbeats.com/">http://cartoonbeats.com/</a>. (You kinda should've about a year ago - forgot to mention it - sorry.)<div>
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<b>If you are writing on this blog</b> - go hard / nothing to see here / as you were.</div>
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Haszarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10310782553633739684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6326758776726099635.post-90591710799634037122015-03-18T19:06:00.000-07:002015-03-18T19:06:31.985-07:00a teaser from my new screen play[Mario is typing furiously as Luigi runs into the room]<br />
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Luigi: Mario ... what are you doing?<br />
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Mario: Doing what I do best, writing some javascript<br />
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Luigi: I don't understand, we need to go save the princess!<br />
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Mario: But have you seen? There’s another new two-way binding framework! Look!<br />
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[Luigi sits down entranced]<br />
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MishtaNegativityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02640108658829439328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6326758776726099635.post-66560517379508727102013-09-03T18:41:00.001-07:002013-10-14T20:42:59.754-07:00I'm king of the worldYeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh<br />
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<br />MishtaNegativityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02640108658829439328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6326758776726099635.post-34834465889230213502013-07-20T23:51:00.001-07:002013-07-20T23:51:03.539-07:00Twizel Has Some Machinery To Play On<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/haszari/9330647721/" title="Twizel Trip July 2013 by haszari, on Flickr"><img alt="Twizel Trip July 2013" height="375" src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2876/9330647721_38355dedd8.jpg" width="500" /></a>Haszarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10310782553633739684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6326758776726099635.post-23373816804684831952013-05-07T20:15:00.002-07:002013-05-07T20:16:10.005-07:00My bain and my lifeI am so glad this has a spell checker. It's wonderful. Beep bloop beep. I'm a failure at writing words in their correct form without the assistance of technology. Bloop bloop. Message end.MishtaNegativityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02640108658829439328noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6326758776726099635.post-122013884637147712013-05-07T19:59:00.000-07:002013-05-07T19:59:19.363-07:00HOW AM I DOING THIS?<span style="font-family: inherit;">So it looks like I can make posts on this blog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">How is that possible?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I don't know. I didn't ask for this power.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">That guy on spiderman said that it was important to be responsible when you have some power (paraphrased) so right now I am making an internal note to act like a grown up. It's really not that hard, and I suspect you could do better at it, so please, I implore you to try. A civilized and mature society is within our grasp people, we are so close! I dream of a society where all people are valued members. Where everyone counts. Shoes are cheap. Pies don't make you fat. Stuff like that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As a side note, while I'm talking to you Internet I have something I want to mention. I have watched some My Little Pony with my daughter and I don't understand the brony thing. "Good production values" you say? What do you mean? Sure the artists coloured within the lines and that is a good thing. "Deep and compelling" story lines you say? Yes, when you're 4 years old. Or if you're 24 and social retarded. But, is it my place to judge? Well, yes, because I'm on the Internet. Internet has a capital I, because it is the most important internet. And I am here, on that most important network of networks to give you this useful information for only a nominal fee. So we agree then, it is my place to judge. Consider yourself judged to be a dorky man-child. It's time to take a look at yourself. "Whatever" you say, "there is no such thing as cool". We get it, there is no 'cool'. But unfortunately there is 'uncool'. There are a lot of levels of uncool. You span them all. You encompass them. You embrace them. You ate them and they become an integral part of you. You leave foot prints of stupid everywhere you go. They're shaped like a banana and smell like those tiny red sausages and they make high pitched whining noises as they try to adapt to an environment that does not want them. Can you hear that noise? Is it radiating from you? What does it say? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"I'm a douchebag"</span><br />
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<br />MishtaNegativityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02640108658829439328noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6326758776726099635.post-73610437402597605032012-02-21T02:27:00.001-08:002012-02-21T02:28:19.859-08:00How To Sync Traktor To ReaperI finally got <a href="http://www.native-instruments.com/#/products/dj/traktor/">Traktor</a> to sync with something else - <a href="http://reaper.fm/">Reaper</a> - using <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI_beat_clock">MIDI Clock</a> (running on Mac OS X, on the same machine). Here's how I did it..<br />
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Start Traktor.<br />
Start Reaper.<br />
Open Reaper Preferences, select Devices > MIDI Devices.<br />
Double click "Traktor Virtual Input" and select "use this device" and "send midi clock to this device".<br />
In Traktor, open the sync panel thing up the top by clicking the metronome.<br />
Click "EXT" button - this tells traktor to listen for MIDI Clock.<br />
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Now get a track (with an accurate grid!) loaded into a traktor deck.<br />
In Reaper, have something that has a beat set up (i.e. a loop from a recording, midi loop, place some audio in the timeline).<br />
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Press play in Reaper so your loop plays forever.<br />
In Traktor, the sync panel should show a tempo similar to the tempo in Reaper. You'll notice that it wavers about a bit.<br />
Press play on your gridded track and click Sync.<br />
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The Traktor deck should be roughly in sync with Reaper! (In fact, it is loose enough that it sounds a bit like a real DJ is nudging it.)<br />
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Questions:<br />
- If we send the MIDI over a network or MIDI connection to a different machine, will this sync well enough to bother with?<br />
- Can we sync two copies of Traktor (on different machines) this way?<br />
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If you have problems (or corrections), comment below so we can determine what I really did to make this work.Haszarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10310782553633739684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6326758776726099635.post-4692460494420691412012-01-14T18:50:00.000-08:002012-01-14T18:52:17.615-08:00Upgrading Android on my Huawei IDEOS 8150 .. was easy!I recently (in the last 3 months) bought a new cheapo <a href="http://www.android.com/">Android</a> phone <a href="http://huaweimobile.co.nz/products/detail/u8150">Huawei IDEOS 8150</a>. The excuse for this was that my daughter was turning 10, so consequently HAD to have a phone. I figured this was the push I needed to get on the Android train, and maybe simplify things like listening to mp3s on the way to work, having a synced calendar in my pocket, etc etc.<br />
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Before getting the phone I did some googling and it appeared that it was possible to make this cheap phone work even better by upgrading from Android 2.2 to some other custom Android based on 2.3. Why? These things were mentioned, and all were compelling:<br />
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<li>multitouch support (really?);</li>
<li>better battery life/power management, aka..</li>
<li>..overclocking/underclocking (hmm...);</li>
<li>support running newer apps;</li>
<li>something about running apps of the SD card rather than internal storage;</li>
<li>generally improved UI performance (aka "snappier")</li>
<li>a nice suite of standard software with gesture support (<a href="http://www.cyanogenmod.com/">CyanogenMod</a> looks great as a complete environment with documentation..).</li>
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So I thought I'd attempt the upgrade before I started using the phone. I figure if I start using it, and get some data on it, I'll be too scared to upgrade later.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Which ROM?</span><br />
This is actually a really tricky question, because ROMs only tend to be available on dodgy-looking forums as links to even less comforting download sites, and half the time they're down. Also they tend to have cumulative, confusing release notes.<br />
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I settled on <a href="http://www.dronix.org/">DroniX</a> (v0.4) eventually, because it didn't seem to have any problems. (Yes - the site is in italian..)<br />
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The problems with the others:<br />
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<li><a href="http://ideosdevteam.blogspot.com/">IDEOS Dev Team's Gingerman</a> - wifi was broken on the one I tried, and getting hold of later builds seemed impossible (lots of broken links, generally disorganised archives of releases)</li>
<li><a href="http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1412785">FusionIdeos</a> - Google chat didn't work for me, and there was a permanent notification telling me the network was down (grr!)</li>
