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.
:mittens: Awesome!
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/angk78di will post the tracklist later, if anyone is interested :)
Marked for later.
Oh sweet, I'm listening to it now.
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.)
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" ;-)
*zomg law of fives
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...
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 ;-)
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.
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]
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.
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
Gah!
/
:argh!:
Too much delay?
I had it turned up somewhat loud. I wasn't expecting the surprise at the end.
Well, yeah. It does kind of build to a peak.
Quote from: LMNO on April 01, 2008, 01:28:10 PM
Hey, I can't download the tracks from that link.
whaddaya mean? you click "request ticket" and then "download" ?
more blocking at work?
tell me a place where you know you can get it from, and i'll put it there.
Actually, this was at home.
I cliked the download button, but nothing happened.
1. try again
2. tell me a place where you know you can get it from, and i'll put it there.
Quote from: LMNO on April 01, 2008, 02:37:02 PM
Well, yeah. It does kind of build to a peak.
Yeah, but when I got to the peak I ended up getting rolled down the mountain.
btw expect a new running mix in a week or two, cause i just beat this one, as in that i ran it out all the way without taking more breaks than the pattern prescribed.
as soon as i figure out if the "step up" from 3+2 should be 3+1, 4+1, 4+2 or 4+3, i'll get to it.
a friend of mine passed me a nice new set of goa trance tracks, so that's good :D
since it doesn't really matter what a vocoder actually says, this is me reading a vocoded spam email:
http://ifile.it/ta94y8q
and, the lyrics, of course:
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Very amusing.
:lulz:
Really, now, that was brilliant. You should do more!
this time, i did a proper vocoder rhyme:
http://ifile.it/h2lx1j8
not bad for a first try, IMO. the vocoder makes it a bit garbled because the initial recording quality wasnt too good (volume differences, mostly)
Quote from: triple zero on May 05, 2008, 02:18:36 AMthis time, i did a proper vocoder rhyme:
http://ifile.it/h2lx1j8
not bad for a first try, IMO. the vocoder makes it a bit garbled because the initial recording quality wasnt too good (volume differences, mostly)
getting no replies, neither in this thread nor the other.. is it really that bad?
i mean, it's probably quite bad, but i could probably do with some constructive criticism as i'm not intending to stop playing with the vocoder :)
does the text/rhyming suck, do i have no sense of rhythm, is my voice/accent too stupid or should i perhaps just not bother at all recording my own voice and just sample from others (which is also a very viable option).
if you think the vocoder effect/sound is not very "fat", i know, i'm figuring out how to do it properly. turns out to get a juicy vocoder sound, just combining any vocal modulator with any synth carrier does not necessarily do the trick :) but i have some ideas to try out, still.
It's because of the font.
:lulz: :argh!:
Next party is coming up in a month or two, so I'm starting to prepare some small sets of 2-3 premixed tracks. This one would make a good intro:
http://ifile.it/a5twmno
ott - rogue bagel // waterjuice - launch // daft punk - da funk
with (short) samples from junkie XL - expanding limits + eat static - crash & burn
I love teh vocoded spam, you should totally expand on that. :D
my latest 4 running mixes:
http://ifile.it/4yan20e (41MB)
so, yesterday i was at a going away party for a friend who's going to be a tropical doctor in Ghana, and together with a friend we recorded this song, which is a dutch (or belgian?) children's girl band called K3 that sings in this case a song about africa and being together or whatever.
so we recorded ourselves singing that, stretched and warped the vocals so they fit in the rhythm and applied a vocoder, because apparently we suck at both keeping rhythm and keeping tone :) :)
then we slapped the end-result on top of a short chemical beats track called "fuck up beats", realized we were already kinda late for the party and didn't had time to even just slightly polish the sound, burned it to CD in 5 duplicate tracks (hey if you're gonna burn a CD for 1:30 of music, might as well do it five times) ... she was thrilled by it.
