DJs post your mixes for download

I've been using Ableton in live settings, mainly for short sets, for about eight months. Recently I landed a couple of weekly residencies, one of which is geared towards more eclectic music programming. I decided to try Ableton for a full five hour night last Friday with disastrous results. About an hour into it, the program started randomly dropping out the sound. The dropouts ranged from microsecond glitches to 1 or 2 seconds of dead silence. Really embarrassing.

I bought Serato the next day, played at the club that night and had zero problems. knock. on. wood. Ableton has been relegated to the studio computer only.

I can speak from personal experience when I say that there's definitely a different energy with Ableton mixing in a live setting. The best way I can describe it is that the crowd > DJ feedback loop feels mediated by the computer. I don't get that feeling with Serato or Final Scratch though.

pretty much is the exact same as someone on the decks with real vinyl, as far as I could see.

that sounds like you need more ram. thankfully this has only happened to me once in recent memory and that was the other week in texas where there was so much bass vibration in the booth that my powerbook started freaking out. thankfully they were a very forgiving crowd.

there is a different energy from using ableton in a live setting which is why i use vinyl too but i think once you know your way round the software you learn little ways to make it sound, um, er, more jacking i guess is the best way to describe it.

cool! do you do this by manually cutting and pasting bits of the wav/data? does Ableton quantize the file so you know where to reposition snares or whatever by looking as well as hearing?

Someone posted this a while ago, I still had it in my history. It's sadly the only thing I know about mixing on ableton.

http://www.optimo.co.uk/hallelujah.jpg

it sounds tedious... but handy! I'm surprised they haven't worked out a way to use Recycle! technology to basically learn and do it for you.

most of the guys i know around here do entire sets in traktor. i tried it a few times but couldn't get used to "seeing" a track to cue it up as opposed to "hearing" it. abelton has hardware that you can do this with, right?

stir- when you were talking about "fixing" a track and replacing beats.. is this what i'm hearing during "kiss me again" on that mix of yours up at ourdisco? the way a dance beat lines up with it for 8 or 16 bars and then drops out... is that something you "fix" ahead of time, and not drop in live?

also- is that the hallelujah edit that was on beatsinspace over the summer?

rubbish, it's the most reliable software i've ever used.

stir- when you were talking about "fixing" a track and replacing beats.. is this what i'm hearing during "kiss me again" on that mix of yours up at ourdisco? the way a dance beat lines up with it for 8 or 16 bars and then drops out... is that something you "fix" ahead of time, and not drop in live?

no, no. i would have added that on top live. i never pre prepare actual mixes. i meant i 'fixed' it so it stayed rigidly in time and when i say replacing beats, i more mean putting an additional kik or some sub bass on it so it 'kicks' a bit more than the original. as i play a lot of old records and new records, i have to do this as the production on the old records is so different that alongside the new ones they would sound a little weak over a soundsytem.

also- is that the hallelujah edit that was on beatsinspace over the summer?

i'm not sure but very possibly.

jeffrey, i played in austin two weeks ago.

rubbish, it's the most reliable software i've ever used.
It was in reference to its automatic warp marker setting.

this may sound horribly ignorant of me... but how do i do this with headphones if my computer only has one headphone jack....? do i need some kind of external hardware?

The only annoyances with MM6 are that you can't change the pitch and can't do that nifty 'unplug the record deck and let the record slow to a halt' trick. I use Acid and Cool Edit to make remixes and re-edits.

And Dog Latin and Grady, yeah you need an external soundcard. Plug that into your mixer via the USB port, then use the internal soundcard (headphone socket) to listen to mixing ahead, as your monitor.

(xpost)

This also could be heavy heavy heavy rationalization for all the $$$ I've spent on the damn black things....

Ok that sounds kind of ass-ey, but I'm definatley not referring to anybody in this thread here. All the mixes posted have been great and unique.

I'm going to have to disagree with you here.

First, you're making the assumption that everyone DJing digitally is downloading their tunes from the P2P networks. Not to sound all high and mighty, but some of us do try to take the high road and support the artists we're playing, either by using any of the dozens of legal download sites like Beatport or by encoding vinyl and CDs for playing out and making mixes.

