Tag: pacemakerdevice

Terminal velocity unhindered by dark clouds mix

Flying high into dark stormy clouds with KLM

I flew to Amsterdam and travelled around the Netherlands via trains recently. As usual I started a new mix slowly building on it with new tunes as I went around the Netherlands. There are quite a few new tunes added but the final mix was done on a KLM flight back to Manchester.

During that flight, a flight assistant asked me about the Pacemaker device. Its not the first and won’t be the last, as I have had not only flight assistants but even fellow passengers ask about it. I still remember when a KLM flight assistant mistaken the Pacemaker device for a walkie talkie? Honestly our conversation was really good, and who knows maybe she will read this and have a smile on her face.

Also reminds me I need to have cards just for Digital Italic and my mixes (Moo cards I got a order for you!)

Anyway about the mix… This long worded mix is longer than usual but keeps the pace of about 140bpm. This mix is a real back and forth with some vocal trance alongside tech trance. I have been listening to this mix quite a lot since coming back and still find it great.

Finally I’m finding a bit more time to fix parts of my setup, but for now my mixes exists on Peertube only.

Enjoy this mix and play it loud!

00:00:00 – Witness – Baced! vs Aces delight

00:04:16 – Lost in you (Extended mix) – Scorz feat Adriana Stone
00:08:50 – Sequence (Extended mix) – Estiva
00:13:53 – Marama (Moon & Stars) – Ferry Corsten presents Gouryella feat Saskia Lie Atjam
00:18:41 – Tell nobody – Basil O’Glue
00:26:41 – Decade (extended) – Chris Element
00:31:02 – Arist of your life (Extended mix) – London & Niko
00:36:37 – Brute (Extended mix) – Ferry Corsten and Armin Van Buuren
00:42:38 – Massive motion – M.I.K.E
00:47:27 – Mission – Basil O’Glue & Nomas
00:50:42 – Dark side of the moon (RYDEX extended remix) – Susana
00:54:21 – Energy crash (Extended mix) – Maarten De Jong

A Storm in a french grapevine pacemaker device mix

A french field of grapevines

Recently I found myself in rural southern France and of course, my Pacemaker device and headphones came with me. It was weird being surrounded by nothing but grapevines. Certainly wine country.

I took a nice shot with a very rare dark sky. With a bit of tweaking, you got the cover for a storm in a french grapevine.

The tunes are certainly not safe for work, and I just doubled down on the nsfw tunes with a uplift in bpm too. I do like mix, its got a good selection of old and new mixed together. Considered going longer but it didn’t need more.

My Yunohost is a bit broken still, so its only on my Peertube channel right now.  Remember to enable Sensitive content in the filter to see it in the list of mixes.

Enjoy the mix

 

00:00:00 – Fcuking Society (Olav Basoski Mix) – Ellrich & Plaice
00:02:27 – Awesome – Mario Piu
00:05:46 – Answering machine (album version) – Green Velvet
00:11:38 – Erase – Brooks Aleksander
00:15:08 – Tell nobody – Basil O’Glue
00:18:27 – Shnorkel (Thankyou City Remix) – Ido Ophir, Miki Litvak
00:22:07 – Inferno (Space 92 Remix) – Carl Cox & Reinier Zonneveld & Christopher Coe
00:25:10 – Massive motion – M.I.K.E
00:30:22 – We Ain’t Ever Coming Down (Jody 6 Extended Remix) – Antonio Moreno
00:34:46 – Why does my heart feel so bad? (System F mix) – Moby

The Aerodynamic connection mix

On my last trip to Europe, I flew to Amsterdam to get a train to Brussels and flew back from the awful Brussels South airport. I won’t be doing that again if I can help it. During that time I got time to another Pacemaker device mix. The self hosted mixing site is still broken, its a thing I am trying to fix as its a bigger problem with Yunohost and the bookworm update. So its peertube again. (I noticed the mix points links include the domain, which means I can add them here too)

Recorded in two parts on a plane and on the coach to the airport, then stitched together because of the short flight and being bounced around on the Flibco bus. This mix has a lot of the tunes I’m loving at the moment but also a bit of throw back too. It truly is a mix across 2 different countries.

Enjoy the mix and see if you can work out which half is Dutch and Belgian?

  1. 00:00:00 – You got the love (Sonny Noto remix) – Florence + The machine
  2. 00:04:10 – 9910 (extended mix) – Orjan Nelsen
  3. 00:08:06 – Wonder of life (F&W remix) – Tukan
  4. 00:12:56 – Killer Instinct – Sneijder & Bryan Kearney
  5. 00:19:22 – Exactly -John O’Callaghan & Kearney
  6. 00:23:03 – Surga (extended mix) – Ferry Corsten presents Gouryella
  7. 00:26:45 -Tell nobody – Basil O’Glue
  8. 00:30:26 – Cut and Run feat Emma lock – Beat Service and Emma Lock
  9. 00:36:50 – Interstellar (YORK’s back in time extended mix) – Torsten Stenzel
  10. 00:41:40 – Never be the same again (wavetraxx extended mix) – Jaron Inc. & Wavetraxx
  11. 00:45:00 – We Ain’t Ever Coming Down (Jody 6 Extended Remix) – Antonio Moreno
  12. 00:49:40 – Artist of your life (extended mix) – London & Niko
  13. 00:56:31 – Higher state – Kevin Crowley

Delirium and encounter at the Berlin watergate mix

I mentioned in the last post which was another mix. I have been out and about quite a lot, with time for creating more mixes. My self hosted mixing site is a little broken at the moment, so I’m relying on peertube again.

