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A few mixes I’ve recently posted to MixCloud recorded from my Pacemaker… Both mixes are on the darker tip hence the late night titles… Looks like I’m going to have to consider switching back to laptop djing in the near future, as the pacemaker gets older and older. In the meanwhile I have 2 mixes for your listening pleasure…
This mix is both dark and light, a little something for the winter nights. Recorded on a cold late night in December
- Spotlight – Jornvan Deynhoven
- Ultracurve – Cosmic Gate
- Intruder – Armin Van Buuren vs M.I.K.E
- The Labyrinth (Part One) – Moogwai
- Circles (Andy Blueman Remix) - Robert Nickson
- Constellation (John O’Callaghan Remix) - Thomas Bronzwaer
- Surrender (Sneijder vs John O’Callaghan Remix) - Full Tilt Feat Deirdre McLaughlin
- Intution (Mathin Roth Remix) - Marninx Pres. Ecco
- Comet - Skytech
- Frozen - Dogzilla
- Turbulence - Klauss Goulart
- Body of contact (cosmic gate club mix) - Cosmic Gate
- Rheinkraft (extended mix) - Oliver Klein
- Everything’s Been Written – 8 Wonders
- Nothing Else Matters (Aly & Fila Remix) - Max Graham feat. Ana Criado
- Casino Fire - Matias Faint
- The string which binds us (8 Wonders mix) - Arnej
- From the Earth (Breakfast Remix) - Andrew Bayer
The late night ear killer mix by Cubicgarden on Mixcloud
This mix is pretty dark and moody, its full of crumbling tech beats and progressive cycles. You certainly want to take it easy with the volume control on this one. Recorded on a late night like the late night intruder mix.
- Body of Contact (Cosmic Gate club mix) – Cosmic Gate
- Kalopsia (Monogato’s Filth remix)- The Blizzard
- Strike – Signum
- Intruder – Armin van Buuren vs MIKE
- Rheinkraft (extended mix) – Oliver Klein
- One Night in New York City (Chris Leibing mix) – The Horrorist
- Transponder – Mauro Picotto
- Casino Fire – Matias Faint
- One for you (Oliver Klein remix) – Oliver Klein
- Ninety – Sander Van Doorm
- Strange Bends (Kyau vs Albert mix) – Sebastian Sand
- Joy Energizer (Psycho mix) – Joy Kitikonti
- Shnorkel – Miki Litvak & Ido Ophir
- Panic Attack – Simon Patterson
There is something about Simon Lumb, something that everytime we chat creative juices start flowing (wipe that smile off your smutty face, you know what I mean)…
Off the back of a conversation in Wagamama about Richard St John’s 8 Traits to be great, which I have a physical signed copy of after a TEDx. We got talking about how I tend to own a physical copy of most books although I also own the ebook version. Then we got talking about Instapaper and Readitlater, how they give you the ability to pull together elements from a range of sources…
Imagine if you could do the same thing as a published book? Remix books!
Books right now are like Albums, but imagine if they were more like singles and EP’s?
They could be like the Mixtape of the written word? Fits perfect with the self publishing trend.
- Example 1: Custom cookbook. Pick a your favourite menu items and self publish your own cookbook. A bit of Jamie, dash of Heston and a lot of Nigella (yes please). Arrange them into a new type of cook book which is custom for you, or reflects your cooking style. It could be a cookbook for you or for someone else…
- Example 2: The best of… Many times in the past, people have said the best way to learn about Z is to read chapters Y & X of book W and chapters A, B and C of book D… Want to know the best to learn how to skateboard or surf? I recommend reading my custom book which is made up of… you get the idea
- Example 3: The best places in the world. Could be a nice mix of places you’ve never been to before, places you inspire to go or places you have been to before. Actually it kind of reminds me of off beat guides, but instead of building it from raw components its from previous decent reviews.
- Sure there are many more including books for young children, books for different learning styles, etc, etc…
The remix methodology is actually very apt, because instead of building your own from the components, your remixing parts of others. Like a Dj remixing other peoples tunes.
