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.

The Googly – Basement Mix Vol. 2

Well. This is the second volume of me trying to break out of my DJing rut. This is going to be the first installment of what I hope will be a weekly mix mini mix that just gets some of the tracks sitting around my basement out onto the internet for all to enjoy. About 35 minutes worth of music for easy to digest little chunks. I think what I was going for here was deep sorta haunting music that resonates with you long after you listen to it.

Enough gabber.

Right click and save the link below to download.

Basement Mix Vol. 2

Here’s a tracklisting. with happy lil descriptions.

1. King Britt – Music Of The Supreme [Poussez!]

This is just one of those perfect singles. Both sides are some of the best that house music has   to offer. This one time after djing for a marathon 4 1/2 hours (which is a lot these days for a club set) at the Capitol Club I stumbled over to Chop Suey and saw King Britt playing the grooviest house and causing all the hipster kids to dance like rejects from Hair. It was amazing and instantly I wanted to grow an afro and throw on some tie dye. That is the power of King Britt.

2. A Guy Called Gerald – Humanity (Ashely Beedle’s Love And Compassion) [Studio !K7]

This is one of my favorite house tracks of all time. I’m a huge fan of the original and this remix always seems to hit the spot for someone when I’m DJing. Everytime I play this someone comes up to me and tells me what a big fan of this track they are. To think I picked it up used for a dollar at Plan 9 in Richmond. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure I guess.

3. Lephtee – So Far Back (The Nova Dream Sequence) [Buzzin' Fly Records]

I know nothing about this track or this producer but I love it. It’s got this haunting little melody to it that is unforgetable. The original and the Phonique remix were used in tandem to finish off one of the Buzzin’ Fly comps and I had to pick it up after hearing it there. Hell, one of my friends bought it instanly after hearing it once so it must be doing something right. The Nova Dream Sequence remix, which after doing a little research turns out to be King Britt himself (thus making me want to grow that afro even more), takes it into even deeper grounds. Amazing.

4. Stefan Goldmann – Lunatic Fringe [Macro]

Weird and strangely haunting. How this track never took off I just don’t understand. This is the type of quirky bouncy music that swirls with strange ideas that confuse and then facinate. I havn’t had the chance to play this one out yet but I can’t wait to hear those vocals ooze in and out of those hoover sounds on a big system. If you want to hear it in a perfectly constructed set try Agoria’s At The Controls.

5. Underworld – Crocodile (Innervisions Orchestra Mix) [PIAS]

My favorite part of this song is where everything fades out for a second. The first time I played it I hadn’t listened to it all the way through before and when it happened everyone turned and looked at me like I had forgotten to mix in the next record. Kinda embarassing, until the bass kicks back in and has everyone hooked. It’s like Underworld decided to make a good version of Sting’s Desert Rose and then got two of the best house producers to sprinkle their magic on it.

6. Robag Wruhme – Robag’s Bobb 2005 Für F. [Mute]

There is no better producer that can tame this much crazyness with something that is still melodic and beautiful. I read somewhere that Robag Wruhme wrote the it for his Ex when they split as an attempt to win her back or some variation close to that. I think I read it in URB a few years ago. Explains the artwork of the cover. People seem to love this track and for good reason. I would love to sit down one day and figure out how the hell he makes the sounds he does in the studio.

Thanks for listening, feel free to comment.

Video From Jesse Rose & Kilowatts

At least I think it’s Kilowatts.

Either way I’m in Virginia right now visiting the folks but that dosn’t mean I don’t have some videos for you guys.

So here you go. Some poor amature camera video of Decibel’s crazy year ender. Big ups to Sean and Co. for pulling this one off.

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Bought A House. Fun With Ableton. Friend Retires.

Nothing new today. I finally signed the last bit of paperwork for the house I’m buying and I’ll be getting the keys to it tomorrow. Yay for me. Here’s a pic.

Getting this is the end of a lot of stress. The place is all packed up and I’m not as… err… fumbling around the internet as normal today. So nothing really new to report on that point of my life. Other than that I’ve just been playing with Ableton Live 7 constantly. I’ve been able to get a lot of hints on productions from some of the music magazines that come out all the time to start really improving on exactly how I’m using the program. The Akai MPD24 is really helping out in that department as well. I’ve almost got the finishing touches on a track that I’ll be posting soon. I just have to make sure that I like it before I put it up.

It was kind of weird today because I had to watch a friend of mine retire from the Navy today. It was kind of striking to me that after 20 years of service to the Navy that all he really got was a small award that he had already received 6 times and a little bit of a goodbye from us. It’s cool though because we’re throwing him a retirement party this Saturday (with your truly DJing all the 80s rock classics). I’ve found that there are a lot of Blue Shirts that get shit on when it comes to retirement because of the extra effort that people have to go through. I’ve got a buddy down in Florida that never received his retirement flag because a certain person didn’t like him enough to file the paper work. I just hope that things go ok for him when he gets out. He helped me out of a weird situation about a year ago and just want him and his wife to get out and be happy.

Being sappy.

Here’s some Navy videos that make me laugh, nice to share them. For those in the military you will find these pretty funny. If your not in the military, well…. prepare to be confused.

Booka Shade talking about new album

Really busy this week packing up the apartment to move into the new house. I figured I’d pop on and share this video from Booka Shade talking about their new album. Worth watching if your fans of their music. Check it out.