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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

Host of seraphim, gives me the chills every time

ianforrester — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:48:48 +0000

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…

kristofolof - still gives me the chills every time i listen to it

jnrivers  - When the weight of the world stops you from feeling, listen to this song with a glass of wine and you will feel alive again. The Host of Seraphim is a masterpiece.

ttsmoke  - if i had one wish i would wish to know everything about everything in this universe.

JakotsuTheOne  - sad, disturbing, soul shaking and beautiful.

Emillysilly - I never cry…but this song makes me weep like a child…

morfridor - my body move by its self… like my soul want to come out from my body.

meatballsNspaghetti  - Overwhelming. Something powerful hit my heart, can’t explain just an incredible feeling.

WauZzeWauzZ - to be honest, i got tears in my eyes…it has been a long time that i had tears in my eyes…but i love it this time.

superknuffi1  - this song is amazing.i don’t know how to describe it.I makes us feel sorrow and happiness at the same time……

TheSCOTCHSOLACE  - Music which transcends this world – music from another plane of existence.

You get the idea… Anyway I bought the original tune and the remastered version from Amazon’s Mpeg3 store.

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

Startup your night in the best possible way

ianforrester — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 08:09:32 +0000

#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…?!

A house and trance night like no other…

ianforrester — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:36:20 +0000

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.”

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

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

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 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

Its mid February and I feeling like I should go clubbing soon

ianforrester — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:42:08 +0000

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The lasers are calling me or something… As part of my 2007 resolutions, I said I would go clubbing once a month. Well I'm itching to go clubbing again at Turnmills (damm flash site). The person I would love to hear is M.I.K.E, his tunes are right on the line between Trance and Progressive (perfect for listening to at work). But he's on when I'm up in Scotland (Friday 2nd March) and I'm meant to be in Bristol that weekend
too. So my other option would be to go next weekend (23rd Feb) which has a good line up too with the likes of Tall Paul, Above & Beyond and Rank1.

This will also mean another Dj mix before going out.

So if your interested in joining me on my quest into dance music, drop me a line… (yes Ryan that includes you). But be warned I tend to spend most of my time on the dance floor and I only do caffinated beverages.

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Good night at Turnmills and those Lasers

ianforrester — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 21:42:25 +0000

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Recorded at Turnmills in the Gallery during Ferry Corsten's 4 hour set, Laser
action like I've not seen in a long time.

I had a great time at Turnmills yesterday. The venue is a maze and I wish I'd been to it before. Its not the crazy and some what shabby venue of the Camden Place but its certainly not Fabric. I would compare it to Heaven in style and maze like structure. The Dj booth sits in the middle of the biggest room but only looks out one way. This works well because one end gets very crowded and other side becomes a over-spill. I did briefly look at the other 2 rooms but didn't get a chance to really check them out.

Ferry was on good form playing a good selection of trance from across the board. About 4:30 Ferry dropped into a his tech dance stuff which went down really well. But I got to say the most impressive thing all night was the Laser's.

2 high powered electric cooled multi-spectrum lasers in one room. I mean what more can you ask for? So impressed, I shot a few videos (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7) in high def so I could display the power and intense nature of the lasers.

So generally yes I had a good time and I'll be back next month for another 5+ hours work out on the dance floor.

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A few hours before going clubbing for the first time this year

ianforrester — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 20:18:57 +0000

I'm so excited and I just can't hide it. The plan was to go to sleep for a couple of hours after eating dinner then wake up and get ready to go. However I'm sitting here writing this blog post, playing loud dance music, talking to Sheila on IM and trying to get a hold of Ryan Alexander. Ryan expressed a
interest in coming along tonight but I didn't have him on my twitter list so I missed it all. Anyway, I'm buzzing and I haven't even touched the Redbull yet.

I got a feeling that I might end up doing a quick mix while I'm waiting. There are some banging tunes which I've been listening to a lot recently and their just crying out to be mixed together. I've also been playing with the idea of doing a music dj podcast but I know I'd get sued silly. Anyway, I might provide a voice overlay track to my next mix if I find the time.

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Friday 19th Jan, One night with Ferry Corsten. You up for it?

ianforrester — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 22:01:05 +0000

January 14, 2007 10

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6am

— Ferry Corsten 4 hour set— at The Gallery at Turnmills, Clerkenwell, London

Four hour set from Mr Corsten, supported by Abel Ramos and Gavyn Mytchell

One of the top Dj's in the industry hits London next Friday. In my attempt to get back into clubbing before I get really too old physically to do it all, I'm going.

