The Twelves are the best thing to come out of Brazil since Gisele — their mixes just get better and better, their productions have always been top drawer. I hope they come play in the States again soon.
The Twelves - The Twelfth Hour mix
Track Listing:
Methusalem - Robotism
Groove Armada - Drop The Tough (The Twelves Remix)
Glass Candy - Miss Broadway
Daft Punk - Da Funk
DJ Agent 86 - Wavestate
Gossip - Standing in the Way of Control
Gaz Nevada - I-C Love Affair
Phoenix - Lisztomania
Arpadys - Mystery Rock (Vlad Maywad edit)
The Do - On My Shoulders
Zoot Woman - Information First
The Jacksons - Shake your Body
Mr Oizo - Two Takes It
Bushy - Sqezy Soul
Zeigeist - Humanitarianism (The Twelves Remix)
Snoop Doggy Dogg - Sensual Seduction
Juan Maclean - No Time
DJ Agent 86 - Magic
K.I.D. - Hupendi Musiki
Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses
Siriusmo - Discoding
Dan Hartman - Vertigo / Relight my Fire
Air - Sexy Boy
Fever Ray - Seven (The Twelves Remix)
Pacific - Hot Lips (The Twelves Remix)
Patrick Alavi - Power
Dynasty - I Dont Wanna be a Freak
Metronomy - Radio Ladio
Siriusmo - Last Dear
Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream
Elitechnique - Spectral Escape
The Virgins - Rich Girls
Black Kids - …Dance With You (The Twelves Remake)
The Juan Maclean - Happy House
M.I.A. - Boyz
Cut Copy - So Haunted
Space - Magic Fly
PNAU - With You Forever
Eddie Tour - Up The Glitter
Mr. Oizo - Hun
Cerrone - Give Me Love
Mr. Oizo - Steroids (ft. Uffie)
Tiga - Shoes
Kano - It’s a War
Daft Punk - Revolution 909
Radiohead - Scatterbrain (The Twelves Remix)
Terry Poison - Comme Ci Comme Ça (The Twelves Remix)
Sebastien Tellier - Sexual Sportswear
Chemical Brothers - It Doesn’t Matter
Database vs. French Horn Rebellion - Beaches and Friends (The Twelves Remix)
Adam Freeland went to Brighton and all We got was this Lousy Mixtape
Tracklisting:
Dr. Wayne Dyer - Meditations For Manifesting
Freeland - Do you
Freeland - Bring It
Zombie Nation - Bass Kaput
The BPA - He’s Frank (Layo & Bushwacka Mix)
Edison - Press repeat (Adam Freeland Re Edit)
Freeland - Strange Things
Alex Metric - Gusto (Demo Mix)
Freeland - Mo
Old fashioned mixing battle on a Sunday evening in Fremont. My mellow riddims put up a good fight, but came in a close second to the molasses cookies…
Out of Controller down tempo mix 091309
Track Listing:
Gotan Project - Last Tango In Paris
Vanja Lazarova - Stojne Bre Mome Kokansko
The Forum - Blowing Notes
Tosca - Orozco
Royksopp - Someone Like Me
Rae & Christian - All I Ask
Raphael Saadiq - 100 Yard Dash
Nightmares on Wax - Pipes Honour
courtesy of underwoodpix.com
Fooling around in Ableton more, been wanting to do a mix of extended house jams, the likes of which I have been digging on courtesy of His Pea-Ness. Piano loop motif runs through it, and each track can unfold and tell its story. So this seven track ‘minimix’ is about as long as the 15-track mixes typically run…
Out of Controller house mix 090409
Track Listing:
Florence + The Machine - Drumming Song (Boy 8-Bit remix)
Major Lazer - Cash Flow (Clasixx Dub Mix)
Memory Cassette - Last One Awake (CFCF Version)
Lindstrom - Another Station (Todd Terje remix)
The Juan Maclean - Happy House (Will Saul and Mike Monday remix)
The Lowbrows - Dream in the Desert (Flight Facilities remix)
Michael Jackson - Rock with You (Frankie Knuckles remix)
And now for something completely different, peeps — 80’s megamix, arranged and mixed 100% in Ableton Live.
