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New set-up

Adam — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:25:38 +0000

I finally got around to upgrading my DJ set-up from a very tired cheap & nasty Behringer Mixer & Technics 1210′s to something a little more cutting edge.

I’ve been a longtime user of Final Scratch and really like the combination of digital DJ’ing but the tactile elements of vinyl so I decided to keep the technics 1210′s but went for a software upgrade. The mixer I bought has a built in ‘scratchamp’ equivalent which hooks up to Traktor Scratch Pro – the software is pretty much the same but the timecoded vinyl system has been much improved and crashes a lot less.

The mixer itself is a Korg Zero4 which has firewire interface, midi controller and 4 channels. It does a good job of replacing my mixer and scratch amp whilst also offering a whole bunch of features like effects on a per channel basis which can then be sent through to the master and another layer of FX applied there if you want. Initial feedback is that its a pretty solid mixer and the illumination also looks pretty cool.

If I ever get around to playing out then CDJ’s seem to be the industry standard at the moment so I invested in a couple of CDJ-1000′s and stands so that I can get the whole rig into a fairly compact space. The final aspect was to upgrade the speakers to active-powered Behringer Truths which are pretty punchy for the price. Quality isn’t the best but I’m not the most demanding audiophile….yet

Also added a lap-top stand to make it much easier to intergrate Traktor into my line of sight. Its actually a pretty versatile set-up now, I can either do full digital DJ’ing using the mixer as a MIDI controller only or can go completely old school and move back to Vinyl or can use CDJ/Vinyl as timecodes to manipulate tracks in Traktor Scratch Pro.

I still have the old scratch amp which makes a pretty decent external soundcard and is the only thing I need to hook-up to the mixer so I can record sets which will hopefully be pretty soon!

Pics below:

My completed Set-up!

Korg Zero 4

Dj Set-UP

Short & Sweet Electro

adam — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 14:28:15 +0000

Just 30 min podcast this time, I love the recent crop of tunes being produced. Check out the last tune of the mix which is an amazing breaks type remix of Splittr – All Alone.

#	Title	Artist
1	In This Silence (Chris Kaeser Remix)	Chris Kaeser Remix)
2	FEEL THIS	EDDIE ARMANI FEAT. SHANNAGH D
3	Global Deejays feat. Rozalla – Everybody’s Free (Klaas Remix)
4	One Luv (Dirty Dub)	Soul Avengerz
5	Rubber Man – Miles Dyson	Jude Sebastian
6	All Alone (Alex Metric Vocal)	Splittr

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September Podcast

adam — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:58:34 +0000

Latest podcast episode available to download. Mostly funky house with a bit of electro as well. Tracklisting is below:

Title	Artist
Made In Three Mins (Vocal Mix)	P.Liassi & Tyrrell
Don’t Cha (Mark Wilkinson Kidology Mix)	Phunk Warriors
You and Me (Haji and Emanuel R	Blue Ray Ft Jimmy Somerville
Rocker Stanton Warriors Vocal	Alter Ego
All Alone (Original Mix)	Splitter
Together as One (Vocal Mix) www.clubkings.prv.pl	Eddie Thoneick Feat Bonse
Rush Hour(Fonzerelli Hot & Sexy Remix)	Sjb Ft. Jane Wiedlin
Hold Your Head Up High (Soul Avengerz Vocal)	Inaya Day

Beatport embedded player

adam — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:48:03 +0000

Here is a neat feature from beatport! I use beatport to buy a lot of the tracks I DJ with. They have a much larger collection of tunes than djdownload which is the other site that I use. The site used to be US only localised so I find that there is defintley an american bias towards the tracks when you look at most downloaded etc. I’m sure this will balance out over time assuming they are tracking UK playbacks seperately to US playbacks. I’ve created this one as a House/Top downloads page.

Seems like a cool way to drive traffic to their site and its quite a neat feature to embed on a blog page.

