Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Saturday, December 13, 2008
a train ride through tokyo
I saw this video on Kato630's blog this morning:
I believe I rode this monorail when I went to hang out in Odaiba with some friends in the spring a few years back. I remember being taken aback at the beautiful view that passengers have while riding, as looking in one direction gives them a huge view of the bay, while looking the opposite gives an enormous view of the city skyline...
The future-funky music only enhances the video, and I think that the second track that starts in the middle of the video [First Class '77 (Fantastic Plastic Machine remix)] is audible bliss.
Turns out that the music's by a fellow named Yoshinori Sunahara, and it looks like quite a bit of his music is available in the US on Emusic, Amazon MP3, and iTunes, so I'm sure I'll have no trouble loading up on his discography.
Seeing the video and getting all nostalgic is making me want to post a few photos from that day in Odaiba.
Oh, and I'll have try to have the photos from last night's ElectroFunk Combustion on my next post!
I believe I rode this monorail when I went to hang out in Odaiba with some friends in the spring a few years back. I remember being taken aback at the beautiful view that passengers have while riding, as looking in one direction gives them a huge view of the bay, while looking the opposite gives an enormous view of the city skyline...
The future-funky music only enhances the video, and I think that the second track that starts in the middle of the video [First Class '77 (Fantastic Plastic Machine remix)] is audible bliss.
Turns out that the music's by a fellow named Yoshinori Sunahara, and it looks like quite a bit of his music is available in the US on Emusic, Amazon MP3, and iTunes, so I'm sure I'll have no trouble loading up on his discography.
Seeing the video and getting all nostalgic is making me want to post a few photos from that day in Odaiba.
Oh, and I'll have try to have the photos from last night's ElectroFunk Combustion on my next post!
Friday, December 5, 2008
coming soon: two trance mini mixes (one from me, one from katie blades)
Katie Blades and I will be spinning a trance set together at the next Electro Funk Combustion event (Friday, December the 12th). To promote our upcoming set, we'll both be recording a 40 minute mini mixset each and putting them both onto 80 minute CDRs to hand out to people (and we'll of course be posting them online).
Although the sets I usually spin are comprised of breaks and electro house, I've put together a couple trance mixsets as well. It will, however, be my first time spinning trance live. This mixset I did back in July is a good example of the type of trance I like to spin.
It'll also be my first time spinning on CDJs live. Up to this point, I've been spinning on my Macbook running the Torq DJ software [which is not unlike Traktor and Serato] using the M-Audio Xponent controller. Controlling the CDJs and controlling the, uh, controller are fairly similar, but I really need to get accustomed to not staring at the waveforms of the tracks while I spin (which is what I've been used to doing when mixing on a laptop. I'm hoping that doesn't throw the timing off during my transitions too drastically, but I guess that's what practicing is for, right? Wish me luck!
On another note, man, it was hard finding decent photos of all of the night's DJs when designing the above poster. I need to be sure to get good action shots of them while they're spinning this time around so they'll have decent portraits that they can actually give to promoters if they want their pics on more flyers in the future...
Although the sets I usually spin are comprised of breaks and electro house, I've put together a couple trance mixsets as well. It will, however, be my first time spinning trance live. This mixset I did back in July is a good example of the type of trance I like to spin.
It'll also be my first time spinning on CDJs live. Up to this point, I've been spinning on my Macbook running the Torq DJ software [which is not unlike Traktor and Serato] using the M-Audio Xponent controller. Controlling the CDJs and controlling the, uh, controller are fairly similar, but I really need to get accustomed to not staring at the waveforms of the tracks while I spin (which is what I've been used to doing when mixing on a laptop. I'm hoping that doesn't throw the timing off during my transitions too drastically, but I guess that's what practicing is for, right? Wish me luck!
On another note, man, it was hard finding decent photos of all of the night's DJs when designing the above poster. I need to be sure to get good action shots of them while they're spinning this time around so they'll have decent portraits that they can actually give to promoters if they want their pics on more flyers in the future...
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