This mix was recorded as you can guess in Berlin during Republica in late May. I had some time before heading back to the UK and decided Berlin needed something a little lighter from the previous ones I did on the Berlin ring.

Walking across Oberbaumbrücke, I was reminded of my time at Watergate club in the early 00’s, which is now closed down. This mix is a combination of tunes, starting dark and moving into something lighter. Delirium and encounter is certainly something I experienced at Watergate and many of the other clubs in Berlin.

Credit to the excellent picture of Oberbaumbrücke used under CC-BY-NC use.

Enjoy the mix and imagine dancing in Watergate looking out across the spree to Kreuzburg

  1. Arrival – ANU
  2. Shnorkel (Thankyou City Remix) – Ido Ophir, Miki Litvak
  3. Wrist Block (Joey Beltram remix) – Side Four
  4. Sequence (Extended mix) – Estiva
  5. The Decent – Protoculture
  6. Collider (Jorn van Deynhoven remix) – Thomas Bronzwaer
  7. Inferno – Carl Cox
  8. Shadow World – Thomas Bronzwaer
  9. Decade (extended mix) – Chris Element
  10. She moves (extended mix) – Andy Moor Ft. Carrie Skipper
  11. Megalodon – MaRLo

Deutschland industrial fly over mix

I have been out and about quite a lot, which means time for creating mixes on the pacemaker device. My self hosted mixing site is a little broken at the moment.

However I have shared the mix on peertube. This one was recorded on my flight from Bremen earlier in May. I quite liked Bremen, but like Hamburg but still not Berlin. However I enjoyed the sunshine on the industrial backdrop. The view outside the plane was stark too, just like the start of this mix.

This is a mix I have been listening to most of the month but finally got time to put together the art work and a bit of clean up in the editor.

Enjoy the mix and play it loud!

  1. Emotions of colour (Extended mix) – Cosmic Gate & Gid Sedgwick
  2. Tell nobody – Basil O’Glue
  3. SOS (message in a bottle Sander van Doorm remix) – The Police
  4. Tears (Protoculture remix) – Markus Schulz pres. Dakota
  5. Kollera – Dusty Kid
  6. Floyd (extended mix) – Jerome Isma-Ae & Alastor
  7. Fallen (Gabriel & Dresden’s anti-gravity remix) – Sarah McLachlan
  8. Language (Sand Nino dub) – Bennett & Hammer
  9. Killer Instinct – Sneijder & Bryan Kearney
  10. The Girl With Her Head In The Clouds (Ellie’s Song) (Extended Mix) – Factor B

Freedom frequency in the Netherlands mix

Looking out the window of a flight at the Netherlands

I started this mix following the one in Malta, It’s been kicking around on my phone for a while but didn’t sound quite right. With my flight from Amsterdam I got time to redo it and decided on the fly to give it more tunes, which just worked.

I use freedom, as its my first mix now being free from the BBC and although nervous, gives me a lot of freedom which I’m starting to fully understand. I feel like I’m on a different frequency.

This was done during the flight and slightly edited at the end because the air pressure in my ears made it more difficult to hear the mix fully. I won’t lie this mix kicks and is full of highs and deep tunes, hope you enjoy it too.

Enjoy on Peertube or my own mixgarden

  1. Gouryella (Alan Fitzpatrick Tribute to ’99 extended remix) – Gouryella & Ferry Corsten
  2. Aluminium (Extended Mix) – Robert Nickson
  3. Fade To Grey (Moreno J Remix) – Visage
  4. Inferno – Carl Cox
  5. Seven Cities (V-One’s Living Cities Remix) – Solarstone
  6. Killer Instinct (Original Mix) – Sneijder & Bryan Kearney
  7. Erase – Brooks Aleksander
  8. Whites Of Her Eyes (Original Mix) – Simon Patterson
  9. Inferno (Space 92 remix) – Carl Cox
  10. Emotions Of Colour (Extended Mix) – Cosmic Gate
  11. Tell Nobody – Basil O’Glue
  12. Floyd (extended mix) – Jerome Isma-Ae & Alastor
  13. The Girl With Her Head In The Clouds (Ellie’s Song) (Extended Mix) – Factor B
  14. Adagio In G Minor (Extended Mix) – DIM3NSION
  15. Outlaw (extended mix) – Fatum

Discover the truth about Malta (Tell no one) mix

Beautiful darken sky looking out from Malta
The truth of Malta

I recently dropped one of Pacemaker devices while in Malta but I was able to get a mix off it before it stopped. While on the plane I created a couple of mixes. This is a early version of a longer version I did later in the flight. Originally I did think about recreating it once I got back to the UK with the last working Pacemaker device, I decided it just needs to be as it is, and maybe one day I’ll try and recreate the ending.

