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Mix of the Month – December 2011

ronald — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 07:23:12 +0000

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
2012 Jan
2011 Oct Nov Dec

The 2011 Mix

ronald — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:28:46 +0000

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

VirtualDJ Radio no. 21

ronald — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 09:01:56 +0000

I’ve been busy lately with defective hard disks (yes, plural) in my new MacBook Pro, missed a few sets because I had no hardware to DJ on and didn’t recorded a few because I had no second computer to record it on. The plus side to all this is that the set I did yesterday has a lot (about 80%) of new drum and bass released in the past couple of weeks! Set number nineteen and twenty are also available online, check my DJ page if you want to download those as well.

VirtualDJ Radio no. 18

ronald — Sun, 15 May 2011 20:53:25 +0000

Enjoy.

VirtualDJ Radio no. 17

ronald — Mon, 09 May 2011 06:00:38 +0000

You know those moments when you’re in the flow, mixing track after track and everything just works out perfectly? I didn’t have that when I recorded this set. But it’s still okay, and three hours long, and much more pop-ish tracks (dunno how to describe it, the tracks with much melody and vocals) than the previous sets.

VDJRadio no. 15

ronald — Thu, 05 May 2011 06:00:01 +0000

A massive three hour set recorded last friday afternoon. 1st Hour starts nice and slow, 2nd hour has more pop-ish tracks (more melody and vocals) and the 3rd hour concludes it all with some massive pumping breakbeats. Enjoy!

VirtualDJ Radio no. 11

ronald — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 07:00:27 +0000

Twelve hours after I played live it was already radio time, which resulted in a set without the usual popular dancefloor tracks and fast-paced mixing. Really enjoyable, this one!

Live recording

ronald — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:49:25 +0000

First time I actually remembered to record a live set (as in, at a party, not live on the radio). Useful, because I can evaluate my live-performance and I have something to post here! It’s one hour played at a USCKI/FUF/Drift66 party last Tuesday. No big deal, much fun.

VDJRadio no. 10

ronald — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 08:49:44 +0000

Keeping my music collection up to date is a lot of work, but since that part is fun to do it is only limited by the amount of money I want to spend on it. Keeping my VirtualDJ Database up to date, clean and properly tagged is a whole different story. I use the comments field for tags and filter folders filtering on those tags to categorize my music in different ways so I can always quickly find the kind of tracks I’m looking for. Adding newly purchased music is one thing (it’s required to actualy play it), tagging everything and worse: re-tagging a lot when I change my categorization is a whole different story.

Today’s set is messy and feels kind of random, because I decided to play about the same time I started the set, and I hadn’t even added much of my newly purchased music yet. It’s still worth listening tough, especially because there is so much new (not new per se, but new to me) music in it.

VDJRadio no. 9

ronald — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 07:00:03 +0000

I don’t feel like typing a long story about how I did yet another set and how well it went. Just listen to it if you want.