Turntables > Jog Wheels > Neither
It was very interesting to experiment with such a different approach to reach the same result. No decks, no tracks. Just clips that I can chop, loop and arrange as I want. Fun workflow to add to the live-on-the-decks experience, looking forward to learning more ways to enhance the arsenal with such a versatile program.
Track Listing:
The Pointer Sisters - Automatic
Swing Out Sister - Breakout (Rockin’ mix)
Scritti Politti - Wood Beez
Level 42 - Lessons in Love (Shep Pettibone remix)
Miko Mission - How Old are You
Modern Talking - You’re my Heart, You’re my Soul
Human League - Love Action
Wham - Everything She Wants
Pet Shop Boys - Heart
Corey Hart - Sunglasses at Night
Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Culture Club - Miss Me Blind
ABC - Tears are Not Enough
Blind Date - Your Heart Keeps Burning
Baltimora - Tarzan Boy
Howard Jones - Things Can Only Get Better
Michael Jackson - The Way You Make Me Feel
Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)
Ready for the World - Oh Shiela
The Bangles - Manic Monday
New Order - True Faith
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
Yazoo - Situation
Icehouse - No Promises (club mix)
Japan - Quiet Life
courtesy of underwoodpix.com
Have been rocking out to quite a few killer mixes that I haven’t quite gotten around to posting, but GOD. DAMN. This thing is good. Shocker, it is Aeroplane, after all.
1. Phoenix - Lisztomania (Classixx Version)
2. Doves - Jetstream (Lindstrom Remix)
3. Florence And The Machine - Rabbit Heart (Leo Zero Remix)
4. Lowbrows - Dream in The Desert (Flight Facilities Remix)
5. Bent - Always (Mighty Mouse Remix)… Read More
6. Classixx Feat. Jeppe - I’ll Get You
7. Fever Ray - Triangle Walks (Rex The Dog Edit)
8. Peaches - Loose You (Brodinski & Yuksek Dub)
9. Joakim - Nebula Laughter
Was down in SF for gramma’s big 80th birthday fest, so Cryptic, Matthew and I hit up the Green Velvet / Designer Drugs show at Mezzanine. Overcame a Dutch Goose double cheeseburger and arriving to a still pretty sparse dancefloor, and by the end of the night I was fist-pumping and singing along to the GV classics. Very fun show.
I was curious to see Designer Drugs given their blogosphere success over the past few years, not exactly sure if it would be live or a DJ set that consisted of a lot of their productions. It was latter, not superbly mixed (only quick cuts) but he did the job. Got a meandering audience pumped and primed for the headliner, and was fun to hear the electro bangers from my iTunes actually getting played out. Riverside is blowing up!!
To be honest, I didn’t know exactly what to expect from Green Velvet. I knew I had maximum respect since he was listed in Daft Punk’s Teachers, and I have liked all his hits. And his set turned out to be just as I had been imagining — very funky tech house, bordering on techno but I definitely felt it in my hips. And when he flipped his headphones around and started singing, that was epic. Extra points: rocking the sunglasses the entire set in a dark club!
The evening was a fun juxtaposition of old and new for me. Designer Drugs are very much what’s current; Green Velvet has been rocking his sound for a long time. It was refreshing to set aside the latest-and-greatest pursuit for the night, as well as remember back to the 227 glory days when sets like that were standard issue. I feel like expectations have been hard to meet lately, but this show danced around that. Just a fun-ass time, no more no less.
