DJ Suva played two of my tracks last night on Remixta, both off The Sowl Files, and I was in good company I have to say… some killer tracks in the playlist. So y’all should check it out over at the site, here’s a direct link to the latest episode. Remixta is a podcast playing tracks made in the lovely music application Renoise, keep reading for some more info.
Here’s the about blurb off of there (which I shamelessly copied :)
Remixta is a monthly music podcast run by estonian DJ Suva and dedicated to playing music made with Renoise tracker. During the month, I collect all the new Renoise music from Renoise Forums, SoundCloud, Myspace and the tracks people send me directly. I choose the tracks I like the best and play them in 40 minute to 1h DJ set Live over IceCast. Everyone can tune in and listen the live show, and if they miss it, they can always relisten the podcast form of the show.
Bigup to my man Wolf holding it down in JP, and peace to Outtanet for playing some of my tunes and giving us a real nice show full of great songs. Check it out folks!
Wolfs little session is starting around 1:30 if you’re impatient, but I’m recommending listening through it all!
So.. the announcement was made after a long deliberation between the judges (Jonny Cuba, Audessey, Ollie Teeba, No Sleep Nigel and DJ Cro (that’s the UK DJ Cro, to avoid any confusion)). Yeah, so anyways, I came in third place, which means I’m one of the three winners of this little competition.. good stuff!
First place was snatched by Ashoke aka Boom Op, and second place by Ajuda (got no link for Ajuda.. sorry). Check the tunes in the player below!
As you might hear my tune is a little bit different here compared to the one I put up a couple of weeks ago, nothing major tho… and of course check Soundsci (buy the album.. it’s great!), Crate Escape Records & DJ Cro’s blog. Cheers!
This is a collection of ghosts from the Sowl period (2005-2007). Sowl consisted of me and Sol (who is now one half of Noisebud), and we made electronica (sometimes quite experimental) in all it’s incarnations.
Click the pic, here or the download link on the player above to head over to my bandcamp page (might put it up on Soundcloud as well, but it’s hella slow at the moment) where you can download the whole thing for free. Feel free to share it with your friends!
I’ve had these tracks (and many more) just sitting on my harddrive without knowing what to do with them, so I finally decided to pick out a few and just throw em out there… They’re not doing anyone any good hidden away here.
I’ve not done any extra mixing or arranging on em, I decided to leave em as they were, for good or bad. This doesn’t mean they’re bad or in bad quality tho, just saying. Anyway, if someone really fancies one of the tracks I could of course fix it up a little, but at this point it’s not gonna happen. The exception are the two bonus tracks, which are pretty decently mixed and arranged (featuring Sol aka Sunflake on vocals).
Some of these have been uploaded on a couple sites under my other alias, Kvartersakuten, but since most know me as magOwl I figured I’d just put this out under that name. Plus that was the name I went under in Sowl.. so there you have it.
There’s a varied mix of styles on here, breakcore, lo-fi, old jungle ish, electronica, glitch, dubstep, techno and so on (no Hip-Hop tho, sorry kids, I’ll get that going later on this winter/spring). So hopefully there’s a little something something for everyone.
Finally bagged myself a pair of monitors, KRK RP6 G2’s to be precise. Spent a fair amount of hours in several different listening rooms checking out different ones, but for the price, these ones gave me the most bang for the buck I thought. Of course there were “better” sounding ones, but you know, the price went way way up.. so maybe sometime in the future.
I’ve only tested em out on a couple of different beats so far, and they do feel relatively accurate, to my ears at least. Plus I still got my old crappy Sony hifi speakers for reference and my trusty old Beyerdynamic DT-250 headphones. So between these three I’m hoping it’ll make mixing a bit easier, which it really hasn’t been up to this point. I’ll have to get back to you how it works out.
I still need to figure out some placing for em tho.. pretty crowded on my desk at the moment. Thinking about a quick rearrange involving a pair of longer DVI cables for my computer monitors, or, as an alternative, some form of tripods or stands for the KRK’s. Easiest solution would be the first I think, but.. that would sort of f-up my little batcave here.. it’ll require some serious coffee drinking and thought…
Ok, it’s official, the new Atari Blitzkrieg album 12.31.99 is out and about causing a ruckus. If you pick it up now you’ll get the EP called 12.30.99 for free, offer expires tomorrow. So where to get it? Ataris site is a good place to start.
The EP takes place a day before 12.31.99, coming in at 14 tracks it’s more of an LP I guess.. anywho, with tracks produced by Jazz Spastiks, Krohme, Cadence, Moka Only, Nick Wiz, MackeralSalad, DJ A.I., Blockhead & Digital Fiend, and with all sale revenue going to charity (for both the EP and the main album) it could be a nice buy I think. You can pick it up separately right here, if you wish.
Ok on to the main album..
The 2nd full-length from Atari Blitzkrieg, 12.31.99, takes place both sonically and spiritually on New Years Eve, 1999, all the beats have that flavour and were either made back then or made to sound a bit like it did back then.. good stuff. I got one beat on there, which was made in ‘98 I think, have to check to be sure. It’s a split track with the other half produced by Damian Calculon. Other producers on there include Krohme, Nick Wiz, Psycho Les, Bronze Nazareth and others, with guest appearances by L.I.F.E. Long, Lil Dap, Vast Aire, Breez Evahflowin, C-Rayz Walz and more.
I haven’t heard the whole thing yet, so I can’t really comment on it, but from what I have heard, it’s sounding good!
As mentioned you can grab it off Ataris site at a reduced price at the moment, but it will be available over at Amazon, iTunes and what have you, shortly. Oh.. and if you wanna preview it, Atari has a sampler up right here. Not sure if I should direct link it so I won’t, but it’s right there on that page.
So.. I hope y’all had a good Yule & New Years.. speak to you soon! Easy.
In the post below you’ll find the tune and links for it, download is available via my Soundcloud page. And again make sure to check out Liqs bandcamp page for more good music. My man Bluevibe also wrote a little something something about it so head over to him and check that and his tunes out.. good stuff folks!
So.. here we go, my remix of St Liqour-Ish’s futuristic g-funk tune Money$ack is up and available, might even make it downloadable in a little while, just need to check a few things first.
Some electronic vibes with a twist, for those of you who know me that shouldn’t come as any surprise. So check it out right here, or peep all the tunes over at Soundcloud and make sure you hit up St Liqour-Ish’s bandcamp page for some extra goodies (remix will appear there shortly as well).
And again big up to my man Bluevibe for hooking me up.
