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February 3, 2010

Twiistup 007 Mix

I DJ'd twiistup 007 last thursday at the Skirball and here's my live set, all done in Ableton.







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No one was responding to hip-hop so I switched to dancey stuff ("play lady gaga!" were my orders). Now, I don't have a ton of dance music so you can hear I was pressing - some disco here, contemporary club bangers there, so, ya, set could have been better. My first time using the APC-40 controller - woot! The event was called "007" and themed as Casino Royale, hence the drops you hear in the mix (thanks to @biskeeee and Nikki for recording those!).


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February 7, 2010

Digital DJing Lecture 3: Mashups, The Arbiters, DJ Hapa(!) and Mr. Choc(!)

Great class, everyone! It was truly an honor having Thomas Golubić and Josh Marcy of The Arbiters in to explain the art and science of making beautiful mash-ups.


IMG_4046.JPGAnd wow, who woulda guessed that DJ Hapa and Mr. Choc of the World Famous Beat Junkies would stop by and see you all perform! Totally unexpected! Well now you have a story to tell - your first time DJing with Ableton was in a room with 3 of LA's best DJs. w00t!


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February 19, 2010

Copyright Criminals

Max alerted us to this excellent looking documentary about the history of sampling, copyright, and hip-hop culture. More here. Good lookin out, Max.


February 21, 2010

Digital DJing Lecture 4: Using non-MIDI controllers and designing your own Instruments

Another great class - we covered a lot of new stuff today - DJing with Wii Drums, game controllers and iPhones. The tools and techniques covered were very technical and we don't expect you to master them right away. We just scratched the surface and it will take some time for you to get comfortable with it. For now, work through the tutorials posted on the download sites (TouchOSC and junXion). If you have a Mac, you already have Quartz Composer (QC) on your machine. Here is the QC user guide from Apple - remember, it's built for video (which we'll cover later), but you can also output MIDI signals.

And keep working on those mashups! They are sounding really good.

February 22, 2010

RiP! A Remix Manifesto

Another film that explores copyright in the age of the mashup. Via Sam. This is free and on Hulu.

February 27, 2010

Hologram Hip-Hop

Neurosonics Live from Chris Cairns on Vimeo.

(Via LikeCool)

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