Here’s 35 minutes of ear candy, starting from d minor.

Caustik – 18.13 [Download MP3]

01 – Lloyd – La Chanson De Sasha (Original Mix)
02 – Thom Yorke – The Eraser (Sasha Coma Remix)
03 – Petter – These Days (Sasha Involver remix)
04 – Ladytron – Runaway (James Zabiela’s Red Eye Remix)
05 – James Harcourt – Moob (Original Mix)
06 – Gerwin Koudijs, Dustin H – Operator (Joel Armstrong Remix)

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.

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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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01 Bonobo – Days To Come
02 Tungsten, Wulfram – Filamental (Original Mix)
03 Computer – Trophy (Robosonic Yuno Remix)
04 The Knife – Silent Shout (Williams Acidic Circutis Remix)
05 Kissy Sell Out, Herve – Rikkalicious (Original Mix)
06 Deadmau5 – Slip (Sebastien Leger Remix)
07 Passenger 10 – Mirage (EDX 5un5hine Remix)
08 Dilemn – Daylight (Afghan Headspin Remix)
09 Cut Copy – Far Away (Golden Filter Remix)

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Tools:  Allen&Heath Xone:3D, Ableton Live, Waves Plugins, Voxengo Plugins, Adobe Audition, LAME (-V0)

Bite-sized and delicious. Mmmm Mmmmm. Micro-Mix 003.

Night of heavy drinking, home at 3am with too much caffeine left from the jack and coke’s. This is the result. Started it out with the song that got me into electronic music to begin with, so many years ago now ..

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