Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

How To Sync Traktor To Reaper

I finally got Traktor to sync with something else - Reaper - using MIDI Clock (running on Mac OS X, on the same machine). Here's how I did it..

Start Traktor.
Start Reaper.
Open Reaper Preferences, select Devices > MIDI Devices.
Double click "Traktor Virtual Input" and select "use this device" and "send midi clock to this device".
In Traktor, open the sync panel thing up the top by clicking the metronome.
Click "EXT" button - this tells traktor to listen for MIDI Clock.

Now get a track (with an accurate grid!) loaded into a traktor deck.
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).

Press play in Reaper so your loop plays forever.
In Traktor, the sync panel should show a tempo similar to the tempo in Reaper. You'll notice that it wavers about a bit.
Press play on your gridded track and click Sync.

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.)

Questions:
- If we send the MIDI over a network or MIDI connection to a different machine, will this sync well enough to bother with?
- Can we sync two copies of Traktor (on different machines) this way?

If you have problems (or corrections), comment below so we can determine what I really did to make this work.

Friday, November 4, 2011

Living the Dream - LIVE Electronic Music

As mentioned in a previous post, I have long dreamed about being able to play electronic music live. I've finally done it!

Here's the audio (freely downloadable if you want to listen later, and I may put it on the beats reality podcast too).
Haszari's First Ever Truly Live Set by haszari

A Rudimentary Approach

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.

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.

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.)

Limitless Possibility

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?
  • Within each song, I had a level fader for each part, meaning the songs were mixed (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.
  • 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. 
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
Of course this was all implemented in handy SuperCollider. 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.

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.

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.


Saturday, August 27, 2011

What Am I Looking For In Music Software

I have spent a lot of time in my life playing with different music-making software, getting excited about what can be done, and ultimately getting bogged down or frustrated. I have also spent a reasonable amount of time working on custom tools for making music. So what am I looking for? And why haven't I found it yet?

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 Cartoon Beats 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.

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.

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!

So I have tried out lots of software with these kinds of goals in mind. And always found myself wanting more..

So what is it that I want?

Power & Flexibility or Expandability

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 DSP 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.

Modularity or Abstraction

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. Reaper or GarageBand) - 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.

Visibility

By this I mean not obscuring things. VST 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).

Casualness or Immediacy

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.

Conciseness or Efficiency (or Scalability)

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 Jive (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 Pd), 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.

So I'm delighted to announce, I have found a system that appears to do well in all these respects - SuperCollider. 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.

Of course this is my own idiosyncratic view, and I don't have much experience with non-free/cheap musical software. In particular, Ableton Live, AudioMulch and energyXT all seem potentially very useful. So feel free to chime in with your experiences...
  • What do you love about the software/system you use to make music?
  • What do you hate?
  • How do you (or how would you like to) perform electronic music live?
  • What do you wish your system could do?

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Monitor Speakers

I have been wanting to make some el cheapo near-field monitors for ages. My plan was to get the cheapest drivers I could find, probably with tweeters built in (aha! car speakers!) and put them in decent-sized boxes made out of MDF.

Last weekend when we painted our bedroom I saw that Warehouse had $20 4 inch car speakers and I was like "I am so gonna finally do this". (Luckily for me, the car speaker aisle is the same as the paint aisle.)

SO this weekend I did the stuff in about a day. A little bit of measuring and marking yesterday, and pretty much all day today sawing, glueing and getting tired.

The boxes are glued together with No More Nails and then screwed as well. I didn't use any tables or information about what size cabs would be best for the drivers, just decided based on the size I felt would be good & practical but ensuring there was a reasonable amount of internal volume.

Here's a couple of pictures, there are some more up on flickr.
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And the best news - I am completely astounded by how they sound! Exactly what I was hoping for, enough range to produce on, they sound good without having to be turned up too loud, and much clearer highs than any of my other speakers.

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Wahoo!

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Beats Reality Wonky Windup 22nd August 2009

Another tracklist-from-the-radio-show post. Yep, totally boring, but at least it's not about software development.

Thanks to everyone who tuned in and called in, we were blown away by the response to the giveaway.

