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Welcome to my blog which features podcasts mixed by yours truly as well as the odd blog post on all things digital/dance related.
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Digital Orbit [January 2010 podcast]
Posted on January 24th, 2010 2 commentsAudio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
First podcast of 2010, track listing below.
1. Better Run (Inpetto Dub Mix) / Tocadisco ft Nadia Ali
2. Models On Cocaine (Weekend Heroes Remix) / Ticon
3. Cold Energy – Original Mix / 16 Bit Lolitas
4. Touch Me Falko Niestolik Manuel Baccano Remix / Tom Novy Jerry
5. Party Of Politics (Original Club Mix) / EDX
6. Michael Feiner – Peace (Original Mix)
7. Starstruck (Solarity Remix) / Proff
8. Fate (Rework 09) / Starchaser
9. Many Dayz (Tom Novy & Jerome Isma-Ae Remix) / Shilk Stylko
10. To The Six (Matt Lange Remix) / Boom Jinx And Andrew Bayer
11. Swedish Beatballs (Original Mix) / Marcus Schossow -
Heat Wave!
Posted on November 9th, 2009 1 commentAudio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Had a couple of warm days in Sydney over the past week, weird how as Ibiza and Europe starts to shut down from their summer season Australia is just getting started!
Anyway – heres the latest podcast for Sunny days in Sydney! Lots of proggy goodness on this as well as a couple of old & new deadmau5 tunes!
Pretty annoyed that I recorded all of this and then noticed that I had the left fader knocked slightly which meant the left channel was recording at about 60% the volume of the right… Luckily it seems that I’ve been able to split the stereo & boost the left channel using a neat bit of software called Audacity.
Other major improvement has been the purchase of a printer which lets me print directly onto the CDR! Gone are the days of scribbling on CD’s with a marker pen and forgetting exactly what I burnt onto them a couple of weeks later
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Tunes for travelling
Posted on August 10th, 2009 4 commentsAudio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Been trying to sort out my ipod with some tunes to pass the 24hrs of flight misery as I head back to London. Thought I might as well post it to my podcast at the same time.
Another prog podcast with some new tunes which I’ve been listening to a lot recently.
Track listings:
01. Jaytech – Grey Horizons
02. Paul Keely – Life Aquatic
03. Oliver Smith – Horizons
04. Leventia – Nake (Ibiza Sunrise Dub)
05. The Blizzard with Gaate – Iselija (Michael Cassette Dub Mix)
06. unknown
07. Jonas Hahmo – Cocktail Bar (Ben Macklin Remix)
08. Deadmau5 – Ghosts n Stuff
09. Energy 52 – Cafe Del Mar (Deadmau5 Remix)
10. Marco V – Unprepared (Dub Mix)
11. uknown
12. Signal Runners – Meet Me in MontaukEnjoy!
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New set-up
Posted on August 6th, 2009 No commentsI finally got around to upgrading my DJ set-up from a very tired cheap & nasty Behringer Mixer & Technics 1210′s to something a little more cutting edge.
I’ve been a longtime user of Final Scratch and really like the combination of digital DJ’ing but the tactile elements of vinyl so I decided to keep the technics 1210′s but went for a software upgrade. The mixer I bought has a built in ‘scratchamp’ equivalent which hooks up to Traktor Scratch Pro – the software is pretty much the same but the timecoded vinyl system has been much improved and crashes a lot less.
The mixer itself is a Korg Zero4 which has firewire interface, midi controller and 4 channels. It does a good job of replacing my mixer and scratch amp whilst also offering a whole bunch of features like effects on a per channel basis which can then be sent through to the master and another layer of FX applied there if you want. Initial feedback is that its a pretty solid mixer and the illumination also looks pretty cool.
If I ever get around to playing out then CDJ’s seem to be the industry standard at the moment so I invested in a couple of CDJ-1000′s and stands so that I can get the whole rig into a fairly compact space. The final aspect was to upgrade the speakers to active-powered Behringer Truths which are pretty punchy for the price. Quality isn’t the best but I’m not the most demanding audiophile….yet
Also added a lap-top stand to make it much easier to intergrate Traktor into my line of sight. Its actually a pretty versatile set-up now, I can either do full digital DJ’ing using the mixer as a MIDI controller only or can go completely old school and move back to Vinyl or can use CDJ/Vinyl as timecodes to manipulate tracks in Traktor Scratch Pro.
I still have the old scratch amp which makes a pretty decent external soundcard and is the only thing I need to hook-up to the mixer so I can record sets which will hopefully be pretty soon!
Pics below:
My completed Set-up!
Korg Zero 4
Dj Set-UP
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Winter Down Under [July 2009]
Posted on July 27th, 2009 No commentsAudio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Latest mix using a korg zero4, cdj-1000′s, techics 1210′s and traktor scratch pro. Playlist to follow in a couple of days time.
[podcast]http://adamcoates.com/podcasts/july_2009.mp3[/podcast]
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