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Some ROMs appeared to download and install fine, but after the final reboot did not appear to have changed anything about the phone. Possibly they were meant to be used as a skin over another ROM (file sizes for these ROMs vary wildly), or the upgrade process did not complete. So that ruled out other ROMs, e.g. one of the many <a href="http://www.cyanogenmod.com/">CyanogenMod</a> ports (possibly from IDEOS Dev Team).<br />
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Another thing I didn't like about some ROMs was a generally cruddy UI, with over-the-top boot animations and cluttered home screen/launcher.<br />
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Also related to this issue is how to obtain the ROM image. A popular app <a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=com.koushikdutta.rommanager&hl=en">ROM Manager</a> is available via the Android Market. This simplifies things, maintaining lists of links to various ROM images so you can select and download them directly to the device. This didn't seem to be an option for me - the ROM I needed (there weren't many listed for IDEOS, possibly only one) appeared to be a broken link. So I would download an image from a website and transfer it to the SD card manually (via USB).<br />
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Note however that ROM Manager was integral to the process, as it also allows you to backup your current ROM, which is fundamentally useful.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Performing the Upgrade</span><br />
The process is as follows:<br />
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<li>backup anything on phone</li>
<li>install the phone's driver (on a Windows PC)</li>
<li>root the phone (using <a href="http://shortfuse.org/?page_id=2">SuperOneClick</a>, Windows-PC only) </li>
<li>install <a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=com.koushikdutta.rommanager&hl=en">ROM Manager</a> app on the phone</li>
<li>backup current ROM</li>
<li>install new ROM </li>
<li>test, rinse, repeat if desired.</li>
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Some details for the above items:<br />
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Installing phone drivers on PC:<br />
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<li>turn on USB debugging on phone:</li>
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<li>Settings>Applications>USB Debugging > ON</li>
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<li>connect phone to PC via USB, new hardware wizard</li>
<li>select "search for drivers in specific location"</li>
<li>browse to adb something folder on phone, next</li>
<li>"setting up Android Composite ADB Interface" .. done.</li>
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Rooting phone:</div>
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<li>download latest SimpleOneClick from xda forum:</li>
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<li><a href="http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=803682"><span class="s2">http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=803682</span></a></li>
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<li>unzip to desktop</li>
<li>(re)connect phone to PC via USB cable</li>
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<li> don't mount SD card/turn on USB file sharing</li>
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<li>run SuperOneClick</li>
<li>click "Root" button</li>
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<li> progress...</li>
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<li>"do you want me to install busybox?" yes (what is busybox?)</li>
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<li> <a href="http://busybox.net/about.html"><span class="s2">http://busybox.net/about.html</span></a></li>
<li> (shell access stuff that is useful for really rooting around by the looks)</li>
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<li>"do you want me to run a test?" yes - test successful</li>
<li>look in launcher, I now have SuperUser app, success</li>
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Installing ROM Manager is straightforward as it is available on the Android Market (unless you've installed a ROM that has broken your network access, or doesn't have the Market app installed).</div>
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Backup current ROM image:<br />
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<li>first, need to install recovery ROM</li>
<li>select "Flash ClockworkMod Recovery"</li>
<li>failed.. reboot phone first perhaps?</li>
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<li>disconnect phone from PC</li>
<li>reboot phone (off & on)</li>
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<li>launch ROM Manager, select "Flash ClockworkMod Recovery"</li>
<li>select "Huawei U8150 Ideos"</li>
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<li>progress bar</li>
<li> SuperUser allow? Yes</li>
<li>success!</li>
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<li>ROM Manager, select Backup Current ROM</li>
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<li>enter a file name, go</li>
<li>auto reboots</li>
<li>terminal thing with android picture and it says it is backing up</li>
<li>various things happen</li>
<li>generating md5 sum takes ages</li>
<li>auto reboots</li>
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<li>where is this image saved?</li>
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<li>it is in the menu of ROM Manager's Manage and Restore Backups</li>
<li>it is on the SD card in a folder under clockworkmod</li>
<li>it is ~240 mb</li>
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Installing new awesome ROM:<br />
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<li>downloading via ROM Manager menu doesn't seem to work (bad dropbox link?)</li>
<li>download a good ROM (see above!) - I downloaded from this forum:</li>
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<li><a href="http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1057487">http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1057487</a></li>
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<li>mount SD card, copy file, unmount</li>
<li>launch ROM Manager, select "Install ROM From SD Card"</li>
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<li>browse to zip file, select</li>
<li>ROM preinstall ok defaults</li>
<li> backup existing NO (default + I just backed up)</li>
<li>wipe data and cache NO (default)</li>
<li> wipe dalvik cache YES (default)</li>
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<li>(dalvik cache is the java virtual machine cache)</li>
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<li>OK to reboot and install</li>
<li>quick console stuff</li>
<li>boots into new phone .. is it better?</li>
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So is it better?</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Truth About Multitouch</span></div>
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As it turns out, you can't magically make this device have multitouch by installing a new ROM. The screen can see both your fingers, but it may confuse the x and y coordinates of them. You can install multitouch test apps which make this clear.</div>
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However, even with this limitation, pinch-to-zoom works well in (for example) Google Maps, which is reasonably nice.</div>
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Not much really. There is an over/underclocking app preinstalled, so I can tweak the CPU speed, but I don't really use this - I leave the minimum CPU speed at 61 MHz, and max at 652 Mhz, which is probably a little different than the defaults. Perhaps the phone is running a little better and smoother, I can't be sure.</div>
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Battery life seems reasonable, probably improved - 2-3 days or more, but I don't do much with the phone.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If Music Playback Stutters This Might Fix It</span></div>
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The only time I used the CPU app was to fix a problem with FusionIDEOS. When the phone was idle (screen blank) and playing music, music playback would stutter. Somehow it occurred to me to raise the lower CPU limit, which was at something like 30 MHz, and this remedied the problem.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Conclusion</span></div>
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I appear to have mainly done this for "the fun" of it, so if you're not that keen, feel free to stick with the standard ROM, it's probably fine. Also note that I gave up attempting to run Android 2.3, I think because I couldn't find any 2.3 ROMs that worked, so I'm ended up running 2.2.1 (an upgrade of 0.0.1).</div>
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Thanks to these websites which I found useful, you may too:</div>
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<a href="http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/huawei_u8510">http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/huawei_u8510</a></div>
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<a href="http://lifehacker.com/5563924/the-start-to-finish-guide-to-rooting-your-android-phone">http://lifehacker.com/5563924/the-start-to-finish-guide-to-rooting-your-android-phone</a></div>
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<a href="http://lifehacker.com/5342237/five-great-reasons-to-root-your-android-phone">http://lifehacker.com/5342237/five-great-reasons-to-root-your-android-phone</a></div>
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I had hoped that this post would be a reassuring and clear step-by-step guide to this process on this device, but time has passed. However if you have any questions feel free to comment below and I may be able to track down details.</div>
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<br />Haszarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10310782553633739684noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6326758776726099635.post-70596113935943322812011-11-04T00:28:00.000-07:002012-01-14T18:54:19.571-08:00Living the Dream - LIVE Electronic MusicAs <a href="http://haszaristwocents.blogspot.com/2011/08/what-am-i-looking-for-in-music-software.html">mentioned in a previous post</a>, I have long dreamed about being able to play electronic music live. I've finally done it!<br />
