Swervin [Mix]

Hey guys. Here's your summer special, most of it composed on the Metro North commuting home from city to town after a long 9-5. It's a collage, weaving between unlikely tracks, never pausing to take stock, in constant zen-like motion. Things usually oscillate between southern rap and dubstep, but some wild cards are squeezed in there too. I experimented with a bunch of ambient effects and sample chops in the background; Listen closely and see what you spot. Oh and Vassar peeps stay tuned for big news soon coming.


Radiohead / Lucky
Freddie Gibbs / How I Feel
Joker / Psychedelic Runway
Burial / South London Boroughs
Sully / Phonebox
PRGz / Rollin (Flosstradamus Remix)
Drake / Houstatlantavegas
Big K.R.I.T. / Hometown Hero
Mt. Eden Dubstep / Sierra Leone
Jinder / Youth Blood (12th Planet & Flinch Remix)
Emalkay / When I Look At You
DLX / Matter of Facts (Breakage Remix)
Nero / Bad Trip (Rob Sparx Remix)
Miike Snow / Silva (Emalkay Remix)
Aardvark / 02
DJ Shadow / What Does Your Soul Look Like
DJ Shadow / Midnight In A Perfect World
David Axelrod / The Human Abstract
Gayngs / The Beatdown
Hudson Mohawke / FUSE
The Dream / Abyss
Drake / Karaoke
Major Lazer / Hold The Line (Nacey Remix)
Shawty Lo / Dey Say Where U Been
Kashii / Tru Sa City

Live At Shiva Rave '10 [Mix]

Here's the long overdue live recording from last last Saturday's Shiva Rave. Sounds like it took me about ten minutes to get really my head straight and settle into a groove; the beginning is a little frantic. But once that Nada track dropped it was on. I rode the techy/tribal tip for a little bit, danced between discohouse and wobbly bassline in the middle, and closed things out with that heavy dub zound. This was really an incredible night. I felt relaxed in the booth and was able to mix with confidence. Can't wait to come back in 6 months and blow it all up again.



Drake - Money to Blow (Vodka & Milk Remix)
Try Brown Acid - Try Humanity (Zomby Remix)
Yo Majesty - Club Action (Bag Raiders Remix)
Jack Beats - What
DJ Dee Square - Ice Box
Fake Blood - I Think I Like It
Dave Nade - Inner Midget (Nadastrom Remix)
Oliver$ - Gypsy Carnival
The Count & Sinden - Mega
Armand Van Helden - Hear My Name (Solid Groove Remix)
Gregor Salto - Unite (Sidney Samson Remix)
Riva Starr - Dance Me (Oliver$ Remix)
Malente - I Like It (Riva Starr Remix)
Olav Basoksi - Play With It (Gigi Barocco Remix)
Fake Blood - Fix Your Accent
Passion Pit - To Kingdom Come (Jack Beats Remix)
Drake - Best I Ever Had (Nadastrom Remix)
Riverside (Peo De Pittle Remix) - Sidney Samson
Kid Sister - Right Hand Hi (Kingdom Remix)
Major Lazer - Pon De Floor (Cold Blank Remix)
Jeremih - Birthday Sex (Gavin Holland Remix)
La Roux - Bulletproof (Alexander Technique Remix)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll (A-Trak Remix)
Phoenix - Fences (Nujax Remix)
Man Like Me - London Town (Foamo Remix)
La Roux - I'm Not Your Toy (Jack Beats Remix)
Riton & Seiji - Computer Juice
Emynd - Armed/Temperature
Pryda - Rakfunk
Laidback Luke & Lee Mortimer - Blau! (LA Riots Remix)
Simian Mobile Disco - Cruel Intentions (Joker Remix)
Little Boots - Meddle (Treasure Fingers Remix)
Kid Cudi - Day N' Nite
Huey - Pop Lock N' Drop It

Wintery Mix

Olmec here, back with a new mix for your listening pleasure. This one moves from trippy dubstep into velvety electronic before sliding into tribal dance. Smooth mixing was a major focus; I looked to introduce each new track with a cohesive, harmonically sound transition. The end result is a proper collage―songs bleed together and are impossible to pry apart at the seams. Enjoy and please drop me some feedback, here or at my new facebook page.



