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The late night mixes

ianforrester — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 18:19:03 +0000

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…

Late_night_intruder_mix by Cubicgarden on Mixcloud

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

Imagine if you could remix books?

ianforrester — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:06:26 +0000

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…!

The Satisfaction Zero mix

ianforrester — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:11:46 +0000

The satisfaction zero mix by Cubicgarden on Mixcloud

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

The White Space Conflict mix

ianforrester — Fri, 06 May 2011 23:00:48 +0000

The Whitespace Conflict Mix by Cubicgarden on Mixcloud

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…

An appetite for disruption mix

ianforrester — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 21:52:17 +0000

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.

An Appetite For Distruption Mix by Cubicgarden on Mixcloud

Hacking the Pacemaker (progress)

ianforrester — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 22:51:39 +0000

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

ianforrester — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 01:32:51 +0000

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

ianforrester — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 16:21:05 +0000

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

ianforrester — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:54:42 +0000

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

Crowd sourced a mix

ianforrester — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:38:53 +0000

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 – Hospital mix

ianforrester — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:40:27 +0000

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

One of the mixes while I was in Hospital – outta of hope mix

ianforrester — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 23:19:03 +0000

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

iPad Dj Application?

ianforrester — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:26:52 +0000

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

ianforrester — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:02:28 +0000

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

Pacemaker + Sonodrome devices better explained

ianforrester — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:41:35 +0000

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?

Here comes the sunshine mix

ianforrester — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:30:56 +0000

Here comes the sunshine mix by cubicgarden

Its been a long time since I’ve done a mix worthy of publishing, don’t get me wrong I’ve been playing with the pacemaker quite a bit but they have been quite short and of varity of quality. So this is the big one, almost 2 hours of pure trance, just in time for Spring and the sunshine. Playlist to follow….

Lift – Sean Tyas
Key of Life (Marlo remix) – Ohmna Featuring Nurlaila
The Legacy (alphazone mix) – Saltwater
Constellation (john o’callaghan remix) – Thomas Bronzwaer
The Labyrinth (part one) – Moogwai
Maybe next time – Robert Nickson
The Legacy (club mix) – Push
Certitude – Thomas Bronzwaer
Rewire – Robert Nickson & Daniel Kandi
RAMsterdam (Jornvan Deynhoven Remix) – RAM
Intuition (Martin Roth Remix) – Marninx Pres Ecco
1999 (Gouryella mix) – Binary Finary
Off the World (Large Remix) – Martin Roth and Alex Bartlett
What it feel like for a girl (Dj Duane Thamms extended dance video remix) – Madonna
Invisible Touch (Ferry Corsten’s Touch) – Bobina
Save Me – Airwave
Beautiful Thing (Photon project remix) – Andain
Shadow World – Thomas Bronzwaer
Blinding Truth – Elevation
Out of the Blue 2010 – System F
Barber Adagio for Strings (Ferry Corsten mix) – William Orbit

The Essential Mixes

ianforrester — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:27:23 +0000

Essentialmixes.net is a website where you can stream, download, view tracklists and rate every Radio 1 essential mix since it began in 1993. Wow, but its not flawless.

There are so many amazing mixes on the site… One which takes me right back is Force & Styles mix from 1997. Just check out the playlist from this sweet mix. The only tune missing is the Eyeopener by Dj Brisk.

Force & Styles – “Paradise & Dreams” (Diverse)
Force & Styles – “Apollo 13 Pt II” (UK Dance)
Bang The Future – “Body Slam” (GBT)
Force & Styles – “Cuttin’ Deep” (Diverse Recordings)
DJ Quatro – “Musical Mayhem” (HecTec)
Sy & Bunter – “Connect Your Step” (GBT)
Sy & Demo – “Love & Devotion” (Quosh)
DJ Stompy – “Body Rock” (Hectic)
JDS – “Higher Love” (Stompin’ Choonz)
DJ Eruption – “Don’t You Want Me” (United Dance)
Demo
Ham & Time – “Here I Am” (Jal Premium)
Ramos & Supreme – “Gotta Believe” (Hectic Rewinds)
Hixxy & Bananaman – “Together Forever” (Essential Platinum)
DJ Eruption – “Let The Music” (United Dance)
Force & Styles – “Pretty Green Eyes” (UK Dance)
Force & Styles – “Your Love” (Happy Trax)
Bang – “Cloudy Daze” (Next Generation)
Force & Styles – “Shining Down” (UK Dance)
DJ Demo – “Your Mine” (Universal)
Slipmatt & Eruption – “Sunshine” (First Recordings)
Billy Bunter – “Untitled” (GBT)
DJ Eruption – “Reach Out” (United Dance)
DJ Vinyl Groover – “It Doesn’t Have To Be” (Hectic Rewinds)
DJ Vinyl Groover – “Time After Time” (Obsession)

The site its self is pretty impressive, it really celebrates the dj and the amazing mixes which is good thing. So I went to register and found out, registration actually costs money up front which is a bit cheeky, yes its only 2 pounds 50 but there should be a option to sign up without paying. Then if you want to download, you have to pay. There’s also no clear indication what kind of downloads will be available. I can’t actually tell if the downloads are mp3′s, ogg vorbis or something drm’ed like AAC/WMA?