The copyrights framework will be a nightmare to work out (we’re not kidding ourselves about that) but to be honest it could be something like the music rights framework for albums and singles? Might even increase the amount of readership for some books? It could be massive changes, or little changes like the art work in the book. Instead of lovely glossy pictures of food in a cook book, it could be technical diagrams for those more interested in seeing those? Maybe the remixes will cost more than the originals but to the person who gets it, its worth so much more. You get the idea…
Crazy idea? Tell me and Simon why? Maybe you love it and want to run with it? Well all we require is attribution… This idea is open to the world… Run with it and tell us when you get rich by changing the publishing industry. This is what places like Lulu have been crying out for right? Just like… My lifestreaming dating idea and my dreamscape idea. Go get them, change the world or go Lazy web make it so…!
Its been a long while since I’ve uploaded a mix to Mixcloud or even Soundcloud. So I decided to throw together a mix on the pacemaker and stick it up. Its a strange mix of some classics and some new tunes. Nothing over thought, just good music mixed together…
I present the Satisfaction zero mix
- D.N.A – W&W
- Language (Santiago Nino Mix) – Hammer & Bennett
- Lift – Sean Tyas
- Skyfire (Alex M.O.R.P.H Mix) – Shogun
- Everything’s Been Written – 8 Wonders
- The Strings Which Bind Us – Arnej
- Beautiful Thing (Photon Project Remix) – Andain
- Ramazing – Ram
- No More Alone (John O’Callaghan Remix) – Giuseppe Ottavian Feat Stephen Pickup
- Without You (John O’Callaghan Remix) – Dogzilla
- Ultracurve – Cosmic Gate
- The Situation (Liquid Life Remix) – A Situation
- Ramsterdam (Jornvan Deynhoven Remix) – Ram
- Intuition (Original Mix) – Marninx Pres. Ecco
- Big Sky (Agneli & Nelson Remix) – John O’Callaghan Feat. Audrey Gallagher
- Black Is Back – The Blackmaster
- Cream – Blank & Jones
- Dark side of the sun – Rory Gallagher
- Breathe (Blake Jarrell remix) – Anna Nalick
- Wonder of life (F&W remix) – Tukan Light
- The strings that bind us – Arnej
- Please save me (Push remix) – Sunscreem vs Push
- Everythings been Written – 8 Wonders
- Gouryella – Gouryella
- Unexpectation (Dengavs Manus mix) – Vengeance
- The Truth (David West Remix) – Handstrong feat Tiff Lacey
- Language (Santiago Nino Dub tech mix) – Hammer and Bennett
- Nothing else matters – Max Graham feat Ana Criado
- 1999 (Gouryella mix) – Binary Finary
- Constellation (John O’Callaghan remix) – Thomas Bronzwaer
- Invisible Touch (Ferry Corsten’s Touch) – Bohina
Another new mix by myself, once again recorded via the analogue input in my laptop because the pacemaker’s own recording system is still screwy for myself. In actual fact I did record the mix twice at the same time, once on the pacemaker and again on my laptop. One sounded far better that the other as you would imagine. In actual fact I’m very tempted to upload the busted pacemaker mix, so people can hear the screwy recording but I’ll have to make it clear on another site (maybe archive.org) what its up there to do.
The mix is recorded while relaxing one day recently in my house. So there’s few mistakes, unlike when I’m attempting to mix while walking the streets of Manchester or heading down the wrong way in Irlam….
I’m tempted to upload this to soundcloud too, even though I somewhat dissed soundcloud for its lack of mix support. But the ability to download and licence the track is killer and mixcloud seem not bothered about ever supporting downloads of the mix. Meaning a whole group of people never listen to the mix because frankly who wants to listen to a mix on there browser? Even with the nice fuctionality they have around tracklistings and all that… Its still flash and worst still its mobile flash and once again Flash kind of sucks even on Android…
I a while ago suggested to Mixcloud the concept of mobile playlists tailored for Mixes, but they didn’t really see the point. But recently I suggested the same thing to Dirty Si and he was a lot more receptive to the concept. Right now when I do a mix, I tend to create a piece of metadata to go with the mix. The NFO file (yep straight out of the darknet) contains the playlist order and any other metadata I feel is required. I would use PLS, M3U or even XSPLIF but I’ve just done something to scratch my own itch. I might switch to using XSPLIF with a namespace for my own metadata and add the SMIL namespace. There’s a whole bunch of hacking which needs to be done in this area…
Its been a long time since I have done a mix and recorded it mainly because my pacemaker no longer reliably records mixes any more. However I can record mixes the old way using my laptop and the analogue interface.