Pill / Lookin (Chris Devoe Rmx)
Michna / Levitation
Flying Lotus / Parisian Goldfish (Take Rmx)
Phaseone / Alladat
Four Tet / Hands
Dirty Projectors / Temecula Sunrise
Prefuse 73 / Martinique
Skyrider / No Good (Odd Nosdam Rmx)
Pretty Lights / Fill Your Eyes
The XX / Shelter
DJ Quik / Let's Get Down
Dam Funk / Hood Pass Intact
Maxwell / Phoenix Rise
Northend / Tee's Happy
Mungolian Jet Set / Creepy
Lindstrøm / Baby Can't Stop (Aeroplane Rmx)
Daniel Steinberg / Bailando
DJ Sun / Para
Crookers / Hands On Me (Solo Rmx)
Mowgli / London To Paris
Sinden / Me Mobile (Duckbeats Rmx)
Major Lazer / Hold The Line (Edu K Rmx)
Amanda Blank / Shame On Me (TKO Rmx)
Jack Beats / Rainstick (Herve Rmx)
Mowgli / Tatanka
South Rakkas Crew / Mad Again (Boy 8-Bit Rmx)
Joy Orbison / Brkln Clln
Joker / Play Doe
Birdman / Money To Blow

Raverality

So Saturday marked my rawkus return to the Vassar 'scene.' We threw down hard at the Shiva Rave: Over 500 bodies spilling out the side doors, candy-ravers soaked and screaming, fog and lazers in full effect. This was also my first official Traktor outing. I learned (a) sweat and vinyl don't play and (b) turntables are really heavy. Here are some ill pics (credit: Madeline Little) and a pre-party hype mix:



Michna / Redline Flights
LCD Soundsystem / Disco Infiltrator (FK Dub)
Christian Fischer / Advance Panorama
Juan Maclean / Happy House (Lee Douglas Rmx)
Daniele Papini / Church of Nonsense
Gui Boratto / Take My Breath Away
Aeroplane / Pacific Air Race
Frankie Knuckles / Your Love
Animal Collective / My Girls (Dave Wrangler Rmx)
Sebastian Tellier / Kilometer (A-Trak Rmx)
Zero 7 / Everything Up (Mock n Toof Rmx)
Talking Heads / Once In a Lifetime
Mr. Scruff / Kalimba
Hundred In The Hands / Undressed In Dresden (Jacques Renault Rmx)
Jacques Renault / Tuxedo Dance
Duck Sauce / aNYway

Thunderheist Set [Live]

Friendly Fires - Paris (Aeroplane Remix)
Ladyhawke - Paris is Burning (Cut Copy Remix)
PNAU - Embrace
Anoraak - Fantasy Park (Moulinex Remix)
La Roux - In for the Kill (Twelves Remix)
Sebastian Tellier - Kilometer (A-Trak Remix)
Cut Copy - Nobody Lost, Nobody Found
Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream (Sam La More Remix)
Bomb The Bass - Old John
Royksopp - Poor Leno
Snoop Dogg - Sensual Seduction (Wideboys Reix)
The Presets - Talk Like That (CFCF Remix)
Kings of Leon - Use Somebody (Tenzin Remix)
Lykke Li - Breaking it Up (Punks Jump Up)
Chromeo - 100% (Nacho Lovers Remix)
Radiohead - Reckoner (Twelves Remix)

