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http://www.mixcloud.com/jamescobo/one-giant-size-shit-bitch-bear/

1. Cut Copy, Rendezvous
2. Zeigeist, Neverending Love
3. The Treatment, Waves
4. The KDMS, Wonderman (Tiedye remix)
5. Sebastien Tellier, Cochon Ville
6. Kaine feat. Kathy Diamond, Love Will Save The Day (More Piano Instrumental)
7. The KDMS, High Wire (Mustang Dub mix)
8. Ron Basejam, Is The Word (Killer Whale Italo mix
9. Loleatta Holloway, Love Sensation (12" Mix)
10. Roberto Rodriguez feat. Kholi, Tell Me (Original mix)
11. Hot Chip, Flutes
12. Childish Gambino, Heartbeat (Oliver remix)
13. jj, Beautiful Life

apparently I listen to Kathy Diamond constantly now or something?

dan surely you mean INCURSIONS IN ILLBIENT

Marcel King's Reach for Love

such a great song, been rocking that track constantly since I got the FAC DANCE compilation

I'd never heard of it till the Cool As Ice comp on LTM. Really beautiful.

apparently I listen to Kathy Diamond constantly now or something

This is not a bad thing, I am really enjoying that KDMS album! I am usually a fan of your mixes jamescobo but this has shot to the top of my listening pile - especially as every time I've been out in the past few months I've heard either "Love Sensation" or "Ride On Time" played as well and it's still yet to get old.

My new DJ name is "User 2168477 "

This is what I played at a birthday party in the Build It Green warehouse in Brooklyn, using a Novation Twitch and my macbook. Second time ever computer DJing.

http://serato.com/playlists/id:2168477/5-12-12

Sorry I didn't record it, but it's a lot of the same stuff I always play anyway.

Birthday song and cupcakes were served between Dinosaur and New Order.

just got my traktor and been playing around with it. I'm STILL searching for that effect that kills the bass and makes the sound thinner and then bang, the bass kicks back in. I've tried killing the low eq but the result was just weak.

Maybe you're playing the wrong songs.

Did you try using the hi-pass filter instead?

high-pass

hello-pass!

how did the twitch work out

Super mixed feelings...but also "you get what you pay for", and I did my research so there were no surprises.

One huge glowing problem is some sort of bug, apparently confusion/conflict with the automatic graphics card switching and/or sleep functions of my macbook pro, where it'll be working when I tested it out, then I put my computer to sleep for a while, then after I woke it up it worked for a few minutes then the buttons stopped working and I had to unplug the USB and plug it back in. After that it worked flawlessly for 3+ hours or whatever, so no complaints, just have to be careful.

The main "issue" everyone has with the twitch is that since it's not powered and Novation claims to have focused on sound "quality" over power, it is quiet. Not a problem since I was the only one at the party and controlled the trim on the mixer it was going into that fed the PA, but I understand the issue if someone takes it to a gig where the the DJ before you is playing a CDJ or serato and the trims and and faders are all at 100% because the masters aren't high enough and the limiters are kicked in. In that case, there's no way the Twitch is loud enough to use.

Along the same lines, the headphone out was too quiet for me, even if the master was under my control. There is a software function to blast it out (with a warning) but I didn't realize that at the time.

As far as using it, it's pretty awesome. The main thing though is that all the auto sync and looping and slicing functions are based on the assumption that the beat grid is correct, and the Itch engine for determining this is way off. I assume if I'm just playing current house bangers it's fine, but live disco, hell, post-punk or whatever, more often than not, it's off.

It's pretty easy to fix it though, even on the fly. Like if you're cueing a song you can just click to add a marker every 4 beats for the first few measures. That may not make it perfect for the whole song, but if you want to loop the first few measures to help have time to mix into it, that'll work.