The man responsible for Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough and the moonwalk has been dead for quite some time now as far as I’m concerned, but now he’s actually gone. RIP — your impact was mighty, no matter how freakish the aftermath may have become.
courtesy of underwoodpix.com
Couldn’t quite decide which direction to go, so here are both of the evening’s recordings — an indie one and a clubby one. Was running a bit blind, having just tagged a bunch of new tracks this week. Like making a christmas wish list and then looking in the toy store window and forgetting all about it…
Ok, enough blabber. Here they are.
Track Listing:
Hot Chip - Over and Over (Maurice Fulton Remix)
1gnition - Secret Sunday Lover (Greg Wilson Edit)
Indeep - Last Night a DJ Saved My Life
Gonzales - Let’s Ride (U-GO-B’s Disco Dj Friendly Edit)
Lenka - Trouble is a Friend (Eli Escobar Mix)
Lullatone - Hello Kitty Makes A Band
The Units - High Pressure Days (Headman Rework)
Metric - Help Im Alive (The Twelves Remix)
Little Boots - New In Town (Fred Falke Remix)
Steve Kotey & Max Essa - 1974
Curses! - The Deep End (Holy Ghost! Remix)
Teenager - Alone Again feat. Ladyhawke
Track Listing:
Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow (Excel Loves Fergie Edit)
Bangers & Cash - B.O.O.T.A.Y. (Krames Edit)
Mujava - Township Funk (DJ Rob 3 remix)
N.W.A. - Something 2 Dance 2
Aquasky - Have A Good Time feat. Acafool (The Count & Sinden Remix)
EPMD - Run It (Sinden Remix)
MSTRKRFT - Bounce feat. NORE (A-Trak Remix)
Chelley vs. Mr Oizo - I Took The Night (DJ Ayres Flatbeat Mix)
Bonde Do Role - Gasolina (Fake Blood Mix)
N.A.S.A. - Money (The Count Of Monte Cristal ‘Dungeon’ Remix)
Edu K - Sexomatic (Chesus and Rodski Refix)
DJ Ayres - Broke Ass Home
Daft Punk - Make Love (Chew Fu and Substantial Small Room Sax Fix)
Haven’t had time or, frankly, been motivated to write about recent shows, but let me start by saying, DAMN that was fun. All the fun of a live band, and that band is playing house music. Plus, Nectar is very small — this meant I had more hipster B.O. to deal with, but it reminded me of seeing Calvin Harris at the little Echo a few years ago.
The energy was amazing — drummer wailing away, Juan (is his name actually Juan?) banging on different percussion implements and even some sort of pitchfork thing that I couldn’t even figure out. All I know, he would wave one hand over it like a band leader while the other vibrato’d like a cellist. It was hot. The annoying asian chick from the Soulwax documentary even got less annoying. Every song was good fun, and they finished up the set with Happy House, naturally. Except it was an epic 20-minute hyperdrive version of it that just wouldn’t end. This also came just after the hipster in front of me left, whose only dance move the entire set had been to elbow my drink like Don Flamenco from Tyson’s Punch-Out, so needless to say I was very excited.
Another thought I had been stewing on since we saw The Twelves back in March was the “live” versus “DJ set” comparison. Everything is steering more toward production, but I have to say, I was underwhelmed by The Twelves’ performance. I love all their tracks, but two dudes sitting behind a laptop for an hour just didn’t keep me on the edge of my seat. With a DJ set, I don’t know what’s going to come next. A master could throw anything at me. Now, after seeing Prodigy and TJM, it was interesting to observe the differences between a live act and an “Ableton Live” act. (You’re not as cool as you think you are, Deadmau5).
I still think a DJ can generate just as much an energy as a band; to a certain extent, just rocking out on stage gets the ball rolling. Personally, I want to work Ableton into the DJ arsenal to expand beyond playing one track after the next, no matter how seamless the transitions are. But dude behind a laptop undertaking minimal cueing on a pre-planned Ableton set is hardly a “live” show just because one is not using decks.
And with that, OoC got out his little rant AND a concert review in one post. Do yourself a favor and listen to Happy House again. So good.