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.
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
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
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.
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
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
Lets mix has launched a new way to upload a mix. Enter a url of a Mp3 and it will grab it and upload it for you. This should be a standard feature on a lot of social sites. The next step would be upload a RSS feed and it would strip any links to mp3s.
What I don’t get is Let’s Mix generally, is it use to be based around the Pacemaker and now the pacemaker seems to have been forgotten. For example when you upload your mix, it gives you the option of where you made the mix. So you got all the usual options like live, virtualdj, pcdj, etc but no pacemaker option.
Let’s mix is a weird place right now, I can’t work out if there trying to replace Soundcloud.com or do something different. They had better sort it out before I have a uploaded library on both.
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
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?
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
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….
The whole thing is a joke I would say, I had pretty much given up to tell the truth. The NGDJ (next generation dj contest) has published a warning that all qualifiers to the contest will be scrutinized.
A quick note regarding the NGDJ Qualifiers: Leading up to the end of NGDJ Stage 1, we will be investigating all Qualifier mixes. Voting patterns related to accounts or mixes which are in breach of the NGDJ Terms and Conditions may lead to any of the following:
– Votes being retracted – Mixes being denoted from Qualifier status – The banning of Letsmix.com accounts
In addition to this we would like to inform you that this procedure might also affect mix rating averages and vote totals. All decisions and results following this investigation are final.
Voting issues, why? This is part of the problem,
For the stage 1
The NGDJ eligibility period will begin December 15th 2009 and will end on January 31st 2010, after which Stage 1 (“NGDJ Qualifiers Eligibility Period”) ends. To register and compete in NGDJ, visit http://www.letsmix.com and fully complete all required fields on the online registration form, and proceed to upload your DJ mix. Spread your NGDJ submission widely; you must gain a minimum of 200 ratings to be deemed a qualifier. The top one hundred qualifiers will then be determined by their average mix rating to remain in contest as Stage 2 commences.
Basically if you browse around the current qualifiers for the contest, you will find many examples of mixes which have something like 206 votes but only 60 actual listens. Go figure, obviously something is going on. What bugs me is that the legitimate mixes like mine (80 listens and 62 votes of a average of 4.8 out of 5) are going to lose out simply because I didn’t cheat like everyone else.
I don’t know why you didn’t make another voting procedure. My idea: 1. The vote button to be enabled only after the mix was listened at least 30 min 2. The rate of the mix to be shown only after the vote was placed. 3. The competitors shouldn’t be able to vote other mixes. The actual situation is not very good cause some of the “djs” here are not acquainted with the term FAIR PLAY and are not open minded. 4. The owner of the mix should be able to see a review of the votes he received on each day (how much stars has each vote).
I decided to go with the straight forward trance mix after listening to both this one and the previously mentioned created one. I just found myself turning up the volume after almost every single track, so I rethought the whole idea of putting in something a little lesss trancy. It all went out the window once I heard it. I promise to upload the other one to soundcloud later.
Its 11am and the snow is falling on the cold streets of the inner city. Its too cold to go out and if you listen carefully there’s the sound of snow falling on the trendy rooftops of Manchester.Then for a moment a hint of sunlight from beyond the clouds. Before long, the sun is out but its still snowing.
Its warm enough on the balcony to do a pacemaker mix, this mix. Its a uplifting celebration of the last few years of Trance.
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
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 soundcloudvery soon, just need to edit it a little because the pacemaker didn’t record the first mix correctly (again!).
Next Generation DJ is a competition bought to you by internationally renowned dance music brands Pioneer, Beatport, DJ Magazine and LetsMix.com. It is set to be the biggest and most wide reaching DJ contest of all time. And we don't use these words lightly…
We’re setting out to discover and launch the next superstar DJ, and it’s all taking place on the world’s fastest growing mix platform, letsmix.com.
So I'll be entering this one for sure. Once I sort out Virtualbox again with the pacemaker hardware, i'll start mixing up even more mixes that ever before. I got a massive back log of mixing to do. I had considered uploading one of my previous mixes. But the way the competition sounds, everyone will be doing plenty of post editing to increase the impact of the mixes.
