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Mix DS151: Bassic Instinct

If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element Trisector - Trace Of A Smile - Medschool dRamatic, dbAudio - Cored - Hustle Audio Command Strange - Agaom - Fokuz Alix Perez, Zero T - Threads - CIA Netsky - I Refuse - Spearhead SpectraSoul - Guardian - Metalheadz Bcee - Come Home - Spearhead Komatic - Apprehension - Unsigned Brother - Dig Deep - Fokuz Redeyes - Brothers - Future Retro Vahn - Never Enough (Q-Bik Remix) - Urban Sickness Break - Late Drop - Critical XRS Land - Scarlet - Tupy Enea - Ramblas (Mow Remix) - Have A Break Brookes Brothers - Tear You Down - Breakbeat Kaos Kali - Tokyo (BCee, Lomax Remix) - Outta London Sub Focus - Splash - RAM Advisory, Scenic - Afterglow - Urban Chemistry CLS - With no light to guide my way - Critical

Mix DS150: Inferno

Sadly my time at Bassdrive radio has come to an end. The reason I was given was that they are looking for 100% reliability from their show broadcasts, which I could not offer anymore. I had worked closely with them to try and improve my setup but to no avail. The technical problems were frustrating for the station, it's listeners and for me... One limitation of Traktor is that it can only stream in ogg format. One limitation of Bassdrive is that it would only support mp3 input. This meant I had to either prerecord, transcode in real time to mp3 or broadcast my "what you hear" channel. None of which were very prosaic solutions in the end. I have had a great 5 years on Bassdrive moving from a weekly to a monthly show last year. Like Dfunk said though, "all good things must come to an end". I'd like to thank the whole Bassdrive crew for having faith in me to begin with and I'm sorry things didn't work out. There are no hard feelings and the brigh...

Mix DS149: Let's do dis!

Apologies to any of you that tuned into Bassdrive yesterday to listen to the show live. For some unknown reason, my stream was coming through too fast so had to be cut off. All is not lost though - I recorded the set for your exclusive listening pleasure. Please check it out and let me know what you think, I missed having direct feedback from the Bassdrive chat room. This month's episode is named after the iconic sound-byte from Modern Warfare 2, read by Craig Fairbrass of EastEnders fame, playing alpha male cockney SAS sergeant Gaz... MW2 as it's annoyingly abbreviated is the sequel to a highly over-rated first person shooter with silly pink sniper rifles, indesctructable scenery and a well above average share of what sounds like, screeching chimps. Having played it over the weekend, it seems the same game as before with a few extra bells 'n' whistles. Extra bells in more ways than one. This game sold 7 million copies on its first day...very clever marketing ...

UAF/DOA competition entry

I submitted this 128kbps '8-10 minute Mega Mix' into a competition to perform live at this summer's Urban Art Forms festival in Austria. It might not be the kinda thing they are looking for but I thought I'd share it with you anyway (despite it's brevity!). What do you think to this entry? I tried to make sure the end leaves the listener wanting to hear more :) Klute - Ashram - Commercial Suicide Command Strange - See In The Sun - Influenza Media L.A.O.S - We All - Spearhead Steve Angello, Laidback Luke - Show Me Love (Blame Remix) - Ministry Of Sound UK Shinichi Osawa - Star Guitar (Brookes Brothers Remix) - BBK

Mix DS148: OP in the AO

Mixed live and broadcast on Bassdrive yesterday. I had over 1,450 listeners this month - 200 or so above my previous record so thanks to all that tune in. I quite agree with Paul SG who said in the chat room "Sundays are the new Fridays!"... Look out for the new Kubiks LP "Blurred Vision" coming out in November. Remix below "Bamboo" is one of my favourites from it. Enea - Feel That High - Have A Break High Contrast - Natural High - Hospital Blame, Selah - Because Of You - 720 Degrees Music Donnie Dubson - Battlecat - Influenza Media Sub Focus - Splash - RAM Muffler - Falling 2009 - Big Riddim Netsky - Tomorrow's Another Day - Liq-Weed Ganja Nero - Do You Wanna - Viper Atlantic Connection - Everything Changes - Westbay Digital HoldTight - Girl Next Door - Industry Shinichi Osawa - Star Guitar (Brookes Brothers Remix) - Data Simplification - Trilogy - Digital Blus Davide Carbone - Bamboo (Kubiks remix) - Rubik Ikon - China Crash - Ren...

Mix DS147: Hotkeys

Advisory, Scenic - Afterglow - Urban Chemistry Kubiks, Lomax - Spirit Filled - Phunkfiction Crystal Clear, Netsky - King Of The Stars - Liq-Weed Ganja State Of Mind - Floor 14 (Bungle Remix) - Syntax Audio Trei - Livewire - SGN:LTD Noisia - Last Look - Metalheadz Atom - Automatic - Sonorous Seba - Snow - Hospital Lenzman - The Blues - Spearhead Calibre - The Blues - Signature Young Ax - System Of Survival - Santorin SpectraSoul - Insignia - Exit Metrik - Time To Change - Viper Sigma - Nexus - Life Logistics - Warehouse - Hospital A Sides - Aryze - Eastside Music

Mix DS146: Drumlins

My trusty original X-Session MIDI controller had been playing up in the lead up to this months show. Several of the rotary dials on it began to malfunction, causing them to have a life of their own and start changing values for me during a mix... The offending article - My long-serving original X-Session I've unceremoniously retired it to the dustbin now but this then gave me the problem of what to replace it with? I did my research on what was available and ended up going for the compact and relatively inexpensive elder brother to the X-Session, the X-Session Pro. I was tempted to spend more on one of the posh Vestax's controllers, but they still haven't really got it right for me yet... not for that kind of outlay anyway. The VCI-100 is nice but I don't need or want platters. The VCM-100 is nice too, but I don't need another audio interface and I want 4 faders. Faders are what I missed most about using the original X-Session. The most tempting I found was...
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