Electronic music, DJ culture and nerdism
It was about time to break some barriers. I am talking about the barriers in my head: I had been playing too many single-style, single-tempo recently, and this screated a barrier that didn’t let me think about other ways to compile music. In a way, this mix is about tearing down musical barriers. It’s also ...
If you haven’t heard about iO before: He is a rising UK artist who is currently introducing his signature sound to the buzzing Garage scene. His official artist page described his sound like this: “Soul samples flow smoothly over precise percussive punctuation, with sweeping synths and bass from the deepest depths.” iO recently teamed up with bass ...
I recently participated in a very interesting debate among DJs in an online forum. The original question was this: What is an adequate salary for a gig? How much should a DJ ask for? The debate got very heated when some newcomer DJs said they were accepting gigs for free to build a reputation and ...
This mix began with a discovery – a discovery that connected the musical past with the present. It’s a combination of Big Beat, a genre that originated in the mid-90s, and Glitch Hop, its most recent reincarnation. The ingredients: Banging HipHop beats, distorted synthesizers and lots of sampling. I used to be a big ...
Part of being a DJ is carrying lots of stuff around when you have a gig. I kinda got used to carrying record cases, cd cases, turntables, laptop bags and various other things around. However, I wasn’t really aware of how much of an effort this was until I finally found a good solution for ...
