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

Two New Tracks! And some other stuff

So it’s been a little while since I’ve posted.

My bad.

But I’ve got some new stuff up and after getting a new computer and having my life settle down a bit I’m ready to give this whole blogging thing another try.

So first up. Two new tracks.

One is a original called Zoar Park. Named after a hometown park where the kids used to get crazy at in Virginia. It’s all about glitched drums and crazyness. Check the link below for downloads and listenings.

http://soundcloud.com/the-paused/zoar-park

The second is one I’m pretty happy about. My completely crazy remix of the possibly leaked Daft Punk song from the new Tron movie. I got bored and cobbled this together and ended up liking this quite a bit. So enjoy.

http://soundcloud.com/the-paused/maybe-daft-punk-fragile-the-googlys-not-what-he-expected-remix

Expect more posts soon as I get my internet life in order.

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

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. 5

Ok that’s just annoying. I posted this and everything I typed went missing.

I’ve had this mix in the bag for like 3 weeks and I keep forgetting to post it. I’ve decided to stop doing these until I can figure out how to make it a podcast and to help me focus on making a mix of original tunes which has been the goal for a bit.

But either way here is this mix.

You know the drill by now. Right click and save the link bellow to download.

RIGHT CLICK AND SAVE HERE

Tracklisting….

Quarks – Du Entkommst Mir Nicht (Lawrence Remix) [Home]

A.D.D. – Ribs (Army Of One’s Jerk Sauce Remix) [Uppercutz]

D.H.S. – House Of God (Martin Landsky Remix) [Poker Flat]

FC Kahuna – Nothing Is Wrong [Skint]

Authur Argent – Hold Your Head Up (Soulwhacked Remix) [Whacked]

Zero 7 – Futures (Rub N’ Tug Remix) [Ultimate Dilemma]

Free Samples From My Portasound

Thought I might share these with you guys. Got bored last week and ran a cheap Yamaha Portasound through my Lil Big Muff and several Audio Damage Plugins to see what type of noises I could get with varying results. Interesting stuff here.

Sorry. I had to use Megaupload to post these. Hope you like them though. All the samples are in Wav. Feel free to use them in your projects.

CLICK HERE TO DOWLOAD SAMPLES

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

The Googly – Basement Mix Vol. 4

I could have sworn I put this mix up earlier. But I forgot. 30 Minutes or so. I forget most of the tracklisting. So I’ll try and get it right but I kinda forget what it is……..

Well it’s fucking techno muthafuckas! Get smacked in the face!

Right click and save the link below to download.

Basement Mix Vol. 4

Tracklisting????

(after 30 minutes of trying to figure out the tracks I just went downstairs and grabbed my records to figure out so the tracklisting is right now.)

1. Savinto – TST 2 [TST]

2. 2 Dollar Egg – Lebt 1 [Nummer-Schallplatten]

3. Funk d’void – Bad Coffee (Slam No Sugar Mix) [Soma]

4. Agent Orange – 2 Much Is Never Enough [Gotham Grooves]

5. Safety Session – Untitled [Drumcode]

6. The Aztec Mystic – Ascesion [UR]

7. Dave Clarke – The Storm (Surgeon Dub) [Deconstruction]

The Googly – Made Of Rayon (Free Download)

Hallo crazy web universe! It’s time for a new song for you!

More glitchy goodness from my basement to your ears. Made this over the course of about 2 days and thought I would put it out there into the world for you people to listen to. Hope you enjoy it.

Available in glorious wav. spectacular 320Mp3 and so so 192Mp3 for you suckers who don’t give a shit about sound quality.

Right click and save the links below to download.

Made Of Rayon.Wav

Made Of Rayon.320Mp3

Made Of Rayon.192Mp3

As always, thanks for listening. All feedback is super apreciated.

The Googly – Basement Mix Vol. 3

The third installment of my new weekly dj mix. Clocks in at a touch under 35 minutes in order to wet your lips with something light and breezy for these economic hard times. Great tracks abound. Guess your just going to have to listen to it and find out.

Right Click and save the link below to download!!!

Basement Mix Vol. 3

Here is a tracklisting for you.

1. Aphrohead – Journey Thru Thee Park (20/20 Vision Mix) [Bush]

2. Roxy Music – The Thrill Of It All (M.A.N.D.Y vs. Booka Shade Re-Work)[Virgin]

3. Ben Klock – Big Time [Bpitch]

4. Mark Broom – New Life (Donnacha Costello Remake) [Minimise]

5. Molex – Kick C [Leftroom]

6. Kraftwerk – Aerodynamik (François K Aero Mix) [Astralwerks]