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infuzion ·
BALTHOR inspired me to post some stuff. Deep darker techy House (maybe Tech-House?) w/a touch of Tribal, meant to be a closer.
My first published beat-match set in like... 10 years? I have to use a new DJ name, since there was/is an "infusion" in the UK, thus "reEight". Comments welcome. Edit: Now with more SoundCloud http://soundcloud.com/re8/sets/reeight- ... buttongray
MichaelBenjamin ·
thank you, its up to par with the other mixes i sometimes listen to at blentwell.com, and mostly not unbearably dark, except for the part around 5 minutes which feels like a headache and around 22 min which sounds like some 90s korg m1 techno. but i enjoyed the rest, especially the rather neutral parts.
infuzion ·
Thanks for the comments MB! That 2nd song that sounds like mud is actually a remix by Josh Wink... Phily DJs can have weird base lines sometime.
I posted different versions of my mix, for those who may want to compare different versions. Seems that many can't tell MP3 vs WAV.
Andrew J ·
infz, I'm having real trouble downloading (have been trying for a couple of days). If it's not telling me there's no slots left from my country, then it's waiting a minute before it starts, and then it fails anyway!
infuzion ·
Andrew J wrote: infz, I'm having real trouble downloading (have been trying for a couple of days). If it's not telling me there's no slots left from my country, then it's waiting a minute before it starts, and then it fails anyway!
Thanks for letting me know AJ. Bummer! I've rarely have problems with this host in Firefox + "Download them All!" plug in.
I guess I'll have to look for other hosts.
Andrew J ·
Finally got it started without using DownThemAll - hopefully it'll complete OK...
infuzion ·
Andrew J wrote: Finally got it started without using DownThemAll - hopefully it'll complete OK...
Thanks for your persistence! The reason I like depositfiles is that they let you download more than one segment at a time if I remember correctly, so with DownLoadThemAll you can download faster, up to near your bandwidth.
bootsy ·
great stuff!
rl ·
Cool trax. There is even an Eric B & Rakim Sample! 8-)
I know I'm old school
infuzion ·
Old uploads went bye-bye, now on SoundCloud.
AngularMomentum ·
Just listening now... 🙂
AngularMomentum ·
Excellent, great while cleaning the house... 🙂
Jay ·
Very good! I enjoyed that! I am into the Detroit tech scene so i could appreciate most of them there tunes 😀 Did you do the mix on vinyl or digital? not that it matters, since imho the talent lies in choice of music,timing and fusion of parts to make something new!anyone with a basic ear for music can beat-match but not everyone can mix!
I just love these ppl who say "yeh but you did it on a computer,anyone can do that!".I promptly invite them to my studio to try it on my digital setup (I have Virtual Dj, Serato and a Rane 57sl) then,to my home to try it on my oldschool 1210's! cant tell you the amount of ppl who have quickly changed their views of computer mixing after one of my invites!
I suppose like all things,Its easy if you are good at it and you seem to be!
Keep it up! Best regards
AngularMomentum ·
Well to be fair, I started djing on turntables, and mixing on computer is a piece of cake compared to turntables. 😉
On the other hand, people talk about beatmatching, but I rather talk about groove matching, as some records matched on beat (kickdrum), do not work together without shifting a little bit to get the highs (hihats et cetera) on groove.
Jay ·
Yeh me too AM! Started on turntables i mean! i personally found the move to digital quite difficult to get over! i still feel that even though some of the Pro digital Dj Packages do a fine job of emulating vinyl mixing there is still something missing for me! the organic feel and fluidity of the music! if you get what i mean
I think beat matching is more difficult on digital systems than my technics and had a lot of ppl agree! except if you cheat and use beatsync or whatever 😉
Groove matching comes down to what i was saying about the ability to beat match and the ability to mix being different things! I think that's an area that a lot of wannabe Dj's fall down!
