I’ve been listening to a lot of tech house and electro lately, so I wanted to reach back into the soulful deep house treasure chest. This one came out nice and mellow with lots of vocal grooves that just make me smile. In a couple of spots, I got a little carried away with flangers [...]
I upgraded to Traktor Pro the other day. After a couple of fumbled attempts to get started this evening, I stopped trying to mix without sync and tried to get the hang of this new software. Fortunately, I picked out a small group of tech house and electro tracks that should be pretty easy to [...]
This month, Native Instruments is running a deal by which I could upgrade Traktor from version 3 to the new Traktor Pro for half price. This made my upgrade less than $45. Tonight, I took it for a little test spin and noticed immediately how drastically different many of the controls are. For one, my [...]
Jay Def works up another lip-curling tech house mix, full of filthy basslines and tough beats. This three-hour mix has that underground warehouse party feel, when a new DJ takes over at 2 and inches us closer to dawn. Hell yes, Jay. Nicely done! Digeum Mix Sessions – Volume 04, Session Pap — Blip Beat [...]
Today felt like an opportunity to make a friend smile. So, I pulled together some of my favorite vocal house tracks, filled out with artists like Dubtribe Sound System, Jay Tripwire, Lisa Shaw, and Samantha James. This one’s for Amanda, my smiling friend who is always excited about everything. Keep dancing, Amanda. I hope you [...]
Jay Def takes no prisoners in this fist-pumping set of tech house gems. For just over two hours, he delivers twerky synths, gritty basses, and beats that makes you go “UNH.” Each track is carefully chosen. Some of them are stomping, and some of them are goofy and hilarious. One of them spins into an [...]
I was feeling a little disco today, so I decided to throw together a short little mix. We’ve got soulful grooves and punchy funky tracks. It’s a fun little mix of house music for the middle of May. I hope you like it. Digeum Mix Sessions – Volume 04, Session Mike — The Ides of [...]
It was Jay‘s turn to drop a Digeum Mix. He pinged me by email to let me know he was throwing it down. This time, he wandered, for the first time in Volume 04, into house territory. He calls it “Lazy Saturday Afternoon”, but it’s anything but that. This mix stomps hard, a street-hardened set [...]
Late last week, my landlady decided to send a crew over to replace the roof of the house. After eight days of hammering and sawing, I was craving some beats that were in some kind of tempo. I’ve been downloading quite a few new garage tracks from eMusic. I also recently acquired a gargantuan compilation [...]
Today’s Jay Def‘s birthday. So, I decided to warm up the old VCI-100 with a marathon mix as a gift to my best friend. I picked out a bunch of electro tracks, ranging from minimal techno to chunky beats. I decided to deliver one track for each candle on his birthday cake. At 39 tracks [...]
We’re showing a room in my house to a prospective roommate tonight, so I’ve got to keep this one short. I selected a number of tracks, trying to decide where I wanted to take the mix tonight. Will it be disco? Will it be electro? Once I locked into Atjazz’s Wurde, I started to really [...]
It’s Friday, the weather is warm, and it’s time to do a mix before I go out to my evening. So, this afternoon, I started early, selected some music, fired up Traktor, and got to work. I decided to stay under the burnable CD time limit of eighty minutes. Some friends of mine, including Arturo [...]
While I enjoyed the three-in-a-row two-step garage mixes, I felt that it was time to drop a big set of chunky house grooves. I pushed the tempo slider to 128 beats per minute and away we go. Some of these cuts are familiar favorites and a few others are new downloads, either from eMusic or [...]
This evening, I threw down the two-step grooves for a third time with a fun mix that bumps pretty nicely. Other than a sloppy transition into and out of the MJ Cole track near the end, this set went off flawlessly and featured plenty of fun tracks. This mix session is just shy of eighty [...]
Jay Def delivers a third straight drum & bass mix — this time with a take-no-prisoners attitude, full of punchy percussion, throbbing bass lines, and threatening danger. If you like your breaks heavy and aggressive, but not hyper-active, with a little menace, this is your mix. At just over 71 minutes, it’s just long enough [...]
I had such a good time with my garage mix last time that I decided to drop another set of two-step tracks into @mix-bin (or rather, weed out the ones I played last time). I checked the microphone, did my little evil voiceover, and got to punching the beats. There are some really sexy tracks [...]
Jay Def, in addition to being my best friend, is one person whose DJ mixes I always look forward to with nearly breathless anticipation. He’s been really going gangbusters on the drum & bass lately. His new mix is nearly two hours of funky and atmospheric drum & bass. There are vocal tracks here, full [...]
I wanted to do something a little different today. I’ve really been digging the two-step garage tracks from my library lately. So, I dropped all of them into @mix-bin (the iTunes playlist I drop my “to mix” tracks into), culled duplicates, dropped in a Dubtribe track, pushed the tempo to 130, and went to work. [...]
Jay Def inaugurated the next chapter in the Digeum Mix Session saga today, by opening Volume 04 in peak form. Jay’s new mix is two hours of lush, ambient jungle and spaced out drum & bass grooves. The music here melts into the background if you want it to, but still keeps a good thump [...]
So this is it. The end of Digeum Mix Sessions – Volume 03. Closing out this set feels really good with a spate of mechanical issues I had this afternoon with my computer crashing a heartbreaking number of times. I have to admit, I was really tempted to hurl my laptop off the roof. After [...]
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