We were also blown away by the crowd at Wonky 7 @ Sammys on Saturday - crazy party fun times, very very epic.

Tracklist:
Aquilaganja - Phat Jak (Nick Supply mix)
Solo - Joga Bola
Lowbrows - Dream In The Desert (Hystereo revision)
Autoerotique - Gladiator (Steve Aoki & DJ AM remix)
Just A Band - To Hell With Gravity
Riton & Primary 1 - Who's There? (Style of Eye vocal remix)
nsu - Darkness (XPNDR rework)
The Prodigy - Take Me To The Hospital (Hostage remix)
Agent X ft. Mutya & Ultra - Fallin' (Lee Mortimer remix)
Santero - 6am Horn
Simian Mobile Disco - Audacity of Huge (Dekker & Johan remix)
Lily Allen - The Fear (Jayou's Oh No remix)
Sharam Jey & Nik Valentino - In My Blood (Joe & Will Ask? remix)
Steve Angello - Tivoli (Sam Hill's Destroy Paris Hilton remix)
Teki Latex & Lio - Les Matins de Paris (Surkin remix)
Dem Slackers - God Is A Slacker (original mix)
Dada Life - We Set You Free
Full Phat - Housing Things (Lee Mortimer remix)
Solo - The Big Stef
Calvin Harris - I'm Not Alone (Royal K's Alone In The Dark bootleg)
Mika - We Are Golden (Calvin Harris remix)
Phonat - Set Me Free (High Rankin' remix)
Cicada - Falling Rockets (Just A Band remix)
Dada Life - Don't Feed The Dada
Boltan - Creepy (Mightyfools remix)

Beats Reality is on the air every Saturday from 7-9pm. Tune in to 91FM in the Dunedin area, or get the stream online from Radio 1.


Haszari, SoNic Smith and guests play plenty of fresh banging fidget, wobble, electro, breaks, house, tech house, and a lot of other stuff.


The show is podcast every week: get it from http://feeds2.feedburner.com/beatsreality. You can subscribe with ease from there. Or just search iTunes store for "energyflash" or "haszari" - free to download/subscribe.

Sunday, August 16, 2009

It IS Reality Beats Reality Radio Tracklist 15th August 2009

Threw down a mix of new and old and a couple of self-indulgent tunes in preparation for our big night at Bath St, celebrating the launch of Cartoon Beats' first EP. Get your copy now from iTunes - show your support!

Also check the mix from Bath St - my set's available on Soundcloud for free download.

Tracklist:
Vincenzo pres. The Phantom Image - Thizz Izz
Boy 8-Bit - Bulbs Burn Out
Haszari - Guzzler
Don Diablo - I Am Not From France (Louis La Roche remix)
Delinquent - Chalace Man
Aquilaganja - Phat Jak (Nick Supply remix)
Haszari - Teabag
Boy 8-Bit - Baltic Pine
Dizzee Rascal & Armand Van Helden - Bonkers (Doorly remix)
Kelevra ft. Kop Out - Love You So (Mightyfools remix)
Boltan - Creepy (Mightyfools remix)
Fall Out Boy - I Don't Care (Tommie Sunshine & Mightyfools remix)
Don Diablo & Example - Hooligans (A1 Bassline remix)
Project Bassline - Drop The Pressure (Jack Beatz 'Rinsed Out Rave' remix)
Dub Pistols - I'm In Love (Foamo remix)
The Prodigy - Take Me To The Hospital (Hostage remix)
Solo - The Big Stef
Moguai - I Dance You (Moguai's Unwanted Youth remix)
Dada Life - Smile You're On Dada
Bart Claessen - Catch Me (Dada Life remix)
Phonat - Set Me Free (extended mix)
Bag Raiders - Turbo Love (Spruce Lee remix)
Dada Life - We Set You Free
DJ Deekline & Ed Solo ft. DJ Assault - One In The Front
Raffertie - Antisocial (B. Rich remix)
Sam Hill - Everybody In The Street

Beats Reality is on the air every Saturday from 7-9pm. Tune in to 91FM in the Dunedin area, or get the stream online from Radio 1.