I got my baby back. This Macbook pro is making all the difference right now. 200% more battery life, 200% more productivity, 200% more procrastination, and 100% more DJing as of late. The Palmer Gallery exhibit was a solid success, I got a lot of good feedback despite my submission being straight silly. I spun at the Loeb art gallery as well for a late night viewing. Lots of fun, a chance to play more experimental tracks and meet some spacey art heads from the hudson valley. Smuggled out my share of wine and cheese before calling it a night, too. Then we had the Thunderheist gig on Friday, another big night for me. Their performance was...questionable...but all in all they were a good time and friendly people. Their DJ made a point of thanking me specifically for my opening set. I played some aussie house, making sure not to kill the crowd before they went on. The art of the warmup is something I've definitely gotta train, but that was a good start. It's all about not fully climaxing at the peaks; keeping things just at the brink of that crescendo in a very prog-house sort of way. I'll definitely be cookin up a new mix over break, until then you can grab the live recording (a bit sloppy, but that just makes it more reeeaal) from Friday up top.

Master of the Universe

This mix might be my first to really expresses something. I can't put my finger on what, but the movement and rhythm here definitely speak to an emotion. I feel like I'm getting past that hollow electro crap...weird
I was a little iffy on adding the rapping but in the end I'm glad I used them to balance out the artsy side of things. This mix also has a lot going on under the hood. Tons of glitch effects on the vocals, strange parametrizing on the tracks, and lots of VSTs I barely understand. Let me know how it all sits :

Yo Majesty - Don't Let Go
Booka Shade - Body Language (Tocadisco Remix)
Digitalism - Echoes (Suriusmo Remix)
Spank Rock - Put That Pussy on Me (Acapella)
The Field - The Little Heart Beats So Fast
Basic Soul Unit - Tunnels (Sebo K & Metro Remix)
Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek
LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends (Amigaman Remix)
!!! - Pardon My Freedom
Fatboy Slim - Jin Go Lo Ba (Jon Carter Remix)
In Flagranti - Business Acumen (Arveene Remix)
Underworld - Beautiful Burnout (Mark Knight Remix)
Busta Rhymes - Don't Touch Me (Acapella
DJ Mujava - Township Funk (Ashley Beedle Remix)
LCD Soundsystem - Beat Connection (Disco Dub Version)
Goldfrapp - A&E (Gui Boratto Remix)
Michel de Hey - Jetchi (John Digweed Edit)
Booka Shade - Karma Car (Club Mix)
John Digweed - Every Feelin'
Juan Maclean - Give Me Every Little Thing
Panthers - Goblin City (Holy Ghost! Disco Dub)
Outro

In Japan

Comin' down the pipe:

King Creosote - You've No Clue Do You (Atlantic Conveyor Mix)

Midlake - Roscoe (Jody Den Broeder Remix)

DJ Medhi - Chocolate Trance (w/ Missy Eliot - Cop That Shit Acapella)

Dmitri In Paris - Track 18

Underworld - Beautiful Burnout

Shit Robot - Chasm (w/ Mike Jones - Badd Acapella)

Bloc Party - Banquet

Simian Mobile Disco - It's the Beat

Daft Punk - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (Diplo Mix)

Head Automatica - Brooklyn is Burning

Ludachrist - Sea-Bast-I-Am

Prodigy - Girls (Rogue Element Remix)

Hood Internet - Wouldn't Grip Far

D.I.M - Is You (Brodinski Remix)

Six Feet Under - Main Theme (Photek Remix)

Underworld - Born Slippy (w/ Ludacris - Satisfaction Acapella)

Air - Mer Du Japon (Kris Menace Remix)

