First up in a trilogy of peak time bass, Florida breakbeat and DnB >> 🎧  opens with a spectacular,  unforgettable Nelly Furtado bootleg BASS mix by Pholo.

high tech gear: 

mouse. keyboard. cheap little USB controller. ableton live 10. mastering plugin and stuff.

samples: Bleach 1000 Year Bloodwar

tracks:

Pholo-Say It Spin feat. Nelly Furtado
Itso, Aeneh-Visions
Obscene Frequenzy-Rolling (2018_Mix)
Hankook, ACEDIAS-Origins (Original Mix)
Baymont Bross-Wise And Smart (ACEDIA Remix)
The Darrow Chem Syndicate-Karakuri (Hankook & Perfect Kombo Remix)
Mutantbreakz -Shiny Disco Ball
Beta-Mad Rhythm (Original Mix)
Age of Love-The Age Of Love (Raverman Remix)
Leena Punks-On The Floor (Extended Mix)
The Brainkiller & Suga7-Deja Vu (Original Mix)
Kucka-Drowning (Octn Jungle Flip)
BABii-Ember (DnB Edit)
Jéger, Obey-Binary Dreams
Donatello Versaj-DumbNBass

DJ Set 2024

BASSBOOMBREAKS Volume 01 (DJ Set 2024)

Final set is a bow down to the #1 OG G.O.A.T. cyberpunk manga and anime series Ghost in the Shell 🎧 ⚡ 

cover art & opening samples: 

Motoko "Queen Kong" Kusangi, cyborg badass leader of Public Security Section 9

intro translation:

(i can't see anything! someone give me a status report!)
何も見えません！誰かが私にステータスレポートをください!

it's the strangest thing, Batou ...
それは最も奇妙なことです、バトー...

what have i been feeling so jaded and disillusioned about?
私は何にこんなにうんざりし、幻滅していたのだろう?

what do you think i was searching for as i was wandering the net?
ネットをさまよっている間、私が何を探していたと思いますか?

truth? friendship?
真実。友情。

or maybe a certain special someone
あるいは、ある特別な人かもしれません

maybe i just wanted to blame this organization or even the system for 
my own sense of helplessness
たぶん、私はこの組織やシステムを非難したかったのかもしれません。 私自身の無力感

... but maybe i've had my fill of that too
...でも、それも飽きてしまったのかもしれません

- Kusanagi (final scene of Solid State Society)

gear:

mouse. keyboard. cheap USB controller. ableton live 10 + mastering plugins to pump it back up

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tracks:

Mili-sustain++ (Von's Major Edit) *
Habstrakt-The One (Unlovable Remix)
Overpeak-Kusanagi << 👀 😆 👍
Wardian-Tellawag 
Wes Smith-8 Track 
Cole Knight; Ocsav-Brain Drain
Skool Of Thought-Together (Extended Mix)
Loco Dice-Roots (DJ Tennis Remix)
Nikki Nair-Startrack
The Push-You Take Me
Flat Earth Mafia-CeCe Grooves
Denoiserzs, Adam Vyt-Finished Mystery(Party Acid Mix)
The Darrow Chem Syndicate-Xplor (Sergei Orange Remix)
SubL3v3L-Access Denied 
RNBWS-Concentrate 
Hankook, MURIX-Try Again 
Mack Loenz-Dance With Me Maceo Plex Club Remix
Social Sport-Organic Chemistry

* edited, layered, restructured and FXed multiple versions of Ghost in the Shell SAC 2045 outro track

BASSBOOMBREAKS Volume 03 (DJ Set 2024)

Was a time the vibe on sets like this one - and it's G.O.A.Ts * - inspired 24/7/365 dedication.

Playing it. Making it. Mixing it. Dancing to it. Thinking and talking about it. Promoting, planning and partying to it. Listening over and over and over and overr and overrr and overrrrr ... driving ... biking ...working out ... 

Ever questing the just-right family of killer tracks, each mixing with and setting up the next magically, in the perfect order.

Infinite tracks in infinite combinations

glorious obsession >> 🎧 🔥 👽 💙

living, breathing and riding the eternal train 

* (digweed, dj sasha, danny tenaglia, sandra collins, victor calderone, kimbal {no relation!} collins, jimmy van m et & global underground era 1999-2008) << 🙏🏻

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gear:

mouse. keyboard. cheap USB controller. ableton live 10 + mastering plugins to pump it back up

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tracklist & edits of note

intro: Third Eye

- sample: Hitsuguya from Bleach 1000 Year Blood War
- Music for Body and Spirit-Third Eye Chakra *
- Rambadu-Vinden
- Hoffmen-Sleep Over
- Analog Jungs-Futura (EANP Remix)