You have to do that because the Twitch does not have a Loop In/Loop Out button. I wonder if you can do that with the mac keyboard, but I'm not sure if Itch even supports that? On one hand that's a little annoying, but on the other hand half the time I'd do it manually on a CDJ I'd fuck it up anyway. With this, so long as the beat grid is decent, you just turn on the loop at whatever amount of measures you want and it'll sound great.

If I was using this seriously, I'd do it ahead of time. Or maybe if/when I use this to record a mix at home (part of the plan), I'll just run through the selection first and fix a few of the beat markers. You can also save loops. It's pretty awesome. You have the 8 pads. You hit the LOOP button, and those 8 pads become loop lengths ranging from 2 bars to 4 to 6 to 8 etc. You swipe the slider and the range shifts higher so you can loop like 32 bars. Once you like a loop you hit the loop button again and enter a mode where all 8 buttons go dim. You hit one and blam, you've saved that loop to that button. You hit the hot-cue button and you suddenly get 8 places to store cues. So you can see how much fun that can all be. It's not all about hot-shot controllerism dubstep cue triggers and whatnot, you can just do a nice simple personal edit.

Because the beat grid was so often off, I never bothered using the auto sync, I just beatmatched the old-fashioned way. It's a bit weird to use the touchpad swipe to speed up and slow down, but just like switching from a 1200 to a CDJ to a denon to whatever, you eventually get the feel for how much pushing and nudging a swipe does. There's all these tips on the screen to how in sync the tracks are, but it's best just to trust your ears.

Of course if it's all simple house and techno you can do it all auto.

In any case, I paid 350$ for it, which is really cheap for what it can do. I still think if I find more reasons to DJ digitally, I can sell this for 300, sell my Rane mixer for 500 and end up getting the just now out Vestax VCI-380, which far as I can tell, is this exact unit but with Vestax platters, an internal mixer so you can plug turntables into it, and more power. It also has like, aftertouch effects on the pads, which would be fun.

Anyway, I'm having a blast with it. It's easy to use, the effects are fun to use and versatile. Before I got it I told all my DJ pals about it, who are all total purists and they thought it sounded like a joke. But you can do some really cool stuff with it really easy, nice and dubbed out/trippy tweaking of the type that nobody in the youtube demo videos are doing, because they're all doing dubstep remixes of Lil Wayne. Who knows, maybe soon I'll record some mixes with it, and maybe I'll use some of these abilities and maybe it'll sound cool.

Maybe.

ty for that

I have one other issue, which is the same on a lot of controllers, but when I'm mixing, I find it easiest to scratch cue, then nudge if needed, and if I get off, scratch a downbeat again instead of just going back to a cue point, which is why I always loved pioneer CDJs and hated other CD players where the platter either had "scratch" mode or "pitch adjust" mode depending on a button. This thing is kinda like that, where the touchpad has many different functions and sometimes it gets crazy. I'll explain more later.

Sorry. Had to watch Mad Men.

There's the one touch strip. When paused, it acts like a scratch platter, perfect for setting a cue point or moving short distances. When playing, it becomes a pitch adjust to nudge up or down to beatmatch. But at any moment you can hit it again while playing, and it reverts to scratch mode, so you can theoretically grab it and scratch or whatnot. BUT, either if you hit it again, or if you do certain other things, it goes into another mode where it controls things, like the range of the loops/slices. So that's my big pet peave...I'll often go to nudge pitch and find nothing happens, because at some point it switched to the loop mode.

BUT THAT'S NOT ALL FOLKS! There's a second button that turns it into a needle drop, which is great, let's you go straight to the end or beginning of a song, or anywhere. Touch it is like picking up the needle and whereever you let go, that's where it leaves it. Problem is, it automatically then reverts back to nudge mode, making it impossible to pick up the needle and drop it repeatedly till you find what you're looking for without hitting the button again.

And is that it? NOPE. Hit the needle drop button again, and it becomes a goddamn scrub wheel, handy for fast forwarding and rewinding.

