Free Music Friday: I’ve heard The Monster Mash and Werewolves Of London enough for this lifetime.

So I was glad to hear that DJ Arbiter had put together Hallowrave – a 2009 Halloween mixtape.

“Do your ears a favor and download the mix,” says DJ Arbiter, aka Josh Messer. “It’s chock-full of electro/house/rock/halloween anthems and I know you’ll love it like a tiny child.”

Tracklist:

1. Zombies (Hot Pink Delorean Remix) – Designer Drugs
2. Song 2 (Vengeance Remix) – Blur
3. Hey You (Le Castle Vania Remix) – Kill The Noise
4. Drop Down – Designer Drugs
5. Heads Will Roll (John Roman Remix) – The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
6. Zero Machine (Le Castle Vania Remix) – Smashing Pumpkins
7. Business Man (Black Noise means Business Remix) – Crookers feat. Wiley & Thomas J
8. Thriller (Luis La Roche Remix) – Michael Jackson
9. Get Down The Funk (Disco Villains Remix) – FutureFlashs
10. I’ll Get You – Classixx feat. Jeppe
11. aNYway – Ducksauce
12. The Eastwood Swing – Doogie Houser
13. Next Episode (Will P Remix) – Dr. Dre feat. Snoop Dogg
14. Drfunkenstein – Deadmau5
15. Moar Ghosts N Stuff – Deadmau5

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The Instant DJ Toolbox promises to make you cool, and put you just one step below Daniel Craig!

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Sunday Synth Jam: This video captures the Open Reel Ensemble, a group that does DJ-style performance mixing, performing live.

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Open Reel Ensemble (ver.1.6) are :

Ei Wada
Kimitoshi Sato
Haruka Yoshida
Keitaro Kuno

?recording and playback
?algorithmical switching and scratching
?the solenoid’s direct (physical) effects
?controlled by numpad and iPhone
?motion loop

DJDeedle’s latest Deedlecast is a 007 James Bond electronica megamix.

And like the James Bond movies, it’s sexy, it’s silly, and it’s swanky – thanks to the classic brassy scores of John Barry.

Every Friday, DJDeedle posts a 30 to 40 minute show, called a “Deedlecast,” featuring mashup, chillout, downtempo, or dance mixes and remixes of every conceivable kind.

This week, DJDeedle takes some of the iconic Bond themes and sounds as his fixed point and moves the musical world rapidly around them. And because going to the movies just isn’t the same without it, if you listen carefully, DJDeedle’s even thrown in the popcorn.

In The Mix:

1. Cuebism – Superpersuit Mode – iD.002
2. Cuebism – Run Quick – iD.002
3. Silicone Soul – Right On 4 Tha Darkness
4. ate one – weekender – iD.009
5. St. Germain – Alabama Blues (Todd Edwards
Vocal Mix)
6. Kaskade – What I Say
7. Michael Franti – Love Invincible
8. ‘Little Louie’ Vega – Elements of Life (Latin Jazz
Dub)
9. Supreme Beings of Leisure – Divine + Ian Pooley
Mix
10. Silicone Soul – Chic-o-Laa
11. Kylie Minogue – love at first sight

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This is an interview with DJ Paul Oakenfold from the Winter Music Conference.

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Amon Tobin has released a free 1:17 set, Foley Room Recorded Live In Brussels.

Back in early 2007 Amon Tobin released his latest full length album titled Foley Room and put together a tour focusing on the sound and the music, rather then thinking too much about lights, projections and stage antics.

The full-length, official recording of the legendary 2007 Foley Room tour is finally available at www.amontobin.com.  Recorded by Studio Brussels at the AB theatre in Belgium – which arguably has the best sound system in Europe.

After months of back and forth and despite everyone’s best efforts the mix was in danger of being edited into the ground to accommodate big labels and publishers. Rather than release a compromised version commercially, the decision was made to give it away for free instead. You can download the mix as it was intended to be heard along with the full digital booklet, for free.

