01 – L.A.O.S. – We All (Blame Remix) 02 – Chris SU, State Of Mind – Flawless (Original Mix) 03 – State Of Mind – Moneytrain VIP (Original Mix) 04 – Bcee – Consumed (Original Mix) 05 – Camo & Krooked – Blow (Shock One Remix) 06 – State Of Mind, Trei – Dirt (Original Mix) 07 – State Of Mind, PNC – City On Fire (Original Mix) 08 – Silent Witness – Poster Girl (Original Mix) 09 – The Prodigy – Omen (Noisia Remix) 10 – Darqwan – Said The Spider (Original Mix)
I was figuring that it never hurts to wander into an unfamiliar genre once in a while, just to survey what’s going on 🙂
In that vein, I’ve put together a mix of the current top 10 chart topping Techno tracks off Beatport. They are arranged with consideration for artist/bpm/key, sequenced in Ableton (as usual).
Caustik – March 2009 Techno Pulse [ Download MP3 ]
01 – Fatboy Slim, Koen Groeneveld – Rockafeller Skank (Dub Mix) 02 – Popof – Head Cleaner (Original Mix) 03 – Martin Solveig – One 2.3 Four (Popof Mix) 04 – Popof – Mr. Orange (Original Mix) 05 – Adam Beyer – London (Original Mix) 06 – Adam Beyer – Who’s Got The Virus? (Original Mix) 07 – David Amo, Julio Navas, Andrea – Nervioso (Oliver Giacomotto Remix) 08 – Fatboy Slim, Koen Groeneveld – Rockafeller Skank (Original Mix) 09 – Guy Gerber – Timing (Original Mix) 10 – Gui Boratto – No Turning Back (Original Mix)
We were chillaxing playing Tetris this Saturday afternoon. In between each match I would mix in the next track. Keeping with the trend of experimenting with music theory, the transitions move clockwise along the circle of fifths, skipping 3 slices each time, and switching between minor/Major as much as possible (there are relatively few tracks in Major key, so it’s not always possible). This one really was bliss to create.
If you’re bored by music theory, skip the next two paragraphs!
The Leading Tone of a key is the seventh tonal degree of the diatonic scale leading up to the tonic note. When your ears hear a Leading Tone, they naturally want the sound to be resolved by the tonic note. For this mix, the concept is extended to apply to key transitions. Each new track in this mix is the minor key resulting from transposition of the current key by 1 semitone (1 semitone = 100 “cents”). I’d love to do a similar mix in Major keys, but there are precious few dance tracks in Major keys (particularly C Major).
This mix has 12 tracks, because there are exactly 12 semitones. You might think “But aren’t there only 7 notes in a diatonic scale?”. You’re right. However, the goal of this mix was to consist entirely of Leading Tones, not to walk a diatonic scale. That experiment is for a different day :). — The bonus features of doing the mix using all Leading Tones is that the last track’s key leads back to the first, so the mix is comfortable to hear on repeat (if you are so inclined).
01 Wamdue Project – King Of My Castle (Mischa Daniels 2 Am Remix)
02 Audioholics – External Key (Perry O’Neil Remix)
03 16 Bit Lolitas – Nobody Seems To Care (Original Mix)
04 DJ Joe K, Beto Dias – Beautiful Day (Original Mix)
05 Fischerspooner – The Best Revenge (Oliver Koletzki Remix)
06 Yellow Blackboard – Superfly (Andy Moor Mix)
07 Ido Ophir, Miki Litvak – Shnorkel (Dousk Remix)
08 Peter Gun & Terzi – Acapulco (Kasey Taylor Remix)
09 Faithless – A Kind of Peace (Gabriel & Dresden Remix)
10 David West – Carrier (Original Mix)
11 Andy Page – Serpent (Original Mix)
12 J-Soul – Riddle (Vadim Zhukov 12 Mix)
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