The Googly vs Jake J – DJ Mix October 11th 2009

New mix from myself and Mr. Jake J. Made this to get ready for a gig this friday and threw this together last evening over a 6 pack of Red Stripe. Tech House and Techno abound. Due to the nature of tag teaming I’m not sure of the tracklisting but there are some great jems from Still Going, The Field, Pezzner, Onur Ozer, Dixon, DJulz, Seth Troxler, Christian Burkhardt, and a few others that escape me at this moment. Have a listen. See you at Chop Suey on Friday.

For Download and streaming at Soundcloud

http://soundcloud.com/the-paused/the-googly-vs-jake-j-dj-mix-october-11th-2009

Some New Stuff Up

Thought I would take a minute and share my Soundcloud stuff with you. Some new tracks you can stream for right now until I figure out how I want to distribute them

http://soundcloud.com/the-paused

Glitch Mob Street Warfare

It’s been a little since I’ve posted something. Found this video floating around and thought it was cool as hell.

Now if you’ve known me for a while, you’ll know that this right here is something that I’ve always wanted to do. Just set up a sound system somewhere like a park and just go to town playing music until it gets shut down. Would be crazy.

Speaking of here is a video of Glitch Mob playing in the park during last year’s Decibel Festival.

If you’ll be in Seattle on July 28th, this show better be on you calender.

San Francisco!

Just a quick check up from San Francisco. I love the wine bars down here! Num Num Num

Still, I’m having a great time down here and I’m recording a ton of samples with my best friend field recorder. Looking forward to tomorrow where were taking a ferry ride under the golden gate bridge. Going to be fun. Check in here soon for some more tracks and new stuff. But for now this is vacation.

Device & Impulse – 10 & Loathing Remix Contest!

Hell yeahs!

So I decided to place the parts for a small little diddy that Mr. Joel and myself made last week using only samples of a Casio PT-10. The results were interesting and the message boards fired up with exactly zero hype over our creation due to the fact that I only really gave a Facebook link to it and really didn’t advertise it at all. But it exists and if you head over to here. Long story short we had fun making the song in between eating tacos on a Saturday.

but back to the point. Remix Contest.

By following THIS LINK RIGHT HERE you will find a Zip file (megaupload.. sorry) containing all of the parts of our little song on it. The idea is to do a remix contest. Grand prize…. er… nothing…. as I’ll be putting every single track that is sent to me on this blog right here for everyone to listen to. A little bit of extra exposure for both of us and a useful waste of time. It might just strike something creative in you and if you hate it you can just go back to reading Vanity Fair or something.

Feel free to use the parts in whatever capacity you want as I am far to lazy to unleash my lawyers.

Worst case scenerio. No one participates. Best case. I get flooded with 10 Billion MP3s and crash the internet forcing millions of people to stop fucking around on the internet and jump start the economy.

Well. Get to cracking.

The Googly – Basement Mix Vol. 6

Made this sometime last week but I’ve been lazy on the posting of it. Here you go. Right click and save as to enjoy.

Basement Mix Vol 6

No frills today in the post. I’m sorta busy as I post this.

A tracklisting.

01. Zombie Zombie – Texas Rangers (Danton Eeprom Remix) [Versatile]

02. Jurgen Kirsch – Rain In Osaka [Stil Vor Talent]

03. Rene Breitbarth – Cooling The Plasma [EQ]

04. Mathew Jonson – Marionette (Adam Beyer Remix) [Wagon Repair]

05. I:Cube – Acid Beatless (A Critical Mass Edit) [BBE]

06. Oliver Hacke – Subject Carrier (Alex Under Remix) [Trapez]

07. Envoy – Acres Of Space [Soma]

08. Kenny Leaven – Feed Me Better [Traum Schallplatten]

09. Chymera – Saphiron [NRK]

Thanks for listening.

Evil Alliance’s Combover

Found this little guy today during my internet wandering. Turns out it’s the work of de la mancha (who makes some of the best freeware you can find on the web, and some stuff that cost money that’s worth picking up as well check his shit out at www.delamancha.co.uk) and some guy I’ve never heard of that runs bleeping edge which really needs to be updated more.

But reagardless. This plug in is mighty cool and definatly worth downloading and throwing it over some stuff to see what type of sounds come out the other end. Step seqencers, comb delays, yada yada… it’s much more fun to just see what it does for yourself.

http://www.delamancha.co.uk/evil/plugins.htm

Gems From Re-Copying All Of My CDs

Ok, so if you follow my blog you might have picked up that about a month ago my laptop crashed and with it I lost all of my music and all of the music I had been making. Shit. I know. But instead of letting it get me down I’ve been trying to take it in stride.

