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Free track and submission to Beatport remix contest…check it.

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

So, I entered into Beatport’s remix contest for Yello’s classic track “Bostich” and re-worked it with my close friend Stephen Thomas aka Steve Wilson. I think we managed to eek out a banger of a track, with a lot of positive feedback coming from friends and acquaintances.

We need your votes though! Check out the link below, sign-in with your Beatport account (if you have one) and give it a “spin” aka vote. Hoping to at least make a strong showing, as we think the track is a stand-out amongst the sea of bland stem re-works. There are some other really amazing remixes though, so we won’t fault you if you don’t vote for us…but I’ll leave it to you guys to find them for yourselves ;)

Check it out and vote here

Also, for those few of you that may check out the blog, I’ve got a full-length version of the track available for DOWNLOAD here at Cause, Effekt.

Enjoy, and let me know what you think.

ALSO,

Some friends and I have started up a new site / events blog for Knoxville dubbed Knoxville Electronic Dance Music Collective aka knoxville-edm.com. The goal is to get every single EDM event in Knoxville on the map and listed so we can build a bigger scene, even if its a genre, style, or crowd we may not care for. No bias, no hate, just a venue to get the word out about events, and hopefully start up a forum for discussion. So if you’ve got events to drop, please let us know and we’ll get the info posted, including flyers!

woah, did it again

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

Forgive me, for I have taken awhile to post back.

Lots of stuff going on, including moving into a new home and the month of stress that’s entailed.

It’s good to be settled now, though. So far, September and October have been far more interesting than I imagined, and there has been a lot of change for the good. I’ve been dabbling in some new tunes, and cooking up some tracky tools to combine in live situations, but it’s still been kinda slow. If you keep an eye on the soundcloud then perhaps you’ve heard it…or perhaps that’s how you got here.

Damn, now that I’m sitting here doing this, I feel like I’ve got loads to talk about, but I’m also burning to cut these mixes up from a show my friends and I played at in the summer. The first was great, the second a bit dead, but fun. Fantastic mixes though, across the board. We all really need to be more insistent on working the promos and “right” people, although so often with this area, it’s a sludgy, steep, uphill battle, with mortar shells coming at you from above, lol.

Nonetheless, there’s a burgeoning techno scene in the southeast…let’s check some parties:

On the 22nd, in Knoxville, TN there is Octobertech, with local vets Mark B, Stephen Thomas, Gregory Alan, and The Funnel.
Octobertech at the Longbranch
Do a little Halloween pre-gaming a week ahead of time, bring out the urinal and keg costumes, it’s the Longbranch!

Then give a peek at the Halloween party in Louisville, KY. Nice job guys. Woody McBride and Stewart Walker will be playing there on the 31st atHellhouse V . And where the hell else can you go hear some quality techno on the 31st and just pay $5 (well, if you wear a costume ;)). We’ve got places that are charging $20-$40 for some less-than-thrilling prospects. Mr. Lou, who works with Brad T as Project Massive (the subs!), will be doing the sound for this one, so look forward to something worth listening to. Awesome sound is so underrated.

That’s all for now, I’m tired of typing. Time to work out the ears and mind some more.

BOOM! The FrequenSee sound system at Transformus

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

MassiveSound's 6x Custom-built LABHorn Dual 12" horn-loaded subwoofer cabs + Lou's 4x Yorkshire Unity tops

MassiveSound's 6x Custom-built LABHorn Dual 12\


This is what we built to use for sound at Transformus (and many more future events!)

MassiveSound’s 6x LABhorn Dual 12″ horn-loaded subs + our friend Lou’s 4x Yorkshire Unity tops

This is only the beginning. Many hours of blood, sweat, and tears into this, and probably even a few chunks of skin and dead nerves for Brad! Definitely one of the most worthwhile and gratifying projects I’ve worked on in a long time.

Check out some more pics and videos at Paramnesia’s flickr

Piltdown Sound live pa at camp FrequenSee / Transformus 2009

SOUND TEST!

Move over Lemur…hello TouchOSC

Saturday, June 20th, 2009

Just a heads up to those of you with iPhones and that like to dabble in production or live PA…and I know I’m probably a bit late to the punch on this one, but I just found out about TouchOSC a couple of days ago and was floored by the functionality on this app. $5 gets you a customizable Lemur-like interface that can be converted to give MIDI signals in combination with OSCulator on the Mac. Finally, an X-Y pad controller! woot

Super handy stuff when you’re mobile and don’t want to tote around a bunch of hardware controllers, plus just damn useful in the studio. The only downside is there is currently no free OSC to MIDI converter available on the Mac, so you’ll have to purchase a license of OSCulator for $20…which is also what you need to use for WiiMote action, so it can serve double duty I guess.

Anyway, its one of the coolest apps available for the iPhone if you’re into production and it’s not just another gimmick like so many other music apps. Check it out.

