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!

ANYWAY HERE IS THE TRACK LIST
1. New York Dolls – Personality Crisis
2. Sabac – Organize
3. Jamiroquai – Feels Just Like It Should
4. Gorillaz – 5/4
5. Be Your Own Pet – Black Hole
6. LCD Soundsystem – Daft Punk Is Playing At My House
7. Duran Duran – Girls on Film
8. Nid & Sancy – My Rave
9. Fannypack – Hey Mami
10. Lo-Fi-FNK – City
11. Scissor Sisters – I don’t Feel Like Dancin’
12. Ratatat – Lex
13. Iggy Pop – Lust for Life
14. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Date With The Night
15. Scream Club vs. Ben Adorable f/ Peaches – Fine as Fuck
16. OCDJ – Smoke My Cheese
17. Dan Deacon – The Crystal Cat
18. Gnarls Barkley – Gone Daddy Gone
19. Operation Ivy – Sound System
20. T. Rex – Jeepster
21. Prince – Housequake
22. Holy Fuck – Milk Shake
23. Basement Jaxx – Red Alert (Jaxx Club Mix)
24. Simian Mobile Disco – It’s The Beat
25. Digitalism – Idealistic
26. Crystal Castles vs. Health – Crimewave
27. Cut Copy – Lights and Music
28. Videohippos – Koolshades
29. Queen – Don’t Stop Me Now
30. Outkast – BOB
31. Queen – Don’t stop Me Now (REWIND!)
32. Crystal Castcles – Black Panther
33. Robyn – Konichiwa Bitches
34. Klaxons – Gravity’s Rainbow
35. Teddybears f/ Iggy Pop – Punk Rocker
36. Lesbians on Ecstasy – Victoria’s Secret
37. Slade – Cum On Feel the Noize
38. Michael Jackson – Beat It
39. Thrill Kill Kult – Sex on Wheels
40. Prototypes – Medicalement
41. Calvin Harris – Acceptable in the ‘80s
42. Gossip – Standing in the way of control (soulwax remix)
43. Boney M – Rasputin
44. Yelle – Je Veux te Voir
45. Spank Rock – Touch Me
46. Indeep – Last Night a DJ Saved My Life
47. [surprise bonus track]
48. Kurtis Blow – The Breaks
49. L’Trimm – We like cars that go boom
50. Gorillaz – Dare
51. Daft Punk – Technologic (Hot Einsten remix)
52. Ottawan – Hands Up
53. Marnie Stern – Put all Your Eggs in one Basket and Then Watch That Basket!!!
54. Goldfrapp – Strict Machine
55. Leningrad – Terminator
56. Tokya Ska Paradise Orchestra – Tetris Theme
57. The Smiths – Panic
58. Rage Against the Machine – Kick Out The James
59. Herb Alpert – Rise
60. Leftfield – Inspection
61. Beck – Where It’s At
62. Suspicious Stench – Ghost Town

This is the longest mix I’ve ever recorded. Ridiculous!

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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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

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

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!)

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

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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Tag team with Jukata at Beyond.

DOWNLOAD HERE
Funk The War 2
Tracks selected by Maurine, mixed by Dan Amitai

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This is 37 tracks in 64 minutes. This is called ADDD - the extra D is for Downtempo!

Track list:

1. Prefuse 73 - Drum Machine, Cello, Headwrap
2. Portishead - Pedestal
3. De La Soul - Millie Pulled a Pistol on Santa
4. Pharcyde - Passing Me By
5. Al Green - Here I Am
6. Gorillaz - Left-Hand Suzuki Method
7. Mtume - Juicy Fruit
8. Alan Braxe and Rec - Link N Rings
9. Ratatat - Spanish Armada
10. Mylo - Need You Tonight
11. Schooly D - Gucci Again
12. Leon Haywood - I Wanna Do Something Freaky to You
13. Freddie Scott - You Got What I Need
14. Bill Cosby - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
15. The Sexy 2 - Pick 3
16. Outkast - Kim & Cookie
17. Sly and Robbie - Herb
18. Barrington Levy - Here I Come
19. Morrissey - America is Not The World
20. Barry White - I’m Gonna Love You Just a Little More, Baby
21. San Francisco Knockouts - Herm
22. Fans - Roly Poly Mickey Lolich
23. Meters - Hand Clapping Song
24. Screamin’ Jay Hawkins - I Put A Spell On You
25. Mirwais - Paradise (Not For Me)
26. Innerstance Beatbox - I Have A Special Camera
27. Massive Attack - Dissolved Girl
28. Dust Brothers - Chemical Burn
29. Mullholland Drive Theme Song
30. Kylie Minogue - Chocolate
31. CSS - Music Is My Hot Hot Sex
32. Innerstance Beatbox - Allsun
33. Fatboy Slim - Weapon of Choice
34. Cure - Pictures of You (extended)
35. Avalanches - Electricity
36. Cure - Lullaby (acoustic)
37. Green Day - I Was Alone

Check out some pictures from last night. I made only a quick cameo while Alter-Ego went for a smoke break. Also featured: DJ Gauge and David Bloom.

We were also mentioned in this week’s Washington City Paper. Online version here.

Featuring:
Ryptide - Ableton / synths
Ivan - Guitar
Retrospect - MPC
Dan - turntable

As you know, a couple of friends and I have been throwing a weekly happy hour / DJ event in DC. Earlier this week, we were mentioned in The Washingtonian:

…one of the best happy hours you’ve never heard of. Held every Wednesday from 6 to 11 in the upstairs lounge of Skewers and Cafe Luna restaurants, it showcases excellent local DJs and insanely cheap drink specials…

So yeah, we’re doing pretty well. Cheers!
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Anyway, I still do it because I love music and I love DJing and I get more compliments than insults, so I’m coming out on top.

Here is a mix I made in preparation for my gig there this Thursday. I think I’ve done a good job at playing classics that everyone knows, playing out the entire track (well sometimes, but notice that I’m playing 18 tracks in an hour instead of in 30 minutes), and still having fun with a little scratching and looping. I don’t get too crazy with the mixing and there’s a lot of just straight cutting-through to the next track. This is how they like it!
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