There are just a few good things that have come out of this whole thing.

1. I’ve streamlined my DAW’s and made my whole music workflow a lot lot lot lot lot smoother.

2. I’ve narrowed my plugins down to the essentials.

3. I’ve had a chance to re-visit every piece of music I own as I re-copy it to my hard drive (or should I say external hard drive…. fucking lesson learned)

And I guess the question after that would be why the hell is that a good thing.

Well, I’ve just gotten so bogged down with the shear amount of music that I own that it becomes really difficult do dig through any of it. I just find myself cycling through only my new cds and so many of them just fall to the wayside.

So here are some of my favorite unearthed gems from digging through my CD collection. Just a bunch of albums that I forgot how much I love.

Disclaimer. I don’t claim that any of these are obscure, just really well loved and genuinely missed by be.

1. Timo Maas – Maasterpieces [Mixmag Covermount 2005]

It’s hard for me to explain how much I love this CD. It’s just kick ass. It might have to do with  the bumg of Dinky’s Acid In My Fridge or maybe the over the top bass of H-Man’s Manga (which I finally heard someone play out recently and it was just as crazy loud as I imagined it would be), but mostly I think it’s the slow burner of Paradise Soul’s remix of Numb which is one of the most under rated tracks I’ve ever heard. Thick and sexy. Timo’s mixing is very sleek and forgetable but his track selection reminds me of why I plop my money down for Mixmag each month.

TOP TRACKS: Sia – Numb (Paradise Soul Remix), H-Man – Manga

2. Jacques Lu Cont – LRD (Revolution Magazine Covermount 2000)

Short and sweet. Here I am naive little 14 year old looking through a supermarket for something to do while my mom shops and I stumble onto this short lived gem of a magazine. It tried very hard to be what URB is today but it was just a touch ahead of it’s time. Oh well, they had free cds and this one is the best of them. 6 tracks mixed by super producer Stuart Price in a very awesome french disco vein. Might be the reason I fell in love with dance music.

TOP TRACKS: Mekon – What’s Going On? (Jon Carter Remix), Cassius – La Mouche (DJ Falcon Remix)

3. Christopher O’Riley – True Love Waits – Christopher O’Riley Plays Radiohead (Sony 2003)

I’m a sucker for music like this. Classical but instantly familiar. This might be my favorite cd I own to just relax to. I remember hearing this for the first time before the midnight release of Hail To The Thief and thinking it might be one of the best things I’ve ever heard. Slowly it’s fallen away from me but now that I’ve got it back I’ll be listening to this one for quite some time to come.

TOP TRACKS – Black Star, True Love Waits

4. The Beta Band – Heroes To Zeros (Astralwerks 2004)

I think a lot of people still remember that scene from High Fidelity where John Cusack is all like “I will now sell 3 copies of the Beta Band’s 3 Eps,” Great scene, great band. By the time this CD came out though I think a lot of people had moved on for some reason. It’s a shame because some of their best work is on there. One of my first experiments with production was making a bootleg of Liquid Bird that really didn’t work very well. Either way I sorta forgot about this album until the incredible Pure For came on random.

TOP TRACKS: Pure For, Liquid Bird

Post Christmas Come Down

Been busy as of late (PS. Thanks for listening to the Basement Mix, it’s the most hits this blog has had so far so I just want to say thanks for popping by and downloading) but not for much longer as I have about the next month off from work. Sweet deal. Other than that you can expect me to start exploiting my brand new MircoKorg and Audo Kontrol 1! Yay!

I’m pretty excited as this really puts together the last bits that I needed in order to have a functioning recording setup. Today was the first day I’ve had the time to sit down and play with everything and get the MIDI flowing from Ableton and I can really see why people love playing with these synths. Sure their not nearly as cheap as a decent Softsynth but by fuck their just fun to play with.

I’ve already used the synth to make the majority of a new track I’ll be putting out later. Good times.

Well thats really it for right now. I’m busy gearing up to see Alex Smoke & John Tejada on New Years! Woot!

Here’s a video for John Tejada’s The End Of It All. Tell me this wouldn’t be perfect when the clock strikes midnight.

Alligators – Where Does It Hide

Sitting here at the computer repair place right now. Trying to get my computer fixed. Figured I’d post a little something.

Above you’ll see a video by a local band out here in Bremerton called Alligators.

 http://www.myspace.com/alligatorpocketbook  

Well, I picked up their cd because the keyboard player (now the guitarist) works over at my favorite little coffee shop and was telling me about it. It turns out its a really good album. Enjoy.