Dan Amitai

107.3 FM is a radio station here in DC that plays “the best mix of ’80s, ’90s and today” (well, now their tag is “the best mix of EVERYTHING”, which is bullshit, but never mind that). I named this mix after that station. The station sucks but my mix really is ’80s, ’90s and today! It is a re-recording of a set I played at the final Terrordome party last weekend (RIP).

I have used some of these tracks in previous mixes posted here.

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This is a mix I recorded for my friend who has been helping the DC–SDS organize anti-war dance parties in the streets of Washington.

A couple of things you should know:
1. Ninety percent of the tracks in this mix were selected by DC-SDS members. I picked a few that I just couldn’t not play (Michael Jackson)

2. I recorded this without practicing bc I am a busy man!

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Chill out tracks, minimal, ambient, and more. Play this for your kids to put them to sleep, giving them dreams of cyborgs and cyberpunk clowns.

I got these tracks from the albums in brackets – albums listed are not necessarily the original releases.

1. Aphex Twin – Rhubarb [Selected Ambient Works 2]
2. Air – Biological [Talkie Walkie]
3. Liz Phair – Flower [Exile in Guyville]
4. Add N to [X] – Oh Yeah, Oh No [Avant Hard]
5. Animal Collective – Daffy Duck [Feels]
6. Arovane – 27 a2 Driad [Cyliph]
7. Hood – The Winter Hit Hard [Cold House]
8. Books on Tape – Kitten Kitten Kitten Kitten Kitten Surprise [Dinosaur Dinosaur]
9. Radiohead – Paperpag Writer [?]
10. Plastikman – Headcase [Closer]
11. Andrew Pekler – Station to Station [Station to Station]
12. Towa Tei – German Bold Italic [Sound Museum]
13. Chris Liebing & Speedy J – Assault [Collabs 3000]
14. Codebreaker – Castaway (Club Version) [2]
15. Dino Felipe – Sun Deck Version [Oddjob Discrimination]
16. Oval – Store Check [94 Diskont]
17. Amon Tobin – Straight Psyche [Foley Room]
18. Daedelus – Dearly Departed [Exquisite Corpse]
19. Cinematic Orchestra – Channel 1 Suite [Motion]
20. Cheb I Sabbah - Pour Matoub [As Far As]
21. Autechre – Iera [Untilted]
22. Leonard Cohen – The Great Event [More Best Of]
23. Yusef Lateef – Bamboo Flute Blues (Kid Koala Remix) [Impulsive! Revolutionary Jazz]
24. Boards of Canada – Telephasic Workshop [Music Has the Right to Children]
25. The Orb – Star 6 & 7 8 9 [Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld]

Uncle Hank, I made you a mixed tape. Do not accidentally listen to side B, or you will fall in love.

OK, so a looong time ago, when the Freeform DJ Collective first started, I had an idea to make a Valentine’s Day Compilation. King Koopa, DJ Sweetie Pie and I got together and started working on it, but after a few hours we got drunk, went dancing at Gate 54, and I ended up sleeping in my bathroom. E-Rock also sent in a contribution from the UK, the project has since been put on hold because King Koopa moved to New York and DJ Sweetie Pie left Freeform DJs to focus on other projects.

The other day I was just fucking around and found some of my notes from then, so I threw some of the tracks together. The final mix, if we ever pick this project back up, will be much more cohesive and feature more tricks and will make you really fall in love. Consider this a “practice session”, as if to say: I like you, but I’m not in like with you. Yet!

If you’ve seen me play recent (at FUR, Sonar or Beyond) you probably heard parts of this mix already.

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A softer dubstep mix I recorded last night.

1. delfonics - ready or not here I come
2. Iron Soul - Eye of the Tiger #4
3. Reel 2 Reel vs. Selector Waxx - I Like To Move It (dubbed dubstep remix)
4. Pinch f/ rudey Lee - Step 2 It
5. Rusko - Jah Love
6. Boxcutter - Lunal
7. Caspa - Moments in Love
8. Distance vs. Skream - Political Warfare
9. Burial - Gutted
10. Martyn - Everything About You
11. Isaac Hayes - Ike’s Mood 1
12. Pinch - Qawwali
13. Pinch - Qawwali (VIP)
14. Roommate - Last Breath
15. Vaccine - Breathless
16. Darqwan - Ghost Not Memory
17. Portishead - Roads

I’m mentioned in the newspaper twice this week. Once on the Baltimore City Paper’s Short List, where they bump Therapy Session (look for my two-hour set in the lounge), and once in the Washington Post Weekend section, where my weekly downtempo/dubstep happy hour is highlighted.

• City Paper’s The Short List
• Washington Post’s Weekend Section
• (edited to add) DCist

My submission to the Beatbots Spring 2008 Mix Trade. The cover art was designed in Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 (LOL) per the instructions outlined in the album cover generator meme.

The mix is about sixteen minutes long, and is just dubstep with some sloppy scratching and transitions. It is thrown together haphazardly, but is still fun. All the tracks here are old because I haven’t purchased dubstep records in a long time (basically since October I think!)

My brother started getting into mashups and wanted to make one based on Outkast’s “Roses”. I recommended using ODB’s “Got Your Money” vs. Busta Rhymes’ “Dangerous”. Here’s the result:
Baby, I Got Your Dangerous Roses

What’s amazing is that he made this using free on-line software called Jamglue.

A review of my Tip Drill mix from Barbara, posted on a mailing list I subscribe to:

WOW! The ultimate ADD mix!

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I jogged to this on my iPod and my head nearly exploded because I was trainspotting so hard.

One of the many things that this geezer likes about the younger set today is that they don’t think that ‘old music’ sucks just because it is old. Nice stuff featuring Jacko and Nirvana, among a cast of thousands. The older material isn’t so jarringly amongst some of the newer tracks, or the tracks of different genres. I’m not so much up on the new hip-hop-influenced material, so a set list would be welcome. (If you can. There probably is 25 different tracks which comprise a 40 min. set!)

Thanks, Barbara!

House music demo I recorded today. Nineteen tracks, 32 minutes.

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