Summer Sampler

Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy, Hey Girl
Acapellas - Rihanna "Please Don't Stop The Music," Suzanne Vega "At the Diner"
Hood Internet - Shorty get Looks
Usher - Love In This Club (MSTRKRFT Remix)
Dizzy Rascal - Sirens (Acid Girls Remix)
Jape - Floating (D.I.M Remix) Vs. Boys Noise - Oh! (A-Track Remix)
Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head (Greg Kurstin Remix)
Stanton Warriors - Who's Afraid of Detroit?
Acapella - Gorillaz "Feel Good Inc."
Partial Arts - Cruising
Acapella - Spank Rock "What It Look Like"
Stanton Warriors - Make em' Shake It
Hercules & Love Affair - Blind (Frankie Nuckles Remix)
Radiohead - Everything In Its Right Place (Okenfold Remix)

What a Summer. Not yet in a position to give a full retrospective, but let's just say I haven't had nearly as much time for this DJ shit as I predicted. For some reason sitting down at my computer is never an attractive option when you're lodged in the heart of Tokyo. I've officially fallen in love with this city; coming back is no longer an 'if' but 'when.' The first half of this mix was stitched together before my flight, the rest is my Summer. That deep house you hear - a little nod to the increduble Japanese scene. 'Blind' has been my summer jam so far; can't wait to spin this vinyl. Rounding things out we've got Radiohead, who I'm seeing in about 3 weeks. at APW Oh and did I mention I'm going to Fuji Rock? MBV, Kasabian, Bloc Party, Grand Master Flash? Beeyawh!

まだまだ

Anarchy - Switch Sides
ComaーChi - 放浪
Kemui - Right
Bronk - 渓流にひる便
Kan & Dj Krush - Mosa
MackaーChin - Inori
Kan Freestyle


Not really a demonstration of any mixing skill but here's a little Japanese hip hop produced for the さくらまつりfestivities here at Vassar. A little awkward to play on stage for my teachers and peers, but the project was a blast to make. Since Apple only lets you buy from your national store, I had to order a itunes.jp gift certificate straight from the islands then get the back barcode scanned/emailed over to me. Well worth it, I found some great stuff. Definitely a bit disorienting stepping into an entirely new music scene but I was able to pick out Kan and Anarchy as two aces in there. DJ Krush as well but that goes without saying. Look forward to more in the Jap style over the next weeks, I'll be there through all of June and July. Already overwhelmed and I haven't even left...

From the Dead...

Freshman Mini-Mix

Justice - Stress (Auto Remix) w/ Luda - Stand Up
Madonna - 4 Minutes (Bob Sinclar Space Funk Mix)
Estelle - American Boy (Stockholm Syndrome Mix)
Justice - DANCE (mstrkrft mix)
A-track - Stronger
Mia vs. Ocelot - Our Boyz


Mini-mixes are the shit. New tip named Paper Route Gangstaz from Diplo and Benzi just dropped - Excellent. It definitely takes a unique talent to condense songs into such a short composition. For this one, I tried to keep everything 1:30, including transitions. A little disappointed that I could only fit 6 tracks in, but realistically that was the ceiling. El Presidente requested this mix to provide a bit of ambiance prior to an event he's throwing. I'm not really sure if this is what Joey had in mind but I think it's pretty aight. All the remixes are from this year so it's got that little theme going for it as well. Headbang to this shet. Reflective meta-post up soon....

