Bite sized (3 track) mix. D minor -> D Major. Probably my 2 favorite musical keys, in general.
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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:
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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 ]
Mini-Mix 005
Decided to create another ~30 min “mini mix” – nom nom Caustik – Mini-Mix 005 (2009.08.04)
01 – Hydro, SKC, Munk – Head First (Original Mix)
02 – Sub Focus – Rock It (Original Mix)
03 – Sub Focus – Follow The Light (Original Mix)
04 – London Elektricity – Just One Second (Original Mix)
05 – B-Complex – Beautiful Lies (Original Mix)
06 – Blu Mar ten – Believe Me (Original Mix)
July 2009 Progressive House Mix
July 2009 Progressive House Mix [ Download MP3 ]
01 – Pryda – Melo (Original Mix)
02 – Riktam, Bansi – Green Space (Original Mix)
03 – Ozgur Can, AGS – Melodic Beat (Original Mix)
04 – Mossy – Deep Box (Original Mix)
05 – Paul Keeley – Doormatica (Original Mix)
06 – DBN – Asteroidz feat. Madita (Sultan & Ned Shepard Remix)
07 – Chris Lake, Marco Lys – Violins (Original Mix)
08 – Riktam, Bansi – Bass Master Zorro (Jerome Isma-Ae Remix)
09 – Serge Devant, Nadia Ali – 12 Wives In Tehran (Original Mix)
10 – Martin Roth – Verloopt In Berlin (Original Mix)
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!
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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)
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