Radio Show Tracklist 23-08-2008

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The exciting announcement this time round is that the podcast is totally stereo and 44.1k so it sounds normal and nice and is worth listening to even if the guy doing the announcing and mixing isn't your mate/relative.

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I was quite tired when I did the show so the rambling content is easily above 20% but yknow it's student radio, that's what people tune in for.

Rico Tubbs - Gangsters
The Yank - We Can't Be Stop'd (DJ Bam Bam mix) (ft. Alex Peace)
Pnau - Embrace (ft. Ladyhawke) (Fred Falke & Miami Horror mix)
Elite Force - Gasoline Alley (Bearweasel's Lost Down The Alley dub)
Clazziquai Project - Prayers (Shinichi Osawa remix)
Moby - I Love To Move In Here (Holy Ghost! remix)
BSOD - Monochrome
Dylan Rhymes vs. Blende - Stars (Koma & Bones dub)
Elite Force - No Turning Back (Butter Party mix)
Busy P - To Protect and Entertain (ft. Murs) (Crookers mix)
Elite Force - Vapour Trail (Kid Blue mix)
Evil Nine - They Live (Trevor Loveys mix)
Boy 8-Bit - The Cricket Scores
Little Boots - Stuck On Repeat (Fake Blood mix)
Rico Tubbs - Bmore Dominator
MGMT - Electric Eel (Justice remix)
Jaksaw - Get Some (Defunct remix)
Machines Don't Care - Afro Jacker
Micky Slim - Hit The Club (Stupid Fresh mix)
Fragma - Toca's Miracle (Wideboys Bassline mix)
Flanders - Behind (Micky Slim remix)

Closing with a quote:
michael schraa to me
show details Aug 23 (2 days ago)
"Slammin' tracklist dude - bearweasel! bearweasel!"

Listen to and buy some of these. First commenter to find the incongruous track gets a comment back.

Entered A Contest

I’ve entered a contest to remix Deepcentral’s "Is It Real", a progressive/eastern euro trance track.

I need your help - listen to the remix, let me know what you think, and vote & comment on the site!
Visit the label site to have a listen:
http://contest.e-motionsounds.com/index/userdetail/iduser/315

If you have trouble with their player or site, just head on over to the Cartoon Network DJs myspace, the track is the first one in the player. (and why not check out the other snippets while you’re there)
http://myspace.com/cartoonnetworkdjs
(and/or just complain bitterly to me about the inadequacy of trying to listen to music in shitty little flash/js custom web audio players).

My remix is a deep progressive chugger with a bassline that is a bit of a nod to early Dirty South. I’m quite pleased with it.

Please comment your comments here, at the contest site, or myspace or facebook or email.

Not quite all made with free software this one. More like made with all the software I've tried out recently - this is a 3 & 1/2 platform process.

There's a bit of a story so if you have the time I'll tell you all about it...

• chorded out on guitar


• prototyped in seq24 & general midi on an old Pentium II running linux/debian/64Studio


• "shit, perhaps these vocals I just randomly downloaded for this comp might work with these chords"


• re-prototyped in GarageBand and edited & combined with Deepcentral parts


• chugger bassline added in Reaper (demo) using Phadiz VST plus some bleeps with a VST theremin


• (and finally, the free-opensource part) mixed and more importantly low-end sidechain compressed (I have to do this to everything now) using SC3, jack, jack-rack, Ardour running in 64Studio of course (on my now quite senior Athlon64 desktop, needs RAM, needs RAM)


• and mastered in good ol' Audacity

Cheers, see you at Pop this saturday for some cocktails + banter + beats...

King Unique sacrifices "song" for relevant electro

I heard the King Unique remix of Gabriel & Dresden's "Tracking Treasure Down" on the weekend while helping out with our local house music radio show, Energy Flash on Radio 1.

My reaction was: the original was a great crossover clubby trance pop song, with a very pop/song structure, and King Unique succeeded in using the vocal over a much more constant/monotonous (i.e. the chord changes are not there) electro track.

Which is fine and all, obviously that's more relevant, and that's what I tend to be into a lot of the time, but for me it had the effect of making the vocal fairly irrelevant.

If you want to hear the King Unique remix, listen to the energyflash podcast. If you want to hear the original, get in a time machine and go back to last year and listen to Pete Tong's Essential Selection thru early/mid 2006.