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Here's the audio (freely downloadable if you want to listen later, and I may put it on the <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/beatsreality">beats reality podcast</a> too).<br />
<iframe frameborder="no" height="81" scrolling="no" src="http://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F27061580&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true&color=a21600" width="100%"></iframe><a href="http://soundcloud.com/haszari/haszari-is-live">Haszari's First Ever Truly Live Set</a> by <a href="http://soundcloud.com/haszari">haszari</a><br />
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A Rudimentary Approach</h4>
As far as live electronic music goes, this is a somewhat primitive performance. There are four songs, each has approximately 3-4 parts, and there are a small number of effects/parameters available for me to tweak. Also I'm relying heavily on a great-sounding dub delay effect which can feedback; I've used it to fill things out, give things dynamics and shape, and also used it (screaming feedback like a guitar amp) for short-term sound effects.<br />
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Also, of the four songs, 2 are built from short loops of (my own) previously recorded material - i.e. the notes are not being sequenced live, and there is no synthesiser producing the notes live.<br />
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Another limitation is that there are no stabs or manually-played samples/notes/effects; everything is in some kind of pattern which is triggered quantised. (The main reason for this is I ran out of time.)<br />
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Limitless Possibility</h4>
But I'm really excited about what is happening in this live set. Even though I've heavily used samples, I had a huge amount of control available to me live, and more importantly, it was easy and fun to perform with no plan in an underground bunker (through my low rent sound system, running the whole night off a single power outlet). I had a lot of flexibility, nothing much was planned. What did I have control over?<br />
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<li>Within each song, I had a level fader for each part, meaning the songs were <i>mixed</i> (in a primitive sense) live. These faders could be set up differently depending on the part, for example one synth strings part had the fader pre-reverb.</li>
<li>Each part had at least one other parameter on a knob; this could be a filter cutoff for a synth part, or a fader between two drum sounds for a drum part. </li>
<li>All parts had one or more (looped) patterns, which could be triggered/untriggered (quantised to an appropriate interval) with a button. In the case of multiple patterns, a button allowed me to navigate up/down to select the pattern to play next time around.</li>
<li>Some parts had a triggerable variation or fill - for example, hold down a button to play a randomised (schizofrenic funk drummer) fill until the button is released.</li>
<li>Each song was assignable to a global (DJ-ish) channel - with a level fader, 3-band EQ, and a send to the global dubdelay. Assigning a song also made its parts available - i.e. I could only trigger parts etc when a song was "loaded" into a channel.</li>
<li>Although I only had two songs' worth of hardware control, this was live-mappable and I could easily manage (parts of) all four songs playing at once if I want to.</li>
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Of course this was all implemented in handy <a href="http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/">SuperCollider</a>. I spent a bit over a month or so of occasional evenings and bits-of-weekend developing things and jamming it out. Most of my time was spent on infrastructure - things like setting up the code to live-map a song to a hardware channel, implementing a simplistic EQ/band compressor for the channel strip, factoring out the dub-delay effect so all songs can opt-in to using it, etc.<br />
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What made this really exciting and fun for me is that I could treat this like a software project. I could start small, implement a simple beat that I could drop & interact with live, building in more complexity later. It felt like prototyping - sketching out a framework of how things should work, and revisiting different aspects later until I had something much more complex, organic and live up and running.<br />
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I may post again with more detail about how SuperCollider supports writing and performing like this - so comment if you want to find out more about something.<br />
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<br />Haszarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10310782553633739684noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6326758776726099635.post-35637751721096064042011-09-06T00:35:00.000-07:002011-09-06T00:45:29.709-07:00Home Made Rubber Insoles<div style="text-align: left;">This is my <a href="http://thebushiesblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/shoes.html">shoe bl</a><a href="http://thebushiesblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/shoe-two.html">og post</a>. (I think someone else did one but I can now only find that one to link to, comment if you did a shoe blog post.)</div><div><br /></div><div>I made some rubber insoles for my shoes, to make the soles thicker. I walk to work most days, and I also buy a lot of $30 shoes off <a href="http://1-day.co.nz/">1-day</a>, which usually are pretty lightweight and thin, so I might do this a lot more. The rubber is from one of my favourite shops, <a href="http://www.pararubber.co.nz/">Para Rubber</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>I've only been wearing them for ten minutes so they might be completely hopeless, we shall see.</div><div><br /></div><div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM_HG9JrjT4xpckI41ru350bG5AOmuiRW73eJlyatNNyUTXizKJ1Iadn83NHbmE_ivDi6ZdIF1iJfSkuT6SdsjN-0NdYGEowdHCbmS1Tm74e6FAqFZMXBQReBrK31i6kVT7x2VwQDA-YpN/s320/Photo+on+2011-09-06+at+19.41.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 305px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5649148698015117586" /></div>Haszarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10310782553633739684noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6326758776726099635.post-88578921217832068292011-08-29T02:02:00.000-07:002011-08-29T02:27:33.084-07:00I Made An LED Matrix<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhryYt8v6AUVLM0Jw36JuEqV7gEqzxORDNvOAWPjdhhZrG-j_xR-33NiG33T3xpS-UAbzkO_5R1_7wkHqVsUZNZ0cFcJS2e7PguqndLl652WiJ2089ZQqvaouqZcrc_9WQSG-sykfJfw61r/s1600/SAM_0187.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 253px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhryYt8v6AUVLM0Jw36JuEqV7gEqzxORDNvOAWPjdhhZrG-j_xR-33NiG33T3xpS-UAbzkO_5R1_7wkHqVsUZNZ0cFcJS2e7PguqndLl652WiJ2089ZQqvaouqZcrc_9WQSG-sykfJfw61r/s320/SAM_0187.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5646201944164540066" /></a>
<br />Of course I have been meaning to do this for a while (this and about fifty billion other things..).
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<br />Why:
<br /><ul><li>I have a few LEDs lying around because of the <a href="http://blacklikemyheart.blogspot.com/2008/06/sparkle-pony.html">super cool LED sign my brother made for me</a></li><li>I once watched a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPokkuX_jjk">handy introductory video on the concept</a></li><li>I aim to one day make a <a href="http://www.reenigne.org/blog/physical-tone-matrix/">controller featuring a huge grid of light up buttons</a> (this is a small step on the way)</li></ul><div>So the picture is almost self-explanatory. The container lid is drilled with 4x4x2 holes (I bent the 1mm drill bit, so the first 2 holes are 1mm, the rest 1.5mm). The LEDs are inserted, all facing the same direction (oriented so the flat, negative side of each LED is on the same side!). The legs are then bent and soldered together horizontally, and then vertically. In between, I taped (masking tape!) over the previous soldered connections as a crude insulator.</div><div>
<br /></div><div>Then I tested it with the multimeter (also a gift from my bro, but one that I got to build myself (with the soldering iron he gave me!)). Handily, the test current from the meter actually lights the LEDs up, which is great for "it's now lights out time, stop reading please" demonstrations to kids (at about 8.10 pm at our house). </div><div>
<br /></div><div>Needless to say it works perfectly.</div><div>
<br /></div><div>What next for my LED matrix?</div><div>
<br /></div><div>Well, about a year ago I bought a whole lot of electronics components for my planned (predicted? hypothetical) USB-MIDI controller project. So the plan is to try driving the LEDs (simple strobed animations, etc) from an <a href="http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Detail&name=ATMEGA644PA-PU-ND">AVR brain</a> through two <a href="http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?vendor=0&keywords=CD4051BCN">4051 multiplexers</a>. I don't know much about how to do this but I will learn! Hopefully this will be then form a good light-up part for underneath a 4x4 button array in this supposed controller...</div>Haszarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10310782553633739684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6326758776726099635.post-44051854350889688392011-08-29T01:53:00.000-07:002011-08-29T01:57:39.768-07:00Squeezer - Pure Juice (Haszari remix)I have a new remix out - on <a href="http://newclearmusic.com">Newclear Music</a>. The original is by <a href="http://www.facebook.com/squeezerproject">Squeezer</a>, who are from Auckland (NZ). I don't know too much about <a href="http://soundcloud.com/squeezer">Squeezer</a>, but when I heard the parts I put my hand up and said "yes please". I haven't really done that before, because I know it takes me a long time to complete a remix (note - this was probably almost a year ago).
