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I cannot get enough King Unique "The XX & Alan Fitzpatrick & Reset Robot — Silicone Shelter" these days
Read more . . . →As I wrote about recently, I cannot stop listening to this bootleg! It is totally one of the greatest productions going on through my head right now. It's just so raw . . . sounds like a live remix . . .it would be wicked to see musicians start to go in this style live. Doing mash up remixes via Ableton Live . . . the future of music is exciting! On a similar note I've been listening to a lot of "The XX" especially their "Florence + The Machine" remix!
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Cosmic Girafficorn is Cosmic
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Deadmau5 & Chris Lake - I Said (Michael Woods Remix)
Read more . . . →Great new tune by Deadmau5 and Chris Lake. This was an essential new tune on Pete Tong's show on January 8 and Deadmau5 himself opened his new years set at the o2 arena with it. Huge airplay! To be released soon? Update: Not sure but I was able to find it. DEADMAU5 & CHRIS LAKE 'I SAID' [MICHAEL WOODS REMIX] by michaelwoods
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Cirez D — Glow
Read more . . . →Another jam from Eric Prydz aka Cirez D. This one comes out soon, get ready folks! Until then, listen on soundcloud for free below: UPDATE: It's out now on Beatport / everywhere, so go snap it up! It's been on repeat all day today!
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Fiducial Midi Controller for Ableton
Read more . . . →Cool Ableton Live triggering system! This is a quick demo of the Fiducial Midi Controller, a tangible controller built using ReacTIVision software with OSCulator to send midi signals to Ableton Live. via gabeshaughnessy: My DJ skills need some work, but you get the idea. One thing you can’t see in this video is the cards are color coded. They match the Ableton Tracks. My ableton live mapping is not very sophisticated. Each clip has a card that triggers it, and you can rotate each card too, effecting something different on each track. The drum track, for example, changes the note duration, or time, when you...
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Class 7: A Patchwork Culture
Read more . . . →Watch: Notorious (Tilman Jr, 2009) Reading: Jonker, Julian. "A Black Secret Technology." Critical Digital Studies: A Reader. Toronto: University of Toronto Printing Press, 2008. Print. As I began to look more at culture and the role technology plays in creating different consumption patterns I wanted to touch on one culture than references itself heavily. In order to examine hip-hop culture I decided to screen the film Notorious (2009) the biopic about the murdered or assassinated rapper Notorious B.I.G. A big part of hip hop involves sampling and building on the existing works in the genre, and the film helps to...
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OiNK Admin Not Found Guilty
Read more . . . →Written by enigmax on January 15, 2010: "Lawyers have presented their final arguments in the trial of Alan Ellis. The prosecution slammed the ex-OiNK admin, saying that the site was set up with dishonest and profiteering intentions right from the start. The defense tore into IFPI and countered by calling Ellis an innovator with talents to be nurtured. Today the jury returned a unanimous verdict of not guilty, and Ellis walked free." How long are legal systems going to be junked up with these pointless trials, this is such a distraction from important issues. Read the Complete story at TorrentFreak.com...
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Anatomy of a Remix – Feel It by Tiesto feat Three Six Mafia
Read more . . . →Anatomy of a remix - Feel It by Tiesto feat Three Six Mafia - coldplaysucks.com. I have added the synth parts and my own kick sound. This concludes my second day on the remix.
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Max/MSP Live Coding
Read more . . . →A realtime performance of creating a Max-patch, starting from zero. This is a lot like the final project in third year computer music at Carleton University. The only difference is we had all semester to make something that complex. The other minor difference was that we had to make a midi note engine rather than an audio engine, but I'm sure this would pass as acceptable. The Rules: You have 6 minutes to build a Max-patch and do a performance with it. Start with an empty patch. Only use the standard objects that are part of Max/MSP/Jitter. Don’t use externals,...
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Anatomy of a Remix - Feel It by Tiesto feat Three Six Mafia
Read more . . . →Here is a quick screen capture of where I'm at so far in this remix. The first stage involved setting up all my samples in time. The vocal was really tricky on this one, and took a lot of playing around with to get it timed properly but perhaps you won't have trouble with it. Next I was trying to replace the first synth which, as it turns out, is very complex. There are many effects on Tiesto's final version. The files in the remix pack already have been processed with reverb, delays and (too much) side-chain compression by Tiesto...
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