Seven Songs For Saturday
Caustik – Seven Songs for Saturday [Electronica]
1. PANTyRAID – Beba (Original Mix)
2. Freeland – Rock On (Original Mix)
3. Ada – Our Blindhouse (Each And Everyone) feat Socmis DJ (Original Mix)
4. The Rogue Element – In Place (Original Mix)
5. The Raveonettes – She’s Lost Control (Trentemoller Edit)
6. Moderat – Rusty Nails (Original Mix)
7. Caribou – Melody Day (Four Tet Remix)
Electro House Track: “EH1″
Finally got around to sitting down and producing an electro house track. The subjective components are typical to my flavor — deep rolling saw-based bassline, heavy kick, slapped snare, long builds leveraging primarily fifths (5 semitones), etc. The coolest part, though, is that my favorite sound effect in the world — the Wall-E voice — is used multiple times in the track 
If you get a chance to listen, let me know what you think!
[ Download MP3 ]
May 2009 Breaks Pulse
Caustik – May 2009 Breaks Pulse [ Download MP3 ]
01 – White Papoo – Histoire Natural (Original Mix)
02 – Rex – Evil Buddha Comb (Original Mix)
03 – Nitro – Violence (The Rogue Element Remix)
04 – Dynamite MC, Jack Beats – What (Dub)
05 – Andrew Mavor – Monolith (Myagi’s Acid Funk Remix)
06 – Paul Lyman – Break Through (DFunk Remix)
07 – Wiesel, Captain Koma – Frankonian Knights (Original Mix)
08 – Alex Coollook – Define Real (Planisphere Remix)
09 – Stan Kolev, Juan Mejia – To The Clouds (Merlyn Mix)
10 – Elfsong, Aeron Aether – Kaivalya (Original Mix)
May 2009 Trance Pulse
Caustik – May 2009 Trance Pulse [ Download MP3 ]
01 – Art Of Trance – Madagascar (Richard Durand Remix)
02 – David Forbes, William Daniel – The Act Of Fear (Original Mix)
03 – Mark Eteson, Zirenz – The Hymn feat. Zirenz (Original Mix)
04 – Reverse – Distant Destiny (Original Mix)
05 – Cressida – Onyric (Stoneface & Terminal Remix)
06 – Joe Santoro – Atlantis (Dankann Remix)
07 – Dennis Sheperd – Black Sun (Ronski Speed Remix)
08 – Ummet Ozcan – Time Wave Zero (Original Mix)
09 – Clokx – Clokx (Ron Van Den Beuken Remix)
10 – Oceanlab, Above & Beyond – On A Good Day feat. Justine Suissa
May 2009 DnB Pulse
This genre has been so much fun lately, I had to do another mix.
Caustik – May 2009 DnB Pulse [ Download MP3 ]
01 – Madmen & Poets – Afraid Of Jazz (Lenzman Remix)
02 – Lomax – Mercia (Original Mix)
03 – Lomax – Artisan VIP (Original Mix)
04 – L.A.O.S. – GTGD feat. Kaleb (Original Mix)
05 – Alix Perez, Survival – Storm Chaser (Original Mix)
06 – Lomax – Avon Calling (Original Mix)
07 – Uman – Big Foot feat. Silent Extent (Original Mix)
08 – S.P.Y. – Sunship (Original Mix)
09 – Lomax – Faith Massive (Original Mix)
10 – Original Sin – Dr Feels Good (Original Mix)
Circular DJ Mix
Just wanted to try making a mix that loops back onto itself. In other words, if you put this mix on repeat, you should never notice when it’s over and has started playing again. [ download ]
APU 007
01 Astrid Suryanto – Distant Bar (Gutterstylz Vox Mix)
02 Sissy – I See You (Micah’s Only When I’m Visible Mix)
03 The Knife – Like A Pen (Thomas Schumacher Remix)
04 Faithless – Music Matters feat. Cass Fox (Mark Knight Remix)
05 Moonbeam – What Dreams May Come (Original Mix)
06 Ido Ophir, Miki Litvak – Shnorkel (Dousk Remix)
[ Download MP3 ]
April 2009 DnB Pulse
Just uploaded a fresh new Drum and Bass mix. I’m really starting to like this genre…!
Caustik – April 2009 DnB Pulse [ Download MP3 ]
01 – Alix Perez – Melanie (Original Mix)
02 – Break – Out Of Nowhere (Original Mix)
03 – SpectraSoul – Alibi (Break Remix)
04 – Logistics – Toy Town (Original Mix)
05 – High Contrast – Basement Track (High Contrast Upstairs Downstairs Remix)
06 – Alix Perez – I’m Free (Original Mix)
07 – SpectraSoul – Organiser (Original Mix)
08 – TC, Jakes – All About Featuring TC (Original Mix)
09 – Jakes – Warface (D Minds Remix)
10 – Utopia – Fast Forward (Original Mix)
autoblitz + source code
Since some folks have expressed interest in trying this bot for themselves, I decided to share the source code and binary
It’s not perfect, but you can tweak the source code (for example, changing how long rp_thread::sleep() is called, and where), and probably get some better performance. If you’re up for a challenge, you can also try to improve the code that decides on the next move! (if you do, it’d be great if you shared the changes!).
Anyway, here is the zip file. [ autoblitz-export.zip ]
The binaries are in the export directory. You will be asked for a “hWnd” (window handle), which can be found using the program “Spyxx” which comes with visual studio.
Game playing AI bot
Every once in a while a silly idea grips you and you decide “Screw it, I’m going to do it”.
That happened with me with a game called Bejeweled Blitz on Facebook. My friends online have been competing for high score for the past few weeks. I got to thinking…”How hard would it be to write a program to automate playing this game..?”.
This is the result of that question. It took a few days at a few hours per day. Probably about 6 hours combined time. Right now the bot is able to play pretty well. It can do better than I can most the time (although my high score currently beats the bot’s high score). With some improvements, I expect that will dramatically change.
Anyway, here’s a video of the program in action.
Update:
The autoblitz bot just scored 258,400.
