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New Mix: Thunderstruck [Big Girls]

First mix on the new rig is uploading as I write this post. My 1200mk3Ds arrived, and I’m now using Shure Whitelabel Carts / styli. The clarity in the sound is definitely noticeable over my entry level Numark GT needles / carts. The 1200s have come from a library in Japan, and even have that musty book smell about them. Really enjoying spinning on them, might even up my mix output. Next purchase is a new mixer…I eventually want to mix records and digital files via DVS. I’ll write a more detailed description of the mix on the Podcast entry, but think bouncy hard dance…I was dancing around my dining room mixing this, so hope someone else gets a kick from it.

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SOL_k – Twisted Sounds is coming

I’ve a new mix coming shortly. Electro House and very mid 00s, it’s getting rave reviews from my DJ mentor who happened to end up with the USB stick that the mix is on. My output has been somewhat stalled as I’m dealing with a broken Numark turntable at home, and my refurbished Technics are still ~2 weeks away. Suspect this new mix to available sometime in the next couple of days, on the Mixes page.

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I’m on Mixcloud

SOL_k

Yes. It’s true. I’m on mixcloud. As SOL_k would you believe. I’ve added a link to the menu that will automagically take you to my page. Currently hosting a mix I helped finalize with an old friend, GAS LOUDER. Techno, digital, and sequenced, this mix is tight, dank and dark. I added input into cueing and mix down, but track selection was all GAS LOUDER…for better or worse. Mixcloud doesn’t allow downloads, without use of one of *those* tools. Oh, and GAS LOUDER’s mixcloud page is… here

Diynamically Shambolic

A sampler of Diynamic Records 10th anniversary album with a few techno tunes thrown in to get to the 1 hour mark. All of the tracks were selected on the fly, and the reason for the “shambolic” in the title should be apt description of the mixing. As such, I haven’t revisited this mix…can be hard to listen back to something that didn’t sound great live. Leave your comments below…

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The mix no one will ever hear…[but 2 others you can]

Spent some time last night recording a hard trance mix…Overdose and Pulse records stuff. Dropped an absolute trance classic around the 40 minute mark. Finished up, started post processing work [was in the middle of an amplify pass, before a normalisation pass]. Macbook crashed [gpu panic because Apple are terrible and used a cheap chip on the logic board, well documented]. I had broken the rule of save first, process 2nd. Rebooted, project unrecoverable. Added all the .au chunks in, in a manual recovery attempt. Macbook crashed again [gpu panic].

Re-attempted manual recovery this morning…and it’s not happening. As a small consolation…I do have firstly the “Diynamically Shambolic” to upload, and as a bonus, I have mix titled “Trance and Acid” which was recorded during a party a few weeks back, whilst I slowly sunk into a state of under the influence. Unreviewed, and I don’t remember much after the 20min mark, except for relief at making it to an hour…

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New Mix inbound…

I’m calling it Diynamically Shambolic. Sampled a few tunes off 10 years of Diynamic Records, followed up with a few tunes from my mostly under appreciated techno stack. Was really flying blind with this one, even let a record run right out [quick little edit in post production to hide the silence]. I need to do the car listen test, and then it’ll make its way into the mix archive. Let’s call it…24 hours?