The folks over at LWE recently ran a podcast competition that I surreptitiously entered under a pseudonym and (obviously) didn’t win. Congrats and bigups to whippersnapper DJ Andrey Radovski who rinsed out a set of smooshy Satoshi Tomiie style progressive house.
Since I’m not the kind of guy to go down without a fight, though, I decided to go ahead and post my submission here because you really ought to hear it. Hurriedly compiled on the fly on December 6th, 2008 (immediately before heading out of the country with my office for a week) 0ptmv^2field is a brief journey through an uptempo minimal techno/acid house sound that I love but have never really recorded before. Better suited for the dancefloor than home listening according to LWE’s editor, this mix isn’t exactly the lush musical wallpaper that they were looking for on the ‘buds. Instead it’s an in-your-face expression of the bleeps, the bloops, and the tweaks. Rock out to this. (left click to stream, right click to save as)
Here’s a tracklist:
1. 30 rock intro
2. m. rahn - ankh - 3rd wave (05-2008)
3. terrence dixon - trust - open concept recordings (08-2008)
4. speedy j - red shift - electric deluxe (10-2008)
5. droid 0108 - side a one - droid (10-2008)
6. like a tim - like 11-4 - like records (05-2008)
7. joey beltram - ten four - tresor (1995)
8. brooks - rlf - mantis (10-2008)
9. stl - loop 15 w/ some unreleased ish you wish you had w/ brooks - rlf (loop)
10. stl - amisulprid - something (2007)
11. cristian vogel - xpute the woop woop - tresor (11-2007)
12. todd bodine - vanish - tresor (2005)
13. omar-s - frontwardsflip - fxhe 006 (03-2006)
14. surgeon - 9 hours into the future - tresor (1997)
15. phlash and friends - exaltation (deeper mix) - archive (11-2008)
Oh and in case you’re wondering, the multiple Tresor selections were totally unintentional. I mixed with 12″s and mp3s (via Virtual DJ time-code-vinyl) across three turntables and I didn’t pay any attention to the record labels, just to whether or not the cuts worked with each other. I was a little surprised to see how much Tresor stuff ended up on there when I did the tracklisting afterwards. I don’t think that’s a bad thing though. Enjoy!
great mix. “better suited for the dance floor than home listening” is this a bad thing? i dont think so. i’ve not listened to the winners mix but i’m really enjoying yours.thanks for sharing
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Count Zero reply on January 1, 2009 9:05 pm:
Thanks for reading and glad you’re enjoying. The winner’s mix is quite good, really, I just am quite proud of mine and would have posted it here regardless. I guess my point was that I kind of understand why they didn’t choose mine given that “for home listening” criterion. What’s irritating is that they didn’t specify that in the rules. I easily could have tailored my mix for the listening ear, not the dancing feet. Really, though, I am happy just to have had the chance to participate. Ya know? It motivated me to do something outside of what I’d normally do, and to constrain myself to a time limit and the other rules.
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Count Zero reply on January 1, 2009 9:09 pm:
by the way, just realized i don’t link to you in my blogroll. fixing that tout suite as i’m a regular reader of random circuits!
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Comment by joe — January 1, 2009 @ 8:39 pm