Amitai live on Expansion Broadcast
I was on Expansion Broadcast last week, playing dubstep and drum & bass. You can find the tracklist and the download/stream on their blog.
New DJ setup plan
So right now, and for the past two years, my setup has been two turntables, Serato Scratch Live and a Rane TTM57. Tomorrow I will be upgrading to a Rane Empath and welcoming back my old Denon DN-S1000 CD player. This will hopefully allow me to do more juggling-over-a capellas and other silly stuff like that.
Drum & Bass mix – 5/24/09
Recorded live on DCRR! Best awesome.
- Oceanic – Akira vs T-Ak
- Run to me (Drum ‘N’ Bass Energy Mix) - Real Keepers
- Something Good (High Contrast - Utah Saints
- I Gotcha – Joe Tex
- Take Me Home - John B (feat. Stareyes)
- Where I Want You feat. Trixie Reiss – Subsonik Remix - The Burner Bros
- Sabotage - Beastie Boys
- Throwdown (Original Mix) - Capital J
- Roots Train – Commix
- Armoured D - Dillinja
- Gay Bar - Electric Six
- Armoured gay bar - datashat
- Candy Man - Sly
- Ghost Town - The Prodigy
- One for the trouble (a capella) - A.D.O.R.
- Youth Today - Channel 2
- Kill Bill (Volume 2) - Drunken Masters
- woo hah a capella - busta rhymes
- She Lives In My Lap feat. Rosa - OutKast
- Late Hours VIP - Icicle
- Hocus Pocus - Focus
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 49:10 — 45.0MB)
Thoughts on Mixed in Key
I recently purchased Mixed in Key and am overall very happy with it. Here are some thoughts:
Pros
- This software has helped me find track pairings that would have never occurred to me otherwise, particularly in the rock and funk genre. Metallica’s “Fade To Black” vs. Glass Candy’s cover of “Computer Love”? Who would’ve thunk it? Awesome.
- Can store key information in several different ways (9A vs. Em) and in several different places in the tags or file names.
- Customer service and technical support is stellar — very quick to respond via e-mail.
Cons
- This software requires an Internet connection, because it sends song information to the Mixed in Key database for key analysis. While I’m not too concerned about privacy, the biggest issues here is that you cannot scan tracks on the fly at or before a gig — you must key all your tunes in advance.
- While it can analyze WAV files, you can’t save the information in their ID3 tags since WAV files have none.
- It took me over a day of just letting my computer run to analyze my entire DJ library (approximately 15,000 tunes), and crashed multiple times due to issues with the ID3 tags.
- Not really a con of the software, but an annoyance of the process: I have to run my MP3s through three places. First, MIK to set the key; then Serato to build the overviews. And then add to iTunes. Laaaame. I would love to see MIK integrated into Serato.
Other notes
- To use this well, you will have to use the “pitch lock” feature on your mixing software or CD players.
- You will have to rescan your song database (iTunes, Serato etc.) after writing all the keys.
- Setting up Smart Playlists in iTunes will help you view songs by key with ease.
Still Alive!
Posted by Dan in unimportant on May 10th, 2009
I’ve been slacking updates, but I’m still alive. I opened for Reid Speed on Tuesday which was kind of fun, but playing in chill-out rooms and on radio shows 90% of my “career” means I forgot how to control a crowd like I used to, unforch.
I have some weird hip-hop/rock/glitch podcast coming up soon (it’s not as weird as it sounds). Courage Wolf project is on hold.
Amitai Podcast 2 year anniversary!
Posted by Dan in unimportant on March 30th, 2009
Happy two-year anniversary to me! Awesome.
Live @ DCRR, 3/22/09

I was very happy with my set tonight! Here it is… No tracklist unforch but if you want ID on a specific tune, I can give it a shot.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:00:01 — 55.0MB)
Radio archives
I do an Internet radio show with a bunch of people on Sunday nights. You can find loose archives here. You can listen live every Sunday from 7-10pm EST at stressfactor.co.uk.
If my set is really good I’ll usually isolate it and post it here separately so whatever!