Mike Rish-Fade 
Victor Calderone-Inside 
Joel Mull, Heiko Laux - Slight Munch 
Frankey & Sandrino-The Moment
Simos Tagias-Katla (Alex O'Rion Remix)
Ronnie Spiteri-Breathe (wAFF Remix)
Hertz-Clutch 
Booka Shade, Joplyn-Polar Lights (John Monkman Remix Extended)
The Smiths-How Soon is Now (Carlos Gatto Remix)

dark interlude: Tokyo Life

- Boris Brejcha-Welcome To Real Life 
- Mauro Somm-Tokyo (von edit)
- DJ Deep, Roman Poncet-Adventice-Exsurgence (Percussive Mix)
- Victor Calderone-Splitting Atoms 

Chaum, Hobin Rude-Back and Forth 
Pig&Dan-Better Than The Love I Know (Extended Mix)

* meditation & healing frequencies ALL 7 CHAKRAS &amp; ELEMENTS - Full Body Energy Cleanse, Aura Cleanse, Chakra Balancing, Chakra Healing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnchFh0bMHU

P.R.O.G. Volume 02 (DJ Set 2024)

P.R.O.G. Volume 01

P.R.O.G. Volume 01 (DJ Set 2024)

Did this one back in 2015 and - having no Soundcloud Pro account at the time - never got around to publishing it anywhere. 

So it's been sitting on my drive until now, almost a decade (😳) later.

Intro is a quarter spinning on a table and falling over that looped and reversed Pink Floyd-Money sample .... then, dubby Jay Z (from *his* track 'Money') floating over track 01.

It's 'HARDSILVER' shining cause I feel like it ended up with shiny metal sounds shimmering all over it (not just the intro) and the hardcore hypnotic old west galloping techno grooves.

No idea how I found the cool dinosaur track coming @ 24:30. Glad I did! 🔥  looove tracks with big, phat dinosaur sounds 😆

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gear:

Mouse. Keyboard and little USB mixer thing into Ableton Live. Allen & Heath mixer audio interface.  Izotope Ozone (3?) 

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tracklist:

HARDSILVER shining (DJ Set 2015)

My love for ethereal, cinematic electronic vibes goes back a long way.  Vangelis ... Tangerine Dream ... Moroder ... DJ Sasha's Airdrawndagger and Northern Exposure series with John Digweed. 

So if you're catching that kind of vibe with this one, so was I sometime in 2012 when this family of tracks came my way.

one for the >> 🎧  surround sound recced

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gear:

By this time my 17" touchscreen setup was gone. I think I'd just begun working with cheap USB mixers and keyboard extensions as controllers.

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tracklist:

{lost most of my tracklists in hard drive crash ... will Shazzam soon!}

One Aire Coastale (DJ Set 2012)

From 2000 to 2005 I spent a lot of time on Manhattan / Brooklyn based dance music forum Naughtybooth.  And a more wretched hive of Limelight, Tunnel and Twilo DJ's, producers and clubbers will never be found.

That town has long had its own hard, gritty underground house sound and  they were all about it. Place was a goldmine for sick tracks. Over that period I flew up there a few times to hang out with them.

In 2012 I was living back in New York. And I must have been reflecting on all that when I began piecing this one together, 'cause when I finished and listened back it was one of my most elaborately themed sets:

City street sounds intro ... subways ... NY samples all over it. These tracks are all New York bangers layered with tons of edits and sample work 🎧  

Labor of love, it was.

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gear:

Other than the initial rough mixdown, this one is 90% studio. So mouse, keyboard and long hours on the grid.

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tracklist:

{lost most of my tracklists in hard drive crash ... will Shazzam soon!}

New York No Sun (DJ Set 2012)

A soundtrack for fast driving down single lane desert highway, 3AM. Stereo on 🎧

You're going the distance. Black coffee, cigarette hanging out the corner of your mouth.  And the miles wind on ... and on ... and ...

A bright blue star beckons on.

Riding the hypnotic desert techno dawn.

Blue Wide Miles (DJ Set 2012)

This Happened: On the eve of Xmas 2010, I boarded the northern train from Portland OR to Rochester NY with a laptop, a cheap little USB controller and a pair of PC speakers. Unsuspecting.

Who could know, that the first few tiny flakes falling before departure would evolve ... in transit - to a monstrous, unrelenting blizzard that would stop the Empire Builder 'overnight express' in its snowy, blowy tracks 5 times.

And along the way I mixed this set live for a car of weary travelers. 

I wonder now when it dawned on us that we honestly weren't 100% if we would ever reach our destinations? 

Was it before or after after Minneapolis? Where we backed up 2 miles to reroute around a landslide ahead. Or was it when Homeland Security (yes, DHS) stopped and inspected the train for 5 hours ... because the engine caught fire 🔥 😳 

😂 You have no idea. No, we really couldn't know. 😐

I chose a nice group of tracks in the days leading up to departure, I suppose influenced by the Portland winter cold. Then I played them on the train, mixed around on headphones hour after hour, scanning for magic where the tracks mixed. 