Haszari, SoNic Smith and guests play plenty of fresh banging fidget, wobble, electro, breaks, house, tech house, and a lot of other stuff.


The show is podcast every week: get it from http://feeds2.feedburner.com/beatsreality. You can subscribe with ease from there. Or just search iTunes store for "energyflash" or "haszari" - free to download/subscribe.

Friday, May 8, 2009

Some Great Fidget House Tracks

This thursday at Bath St Kelevra's playing. I'm playing too, it's going to be an amazing night, lots of good support DJs.
Event on facebook here...

Kelevra plays fidget house, i.e. hefty wobbly jackin' electro. It's the Potty Mouth Kids tour; Wongo and Adam Bozzetto (among others?) are hitting other NZ destinations. Cheers Potty Mouth!

So in celebration here's a player chock full of insane fidget house tracks that I am currently into.

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Buy & download dance music from djdownload.com

Yep, listen in the player, click the link to buy, this stuff is all gold people.

(not "gold people", gold tracks, people)

Friday, April 3, 2009

Cartoon Beats Radio tracklist April 4ool 2009

Get or stream the podcast from http://energyflash.mevio.com. You can subscribe with ease from there.

Or just search iTunes store for "energyflash" or "haszari" - $free to download/subscribe.

Curses! - The Deep End (Holy Ghost! Day School dub)
Miss Kittin & The Hacker - 1000 Dreams
MSTRKRFT - 1000 Cigarettes
Munk - The Rat Race (Siriusmo remix)
Prince - Controversy (Stupid Fresh remix)
Pro7 - What Did You Say? (original mix)
Kenneth Bager - Fragment One (... and I Kept Hearing) (Style of Eye remix)
Justin Faust - Revenge (Russ Chimes remix)
The Bloody Beetroots ft. Steve Aoki - WARP 7.7
Guns n Bombs - Riddle Of Steel (original mix)
The Bumblebeez - Rio (Boy 8-Bit remix)
Jack Beatz & Dynamite MC - What! (Boy 8-Bit remix)
SoNic Smith - Destroy Him!
Shinichi Osawa - Push (Tronik Youth remix)
Freeland - Under Control (Alex Metric remix)
Sebastien Tellier - Kilometer (Metronomy remix)
Sharooz - Get Off (Superstrobe remix)
Fairmont - Gazebo (This Is Kokuz rechop)
Dizee Rascal & Armand Van Helden - Bonkers
Jesse Rose - Asided

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Cartoon Flash Earth Beats tracklist 28/03/2009 Earth Hour Special

Get or stream the podcast from http://energyflash.mevio.com. You can subscribe with ease from there.

Or just search iTunes store for "energyflash" or "haszari" - $free to download/subscribe.

The Specials - Ghost Town (DJG bootleg)
Ivan-I & Jason Howell ft. Rootz - Blessed Dub (Amit Shoham remix)
Shazam - Pool Party
Woolfy - Oh Missy (In Flagranti Xenon mix)
Rektchordz - Feed Your Head (Lee Mortimer mix)
Andrea Parker - Freaky Bitches (Michna remix)
Soft Tigers - Mr Ice Cream (Waxmaster rework)
LAZRtag - The Score (ft. Whiskey Pete)
Dave Spoon & DJ Zinc - Ghost Train (Lee Mortimer remix)
Stefan Tretau - Zupfelwup
Steve Angello - Show Me Love (ft. Robin S) (Hardwell remix)
Jamie Fanatic - Body & Soul (Kelevra remix)
Lorcan Mak - The Aul Triangle (original mix)
Lorcan Mak - Gutty (original mix)
JoJo De Freq - Saturn Returns (original mix)
Act Yo Age - Lucky 13
KreeYate - I Like To Party!
The Wong Boys - Git Ur Fuk On (DJ Illo remix)
Hot Chip - Touch Too Much (Fake Blood remix)
Just A Band - We Are...
SoNic Smith - Destroy Him
Haszari - The Jacket (Stray Theories remix)
ytcracker - http://www.dekalbpolice.com/meet_chief.html
Jon Gurd - Lemon Sherbert
Tong & Spoon - Gas Face (Lee Mortimer remix)

Friday, March 20, 2009

Cartoon Flash Energy Beats 21st March 2009 with special guests Slap N Dash!

