[Electronica] Caustik – Add9
Just added a new electronica track to soundcloud. Aadd9 is the chord returned to at each phrase. Yea, so maybe I’m not great at coming up with names… 
[Electro House] Caustik – Synapse (Original Mix)
I’ve produced a new Electro House track titled “Synapse” — this was put together using Ableton, original melodies, and a few of my new synth and compressor toys.
[Electronica] Caustik – Juice Box (Original Mix)
This one is pretty much just ear candy, busy with synths and a very pop/classic 4 chord progression.
[ Download MP3 ]
CHIP.XM (PPU Remix)
There’s this old .XM file that came along with a DOS demo called ascii4everagain, many years ago.
Always loved the demo, thought the music was friggin sweet.
Tonight I remixed the track from it’s old DOS-XM sound to more of a relaxed Electronica version.
[ Caustik - CHIP.XM (PPU Remix).mp3 ]
August 2009 Classic Breaks Mix
Alright folks,
If you love breaks, or if you haven’t yet found that you do, bite into this — the Royale with cheese of mixburgers!
01) Nick Thayer – Scrambler (Original Mix) [Passenger]
02) Far Too Loud – Shredder (Original Mix) [Funkatech Records]
03) Ctrl Z – The Tunnel VIP feat. Screwface (Original Mix) [Hardcore Beats]
04) Hyper – We Control (Original Mix) [Kilowatt Records]
05) Dopamine – Hold You (Original Mix) [TCR]
06) Rob Le Pitch – Twisted (Tom Real and Rogue Element Remix) [Passenger]
07) Alex Dolby – Hazy Way (Evil Nine Remix) [Mantra Vibes]
08) The Breakfastaz – The Pressure (Aquasky Mix) [Passenger]
09) Meat Katie – NuTron (Original Mix) [LOT49]
[ Download MP3 ]
Micro-Mix 004
Bite sized (3 track) mix. D minor -> D Major. Probably my 2 favorite musical keys, in general.
[ Download MP3 ]
New live DJ technique (using free track samples)
You know how you can browse tracks on sites like Beatport.com, and you get to preview a portion of the track? Well, those previews are just MP3 files that are split from the full tracks. Each preview is usually about 2 minutes, and you can get the URLs for an entire genre via RSS feeds.
So, you can use the Firefox plugin “FlashGot” to automatically download all of the MP3 files that are referenced in the “Top 100″ House music RSS feed on Beatport. Then, you can run them through key detection software to get musical key info on them all.
Once you have those samples and key information on them, it’s possible to mix them together live, without ever having listened to the tracks beforehand. Here’s a recording of me mixing 8 tracks in about 10 minutes with this style:
[ Download MP3 ]
It’s a lot of work to keep the mix going, since the samples are so small. I’ve been pretty much warping the tracks in real time, figuring out where the phrases are, getting them sync’d up, and timing the drops. There’s a lot of room for error if you lose concentration, or if you just happen to get a track that doesn’t line up quite right. So having an emergency fallback to save the mix in these bad scenarios would be good..
It’s an interesting technique, for one because it’s free to get these track samples. That saves a lot of money, considering each track is normally either 1.99$ or 2.49$.. — also, the speed of mixing is a lot faster, so it really helps you develop your mixing skills, and forces you to learn recovery techniques.
Probably more on this technique in the future!
August 2009 Electro House Mix
Just some electro house, result of experimenting with a top secret project! 
– more on that later [ Download MP3 ]
