Used my Galaxy S4 to test SoundCloud's record feature and got a bit of a thunderstorm that rolled through today. Disappointed in the overall result. Need to do another one of these using the Blue Yeti next time :)

Thunderstorm On Porch

Used my Galaxy S4 to test the SoundCloud record feature and got the Penn Hills #7 on one of its many, many daily outbursts. Will probably also redo this one in stereo using the Blue Yeti hanging out my window.

Fire Siren at Penn hills, pa

No idea why. Seriously. But, when I saw this photo on the Internets, it inspired this mix. It's a one-take live mix with fuck-ups that I genuinely don't care about, the Internet probably will. Anyway, it's just a fun romp through some bass-heavy tunes I like to listen to.

Recorded in Serato DJ using a Numark NS6 and Korg padKontrol controllers because your favorite DJs can't drive this snow plow. I can.

Tracklist:
Wrong World Intro
+ vs. Motorcycle - As the Rush Comes (Widdler Remix)
Dirty Zblu ft. Gadmandubs - Next Level
Strikez ft. Eddie K - Broken Codes
Trampa - Gas Tank
Xjado - Cryptic
G$POT, Unknown & Profane Remy - Zoom (GAWTBASS Remix)
KDrew - Lost
Niveau Zero - Underground Flavor (LUMBERJVCK Remix)
Protohype x Two Frexh - Gutta
Twine - Inner Taiga
Zomboy - Beast in the Belly
Creaky Jackals - OC
Skrillex - Ragga Bomb ft. Ragga Twins (Zomboy Remix)
"Clap When She Walkin'"
Proper Villains ft. Metric Man - Bust One
Dirtcaps - Boss It Up ft. The Kemist
Tha Trickaz x Apashe - iDynamite
501 - Kill Your Boss (Barely Alive Remix)
Aero Chord - Break Them ft. Anna Yvette (GAWTBASS Remix)
Nibit - Reach You
D!STO - Track #6.3

...with some random shit thrown in here & there. Be sure to point out every mistake. They're deliberate, because things are all wrong :)

Redneck Snowplow Mix - Things Are All Wrong

A mashup I threw together in Ableton Live 9 to create an intro texture I wanted for my Insert Finger Into Socket mix. This is Obeson - Alone x Skream - Corporate Sell-Out with a lot of automation in the arrangement.

Obeson - Alone (Voltage Technician Corporate Sell-Out Mix)

Universal Music Group and SoundCloud Can Eat a Bag of Dicks

TRACK LISTING:

Truth - Land of Stone
Biome - Serenity
Genetix - Feelings
Megan O'Neill, Dodo J5 - Hallucinations
Infected Mushroom - Fields of Grey (ft. Sasha Grey)(RIOT Remix)
Caspa - Reach for the Sky feat. Diane Charlemagne (The Others Remix)
Trampa - Consciousness (Original Mix)
Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence (Datsik Remix)
Datsik, Protohype, Init - Turf Wars (Original Mix)
Flux Pavillion - Feels Good (feat. Tom Cane)(Cookie Monsta Remix)
Barely Alive - Binary (Original Mix)
Mat Zo - Ruffneck Bad Boy (Extended Mix)
Supreme & Decimate - Elements (Original Mix)
Kryptic Minds - A Glimpse of Hope
Twine, Dion Timmer - Predator
Notixx - Last Call
Mayhem x Antiserum - Seven Deadly Sins
Mayhem x Antiserum - Shelter (ft Bulletproof)

Voltage Technician - Back From Detention (Mix)

I decided to choose a genre (Hybrid Trap in this case) and spin the first five free downloads matching that genre in my SoundCloud feed. The mixes are named for their first and last track.

This is the "Ego Death Headshot" mix created by grabbing five random-ass tracks off SoundCloud. I did reorder them for better flow, but I selected among nothing else. I just use what an NS6 on Serato DJ can do on an old-ass Windows desktop as a hobby.

This one's uploaded as a 320Kbps MP3 because the sources were all MP3s anyway. It's just a hobby. They're not all AIFFs mixed from WAV source on Beatport. I also want people to be able to re-create the mixes and have fun on their own using all free downloads they can easily grab right here and go rip shit up. If you do, hit me up. I'd like to hear your mixes of the same tracks to hear how you'd approach the same thing.

TRACK LISTING:
ELEVATE - Ego Death (ft. Sam Sloan)
Captain - Chum (HODJ Remix)
Dillon Francis & KSHMR - Clouds (YULTRON x hopSTEADY Remix)
Party Thieves & Lazy Boyz - Rise
Sharxpowa - Aught (Todiefor Remix)

Voltage Technician - Hybrid Trap Challenge #001 - Ego Death Headshot

I despise what this service has become. So, I'm off to build my own little puff in the sky. My computer programming skills simply mean I don't need this service anywhere near as much as they need content creators. And, with their policies, advertising and everything else, now, it's officially easier and cheaper to build my own site instead of worrying about this one at all.

Hobbyist producers and DJs who literally only do this for fun aren't welcome here anymore. I guess our innovation has served its purpose. So, I'm done trying to rely on "cloud" services for personal content.

It's not like I need to share what I do.  I just want to. And, I can do that on my own. So, this was that point along my timeline where SoundCloud and I had a relationship. Then, we broke up.

This is me refusing to obey.

Lights Out

In/around studios since the 90's. Have been doing "music" since the 80's in my early teens and have worked everything from a 16-track 1" TASCAM reel-to-reel deck on "all analog everything" to FastTracker ][ to Ableton Live 9.

I'm the former owner/operator of subLOGIC.fm, a dubstep & heavy-bass electronic dance music blog operated out of San Francisco, CA. Its slogan for its entire lifespan was, "Hear music. Support artists. Simple."

Basically? I paint with sound. The pictures aren't always pretty.

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