There are certainly some crossfader mistakes or changes I would do instead but I did enjoy this mix. Hopefully you will all enjoy this shorten mix complete with a series of new tunes

Enjoy!

Listen on peertube or on my personal mixgarden.

The tunes used…

  1. Invada (S.H.O.K.K. Extended Remix) – Binary Finary
  2. We Ain’t Ever Coming Down (Jody 6 Extended Remix) – Antonio Moreno
  3. Tell Nobody – Basil O’Glue
  4. Fiction (Extended Mix) – Jerome Isma-Ae & Alastor
  5. Silence (Jerome Isma-Ae Extended Remix) – D-Nox, Baya, LENN V
  6. Artist Of Your Life (Extended Mix) – London & Niko
  7. Do You Feel (Extended mix) – Atleha
  8. The Girl With Her Head In The Clouds (Extended Mix) – Factor B
  9. Interstellar (YORK’s Back In Time Extended Mix) – Torsten Stenzel
  10. Brute – Ferry Corsten vs. Armin van Buuren

Never fading to grey mix

Man standing on a platform in the distance as a storm gathers around him
One man on a lonely platform

I recently got some new tunes mainly for the party mix I last shared. While checking out a number of new tunes, I discovered the amazing Tell nobody by Basil O’Glue and instantly thought this driving tune is tech trance at its best. I needed to mix it along side Follow Me (Jerome Isma-Ae Extended Remix) by Jam & Spoon.

Of course Tell nobody is just one of a few new tunes in this mix, expect them to pop in future mix for sure.

I recorded this mix on a very long train journey in the UK and it includes all the subtle crossfader mistakes. However this is one heck of a mix and it will get much better as I learn the new tunes.

Enjoy!

Listen on peertube or on my personal mixgarden.

The tunes used…

  1. Fade To Grey (Moreno J Remix) – Visage
  2. Rhienkraft (Full original mix) – Oliver Klien
  3. Melodemon (Extended Mix) – Mrphlindr
  4. Turkish Bizarre (DBA Remix) – Art Of Trance vs POB
  5. Tell Nobody – Basil O’Glue
  6. Running up the hill (Jerome isma-ae bootleg) – Placebo
  7. Follow Me (Jerome Isma-Ae Extended Remix) – Jam & Spoon
  8. Aluminium (Extended Mix) – Robert Nickson
  9. Tears (Protoculture Remix) – Dakota
  10. Theme For Great Cities (Revisited & Extended Mix) – Paul Oakenfold
  11. Energy Crash (Extended Mix) – Maarten de Jong
  12. Interstellar (YORK’s Back In Time Extended Mix) – Torsten Stenzel
  13. You’ve Got The love (Sonny Noto Remix) – Florence + The Machine
  14. Anahera (extended mix) – Ferry Corsten presents Gouryella

Is DriftDJ the new Pacemakerdevice?

Its my good friend Si who sent me a message saying simply this…

Pacemaker for the next generation?

Drift DJ

Of course I checked it out and thought wow its almost exactly what I’ve been thinking about since the Pacemaker system has come to an end. Although the Pacemaker device (to which I have 3 or them) keeps going with some repairs and 3rd party upgrades.

Djing live with the Pacemaker device at EMF Camp 2022
Djing live with the Pacemaker device at EMF Camp 2022

I still love the Pacemaker device and its survived a long time but its reaching its end of life. There is only so much you can do without being able to hack around with the kernel or change the hardware. Its been a incredible piece of hardware and my bet on it in 2007 was absolutely the right decision.

Mixing live in Skopje

17 years later and over 500+ mixes later, including live performances and a ton of house parties. Its time make the jump? My only issue with the DriftDJ is the device doesn’t exactly exist right now. I did sign up for the beta programme, but not being in Chicago might be a big disadvantage?

Who knows it would be great to get my hands on it and see how far it could go? Be great to do a #DjHack around a new device!

Midsummers nights beach dream mix

A midsummers evening beach in the UK

I have been listening to my latest set of mixes and there is a selection of tunes which has gotten me rewinding and playing out loud. With this, I decided to create a mix using just those tunes with a few tweaks and some reordering. All done on the Pacemaker device as usual.

Planned and recorded while on holiday on the beach in the UK. Listen on peertube or in full quality on my mixgarden.

Turn it up loud!

The playlist…

  1. Sacrosanct (Extended Mix) – Mark Sherry
  2. Stresstest (John Askew Remix) – John O’callaghan
  3. Killer Instinct – Sneijder & Bryan Kearney
  4. Inferno – Carl Cox
  5. Dolores – Indecent Noise
  6. Energy Crash (Extended Mix) – Maarten de Jong
  7. Stealth bomber (Chris schweizer remix) – Bryan Kearney
  8. Erase – Brooks Alexsander
  9. Whites Of Her Eyes – Simon Patterson
  10. Silver Bath – Plastic Boy
  11. Predator – Predator
  12. Telescope – Will Atkinson