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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
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
#TranceManc is now transformed and happening…
Starting this Friday (8th July 2011) Arcadia bar will be transformed into a wonderland for House & Trance lovers… We have a licence till 2am in the morning! So do drop in from 8pm and…
Startup your night of bars, clubs and unrestrained debauchery in the best possible way…
Of course you can help us by downloading a flyer and printing it out, tweeting using the hashtag #startupbar or send people a link to the facebook event.
The concept is its a place to start your night although we wouldn’t mind if you want to stay for the cheap drinks and some excellent tunes and mixing in any bar inside Manchester. We’ve hacked the club experience on to the bar experience and ramped it up…
See you all there…?!
When I first moved to Manchester, I hoped to hear more trance… There wasn’t that much in London and to be honest London’s never really been a city for Trance. So with the move, the hope of trance. I mean all those great super clubs such as Gatecrasher, Cream, etc are from around the north of england.
But its not happen… I’ve been to a couple of nights run by Rong… but its gone quiet.
So in my usual way I don’t like to stand by and let it go. Instead I’ve setup my own night at Arcadia on Great Ancoats Street.
Of course its not just me, its Simon Lumb better known as Dirty Si is my partner in crime on this jump into the unknown. I’ve not played out for a while now but a long time ago I use to play regularly in Bristol but running your own night (even a bar night) is something else.
Others DJs are going to join us and we’re looking at going every week… Expect flyers, surprises and a full on promotion soon enough…. Now we just need a name for the night. I’m backing “Startup.”
- 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.
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
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 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
Host of seraphim, gives me the chills every time
I remember listening to The Host of Seraphim by Dead Can Dance, a while ago but I remember listening to it again soon after coming out of hospital last year. I believe I stopped dead when hearing it again during one of my more introspective times.
Then I heard it again while watching the Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole, so I checked out the tune on YouTube, and usually the youtube comments are to be ignored, however this time it was amazing…
You get the idea… Anyway I bought the original tune and the remastered version from Amazon’s Mpeg3 store.