man do you remember what the scene was like in the 80's/90's? everyone i knew had a set of decks and all the latest vinyl's every man and their dog was at it, De la Soul were so right "everybody wants to be a Dj,everybody wants to be no1" you had great swathes of ppl buying equipment with only a small proportion of them ever having any ability and an even smaller proportion ever having any type of success! i wonder what happened to all those decks and mixers 🙂
Best Regards
AngularMomentum ·
I come indeed from a time where people would come together in the weekend and just play house music till the morning. Sometimes we took our stuff to the beach with a diesel powered generator and freak out. Sometimes we squat a place and throw a big party, we even had a friend with a bar where we could play, trade music and check our latest records...Good times. 😍
There are a few things that make life easier on software, visual feedback for instance, who needs a sync button when the BPM is already shown, breaks are clearly visible, VSTi plugins et cetera, in that sense everything becomes easier to do. On the other hand I do not trust software (and computers) that much to use it live. I bought a BCD-2000 really out of nostalgia.
infuzion ·
I did my first live mix on Technics 1100 (inside-table turntable) on a collage radio station, fiddled with mixing for a few years, but didn't get seriously into mixing until I moved to Germany in '92 & found all the (relatively) cheap CD remix compilations, & picked up Dennon CD players to DJ them on.
AngularMomentum wrote: There are a few things that make life easier on software, visual feedback for instance, who needs a sync button when the BPM is already shown, breaks are clearly visible, VSTi plugins et cetera, in that sense everything becomes easier to do. On the other hand I do not trust software (and computers) that much to use it live. I bought a BCD-2000 really out of nostalgia.
I think computers, the OS, & the major player softwares are stable enough, if you know how to tweak your OS right. Computers are cheap enough to have another backup handy. Most synths, effect boxes, CD/MP3 "hardware" players & some mixers are now dedicated computers anyway.
I do agree with your concern; anything that is slightly unstable music-making wise gets deleted since there are other stable options out there. This unfortunately makes me never to use SM or exported VSTs for music-making out of those fears, since every time I use SM, it crashes. :/
AngularMomentum ·
Most synths, effect boxes, CD/MP3 "hardware" players & some mixers are now dedicated computers anyway.
I know, but that is out of my budget to do a bit of occasional DJing, I stopped about 10 years ago. I might buy some CD players second hand though if an oppertunity comes along to get it cheap, but if I was still serious about it, I would have bought dedicated MP3 hardware. Hardware without latency, which the BCD does introduce. My computer is very stable, but still do not trust it out of experience, specially with Windows, you need to set a large latency to now for sure you do not get any hickups.
My AKAI s1100 really is a computer if you look inside it, but it has never failed me once, (apart from having to change the backlight) and that thing is 20 years old. Love that machine.
infuzion ·
AngularMomentum wrote: My computer is very stable, but still do not trust it out of experience, specially with Windows, you need to set a large latency to now for sure you do not get any hickups. My AKAI s1100 really is a computer if you look inside it, but it has never failed me once, (apart from having to change the backlight) and that thing is 20 years old. Love that machine.
Windows7 has "Wave RT exclusive mode" for 3ms latency with out ASIO drivers. I think once SP1 comes out Win7 will be as stable as any Mac system out there. http://link.brightcove.com/services/pla ... 2033593001
MegaHurtz ·
nice tracks there, re8. I was looking at your myspace earlyer... no music. Now I know 🙂
AngularMomentum ·
Yeah, luckily Behringer is such a cool company, that I have to buy a new BCD3000 instead of a 2000 to make that work on win7. they just do not release a new driver for market strategy purposes. As you might now I never buy anything again from them that needs a driver. 😉 🙁
Acrobat ·
AngularMomentum wrote: Yeah, luckily Behringer is such a cool company, that I have to buy a new BCD3000 instead of a 2000 to make that work on win7. they just do not release a new driver for market strategy purposes. As you might now I never buy anything again from them that needs a driver. 😉 🙁
sorry AM, ehm, wooo! Time to buy a second-hand BCF2000 for me! 😈
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