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<br />Anyway what drew me to the track was the beautiful guitar part - which for me evoked certain 80s film soundtracks, e.g. <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000455/">John Hughes</a> movies, or <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098936/">Twin Peaks</a>. I aimed for a slightly seventies disco downgrade, drenched in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_TB-303">acid 303</a> lines against a chilled out bass and beat. In all, quite a different sound for me, and I'm pleased!
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<br />Also on the EP are diverse takes from none other Newclear honcho <a href="http://www.newclearmusic.com/tag/nsu/">nsu</a>, AK deep d&b slow burner <a href="http://soundcloud.com/soulscience">Soul Science</a>, breakbeat champion <a href="http://www.facebook.com/WillMarshallMusic">Will Marshall</a>, as well as a new remix from Squeezer (the TSV remix).
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<br />Go out and buy the EP! This week!
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<br />It seems in the past ten or so years, music software and technology has become much more powerful, usable, and accessible (i.e. cheap). This, combined with the convenience and ease of digital distribution, is why <a href="http://cartoonbeats.com/">Cartoon Beats</a> came about - we are mucking around making our own music, and if we are going to be hustling around labels and DJs trying to get them to promote our music, we might as well release it ourselves. So that's great, but something's still missing for me.
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<br />Producing a track, and DJing it out have become completely separated for me - one of them involves sitting at a desk, endlessly tweaking and fiddling with a timeline UI in software, the other involves standing up, bashing buttons, waggling my arms and/or nodding my head while subtly adjusting various aspects of a fixed and unchanging recording. I crave the ability to combine all this into one activity - the power and flexibility of composition and production with the immediacy of DJing.
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<br />Alongside this I feel a huge disconnect between how I used to make music, when I was in metal/rock band - jamming, noodling on riffs with other players for hours on end. The music was definitely not locked to any timeline, and often evolved in front of you, even if many of the elements were pre-planned or rehearsed. I miss that! And I thought that by now (ten years later, surrounded by supercomputers and extremely affordable USB MIDI gear) it would be much easier to achieve!
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<br />So I have tried out lots of software with these kinds of goals in mind. And always found myself wanting more..
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<br />So what is it that I want?
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<br /><h5>Power & Flexibility or Expandability</h5>
<br />I don't want a system to present arbitrary limitations or obscure or prevent cutting edge algorithms/processing from being used. A simple example - I want completely flexible routing, which most software provides these days (GarageBand doesn't; Reaper does). A more complex example - should I read about some clever <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_signal_processing">DSP</a> technique, I don't want to have to wait for someone to write a plugin, or attempt to write one myself; ideally the technique can be implemented/prototyped directly in the software (e.g. Pd contains many units which can be used as building blocks to build up arbitrary processing; the same technique in Reaper might require a custom plugin, or a complex mess of routing connecting many plugins). Another way of looking at this: if I happen upon some interesting technique in a tutorial or academic paper, it should be possible to apply/adapt the technique.
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<br /><h5>Modularity or Abstraction</h5>
<br />This is essentially the flip side of flexibility - a complex graph of processing units, or a sequence of audio samples, or notes, should be able to be treated as a single unit, with useful parameters exposed. I have found that this is a limitation with timeline-based software (e.g. <a href="http://reaper.fm/">Reaper</a> or <a href="http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/">GarageBand</a>) - a channel is a single level. You cannot for example sequence some audio and then treat the sequence as a unit; you have to paste it, warts-and-all, around the timeline to reuse it, and of course, you can't easily adjust something in all these pasted copies. MIDI clips are one way around this. Also I find myself wanting to package up snippets of automation data.
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<br /><h5>Visibility</h5>
<br />By this I mean not obscuring things. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Studio_Technology">VST</a> plugins for example, are really great units with lots of expressive power packed into them; but more often than not the actual core of what the plugin does is obscured from the user. This is especially frustrating when you have lots of plugins that do subtle variations on the same thing. I don't want these things to be a black box - I want to be able to find out or understand. Note that this is distinct from abstraction above, which allows the user to package things up and (temporarily) obscure the details. Also important here is that the techniques, musical information and processing used in a track should be as easy to get out of the system as they are to put in (so you aren't locked in to the system).
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<br /><h5>Casualness or Immediacy</h5>
<br />Traditional musical instruments and musical gear have presented a very casual kind of interface - you pick the thing up and start playing it, or connect it to a sound system and turn knobs. I want this kind of expressive power to be possible or available to me. What I don't want is for production to be something that I have to lock myself in a room for hours to do - I want it to be more like a toy, and something that I can attempt to involve my kids in (or expose them to). You know, like picking up a guitar.
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<br /><h5>Conciseness or Efficiency (or Scalability)</h5>
<br />I have only recently realised how important this is to me. As my projects got more complex, I found that I was more constrained by previous decisions. With modular software such as <a href="http://code.google.com/p/jivemodular/">Jive</a> (or Pd), while it might technically be possible to play a complete live set of a few original tracks, to do so would not really be feasible. This really ties in with modularity mentioned above, being paranoid about backing up/losing work, and the fact that my day job is writing software. A text-based file format (as in <a href="http://puredata.info/">Pd</a>), or even text-based user interface (SuperCollider, or any one of many audio programming languages) is a huge advantage from the point of view of organising the content in a project. On the other end of the scale for example, a binary file format that folds in midi information and audio samples etc is not ideal.
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<br />So I'm delighted to announce, I have found a system that appears to do well in all these respects - <a href="http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/">SuperCollider</a>. In future blogs I will go into why I am so happy with SuperCollider, and what I have been doing with it - but rest assured, I have been jamming with it, playing with it as a musical/audio toy, experimenting with the low-level nuts and bolts of audio processing, and even working towards playing live with it.
