I was able to rescue one of my mixes from a flight from Helsinki. Its a little rough and ready in parts but theres some excellent tunes and mixes. This one needed a lot of work because the crossfader was in the wrong place for critical parts of the mix.
At just under 2 hours it certainly a long musical ride into trance
Enjoy!
Empty Cities, Dead Ghosts – Fictious Riceboy
Big Sky (Agnelli & Nelson Remix) – John O’Callaghan Feat. Audrey
Gallagher
Bulgarian (Signum remix) – Travel
Hello (Jerome Isma-Ae remix) – Above & Beyond
J’ai Envie De Toi (protoculture remix) – Armin Van Buuren presents Gaia
The Oblivious – Muhamed Sherief & WAAJII
Journey (extended mix) – Iversoon vs. Alex Daf vs. Glus
October winds (deep care november mix) – Six Senses pres Electric Nova
Labyrinth (Paul Keyen remix) – Lee Cassells
Please Save Me (Push Remix) – Sunscreem Vs Push
Love stimulation (Pvd love club mix) – Humante
Resound (Original Mix) – Thomas Bronzwaer
Shadow World (Original Mix) – Thomas Bronzwaer
Refused – Mark Sixma & Jerome isma-Ae
Rapid eye (R.E mix) – Circa Forever
Orange sky – Signalrunners presents Syndica
The Pride in Your Eyes (Martin Roth Remix) – Tillmann Uhrmacher
My last mix from Skopje and its a long one with lots of cool tunes. Recorded while in Skopje but I had to piece the mix together as it was in 2 pieces after my pacemakerdevice battery ran out. Suspend doesn’t last as long as I was expecting it seems.
The mix has beatmatching flaws but mainly due to loud noises while walking about. Generally its varied mix and well worth listening to with some old and new tunes mixed together.
Enjoy!
Echoes (FloE edit) – Andski
Beauty hides in the deep (John O’Callaghan remix) – The Doppler effect
Gaurtlet – DNSProject
Heal – Electrique Boutique
J’ai Envie De Toi (Protoculture remix) – Armin Van Buuren pre Gaia
Labyrinth (Paul Keyen remix) – Lee Cassells
Kalopsia (Monogato’s Filth remix) – The Bizzard
One little arab – Matt Darey
Massive Motion – M.I.K.E
Opium – Jerome Isma-Ae & Alastor
Into the Danger (M.I.K.E remix) – M.I.K.E vs Andrew Bennett
Prosac – Dj Tomcraft
Kinetic 99 (Commies full edit mix) – Golden girls
Rewind (Mikkas Remix) – Emma Hewitt
The Oblivious – Muhamed Sherief & WAAJII
Whites of her eyes – Simon Patterson
Running up the that hill – Markus Schulz Presents Dakota Featuring Bev Wild
Really enjoyed this mix, which was recorded while walking around Dublin one day. It includes quite a few familar tunes and some completely new ones. I found a lot of street art in Dublin including the house with “Don’t be afraid” written on the side.
All recorded on the Pacemaker Device as usual but I did need to make a few tweaks to fix the pauses as I walked around and crossed roads, tram tracks, etc. Let me know what you think on Mixcloud.
Another strange mix of trance from across the spectrum of trance. Recorded from Skopje (SKP) to Berlin (SXF) recently, I tried to pick a few different tunes but also double down on the obvious as I do currently love that tune. Sound levels are not idea along with some of the mixes but a good mix generally.
I have another mix from Skopje to come but that might take some time to upload. Till then sitback, ensure your seat belts are fasten and enjoy the smooth Skopje jetstream.
Love (Vocal mix) – DJ Eco Feat Lira Yin
Solarcoaster (Protoculture remix) – Solarstone
The Obvious – Muhamed Sherief & WAAJII
The Situation (Liquid life remix) – A Situation
Please save me (push remix) – Sunscream Vs Push
Tears (Protoculture remix) – Markus Schulz presents Dakota
Perpertual Motion – Protoculure
Take me away in the night (purple haze remix) – 4 Strings
Torrent – Dave 202
Winter Falls – Calgar C
Time of Our lives (Paul Van Dyk club mix) – Paul Van Dyk
Underlying feeling (Adam K & Soha Club mix) – Sylvia Tosun
The Obvious – Muhamed Sherief & WAAJII
Barcelona (Gene Xander remix) – Addictive Glance
In and Out of Love – Armin Van Buuren feat Sharon den Adel
Humming the lights – Armin van Buuren presents Gaia
Its rare when I get the opportunity to Dj on a big stage in front of a crowd live but I certainly do enjoy it. This time it was live from British Council’s PlayUK 2018 in Skopje Macedonia. Someone couldn’t make it and I said well if you need a DJ I’m totally up for it.
Very enjoyable, shame I didn’t have longer and I started mixing during the sound test meaning I didn’t hit record. I did consider hitting stop and then hitting record but people were dancing and well the mix was pretty simple.
On the first night of the holiday in Barcelona, we were hit by something of a biblical thunderstorm. It was super humid, so its hardly surprising.
Experiencing almost biblical thunderstorms in Barcelona tonight. It's quite incredible how regular the lightening is and dense the rain fall
— Ian Forrester | cubicgarden@mastodon@cloud (@cubicgarden) September 6, 2018
There is a video but it was so rainy you can’t really see much, so got the Pacemaker out and started mixing late at night. The mix was much longer but I had to cut it back due to some very dodgy mixing as I likely started to fall a sleep.
Another Pacemaker device mix from Finland, this time a lot longer and a lot less polished but its got a certain charm which I quite enjoy. Note the Helsinki scorching remixes, as it would be rude not to play it in Helsinki. Theres quite a few classics in this mix and they still sound good.