“F*** visuals we’re sinking every last penny into the sound system!” – Amon Tobin

Ronnie Pries

You can preview it below:

PLAYLIST

01. Marco Carola – Jackpot
02. Richard Bartz – Diamond Girl
03. Anton Pieete – Players
04. Jerome Syndenham – GSXR 810 (Adam Beyer Remix)
05. Chris Liebing – Turbular Bell
06. Eric Prydz Presents Pryda – Killer
07. DJ Pierre aka Da Master Blaster – I’ve Lost Control (Spastic Meltdown Mix)
08. Itamar Sagi – One Million Oaks
09. Remute – Zuendli
10. Radio Slave – Grindhouse (Dubfire Terror Planet Remix)
11. Planetary Assault Systems – Mod
12. Speedy J – Red Shift
13. Slam – City Destroyer (Original Mix Part 2)
14. Ronny Pries – Funky shrimps
15. Donk Boys – Djaxulator
16. Jark Prongo – Spadet
17. D. Diggler – Timemachine
18. Speedy J & Chris Liebing – Magnit
19. Guy J – Mikro
20. Atheus – Quadradelay
21. Claro Intelecto – Round & Round
22. Beat Pharmacy – Drifter (Drifting Drums Mix)
23. Move D and Benjamin Brunn – Honey

The Deedlecast is a weekly audio podcast featuring ill-begotten mashups, chillout, downtempo, or dance mixes and remixes of every conceivable kind. 

You can preview the Deedlecast below:

In this podcast episode, DJDeedle liberally applies the Crystal Method to create a hard, ordered repeating pattern extending in all auditory dimensions.  This Deedlecast contains a couple of clearly rude words.

As DJ Deedle notes: 

The majority of the music on this site has been, by my own free admission, created using non-sanctioned, copyrighted material of other artists. All audio material of this nature is for demonstration purposes only and, unless you own the copyright, should not be kept or redistributed.

DJDeedle does not make any money from this and believes that the end-product is sufficiently different not to cause the original artists any financial hardship. However, DJDeedle will remove any file upon receipt of a written request to do so.

Finally, if you like the music you hear on this site, please go out and buy something by the original artists – one hand washes the other. Remember, as always, past performance is no indication of future return. 

 
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Tracklisting

• Four Tet – Ringer
• Liquid Liquid – Bell Head (Harvey edit)
• Avus – Tear
• Burial – Raver
• Sam Clarence – Sextant daktari
• Wookie – Manchu 2
• Autechre – Play neu!
• Matt John – Olga dancekowski
• Kraftwerk – Ruckzuck
• Plastikman – Helikopter
• Siobhan Donaghy – Carl Craig remix
• The Field – Action

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The latest in our series of Chicks That Mix is Viktoria Rebeka Kokalj, aka DJ Viktoria Rebeka. Originally from Croatia, Viktoria Rebeka is known for mixing house tracks, ranging from progressive house to electro-house.

She’s worked around the world, including Austria, Vienna, The Netherlands, Barcelona & Slovenia.

You can get a taste of Viktoria Rebeka’s work with the DJ mix below, or find out more about her at the Underground Connections site.

DJ/producer Reid Speed began career in the New York City drum & bass underground in the nineties, when it was still a bit of a novelty for a woman to be DJing. She quickly built a reputation, though, in the word of drum and bass.

Since then, she’s toured the world spinning drum and bass, speed garage and 2-step, she’s released several mix CDs and been the house DJ for the Jamie Kennedy Experiment television show.

Check out her Filthy Nasty Breaks mix below for a taste of her work. She’s also got a collection of free MP3s at her site to introduce you to her work, including DJ mixes and original productions.

She bought turntables in early 1996, and began playing out less than a year later. By the summer of ‘97 she was a resident of rave promoters Stuck on Earth and the following year a member of the Direct Drive crew. At their numerous events she cut her teeth playing alongside some of the biggest & the best in the business.

At the same time Reid was serving as her college radio station’s RPM director and also working at drum & bass store Breakbeat Science. Capitalizing on their large and widespread customer base, her demos soon spread across the country, which led to her travelling to many new cities around the US and Puerto Rico, as well as Ireland, Canada, and Mexico.

She visited England that summer and developed a love for Speed Garage, which inspired her to throw her own events, pushing the music she had grown to love. This movement morphed into a love for many other genres from 2 step to nu skool breaks to house and beyond.