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<br />Of course this is my own idiosyncratic view, and I don't have much experience with non-free/cheap musical software. In particular, <a href="http://www.ableton.com/">Ableton Live</a>, <a href="http://www.audiomulch.com/">AudioMulch</a> and <a href="http://www.energy-xt.com/">energyXT</a> all seem potentially very useful. So feel free to chime in with your experiences...<div><ul><li>What do you love about the software/system you use to make music? </li><li>What do you hate? </li><li>How do you (or how would you like to) perform electronic music live? </li><li>What do you wish your system could do?</li></ul></div>Haszarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10310782553633739684noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6326758776726099635.post-58926483339809027632010-06-06T17:05:00.000-07:002010-06-06T17:27:01.551-07:00QtzRendang - Open Source Quartz Composer Movie Renderer<a href="http://qtzrendang.googlecode.com"><img alt="QtzRendang in action" src="http://qtzrendang.googlecode.com/files/QtzRendangActionShot.png" width="420px" style="border: none;" /></a><br /><br />Announcing QtzRendang, a little utility app for rendering <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_Composer">Quartz Compositions</a> to movie files. I cobbled this together from example code for my own purposes, and since I couldn't find anything on the web. "My own purposes" typically involve rendering a loopy composition to a six or seven minute movie to make simple but effective <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/CartoonBeats">videos</a> for <a href="http://cartoonbeats.com">Cartoon Beats</a> releases.<br /><br />By the way, there is another app for this purpose developed by the <a href="http://kineme.net/">Kineme</a> crew - <a href="http://kineme.net/">QuartzCrystal</a> - which supports spatial and temporal oversampling to reduce temporal and visual jagginess. At US$18 this is a great little app, but as I'm a bit of a nerd and a cheapskate, and there wasn't an open source solution, I decided it was worth writing QtzRendang.<br /><br /><a href="http://code.google.com/p/coge/">CoGe</a> is another great project on Google code. It's an open source visualisation/VJ mixer/live sequencer.<br /><br /><h4>Back to QtzRendang</h4><br />Drag & drop a composition, specify frame resolution, duration, and frame rate & output filename. Optionally tweak composition parameters, then click render.<br /><br />Why is it called QtzRendang? Well it renders .qtz files to movies, and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indomie_Mi_goreng">instant noodles</a> I had that week were rendang flavour. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendang">Rendang</a> is a slow-cooked Indonesian dish which seems like it would be pretty yum. I've never had it.<br /><br />Any questions about the software itself please feel free to ask in the comments.Haszarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10310782553633739684noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6326758776726099635.post-9015156703076611042010-03-28T11:48:00.000-07:002011-08-27T19:10:25.386-07:00Sharkweek Reality 27th March 2009Haszari & Sharkweek teamed up to play a whole lot of banging new tunes & had a chat about Sharkweek's latest remix album - Gimme Gimme Shark Treatment (<a href="http://www.junodownload.com/ppps/products/1549220-02.htm">buy from juno</a> or <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/nz/album/fade-to-blue-blue-storm-remix/id360927795?i=360927805&uo=6">itunes</a>) - and the latest <a href="http://cartoonbeats.com">Cartoon Beats</a> EP (<a href="http://www.junodownload.com/ppps/products/1552263-02.htm">buy from juno</a> or <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/nz/album/wii-break-sharkweek-hz-2-wii/id362463966?i=362464055&uo=6">itunes</a>).
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<br />Show tracklist:
<br />Does It Offend You, Yeah? - Epic Last Song (Lifelike remix)
<br />Donna Summer - I Feel Love (Patrick Wayne remix)
<br />Detachments - H.A.L (Andrew Weatherall's Disco club mix)
<br />Paperclip People - Throw (DJ Kue edit)
<br />College - Teenage Colour (Anoraak remix)
<br />Light Year - Sex Education
<br />Symbiont - Magic Man (Sharkweek Strange Night of Stone remix)
<br />The Engines Of Efficiency - Black Star
<br />SoNic Smith - Wii Break (Sharkweek Hz 2 Wii remix)
<br />Sharkweek - Small Firm Peppermints (Haszari's Filthy Pepper Mince Pie)
<br />Pitch Black - Harmonia (Sharkweek Midnight Cone remix)
<br />Stakker - Humanoid (Dan Aux remix)
<br />Ramirez - Hablando (Hostage remix)
<br />Public Enemy - Night Of The Living Bassheads (Figure remix)
<br />Hystereo - Cityspeak (Arveene & Misk remix)
<br />Les Gillettes - Pompeii (Boy 8-Bit remix)
<br />Kid Komas - Raving Buck (Aural Trash mix)
<br />Gooseflesh - Noisome
<br />Fog - Street Hop (Deejaygasm remix)
<br />Curses! - What I Need (Dexplicit remix)
<br />Baobinga - State of Ghetto Jackin' (TRG's Brooklyn 2 Bucharest remix)
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<br /><p>Beats Reality is on the air every Saturday from 7-9pm. Tune in to 91FM in the Dunedin area, or get <a href="http://www.r1.co.nz/stream.php">the stream</a> online from <a href="http://www.r1.co.nz/">Radio 1</a>.</p> <p>Haszari, SoNic Smith and guests play plenty of fresh banging fidget, wobble, electro, breaks, house, tech house, and a lot of other stuff.</p> <p>The show is podcast every week: get it from <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/beatsreality">http://feeds2.feedburner.com/beatsreality</a>. You can subscribe with ease from there. Or just search iTunes store for "beats reality" or "haszari" - free to download/subscribe.</p>Haszarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10310782553633739684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6326758776726099635.post-68324763676341555492010-03-13T14:03:00.000-08:002010-03-13T15:17:19.222-08:00Beats Reality Double Threat 2 13 March 2009 TracklistOnce again Haszari was joined in the studio by SoNic Smith and Stranger Danger. The danger made plans to offer sweets to kids and SoNic played a set off a microSD card. Here's the tracklist:<br /><br />DJ Jazzy Jeff ft. Kardinall Offishall - She Was So Flyy<br />Anoraak - Waiting For Your Phone Call<br />Walter Meego - Girls (Tommie Sunshine remix)<br />Filthy Rich - Arumba<br />Vlad & 30Hz - Get Low<br />Snake Charmer - The Drum Machine Has No Heart<br />Greg Churchill - Clown Punch<br />Claude VonStroke & J. Philp - California<br />Uffie - MCs Can Kiss (Zombie Disco Squad remix)<br />Hijack vs. Santiago & Bushido - Way Back (Santiago & Bushido remix)<br />SoNic Smith - Wii Break (Haszari Electro Fence remix)<br />Vitalic - Second Lives (The Bloody Beetroots remix)<br />Pig Out - Cashflow<br />Does It Offend You, Yeah - Game Over<br />Jolyon Petch & Sam Hill vs. Th'Dudes - Bliss 2010 (Stafford Brothers club mix)<br />David Guetta - Memories (ft. Kid Cudi) (Armand van Helden vocal remix)<br />Breakdown - Feels Like (ft. NYTS) (Dan Aux remix)<br />Sharkweek - Small Firm Peppermints (SoNic Smith Don't Fear The Mint remix)<br />The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die<br />Lorcan Mak - Gypsy Bum (Rubix refix)<br />Udachi - P-Funk Skank (Nadastrom remix)<br />Riton & Primary1 - Who's There? (AC Slater & Nick Thayer & Mat Cant remix)<br />AC Slater - Play The Record Again<br />Birdy Nam Nam - The Parachute Ending (Vitalic remix)<br /><br /><p>Beats Reality is on the air every Saturday from 7-9pm. Tune in to 91FM in the Dunedin area, or get <a href="http://www.r1.co.nz/stream.php">the stream</a> online from <a href="http://www.r1.co.nz/">Radio 1</a>.