2010
A few months ago Kendall & Matt of Koala Fires asked me whether I’d like to remix one of their tunes for a remix album, and (of course) I accepted.
The above is the finished version of my remix, and will be is available on their bandcamp page when it’s released. You can hear (and purchase!) the original version of the above tune there as well, or click the play button below:
Today everyone’s been passing around the 8x slowed down Justin Bieber track. It’s pretty sweet, and though I’ve been playing around with slowed samples for quite a while, I never had an app that worked as well as PaulStretch.
After listening to the Bieber track, I thought I’d see what Venetian Snares sounds like at 1/4 speed. It’s not as slow, ratio-wise, as the Bieber thing, but I wanted the result to still have a beat.
If you’d like to hear the original version of “Gentleman“, here you go:
When I first heard Lady Gaga’s “Alejandro”, I thought the similarities to Ace of Base’s classic “Don’t Turn Around” were striking. I dug up the Gaga instrumental easily, but the Ace of Base a capella was tougher to find. In the end, I had to use the 2009 version, which has a slightly different vocal rhythm — not exactly what I wanted, but I think it works.
I upped this onto youtube when I made it, but I’m just now (Nov ’10) uploading it here for download.
This is a mix I made to promote my monthly disco night, Nous Nous Appelons Disco. It’s 80 minutes of stuff I play at my night, meaning Disco (of any kind, but especially space/leftfield/nu-disco), Italo, High NRG, and even some proto-House — basically anything even vaguely related!
The tempo of this mix ramps up from a beginning-of-the-night 109 to a frantic 133 near the end, to mimic the usual pace of the Nous Nous Appelons Disco nights.
If you dig the stuff in this mix, come out on Friday!
Here’s the track list:
Z – Silver Lady Disco (Nous Nous Appelons Disco edit)
Hipnosis – Windland
Glass Candy – The Chameleon (Johan Agebjörn remix)
Gaznevada – I.C. Love Affair
Happy Mondays – WFL (Vince Clarke mix) (Autodisco‘s “We Love Mondays” edit)
Pink Floyd – Keep Talking (Nelue re-edit)
Västkustska Ryggdunkarsällskapet – Vansbro Boogie
Beatconductor – Funky Boogie
Colonel Abrams – Trapped
Ilya Santana – Discotized
Soft Rocks – Leave Your Earth Behind
Majeure – Teleforce (with samples from Steve Dahl and his disco demolition)
RAF – Self Control (Trustus‘ Deeply Existential remix)
Cecile & Venice – Rimmel
Electric Minds – Pick Me Up (Casual Touch mix)
Sisters of Transistors – The Don
Trilogy – Not Love (instrumental)
Change – Angel in My Pocket
Ottawan – D.I.S.C.O.
Munich Machine – Space Warrior (DJ Empirical edit)
Giorgio Moroder – From Here to Eternity
Space – Magic Fly
Divine – You Think You’re a Man (Disco Beard‘s Big One edit)
Sylvester – Do Ya Wanna Funk
Zombi – Sapphire
Visage – The Damned Don’t Cry
Greg Vandike – Clone
A. Hobson – Perpetuum
Sylvia Love – Instant Love
The Flirts – Danger (Macho mix)
Kano – I’m Ready
Tantra – Hills of Katmandu (Patrick Cowley mix)
Gil Mantera’s Party Dream – Eyes of Blue (DJ Empirical edit)
This is my debut release on AERO, the longform mix release sublabel of Race Car Productions. For this one, I’ll let them speak for me:
DJ Empirical
Party Like It’s Before 1990
released: 2010-02
catolog #: AERO 013
Stephen Boyd is a fascinating character. As DJ Empirical he employs his knack for obscure music collecting and correlating seemingly unrelated tracks just perfectly. Here we find him behind the wheels of a Delorean going back to where it all began.
To add to that, basically I felt like early techno and electro (as well as acid) was not something I was as familiar with as I should be. I figured that doing a set of those tunes would force the research I needed to close that gap a bit.
Enjoy!
Tracklist:
Model 500 – Sound of Stereo (instrumental) [1987, Metroplex]
Hithouse – Jack to the Sound of the Underground [1988, CBS]
Rhythim Is Rhythim – It Is What It Is (Majestic mix) [1988, Transmat]
Armando – World Unknown (My Mixx Is Dunn) [1988, Warehouse]
Phresh Phantasy – Come on Acid [supposedly 1988, released 2005, Logistic]
Phuture – Acid Tracks [1987, Trax]
Virgo Four – In a Vision (808 State edit) [1987, Trax, edit 2008, Harmless]
Amnesia – Ibiza (Loco Acid remix) [1988, Indisc]
Jack Frost & The Circle Jerks – Shout (Ashley Beedle edit) [1987, FLEX, edit 2008, Harmless]
Cybotron – R-9 [1985, Fantasy]
Juan – Techno Music [1988, Ten]
A Tongue & D Groove – Feel Surreal [1988, Ten]
Adonis – No Way Back (Greg Wilson edit) [1986, Trax, edit 2008, Harmless]
Model 500 – What’s the Game [1988, Metroplex]
Rational Youth – Dancing on the Berlin Wall [1982, Yul]
Channel One – Technicolor (long mix) [1986, Metroplex]
Mike Dunn – So Let It Be Houze! [1988, Westbrook]
Forgemasters – Track With No Name [1989, Warp]
edit: soundcloud mix is offline. try it at mixcloud.