I guess I'd be happiest if there was a dedicated button for all these functions, but that's asking a lot. Although not really. They could've made the 8 pads select different functions with a "shift" or function key. There is a shift key, but that acts to delete hot cues and loops from the pads.

how do i shot kontrol s4

looks like they're down to about $600 on the bay

I don't remember what it was about, but I remember reading that the s2 has some features the s4 lacks because it's newer? So unless you need the 4 decks....

I take that back.

hmm i was stuck on the s4 because i thought the s2 didn't have the audio out but now i see it has the same sound out as the s4? that makes a big difference. i have never really made use of four decks (mainly because it eats up way too much of my screen for my liking) but i have used a third deck from time to time, mainly to support a really fast transition out of a bridging track. but that is a level of complexity i'm only comfortable with when i'm doing "rehearsed" mixes for ilx or whatever.

but i've also read that the s2 doesn't have a dedicated filter knob which would probably make a big difference in my case because i love my reverb and lfo filters to death.

yea maybe I should use the high-pass filter but I don't know where it is in traktor. also, what's the essential effects for house and techno?

I should hope there aren't any, because if using effects is "essential" then chances are they're being used to cover up weak mixes or because the dj is just bored (lol, I definitely play with my filter while waiting to cue). There's a tendency to not use effect judiciously, and nothing is more annoying than the DJ who throws on the flanger or looper in between every track, or does long, unnecessary filter sweeps when you just want to hear the track, and not stand there waiting for the dj to be done with her high-pass filter solo. Effects in general should be more like a finishing touch, and not the main course. But that's just me.

And just use what sounds good, not because it's popular. Playing around with things and trial and error should sort this out for you.

if you notice any effects, then its too heavy handed

SR x Hivemind.fm – Xpldr Session 27.05.2012

Shackleton – (For The) Love of Weeping [Woe of the Septic Heart]
2562 – Jerash Hekwerken [When In Doubt]
Felix Lenferink – Second Bouree [Fourth Wave]
Hackman & Tessela – Feel Like Loving Me (Presk Sixt Remix) [Audio Culture]
Wbeeza – Peckham Fly [3rd Ear]
Kowton – Never Liked Dancing [Idle Hands]
October – Planet of Minds [TANSTAAFL]
Slazenger’s People – Basel Piss Test [Spargel Trax]
STL – That Minml Track [Perlon]
Gesloten Cirkel – Twisted Balloon [Murder Capital]
WAX – 30303 (Shed ∅ San Mix) [WAX]
Asusu – Sister [Livity Sound]
Spargel Tarzan – Sauce Hollandaise [Spargel Trax]
South London Ordnance – Sanctuary [2nd Drop]
Lando Kal – Rhythm Sektion [Hotflush]
Sensate Focus – Y [Sensate Focus]
Peverelist – Sun Dance [Hessle Audio]
Bookworms – African Rhythms [L.I.E.S.]
Gerry Read – Bozza [Delsin]
Actress – Iwaad [Honest Jon’s]
Omar-S – Income Tax Refund Dance [FXHE]
October – Singularity Jump [TANSTAAFL]
Joey Anderson – Granite [Inimeg]
Vessel – Merge [Left_Blank]
Theo Parish ft. IG Culture – Traffic [Kindred Spirits]
Brey – Bengela [Svetlana Industries]
Endgames – Jam City’s Ecstasy Refix [Night Slugs White]
Funkystepz – Trouble [Hyperdub]
Grievous Angel – Kleer [Forefront]
Beneath – Trackies [No Symbols]
CRST – Pressure [Valve]
Palace – Mandy [Unknown To The Unknown]
MikeQ – Let It All Out 2012 ft. Jay Karan [Night Slugs]
Walton – Mallet [Hyperdub]
Logos – King Mob VIP [Keysound]
Ill Blu – Clapper [Hyperdub]
Mickey Pearce – I Am [Swamp 81]
Teeth – Vibrate [Signal Life]
Blawan – Iddy [Hessle Audio]
Dro Carey – Rawkus Smack [Ramp]