</p> <p>Haszari, SoNic Smith and guests play plenty of fresh banging fidget, wobble, electro, breaks, house, tech house, and a lot of other stuff.</p> <p>The show is podcast every week: get it from <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/beatsreality">http://feeds2.feedburner.com/beatsreality</a>. You can subscribe with ease from there. Or just search iTunes store for "beats reality" or "haszari" - free to download/subscribe.</p>Haszarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10310782553633739684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6326758776726099635.post-31079236430871609772010-02-07T22:38:00.000-08:002010-02-07T22:48:37.949-08:00Beats Reality Radio Triple Threat 6th February 2009 TracklistAll the masters of reality were in attendance, just prior to <a href="http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=184017&id=601578452&l=025dfe29d8">It's Not Real 4 @ Bath St</a>, so we split the 2 hour show evenly so we could all freely flex our mixing muscles. Phwoar.<br /><br />Warrior One - Bad Like Jimmy Cliff<br />Chaos In The CBD - Tesh & Maccas<br />Disco Killah - Funkman<br />Crookers - Put Your Hands On Me (Solo dub)<br />Barretso - Bright City Lights (Kolt13 remix)<br />Renaissance Man - Rhythm<br />Jennifer Delano - Amsterdam (Riptide remix)<br />Touche - Vampires<br />Black Noise - Knock You Out<br />The Count Of Monte Cristal & Herve - Jungle Steppers<br />Boy 8-Bit - The Suspense Is Killing Me (Dada Life Guerilla Fart #5)<br />MVSLVM - French Jeans (Dada Life remix)<br />A.G. Trio - Dancen (Ultrax remix)<br />AC Slater - Play The Record Again<br />Riton & Primary1 - Who's There (AC Slater & Nick Thayer & Mat Cant remix)<br />Udachi - P-Funk Skank (Nadastrom remix)<br />Trash Y'sen & The Toxic Avenger - Stayin' Alive Die (GTRONIC DubDub remix)<br />SoNic Smith - Justice<br />Audio Bullys - I Shot You Down (Hook and Sling remix)<br />Afrojack - Comeback<br />The Proxy - Ready To Rock (Attack 1985 remix)<br />Wu Tang Clan - C.R.E.A.M. (Daze Of Thunder remix)<br />Guns & Bombs - Riddle Of Steel (Daze Of Thunder remix)<br />Felix Cartal - Skeleton (Pance Party remix)<br />Huoratron - Gbay<br />Fckn Crew - Slaughter<br /><br /><p>Beats Reality is on the air every Saturday from 7-9pm. Tune in to 91FM in the Dunedin area, or get <a href="http://www.r1.co.nz/stream.php">the stream</a> online from <a href="http://www.r1.co.nz/">Radio 1</a>.</p> <p>Haszari, SoNic Smith and guests play plenty of fresh banging fidget, wobble, electro, breaks, house, tech house, and a lot of other stuff.</p> <p>The show is podcast every week: get it from <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/beatsreality">http://feeds2.feedburner.com/beatsreality</a>. You can subscribe with ease from there. Or just search iTunes store for "beats reality" or "haszari" - free to download/subscribe.</p>Haszarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10310782553633739684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6326758776726099635.post-55940518754119465672010-01-22T22:24:00.000-08:002010-01-24T11:56:02.767-08:00Beats Reality Radio Taste The Techno Tracklist 23rd January 2009Miike Snow - Animal (Mark Ronson remix)<br />nsu - Discordia (instrumental)<br />Sebastien Leger - Le Moustique<br />Sharooz - Saccharin (SonicC remix)<br />Lorcan Mak - Hooo!<br />Dadahack - Hello (Freelance Hellraiser remix)<br />Zombie Nation - Mystery Meat Affair (Shadow Dancer remix)<br />Scanners - Salvation (Don Diablo remix)<br />Futureheads - Struck Dumb (Lee Mortimer remix)<br />Cassian - Fucksong<br />Fake Blood - I Think I Like It<br />Ocelot - Our Time (Bird Peterson remix)<br />SoNic Smith - Wii Break (Haszari Electro Fence remix)<br />Kid Cudi - Day 'n' Nite (The Smokers refix)<br />Trash Yourself & The Toxic Avenger - Die (GTRONIC DubDub remix)<br />Muse - Uprising (Does It Offend You Yeah? remix)<br />Shopliftas - There It Izzz (Young Nuts Remix)<br />Benny Benassi - I Am Not Drunk<br />Riva Starr - I Was Drunk (ft. Noze)<br />Benga - Situanus (instrumental)<br />Sekta - Jabajaws (ft. Spoek Mathambo) (instrumental)<br />DatsiK - Gecko<br />Portishead - Only You (SoNic Smith remix)<br />Boy Crisis - Dressed To Digress (Nero remix)<br /><br /><p>Beats Reality is on the air every Saturday from 7-9pm. Tune in to 91FM in the Dunedin area, or get <a href="http://www.r1.co.nz/stream.php">the stream</a> online from <a href="http://www.r1.co.nz/">Radio 1</a>.</p> <p>Haszari, SoNic Smith and guests play plenty of fresh banging fidget, wobble, electro, breaks, house, tech house, and a lot of other stuff.</p> <p>The show is podcast every week: get it from <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/beatsreality">http://feeds2.feedburner.com/beatsreality</a>. You can subscribe with ease from there. Or just search iTunes store for "beats reality" or "haszari" - free to download/subscribe.</p>Haszarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10310782553633739684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6326758776726099635.post-25603391479108911642009-12-17T20:45:00.000-08:002009-12-17T21:02:53.746-08:00Summer is Here!I just finished work for the year, and am getting everything ready for a holiday up north.<br /><br />While I am out of town, <a href="http://sonicsmith.geek.nz">SoNic Smith</a> will be looking after <a href="http://cartoonbeats.com/?q=radio">the radio show</a>, so stay tuned in if you're in the Dunedin area (and of course <a href="http://stream.r1.co.nz:8090/listen.pls">grab the stream</a> if you're not). Needless to say SoNic will keep the beats and the banter rolling - cheers SoNic!.<br /><br />Now as I head north I am gearing up for two massive gigs in Gisborne - if you're anywhere near Gisborne leading up to the new year then this is where to go:<br /><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=226218799461"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9_XtkZnFYrWC_h-e9M2Irb-tWEzr9iQhOK57qTCvd1a0dRrvJSeU75u5UuNNUJlYS0i4FV__68bluw4kfQQs4rF0r-TXIFcosBxBBAkFbQxb3p7plCLt-C4pi5LPC6JJ6D0A8_Q0se-pb/s200/Soho28Dec2009_finalbr.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416434594299804146" /></a><br /><br /><h3>Haszari + DJ Hat @ Soho<br />28th December 2009</h3><br /></div><br /><p><br /><div><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.rhythmandvines.co.nz/2009/lineup/lineup/"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVx2WQbmkA37mm2K3Bv6KBQNh6QJ_dtR4doB74wXZiPi5eCw348EOiCsIx8dHfUGg7i8v6WEBt_Jq2JgHuje62M6_U836Ngd5EZNIldTw_jTdf8-fdl8WU9hJWo0gF45wTtzeYkwIVTd1N/s200/n770914352_2477.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416434974414409490" /></a><br />And the big one. I'm playing late on the 31st, but there are amazing acts over the three days - it's going to be an amazing festival. I for one am very excited about seeing Moby, Major Lazer, the Proxy, 2ManyDJs, LCD Soundsystem... the list goes on! See you there.