As always, get the podcast from http://energyflash.mevio.com. You can subscribe with ease from there. Or just search iTunes store for "energyflash" or "haszari" - free to download/subscribe.

Thanks again to Slap n Dash, aka Scattermish & Mu-Gen, of Scatterblog fame, for coming in & representing party n hustlerity. Check out their blog and netlabel here, it's full of all kinds of goodness (mostly party).

Tommy Trash - Slide (Ricky Rae's rerub)
Funk Dat 2009 (bootleg)
Piddy Py - Giggle Riddim (original mix)
Project Bassline - Drop The Pressure (The Count's Conquistador remix)
Voodoo Chilli (ft. Trevor Loveys) - All I Need
Error Error - Your Everlasting Breath (Paul Kalkbrenner remix)
NASA - Money (The Count of Monte Cristal 'Dungeon' remix)
Britney Spears - Circus (Diplo Alt Clown mix)
Pet Shop Boys - Love Etc
Le Roux - In For The Kill (Skream's Let's Get Ravey remix)
Dizzee Rascal - G.H.E.T.T.O
Ting Tings vs. Don Diablo - That's Not My Rave
Slam - Hot Knives
Darqwan - Says The Spider
Digital Manges - Manges (OG mix)
Benga - Crunked Up
Buraka Som Sistema - Kalemba (Reso's Aguardadente remix)
Jack Beatz & Dynamite MC - What (Dub)
The Count Of Monte Cristal - My Condition
Rektchordz - Feed Your Head
Yuhei Kubo - Roll Out
Herve & A-Trak ft. Cadence Weapon - Roll With the Winners

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Cartoon Flash Energy Beats radio tracklist 14th March 2009

As always, get the podcast from http://energyflash.mevio.com. You can subscribe with ease from there. Or just search iTunes store for "energyflash" or "haszari" - free to download/subscribe.

Thanks to SoNic Smith and Disco Lizard who featured on the show prior to rocking out The Dirty at Sammys.

Ladytron - Tomorrow (Vector Lovers Lucky remix)
Will Smith - Fresh Prince Of Bel Air (Mustard Pimp remix)
Bag Raiders - Turbo Love (Tough Love Edition)
The Aston Shuffle - Stomp Yo Shoes (Shazam remix)
The Wong Boys - Git Ur Fuk On (DJ Grandtheft Disco Mindfuk remix)
The Toxic Avenger - Poker Face (Lies In Disguise remix)
Motorhead - Ace Of Spades (Mustard Pimp remix)
The Presets - My People (D.I.M. remix)
Example - Girl Can't Dance (Don Diablo remix)
Dizzee Rascal - Dance Wiv Me (feat. Calvin Harris & Chrome) (Shazam remix)
Chris Cornell (Feat. Timbaland) - Part Of Me (Grandtheft Disco remix)
Dave Spoon & DJ Zinc - Ghost Train (Lee Mortimer remix)
Act Yo Age - Lucky 13
Rektchordz - Fee Your Head (Elite Force mix)
La Roux - In For The Kill (Skream's Let's Get Ravey remix)
Robyn - Cobrastyle (RAC mix)
Chesus And Rodski - Whyyyy?
Andrea Parker - Freaky Bitches (Michna remix)
Foamo - Rockerman (Lee Mortimer remix)
Lady Sovereign - I Got You Dancing! (Jack Beats Remix)
Mustard Pimp - Valium
Andre 3000 and John Legend - Green Light (MSTRKRFT remix)

Friday, March 6, 2009

Cartoon Flash tracklist 7th March 2009

As always, get the podcast from http://energyflash.mevio.com. You can subscribe with ease from there. Or just search iTunes store for "energyflash" or "haszari" - free to download/subscribe.

