Mix of the Month - December 2011

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Jan 162012

My second monthly mix, sorry for the delay but early January I was busy recording a 6 hour mix of last year’s best tracks. The rule I invented and broke last month (make it 10 tracks) is going out of the window, I’ll just see what each month brings from now on.

Tracklisting:
* Indivision – Missing You
* Tantrum Desire – Reach (Push the Feeling) [Original Mix]
* Sparkzeeman – Back In 5 Minutes
* ShockOne – Relapse (Tantrum Desire Remix)
* Majistrate – Oxygen
* Modified Motion & Faction – Sci-Fi (Supreme Being Remix)
* Dominator – Holes in Ya Chest (feat. Fat Man D)
* Sensai – Greater Power
* Mindscape & Jade – Orion
* Pleasure – Cradle
* The Damn Bell Doors, A Girl & A Gun – Stun Gun (Original Mix)

Mix of the Month – November 2011

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The 2011 Mix

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Dec 302011

End of the year, time to look back at the many great tracks released this year. But since music isn’t particulary interesting to look at I’ve made a mix, to listen to. Some remarks:

  • I did not prepare a tracklist but improvised a set as usual. I did, obviously, only use tracks from 2011 and tried not to use the same artist or release to much
  • I’ve specialised in popular DnB and Jump-up but the two hours were gone before I got to those genres.
  • I tried some changes to my mixing style to make it cleaner and tighter, and am quite content with the result.
  • I found out I’ve acquired a lot of music in 2011, so part 2 contains only pop tracks

Download the 2011 mix:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

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Mix of the Month - November (video)

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Dec 052011

My best ten purchusases in the last month, just like last month, only this time not a playlist but a movie of a mix!

Mix of the Month – December 2011

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Live recording (18/11/2011)

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Nov 192011

Yesterday I played two live sets at the CKI alumni party. The first 45 minute set resulted in an 60 minutes awesome full dance floor, so I only had 30 minutes for the second part but by then many people were already gone anyway. I’m pretty satisfied with the first set (except for the Pendulum track, but that’s what people want to hear) and was surprised at the positive reaction to the oldskool hits. I recorded everything so you can listen to both tightly packed sets here:

Part 1
Part 2

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Inconsistent gestures in OSX Lion

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Nov 012011

OS X Swipe gestureAs everyone it took me some time, though not more than a day or two, to get used to natural scrolling in OS X Lion, but now I really like it. If feels natural because it feels like you put your fingers on the page and pull it upwards to scroll down, and vice versa. The same thing goes for the four finger swipe to switch between spaces and full screen applications. Hold the current space, and pull it to the left to reveal the space or application on the right.

It does not, however, work that way with the three finger gesture to go to the next or previous page, which also works as the back/next button in my browser. Visualizing the pages of a document or in your browser history as numbered pages going from left to right seems the most natural (if you read from left to right as I do). But swiping to the left brings you to the previous page, not the next. I ask you to go into mission control. Do a four-finger swipe to the left, and then a three finger swipe to the left and see what happens (you will go to the next space, and then go back to the previous space). Same direction, different result.

The trackpad gestures take little time to get used to, the direction doesn’t really matter that much because you get used to it. But because these swipe gestures are inconsistent they still causes me to make the wrong gesture. I hope those human-interface geniuses at Apple will realize this too and, most importantly, fix it.

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The Best of October 2011

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Oct 282011

The idea of sharing my best music purchases has been in my head for a while, and now I’m finally putting it into practice. This is the first monthly blog post where I share some of the best new tracks (just the names, obviously, no illegal downloads!) of the past month.

Delta Heavy – Overkill
Overkill/Hold Me – Single
Dom & Roland – Rollstar
Last Chance Saloon/Rollstar – Single
Foreign Concept & Bringa – Cemetery
Shogun Audio Presents – Way of the Warrior
High Contrast feat Tiësto and Underworld – The First Note Is Silent
The First Note is Silent – EP
Nero – New Life
Promises EP
S.P.Y – Bloodshed
Fierce Presents Oblivion – Single
Telekinesis – Sacrifice
Sacrifice/Polaris – Single
Trei & L.A.O.S. – The Light
The Light / Mumbo Jumbo – Single

And for your convienience I’ve put them all in a youtube playlist.

Finally I like to point your attention to this album compiled for the 15th birthday of Drum & Bass Arena. It contains 50 gems ranging from oldskool classics to this year’s hits. Even if you, like me, already have most of the tracks there are probably enough left that make it worth buying (€6.99 on iTunes).

Drum & Bass Arena: 15 Years
dnba15.breakbeat.co.uk

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A new toy website

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Oct 222011

As some of you might have noticed I’ve just launched a single-purpose toy website called Mag de verwarming aan (a dutch site that tells you if you can turn the heating on) together with a friend who made the design. It was a fun project overall, and interesting in three ways:
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Creating a Waveform image with PHP

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Sep 282011

For my new website I have been working on for a while I want to generate an image of the waveform of all audio files uploaded on the server. A trip down google avenue quickly led me to this post on andrewfreiday.com. He describes his search for the very same and comes up with a solution using lame to convert the mp3 file to a wave file and a php script to generate the image. I’m going to use his approach and couldn’t resist rewriting the script.

You can download my script for generating a waveform. It is licensed under the Apache License v2.0 because the original script was (I usually don’t bother with a license).

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Watching several files for changes

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Aug 202011

This little bash script will watch several files for changes and serves as the basis for more complicated scripts that actually do something when a change is detected. It’s simply a matter of comparing the output of stat every 5 seconds

#!/bin/bash

count=0
for var in "$@"; do
    count=$(($count + 1));
    files[$count]=$var;
    stats[$count]=`stat -r "$var"`;
done

while [ true ]; do
    i=1
    while [ $i -le $count ]; do
        newstat=`stat -r "${files[i]}"`
        if [ "$newstat" != "${stats[i]}" ]; then
            echo \"${files[i]}\"
            stats[$i]=$newstat
        fi
        i=$(($i+1))
    done

    sleep 5
done

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VirtualDJ Radio update: (the 2011 mix and more)

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Aug 012011

In case you didn’t know: I play every Friday from 15:00 to 17:00 (GMT+1) on VirtualDJ Radio channel 3. A great way to listen to some of the latest Drum and Bass releases (I always play my latest purchases and I buy new stuff at least once a week) and get some energy needed for the last hours of work before the weekend kicks in.

Since uploading every radio set is becoming less fun and more tedious every time I think I’m just gonna stop doing it. Also it’s not needed anymore because the folks at VirtualDJ Radio have build an awesome automatic system to listen back to every single set played on all three channels. So, if you’ve missed my  show or just want to listen to it again all you have to do is:

Visit my DJ profile page

The last two weeks were dedicated to a three hour mix of tracks released this year! I know, it’s a lot, I was surprised myself. And since two hours a week time two weeks minus a three hour set equals one hour left there must be more, right? Right! The final hour was hard to mix because of all the broken rhythms, but also very cool because of the same broken rhythms. I like tracks with complicated drums and basslines.

Do not expect more posts here the coming weeks, because I’m working hard on a totally new website with a cool backend to make life easier for me and a equally cool fontend because cool people need cool websites. And I need a playground for web-related stuff.

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