Trance Mix

adam — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:15:26 +0000

I decided to have a go at a trance mix, I don’t have a massive amount of trance tunes so a few of these are a little bit dated…. Its interesting mixing with trance, you have to use a slightly different style of mixing to house. This mix should be a good one for running to. The tracklisting is below and you can subscribe to my podcast by clicking the iTunes button at the end of this post.

Deep_Dish_-_Say_Hello_(Paul_Van_Dyk_Remix).Mp3
Three Drives On A Vinyl – Greece 2000.mp3
108_purple_haze_-_adrenaline.mp3
Reflekt_-_Need_To_Feel_Loved_(Original_Mix).Mp3
Kenny_Hayes_-_Ibiza_Sky_[Alex_M.O.R.P.H._Remix].Mp3
Ferry Corsten – Rock Your Body, Rock (Original).mp3
Tannix-Circa__91_(Original).Mp3
Airbiscuit_-_Lately_(Riley_&_Durrant_Remix).Mp3
Brisky_-_Celestial_(Joc_Pres._Mannix_Remix).Mp3
Airbiscuit_-_Lately_(Riley_&_Durrant_Remix).Mp3
87492_Amsterdam_Smith_Pledger_Remix.mp3
85020_Nabucco_Original_Mix.mp3

winter electro mix

adam — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:47:33 +0000

Been a while since I posted a new mix so I’ve just recorded one which is available via iTunes as always. This one has about 80% new tunes and is fairly hard/electro. At the end of the mix I discovered a couple of classics by Jacque Lu Cont (or the white duke) one of my favourite producers. Have a listen and see what you think!

I’ve been busy the last few months with new job and holidays so mixing is a little bit rusty on the first few tunes…. (especially transition from track 2 to track 3) – I might re-record it sometime later this week if I get a chance…. if not then the standard will get better over the rest of the year (I hope…)
Next podcast is going to be focused on some of the funky house classics from the past few years or possibly a trance set (glowsticks at the ready). For those who also DJ and source their music from mp3s there is a new podcast available from beatport which seems like a good way to keep up to date with latest releases. It would be great to see djdownload offer a similar kind of thing!

Tracklisting as follows:

01-The Freakx Brothers-Tension.mp3

Rune – Calibria (Hoxton Whores Remix).mp3

Fonzerelli – I Love Music (Original Mix).mp3

Sunfreakz Ft Andrea Briton – Counting Down The Days (Axwell Remix).mp3

Thomas_Penton,_Hernan_Serrao_-_Jacks_Funk_-_Original_Mix.mp3

Bastards Of Funk-Relentless feat Peter Bense (The Crisp Remix) [Frosty Music].mp3

Ben Macklin Feat. Tiger Lily – Feel Together (Eddie Thoneick Mix).mp3

DJ Delicious – Let It Drop (Henrik B Mix).mp3

mason_-_exceeder__tomcraft_rmx-idc.mp3

D.Ramirez – La Discotek (Freeze Frame Mix)++.mp3

Fuzzy_Hair_-_Kind_Of_Voodoo_(A1_Mix).Mp3

02-booka_shade-darko_(bookas_funk_da_funk_mix).mp3

New_Order_Feat._Ana_Matronic_-_Jetstream_(Jacques_Lu_Cont).Mp3

Faint_-_The_Conductor_(Jacques_Lu_Cont_Thin_White_Duke_Mix).Mp3

NYE Party

adam — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:54:32 +0000

Some pics from NYE are available. NYE was great, thanks to Dave, Libby, Ben and Mel who had the horrible task of cleaning up the mess from the hundreds of people who turned up over the course of the evening!

Was great fun and DJ’ing to a crowd of 200 or so was excellent! Heres a pic of me DJ’ing and then a couple of the party taken from the staircase.