Peace Division - Club Therapy (Magik J remix)
Tim Richards - Surrounds (original mix)
BSOD - Monochrome
Boy 8-Bit The Suspense Is Killing Me (Dada Life Guerrilla Fart #5)
Chloe - Around
DJ Roland Clark presents Urban Soul - Black In My Soul (Tiger Stripes main mix)
Magik Johnson - Russendisko (club mix)
Eyerer & Namito - Seefeuer
Perc - Cylinder Swing
Alter Ego - Queen Anne's Revenge (Deepgroove & Jamie Anderson remix)
The Young Punx - Rockall (Phonat remix)
The Young Punx - Juice & Gin (Riva Starr remix)
Project Bassline - Drop The Pressure (Jack Beats remix)
Wideboys & Lady Raggafire ft. MC JLC - Niche Crew (Dutty remix)
Wiley - Summertime (Crookers remix)
EPMD - Run It (Sinden remix)
DJ Mujava - Township Funk (Sinden remix)
Aniki - Evil Nugget (Koochie's Bass remix)
Haszari - Nerds (Revenge mix)

Friday, February 27, 2009

Cartoon Flash radio tracklist 27th Feb 2009

As always, get the podcast from http://energyflash.mevio.com. You can subscribe with ease from there. Or just search iTunes store for "energyflash" or "haszari" - free to download/subscribe.

Roy Davis Jr. ft. Erin Martin - I Have A Vision (Todd Edwards Enlightened vocal mix)
Wolfgang Gartner - Flashback
Tittsworth - WTF (Nadastrom remix) (Stretch Armstrong edit)
South Rakkas Crew - Mad Again (Boy 8-Bit remix)
Deadmau5 - Not Exactly
HK119 - C'est La Vie (Rusko masher)
Knowlton Walsh - Animal (B. Rich remix)
SoNic Smith - Ladies Style (Haszari's Le Mans Style remix)
Sloz - Fireball
Jackinori & Leon Dipace - Breathe
From Monument To Masses - Beyond God & Elvis (Designer Drugs remix)
DJ Mujava - Township Funk (Sinden remix)
Lorcan Mak - Crack Shack
Haszari - The Jacket (SoNic Smith Full Metal remix)
The Martin Brothers - Rocket Surgery
The Tough Alliance - Neo Violence (Shazam remix)
Dezza & Trixxx - Ass Up
Ivan Allard - Bumbaclartzzz
The Young Punx - MASHitUP (Shir Khan remix)
The Chemical Brothers - The Salmon Dance (Herve FUCK FUCK remix)
Idiotproof - Gorilla (Siriusmo's Ass Of the Baboon remix)
Lady Sovereign - Random

Friday, February 13, 2009

the Flash tracklist Valentine Love House To Midnight Special

Lily Allen - The Fear (The Count Saves Lily From The Fear remix)
Buckley - Block Party
Bass Weazal - Weazals Love Reggae (Lee Mortimer remix)
Javi Lopez - From The Tribute Suite (Sexual Chocolate Take The Coda remix)
Dubfire - I Feel Speed (Booka Shade dub)
Toddla T - Manabadman (Andy George re-fix)
EPMD - Run It (Sinden remix)
Aaren San - Osc Low Nyzz (Blende remix)
The Young Punx - Juice & Gin (Riva Starr remix)
DJ Sneak & Herve - Droppin Kisses (ft. Kid Infinity) (Herve club mix)
Idiotproof - Gorilla (original)
Aniki - House Music (Lee Mortimer remix)
Aniki - Evil Nugget (Koochie's Bass remix)
Felix da Housecat - Radio (Shinichi Osawa remix)
The Loose Cannons - WHYD4ML (Heavyfeet's Get Stupid On The Dancefloor remix)
Trevor Loveys & Shab Ruffian - Love and Change (Aniki remix)
Ivan Allard - Bumbaclartzzz (Aquilaganja's Bouncy dub)
Utmost DJs - Catastrophe (DJ Johnny Beast club mix)
Noir - My MTV (Raul Rincon remix)
The Subs - Papillon (Shinichi Osawa remix)
Shinichi Osawa - Detonator (Herve's UXB remix)

As always, get the podcast from http://energyflash.mevio.com. You can subscribe with ease from there. Or just search iTunes store for "energyflash" or "haszari" - free to download/subscribe.

