― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Monday, 6 March 2006 11:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― stirmonster (stirmonster), Monday, 6 March 2006 11:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Monday, 6 March 2006 11:57 (eighteen years ago) link
jj comes into the hotel i work at a lot; i wish it were for events that sounded as funky as this.
nice mix, stir!
― grady (grady), Monday, 6 March 2006 18:07 (eighteen years ago) link
haha grady, you should play jesse jackson that bit the next time he walks into the hotel. he never sounded so inspirational. except perhaps in a great twitch edit of 'lost in music' that i heard once, that uses that speech too.
― geeta (geeta), Monday, 6 March 2006 18:39 (eighteen years ago) link
Wonderful!
― Tobias Rapp (Tobias Rapp), Monday, 6 March 2006 18:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 6 March 2006 18:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Yawn (Wintermute), Monday, 6 March 2006 18:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Yawn (Wintermute), Monday, 6 March 2006 18:53 (eighteen years ago) link
i was just joshing.
― stirmonster (stirmonster), Monday, 6 March 2006 18:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 6 March 2006 19:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lukas (lukas), Monday, 6 March 2006 21:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Monday, 6 March 2006 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link
digitalism on the other hand are one of the few decent pop electrohouse acts, sometimes it worries me how underground it's all gone again.....
― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 6 March 2006 21:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 6 March 2006 21:52 (eighteen years ago) link
http://s26.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1FEUMIMVO1YQ40X8YYDRQ75DB5
purple haze - edennathan fake - underbergdaso - daybreakernesto & bastian - who's the starter (phynn mix)allure - the loves we losttiesto - adagio for strings (phynn mix)andy whitby & dark by design - nitemarecarl nicholson - blueprint (tara's theme)
nice new dance, good for listening or dancing.
― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 09:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 13:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lloyd Bonecutter (Lloyd Bonecutter), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:16 (eighteen years ago) link
I've been wanting to do a big random Frenchblokey mix for ages now, using a lot of the stuff I got from him (ha ha) but I am stuck doing these silly year by year things for the moment (1992 one is nearly finished).
― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lloyd Bonecutter (Lloyd Bonecutter), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lloyd Bonecutter (Lloyd Bonecutter), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 14:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 15:31 (eighteen years ago) link
(35:17) 8. Seefeel - Charlotte’s Mouth - Too Pure(40:44) 9. µ-Ziq - The Wheel - Rephlex
made me happy this morning on the way to work. so thanks for that.
― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 15:41 (eighteen years ago) link
I FEAR CHANGE
― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 15:42 (eighteen years ago) link
FWIW - all the mixes we put up on the blog are all good old fashioned live (mostly) vinyl mixing. Nuthin wrong with computers - but i do have my doubts about Acid though - the older versions used to do horrible things compression-wise...
― droid, Tuesday, 7 March 2006 15:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 16:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― firstworldman (firstworldman), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 16:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 16:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― droid, Tuesday, 7 March 2006 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― firstworldman (firstworldman), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 16:42 (eighteen years ago) link
frenchbloke - i'll give you one lesson for every 1000 records of mine you alphabetise.
― stirmonster (stirmonster), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 16:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― stirmonster (stirmonster), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 16:59 (eighteen years ago) link
but surely there's an advantage over vinyl anyway in practical terms. if it's as easy/easier to work that way why not do a live set in one style entirely without vinyl?
― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 17:03 (eighteen years ago) link
most ableton things i've heard sounded like a twitch wannabe (sorry stir) - whereas you can do allsorts in ableton, you can physically chop up the waveform onscreen and re-arrange it in acid 9and i daresay any similar program)( i re-jigged sxpress' hey music lover so that it played a slightly different tune for the xfm thing i did or you can go to extremes of chopping out every nth note and re-joining it to interesting results - turning 4/4 into 3/4 or 7/8 and what have you. takes bloody ages tho)
― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 17:03 (eighteen years ago) link
good god man...if Acid's no good for realtime mixing/cueing, how'd you manage?
― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 17:06 (eighteen years ago) link
And maybe (c) ableton mixes just sound different or a possible (d) the temptation to blend tunes together seamlessly in the awful Sasha Involver way is very strong when using Ableton, who's going to use it and go "ok I mixed these two records now I stop". Of course this is where the argument gets weird cos it's almost like I'm arguing that the limitations of human mixing on decks are a positive thing when they limit those of us that are not creative enough and would use the limitless possibilites of Ableton in a limited way! Myself included but that's why I've not got Ableton yet, I don't believe I can produce! (not yet anyhow)
Some of the above are reasons and some are just my reservations, of course!
x-post it's meant to be good for re-edits though, which seems a slightly more universal use and one I'd be into.
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 17:08 (eighteen years ago) link
x post
and ronan, it is wonderful for re edits (which is what i mainly use it for). what used to take me a day to do on a hardware sampler now takes an hour.
― stirmonster (stirmonster), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 17:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 17:13 (eighteen years ago) link
sorry i thought that's what was meant re Albeton-only sets too - live mixing of uncompressed digital audio
fair point re 'too many cooks/over-egging' Ronan - the temptation is there for so many
what about just using a wav editor eg Sound Forge for making edits? what advantages would Abelton have over that?
― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 17:14 (eighteen years ago) link
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― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 17:17 (eighteen years ago) link
but i guess it comes down to what you are familiar with. i know ableton inside out so that's all i use now.
― stirmonster (stirmonster), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 17:24 (eighteen years ago) link
I've been using Ableton in live settings, mainly for short sets, for about eight months. Recently I landed a couple of weekly residencies, one of which is geared towards more eclectic music programming. I decided to try Ableton for a full five hour night last Friday with disastrous results. About an hour into it, the program started randomly dropping out the sound. The dropouts ranged from microsecond glitches to 1 or 2 seconds of dead silence. Really embarrassing.
I bought Serato the next day, played at the club that night and had zero problems. knock. on. wood. Ableton has been relegated to the studio computer only.
I can speak from personal experience when I say that there's definitely a different energy with Ableton mixing in a live setting. The best way I can describe it is that the crowd > DJ feedback loop feels mediated by the computer. I don't get that feeling with Serato or Final Scratch though.
― jeffery (jeffery), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 17:25 (eighteen years ago) link