The Funnel’s cover of Animotion’s “Obsession”

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

I was listening to Animotion’s “Obsession” on the radio a little over a year ago on my way home from work and thought it would make an awesome techno cover, albeit a bit cheese. Ha. So I stayed up til the morning deciphering notes, creating Operator synth patches to loosely match the instruments in the original, and laying down a live bassline recording…which seems to be the main driver behind this one.

It’s “loosely” based on that track, but I had to keep the campy synths. Anyway, I had it shelved for over a year and decided to break it out last night and today to finish up some loose ends. Enjoy.

The Funnel - “Obsession”

Transformus construction…our Geodesic dome prototype

Monday, June 15th, 2009

If you don’t know about Transformus, you should. It’s a pseudo private festival where about 1500-2000 individuals come out to a beautiful 640-acre piece of land called Deerfields to throw up their own temporary “city.” The city consists of dozens of theme camps, which provide services, music, and other entertainment. Whether it’s being a trapeze artists for a day, sharing costumes to run around in, brewing coffee for passers-by, learning a certain craft, or just dancing the night away with some techno DJs, there is something to do for the three days of the festival. It takes place during the traditional summer solstice time, and provides a massive effigy burn on Saturday night, complete with a very trippy drum circle and fire dancers and all the people of the area encircling it.

Awesome.

So, this is my third year, and some friends and I have decided to participate by building and organizing our own theme camp, dubbed FrequenSee. We’ll be providing a 24-hour-per-day outpost to hear music, dance, play with circuit-bent toys and devices, manipulate sound and video, learn some facts about sound engineering, and best of all…free food. Brewing up some big pots of Indian, Persian, and Thai dishes, along with some straight-up BBQ on the grill!

So for our camp we’re buidling a pair of geodesic domes, from pvc, rope, and a parachute. We didn’t think it would work, but it looks pretty good to me. And it was extremely stable. Here is a prelim pic of our test-run.

Just an FYI for another awesome mix…Levon Vincent

Monday, June 15th, 2009

I first heard of this guy off of Steve Bug’s “Bugnology” mix series with his track “Love Technique” and shooooooo…what a track. Techy, funky, acid, floor stepper…

Anyway, Levon Vincent’s name has been bubbling about again recently with a series of throwback tech-house (vinyl-only) releases that really seem to bridge the old-vibe of the late 90s and early 2000s with some of the new tech and compositional detail. He’s been keeping it real, for sure.

he’s got a new podcast, which I’ve been highly enjoying (and apparently so has a lot of the RA forum), and interview up on RA, take a peep…

An Assortment of Trax

Monday, June 15th, 2009

by yours truly

enjoy them, and hopefully you’ll find something to your taste

feedback is appreciated

Download the 7 tracks in a zip file

320kbps mp3s, id tags filled appropriately

Tracklisting:
1. Basic Simple Slow Dumb
2. Punishment Groove
3. The Garbanzo Tool
4. Bailout
5. Bailout (Grind Mix)
6. Shock Doctrine
7. Urbanized Dance Warfare

April 2009 Mix…The Rebirth

Monday, June 15th, 2009

From another Saturday afternoon in April…nice day, but super mellow…

Download it here…

Tracklisting:

1. Moved (Efdemin Rmx) - Sebo K ft. Prosumer
2. Three Arches - David K
3. Oi Pedro Do You Do Chips? - BLM
4. Underground Thang V.2 - Marc Romboy and Blake Baxter
5. Taking Shape (SLS Rmx Part 2) - Audio Soul Project
6. Elif (Jimpster Rmx) - Marc Romboy
7. The Grass Is Always Greener - Jichael Mackson
8. Immersion (Sleeparchive Rmx) - Substance and Vainqueur
9. Karamabolage (Lo-Fi Dub) - Terry Lee Brown, Jr.
10. For The Lost - The Mole
11. Soleil - Johnny D
12. RJ - Radio Slave
13. A Night In Melbourne - Rob Acid
14. Tendency - Jan Jelinik

Download it here…

March 2009 Mix…Smash Tyranny

Monday, June 15th, 2009

An off-the-cuff mix dedicated to the fight against tyranny throughout the world

Download it here

Tracklisting:

1. Despegue - Chris Fortier
2. Deliverance - Pig & Dan
3. Missp - Phil Kieran
4. Black Rose (Steffan Linzatti Rmx) - Zahn
5. Firewire - Maxime Dangles
6. Portucais - Italoboyz
7. Mixmux - Alex Falk & Piltdown Sound
8. Bottle Opener - Drumcell, Audio Injection
9. Turbular Bell - Chris Liebing
10. Dark Fader - Butch
11. Lynchesque - Dusty Kid
12. The Windey Man - Justin Maxwell
13. Grindhouse (Dubfire Terror Planet Remix) - Radio Slave
14. Up - Perc & Fractal
15. Two of Us - Supermayer
16. Skyhook 1 - Phil Kieran

Download it here

Introduction…

Sunday, June 14th, 2009

Hi. I’m a person that likes techno music. yay