Enjoy!
Love Stimulation (PvD love club mix) – Humate
Intruder – Armin vs MIKE
My Beat (Jan Driver mix) – Blaze
Opium – Jerome Isma-Ae & Alastor
Reflection (Extended mix) – Ferry Corsten
Mass Noise 2015 – Fred Baker & Seb B
Running up the hill (Jerome isma-ae bootleg) – Placebo
Helsinki Scorching – Super8 vs Dj Tab
Ligaya (Hiver & hammer remix) – Gouryella
Circles – Robert Nickson
Against the Flow (Astuni & Manuel Le Saux Extended relift) – Stine Grove
Madagascar (Ferry Corsten mix) – Art of Trance
Delores – Indecent noise
Out of the Blue – System F
Everythings been written – 8 Wonders
Imagineer (Alex M.O.R.P.H remix) – Lange
Gouryella (Extended mix) – Gouryella
Without you (Dogzilla dub mix) – Dogzilla
Helsinki Scorching (Alex Morph remix) – Super8 vs Dj Tab
This pacemaker device mix is done during a very busy train ride to the Edinburgh fridge festival. Its a long one at 1 hour 52 minutes, certainly not the longest I have mixed but its a good one. The mix is full of tunes, which I don’t normally play or if they are the alternative mix (b-side)
Its been a while since I uploaded a new pacemaker mix, mainly because I have been so busy and also listening to a bunch of new trance tunes. This was recorded on the way back from York on a train recently.
Of course, any reason to do a good mix while taking planes and trains over the last month. I did this one while sat in Helsinki Airport but made a bit of a mistake with the crossfader which meant doing it again.
@coldclimate expect one hell of a mix from all this time I'm hanging around Helisinki and Munich airports
The mix is a weird of mix trance and dub steppy type tunes. I kind thought of Oli tearing up the road on a summers day. So theres moments of uplifting trance alongside some of dirty dub step. I’ve been playing it while riding around on the scooter and it great.
I mentioned in my trance set from July, that I had recorded two trance sets; and was deciding which one I preferred. The full’on classic trance set won out but I wanted to share the alternative one too. It pretty raw and short but I quite like it, especially since I love out of the blue by system F so much that it was played twice!
Remix culture, sometimes read-write culture, is a society that allows and encourages derivative works by combining or editing existing materials to produce a new product. A remix culture would be, by default, permissive of efforts to improve upon, change, integrate, or otherwise remix the work of copyright holder
My personal thoughts are, DJ culture was new exciting and things were moving and changing all the time. We had vinyl, record players and mixers. But people were innovating and doing new things on top of that. Then the technology changed from spinning discs (Vinyl, CDs heck even Minidisc if you must) to Solid State/Digital. There was a lot of push back and there still is… But you can’t stop the future.
However we adopted the digital methods to do exactly the same thing. You can see this in the vast amount of digital dj tools, 2 decks and a mixer. Skeuomorphism hell! And it needs to die! Because a good 20 years after the first Mp3 dj software (virtual turntables by Carrot innovations). The interface, method and general approch is exactly the same.
2 decks and a mixer (kinda) – 19962 decks and a mixer with extras – 2016
That’s more than half my life time! That has to be some kind of a joke!
Ok under the hood things have changed but not far enough and wheres the distruptive changes? The DJ world still seems to be stressing out about auto BPM? Its happened get over it. For a whole culture built on innovation and creativity, it seems highly ironic?
But this was just scratching the surface of a much larger problem with DJ/Remix culture. I put together some slides which horrible to read back through as they are 5 years old, but its been super useful when talking to people and companies about what DJ hackday could be about. It was due an update and thankfully I can finally tick this off my list.
The 1% rule is a rule of thumb pertaining to participation in an internet community, stating that only 1% of the users of a website actively create new content, while the other 99% of the participants only lurk. Variants include the 1-9-90 rule (sometimes 90–9–1 principle or the 89:10:1 ratio), which states that in a collaborative website such as a wiki, 90% of the participants of a community only view content, 9% of the participants edit content, and 1% of the participants actively create new content.
In the case of DJ hackday; out of 100 people…
90 will be consumer (lurkers/watchers)
1% will be makers (creators)
9% will be remixers (editors)
Music hackday cators for the 1% and of course moving remixers and consumers into makers. DJ hackday is moving consumers and makers into remixers. Its a very viable area with plenty of people doing interesting great things already. Everyone we have spoke over the last 5 years have gotten the concept and really want to see it become a real things now.
Myself and Simon have started a Lanyrd page to start building support and getting more people interest. Its also one of Mozilla Festival’s Fridge events, which is fantastic as it shows the progession from its small prototype to a full blown event and Mozilla are always a supporter of remix cultures.
Capitalising on the recent interest in the Get Down on Netflix, which sums up a bit of why DJ/Remix culture is important. I created some simple teaser posters. Expect a proper poster in near future but right now, its about getting the word out. And we’re really targetting those who never thought of themselves as DJs or participating in remix culture. People like you!
As the year counts down towards Winter, I’ll be looking for people to help and other companies to join the DJ Hack. We already have some great names (tbc) and starting to sort out venues for the night events. Of course we already have the MMU Shed for the main hack which is a great space for a hackday. The actual hack dates are Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th January, with a social event on the Friday 13th January and post hackday party on Sunday evening somewhere we can try out some of the hacks.
If you are interested in helping out on the day, know a great venue, like to support in some way, set a challenge or want to come help organise it. Get in touch…
Feel free to ping myself a tweet or drop a message via email, my contact form, comment, etc… I’m quite easy to get hold of.
