This week, thanks to the A Strangely Isolated Place blog , all the bands featured in the show are signed artists to Secret Station Records who, in an act of supreme generosity, allow you to take a healthy slice of their roster, completely free of charge, and what a roster it is. Here’s the
Tracklisting
Lunar Testing Station – Sounds of Today (Rising From Earth)
FUR – Black Castles
Verulf – Reprise
Specta Ciera – All around the trees
United Club Wear – ill capitano
Our Valley – Caladium
Drexon Field – Limoncello Liquor is Wonderful
FUR – Friends (Drexon Field remix)
United Club Wear – You are a Pro
Paneye – Bay of Withered Gardens
Verulf – Sunday
Lunar Testing Lab – MK Naomi
Drexon Field – My Little Snowflake
Spectra Ciera – It’s Barely There (Benjamin Dauer remix)
Straywel – Mathematics
FUR – UB3131
Drexon Field – Message
Invays – M1 Motorway
Kontyx – Notion
The ongoing familiarisation with Torq and BeaTunes continues… This week the new set up felt more comfortable and even an Mac OS freeze 2 minutes I was supposed to start was annoying, but not devastating and didn’t put a damperner on procedings. One thing I’m noticing about Torq is that it’s pitch shifting and locking isn’t very good and it can warble the sound of audio files; most disconcerting. It’s something I need to concentrate on more as I use it. Oh, excuse the grand opening this week, I’m just ecstatic to get a copy of Dead Can Dance’s remastered “Spleen and Ideal” LP from 1985 from emusic.com (loads more where that came from:) ) Anyway, here’s the…
Tracklisting:
Dead Can Dance – De Profundis
Snowblink – PYT
Landau – Six ways to Sunday
Lusine – Gravity
Fever Ray – Seven
James Yuill – Breathing In
Cornelius – The Fit Song
King Rock – The Beginning
Miss Jynx – Time Missed
Q-Tip ft Amanda Diva – Manwomanboogie
dan le sac vs scoobius pip – Snob
Pantha du Prince – Satellite Snyper
Dublogic – loid
Trentmoeller – Killer Kat
Orbital – Fahrenheit 303
Echaskech – How to Fly
Simian Mobile Disco – It’s The Beat (Luke Vibert Rmx)
This set is my first “laptop dj” set as I’m now a proud owner of Torq (http://www.torq-dj.com/). Proud but still a little bit confused… For those who are interested, I’m running it on a Mac Book Pro G5 Power Book and (at present) i’m using one control Vinyl and one control CD. I was hoping to be running two control cds but I’m finding the control vinyl to be far more responsive and easier to get on with, but due to the way my decks are set up, using two control vinyls is going to take some DIY to build something for the laptop to sit on as, right now, my laptop can only sit on one of the turntables. On the Mac, I’m running spaces, with Torq running in one, with Second Life, Nicecast, Textedit and Console in another, and in a third, I’m running Beatunes (http://www.beatunes.com/). One thing I’m guilty of, in doing these weekly shows, is concentrating on the newer music of my library so, to help me “dig deeper” I’m using Beatunes matchlists to suggest tracks that it thinks are like a track I’m playing. Beatunes analyses your itunes library in a unique way: it works out bpm values, the tonal key of the track and also “colour codes” it it listens to the track and gives it a colour to represent what it thinks the track sounds like, the colours creating a unique palate or view of your itunes library. Then you can build “match lists” based on a single track (or more) and specify how much you’d like the resulting tracks to be like the ones you chose. It’s like Genius playlisting, but a lot more configurable; you can specify how similar or unsimilar you’d like the matched tracks to be, all this and keeps a tight but exceedingly helpful reign on all your mp3 tags and iTunes catagories whilst it analyses your tracks. This, it’s worth pointing out, can take a reaaaaallly looooooong time, especially the first time you do it; if you have a library like mine (over 3000 tracks) expect your mac to be running for most of a weekend.
So it’s a bit of a shift in focus for me – new software and a new way of chosing the tracks I play – and I reckon it’s going to take me a while to get used to the new way. But anyway – listen to me going on! Here’s this weeks
Tracklisting
Peter Broderick – Games & Games Again
Tunng – October
Fleet Foxes – Sun it Rises
The Durutti Column – Neil
Glen Hansard & Marketa Iglova – Drown Out
Dub Tractor – Higher Hopes
Wisp – Turquois Tinged Pennies
Luke Vibert – Radio Savalas
Grand National – Peanut Dreams
Lusine – Baffle
Working for a Nuclear Free City – Troubled Son
Gorillaz (ft Little Dragon) – Empire Ants
Ty – Sophisticated & Coarse
Hint (ft Laura Vane) – One woman army
Psapp – Parker
Massive Attack – Splitting the Atom
Bibio – Great are the piths
Lusine – Operation Costs
Dan Arborise – Another Side of the Sky
