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 [...]
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 [...]
We’re closing in on the end of the third volume of Digeum Mix Sessions. I threw down some bumping funky house music this evening and mixed for almost 80 minutes.
No technical issues on this one, except a reminder occasionally that my ears are better for telling that tracks are beatmatched than the meters [...]
What a treat. Jay Def volunteered to snag today’s mix, so I eagerly awaited his newest Digeum mix. I posted it after I got home from hanging out with a friend of mine.
Are you ready? This one is just over two hours of seriously thumping electro house grooves in a very interesting [...]
In celebration of the 75th mix posted on Digeum, I decided to keep this one short enough to burn to a CD. I set the tempo at 125 beats per minute and lined up a number of electro house tracks. You ready to groove? Me, too.
The 75 minutes of this mix slipped [...]
Today’s 39-song mix is the longest mix ever posted on Digeum, just a few minutes short of three hours long. I auditioned a whole gaggle of tracks from various playlists in my iTunes library yesterday and this morning, adding more than 130 to @mix-bin. After more culling and an early afternoon library book [...]
The computer only stalled once this evening. It stalled a few times during mix prep and once with 90 seconds left in the mix on the very last track (fantastic). Today’s deep house mix at 123 beats per minute was a short 61 minutes, because I ran out of time before I was [...]
Today, I decided to head back into electro territory, but to ease off on the tempo and play a set at 124 beats per minute. Unfortunately, my computer had other ideas.
I’ve been plagued with failing motherboard issues on my MacBook Pro for what seems like forever, at least a couple of years, and as [...]
I decided to take it deep this evening, after a few electro house mixes. I pulled the tempo slider back to 124 bpm to start the year off nice and deep. Yeah, that feels really good. These tracks are so pretty and full of soul that I locked into a good groove [...]
Today is the autumnal equinox. I decided to do a banging house mix full of delicious love songs as I thought about the amazing thing I participated in this weekend.
Some transitions still give me a little bit of trouble, but I think my mixing skills are dramatically stronger than they were just a year [...]
So, over the last week or so, I’ve been shoring up the playlist for my buddy’s wedding. I have a big bin of wedding staples, including a ridiculous amount of disco, funk, pop, and soul. According to iTunes, I could play continuously for 18 hours without playing the same track twice. That [...]
Jay Def treated us to another set of aggressive electro house thumps. His track selection is superb and the groove just keeps kicking. I’m totally going to raid his iTunes library the next time I’m in his presence.
Don’t mess with Jay Def. He’s bringing it tough and relentless. Damn, brother. [...]
Another mix, another 4 stalls, and 5 restarts. I threw it down. I need to make double sure that my track selection is good, that I know the songs I’m mixing well enough to understand when the beat changes in the transition. Once I got this one going, though, I put down [...]
Today, I decided to throw down a deep house mix. I tried to keep it mellow, but I had to start over a couple of times. But, once I got the groove moving, I kept it going for just over 80 minutes. There were a couple of trainwrecks, but I’m happy with the [...]
Jay Def has been practicing mixing dubstep. Today, he mixed up Digeum’s first non-house mix. For nearly 90 minutes, he throws down an aggressive, take-no-prisoners dubstep mix. It’s enough to make you say “Damn.” Go listen now.
Digeum Mix Sessions – Volume 02, Session Kilo — Sickday Dubs. Mixed by Jay [...]
This weekend, my best friend, Jay Def, flew down here to rainy, windy Northern California for a weekend of fun and hijinks. This afternoon, I took him to the airport.
Jay lives in Idaho, but the only reasonably priced plane tickets we could find him required him to change planes in Phoenix. The weather [...]
Today is International Dance Day, apparently. Might as well do an electro house mix, no? This weekend, Jay Def is visiting, so we’ll get to a tag team mix then.
Digeum Mix Sessions – Volume 02, Session India — International Dance Day. Mixed by Apollo Lee in Sunnyvale, California, USA, on Wednesday, April [...]
It is really hot in the Silicon Valley today, so I decided to spin up a hot summery mix of house music. At first, I started on an electro groove, but I quickly evolved into a funky deep house mix that seems to be my preferred DJ mix style. It was oodles of [...]
It’s laundry day and rest day at the same time. I might as well get another mix session done. This time, I picked out a bunch of electro tracks, pulled the slider back to 121 beats per minute, and grooved along for about 78 minutes.
Digeum Mix Sessions – Volume 02, Session Golf — [...]
Another CrossFit rest day, another mix. Maybe I should do one of these every rest day (lately, I’ve been doing one every other rest day). Let’s dance.
I spent part of the day at work yesterday listening to tracks from my high resolution smart playlist in iTunes and grabbing a few tracks to throw [...]
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