Delivered... Stefan | Scene | Mon 30 May 2011 1:41 pm
From the rare to the classic. Funny thing with these 90’s throwback mixes is how easy they are to absorb, especially when mixed as correct as this. Please email us the link if you personally have ever recorded a rap mix greater than this.
1. Black Moon - I Gotcha Opin (Remix)
2. Artifacts - Wrong Side Of Da Tracks
3. Cella Dwellas - Recognize N Realize
4. Black Moon - How Many MC's
5. Big L - Street Struck
6. Jungle Brothers - Brain
7. Nas - Halftime
8. Pete Rock & CL Smooth - Skinz
9. Ice Cube - Get Off My Dick
10. Dr Dre - Dre Day
11. Crooklyn Dodgers 95 - Return Of The Crooklyn Dodgers 95
12. Channel Live - Mad Izm
13. Da Bush Babees - Remember We
14. Mad Lion - Take It Easy
15. Nine - Whutcha Want
16. J Live - Thats Them
17. Souls Of Mischief - Never No More
18. Masta Ace - The B-Side
19. The Notorious B.I.G. - Machine Gun Funk
20. Mobb Deep - Give Up The Goods
21. Pharcyde - Drop
22. KRS One - Outta Here
23. L.O.T.U.G. - Funky Child
24. Onyx - Shiftee
25. Redman - Rated 'R'
26. Beatnuts - World Famous
27. Brand Nubian - Punks Jump Up To Get Beat Down
28. Digable Planets - Rebirth Of Slick
29. Organized Konfusion - Fudge Pudge
30. Pharcyde - Oh Shit
31. Original Flavor - Can I Get Open
32. Funkdooiest - Bow Wow Wow
33. Showbiz & AG - Party Groove
34. Showbiz & AG - Soul Clap
35. Main Source - Looking At The Front Door
36. Soul Of Mischief - 93 Til' Infinity
37. Pete Rock & CL Smooth - T.R.O.Y.
38. A Tribe Called Quest - Scenario
Delivered... Stefan | Scene | Thu 26 May 2011 3:02 pm
We took this for a spin and urge you to do the same! It’s a little rough in places but then again even us get a little sick of all mixes done in a DAW. Bonus points for the Crazy Cousinz anthem, the killer French Fries track and for not being shy of Santana guitar solos.
1. S-Tone Inc. - Arejar (Soulstance Remix)
2. Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers - Son Cubano
3. Buena Vista Social Club - Candela
4. Manzanita - Arranca
5. DJ Chus & Gonzalo - One Night in Havana
6. Santana - Hermes
7. MASHUP - One night in Havana / hermes / inflation
8. Crazy Cousinz - Inflation
9. French Fries - Senta
10. Ramon Tapia - Mi Esposa
11. Spencer Parker/Diesel/Co.La - Zanzibar (Nick Curley Remix)
12. MASHUP - mi esposa / zanzibar / pichira / one night in havana
13. Michel CleiS - Pichira
14. Luca BacchettI - Caribbean
15. Basti Grub - El Gitarro
16. Roger Sanchez - Cuba
17. DJ Chus Ft. lissat & Voltaxx) - Vuela Paloma
18. Joris Voorn - Incident
Here at Six Degrees, we are stoked to have some of our very own perform at the 33rd annual Harmony Festival June 10-12th at Sonoma Country Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa, California. With headlining acts such as, Michael Franti and Spearhead, The Flaming Lips, Primus and many more, this year proves to be a guarenteed success! Check out the full line up here!
And long after the sun has set head over to the Grace Pavillion Friday for Soul and Roots Night, featuring muscial performances by G. Love and the Special Sauce, Rootz Underground, Gaudi, and Quixotic. Harmony Festival presents it 12th Annual Techno-Tribal Community Dance on Saturday from 8pm to 4am in the Grace Pavillion featuring David Starfire Ensemble and Natacha Atlas along with many more! Check out video below!
Liquid Stranger‘s latest album, The Arcane Terrain, unleashing May 31 via Interchill Records, obliterates the boundaries separating dubstep, grime, dub, breaks, hip hop and outernational crunkadelica. With collaborative input from Heavyweight Dub Champion on 2 tracks, this album features impeccable vocal contributions from Sterolion, A.P.O.S.T.L.E, Killah Priest and the legendary hip hop mastermind KRS One. MC Zulu also steps up to the mic to throw down his own brand of lyrical science on the finely toasted growler “Timeless” and on the laid back riddim of “Vigilante”. And if that isn’t enough to whet the appetite for low end yearnings, the final touches to The Arcane Terrain come courtesy of Tipper who lent his well-tuned ears to the mastering process.