<br /><h3>Rhythm & Vines Festival<br />29th-31st December 2009</h3><br /></div><br /><br /><p><br />Merry Christmas!Haszarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10310782553633739684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6326758776726099635.post-23268134379971341362009-12-06T12:13:00.000-08:002009-12-06T12:28:28.547-08:00Beats Reality It's Not Real 3 ft. MarkJ 5th December 2009A great show! Followed by an amazing night of tech house, wobble and evil electro at It's Not Real 3 @ Bath Street. A great night had by all, thanks to everyone there. See you at the next one. <br /><img src="http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs005.snc3/11248_198552768452_601578452_3973623_2006171_n.jpg"></img><br /><br />Live mixes from the night getting uploaded soon - keep an eye on <a href="http://souncloud.com/haszari">soundcloud</a>.<br /><br />Tracklist:<br />Tittsworth - Here He Comes (ft. Nina Sky & Pitbull) (DJ Day remix)<br />Crystal Fighters - I Love London (Qoso remix)<br />Major Lazer - Pon de Floor (Snake Charmer's Fuck the Deadline remix)<br />Sebastien Tellier - Fingers Of Steel (Toby Toast Topspin remix)<br />Magda - Panna Cotta Eyes<br />Style of Eye - The Prophet<br />Boris - Buzz In (Todd Edwards remix)<br />Dakunt - T'a Surdou (Lorcan Mak remix)<br />Snake Charmer - Monastery<br />Joe B - Mobbing<br />SoNic Smith - Wii Break (Haszari's Le Mans Style remix)<br />Sharkweek - Small Firm Peppermints (Haszari's Filthy Pepper Mince Pie)<br />Dave Armstrong & Redroche ft. H-Boogie - Love Has Gone (Haszari Still Loves House edit)<br />Chase & Status - Eastern Jam (Haszari's Bollywood Wonderland edit)<br /><span style="font-style:italic;">MarkJ Guest Mix</span><br />Solead - So What (Jalabee Cartel remix)<br />Constar - Sunset Tribe (Voodeux remix)<br />Nicholas Van Orton - Tribe Pandemonium<br />B.O.N.G - Deep For Dummies (Human8 remix)<br />Alex Flatner - Perfect Circles (ft. Lopazz) (Boris Brejcha remix)<br />Stefan Hellstrom - Yogurt Dancing<br />40 Thieves - Don't Turn It Off (ft. Qzen) (Brennan Green mix)<br /><br /><p>Beats Reality is on the air every Saturday from 7-9pm. Tune in to 91FM in the Dunedin area, or get <a href="http://www.r1.co.nz/stream.php">the stream</a> online from <a href="http://www.r1.co.nz/">Radio 1</a>.</p> <p>Haszari, SoNic Smith and guests play plenty of fresh banging fidget, wobble, electro, breaks, house, tech house, and a lot of other stuff.</p> <p>The show is podcast every week: get it from <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/beatsreality">http://feeds2.feedburner.com/beatsreality</a>. You can subscribe with ease from there. Or just search iTunes store for "energyflash" or "haszari" - free to download/subscribe.</p>Haszarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10310782553633739684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6326758776726099635.post-8155226529931525422009-11-29T12:23:00.001-08:002009-11-29T14:17:11.267-08:00Beats Reality Mo' Better Beats tracklist 28th November 2009<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw-rYZBJ-A2Mc-CRrVr3eQX0oU7yBIcFUopV-DX124MCqYJ8mrFXLQkOpw8vIsqLGR-dD2J4VtTCKCmjkQCqpDpdoUpAV88ehJCnZXQOXW0cytBS7TPNsHWo8q01VJ6bIx4ve_C1T3i8Yk/s1600/IMG_0458.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 140px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw-rYZBJ-A2Mc-CRrVr3eQX0oU7yBIcFUopV-DX124MCqYJ8mrFXLQkOpw8vIsqLGR-dD2J4VtTCKCmjkQCqpDpdoUpAV88ehJCnZXQOXW0cytBS7TPNsHWo8q01VJ6bIx4ve_C1T3i8Yk/s200/IMG_0458.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409653035597190178" /></a>Yep this show brought to you by movember. Donate here:</p><p><a href="http://nz.movember.com/donate/your-details/member_id/499699/" title="http://nz.movember.com/donate/your-details/member_id/499699/">http://nz.movember.com/donate/your-details/member_id/499699/</a></p><p>Tracklist: </p><p>A Skillz - Strawberry Jam Forever<br /> nsu - The Last Sunrise (The Immortality remix)<br /> VHS or Beta - Feel It When You Know (LA Riots remix)<br /> Plump DJs - Be Good<br /> DJ Falcon - Untitled (Hijack remix)<br /> Fool's Gold - Surprise Hotel (Toadally Krossed Out remix)<br /> Das Glow - Lite Brite (Strip Steve remix)<br /> Snake Charmer - Turns Me On<br /> Dopefish - We Must To Unite (Modwheel Control edit)<br /> Aquilaganja - De Ja Vu<br /> Santiago & Bushido - Head Trick (original)<br /> Lazy Rich - Disco Ballistic<br /> Geoff K - Play With Me<br /> Robert Babicz - Humble<br /> Dr. Berger - Arschwackeltherapie<br /> Justin Martin & Claude VonStroke - Beat That Bird (Riva Starr rechunk)<br /> Rene Van Munster - Thrill Me So High (Hijack edit)<br /> The Disco Biscuits - You And I (The Juan Maclean remix)<br /> Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll (A-Trak remix club edit)<br /> Pig Out - Just Say Yes<br /> Plasticines - Barcelona (Lifelike remix) </p> <p>Beats Reality is on the air every Saturday from 7-9pm. Tune in to 91FM in the Dunedin area, or get <a href="http://www.r1.co.nz/stream.php">the stream</a> online from <a href="http://www.r1.co.nz/">Radio 1</a>.</p> <p>Haszari, SoNic Smith and guests play plenty of fresh banging fidget, wobble, electro, breaks, house, tech house, and a lot of other stuff.</p> <p>The show is podcast every week: get it from <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/beatsreality">http://feeds2.feedburner.com/beatsreality</a>. You can subscribe with ease from there. Or just search iTunes store for "energyflash" or "haszari" - free to download/subscribe.</p><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBUP7Q5yKcqAOrnd8go7Iwtz_1yfOYeHMLzI8zHnPmf8mDhHLg6hleHpcOqylQs3X1SugaWser5uk91fz8_DTp962SsBAw0nnEaNwB9c-7XixaRbMt_OLPAO9BNaYFmnf5sBJXDES9KTJZ/s1600/Photo+on+2009-11-23+at+13.49.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBUP7Q5yKcqAOrnd8go7Iwtz_1yfOYeHMLzI8zHnPmf8mDhHLg6hleHpcOqylQs3X1SugaWser5uk91fz8_DTp962SsBAw0nnEaNwB9c-7XixaRbMt_OLPAO9BNaYFmnf5sBJXDES9KTJZ/s200/Photo+on+2009-11-23+at+13.49.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409626263047594962" /></a>Haszarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10310782553633739684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6326758776726099635.post-49042276122102917752009-11-22T12:47:00.000-08:002009-11-22T13:45:33.846-08:00Beats Reality Animal Crackers tracklist 21 November 2009We had a rather fun time mashing up a lot of amazing tech house with a few dubious animal samples and some of SoNic's select loops and samples, getting ourselves and the listeners all warmed up for the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=45103&id=1149308231">Wonky Wildlife Park at Sammys</a>. Which went off in the most insane manner, definitely the wonkiest party of the year, cheers to everyone there!