DJ Thread – Double Set

The “Double Set” I’m releasing tonight is comprised of 54 minutes recorded from a private stream to a few of my friends, followed by a 2 hour set I did for the DNBRadio crowed which hovered at around 100 listeners. I’m an addict, I tell you. See the torrents.

Back to Bittorrent

Since I’ll probably be doing dnb sets with some regularity… and I really don’t think it would last very long if I stored them all on the web server, I’ve set up Blog Torrent to make sharing my sets easy. If you’re not familliar with bittorrent, I’d recommend Azureus to get started.

So now, the sets only last as long as they are seeded. Please help out and seed these files if you can.

Threadbox.net Blog Torrent Site

Update: Yeah, Blog Torrent is actually really cool. All you do is upload the php files. No configuration required.

If you have an RSS reader (like Firefox’s live bookmarks or the Sage extension) then you can add the RSS feed from the blog torrent page and easiliy find out when I’ve added a new set.

DJ Thread on DNBRadio.com!!

When the Decompression Sessions were cancelled due to Freezha not being able to drive in the nasty Denver weather tonight, I finally decided to figure out how to stream my Mixxx to dnbradio.com. Yes, that’s right… I just did my first set on dnbradio. It wasn’t all easy, though, because I had to make a small hack to the Oddsock JACK client where I increased the constant for some “ring buffer” to make it not completely crash on me seconds into streaming out the data to the server.

I didn’t record it because I didn’t want to have to reconnect an extra pair of jack connections every time mixxx decides it feels like disconnecting from jack. This is a long-standing bug with mixxx that sometimes happens very often, and sometimes not at all… tonight it didn’t happen once! (While I was on the air, anyway.)

00:24 * tehspam - np: DJ Thread - 50pack of Wh00pass (rating: 10.00/listeners: 98) **LIVE SHOW** ???sec remaining

DJ Thread – Chillax

Man, you have no idea what I go through to bring these mixes to you. Sometimes Mixxx crashes, sometimes my computer freezes solid (might be due to my VIA chipset which has been known to freeze on occasion), and Mixxx will forget my entire track list every time it crashes… so I have to put them in my text pad app, and dig around through my messy collection of music far more often than I should have to.

I sincerely hope Mixxx continues to improve . . . I really enjoy using it for the most part.

On a more positive note, I think I may have just mixed one of my best sets yet, even if the title is sorta lame. I’ve been turned on to a few new tracks recently, and I think I did them an adequate sampling here. I hope you all like it. Please post some feedbacks. :)

The Download:

The Tracklist:

1. Klute – Problem Reaction
2. Logistics – The Trip
3. Shy FX – Plastic Soul
4. Calibre – Second Sun
5. London Elektricity – Vapour Trail
6. Q-Project – Slowly but Surely
7. Tc1 and Stress Level – Lost in Music
8. Chase & Status – Love’s Theme
9. Artificial Intelligence – Soul Good (Stress Level & Tc1 Rmx)
10. David Carbone – Thousand Miles (D-Kay Rmx)
11. Logistics – Together
12. London Elektricity – Far From the Shadows
13. Ill Logic and Raf – Forever
14. Mav – The Scientific Way
15. Artificial Intelligence – Shinkansen
16. Implex – Snowflake (feat Voja)
17. Amorpha – Telemetry
18. Muffler – Gene Mutation
19. London Elektricity – Power Ballads
20. Implex – Shape of Time

DJ Thread – To Make You Swing

Here’s the next one. This time it’s a little smoother style dnb with some vocals. While it’s not the most mellow dnb style you’ve ever heard before, I was aiming for a non bash-your-face-in sound. Without further ado, I present

And the tracklist…

1. LTJ Bukem – Suspended Space
2. Pressure Rise – Changes (Tech Itch & Decoder Remix)
3. Quatic – Perception (Nu:Tone Mix)
4. Penddulum – Sounds of Life (Original Mix)
5. High Contrast – Global Love
6. Blue Sonix – This Feeling
7. Nu:Tone featuring Natalie Williams – Seven Years
8. Ror-Shak – A Forest (Disturbulence Mix)
9. Q-Project – Greatest Thing
10. Seba & Paradox – Move On
11. Muffler – Embrace
12. Logistics – Inside My Soul
13. Task Horizon – Feel For You
14. Alex Phountzi & Xantone Blacq, Another Way (M.I.S.T Remix)
15. Nu:Tone feat Natalie Williams – Strange Encounter
16. Generation Dub – Mars Attacks (Zen Remix)
17. Vital Elements – Sunshine State
18. Commix – Undisco
19. Blue Skin – Singapore Skin
20. Goldie – Believe (VIP mix)

Update: Yeah, there’s a spot and a half maybe where the beatmatching skillz could have been stepped up a bit, but I just like this bunch of tunes and had to post it up anyway. I need to beg Tue to help me out with getting Mixxx to slide the tracks forward/backward more smoothly. Right now, they move very quickly as soon as I start dragging, and it can make beatmatching trickier sometimes. I couldn’t speak to how any of this compares to real tables as I’ve never tried them first hand (but a time or two all too briefly).

