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5 Ways to Mix Tracks With Different Tempos

5 Ways to Mix Tracks With Different Tempos

October 4, 2011 No Comments

I recently had a discussion with a couple of other DJs in a forum: We were talking about how to mix tracks with different tempos. Of course, almost never do two tracks have exactly the same tempo, but a lot of DJs are hesitant to mix tracks that are more than just a few BPM ...

“Frazy” drives festival crowds crazy

“Frazy” drives festival crowds crazy

August 14, 2011 No Comments

  There is a track that drives festival visitors crazy this summer. You can hear it at both electronic music as well as rock festivals, and it is actually a very cheesy track – but when it is played, people just go crazy. I am talking about the track “Frazy” by Synapsenkitzler (German for “a ...

Save independent labels – buy files!

August 9, 2011 No Comments

Probably everyone has heard about the riots in London by now. I wouldn’t normally write about something like this as it doesn’t have much to do with music. However, there is one very real consequence for music lovers here: A Sony warehouse burnt down last night, and this warehouse happened to contain the entire inventory ...

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Phantom Legs and Blinking Pigs: Little Dragon

Phantom Legs and Blinking Pigs: Little Dragon

December 11, 2010 No Comments

Three weeks ago, I got myself together and boarded the train over to Berlin to see Damon Albarn’s Gorillaz perform live in front of an enthusiastic crowd of reportedly 12.000 people. Now I could fill books just chatting about the evening’s main act, but many have done so before me while one of the two ...

Geoblocking sucks!

June 13, 2010 2 Comments

While skipping through a few older posts, I found this post containing a video that was no longer hosted on the video platform where I originally got it from. A broken reference on a music blog might not seem like a big deal, but this particular case is one that I find very annoying. I ...

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