<br /><br /><p>Jesse Rose - Heavy Still (Zombie Disco Squad remix)<br /> Drums of Death - Got Yr Thing (Jesse Rose Made To Play dub)<br /> Sebastien Leger - Le Moustique<br /> Oliver Giacomotto - 96 Degrees (Superskank remix)<br /> Noob & Brodinski - Peanuts Club<br /> Magik Johnson - Stand Up<br /> Blende - Northern School V1<br /> Benga - Crunked Up<br /> SoNic Smith - Ladies Style (Haszari's Le Mans Style remix)<br /> Justin Martin & Claude VonStroke - Beat That Bird (Riva Starr rechunk)<br /> Christian Martin - Elephant (Worthy's Trumpets & Tusks remix)<br /> Freestylers vs. Ctrl-Z - Ruffneck '09 (Rack n Ruin remix)<br /> Royksopp - The Girl & The Robot (ft. Robyn) (Ocelot remix)<br /> The Toxic Avenger - Rush Hour (Ocelot remix)<br /> Santiago & Bushido - Head Trick (rework)<br /> Dr. Berger - Arshwackeltherapie<br /> Hatiras & DJ Dan - Drop Hits (Santiago & Bushido remix)<br /> Pig & Dan - Cubes<br /> SoNic Smith - Wii Break (Haszari's Electro Fence remix)<br /> Audiostalkers - Hallucinate<br /> Greg Churchill - Shock Rocket<br /> Alter Ego - Queen Anne's Revenge (Jamie Anderson & Deepgroove remix)<br /> Ed Solo & Skool Of Thought - Sludge </p><p>Beats Reality is on the air every Saturday from 7-9pm. Tune in to 91FM in the Dunedin area, or get <a href="http://www.r1.co.nz/stream.php">the stream</a> online from <a href="http://www.r1.co.nz/">Radio 1</a>.</p><p>Haszari, SoNic Smith and guests play plenty of fresh banging fidget, wobble, electro, breaks, house, tech house, and a lot of other stuff.</p> <p>The show is podcast every week: get it from <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/beatsreality">http://feeds2.feedburner.com/beatsreality</a>. You can subscribe with ease from there. Or just search iTunes store for "energyflash" or "haszari" - free to download/subscribe.</p>Haszarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10310782553633739684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6326758776726099635.post-39916420549233274102009-11-15T12:13:00.000-08:002009-11-15T12:19:31.835-08:00Beats Reality on ... Saturday the 14thThis week 2 special features: chat with Charlotte from <a href="http://deliciousmusic.co.nz/">MASSIVE/deliciousmusic.co.nz</a> about the upcoming Summer Soulstice, and Schraa's interview with Jaime Doom from the Bang Gang. AND the premiere of my new remix of <a href="http://soundcloud.com/haszari/wii-electric-fence">Wii Break</a> by <a href="http://sonicsmith.geek.nz">SoNic Smith</a>.<br /><br /><p>TJR - Good Evening Chicago (Hijack edit)<br />Snake Charmer - In The House of Alex<br />Rob - Femmes Et Enfant (ft. Sebastien Tellier)<br />Plump DJs - Be Good<br />Drums Of Death - Got Yr Thing (Jesse Rose Made To Play edit)<br />nsu - Neutron Star (06 version)<br />Fairmont - Gazebo (This is Kokuz rechop)<br />Guy J - Lamur<br />Aqulilaganja - De Ja Vu<br />SoNic Smith - Wii Break (Haszari's Electro Fence remix)<br />Justin Martin & Claude VonStroke - Beat That Bird (Riva Starr rechunk)<br />Idiotproof - Gorilla (Zombie Disco Squad re-edit)<br />Jet Project - Bamboo Fire (Worthy remix)<br />- Bang Gang Interview -<br />Lazy Rich - Funkjet<br />Magik Johnson - Stand Up<br />Santiago & Bushido - Head Trick (rework)<br />Oliver Giacomotto - 96 Degrees (Superskank remix)<br />Hatiras & DJ Dan - Drop Hits (Santiago & Bushido remix)<br />Audiostalkers - Hallucinate<br />Bryan Jones - Bone Crusher </p><p>Beats Reality is on the air every Saturday from 7-9pm. Tune in to 91FM in the Dunedin area, or get <a href="http://www.r1.co.nz/stream.php">the stream</a> online from <a href="http://www.r1.co.nz/">Radio 1</a>.</p><p>Haszari, SoNic Smith and guests play plenty of fresh banging fidget, wobble, electro, breaks, house, tech house, and a lot of other stuff.</p><p>The show is podcast every week: download it <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=259714098&uo=6">free from iTunes</a> or from <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/beatsreality">http://feeds2.feedburner.com/beatsreality</a>. </p>Haszarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10310782553633739684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6326758776726099635.post-73336472395361461592009-11-08T12:24:00.000-08:002009-11-08T12:25:36.351-08:00Beats Reality Tracklist 7th November 2009<p>Disco D - Where They At (Egyptrixx Subbass Bro-down remix)<br /> Ivan Allard - Bumbaclartzzz<br /> Douster - Badman Place<br /> Katy Perry - Hot 'n' Cold (Tolo remix)<br /> Boy 8-Bit - Wolfen<br /> Monolake - Plumbicon<br /> Martin Buttrich - I Lost My Wallet<br /> Idiotproof - Gorilla<br /> Cops & Robbers - Maximilian<br /> Juiceboxxx - 100 MPH (AC Slater remix)<br /> Juiceboxxx & Dre Skull - Sweat<br /> Lee Mortimer - Where The Party At (Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs Nannytyrannosaurus remix)<br /> Riton & Primary1 - Who's There? (Doorly's Knock Knock remix)<br /> Major Lazer - Hold The Line (Golden Gloves Wobble n Shake remix)<br /> Digital & Outrage - Made In England (Evil remix)<br /> Ed Solo & Skool Of Thought - Sludge<br /> Para-Beats - Pump Up The Bass<br /> Rektchordz - Feed Your Head (Lee Mortimer remix)<br /> Solo - Joga Bola (Riva Starr rechunk)<br /> Tim Green - Revox (Justin Martin remix)<br /> JF presents Smokecream - Retox<br /> Ed Solo - Watch Your Eyes<br /> Damian Marley - It Was Written (Chasing Shadows remix)<br /> Haszari - Manas</p> Beats Reality is on the air every Saturday from 7-9pm. Tune in to 91FM in the Dunedin area, or get <a href="http://www.r1.co.nz/stream.php">the stream</a> online from <a href="http://www.r1.co.nz/">Radio 1</a>.<p>Haszari, SoNic Smith and guests play plenty of fresh banging fidget, wobble, electro, breaks, house, tech house, and a lot of other stuff.</p><p>The show is podcast every week: download it <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=259714098&uo=6">free from iTunes</a> or from <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/beatsreality">http://feeds2.feedburner.com/beatsreality</a>. </p>Haszarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10310782553633739684noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6326758776726099635.post-37813191746039116402009-11-01T12:13:00.000-08:002009-11-01T12:15:57.154-08:00Halloween Reality 31st October 2009Busted out a few vaguely halloween related tracks for the longest theme mix in Reality history.<br /><br />Dusty Kid - The Cat (Crookers remix)<br />DZ - Dirt Rave<br />Aniki - Evil Nugget (Koochie's Bass mix)<br />Dave Spoon - At Night<br />Bryan Jones - The Real Paris (t. Jason Lebel)<br />Buckley - Block Party<br />Boy 8-Bit - Chapel of Ghouls<br />Zombie Disco Squad - Eurovision (Mad Kidz remix)<br />Armand van Helden - I Want Your Soul<br />Dave Spoon & DJ Zinc - Ghost Train (Lee Mortimer remix)<br />Tim Richards - Morning Light<br />Sebastien Leger & Chris Lake - Ghost<br />Ida Engberg - Disco Volante<br />Deepsky - Ghost (ft. Jes) (Toksin remix)<br />Riton & Primary 1 - Who's There (AC Slater / Nick Thayer / Mat Cant remix)<br />Action Man - Zombie Dance<br />Designer Drugs - Zombies<br />Boltan - Creepy (Mightyfools remix)<br />The Black Ghosts - Any Way You Choose To Give It (Fake Blood remix)<br />Black Moon - Buck Em Down<br /><br />Beats Reality is on the air every Saturday from 7-9pm. Tune in to 91FM in the Dunedin area, or get <a href="http://www.r1.co.nz/stream.php">the stream</a> online from <a href="http://www.r1.co.nz/">Radio 1</a>.<p>Haszari, SoNic Smith and guests play plenty of fresh banging fidget, wobble, electro, breaks, house, tech house, and a lot of other stuff.</p><p>The show is podcast every week: download it <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=259714098&uo=6">free from iTunes</a> or from <a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/beatsreality">http://feeds2.feedburner.com/beatsreality</a>.Haszarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10310782553633739684noreply@blogger.com0