I've got traktor a little bit figured out and have pretty much taken Lucifer's hand to walk off into the sunset of the dark side. I dislike most of the mixes I've heard people make with it but that doesn't stop me from playing around with it myself. I'd like to abandon all cultures and all genres and make a kitchen sink cacophony mix with it: sound effects and television show soundtracks from all around the world looped and fragmented into something that is pure disorientation.
MIX #7
evidence/fuego dm . flying lotus/ tea leaf dancers. nas/ one love (instro). temperatures rising (instro)/ mobb deep
(UPDATE 09/10: this divshare link is dead, but i mixed this mix into mix #12: "the other side of time-" which is one of my best DJ efforts- if not THE best, and is currently hosted on soundcloud
I didn't buy any of these tracks. Actually, I bought a bargain bin promo of the first Mobb cd once, but I found the instro on some blog or another. Pulled the Lotus track from You Tube, which might account for the muddiness of it. All in all, I don't have a job, if that makes it any more wrong or right (as if in the long run any of this matters either way). What's the use of music? Is it a pretext for people to get together and interact? Is your leisure time sufficient recompense for work?
as for leisure time in my area, if you are in las vegas you should check out http://www.devilsnight12.com/ on october 24. I'm too feeble to make it there myself, but there's at least a chance that people will have a good time there. Dubstep DJ King, appearing there, throws a monthly party called Smash which actually has a little bit of soul to it. Like I said, I don't enjoy going out anymore...There might be real fun... real parties left in the world, but their networks are closed to the likes of my pestilence...Attendance is always sparse at the events I think will be good. Here is a decent forum for people who try to make things happen on the model of parties in the past http://www.eternalbeats.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=15
caught some shows... caught the yeah yeah yeahs one night and the bravery another... The bravery: I didn't think I knew who they were, I went because there was free booze and I thought there would be decent looking girls there. Turns out that i knew some of their songs, they played a couple things:("so, that's who plays that song. ") I guess it was OK- it was free. The yeah yeah yeahs were OK as well, a diverse crowd- some of their songs were kind of grooving but there weren't enough rhythms going on to really make you move.
