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DJ Empirical, “Here Are Some Songs: June 2009”

Posted by stephen on 2009-06-27
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download: DJ Empirical, “Here Are Some Songs: June 2009”
jun 2009
I made this some time during the last week of june, 2009. I was practicing, making sure the upgraded version of Serato worked fine on my machine before my gig at the Pris Prom. It wasn’t particularly tight, and it required a lot of ex post facto level adjustments, but there’s some good stuff in there, so i thought i’d post it.

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.

DJ Empirical, Les Deux Sexy

Posted by stephen on 2009-06-06
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download: DJ Empirical, Pris Mix June 2009: Les Deux Sexy
jun 2009

Earlier this year, Pris released a promo double cd, Les Deux Sexy, containing mixes from each of the six of us dj’s in the group. Now that there are no longer copies of the cds, here’s my mix.

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Tracklist:

Mexican Institute of Sound – Cumbia
El Remolón – Modeselektor vs Calle 13
Aman Hayer – Heer Ranjha
Architecture in Helsinki – Heart It Races (Spruce Lee remix)
Jahcoozi – Shake the Doom
Shakti – Do the Thang Thang (Bhangra remix)
Wilman de Jesus – Walk Like an Egyptian (Pytter mix)
Beck – Black Tambourine (remixed by South Rakkas Crew)
Ty – So U Want More (refix feat. Roots Manuva)
JaConfetti – Deksloc
Frikstailers – Ta Duro Kuduro
Yelle – Je Veux Te Voir (Disco D remix)
Buraka Som Sistema – Sound of Kuduro (feat. M.I.A.)
Schlachthofbronx – We Nah Fraid

DJ Empirical, “Straight Line in Space-Time” (May 2009)

Posted by stephen on 2009-05-23
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download: DJ Empirical, “Straight Line in Space-Time”
may 2009
This is a space-themed dj mix I did in Ableton for Pris Mix 003, which was a mix tape (yes, *tape*) given out at the space-themed “2009: A Pris Odyssey” event in May 2009. Each song was space-related in some way, including the instrumentals, if only in a titular way.

Tracklist:

James Saunders – Fanfare for Space
Star Wars – The Ewoks Join the Fight
The Jonzun Crew – Space Is the Place
Mesu Kasumai – After Mars
Belinda Carlisle – Heaven Is a Place on Earth (a cappella)
Neil Armstrong – One Small Step
Atmosfear – Dancing in Outer Space (Dubbed in Space version 3 by Masters at Work)
[unknown] – Roswell, NM, Radio Announcement
Fred Giannelli – Telepathic Space Grass
Dr. Richard Wolfson – Curved Spacetime
Andreas Ammer / F.M. Einheit / Ulrike Haage – Space I
Sifl & Olly – Haunted Spaceship
Björk – Earth Intruders (Lexx remix)
Coldcut – This Island Earth (feat. Mpho Skeef)
White Zombie – Starface
Byetone – Plastic Star (session)
LB – Ashes to Ashes
Boney M. – Nightflight to Venus
The Juan Maclean – By the Time I Get to Venus
John Swigert, Jr. and James Lovell – Houston, We Have a Problem
James Kochalka Superstar – Bad Astronaut

I’m particularly proud of the White Zombie / Byetone mashup. 😀

DJ Empirical, Spring 2009 Dubstep Mix

Posted by stephen on 2009-04-19
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download: DJ Empirical, “Spring 2009 Dubstep Mix”
apr 2009

Here’s a short (~22 min) mix I did this weekend. I just replaced my needles from when they were stolen in February, so I’ve been off the decks for a minute.

Tracklist:

Chase & Status – Against All Odds (feat. Kano) (dubstep remix)
Jazzsteppa – One
Fault – Don’t Dread on Me
DZ – What You Won’t Do for Love
Cult of the 13th Hour – Wickedness
DJ Hatcha – Just a Rift
Headhunter & Ekelon – Timewarp
Lady Sovereign – A Little Bit of Shhh! (dub)

DJ Empirical, “Bale Freakout Dub”

Posted by stephen on 2009-02-05
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download: DJ Empirical, “Bale Freakout Dub”
05 feb 2009

So in case you haven’t heard it yet, Christian Bale went on a little rampage on the set of… Terminator 4 or something.

Nowadays it’s cool to remix the hell out of any old audio clip that hits the web, but all the remixes I’ve heard have been wack as hell, so when stAllio! suggested that *someone* remix it well, i figured I’d give it a whirl.

This isn’t quite done yet, but it’s sharable. At this point, I’m maybe not even going to revisit it, so… yeah.