I also switched from soundcloud to mixcloud, which unforgivable doesn’t have the option to download the actual mix like soundcloud use to. But I expect I’ll upload it somewhere else in the near future for those who want it on there portable music player.
So here’s the first effort… I bring you my appetite for disruption mix.
At last a break through, someone (musicinstinct2) has cracked the way the pacemaker adds and removes music to the SQLlite database.
My initial experiments involved using the sqlite database browser to open up music.db and enter track information. Then manually copy the tracks over to the device, making up random hash values (as I couldn’t work out how Tonium were creating these hashes). It works! The device doesn’t rely on any particular naming convention, whatever is in the filename field in the database (music.db) is used by the device to load the track.
Fantastic…! Now this is cracked and Musicinstinct2 is working on a open source client to manage tracks. The next stage is to crack and understand the XML file which is attached to every single track uploaded on the device. The bulk of the data in stuck in a XML element called realBeatLocations.
I expect it won’t take long before we have the whole thing pretty much cracked. What would make things move along quicker is if Tonium would publish the source as it was created under the GPL.
The Geometry Set by cubicgarden
This is my latest mix on my pacemaker. Lots of new tunes and some classics returns.
Its known as just the geometry set, but why? Well most of the mix has something to do with geometry in some way. If you think you can work out the link in each tune, feel free to comment below.
You may have noticed this is also a much shorter mix that I usually do but it didn’t feel the need to be long and drawn out.
Ladies and Gentleman, I present The Geometry Set…
The Geometry Set by cubicgarden
- Endless Wave (albion remix) – Kamaya Painters
- Heal – Electrique Boutique
- Arctic Globe – DJ Governor Presents Orjan
- Strange Bends (Kyau Vs Albert) – Sebastian Sand
- Shadow World – Thomas Bronzwaer
- Call The Galaxy Taxi (Martin Roth Nu Style Remix) – Plastic Angel
- The Spring – Ernesto and Alex Fisher
- Ultra Curve – Cosmic Gate
- Exposure – Gareth Emery
- Perfect Wave – peter martin pres anthanasia
- The string that binds us (8 wonders remix) – Arnej
- Intution – Marninx Pres Ecco
The wrong end of irlam walkabout mix by cubicgarden
Another mix by myself (Dj Cubicgarden). This time its the wrong end of irlam walkabout mix. As you can imagine I did this while walking around Irlam (yes its a real place, near Manchester) and I kind of got a little lost. It was certainly the wrong end of Irlam, as the kiddies started gathering wondering why I was there, and what this weird thing I was clutching was (the pacemaker). Anyway, I made it out of irlam safely but unfortunately without my scooter, which also now needs a new battery.
The mix is far from perfect but its an enjoyable mix of trance. There’s a lot of new stuff mixed in with some old favorites. The problem with walking around doing a mix is you can’t see the screen very well when selecting tunes and things like buying a ticket or showing the inspector your ticket can really put you off the pace of a mix.