Friday, December 5, 2008

free mp3: SoNic Smith - Ladies Style (Haszari's Mans Style remix)

Yep, new bits are here from Haszari. I've been fiddling with this for a while but I think now it is ready for blog primetime.

It is my remix of SoNic Smith's Ladies Style. SoNic Smith is a prolific Dunedin producer who makes all kids of breaks, as well as the odd bit of rave d&b and even some acid house flavours. My aim with this mix was to take the bouncy break beat original in a fidget-house direction, maybe with 3% bassline house influence. Pretty happy with how it's turned out.

Here it is for you to download (from zippyshare megaupload because zippyshare went down):
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QIJH3Y8P

LEAVE COMMENTS ABOUT THIS BELOW!

Again my usual arsenal of great open source tools was used to make this, Ardour, which really packs a punch these days (don't buy Pro Tools eh) for all the editing, all LADSPA plugins for the mix/edit and mastering, ZynAddSubFX doing the business as a fat as all heck fake analogue synth (man that is a great softsynth). Go download all that software (just install 64Studio, it's all packaged in there for ya).

cheeeers

Friday, October 17, 2008

Radio Show Tracklist 18th October 2008

Smithmonger - Straight Out Of Burnie
RQM - Miss Pacman (Oliver $ remix)
Nick Supply & Khaled Nimry - Hizniz
Roll Deep - Do Me Wrong (Wittyboy remix)
Enur - Da Calabria Dip (The Count of Bounce remix)
Andy George - Big Dipper (A1 Bassline remix)
Richard Dinsdale - Blitzkreig (Mic Newman remix)
Cut Copy - Lights & Music (Moulinex remix)
Bloc Party - Mercury (Herve Is In Disarray remix)
UNKLE - Restless (Fake Blood Remix)
Blaqstarr vs The Count of Monte Cristal & Sinden - Beeper vs Shake It To The Ground
Goshi Goshi - The Lock Shot
Faggetfairys - Samo Ti (AC Slater remix)
Stanton Warriors - Get Wild
Kill the Noise - Hey You (Lies in Disguise remix)
Bag Raiders - Fun Punch
When Saints Go Machine - You Should Be Someone Else (Moulinex remix)
Sharkslayer - Cold As Ice
Katy Perry - I Kissed A Girl (Kue's Kissed A Squirrel remix)
Christian Smith & John Selway - Total Departure (Cirez D remix)
Tom Day - Whisper (Twocker remix)
Burial - Archangel (Boy 8-Bit Simple remix)
Plump DJs - Shifting Gears (Stanton Warriors remix)
fRew & The Shopliftas - Bermuda Nights (Mark Webb remix)
AC Slater - Jack Got Jacked (Jack Beats mix)
Bonde Do Role - Marina Gus - O - Liner (Fake Blood mix)

Monday, September 8, 2008

Radio Tracklist 6th September 2008

A great show, thanks to JB for keeping me company/it real...

Here's the Young Punx blog, great stuff on there (two of the tracks below), highly recommended.
http://www.yourmusiciskillingme.com/

The actual tracklist:
Ramadanman - Offal
Metronomy - Heartbreaker (Kris Menace remix)
Goshi Goshi - The Lock Shot
Foamo - Movin It Over Here (Nick Supply's Sticky mix)
Cut Copy - Hearts of Fire (Holy Ghost! remix)
Deepcentral - Is It Real (Haszari's Serendipitous mix)
Calvertron - Oscillator
Perc - Cylinder Swing
General Midi - Milton (Digital Zero instrumental)
Tim Green - Revox (Justin Martin remix)
Kardek - Oh You (Hijack mix)
Zoo Brazil - Technik
The Young Punx - MASHitUP (Shir Khan remix)
Peo De Pitte - Forget About You (ft. Yota) (Peo De Pitte Baltimore remix)
Wrongstars - Battle (Merka remix)
Haszari - Lifting Robots (my newt version)
Estaw - Break It Down (Detboi's Mental Breakdown mix)
Stanton Warriors - Who Are The Warriors (Bass Kleph remix)
Oliver $ - Hotflash Vol 3
Fragma - Toca's Miracle (Vandalism remix)
Moulinex - Breakchops (GRUM remix)
Crookers - Knobbers

The simulated, listenable and full of many related bangers you should buy list:

Sunday, August 24, 2008

Radio Show Tracklist 23-08-2008

So, comment about what iz tha shiz or sucks a lot right here on this blog -
community participation thanks!

