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 [...]
Recently, I discovered and installed Tumblrize for WordPress. I think it’s a neat idea, since I have a tumblr blog with 17 followers. I have no idea why photobloggers who post pictures of cute, fashionable girls are following me, but I’ll take all the readers I can get. I do have a couple of nits [...]
Last week, I got a new right fan for my MacBook Pro, which has been having crash problems for most of 18 months, possibly because the right fan hasn’t worked at all for a long time. I’m pretty used to seeing temperatures, according to smcFanControl, of 165 – 185°F. So, after some frustration, I found [...]
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 should suffice. Early [...]
Jay Def and I got together on my last day on my Spring Break Road Trip to hang out, eat some grub, and throw down our first tag team mix since December. It’s always really fun to hang out with Jay and mixing beats with him is a real pleasure. Jay takes risks with his [...]
During my recent road trip to the Northwest, I decided to throw down a mix in my hotel room in Seattle after a long day of driving across parts of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. I decided to slide the tempo down to 123 bpm and play a nice, laid-back deep house mix. I really like [...]
Today’s a rest day, so I threw some tracks into @mix-bin, recorded a voiceover in Logic, and set the tempo to 125 beats per minute. Away we go. I started out with some Jay Tripwire tracks that I just grabbed recently from eMusic and ran through a bunch of electro tracks. Some of them were [...]
After my blood donation this afternoon, I got everything in my studio all ready with a fresh set of tracks in @mix-bin. While I still haven’t figured out how to get Traktor to “hear” my microphone, I discovered that Logic Pro is more than happy to let me record my own voice, process the hell [...]
It’s about time to close out Digeum Volume 01. Today’s a rest day, so I jumped on the bullet train, ate my chow, and got all set up. I mixed up a set of grooves that started out in electro territory and wandered into my beloved jazzy deep house. I tried to play tracks that [...]
Lately, my MacBook Pro has been having performance issues—mostly culminating in the computer stalling out and requiring a long wait until reacting or a reboot outright. In addition to the stall issues, at random times, there are various horizontal streaks across certain applications and, at other times, random gradients and screen smears pop up. This [...]
It’s my birthday! Woo. To celebrate a perfect workout month and my big 0×26 (heh), I put together a funky house mix. I wasn’t too worried about digging through Digeum to see if I’ve played any of these tracks before. I just aimed at playing a fun mix that will hopeful have you smiling as [...]
After getting delisted from Technorati a while back—due to a XSS attack (I think, nobody informed me)—I managed to get through to a customer service representative at Technorati and my block has been lifted. Interestingly, Digeum, ApolloLee.com, and Osteocephalic were not affected by the delisting. I wonder if it had anything to do with Panera [...]
I set a couple of New Year’s Resolutions last year, which I didn’t get around to posting here. One of them was to write 52 tracks, which I finished. I slipped on a few others. So, I’m going to post my goals for 2009 in three categories: personal development, music, and fitness. You ready? Let’s [...]
At the beginning of the year, I decided that I wanted to write 52 tracks in 2008 and post them all on a new blog I started in March. There were some weeks that I had no output at all, but for most of the year, I carried my Korg padKontrol in my backpack, so [...]
Jay Def came over to my grandmother’s house to hang out on December 26, while I was in the area. While we’re both in the same place at the same time, we might as well throw down some beats, right? We shut the door of the family room, so as not to disturb my grandmother’s [...]
So, this afternoon, I decided to wander into the T-Mobile store to square away my bill. I bought a new iPhone about six weeks ago, after I read that T-Mobile was reducing their early termination fee from $200 to $100 for customers whose contracts expire within 180 days. Imagine my surprise this afternoon when I [...]
I noticed that a few of my tracks sound kind of low resolution when I’m listening to music on my wonderful Koss headphones at work or my new Sony DJ headphones. Erica, a bit of an audiophile, listened to my Digeum mixes and asked me why I insisted on ripping everything at a low resolution [...]
Jay Def threw down the gauntlet with gusto in our first mix session. He plays a heady mix of delicious funky house music. Digeum Mix Session – Volume 01, Session Alpha. Mixed by Jay Def in Boise, Idaho, USA, on Sunday, September 01, 2008. Running time: 1:04:39. Go give it a listen and leave a [...]
Right on the heels of my new gear, I began experiencing intermittent kernel panics, which led my operating system to stop booting. Pissed beyond all conceivable description, I headed to the Genius bar at my local Apple store to ask for an assist. We scanned my hard drive, determined that it was okay, but realized [...]
Despite the more than 35 tracks I’ve written so far this year, I just can’t shake the feeling that I’m not writing anything good — especially house music, which is where I was aiming for anyway. I’ll keep slugging along at the production, but I thought the best way for me to introduce my music [...]
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