Delivered... Stefan | Scene | Mon 23 May 2011 3:43 pm
A nice set of songs from Dave Espionage, letting the smashing Kingdom edit of indie darling Sleigh Bells cuddle up with funk eleectronics of Mark Ronson. Thrown in a Youngbloodz acapella somewhere between and you’re good to go!
1. Blue Foundation - Eyes On Fire (Zeds Dead Remix)
2. M.I.A - Steppin Up (Nacey remix) (JayCeeOh Drum Edit)
3. Son Of Kick - Guacha Rekix /Original Mix
4. The Glitch Mob - Drive It Like You Stole It
5. Katy B - On a Mission (JayCeeOh Bootleg)
6. Zinc - Nexx
7. Mark Ronson And The Business Intl - Record Collection Featuring Simon Le Bon, Mark Ronson
8. Kanye West (feat. Bon Iver) - Lost In The World
9. Aeroplane - Without Lies (Breakbot Remix)
10. Andy Bell - Call On Me (Hey Champ Remix)
11. Kylie - Better Than Today (Monarchy Kylie Through The Wormhole Remix)
12. Shy Child - Disconnected (Ocelot Remix)
13. Gyptian & D Double E - Hold You (Toddla T Remix)
14. Deadmau5 - Ghosts n Stuff (Sub Focus Remix)
15. Black Sheep - butt... in the meantime
16. Outkast - Ain't No Thang
17. Fabolous - Can't Deny It
18. Fabolous ft Nate Dogg - Can't Deny It (Card-1 Remix)
19. Chromeo feat. La Roux - Hot Mess (12 Inch Single Revised)
20. Scissor Sisters - Invisible Light (Stuart Price Remix)
21. Style Of Eye & Magnus - Antidote
22. Cee-Lo Green - Bright Lights, Bigger City (Tommie Sunshine and Gianni Marino Edit)
23. Senor Stereo - Dancing Time Final Test More
24. The Temper Trap - Resurrection (Penguin Prison Remix)
25. The Ting Tings - Hands (Passion Pit Remix)
26. Russ Chimes - Targa (Xinobi Remix)
27. Tiga - You Gonna Want Me (Hey Today Remix)
28. Herve - Together (Edit Version)
29. Scissor Sisters - Any Which Way (Carte Blanche Remix)
30. Sleigh Bells - Tell 'Em (Kingdom Remix)
31. Die Antwoord - Evil Boy
32. Rox - My Baby Left Me (Terror Danjah Remix)
33. Mansions On The Moon - Glimpse of the Future (Xaphoon Jones Remix)
Delivered... Stefan | Scene | Fri 20 May 2011 4:04 pm
There’s a new plugin for WordPress users! If you use WordPress head over to pick up the plugin from the WordPress plugin directory. Yes sir, from now on all that’s needed when you post is to use a button above your post (where you also insert links and make text bold). Hitting it produces a pair of brackets. Between them, just copy in the URL for the mix you’re posting, and it will produce the following results (including the extracted track list, which is great for your, SEO right?
More info from the generous makers over on Installed For You and Dr House Music. These are the authors of the plugin, without whom this would not have been able. Thank you for a most generous effort.
Mix of the day time! We’ve got Rex The Dog in a Scandinavian mode. What better way celebrating it than by using the plugin?
1. Oscar the Piggy - Arp 2600 bass intro
2. jj - Ecstasy with Arp 2600 bass
3. Niki & The Dove - Under The Bridges with Arp 2600 bass
4. Henrik José - Pinpointing the Problem
5. iamamiwhoami - O
6. Drunk TV host / Henrik José - Photo Album excerpt
7. Slagsmålsklubben - 1888 Franklin
8. Florence And The Machine - Heavy In Your Arms Christoffer Berg Remix
9. The Irrepressibles - In This Shirt Röyksopp remix/Sound Of Arrows bassline
10. Outro - Weather Forecast/Preparing The Gas
Six Degrees artist, David Starfire, will be joining forces with Wanderlust Festival this Saturday to perform the main stage and give listeners a taste of his latest album, Bollyhood Bass remixes Vol 2.
Taking place in San Francisco, Wanderlust at the Fillmore will feature the ecstatic yoga teachings of Prana Flow fire keeper Shiva Rea and SF’s own Steph Snyder amidst a backdrop of pulsating rhythms and bliss-infused-beats of compliments of Grateful Dead drummer and renowned world music guru Mickey Hart. After everyone rises out of savasana, the party will just be getting started – Sub Swara, MC Yogi, Todd Boston, and David Starfire will be coming along for the ride to keep the prana flowing all night long. This is a special one-day celebration of music, yoga, spirit and community that is not to be missed.