Update 2006-04-04 – had to kill the link due to low disk space on the server… sorry :/

More Drum ‘n Bass

Ever since I started experimenting with Mixxx, I would mix some DnB when I had nothing better to do. I like to record myself doing it and then listen to it later at the comp or on the player to go. Most of them have a handful of pretty shaky switches, but this one sounds alright upon another listen. I wasn’t keeping track of my playlist, but it’s again some pretty bangin dnb, and 71:19 long to boot! (Oh, and I’m feeling lazy right now (it’s late), so there’s no torrent again. Just save the direct link.)

On an entirely different note, I just today received a new Logitech keyboard and mouse that I hope to talk about in the next day or so.

Update 2006-04-04 – had to remove the file due to tight space on the server…

DJ Thread – Look Ma, I’m a DJ!

Wow, I never thought I’d really even bother trying. But somehow, I happened to put together a 55 minute set of hard drum ‘n bass that will make you want to bust out and kill peeps. Seriously, though, I’m surprised how much fun it is to “be a dj” and spin tunes you like. Maybe I’ll try another one of smoother, easier dnb sometime. Anyway, I’ve posted teh torrent (dead) for those interested. Just set up this BNBT bittorrent tracker/php management thingy. Seems nice. I have a few fixed seeders on the torrent, so it should give you good speed…. but if you must, here’s a direct link.

Here’s the tracklist:

1. Thread – Altogether Pancho
2. Concord Dawn – Morning Light
3. Loxy & B Key – Battlescars
4. Commix – Tychoon
5. Rawthang – Dreadnaught
6. DJ Hidden – Ghost Story
7. The Enemy & Kid Kryptic – Malice Afterthought
8. The Upbeats – The Gospel
9. Dataset – Disco Beat
10. Unicron – Orion’s Five
11. Fatal – Torn
12. K.O.T.P. – Krypton Factor
13. Gridlock & Echo – Structure
14. Gridlock – V_Ger
15. Eminem Vs. Rareform & Spirit – Yes I Am (Mix 1)
16. Dom vs Calx – Pneumatic (Sledgehammer)
17. Imagination D – Electroc
18. Hive – Krush
19. Mr. L Feat. Super Fly Seven – Back to your Roots
20. Random Movement – Lifegiver

Oh, and I suppose I must credit the excellent Mixxx DJ software. It’s not quite as good as Traktor, but it’s for Linux!

Update Tues Apr 26: They played this set on dnbradio.com tonight in place of the mighty Decompression Sessions, which was cancelled. Now I’m famous!! ;) Anyway, the mix was actually pretty poor having listened to it another couple times… on the other hand, I did do it without any headphone cue.

Update Thu Mar 30, 2005: This file was deleted due to low hdd space. It wasn’t a very good mix anyway. :)

Altogether Pancho

I sat on this one for quite some time, offering previews to people as it sat in an unfinished state. Well, I finally had a spare moment to boot back to windows and make the last couple tweaks. So for your listening enjoyment, I now present, Altogether Pancho.

Also, I think I feel another KMP release coming on…

Chill U

I actually put this one together over a month ago, but didn’t do the final tweaks on it until just the other day. It’s a smoother sound—quite different from my drum ‘n bass type songs so far. Check it out on my music page.

New Music Section

Happy new year, everyone!! I hope everyone had a jolly good time bringing in the new year!

So I finally made that music section I mentioned a while back. There hasn’t been much music making recently, but now I have a convenient place to post my future releases. The music page is driven by a file management module that I previously wrote and used on a couple other sites (exceleratormusic.com and wilsongov.com). The neato part is that the administration piece is conveniently integrated with the wordpress admin area, so I didn’t have to think about security and the rest too much. It wasn’t until the last couple minutes that I thought about looking for a wordpress “plugin” to do the job. It would appear there isn’t any plugin similar in functionality to mine. If I wanted to release it, though, I’d have to continue to develop for it and make it fancy and stuff… Anyway, I’ll think about that.

The bad news is that I couldn’t find the font that I used for the nav links up top, so I just went with a plain text menu. I don’t know why I felt I had to make my nav out of just pictures in the first place … it’s a bitch to add new items then.