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DS117: Circadia

Hot on the heals of his elder brother Nu:Tone's LP comes Logistics with 'Reality Checkpoint' of which a couple of tracks are featured below. Definately worth checking out in a download bundle - pure quality throughout. Today's mix also features one of the 4 Hero remix winners, Dangerous D - with an intensely bouncy take on Reinforced's 'Mr Kirk' saga. Also worth looking out for is the new EP from Vital Elements 'How it all began' bringing some fresh beats to some old school samples. More to come from that one in coming weeks. Logistics - 96 - Hospital Futurebound, Brookes Brothers - Dawn Treader - Breakbeat Kaos PH - Take Me Home - Liquid Brilliants ICR - Heartbroken - Vibez Vital Elements - Dreams Become Reality - V2E Dangerous D - 4 Hero Mr Kirk (Uno Who Remix) - see back2you.co.uk Nu:Tone - Missing Link VIP - Hospital XRS - Bravin - Bulldozer Contour - Moving Higher (Basic Operations Remix) - Cymbalism Blue Sonix - Luv Me (...

DS116: Resurrection

I tried the new Traktor 3.4.030 beta this week but it had some serious issues with its claim of 'improved soundcard support' as it didn't work with my Creative X-Fi properly. This meant I had to revert back to the current release version, 3.3.060 for the show. The new sound engine changes are *intending* to help with hot-plugging MIDI controllers and audio interfaces when performing live. One of 3.4's other interesting updates though, is full Unicode support. This means one of Traktor's most useful features, the track collection database and it's metadata tagging system become even more powerful. Supporting Unicode means collection fields with data stored in non-latin languagues such as Japanese, Hebrew and Russian can all be searched and sorted upon. It also means better language support for the interface labels. I look forward to the NI team getting this update nailed, it's a big one! Mixed and recorded live on Sunday 23rd March 2008. Happy holidays a...

DS114: I see Stripes

Thanks to all that commented about the different mastering and encoding used last week. After listening quite a a few times myself, I agree with what has been said and think the new processing may have advantages for live broadcast but for the purposes of these archives, my way is preferred. So, with that in mind, we are back to the 192 kbps Sony Sound Forge normalised archives. This weeks set starts with a bang in D minor and includes some techier numbers, as some of you seemed to like the fact that I used to mix up the DnB sub-genres more. Do you agree? Thanks again for your feedback and comments it really helps me to mould future shows. Please iTunes subscribers, don't foget you can also interect with me on my homepage at www.rocdollar.com in addition to commenting on this feed directly here. >>> John B - Red Sky feat. Shaz Sparks - Beta >>> Panda - Quebec - Wildlife Pyro, Jesta - Cho (Malsum Remix) - Nerve Subtone - Blue Screen - Syndrome Audio T...

DS113: Redux

This weeks archive file is the one saved directly on the Bassdrive server. Although it is only 128kbps, it is processed through a multi-band compressor with other dynamic enhancements made by Jesse G and Overfiend - the one I mentioned a few weeks back. To me it gives the whole mix a more even volume and adds presence but is quite heavily compressed. I'm still in two minds as to wether I use this or continue creating my own 192kbps archives derived from the normalised Traktor wav recording. Which do you prefer? Please let me know by commenting to this post (click through the post title). Oh, enjoy the mix! :) Lynx - Envy (feat. Malibu Rhodes) - Sonorous Bungle - Good Times - Liq-Weed Ganja SpectraSoul - Tender Doubt - Celsius Brother - Second Time Round - Fokuz Soulgrifter - Believe me it's true - from dogsonacid.com Lynx - Shame On You - Sonorous Basic Operations - 4th Street Sound Click (Kubiks, Lomax Remix) - Phunkfiction BCee, Lomax - Changing Faces - Fo...

DS115: Unsung

Mixed and broadcast live 6pm Sunday March 16 2008 on www.bassdrive.com. Nu:Tone - Kitsch N' Sync - Hospital Futurebound, Brookes Brothers - Dawn Treader - Breakbeat Kaos L-plus - Middle East Sun - Viper Donnie Dubson - Summer Came - Phunkfiction Icicle - Lost Hours - Critical Bungle - Good Times - Liq-Weed Ganja Faalb - Atrbas (ICR Remix) - Misspent Music Breakage - Cooper - Critical Electrosoul System - Too Late - Built 2 Last Nu:Tone - The Wave - Hospital Soul Intent - Slow Jam - Blindside Mutt - Sharon's Song VIP - Intrinsic Naibu - Common Perception - Fokuz Kubatko, Lex Da Hexa, Twintone - Instead Of Me - Beyond Belief
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