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Started by Triple Zero, March 24, 2008, 12:24:51 AM

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Triple Zero

as some of my may remember i played the DJ at a party two weeks ago, for which i spent a lot of time preparing some pre-mixed mashups in Ableton Live.

i finally got around to putting all mixes together in one zip-file, with a nice cover picture and the tracklist. you can download it here:

http://ifile.it/1kch8ge (75MB)

a few of you have probably heard most (or all) of these mixes, but it's worth getting this pack anyway because these are the definite final versions (no, i'm not going to touch them again, time to move on), plus they have been encoded as nice high quality 256kbps mp3s (sorry, i wanted to use OGG but that's no good for iPods or other portable mp3 players).

this is the tracklisting:

0 - Brothers without Honor or Humanity

Chemical Brothers - Leave Home
Tomoyasu Hotei - Battle without Honor or Humanity


1 - Break Beat Rocker Paste

Alter Ego - Rocker
Luke Vibert - Breakbeat Metal Music
Cut and Paste - Planet Boogie 2001
Dimensional Holophonic Sound - I am your Control


2 - Capital Shower Porn

Felix da Housecat - Silver Screen Shower Scene
Nine Inch Nails - Capital G (Epworth Phones mix)
Porn Kings - Up to no Good


3 - song to the temponaut

Chemical Brothers - Song to the Siren
Eat Static - Temponaut
The Bucketheads - The Bomb! (these sounds fall into my mind)
Eboman - Donuts with Buddah..
Cablejuice - Labdog
Propellerheads - A Number of Microphones
Ugress - Loungemeister

4 - space traffic

The Prodigy - Out of Space (Techno Underworld remix)
DJ Tiesto - Traffic


for my current project i'm working on a 35 minute mix to play while running ;-) actually it's already done, it consists of blocks of 3 minute goatrance at 142BPM interleaved with 2 minutes of ambient/psydub. i finished the first rough version last thursday, but because of a bad cold i haven't gotten around to taking it out for a test-run yet. it's not really intended as listening music, more of having a good beat to run to and having some musical indication for timing (when to run, when to walk etc). some of the transitions are still kind of rough, but i intend to polish it out over the course of the next couple of weeks.
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Triple Zero

Quote from: zippletits dutchbagfor my current project i'm working on a 35 minute mix to play while running  actually it's already done, it consists of blocks of 3 minute goa-trance at 142BPM interleaved with 2 minutes of ambient/psydub. i finished the first rough version last thursday, but because of a bad cold i haven't gotten around to taking it out for a test-run yet. it's not really intended as listening music, more of having a good beat to run to and having some musical indication for timing (when to run, when to walk etc). some of the transitions are still kind of rough, but i intend to polish it out over the course of the next couple of weeks.

in light of the immense popularity of and the feedback i got from this thread (*cough*), i have finished the mix, here is as promised, the mix i'm using for running:

http://ifile.it/angk78d

i will post the tracklist later, if anyone is interested :)
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Quote from: triple zero on March 29, 2008, 04:41:08 PM
in light of the immense popularity of and the feedback i got from this thread (*cough*), i have finished the mix, here is as promised, the mix i'm using for running:

http://ifile.it/angk78d

i will post the tracklist later, if anyone is interested :)

Pretty cool. Well done, though I couldn't quite get used to going between the psydub and goa (and I'm not much of a fan of psybient outside of Shpongle, but that's just me.)
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Triple Zero

thanks!

and as i said, i tried to make the transitions as smooth as possible, but you're still going from 142 to 71 bpm and back every 3+2* minutes, so it'll sound non-subtle no matter what.
and from my testruns i found that the cut from fast to slow needs to be rather quick otherwise it gets distracting, while the slow to quick transition needs a sort of obvious buildup so you can anticipate the beat. this might not make it much for "getting used to" ;-)

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LMNO

Havne't listened to it yet, but have you considered using delay effects to anticipate the tempo shifts?  For example, a dotted quarter note, or even dotted half note delay during the 142 section would carry the beat over several measures/bar lines, shifting the beat around.  If you send it pre-delay and cross-fade the original track, you can easily settle into the 71. 

To go from 71 to 142, try setting the delay to an eighth note triplet. The energy will kick up, and should make the transition easier.


But again, I haven't listened to it yet, so I might be talking shit here...

Triple Zero

hm, interesting idea, i might try that. but remember that when mixing pre existing songs, you don't have separate tracks for the beat and melody section, so the delay might wash out the melodies.

on the other hand, i think i accidentally have done this already one time and it worked pretty well.

the nice thing about goa trance is that it doesn't quite follow the standard structure of couplet/chorus, but more sort of goes on and on with breaks in between, which means if you take a bit of care you can simply cut and paste entire measures into a different order, so i can sort of pick it so that there will be a break at both the beginning and the end of the section and that it contains the interesting/cool bits [usually 3 minutes is not enough to get a proper buildup for a goa track to "drop" it, but this mix is not for dancing all night, it's for running 35 minutes].
still, that sometimes isn't enough as not every song even contains the proper kind of break :) which is when you gotta be creative ;-)
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LMNO

If you don't want to wash it out, you can set the feedback pretty low, so it only bounces a couple of times.

Or, you can mute/unmute the sends, so only the downbeat hits the delay.

In fact, if you do that, with a filter on the delay, you can set up some pretty interesting cross rhythms.

Triple Zero

hm that definitely sounds like cool stuff to experiment with! i think Ableton must be able to do it.

what is the filter on the delay for? [except for general filtering of stuff]
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Well, if you use a low pass, the delayed bits sound noticeably different than the source clip ("muffled").  That way, it psychologically is "in the background" and sort of gets out of the way of the source.

Yeah, I think in live you can mess with the automation of an effect.  If you use the grid setting, you can easily mute/unmute the send for a single beat.

I was thinking about it in terms of ProTools, but the same concept should apply.


LMNO

Hey, I can't download the tracks from that link.


Also, I remixed "Repeat the Question" using some of the delay stuff I was talking about:

http://rapidshare.com/files/104017910/Repeat_The_Question_Repeated.mp3.html

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