Anyway, hope you all enjoy it, here’s the playlist…
- Collider – Thomas Bronzwaer
- Man on the Run – Dash Berlin with Cerf, Mitlska
- Perfect Wave – Peter Martin pres Anthanasia
- Ninety – Sander van Doorn
- Jelly Tracks (rippin & drippin mix) – Oliver Klein
- Roundabout – Sam Sharp
- Breathing (push vocal mix) – Rank 1
- Off the world (large remix) – Martin Roth and Alex Bartlett
- Passionate (fire & ice remix) – Leon
- Intution (martin roth remix) – Marninx pres ecco
- Into the danger (M.I.K.E remix) – M.I.K.E vs Andrew Bennett
- Listening – Aly & Fila feat Josie
- Severn Cities (V-One Living Cities remix) – Solar Stone
- RAMsterdam (jornvan deynhoven remix) – RAM
The secret garden sunshine mix by cubicgarden
So my latest mix is online, I’m sorry to say I uploaded while at TedXSheffield (it was break time and the wifi was pretty fast). I got to take the wifi as it comes because it looks like I won’t get connectivity till the end of the month now.
As always the mix can be downloaded from soundcloud if the flash player doesn’t take your fancy or you want to listen to it on the go. I would upload a OGG version (the pacemaker defaults to ogg actually, so creating a mp3 version requires extra time and effort) but soundcloud don’t really support versions of the same stuff, I’m considering going back to blip.tv for media uploading. The playlist is below, Yes I really like Thomas Bronzwaer, he’s got a style of trance which really plays to my ear, this is also the reason for Collider twice.
This mix was recorded on my pacemaker while sitting outside in the sunshine of my new shared garden at Islington Wharf. Not my best mixing but entaining and well worth a listen. Thanks to Simon Lumb (@dirtysi) for the new Gouryella remix. I love Gouryella and this remix is pretty true to the original in lot of aspects. Enjoy…
- Man on the run – dash berlin with cerf
- Perfect Wave – peter martin pres anthanasia
- The strings that bind us – Arnej
- Be with me – Coast 2 coast feat Amanda Jami
- Collider – Thomas Bronzwaer
- denva – Ronski Speed
- Massive Motion – M.I.K.E
- Rainmaker – des mcmahon
- North Pole – Nitrous Oxide
- Sincere (pulsar remix) – Firewall
- The pride in your eyes (martin roth mix) – Tillmann Uhrmacher
- Collider – Thomas Bronzwear
- Resound – Thomas Bronzwear
- Constellation – Thomas Bronzwear
- Gouryella (gigolo remix) – Gouryella
Its started when dirtySi said about getting some new trance and I was already buying some from audiojelly. Anyway he thought about doing a crowd sourced mix by opening it up to people online to set the playlist. I later thought it would be good if we use the same playlist to do similar mixes.
Yep, crowd source a set list, hours mix, around 10-15 songs – but we get to swap in a favorite and decide the order.
So it started… dj cubicgarden and dirtysi are now taking requests. Try and make it trance rather that generic house or some other genre. Actually it might be worth me or si post our tracks. If someone can suggest somewhere that would be great.
The pulse of a nation mix by cubicgarden
I had a listen to all of my mixes I recorded while in Hospital, and this is certainly the best mix of them all.
This one is certainly the best sounding of the bunch which includes the the amazing recover mix, the outta of hope mix and of course the pulse of a nation mix. Its a good length too at almost a hour long. The mixing isn’t perfect but its good enough for a listen. The choice of tunes is also good, a nice upbeat selection, I must have had a good day the day I recorded this mix. As always enjoy it… oh an you can directly download this mix using this link.
- By your side (martin roth remix) – the thrillseekers feat gina do
- Strange bends (kyau vs albert) – Sebastian Sand
- Grooveline (matt darey) – Blockster
- dark side of the moon (marc van linden remix) – Ernesto vs Bastian
- Intution (martin roth remix) – Marninx pres ecco
- the truth (david west remix) – Headstrong feat Tiff Lacey
- Circa Forever (R.E.mix) – Rapid eye
- The wave (svenson & gielen remix) – cosmic gate
- a new dawn (virtual vault remix) – steve forte rio
- So much – Vince Nysse
- Ultracurve – cosmic gate
The outta of hope mix by cubicgarden
I had a listen to most of my mixes I recorded while in Hospital, and there some good stuff there. Its going to take a while to recover and make them decent for sharing because sometimes I had the cross fader in the wrong position which is a shame or forgot to do something equally silly. Anyway here’s a nice short one to kick us off. As always enjoy…
- Above the sky – Airwave
- Cafe del Mar (Marco V remix) – Energy 52
- Are you fine – Kyan vs Albert
- Sincere (pulser remix) – Firewall
- Language (santiago nino dub tech mix) – Hammer and Bennett
- Shadow World – Thomas Brozwaer
- Lately (Riley & durrant mix) – Airbiscuit
- She wants him – Moussa Clarke & Terrafunka
- Into Something – Richard durand
- The Blizzard (Monogato’s Filth Remix) – Kalopsia
- Gamesmaster (matt darey 1999 remix) – Lost Tribe
Been thinking 2 ipads to mix music with could be interesting. However where would you store all those tunes? Would you put the mixer on a third device or even a iphone/ipod touch? Could you run the whole thing on one ipad?