DJ Empirical: Covers Mix for Bubbles in the Think Tank, 2010-02-08 by djempirical
I made a set of all cover songs for my friends’ radio show. Their archive of the show turned out a bit wonky (at least, my part of it did), so I rendered the set separately and upped it here. It’s a nice mix of rock, metal, electro, metal, and whatever else I could scrape together.
Check out their show at Bubbles in the Think Tank.
Track list (radio safe, by the way):Quicksand, “How Soon Is Now?” [The Smiths]
KMFDM, “Mysterious Ways” [U2]
El Michels Affair, “Shimmy Shimmy Ya” [Ol’ Dirty Bastard]
Coal, “Ace of Spades” [Motörhead]
Cassettes Won’t Listen, “Need You Tonight” [INXS]
Institute of Technology, “King of Rock” [Run DMC]
DJ Gyngyvytus, “The National Headbustaz Anthem” [Radiohead]
Squarepusher, “Love Will Tear Us Apart” [Joy Division]
My Brightest Diamond, “Tainted Love” [Gloria Jones]
Kiko & S Deschezeaux, “Rock Your Body” [Justin Timberlake]
Tiga, “Hot in Herre (feat. Jake Shears)” [Nelly]
A. Human, “A Horse with No Name” [America]
U-Bahn Kontrollöre, “Policy of Truth (VG edit)” [Depeche Mode]
Señor Coconut and His Orchestra, “Around the World (full version)” [Daft Punk]
Bigod 20, “Like a Prayer” [Madonna]
Dsico, “Smells Like Electro” [Nirvana]
Shawn Lee’s Ping Pong Orchestra, “Toxic” [Britney Spears]
Fear Factory, “Cars (feat. Gary Numan)” [Gary Numan]
Faith No More, “Let’s Lynch the Landlord” [Dead Kennedys]
WhoMadeWho, “Satisfaction” [Benny Benassi]
British Whale, “This Town Ain’t Big Enough for Both of Us” [Sparks]
Slayer, “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” [Iron Butterfly]
This is my half-hour mix from the December 2009 Pris promo double cd of mixes entitled Basic Pleasure Model. (Get it? 🙂 )
We only made about 50 of the cds, so I thought I should share it here.
Tracklist:
Basement Jaxx – Raindrops (Joker & Ginz remix)
Boxcutter – Sidetrak
José James – Blackmagic (Untold remix)
Fault – Don’t Dread on Me
Blasta – Your Dub Delay
MIDIval PunditZ – Atomizer (Nucleya remix)
Rusko – How Low (feat. Chali2na)
Eskmo – I Dream I’m Flying
Annie – My Love Is Better (Sukh Knight remix)
Ultrablack – Dirty Dirty
Tom Encore – Jig
Miss Platnum – She Moved In
I made this (as you would expect) in preparation for Halloween 2009, as I’d never really made a Halloween themed mix before (that I could remember).
It’s a very pan-genre mix, running the gamut from rap to metal, from industrial to disco, and with a Wesley Willis track to cap it all off. All of the songs have a scary theme/title, whether it be monsters, murder, or something in between.
Very NSFW (or radio) at times, for those of you who care.
Tracklist:
Whodini – The Haunted House of Rock (remix)
Gnarls Barkley – The Boogie Monster
Grand Buffet – Murderfuck
Danzig – Twist of Cain
Skinny Puppy – Testure
Goblin – Tenebrae (main title)
Addrisi Brothers – Ghost Dancer (Hey Convict! Rebirth)”
Fudgie & Fufu – Surfin’ Dracula (a cappella)
Hot Ice – Theme from ‘Friday the 13th Part 3’
13 & God – Ghostwork
Cesare vs. Disorder – Midday Vampire
Clark – Dead Shark Eyes
The Bulgarian feat. Spoek – Jack It Like a Zombie (Santiago & Bushido remix)
Bloc Party – Hunting for Witches (Ruckus Roboticus remix)
Metalchicks – Dead Loss Angeles
Otto von Schirach – Tea Bagging the Dead
20goto10 – Halloween
Buckethead – Mad Monster Party
Wesley Willis – Suck a Werewolf’s DickWith selections from General Mills cereal flexi-disc “The Monsters Go Disco”, William S. Burroughs‘ “Naked Lunch”, and a few horror films.
This is a mashup that came out of preparations for my Halloween mix. It didn’t really work in the mix, but sounds just fine as a standalone track.
The electronic half is an older grime track by Kid D, “Scary House”. I mixed it with the Vitamin String Quartet’s cover of Slayer’s “Dead Skin Mask”.
Tracklist:
Cerrone – Supernature
DAF – Brothers
Bobby O – She Has a Way
Ottawan – You’re OK
Parvati Khan (Bappi Lahiri) – Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy Aaja
M.I.A. – Jimmy
Magic Men – Pop Corn
Sparks – Tryouts for the Human Race
JPLS – Spooked
Portishead – Machine Gun (Noise Floor Crew remix)
Uusitalo – Nälkälaulu
Die Haustiere – Danneggiato (Evan Scott remix)
Sarah Goldfarb – Confusion
Ellen Allien – ITS
Pole – Winkelstreben
The Librarian – The Enemy
OI!tER – I Wanna Be Your Underwear
Random Source – Face Like a Robot (original)
Front 242 – Tragedy >For You<
Skepta – Rolex Sweep (extended mix)
NWA – Something 2 Dance 2
Apotheosis – O Fortuna (Apocalypse Chorus mix)
As you can see, it starts out with italo & disco, then delves into techno for a while, and ends up in a very ridiculous place.
oh, and about halfway through, i bumped the phono/line switch and you get to hear about a second of the serato record. ha! very professional.