Distribution has always been a major concern with dance music, and the legal download phenomenon has begun to solve this while simultaneously leveling the playing field quite a bit, especially for people (like me) who live in towns with crappy record stores. Sure, I could order vinyl off the internet but what's the point if I can get the same tune as a download and avoid the shipping costs, long wait, etc?

maybe we need a new thread for discussions on all this digital DJ stuff?

the we are back mix - re-uploaded as for some reason only 2/3rds of it would download. now up in it's full 100 meg glory, if oyu can call it that. also up is the xfm the remix superchunk mix thingy mentioned by someone up there ^ ^ ^ somewhere. it features the shockheaded peters / t. raumschmiere thing that some folk mention on ilm which i never did get round to extending. and a couple of odd eyed bastard tracks, named after my love of mr bowie. commissioned and rejected / unfinished etc.. by sony. i owe stir a drink for nicking his bass guitar.

http://s51.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1H7V1XPPX47P937IOHYRA3KZIP

http://homepage.mac.com/drenard/.Public/DiscoMix.mp3

http://threethreefourfive.blogspot.com/2006/03/mix-of-month-3345-disco-mix.html

Lee Douglas - Same Changes
Nancy Martin - Can't Believe
Mike Theodore Orchestra - Cosmic Wind
Cloud One - Spaced Out
Theo Vaness - No Romance
Padded Cell - Signal Failure
Michael Zager Band - Let's All Chant
Mr. Magic - Potential 1980
Anita Ward - Ring My Bell
LCD Soundsystem - Tribulations (Lindstrom Remix)

oblio - for the floor (70m, 192kps)

http://s49.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=28OJXMKR1XR5C2HU38KY6DS13R

reinhard voigt - how we rock1
depeche mode - the darkest star (holden dub)
pier bucci - l'nuit
gui boratto - great match
ali khan - waterbomb
guido schneider - bassism
marc ashken - carrot
petter - robotfood
butane - a bus with wings
butane - flexor (run stop restore remix)
robag wruhme - waffellekkspander
alex smoke - tv is pish
magda - lockjaw
duoteque - adrya
marc ashken - inside track
alex smoke - don't see the point
alter ego - daktari (matt john remix)

http://threethreefourfive.blogspot.com/2006/03/quick-mix-vol-3.html
http://homepage.mac.com/drenard/.Public/QuickMix3.mp3

dopplereffekt - myon-neutrino
villalobos - serpentin
trentemoller - sunstroke
frank martiniq - boost (robag wruhme's bokkser mix)
noze - tulip schnaps
isolee - face b

http://www.callingallkids.tv/eamonharkinCAK4.mp3

1. ESG - Party

2. !!! - Turn This Thing On (Rub'n'tug Mix)

3. Hot Chip - Over And Over

4. Bauhaus - Kick In The Eye

5. Vitalic - My Friend Dario

6.The Undertones - Teenage Kicks

7. The Juan Maclean - Give Me Every Little Thing (Cajmere Mix)

8. The Gossip - Standing In The Way Of Control (Le Tigre Mix)

9. Skatt Brothers - Walk The Night

10. Liquid Liquid - Optimo

11. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Mars Arizona (DFA Mix)

11. Loose Joints - Is It All Over My Face?

12. New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle

13. Cut Copy - Going Nowhere (Digitalism Mix)

14. Gang Of Four - To Hell With Poverty

15. Chromatics - Healer

16. Delta 5 - Mind Your Own Business

Ohm sweet Ohm part1

Ohm sweet Ohm part2

Errors – Hans Herman
Copyshop – Mystery guest (darkfaders dub)
Emperor Machine – Roller Daddy
Can – Mothersky (PSK1 edit)
Neu – Für Immer
Death in Vegas – Head
Blackstrobe –Keine lust (front 242 rmx)
Human League – Being boiled
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Tangerine Dream - Nebulous dawn (excerpt)
Silver Apples – Oscillations
Shyza Minelli – New found acid
Isolee – My Hi-matic
Painted Nails – Hot doctor
Delia & Gavin - Rise DFA mix
Nemesi – Cosmica
Fictional Character – From another world
“Manhunter” Soundtrack – Grahams theme
M83 – Don’t save us from the flames (superpitcher mix)
Technova – Atmosphere

equipment = 2 turntables and a cup of Tea.
(Sample overdubs excluded)