The first 2 hours of my 4 hour DJ Set at a very special ocassion in the beautiful garden of a special location

Live @ 4 Years Get Deep in About Blank, Berlin, 08.09.13

Feat. Mr G, Rodhead, Robert Armani, DVS1, Ben Klock, Point Break, Kenny Larkin, The other People Place, WAX ...

Back To The Roots

My first track ever. I have been watching youtube tutorials and then I started to learn how to play the midi instruments in Ableton. 6 hours later that tune came out.

Charlie Smooth - East Coast Dub

The first episode, of a series dedicated to love making music.
Serve chilled, enjoy safe.



Love Songs Vol.1 - Love Me Slow

The second episode, of a series dedicated to love making music. Serve chilled, enjoy safe.

Love Songs Lov. 2 - Boogie Nights

Doing some research on music industry for my social and media sciences study, I got confrontated with the subjects the most of you have heard time and time again:
The music industry is in a deep crisis, the physical sales are rapidly going down, the record shops are disappearing, the digital sales are expanding but they are still only one third of all the sales and can’t cmpensate the decline in the physical sales. On the one hand there are more artists on the other hand there are less record sales, so the cake is getting smaller and there are more people to feed.

The artists’ earnings from records are becoming less and so they have to compensate with more live shows. The artists blame the music industry and its incompetent, rigid, conservative and restrictive management strategy and their inability to adapt to the new conditions. The music industry blames the internet and the illegal downloads which is a very comfortable excuse but it doesn’t bring any fruitfull solutions.
The internet is there it won’t disappear and people will continue sharing music.Instead of boxing with our own shadow we can think of creative ways how to make things better for everyone. The truth is that things are changing and social structures like the music industry are to adapt to the new world.

One step in that direction could bet the model developed by Gerd Leonhard called Music 2.0, which sees the future music industry as an open, transparent and uncontrolled ecosystem with less restrictions on the music use and more engagement of the user in distributing and advertising music products.
The basic idea of Gerd Leonhard is to create an industry that offers music the way theuser wants to buy it not the way theseller wants to sell it. If the users want to share music let them share and let them create sharing networks. Leonhard proposes putting the tollbooth into the networks, offering them a license and enabling a flatrate thatlegalizes the universal, ubiquitous use of music, the way when you pay your water supply you can do anything you want with water. This idea makes the copyright the way we know it obsolete.

Inspired from the book Music 2.0 I decided to record a mix with Disco and House edits which I downloaded for free from a wonderful Online Audio-Plattform called Soundcloud. According to the law I came legally in the posession of these tracks. According to the law the people who have done this edits are criminals because of the unauthorised use of copyrighted material and intelectual property. I don’t think those guys are criminals, I think they are artists who have done something beautiful. I guess I am not the only one since the number of the edits done constantly grows and there are even many Groups in Soundcloud like   http://soundcloud.com/groups/deep-disco for example devoted to such edits.

In that sense let innovation work!

sincerely Yours Charlie Smooth

P.S.
If you want to find more about Gerd Leonhards ideas on the future of music industry visit
http://www.mediafuturist.com/blog.html
http://www.gleonhard.com/

Thanks to Maria Herrero for the inspiring conversation at The Garden Festival in Croatia.

And here is the playlist:
1.Curtis Mayfield - Trippin Out (FOC Edits)
2.The Love Unlimited Orchestra - What a groove(Brevils Unbreakable Edit)
3.Duff Disco - Just In
4.Bidu Orchestra/The Noodleman - GYBAWS (The Noodleman Sweatshop Edit)
5.Superbreak - Watcha Gonna Do (Brevil's Unbreakable Edit)
6.Al Green - That's The Way It Is -Dave Allison Edit
7.Cameo - Throw It Down (Domes edit)
8.Lil' Louis &amp; The World - Club Lonely (Shield Re Edit)
9.DJ Stylus - Houseline (Black Ivory Edit)
10.The Noodleman/Silver Convention - Fly Robin Fly (The Noodleman Lost Temple Dub)
11.SUPERBREAK - Lets Go All The Way (Superbreak Edit)
12.Ted Taylor - Ghetto Disco (Crime City Edit)

Music 2.0

The third episode of a series dedicated to love making music. Including up tempo disco bangers from 4 decades. Serve chilled, enjoy safe.

Love Songs - Lov. 3 - Love Me Fast

Love Songs Vol. 4 - Balearic Love Affair

Firefly - Love Is Gonna Be On Your Side (Charlie Smooth edit)

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Charlie Smooth - Love Songs Vol. 5 - Italian Love Affair

Charlie Smooth - Transformation (Side B)

smooth edit of an 80s italian dance classic

Gary Low - I Want You (Charlie's smooth And Long Edit)

To celebrate my 1000th follower I'm giving away a secret edit, that I have been playing out a lot recently.

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Charlie Smooth - Disco Special (Edit) FREE DOWNLOAD

Late 1970s tropical disco burner. Edit heat!

King Sporty & The Root Rockers - Baboo (Charlie Smooth Edit)

Biddu Orchestra - Boogiethon (Discomeyer And Smooth Edit)

Charlie Smooth - Love Songs Vol 6 - Love Is A Bliss

Classic Italo Banger reedited for maximum dancefloor satisfaction

Charlie Smooth - Feel The Drive (edit)

A deeper twist on a classic 80's house track

Sandee - Notice Me (Charlie Smooth's decheeseedit)

A House Version of Curtis Mayfield's uptempo disco track "No Goodbyes"

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Charlie Smooth - No Goodbyes

eclectic, relaxed podcast, a perfect companion, for the office, the gym or while cleaning the house. Recorded around 2014

Charlie Smooth - For Winter Is Coming podcast

Live recording from our party in november. Join us again on dec 7th

Jochen Discomeyer & Charlie Smooth Live @ Disco Train Nov. 2018

Charlie Smooth Live At Disco Train (Warm Up Set)

This podcast was my way to say goodbye to my girlfriend at that 
time and It symbolises the excitement of falling in love, the stormy 
fights, the painfull moments of suffering and the most beautiful 
sundays when time seemed to have stopped. Enjoy this one hour 
and and eleven minutes of pure Love.

14.08.2009


00:00 Love Vibe (Pepe Bradock's Conﬁote De Bits Mix) - Iz & Diz 
07:00 Beautiful Day - Nick Sole 
14:00 Do it Like this (Pete Dafeet Rmx) - Jake Island Ft. Alec Sun Drae 
18:20 Piri, Piri - Sven Tasnadi 
23:30 Right At It - Michel Cleis Deeper Remix - Baeka 
27:30 Mouth (Brad Peep's Remix For Friends) - Iz & Diz 
32:30 Rusty Nails - Moderat 
37:30 Earth - Nick Sole 
43:00 I Am Falling (Paris-Bordeaux Remix) - Charles Webster 
47:00 Underneath the Wind Manchine - Gavin Herlihy 
53:00 I Care - The Bionics 
59:00 Congolal - Tensnake 
01:04:00 I Am Your Mind (Pepe Bradock's As Roy Ayers 

DJ Smooth - So  long

Soju Bar was one of the amazing locations that make Berlin such 
a special place. On one of the last evenings before the venue closed
Emil Doesn't Drive and Charlie Smooth recorded this mix which shall 
remind us of the great times we had there. 
Long Live Soju Bar!

Emil Doesn't Drive & Charlie Smooth present An Ode To Soju Bar

Berlin based music lover
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