March Demo

Chaka Kahn - I Know You, I Live You
Mylo - Doctor Pressure (Dirty Radio Edit)
Chromeo - Tenderoni
Le Castlevania - Trouble in Daylight
Daft Punk - Robot Rock (Radio Edit)
Death From Above 1979 - Sexy Results
Cmos - 2 Million Ways (Axewell Remix)
Annie - Heartbeats (Krazy Fiesta Remix)
Atom - Doomed Thriller
VNDLSM - Every Woman
Ying Yang Twins - Salt Shaker (KillPhil Remix)
Nelly Furtado - Promiscuous (Unreal Mix)
ABX - I Rhymed Slow in 1991
Daft Punk - Aerodynamic (Daft Punk Mix)
Kayne West - Stronger (A-Track Remix)
Moby - Natural Bitch (Re-Edit)
Justice - DANCE (MSTRKRFT Remix)
Justice - Phantom pt. II
Timbaland - The Way I Are (Better Off Alone Mix)
Adam K - Twilight
Feist - 1234 (Van She Tech Remix)
Destiny's Child/Calvin Harris - Nasty Girls Are Accepted
Fergie - Glamorous (Treasure Fingers Remix)
MSTRKRFT - Street Justice
Bee Gees - Stayin Alive (Teddy Bears Remix)
Daft Punk - DaFunk (Casino Inc Remix)
Rihanna - Umbrella (VNDLSM Remix)
ACDC - Thunderstruck (Tittsworth Remix)
Chicken Lips - He Not In (Vandalism Remix)
A-Track - Wampercycle
Cassie - Me and U (Eli Banger Mix)
Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing (Mercurius FM Remix)
Spank Rock - Orange Alert (DFA Remix)
Twista - Freestyle
Laidback Luke - Excerpt from Essential Mix
Will Smith - Miami (Laidback Luke Bootleg)
Kayne West - Flashing Lights (Diplo Remix)
Justice - DVNO (Surkin Remix)
Public Enemy - Bring the Noise (Ferry Corsten Radio Edit)
Buddy Akai - Cut Me Up (Villains Remix)
Bloc Party - Hunting for Witches (Villains Remix)
Digitalism - Idealistic
Pokemon - Theme Song (Abrahammer Mix

February Demo

Jackson 5 - I Want You Back (Rogerseventytwo Remix)
Villains - Thrilla
Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song (Streetlab Remix)
Feist - My Moon My Man (Hydroz Remix)
Feist - 1234 (Van She Tech Remix)
AC/DC - Thunderstruck (Tittsworth Remix)
Chicken Lips - He Not In
Daft Punk - Around the World
Daft Punk - Harder Better Faster Stronger (Live Mix)
Digitalism - Pogo (Mano Remix)
Villians - Rock It
Gorillaz - Dare (Junior Sanchez Remix)
Romantics - Talking In Your Sleep (Spank Rock Remix)
Avalanches - Radio
Royksopp - Poor Leno
Sigur Ros - Overnight Star (Tittsworth)

January Demo

(Missing a couple songs until I get around to repairing it)

If You Must - Del the Funkee Homosapien
Press Rewind - Del the Funkee Homosapien
Roc Knife - Mashup w/ Jayz and Grizzly Bear
Knife (Remix) - Girl Talk
Get Em' High (Remix) - A-Track (Kanye)
Shaggy Fat Boy - Mashup w/ Shaggy and Fatboy Slim
Fix Up Look Sharp - Dizzee Rascal
Keep Movin - Krafty Kuts w/Bespoke
Just - Mark Ronson
Tambourine Reckoning - Mashup w/ Radiohead and Lil Kim
Flashing Lights (Mano Remix) - Kanye West
Technologic (Remix) - Spank Rock
Stand Up (DJ Nicky T Electro Mashup) - Ludacris
Cash Money - Mashup w/ Wutang and The OJs
Going Back to Dani - Mashup w/ Biggy and Chili Peppers
Can I Kick It Like That - Pharell
Storm - Cut Chemist w/ Edan + Lif
Feel Good Inc (Stanton Warriors Remix) - Gorillaz
Young Folks - Kanye West
I'm A Flirt - Mashup w/ R. Kelly and Broken Social Scene
Hustler - Simian Mobile Disco
Drop The Pressure - Spank Rock version
Staring At The Sun - TV on the Radio w/ Afrika Bambaataa verse
What it Look Like - Spank Rock
Drink and My 2 Step (Cousin Cole Remix) - T-pain
Fireman - Mashup w/ Lil Wayne and Modest Mouse
Sweet Home Country Grammar - Mashup w/ Nelly and Lynyrd Skynyrd
Smash Your Head - Girl Talk
Yoshimi Battles Snoop Dog - Mashup w/ Snoop and Flaming Lips