When I joined the student association Biton about ten years ago and immediately signed up to be a deejay (everything at Biton is done by volunteering menbers, and to become the man behind the music at party’s all I had to do is write my name down on a poster). At first I had to familiarize myself with a lot of music I did not know much about at that time, but I got hooked on deejaying pretty fast and grew out to be a pretty good all-round deejay, if I do say so myself. I had much fun, but a few years ago I grew tired of maintaining my knowledge of current pop music, most of which I didn’t like that much myself anyway.
I continued learning to beatmix for fun, and because the home-made deejaying software we used at Biton did not run on my Mac I started to look at alternative software on a whim at USB controllers. I do not own a mixer and turntables or cd players and and do not have much money to invest in a small hobby. To my surprise there are plenty affordable deejay controllers.
For a few months I’ve been toying with playing drum ‘n bass. When the organisation of Biton Open Air asked me to play at the afterparty and I decided to accept and put more work in this project to be able to play a drum ‘n bass set of the quality I’d expect from myself at such an event. So I started to put together a decent music collection and I decided to buy the Hercules DJ Controller Mk4 when it hits the marked, which I just did.
I just did a try-out set of about an hour at a regular evening at Biton which went pretty well. I forgot to record it so I used the automatically generated playlist to redo and record the set, which you can now download and enjoy at home.
0:00 Konflict – Messiah
0:09 High Contrast – Racing Green
0:11 E-Z Rollers – Tough At The Top (Vocal Mix)
0:13 Dillinja – Twist ‘Em Out (Original Mix)
0:15 Dom & Roland – Mind Feeders
0:17 Chase And Status – Hurt You
0:19 Drumsound & Bassline Smith – Cold Turkey
0:21 Sub Focus – Rock It
0:22 Danny Byrd – Red Mist (feat. IK)
0:24 Fourward – Robot
0:26 The Qemists – Stompbox (Album Version)
0:28 Telemetrik & Hyx – The Bane
0:30 Dom & Roland – 1134 (feat Hive)
0:32 John B – American Girls 2004
0:35 High Contrast – Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
0:37 Eric Prydz – Pjanoo (High Contrast Remix)
0:40 Tommy Knocker – Change Is Coming
0:43 Mutt – Feelings 4 U
0:45 J Majik Vs Hatiras – Spaced Invader
0:47 Freestylers feat. Pendulum – Painkiller
0:50 Danny Byrd – Supersized
0:51 Dom & Roland – Minds And Machines
0:53 Future Prophecies – September (Camo & Krooked Remix)
0:55 Ed Rush & Optical – Space Monkey
0:57 Marshall Masters – Stereo Murder
0:58 The Prodigy – Voodoo People (Pendulum Remix)
1:00 The Qemists Ft. Wiley – Dem Na Like Me (VIP Mix)
1:02 Evol Intent – Reality Check
1:04 Noisia – Stigma
1:05 Calibre – Lo Note
Oh, and I am gladly available if you’re looking for a drum ‘n bass deejay for your party. Seriously!