In 1998 she distributed her first speed garage/2 step/house tape and in 2000, Reid, DB and 4.0 Marketing came together to do a successful series of 2 step events, including the first 2 step showcase at the 2000 Winter Music Conference.

Reid had also begun working on original production, releasing “SIMPLOT” with FS on Jungle Sky, and assisting Datcyde with a remix of NYC jungle anthem “Naughty Ride” featuring MC Blaise, which was released on Taciturn.

In 2001, after thirteen self released mix tapes and one animated short movie for Showtime’s Shonext channel, her debut mix CD Resonance was released by Breakbeat Science. In support of the release, a 40 date tour sponsored by Mixer magazine introduced her sound to an even wider audience. After wrapping that tour, Reid came home to NYC only to do another tour, this time with Madhattan breakbeat kings Ming & FS. They did 28 dates in 30 days across America in an RV. Warming the crowd up for an average of 3 hours a night, Reid developed her signature genre-busting style for the increasingly larger audiences.

After that month on the bus Reid was primed for a massive change. She decided to move to Los Angeles. She started Rude Sound, a party showcasing 2 step and nu skool breaks. In the summer of 2003, Breakbeat Science came calling for their second mix, entitled Life After Dark . Inspired by 9/11 and the decline of the NYC scene (no thanks to Mr Giuliani, Mr Bloomberg, or the darkness pervading the drum & bass scene at the time).

During that summer, Reid also recieved a call from a TV show looking for a special DJ to provide on-air flavor to the show. After competing against hundreds of male scratch/hip hop DJs, Reid was chosen by Jamie Kennedy to play drum & bass for one season on his show, the Jamie Kennedy Experiment which aired on the WB network. She went on to appear as the DJ in an episode of Spike TV’s MDN.

After completing the tour for Life After Dark in late 2004, Ms Speed got back to business with production of original tracks. Her & Sense’s track Bring it Up was recently featured on Richard Vission/ Swedish Egil’s Power Tools.

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The latest DJ in our series of Chicks that Mix is 23-year-old Montreal native Vivie-Ann.

Vivie-Ann says her sets cover everything house with a hint of ping or pong – anything that makes hands fly in the air. When asked to describe her sound, Vivie-Ann says it’s “bump in the night with a little dynamite,” adding that her sets could also be called “morally immoral.”

A six-year student of conservatory piano and a graduate of McGill University’s computer science program, she currently holds residencies at Palladium in Acapulco, Hulala in Rome Mokai in Miami, and last year in Ibiza @ Penelope.

Vivie-Ann released her first major remix release in 2006, an amped-up version of Kobbe & Austin Leed’s Bodyshaker. Vivie-Ann is now concentrating on production with her partner, DJ Kevin Barnett for their DJ collective, 02music, and the launch of their new DJ-inclined clothing line, ADD (Addicted DJ Designs).

You can preview Vivie-Ann’s work below, or download free MP3 mixes at her management site.

Dj Anastasia was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1985. Since she was a child, she has loved music, dancing, playing piano and guitar.

When she was 16, Anastasia fell in love with electronic music and made her first attempts to mix vinyl.

Since then, DJ Anastasia has played with Felix da Housecat; DJ Diamond, Dj Dan, Deep Dish, Tiest and others.

Anastasia DJs regularly in clubs in the Ukraine. She also had played clubs in Milan, Madrid Allegoria, Zenith, Athens Venue, island Miconos Space (Greece), Georgia FTV and Night Office, Moscow and Ibiza Privilege.

You can get a taste of DJ Anastasia with her house music dj mix, below.

Amber Nixon is a San Francisco-based techno and tech-house DJ and producer with a taste for driving beats and aggressively risky mixing.

Aggressive and risky is good.

Her unique approach to mixing is featured on her three CD releases, Live with Friends and Family (2004), Gold (2002), and CityDweller (2001), and her latest track, Your Love, is featured on the CD Altered Evidence (2004).

In 2003, Amber co-founded NorCal DJ and Music Production Academy in San Francisco, where she develops and instructs DJ courses. She is also a recurring guest lecturer for the UCLA Graduate School of Musicology course on The History of Electronic Music.