http://000.blackironprison.com/bo-en-piter-zingen-k3-met-vocoder.mp3
check it! :D it's horrible!
does anybody actually listen to these things?
i mean, yeah, the vocoder things are pretty bad. but funny.
yet, "Rogue Funk Juice" ( http://ifile.it/a5twmno ) is simply, a pretty good mix.
not as good as "Song to the Temponaut" (see "Trip's Zip - Blender V ++" link posted a while back) but still!
so,
DOES anybody actually LISTEN to these things?
this is my latest mix, which has the awesomest title ever:
Triple Zero - Ein Waggon voller Magnets on a Monday Night that is Lost in Time FOREVER (http://ifile.it/xrwum6f).mp3
it's meant for running (again) and it's got some pretty swote tracks, and some crazy mixing tricks :-)
exactly 64x4 beats long, and at 145BPM that makes for a very eclectic mix that changes every 1:47m or so.
tracks:
Digitalism - Magnets
Younger Brother - Weird on a Monday Night [at 150% speed muahahaha]
Eat Static - Lost in Time
Sven Vaeth - Ein Waggon voller Geschichten [Terrence Fixmer remix]
it's not quite finished yet, in the sense that i will continue adding stuff to it until it's 40-45 minutes long. cause i will be running a 4 mile run on the 12th october and practicing for that, and apparently even unpracticed n00bs run it under 40 minutes, so that's all i need.
listened to this earlier, I liked your mix :)
bump. thanks to BDSimpleton for re-uploading, this is a zip of pretty much my entire collection of mixes (~290MB)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7W5RW9SM
I'm really glad someone had your stuff! I'll give it a listen. 8)
I have not yet had time to listen to all of them, but so far I like Capital Shower Porn, and BlenderIII off the Blender V Plus Collection. BlenderIII reminded me of Orbital which I have not listened to in years. Good stuff so far. :D
remember they're just mixes of existing tracks, check the ID3 comment tag for the titles of the original material used.
[/credit where it's due]
my latest running mix:
http://ifile.it/k6ifnwp/power-run.mp3
featuring bits of tracks by The Prodigy, Aphex Twin, Shpongle, Chemical Brothers, Dimensional Holophonic Sound, Eat Static, Nightmares on Wax and Mike & Rich [being a co-op of Aphex and Mu-ziq].
it's a bit of a mess maybe and a chunk of it is repeated cause I wanted it to be long enough.
it's basically chopped up in blocks of exactly 4 minutes:
- 0:26 slow-ish music (walk)
- 1:48 medium pace music (running)
- 0:54 slow-ish music (walk)
- 0:26 RUN REALLY FAST music
- 0:26 slow-ish, repeat
does that add up to 4 minutes? hm.
anyway, enjoy :)
ok after a few hours of hard work in Ableton, I poomped out these bunch of Kraftwerk ringtones:
http://ifile.it/vt3orke/kraftwerk-ringtones.zip
they're in .AAC format, which is what my phone likes. It's not a very obscure format though, so good chances your phone likes it too.
if you're just interested what they sound like, VLC is able to play AAC files.
Quote from: Triple Zero on June 24, 2010, 02:21:02 PM
ok after a few hours of hard work in Ableton, I poomped out these bunch of Kraftwerk ringtones:
http://ifile.it/vt3orke/kraftwerk-ringtones.zip
they're in .AAC format, which is what my phone likes. It's not a very obscure format though, so good chances your phone likes it too.
if you're just interested what they sound like, VLC is able to play AAC files.
:argh!:
my phone received the file I sent it
but it can only save it as a "sound"
and "sounds" can't be made into ringtones. WTF.
If you need them in a different format, I might be able to arrange [better to convert from my .wav originals than the low bitrate AAC encodings]. But figure out what sort of thing your phone does accept, first :-)
There are a few free phone ring creators out there.... I think it needs to be MP4 or some such shit. The one I usually use has a drag n drop function, so if you have the AAC file, it will convert it for you.