Tickets to Wanderlust at the Fillmore come in two flavors: yoga + music tickets, or music-only tickets. Yoga and music ticketholders will get a 2.5 hour yoga experience, a free yoga mat, and access to the concert at night. Music only ticketholders will skip the yoga and go to the concert. Tickets are on sale now.
The Schedule:
4:00 Doors for Yoga + Music Ticketholders
4:30 – 5:00 Asana with Steph Snyder
5:00 – 6:30 Yoga Class w/ Shiva Rea & Mickey Hart
6:30 – 7:00 Shiva Rea Trance Dance w/ Mickey Hart 7:00 Doors for Music Ticketholders 7:00 – 8:00 Todd Boston (acoustic in the poster room)
8:00 – 9:00 MC Yogi
9:30 – 11:00 David Starfire Live Ensemble w/ The Aspara Bellydance Troupe
11:30 – 1:00 Sub Swara
We were vibing to this member mix on our Facebook-wall, then it hit us. Bakerman hit us (see track list), in an epic Soul Clap edit. Sometimes all it takes is just the right track at the right time.
1. Solumun – Love recycled 1 (Original mix)
2. Will Saul & Tam Cooper – Getting closer (Original mix)
3. Jake Island – Real love (Manuel De La Mare remix)
4. Saeed Younan – Yeah ha (Sideburn remix)
5. Thyladomid – The voice (Original mix)
6. H.O.S.H – Finally mine (Gorge remix)
7. Patryk Molinari – Give me (Original mix)
8. Butch – Kids (Original mix)
9. Laid Back – Bakerman (Soul Clap remix)
10. Mark Knight – The reason (Original mix)
11. Cerrone – Tattoo woman (Jamie Lewis Sex On The Beach remix)
Delivered... Stefan | Scene | Wed 18 May 2011 1:52 pm
Mixed on a brand new pair of CDJ-350s and a DJM-350 – as won in the Pioneer DJ Network Competition. Brooke goes portable and she had this to share with us before she took off for Ibiza!
Two spacey ways of finding media: music collections, heirarchy, and images of planets in Planetary for iPad, top. Sound and loop collections, “magnetic” relations, algorithmic categorization, and rapid torchlight auditioning in Soundtorch 2.0 for Windows, bottom.
If your music and sound collections seem like outwardly-expanding universes, two new tools promise to bring order by representing media as virtual planets and stars. One works on albums and tracks on the iPad; the other uses computer-aided analysis of loops and samples (not just music) on Windows. One will make your eyeballs pop; one might help you manage gigs of samples for a game design project.
Built in the open-source framework Cinder by an all-star team of media artist-designers (Ben Cerveny, Tom Carden, Jesper Sparre Andersen and Robert Hodgin), Planetary should satisfy space nuts and eye candy lovers. The metaphor is pretty direct: artists are stars, albums are planets around the artists, tracks are moons around the planets, and you can filter “constellations” by letter. That means the actual structure is heavily hierarchical, actually, in the tradition of iTunes (and, before it, its predecessor SoundJam). I’m not sure what happens with, say, compilations. But let’s face it: the real draw is that it’s incredibly beautiful to look at. I’d be just as entertained looking at a visualization of my system folder if it looked this pretty.
For now, Planetary is some fascinating eye candy with at least basic playback capabilities, iPad-only. That brings some good news – Airplay wireless works, and since it makes use of standard media code, even features like Last.fm scrobbles function. It also brings some bad — while Apple added support for libraries to third-party apps, Home Sharing isn’t included, so you’re limited to what’s on your iPad. Playlists aren’t supported, either. But hook this up to a projector or large screen TV with some of your favorite music, and I don’t think you’ll be complaining. And as a free tool, it’s incredible.
Less pretty, but with greater facilities on the utility side, is the Windows-only Soundtorch. (Thanks to Kristian Gohlke for the tip!) Visually, it offers a similar metaphor: media assets live on a continuous plane. Functionally, though, it’s more algorithmic than hierarchic, using something called the Computer Aided Sound Exploration engine (C.A.S.E.). The set of algorithms, which the creators say were based on evaluation of human listening, performs a sophisticated set of extractions of some 600 features from each sound file.
Rather than limit itself to albums and tracks, C.A.S.E. is tuned for audio files and loops. It’s fast enough that it can plow quickly through gigs of material. So, if you’re on Windows and have amassed an enormous collection of loops, samples, field recordings, sound effects, and the like, Soundtorch will use C.A.S.E. to first map all those relationship, then visualize them. You can use the mouse to produce new collections of assets, map relationships visually, export those relationship to XML, copy sounds to the clipboard, export to WAV, or open them in Windows Explorer. That is, all that eye candy is a genuine interface, not a barrier between you and what you might do (as so often happens with these sorts of experimental interfaces).