Until a curious girl approached and tapped me, wondering what's up. So, when I was ready, I turned the speakers on and played this for them.

And it must have been some subconscious thing rising, compelling me to choose the final track sequence you hear.  Because when I listen back years later:

 I can *hear* the storm building, from the first chords of haunting housey intro (Minilogue? 🤔) ... through the rise to the furious peak  ... then riding it out during the final miles home as the snow faded,  the train landed .... and we could finally sleep.

Yeah. That happened. lol.

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gear:

Laptop.  USB mixer controller.  Triggering with mouse and external keyboard extenders mapped to the Ableton Live interface.  Pair of Audio-Technica studio phones.  And some speakers that definitely needed more bass.

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tracklist:

{lost most of my tracklists in hard drive crash ... will Shazzam soon!}



Snow Day (DJ Set 2010)

The deep, deep early sasha-digweed era vibe on this is by design: 6 of 18 tracks are epic legends from 2000-2005.  A sound and feeling ... hit so hard ...

Its a tribute to sets we heard over and over,  soaking up every sound.  And wondering what manner of wizardry conjured such magic. Then, the long road learning how. 

So - for me - this is the vibe that led to a dance music career.  Body and soul.

P.R.O.G. Volume 03 is an enhanced remix of a set streamed on Frisky Radio's Waveforms on 2/24/25: https://www.friskyradio.com/show/waveforms/02-24-2025/josh-von-at-02-24-2025

As the deadline to submit that version approached, I ran out of time to do it justice - of note, the final 15 minutes - which features 3 of my all time favs remastered ('smak' mastered), edited, re-sequenced and layered (shuffle mixed)over two modern minimal techno tracks.

Here 'enhanced' means I finished it up the way I heard it in my head. Adds samples from the 'The Realm' acapella, a smoother feel and flow with refined engineering overall.

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gear:

Ableton Live 10, mouse, keyboard, Izotope Ozone

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tracklist:

Intro Sample:  Ywach, Bleach 1000 Year Blood War

Polar Blue (versus):

Samples: 
Jimmy Van M-Sanctuary  [Bedrock]
excerpts from Chantal-The Realm (acapella) [High Fashion Music]

Feral-Polar Sun [Hypnus Records]
vs
Luigi Tozzi-Almost Blue [Non Series]
vs
Illinton Feat. Coco Sapur-New Dreams (12' Mix) [Hooj Choons]

Hamel, Blackwatch-Discotek (DT Vinyl Dub) [Bedrock Records]
Jamie Stevens-Path of None (Analog Jungs Remix) [Zero Tolerance Recordings]
Örtz-We Don't Talk (Brother Brown Remix) [Caoz]
Quivver-Infinity [Controlled Substance]
Framewerk-The Drums [Capital Heaven]
Selsi-Linked (John Keding Remix) [Capital Heaven]

Chilling Soul (versus):

Patrice Baumel-The Cave [Kompakt]
vs
Silat Beksi - DNA [Silat Beksi Music]

Jimmy Van M-Sanctuary (Original Mix) [Bedrock]
vs
Luigi Tozzi-Suspiria [Non Series]
vs
Peace Division-Body & Soul (Original Mix) [Peace Division Re-issues]
vs
Feral-The Maze [Hypnus Records]
vs
Shmuel Flash-Chilling Moments (Original Mix) [Bedrock]
Shmuel Flash-Chilling Moments (Bedrock Vocal) [Bedrock]
samples: Chantal-The Realm (acapella) [High Fashion Music]

P.R.O.G.Volume 03 (DJ Set 2025)

Big thanks to Danny @ablekid at friskyRadio Waveforms show for reaching out with this guest mix slot 🙏🏻 

Original Air Date: 02/24/25
https://www.friskyradio.com/show/waveforms/02-24-2025/josh-von-at-02-24-2025

The deep, deep early sasha-digweed vibe on this one is no accident: 6 of 18 tracks are legendary classics from the 2000-2005 era. 

A sound so impactful, it compelled me to start producing and DJing and everything I've done in dance music since. 

Here I freshened it up by blending them in with newer tracks, feverishly layering & chopping the last 15 minutes to hear them in a new context, and slowing it all down from the 126-130 bpm hyperspeed freight train so trendy at the time.