There are a few stories exploring the idea. But generally most of the problems related to the ipad are also related to the iphone too. Things one audio output, no ability to add an external usb soundcard, locked up music subsystem, etc, etc. I did however see that the ipad has already been hacked or jailbroken, so who knows what might change for a serious dj setup.
The one step beyond entropy mix by cubicgarden
The mix isn’t perfect, I almost dedcied not to release it and maybe even do it again, but I changed my mind as theres a lot of new tunes in this mix. Of course there’s classic ones too. Recorded in Bristol while waiting to go out one night, I’m sure yuo will enjoy it.
Its been a while since I’ve uploaded a new mix mainly because I’ve had some trouble getting the Pacemaker editor software working in Ubuntu. I tried to get it working using Wine but it just would not work. So I had to go back to using Sun’s VirtualBox which thankfully does work.
Here’s the playlist for the mix…
- Salvation (Album Re-Vised Mix) – M.I.K.E
- Second Slience (Michael Jast edit) – Signum vs Delerium
- Intution (Martin Roth Remix) – Marninx pres Ecco
- Watch out (Extended Remix) – Ferry Corsten
- Junk (Body Snatchers Vocal mix) – Ferry Corsten Feat Guru
- Strange Bends (Kyau Vs Albert) – Sebastian Sand
- A New dawn (Virtual Vault Remix) – Steve Forte Rio
- Smack – Simon Patterson
- Invisible Touch (Ferry Corsten’s Touch) – Bobina
- Sinister (Original Mix) – Airbase
- Language (Santiago Nino Dub Tech Mix) – Hammer and Bennett
- Shivers (Alex M.O.R.P.H Remix) – Armin Van Buuren
- RAMsteram (Jornvan Deynhoven Remix) – RAM
I thought I was pretty straight forward with my thoughts about using sonodrome devices with the pacemaker but some people did ask for a clearer description, the picture above this should be all you need.
So instead of plugging the Pacemaker straight into a amp, you plug the line out into the input of a your Sonodrome box. The Sonodrome box can be anything you want to build, I really want to build a Flanger Effect box on my first go, something I love playing with when djing but is sadly lacking from the pacemaker right now. Once you attach the output of the Sonodrome box to the Amp your away pretty much. I know you can buy effect peddles which do the same thing but there usually so heavy, made for bands, use external power and look like crap. What I would build would be unfussy, simple and small enough to throw in the bag alongside the pacemaker for live events.
A couple words of warning however.
The Sonodrome box, needs to deliver totally clean sound when not in use, because un/plugging it mid set would be a nightmare. So no amplification at 0 I guess. The Box should aid that feeling of movement, so big fat buttons and the like. They also need to be pretty solid when mounted, as there expected to get quite a lot of abuse.
There’s also some advantages to this type of setup, like taking a 3.5inch stereo jack on the input but having a selectable 5.5inch jack or even a XLR on the output. The projects seem pretty straight easy to follow. The one idea which really interests me a lot is the wiimote one. With bluetooth and a few selectable effects it should be straight forward to farm all the changes to the accelerometers on a wiimote instead. Although I can kind of imagine how it would work, I have no idea how much work it would take, maybe I’d be better asking someone to build it for me and paying them instead. Any takers?
