Posts Tagged ‘house’

I went to Lounge 11 last Friday with some friends.  I’m not much of a Jersey bar/lounge type of guy, but I will praise good music when I hear it.  The main DJ spun your typical North Jersey hip-hop/house kind of set, but the guy who opened had a great vibe going.  It was 2 hours of Chicago/Gospel house that had people movin’ and groovin’ the whole time.

He played this track, and I thought, at the time, it was Maxi from Faithless, but it turned out to be a Quentin Harris remix of Mr. V.

Regardless, this track was a turning point in the set for me.  I had been debating on slowing down this month’s mix a bit, and after hearing this… well, i was inspired.

It’s not set in stone, but I think this is the direction I want to try to head in for v.5.

Track: Mr. V – Jus Dance (Quentin Harris Re-Production)

Happy April, everyone!
Yeah, yeah… I know it’s the end of the month, almost. I’ll see if I can’t get the May mix to come out a little earlier. I actually recorded this mix last week, I didn’t like how it came out. You see, by some good fortune, I was able to buy some new (used) equipment!!! Two Pioneer CDJ1000 mk2s and a DJM 600. I went a little overboard on the use of sound effects the first time I recorded, otherwise the mixing was fine. This equipment is so much more accurate than what I was using previously. Also, I was able to add a song when I re-did the set.

For those that don’t know… I went to Ultra at the end of March. It was so sick! Went with a really cool bunch of people, and met a bunch more down there! This was year 2 for me, and I plan on making 2009 year 3!
I put a few vids on YouTube (http://youtube.com/vud0013), but their uploader was being stupid, and I stopped after about 6… maybe at some point I’ll finish putting them on there; of course, I also said that about last year’s videos.

It’s a little shorter than they’ve been so far, but it’s a very fun, upbeat set that I think you’ll all enjoy. Like I said, I have new equipment that really opens up the possibilities of what I can do with the music. Right at the beginning I tried something that I previously just could not do with my older set up (see if you can tell what it is!!), and I’ll need to practice it a lot more, but I’d say for my first time, it sounds pretty good. I avoided using the sound effects this time around because I still need to learn how they effect the music and how to control them, although towards the end I did try one subtle effect that I thought added A LOT to the chorus of the track.
With that said, here you go:

Direct download link: If At First v.4
Playlist:

1. Estelle – American Boy ft. Kanye West
2. Sydney Blu – Give It Up For Me (Original Mix)
3. Kaiser Souzai – Altocumulus Floccus (Piemont Remix)
4. Cajmere – Percolator (Original Mix)
5. Axwell – I Found You (Tocadisco Remix)
6. Ida Corr vs Fedde Le Grand – Let Me Think About It (Club Mix)
7. Heatbeat Presents Mathias Faint – Sxing (Original Mix)
8. Joop – On Top of Things
9. Andread Doria, LXR aka Lutzenkirchen – Beauty of Silence (Inpetto Remix)
10. Axwell – I Found You (Dubfire Remix)
11. Steve Agnello and Laidback Luke vs Robin S – Be vs Show Me Love
12. Axwell – I Found You (Remode)
13. Cressida – 6am (Kyau & Albert Remix)

Nice!! 2 months in a row! A week late, but it’s here!  I wanted to go more trancey this time around, but house is just hitting hard all over. I <3 trance, but there was no room for it this month.  Once I get more practice, I may try to go for 2 hour mixes; that should give me a lot more room to play around with my track selection. Even so, I’m happy with my track selection this time around. Shout out to my brother, Michael, for introducing me to a few of the songs for this month’s mix.

This mix was previously v.3.  It has been renamed for organizational purposes.

Direct download link: If At First v.2
Playlist:

1. Daft Punk – Aerodynamic
2. John Dahlbäck – Hustle Up
3. JF presents SMOKESCREAM – Retox (Wendel Kos Remix)
4. Martin Soveig – C’est la Vie (Fedde vs Martin Club Mix)
5. Tiësto – Carpe Noctum
6. Kleerup – With Every Heartbeat ft. Robyn (Pete Tong & Dave Spoon Remix)
7. Morgan Page – The Longest Road ft. Lissie (Deadmau5 Remix)
8. Cicada – The Things You Say (Dirty South Remix)
9. Eric Prydz & Steve Angello – Woz Not Woz
10. Goldfrapp – Ohh La La (Benny Benassi Dub)
11. Starkillers – (Can U) Scream (Kobbe & Austin Leeds Remix)
12. Soulwax – Lovelight (Soulwax Ravelight Dub)
13. Outkast – Ghetto Music (Benny Benassi Club Mix)
14. Junkie XL – Fuck More ft. Lauren Rocket
15. Mark Mendes – Beneath You
16. Muse – Knights of Cydonia (Angel Rafael’s Nights in Sardinia De-evolution Mix)