My only regret is that I'll have no one to share the night with. Most of my friends are into weird music (only learned who the police were a while ago) and won't be interested in going out till 6am. Unless I might be wrong? If your reading this and thinking yeah sounds like a good night then leave a comment or drop me a email. As mentioned on the podcast we just did, I only drink lots of Redbull so I'm legally allowed to drive my scooter home afterwards, which means theres a chance I could drop you home if your
on the way to Woolwich. I also found a nice discount on the ticket price.

Because so many people of the Ferry Corsten forum are going to see Ferry in Turnmills we wanted to do something special! So we can offer a special entrance for just £10. To get your ticked you have to go to THIS special link.
Please put : FINGERS in the Promo code box. Go through the rest of the options and then on the next page it will offer you the £10 ticket.

The last time I went seriously clubbing was in 2005 over in Berlin. My friend Carl was going to come out too, but his girlfriend was ill. So I decided to go alone. Now to be fair I had a flipping wicked night but there were some odd things to get use to in Berlin like getting money back for your glasses at the bar (actually makes a lot of sense). I must have shed like a ton of sweat that night because there were so many good tunes played by the likes of Paul Van Dyk and Tiesto.

The way I currently stay in touch with what's going on in the Trance and Progressive scene is via the member only Bit Torrent site Trance Traffic. Armin Van Buuren's A state of trance show is simply awesome and is a must if your into your trance and progressive music. Without it I wouldn't be currently listening to the classic Intuition
(Martin Roth Classic Style Mix)

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Going nuts for certain tunes while paying 200 pounds for the privilage?

ianforrester — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 23:35:04 +0000

I just had a quick look at my audioscrobbler/last fm rss and noticed i'm listening to the same 3 tunes over and over again. Its not a mistake, its actually me loving these tunes which I stayed up to 2am searching for the other day. I've had them all of 2 days I believe and can not wait to do a mix with these new tunes. What are the tunes, you maybe asking?

FB Featuring Edun – Who's Knocking (Ferry Corsten Rmx)
Gabriel and Dresden feat. Molly – Tracking Treasure Down
Kosmas Epsilon – Innocent Thoughts

They've been on my list for quite some time but finally went actively searching for them on Trancetraffic and found them all there in 320kps Lame encoded Mp3 format. Mighty impressive quality and great tunes which could not be found on iTunes and Allmp3.com.

I simply will not buy music which is DRM'ed, practially Fairplay DRM (what a joke for a name) does not play on my ipaq, mobile phone and certainly not in my Dj application Virtual DJ. I mean why the heck would I buy music from the iTunes store and put up with the fact that I could not mix with it? Insane I tell you. So much for the mix in Apple's Rip Mix and Burn tagline from years ago.

Anyhow talking about Insanity, dance music and mixing. I saw this Digital DJs Unaware of Copyright Law on Slashdot recently.

The BBC reports that if you're a DJ, playing your digital copies of files off a laptop or mp3 player is illegal. The UK royalty collection agency, PPL, demands that such DJs pay £200 for a license in order to do so. From the article, 'Many DJs are still unwittingly breaking the law by playing unlicensed digital copies of tracks months after a new permit scheme began, the BBC has found. This includes legally-purchased downloads, which are normally licensed only for personal use, as well as copies of tracks from records or CDs.

What the heck? Geez this is the kind of thing I hear about in America not in the UK. Going through the comments it seems this headline grabbing story may not be all its craacked up to be. The first informative comment goes like this…

I think the article summary is a touch misleading. My reading was that the public performance of songs whose copyright the DJ doesn't hold is what's illegal, and the £200 is for a licsence that remedies the situation. Nobody is telling anybody they can't play music on their laptops, and I'm sure the submitter didn't intend this, but I think it's important to point out that this only relates to public performance. Additionally, DJs do not need to pay the liscence if they are playing from CD or vinyl.

So this still applies to someone like me it would seem? I don't get it why because its digital I have to pay a license fee on top of all the music I'm playing on my laptop? As someone said, its a specific license tax on just those who utilize digital delivery systems. Some comments which sum up better than myself.

So a DJ can play a CD, but if she plays the same track ripped to an MP3, she has to pay an extra 200 pounds for a license? Where's the sense in that? The US compulsory license scheme actually seems sane by comparison.

Hey you thief, don't you dare be playing my tracks where lots of young impressionable kids will get to listen to them and then afterwards possibly go out to their local DJ shop and buy my records/CDs! Well unless you give me 200 big ones!

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