Amber is a resident with the San Francisco branch of Sister USA, a cross-genre, all-female DJ collective. Amber and her projects have been featured in Remix Magazine (US), XLR8R (US), Etc. Magazine (US), Karma Magazine (US), Szene (Germany), the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Magazine and numerous online publications.

You can preview Amber’s aggressive and risky mixing style with her grinding, feverish acid trance mix, CityDweller. Amber’s got more mix MP3s at her site, along with her performance schedule.

Yeow! What’s not to like about DJ Diamond?

She’s an international DJ, she’s Hawaiian and she’s been featured in Playboy, Maxim, and FHM. She’s even got a degree in sports medicine, in case you get whiplash turning your neck when she catches your eye.

She’s DJ’d from South Africa to China to Russia to South America, delivering mixes of electro, house and progressive to hard trance music. In between touring, she’s in the studio working on original productions.

You can get a taste of DJ Diamond’s sound with her Shine mix, below. More MP3s & videos are available at the DJ Diamond site.

That’s the basic premise of Time Out’s The Other Side Berlin. The release combines a CD and a DVD to create a multimedia blitzkreig that introduces you to the sounds and sights of Berlin.

DJ Ellen Allien is your personal guide. The CD features a really varied set of tracks, including Helden, David Bowie’s Heroes auf Deutsch and some Berlin-themed tracks by Quarks, Âme, Miss Kittin, Plastikman, Monolake and Ricardo Villalobos.

But that’s just half of the package. The DVD takes you one a visual tour of Berlin, with Allien as the guide. The soundtrack is full of more great electronica, and Allien shows you her favorite spots for getting cheap jeans, silk baby dolls, clothes for clubbing and great food.

She even takes a visit to an international shrine of analogue gear, Schneiders Buero, where she checks out their Future-Retro Revolution, some anal-offenders from Metasonix and even some German gear from Curetronic. After that, she takes you crate-digging.

My type of tour-guide.

In addition to Allien’s tour, the DVD features a selection of visual tours of Berlin, with sections on Shopping, Food, Nightlife, etc.

All in all, the The Other Side CD+DVD series is a great idea, and Ellen Allien makes a perfect guide to the sites and sounds of Berlin for fans of electronic music.

I would have like to have seen a booklet with a track listing for the DVD and also a directory to the locations visited. Nevertheless, for the price of a standard CD, Time Out gives you a solid CD plus a DVD, making this a great deal.

I hope these are a success for Time Out, because it would be fantastic to have guides like this available to more cities.

Tracks:

• Helden – David Bowie
• In White Rooms [Neo Mix] – Booka Shade
• Königin – Quarks
• Rej – Âme,
• Poor People Must Work [Carl Craig Remix] – Rhythm & Sound, Bobo Shanti
• Neukollin 2 – Miss Kittin
• I Don’t Know – Plastikman
• Bombing Bastards – Terranova, , Tricky
• Berlin – Wayne County, Wayne County, Electric Chairs
• Invisible – Monolake
• Ichso – Ricardo Villalobos
• Way Out – Ellen Allien, Ellen Allien,
• You with Now – AGF, , Delay

The site’s been redesigned around podcasting, according to Superfibre’s Jon Godsell. “From now on, there will be no more Superfibre emails,” notes Godsell. “Sad, I know, but it’s all about the PODCAST!!…”

“The site has been redesigned, purely around the DJ mixes,” adds Godsell. “It’s a lot more simple, so I should be able to post a lot more mixes. There will still be Superfibre exclusives, but I’ll also be posting links to the best mixes from all over the web. Plus, you can now comment on the mixes!”

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This month, they are featuring DJ Shorty vs. The Loopmaster.

“A unique hour long mash-up from DJ Shorty & The Loopmaster. Skillfully genre-hopping, from house to soul, rock to old skool, this is a massive mix of exclusive bootlegs, all of the finest caliber – not to be missed.”

Adam Coppack is the recent winner of Paul Kershaw’s huge Rising Stars DJ Competition on Galaxy FM and is a DJ to watch out for. Download his mix from the DJ Seb Woolford site, where you can also download Woolford’s February demo mix and several other nice trance and hardcore mixes.