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tracklist:

Intro Sample:  Ywach, Bleach 1000 Year Blood War

Polar Blue (versus):

Sample: Jimmy Van M-Sanctuary  [Bedrock]
Feral-Polar Sun [Hypnus Records]
Luigi Tozzi-Almost Blue [Non Series]

Illinton Feat. Coco Sapur-New Dreams (12' Mix) [Hooj Choons]
Hamel, Blackwatch-Discotek (DT Vinyl Dub) [Bedrock Records]
Jamie Stevens-Path of None (Analog Jungs Remix) [Zero Tolerance Recordings]
Örtz-We Don't Talk (Brother Brown Remix) [Caoz]
Quivver-Infinity [Controlled Substance]
Framewerk-The Drums [Capital Heaven]
Selsi-Linked (John Keding Remix) [Capital Heaven]

Chilling Soul (versus):

Patrice Baumel-The Cave [Kompakt]
Silat Beksi - DNA [Silat Beksi Music]
Jimmy Van M-Sanctuary (Original Mix) [Bedrock]
Luigi Tozzi-Suspiria [Non Series]
Peace Division-Body & Soul (Original Mix) [Peace Division Re-issues]
Feral-The Maze [Hypnus Records]
Shmuel Flash-Chilling Moments (Original Mix) [Bedrock]
Shmuel Flash-Chilling Moments (Bedrock Vocal) [Bedrock]

Waveforms - February 2025 - Josh Von Guest Mix - friskyRadio

Of 60+ sets I recorded 2005 to date, this might be my fav. It's also the last ever mixed down on my custom touchscreen Live rig ...

Winter 2009: Booked to play Friday night @ Crooked Bayou, downtown Orlando. So I messed with some tracks. Came up with a plan something like this. 

Alas!... a power inversion in the wiring of the house we were renting wiped out my studio PC and main music drive. Samples, productions and client work in progress ... BOOM 💥 Years of laborious love.  90%+ dusted.

Nuked my career in music at the time it did. Dark days, they were. My studio was toast. Had to hustle to find work and dig out.

My laptop and live rig were unplugged and therefore protected from disaster. Awesome!  but: had to cancel the gig for a new job anyway. 

So I remember playing through these tracks, practicing it on my touchscreen setup, solo at home.  The live edits and looping ... non-linear mixing ... the entire set harmonically orchestrated.  In the flow, yo.  

For years I worked to capture the 'just right' progressive techno sound. Driven to manifest a vibe and groove conforming to an archetype wired in my head. 

Stripped down turbo charged technocolor, cinemamatic vistas. 

Paramental.

I've done lots of sets since that I like. But at the time, this was the one that  *finally* told the storyexactly the way I was itching to tell it all that time.

And I did it one long night, right after my world turned upside down.  Unforgettable. 

"The most ironic outcome is the most likely outcome" - Elon

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gear:

Custom 17" touchscreen + midi controllers into studio laptop w/ Ableton (8? 9?). A&H mixer & audio interface.


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tracklist:

{lost most of my tracklists in hard drive crash ... will Shazzam soon!}

No accident. (DJ Set 2009)

Laid down this collection of slinky, sexy deep tech tracks one sunny afternoon @ Ernie & Jimbo's pool party - Orlando, Summer 2013. 

I was living in upstate NY at the time. One fine day my friend Mish invited me to her wedding back in FL. Could not miss! had to fly. 

So I hopped a plane with a little touchscreen laptop, A&H audio interface, USB controller and about 50 tracks of this type to choose from. 

I recorded to the Ableton grid as I played. Flew back north, fine tuned things a bit, engineered it and posted to SoundCloud (this is a repost).

Oh ... and that intro? It's an inside joke. I was a *horrible* smoker back in the day. I used to wake up with a hack like that. 🙄 (quit about 15 years back)

I pieced it together from open source samples* sprinkled with bits from Groundhog Day and Black Sabbath.

(* yeah so, no: that's not actually me 😆 Thank God!)

A Shrine of Reeds (DJ Set 2013)

I've helped clients around the world with Ableton Live services.

Friends and peeps I have done work for include Brian Transeau (BT), Bill Hamel, John Graham, Alexander 'Sasha' Coe's Involved (charity benefit tour), Danny Howells, Nick Warren, AK1200, and others.

Starting in 2005 I produced some tracks, put a few records out. I was also low-key obsessed with the DJ set as art form, using Live as a tool to harmonize, restructure and re-edit tracks together in realtime ie. non-linear mixing or 'shuffle mixing'.

At one point I developed a custom 17 inch touchscreen + hardware controller setup to do it live on stage and in the studio. Played gigs around Orlando and Central Florida for a bit.

On my sets mixes are harmonized and tracks deconstructed / reconstructed in new sequences by skipping back and forward through the waveforms. I prepare samples to drop throughout.

After mixing I do post-production, fine tune the samples and/or produce additional parts to fit. Then I master the output to make it pump and shine.

I've chilled on it in recent years other than the sets. But people ask me what I've been up to and want me to keep it coming. 

I'm still obsessed with the art of the DJ set. So here they are.

👊🔥🎧

Josh Von

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