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.

Remember to click the buy links (coming soon), enter your credit card details, and support the artists below!

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.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Sounds Good - tracklist 16/08/2008

I do a show on Radio 1 and its tracklists have been on a few different profiles over the years. From now on, they will be here! And potentially with djdownload buy links.

Don't forget you can listen to old and new episodes of the show, as it's a podcast, via podshow aka mevio.

Here's last week's tracklist:
Sleazy-E - How It Looks
DJ Steep - Large oLL (M1 remix)
K.I.M. - Wet & Wild (Riot in Belgium remix)
DJ Sneak - Acid Talks
Nick Supply & Khaled Nimry - Hizniz
Plastikman - Risk Assessment
Cult - Sound of Seduction (Guns & Bombs dub mix)
Afrojack - Hard Love
The Crystal Method - Cherry Twist (Deadmau5 remix)
Simian Mobile Disco - Hustler (Joakim remix)
Grey - Shame On You (Slater Hogan remix)
Crookers - Il Cattivo
Micky Slim ft. Tank - Hit the Club
Relentless - Blitzer Disco
Paul Jacobs pres. Soul Grabber - Motocross Madness
Missoddkidd - Smoke Machine (Dekker & Johan Even Leaner mix)
Elite Force - No Turning Back (Mowgli & Solo remix)
Tittsworth - Broke Ass Nigga (feat DJ Assault, Kenny B, Jinxx &
Frankie Baby)
The Ting Tings - That's Not My Name (LA Riots remix)
Marc Leaf & Drew Scott - Fabulous (Twocker remix)
Sebastien Leger & Chris Lake - Ghost
Soul Of Man - Scatterbox (Mowgli remix)

Thanks to Hope for hooking up the R1 site to here.

NOW TO THE POINT

(thanks for reading this far)

The R1 stream is now stereo and 44.k, i.e. it sounds good!

There was an uninteresting technical hitch causing the previous lack of quality, which I'll detail in a later blog (if you'd like to hear the story, comment!).

UPDATE

(here are the buy links)

Note that not all the tracks above are present and some have been substituted due to catalogue issues. Like, why is "Word" available when "Ghost" isn't, I thought they were on the same EP (oh right, it's from various compilations)? And, looks like MAD DECENT (Crookers' "Il Cattivo") don't put their stuff on djdownload yet..

In there is the track that Missoddkidd guests on, mentioned on the show, not her track that I played.

Buy this stuff - I get 3-5 cents for every purchase!!!

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Tricky Does Great Covers

Tricky has a new album out. No one does breathy, atmospheric, post-trip-hop quite like Tricky (or even approaching the way he does it?).

What's really cool is he's dropped another cover. I may not be fully up with this running gag of homages (hard H thanks) to great songs (can someone tell me if there is one on Pre-Millenium Tension...?), but there is a great rock cover of Black Steel on Maxinquaye. The original Black Steel (+ "In The Hour Of Chaos"), as far as I know, (once again: "prove me wrong, kids, prove me wrong") is by none other than Public Enemy. So it was more of a political/conscious hard-hitting rap track, made over into a sung (of course by Martina), melodic punk track. Nice cover!

So, on the Knowle West Boy, the cover is of one of my favourite pop artists (possibly my number one? the mp3 stats indicate she's well up there), Kylie (Minogue).

The track is a great one, off the Fever album, which was of course a corker when it comes to electronic-pop music: Slow. This is right up Tricky's alley, breathy, atmospheric, sweaty. Of course Martina does most of the vocal but true to form Tricky's there muttering and whispering, breathing down her neck. Great new realisation of a good song. Also nice cover!

Come to think of it, I think the whole (genre) of dubstep owes something to Tricky. I'd wager he was putting out breathy and gutteral and hummy music before Burial was a teenager (?).