DJ Wüdi

The fifth of my old collection of mix sessions that I’m putting up for download and podcast. This one is another “theme” idea I had, and depending on how much you like the base song, could be either enjoyable or excruciating, as it strings together four versions of the same theme into one 22-minute track. I actually like it…kind of dreamy background music.

Standard disclaimer: All the mixes I’m posting were mixed ‘live’ — running a Pioneer dual CD mixer directly into my computer and recording straight to .mp3 — and have had no post-mix editing done in the computer. As such, they’re not flawless, but they’re not bad, either, if I do say so myself.

Here’s the link: A Fine Day’s Mix (22m 51s, 26.16Mb). Tracks included are:

1. Opus III “It’s A Fine Day”
2. Orbital “Halcyon & On & On”
3. Orbital “Halcyon (Hot Tracks)”
4. Miss Jane “It’s a Fine Day (Exit)”

The fourth of my old collection of mix sessions that I’m putting up for download and podcast. This one starts a few that move away from the “Difficult Listening Hour” series to explore some other ideas I had running through my head. It’s shorter, not quite half an hour long, and has something of a ‘spy music’ theme.

Standard disclaimer: All the mixes I’m posting were mixed ‘live’ — running a Pioneer dual CD mixer directly into my computer and recording straight to .mp3 — and have had no post-mix editing done in the computer. As such, they’re not flawless, but they’re not bad, either, if I do say so myself.

Here’s the link: Mission Accomplished (27m 41s, 31.69Mb). Tracks included are:

1. Adam Clayton & Larry Mullen ‘Mission Impossible (Junior’s Hard/Intro)’
2. Propellerheads ‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’
3. Moby ‘James Bond Theme (Hot Tracks)’
4. Propellerheads ‘Spy Break’
5. Adam Clayton & Larry Mullen ‘Mission Impossible (Junior’s Hard)’

Number three of my old collection of mix sessions that I’m putting up for download and podcast. The keen-eyed might notice that we’ve jumped straight from DLH02 to DLH04. There is a DLH03, but I’ve decided to hold off on posting that one just yet as, quite honestly, the mixing in the current version of DLH03…well, it sucks. Very train wreck-y.

I was hoping to be able to re-mix DHL03 last night so that I could continue posting these in order, but I’m still figuring out the mixing software I have and, well, apparently I didn’t do something quite right.

In the meantime, though, this one’s in good shape. It’s also the longest of the mixes I’ve put up so far, very nearly a full hour and a quarter.

Standard disclaimer: All the mixes I’m posting were mixed ‘live’ — running a Pioneer dual CD mixer directly into my computer and recording straight to .mp3 — and have had no post-mix editing done in the computer. As such, they’re not flawless, but they’re not bad, either, if I do say so myself.

Here’s the link: Difficult Listening Hour 04 (1h 14m 27s, 85.39Mb). Tracks included are:

1. God Within ‘Raincry (Submerged)’
2. Jaydee ‘Plastic Dreams’
3. Snitzer & McCoy vs. Humate ‘Oh My Darling I Love You (Heavy)’
4. Basco ‘The Beat Goes On’
5. Lo Fidelity All Stars ‘Lazer Dip Sheep Funk’
6. Freestylers ‘Drop the Boom’
7. Freestylers ‘Don’t Stop’
8. Len ‘Man of the Year’
9. Toxic Twins feat. The Dust Brothers ‘I’ll House You (Toxik Acid Vybe and Phunky Bass)’
10. Cirrus ‘Back on a Mission (DJ Dan)’
11. DJ Supreme ‘The Wildstyle (Klubbheads)’
12. Kornholio ‘Friction (Hot Tracks)’

And here we have the second of my old collection of mix sessions that I’m putting up for download and podcast. A little longer than the last one, and a little more pop-y. There actually was a ‘v1’ of this mix (which may go up eventually), but it had a few slight flaws that I wanted to fix, and I ended up choosing a slightly different set of tracks to use (though, I may have simply introduced new flaws…so it goes). Hence, ‘v2’.

Standard disclaimer: All the mixes I’m posting were mixed ‘live’ — running a Pioneer dual CD mixer directly into my computer and recording straight to .mp3 — and have had no post-mix editing done in the computer. As such, they’re not flawless, but they’re not bad, either, if I do say so myself.

Here’s the link: Difficult Listening Hour 02v2 (1h 04m 41s, 59.5Mb). Tracks included are:

1. Faithless ‘Salva Mea’
2. Transister ‘Head (Hot Tracks)’
3. Dee-Lite ‘Groove is in the Heart (Van Helden ’99)’
4. Madonna ‘Music (Deep Dish Dot Com)’
5. Sarah McLachlan ‘Possession (Rabbit in the Moon)’
6. DJ Icey ‘This is How My Drummer Drums’
7. The Crystal Method ‘Busy Child’
8. Wink ‘Higher State of Consciousness (Itty Bitty Boozy Woozy/vs. Public Enemy)’
9. Underworld ‘Rez’

Yesterday while poking around on my Audioscrobbler statistics page, I clicked through to look at the statistics for my own mixsessions, and was pleasantly surprised to find that there are a few other people out there listening to them. Not many — but even one more than myself was enough to get my attention.

Prompted by that, and egged on by having a server that’s able to serve things out at a decent speed, I thought I’d start posting my old mix sessions again.

All the mixes I’ll be posting were mixed ‘live’ — running a Pioneer dual CD mixer directly into my computer and recording straight to .mp3 — and have had no post-mix editing done in the computer. As such, they’re not flawless, but they’re not bad, either, if I do say so myself.

Here’s the first: Difficult Listening Hour 01 (43m 03s, 39.43Mb). Tracks included are:

1. Depeche Mode ‘Headstar’
2. Wink feat. Trent Reznor ‘Black Bomb (Jerry in the Bag)’
3. Pop Will Eat Itself ‘Menofearthereaper (Concrete No Fee No Fear)’
4. Coil ‘The Snow (Answers Come in Dreams II)’
5. Underworld ‘Dirty Epic (Dirty)’
6. Drum Club ‘Sound System (Underworld)’
7. Rabbit in the Moon ‘Subfusion’

Download, drop into your .mp3 player, and — hopefully — enjoy!

Update: If I’ve got things right, I should be podcast-enabled now.

Update: I’ve used iTunes to create a CD cover image, ready to download and print for a slipcase, or toss into iTunes. This should be the last update to this post…next week I’ll have a better idea of what I’m doing, and should be able to get all these steps done in one swell foop. :)

Okay, folks — for better or for worse (but hopefully not too much worse), I spent some time playing around in GarageBand over the past couple of days. The result: Depeche Mode’s ‘Flexible’ and ‘Just Can’t Get Enough’ plus Prince’s ‘1999’ equals DJ Wüdi – Just Can’t Get Flexible in 1999 (7.8Mb MP3).

It’s my first attempt at creating a mashup rather than just listening to ’em. Probably not likely to make it to the top of the charts, but I don’t think it’s too terribly bad for a first try.

Give it a listen, and feel free to let me know what you think (good or bad)!

Update: I’ve made some slight tweaks to the track (mostly moving the rap section back by a few bars, it was coming in too early in the first version) and replaced the download file with v2. If you haven’t downloaded this yet, you’re set, otherwise feel free to re-download the updated mix.

Update 5/2/2008: Mini-review by Mashuptown: “wow! floor filla’. quite splendid indeed.” Sweet!