Reading people tweets, there seems to be a lot of problems downloading mixes, so maybe they should adopt some kind of P2P system like bit torrent to ease the bandwidth problems there having. Something like P2Pnext would be perfect for this setup. Finally, it would be great to have a API or at least RSS feeds.

I’m sure someone is already writing a script/app for this site to go into XBMC/Boxee/other devices, if there not – I might just do it myself.

System F remix competition

ianforrester — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:59:09 +0000

To be fair the last thing I really want to do is enter another competition after the sheer Mess O’Potamia of the Lets Mix Next Generation DJ contest, I’m not so sure I really want to enter another, but remixing a range of System F/Ferry Corsten’s tunes is too tempting.

Back in 1999, System F’s ‘Out Of The Blue’ redefined trance music for a new generation. Ferry Corsten’s synth-laden classic destroyed dancefloors across the planet and became a worldwide chart hit, beginning one of the most successful careers in dance music for the Dutch maestro. 11 years on, the track is being re-released with a host of new mixes from Tiësto, Hi_Tack, Laidback Luke, Rafaël Frost, Giuseppe Ottaviani, Koen Groeneveld, Showtek and others!

To celebrate, Ferry Corsten in association with Trackitdown.net and Copa Football, has launched FC System F – the chance to become part of the greatest team in trance history! By entering the competition, users are able to remix highlights from the System F back catalogue. To kick things off, Tiësto, Laidback Luke and the above have already remixed ‘Out Of The Blue’, but there are 10 further original tracks presented in the line-up, all waiting for the remix treatment from a new star player.

Starting weekly from February 2nd, Ferry will post the original parts of a System F track on the website. After agreeing to the Terms & Conditions and registering, fans will be able to download the parts for free, and have 3 weeks to send in their remix via a download link to team@fcsystem.com

Wonder if I can use LMMS for remixing these tracks once their available?

The sound of snow falling in sunshine mix

ianforrester — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:01:23 +0000

The sound of snow falling in sunshine mix by cubicgarden

This is the mix I used for the Next Generation DJ contest. I lot of people asked if they could listen to it without Flash, and I had to said no simply because I had to get as many listeners and votes on the contest site as possible. Now Stage one is all but over, its very unlikely that my mix will make it to the second stage due to lack of votes (needed at least 200) I can open the mix up on Soundcloud for people to download and listen to away from the site.

Anyhow, I’ve already had my say on the contest rules and cheating which was going on. There’s also suggestions that music genres outside of House and Techno were/would have been voted down in the end because the contest involves djing live at a famous house arena….

But enough, check out the mix on Soundcloud and if you still feel like voting for it, its still available till 3rd Feb here.

The running order is the same as before of course

Sinister – Airbase
Constellation (john O callaghan remix – Thomas Bronzwaer
Summer Melodies (Frequence remix) – Frequence
Bulgarian (Signum Remix) – Travel
Beauty hides in the deep (john O callaghan remix) – The Doppler effect
Shadow World – Thomas Bronzwaer
Serenity (alphazone remix) – saltwater
Rewire – Robert Nickson & Daniel Kandi
Key of life (Marlo remix) – Ohmna featuring Nurlaila
Attention (steve birch remix) – John 00 Fleming vs Christopher Lawrence
She wants him – Moussa Clarke & Terrafunka
Into the danger (M.I.K.E remix) – M.I.K.E vs Andrew Bennett
Certitude – Thomas Bronzwaer
Ultra Curve – Cosmic gate
It’s the beat – Simians mobile disco

Is this a competition winning mix?

ianforrester — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:29:24 +0000

I’ve been thinking about the mix for the mix competition and decided to do a more upbeat tech electro mix instead of trance. I’ll post it on soundcloud ~~very soon, just need to edit it a little because the pacemaker didn’t record the first mix correctly (again!).~~

Break dance to this mix by cubicgarden

Where’s your head at (Stanton Warriors Remix) – Basement Jaxx
Hustler – Simians mobile disco
Shifter – Timo Maas
Wooden – Simians mobile disco
Roundabout – Sam Sharp
One for you (Oliver Klien)
Shnorkel (original mix) – Miki Litvak and Ido Ophir
Its the beat – Simians mobile disco
Higher state of consciousness (dirty south version) – Josh wink
Tits and Acid – Simians mobile disco
Verdi (the others) – mauro picotto
Grasshopper (raw version) – Sander Van Doorn
Communication (more) – Mario Piu
Friday (trentemoller remix) – Fred Everything and 20 for 7
Rheninkraft (extended version) – Oliver Klein
Prosac – Dj Tomcraft
Sleep Deprivation – Simian mobile disco

What do you think? Shall I submit this one or stick to the trance?