DJ’ing on Final Scratch

adam — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 22:39:46 +0000

I’m probably going to be taking a turn behind the decks at a friends house party this year. I’m quite looking forward to it but the main problem with playing outside of your ‘bedroom’ is that when using final scratch you run the risk of having to play around with phono/audio cabling between the decks and the mixer. This is not a problem if you’ve got some time to sort it out beforehand and there are enough channels on the mixer…. the big problem appears if you turn up half way through the party and then have to try and do this reconfiguration during someone’s set. As you can imagine you’re not going to be too popular if you mess something up and end up with a) silence or b) feedback from the speakers.
The one big advantage of final scratch however is that its so much easier to carry all your tunes around. My entire ‘record box’ fits on my laptop, I have to carry the scratchamp, a firewire card and a few power cables around. The only two records I ever need are the two timecoded bits of vinyl that you use to control the mp3′s via turntables. All my DJ setup fits in a single record bag – no carrying around 200kg of vinyl for me!

The other neat thing is that using Traktor as the interface between the turntables and the laptop is the ability to search and control your records so much easier. You’re playing at around 130 bpm, no problem just sort by bpm and pick a tune! Final scratch offers a great way to get all the advantages of digital DJ’ing coupled with the traditionalist approach of using decks. It so much nicer to use turntables than CDJ’s or a pure laptop solution, you get much better feedback via 1210′s than you do from other mediums and it still looks cool if you’re using decks

Of course the only downside is that you’re relying on a computer and if it crashes…….well enjoy the sound of silence!!

Breaks podcast

adam — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 19:32:29 +0000

I spent sometime looking around djdownload.com and beatport.com and found myself browsing through some of the breaks tunes that are around at the moment. Its a pretty different sound to the normal house that I tend to gravitate towards and it lets you mix in a very different style. You can kinda ‘chop’ parts of the tunes in over the top of the other, sometimes its even possible to switch between two tunes on the mixer every other bar. Anyway – i decided to have a go at recording a breaks mix this evening. I’m not really that familar with the tunes yet so its not as tight as it could be but I reckon its not a bad first effort – have a listen and see what you think. The tracklisting as ever is below:

#	Title	Artist
1	Restless	Evil Nine
2	Funkgrinder (Dopamine Mix)	Myagi
3	Repeated Groove (Beat Assassins Remix)	B-Phreak
4	Disco babes from outer space (Harry Choo Choo vs Pianoheadz mix)	Babe Instinct
5	kraftykuts-tell me_how you feel	kid kenobi vs rogue element_mix
6	Funny Break (Plump DJs Remix)	Orbital
7	mismoplastico (lee combs back	virtualmismo
8	Gateway	Circuit Breaker
9	Overneath (Friendly Remix)	Aquasky & Meat Katie
10	Greece 2000 (Nils Noa Remix)	Three Drives
11	Can You Party? (Original)	Trouble Soup vs. Todd Terry
12	Mushroom	Junkie XL

New mix available

adam — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 18:20:07 +0000

For your listening pleasure heres another mix recorded recently. This one has a bit of an electro / techno twist to it, a few older tunes thrown in for good measure. Apologies for one of the mixes which went a bit pete tong but I couldn’t be arsed to record it all again for the sake of one mistake.

For those who care the track listing I’ll update the post a bit later as I can’t be bothered to type it all in at the moment. Remember you can subscribe to this podcast with iTunes – just click the iTunes button over there on the right (you know you want to!)

#	Title	Artist
1	Turning The Curve (Simon & Shaker Remix)	Benz & MD
2	Eric Prydz – Pryda – Nile
3	Hypnotized (Chris Lake Remix)	Sebastien Leger Feat Gia Mellish
4	Susan	Mark Knight
5	Discopolis (Chris Lake remix)	Lifelike & Kris Menace
6	never alone ( funkagenda vs trophy twins remix)	artificial funk
7	let’s get down (original version)	supafly vs fishbowl
8	Need To Feel Loved (Seb Fontaine & Jay P’s Type Remix)	Reflekt feat. Delline Bass
9	Get Up (House Mix)	Yordis
10	Jupiter (Original Mix)	Kris Menace
11	Teamsters – Feels like love (Morjac mix)
12	Muscle Car (Sander Kleinenberg	Mylo Feat. Freeform Five

Other mixes

adam — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 20:45:07 +0000

I just had my first request to make some of my other mixes available! There you go jon