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So our good friend Allie Williams recommended this CD ages ago and it's taken a while for us of get it of him... (or in this case not!) so we bought it ourselves. As fellow huge Derrick Carter fans it's safe to say this is another excellent mix cd and takes it's well deserved place in The Classic Mix CD Series. Cheers for the recommendation Ali, turn it up, and enjoy the mix.

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083 - Derrick Carter presents 'About Now' (2002) recommended by Allie Williams

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Link to the video captured here in real-time: https://vimeo.com/150015591

Patch Notes:

This was a patch experiment using the new Mutable Instruments Rings/Clouds Modules, and trying to create strumming/plucking guitar like sounds within a patch. The inspiration came from playing around with the Clouds Parasites 1.3 alternate firmware running in the Resonator mode highlighting the "scatter" (or strum) function. The master clock was the Tiptop Circadian Rhythms module, taking the first 4 outputs into my Nord Drum 2 for the Kick, snare, closed and open hi-hats. From there the clock output from the CR was multiplied and then sent to the Modcan Touch Sequencer. First row output from the TS was sent to the intellijel Shapeshifter creating a two note baseline sequence that comes in at 1:58. The second sequence Row2 output from the TS was sent to the "ALM Akemie's Castle" module OSC A output using the chord function, that comes in at 25 seconds. The gates from the modcan where set to a 16th's pulse sequence. Modulation from the synthesis technology E102 Quad Temporal Shifter output 1 modulating the Multiplier input on Operator 1. The 2, 3 and 4 outputs from the E102 where also modulating the Operator 2, 3, and 4 inputs on the Akemie's Castle. This was creating the harmonic timbre changing as the sequence was playing.

The slowly evolving sweeping noise textures that come in at 1:09 is from the Music Thing Radio Music module. The sample was a white noise sampled lightly filtered and then sent to the intellijel HexVCA with the amplitude CV control via a Intellijel Dixie modulating from slow to high rates (free running). The Make Noise Rene was being externally clocked from the Circadian Rhythm, and was sending out a quantized output to the Mutable Instruments Clouds pitch input creating the chord guitar sequence. The strum sounds on Clouds was played by the 4ms QCD running in 32th division output into the Trigger input. The freeze input was also triggered by a Ladik R-110 Random clock module. The combination of the two created the trill chord like strums.

The bass guitar tone sound that comes in at 1:24 are from the MakeNoise Mysteron, that is being sequenced by the Modcan Touch Sequencer, Row Output 3 was programmed in the same key but a lower octave. The "Rings" module was creating slow attack soft high pitched chords in reverb that come around 2:50. There was additional processing of the Clouds output that was sent into the Tiptop ZDSP module running the "Halls of Vahalla" card program 8 "Ginnungagap" creating the high pitch octave deep reverb shimmer effects. The harmonic slow swells that come in at 3:30 where created using another intellijel Dixie oscillator sine output running into an Strymon "Big Sky" pedal being harmonically controlled by an intellijel µScale V1. The output was being played slowly then processed using the "Choral" mode, creating the slow shimmer swells. The entire mix was sent into the Eventide Space pedal using the "Corridors" patch.

Mutable Instruments Rings : mutable-instruments.net/modules/rings
Clouds Parasites firmware: mqtthiqs.github.io/parasites/clouds.html

Strum - Modular Patch

Every Recording of Gymnopédie 1

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Welcome to the first instalment of my ’20 Years a Kid’ mixtape series! This first mix covers the years from 1996 to 1998 when I first started DJing in Sydney (and long before most people in Australia had ever heard of me). This first mix captures some of the tracks I was playing back then: hip hop, big beat, and early breaks. 'Breaks' wasn't actually a genre yet in 1996 and you had to dig pretty hard (at your local record store) to find a good breakbeat sounding record. But that's what made it so exciting, the 'discovery'. I'm sure there's a tonne of tunes I've forgotten on here (and there were some I left off as they didn't quite work in the mix) but the essence of what I did back then is here, including the last track 'Papua New Guinea' which I'd drop last EVERY time I DJ'd.
Anyway, I hope you dig the mix! Big love and welcome to my 20 year flashback!
KK x

TRACKLIST:

01. The Number Song (Cut Chemist Party Mix) - DJ Shadow
02. Sure Shot - London Funk Allstars
03. Shake Your Rump - Beastie Boys
04. That Hip Hop Track - Bitch
05. Mella (The Herbaliser Drive Faster Mix) - DJ Food
06. Freestyle Noize - Freestylers
07. Trickshot - Ceasefire
08. Beat Bastik (Ceasefire Remix) - Hard Hop Heathen
09. Packet of Peace (Chemical Brothers Remix) - Lionrock
10. Take California - Propellerheads
11. Push - Bass Funk-tion 
12. Left Hook - Simply Jeff
13. 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 - DJ Icey
14. Pick Up - DJ Icee
15. Loose Caboose (Bassbin Twins Remix) - The Electroliners
16. Funk Da Fried Party - Simply Jeff
17. Higher State Of Consciousness (Tweekin Acid Funk) - Josh Wink
18. Big Ditch - DJ Icey
19. Who’s The Bad Man - Dee Pattern
20. unknown - Soulstice (white label)
21. unknown - Bassbin Twins Vol. 1 (white label)
22. Westway - Thursday Club
23. Papua New Guinea (Original 12" Mix) - The Future Sound of London


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20 Years a Kid The Mixtapes Vol. 1 (1996 - 1998) - Mixed by Kid Kenobi

Taken from 'Fahrenheit Fair Enough' by Telefon Tel Aviv out December 2, 2016.

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