DJ Empirical, 3-3-2 Mix Test Run

Posted by stephen on 2009-01-28
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download: DJ Empirical, 3-3-2 Mix Test Run
28 jan 2009

I discovered a great mix by Wayne and Wax, an early entry in the “Blogariddims” podcast, called “Another Crunk Geneaology“. His mix “traces out another crunk genealogy, seeking the common grooves and feedback loops between crunk and clave, reggaeton and ragtime, bhangra and bounce, to name a few”. Check his lengthy explanation of the 3-3-2 beat, its influence on music, and definitely listen to his mix.

This appealed to me not only as a music nerd, but also as a dj, since I’d been mixing small sets of music with this beat for a while — I just didn’t have the proper music knowledge to identify the common element.

I spent a couple days pulling together music that uses that 3-3-2 pattern for a mix, and did a short (~18 min) test run, with a sort of random track list.

This was mostly a proof-of-concept, so there are some tracks of questionable bitrate, and lots of pitch-shift aliasing to deal with, for sure. (Then again, Ludachrist has Ableton aliasing all over his mix.)

DJ Empirical, Summer 2008 Mix

Posted by stephen on 2008-07-16
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download: DJ Empirical, Summer 2008 Mix
jul 2008

Here’s another Serato mix, an hour of mostly of dubstep, bassline house, and the like. I have at the moment lost (if I ever had it) the tracklist. I know it starts with Andrew W.K., and has Benga & Coki, Dexplicit, T2, DJ Q, TS7, some Drop the Lime… and some more stuff.

DJ Empirical, “Back Into It”

Posted by stephen on 2008-02-27
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download: DJ Empirical, “Back Into It”
27 feb 2008

This is another “practice” set I did before one or another of my gigs; judging from the date (02/27/08), I was preparing for the March ’08 edition of Schwarz, the electronic night hosted by The Librarian and me.

As I mentioned when I uploaded this before:

i’m a little rusty, so this week is going to be devoted to un-rustifying.

i threw this together earlier just figuring out what i’m doing again 🙂 it’s mostly dubstep-ish things.

Tracklist:

77 Klash – Mad Again (feat. Johnny Osbourne)
Vex’d – Pop Pop V.I.P.
Lone Wolf – Slayed by Shadows
Aaron Spectre – Music Is the Weapon
Benga & Coki – Night (Buraka som Sistema remix)
Cloaks – Hi Tek Buzz
Drop the Lime / Mathhead – Bricks
Twista – Tattoo (a cappella)

DJ Empirical, “A Quickie with DJE”

Posted by stephen on 2007-08-12
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download: DJ Empirical, “A Quickie with DJE”
aug 2007

This is a short, 20-minute-ish Serato mix dating back to when I was first starting to play at Clique. There are a couple rough spots, but it’s a good view of where I was musically at the time.

tracklist:

Jamelia “Something About You (Mr Oizo Mix)”
Lil Mama “Lip Gloss (Kid Fresh & Haterboy ReFix)”
Lillica Libertine “Ultra 10”
Cybotron “Clear”
Debbie Gibson “Only in My Dreams”
Federico Franchi “Electron”
Chromeo “Bonafied Lovin'”
Black Ghosts “Let’s Get Physical”
Midnight Juggernauts “Road to Recovery (Miami Horror remix)”
Dandi Wind “Stop Die (remix)”
PROFF “You’ll See (original)”

I was burning it on 3″ cdrs for people for a while. Most people didn’t know what to do with them (especially people with macs) so I stopped.

DJ Empirical, Sandpaper Set, Live @ BASE Gallery, 2007-03-30

Posted by stephen on 2007-03-30
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download: Sandpaper Set, Live @ BASE Gallery, Cincinnati, OH 2007-03-30
30 mar 2007

I was asked to play a noise show downtown Cincinnati at a place called BASE Gallery. Instead of trying the stuff I’d been doing in The Black Fives, I wanted to do something new: play a dj set with pieces of sandpaper instead of records.

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I used normal turntables & needles, along with a Kaoss Pad for effects. Someone asked, in a myspace comment, something to the effect of, “Wouldn’t that mess up your needles?”

In short, yes:

sandpaper needles

The blue needle on the left of the low-quality scanner image is a new needle; the two black ones were old, worn out needles i hadn’t yet thrown away. As you can see, the sandpaper completely ravaged them. 🙂

And for the record (no pun), I used multiple grits of sandpaper over the course of the set, and some with masking tape in a plus-sign shape across the sandpaper to make a kind of rhythmic sound.