I think.
MP4 is a container format, meaning it's a wrapper around some other codec. Just like AVI can be a wrapper for MPEG or DivX or whatever.
FAAC.exe, the wav to aac converter I used has an option to wrap the encoded output in an MP4 container.
Anyway, the AAC files are in the zip (didn't you look? :) )
BUMP
So I have a Soundcloud stream. Check it: https://soundcloud.com/tripzilch
In particular check my latest tune: https://soundcloud.com/tripzilch/approved-c
the new tune is based on the fact that you can have a kitten walk across your keyboard and as long as all notes are in the blues scale, it will SOUND AWESOME
the blues scale is ridiculous.
6 notes, any order, instant cool. music has never been so easy.
(as I said (http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php/topic,28631.msg1286838.html#msg1286838), I've been trying to learn about music theory. it's interesting. but it's also stupid (staff notation!! :argh!:). but if it helps me make more cool musical shit, in the styles of musical shit that needs to be made more of, so be it!) (these musical styles are in particular a couple of very specific chemical beats styles, and I'm nowhere near that yet, because currently I'm learning about notes and chords and scales and keys, while I should be learning about drums and breakbeats and tension, very much tension. but I'll get there)
addition: it seems soundcloud is acting weird right now. I'm not sure what is up, but I think it's glitches on their side. retrying to load the page a few times seems to hit a working page after a while, did the trick.
Quote from: Triple Zero on August 19, 2013, 07:53:45 PM
the blues scale is ridiculous.
6 notes, any order, instant cool. music has never been so easy.
Hence the existence of 11-year-old "Blues Prodigies".
well, they could do worse for their choice :)
until Souncloud gets its act together, here's that track on my dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/s/g3ee48eeui6b73k/approved-c.ogg
It says it can't find that sound! :argh!:
TRIPLE ZIP: PLAYS THE SOUNDS YOU CAN'T FIND.
yeah I know, I got that same message. Then after reloading I get all sorts of not-quite-playing pages, usually Soundcloud is a great place to host your tracks. But they're also very into tweaking their code, I've seen outages before. Reloading a couple of times until it works, especially my profile page https://soundcloud.com/tripzilch from which you can click and play all tracks, seems to do the trick.
And otherwise use the dropbox link.
But be sure to check the soundcloud profile page later, because it's got way more cool stuff than just that track :) (and also a few shitty experimental thingies but they are short. I didn't yet upload my "DRONING POWERPOINT PRESENTATION" ambient drone + vocoder track yet. that one is experimental but also long.) (I should probably upload it anyhow, some day)
Eh I'll try again later, I should probably make some sort of gesture toward writing my speech or else take the dog to the beach or something today.
Yeah sorry about that, I'll remember to bump when Soundcloud has stopped being glitchy. In the mean time, people with more time on their hands can try the reload trick (it works for me after 2-3 times).
B U M PI just checked and it seems that Soundcloud has managed to unbork itself. So ... CLICKYSHINYLINKY!
Quote from: Triple Zero on August 19, 2013, 07:53:45 PMSo I have a Soundcloud stream. Check it:
https://soundcloud.com/tripzilch
In particular check my latest tune:
https://soundcloud.com/tripzilch/approved-c
the new tune is based on the fact that you can have a kitten walk across your keyboard and as long as all notes are in the blues scale, it will SOUND AWESOME
the blues scale is ridiculous.
6 notes, any order, instant cool. music has never been so easy.
(as I said (http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php/topic,28631.msg1286838.html#msg1286838), I've been trying to learn about music theory. it's interesting. but it's also stupid (staff notation!! :argh!:). but if it helps me make more cool musical shit, in the styles of musical shit that needs to be made more of, so be it!) (these musical styles are in particular a couple of very specific chemical beats styles, and I'm nowhere near that yet, because currently I'm learning about notes and chords and scales and keys, while I should be learning about drums and breakbeats and tension, very much tension. but I'll get there)