In fact, you might argue that, despite outward appearances, Soundtorch is entirely different from Planetary, but they share one common conceptual assumption. Related media “orbit” or attract to common materials. The difference is that Soundtorch is relational. In Soundtorch, if you “magnetize” a file, it – and any similar files – become attracted to attractors called “magnets.”
As is appropriate searching for media, the “torchlight” metaphor shines a light through files. Everything under the light plays back simultaneously, so you don’t have to audition sounds one at a time. (That sounds slightly terrifying to me, but I have to spend more time with it in an actual library.)
The creators describe the magic thusly:
Have you ever listened to a sound and felt that there was a similar one somewhere on your hard disk? And the sound you can’t find would just work so much better right now? Well, Soundtorch also remembers all sounds that you ever listened to. Just select any sound on Soundtorch, and let the system suggest the most similar ones from your whole collection.
In other words, SoundTorch is as much about what you can’t see as what you can – the intelligence to determine similarity behind the scenes. Check out the tech talk in the video above for more information on how “aurally and visually-enhanced audio search” could also apply this technology. More research at: http://www.accessive-tools.com/
Finally, if you want to hear the “Optimist” track by Zoe Keating without that voiceover and just enjoy Planetary’s gorgeous visuals, here you go:
From innovation in the visual interface to the intelligence underneath that changes how the computer interprets relationships between files, finally, there’s hope. Music and sound might not forever be trapped in views borrowed from spreadsheets, tables modeled on the needs of accountants 30 years ago.
When I woke up this morning, I opened a piece of news that literally made me jump up and down. The legendary NYC trip-hop pioneers (and one of the many formative bands of my youth) Cibo Matto, split for over a decade to work on personal projects, are reforming to tour!
No real details yet, but check the video below to bring a smile to your soul.
We love the Border Community artist Luke Abbott. His records have a burbling, psychedelic quality that's rare in dance music; stylistically, he slots somewhere in between James Holden and Four Tet, but Abbott's synthesizer-heavy music definitely has a specific quality all its own. You can practically hear the patch cables bobbing between the beats in Abbott's grinding, bubbling modular freakouts.
Until now, he has been using a laptop and MIDI controller for his live performances. But now he's come up with an almost all-analog live set, using the computer primarily as a MIDI clock. He runs down his list of gear in a new blog post, including a few tasty photographs. You can't argue with this reasoning: " ...heavier, less functional, more prone to damage, more expensive, harder to travel with. Yep, this is less practical than a laptop set in almost every way. But, it sounds better and it's more fun."
For anyone interested in re-thinking live electronic performance, it's well worth a read.
Keep reading to check out Abbott in full-on modular mad scientist mode, in a 13-minute drone piece we found posted on Border Community's SoundCloud page. And don't miss his new remixes for Crimea X, on Hell Yeah, and Ghianda, as well as his most recent Border Community single, "Trans Forest Alignment."
Heads Down talks to the NYC DJ and disco production don about working with Lindstrom, why finishing music is difficult and the ongoing quest for the perfect mix.
1. Intro -
2. Donkey Rollers - Silver Bullet (Toneshifterz Remix)
3. Digital Punk & Noisecontrollers - Blue Horizon
4. Frontliner - The Call Of The Visionary (Official Reverze Anthem 2011) (Original Mix)
5. Josh & Wesz - G-Force
6. Wildstylez & Noisecontrollers - Stardust
7. Ran-D feat. B-Front - Rebirth (Official Rebirth Anthem 2011)
8. D-Block & S-Te-Fan - Rockin Ur Mind
9. Coone feat. Scope DJ - Traveling
10. Bass Modulators - Music is My Life
11. Wildstylez & Noisecontrollers - A Different Story
12. Noisecontrollers - Gimme Love
13. The R3bels - Music To Us
14. Coone feat. Psyko Punkz - The Words
15. The Prophet - Pitch Black (Official Black 2011 Anthem)
16. Coone feat. Zatox - Audio Attack
17. Digital Punk & Profyler - Intoxication (Waverider Remix)
18. Toneshifterz & Bioweapon - Dead of the Night (Original Mix)
19. Zany & the Beholder - Again We Will Rise (Original Mix)
As the annual DMC World Championship accepts digital vinyl systems for the first time this year, DJ Tech Tools speaks with Sally McLintock, DMC's world events manager, on the subject of the organisation's last 28 years and where they are headed.