http://www.sonicrouter.com/2012/05/radio-sr-x-hivemind-fm-xpldr-session-27-05-2012/

lol @ high pass filter solo

second only to the low pass resonant filter solo

a very short mix (abt 20 mins), still learning how to do stuff, only started a few months ago

derbyshire n bermange - running
LNR - work it to the bone
pita - vent glass
aybee - wind for wyman
chris n cosey - cowboys in cuba
hosono - mixture 2
jackson y comp band - hard tits
julie jumper - some track
andy stott - passing me by
some really long prog drum solo
tom trago - use me (cral craig mix)
tornado wallace - some track
brey - juno
slugabed - new worlds
null set - some track
dustin wong - evening curves straight

ah fuck here's the mix

http://soundcloud.com/ajaculation/running-man

EDB otm about not overdoing fx. like he said, if you notice the fx it's probably too much.

that said, there are three i find sort of indispensable

- lfo filter, so that instead of doing a sweep with a hand on the filter knob i can just set it at 4 or 8 bars and then concentrate on timing the cut or fade

- a delay with the filter set high and the feedback set low to give a bit of a spatial effect to fade outs, or to use the "delay freeze" to add an echo to an abrupt cut to make it less abrupt, or to just give a track a little more presence

- pulse phaser or pulse flanger to tweak out tracks as they fade ... now mind you this is well suited to things like berghain techno and dj tool tech house or dubby drum loops but not really for anything organic sounding (even deep house)

djing my first venue tonight, a spot in the u street area of dc. i think it's gonna be a primarily the same old homo crowd along with some good friends and whatnot, spent a lot of time trying to pull a collection of tracks to play that keep to my own syncopated dance-centric intentions, without being too alienating - meaning mostly bringing in a lot of vocal'd tracks and remixes of familiar stuff.

31 track/13 minute sampler i sent around of some of the stuff i'll be playing

https://soundcloud.com/pushingit/the202atmova

The only advice I can give is: don't freak out if nobody's dancing at first. They just haven't had enough to drink.

thanks, alternating anticipation towards this between "SWEET, FINALLY!" and "WAIT WHAT AM I DOING!?"

Another good tip: Turn off (or lower) the lights.

another good tip: work the crowd

Aqua Regia also has some good advice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqS6U2h9Zpk

We wanna know how it went!

back after a few weeks time traveling

http://soundcloud.com/newtownradio/wtbs-with-dj-speculator-june-4

ymo neue tanz
polyphonic size le rabatteur des sects
chris & cosey techno primitiv
kazuhiko katoh l'opera fragile
joy division love peel sessions
mya & the mirror hesitation
N.O.I.A. true love
mobo mobo dance
boots clements ghostriders in the sky
crazy joe eugene instrumental
tenderness gotta keep on trying harvey edit
suzanne kraft running back
pharaos 100% silk
bizarre inc technological
armando land of confusion
new world aquarium lovin' u
sextags mania excessive mix
gil scott heron we almost lost detroit
quartz for geromine

I wish I could travel in time.

Mya & The Mirror's Hesitation is my jam. Getting the Fuzz Dance EP was when I really fell for italo.

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Can a mod ban people like /\/\/\ who only ever post on ILX to push their mixes online.

killfile?

KILLFILE 2.0

never ban prisoneer

I gain too much satisfaction from prisoneer to even think of not having him around.

Can a mod ban people who are whiny little cunts?

FYI, I might not post on here outside of my mixes but I spend a good chunk of time on here just reading through the forum, downloading others mixes and checking out peoples opinions and posts.

participating more won't hurt, then.

Posting now and that is the main thing

Hello'

I apologize then, I will continue waiting patiently for each and every Kick In The Eye podcast that is so graciously given to me every month.

Yours truly,

Whiny cunt.