Archive for February, 2008
The Sound on Proton Radio - 2008-02-29
Download the entire mix of Jesse Brede’s set from “The Sound” on Proton Radio. The set airs on Friday, 2008-02-29 from 2-4 CST.
Part 1:
Part 2:
Obama 08
I’m all about this man. I believe he will be the next president of the United States. Texas early voting started on Tuesday and lasts until the 29th. March 4th is the primary, let’s do this Texas. Click here to find your early vote location.
The picture above was done by LA artists based on Shepard Fairey’s “Obey” Obama poster. Read more…
Watch Barrack’s Wisconsin Victory Speech:
Sasha and Digweed North American tour sponsored by Beatport
6 years since the Delta Heavy tour, Sasha and Digweed return to the US for a rock star style tour of the US. The tour starts at the WMC and ends at Coachella and hits total of 21 cities in just one month. They are skipping Texas and most of the midwest entirely even though they played Austin, Dallas, and Houston on their last tour.
To be honest, I’m not fired up about seeing these guys in a 9PM - 2AM format. For me, the focus of these events was the building of the music in a dark club that lasted until the early morning. I’m attending Coachella so expect a report on their set in April.
Sasha & Digweed Tour Dates
Tickets go on sale on Wednesday Feb 20th at 11am EST: WantTickets.com/sashaandjohndigweed
THU 27-Mar-08 Miami, Mansion
SAT 29-Mar-08 Miami, Ultra Music Festival
WED 2-Apr-08 Boston, The Estate
THU 3-Apr-08 Philadelphia, The Fillmore @ TLA
FRI 4-Apr-08 New York, Webster Hall
SAT 5-Apr-08 Washington, DC, Ibiza Nightclub
MON 7-Apr-08 Nashville, City Hall
WED 9-Apr-08 Columbus, Karma
THU 10-Apr-08 Detroit, Clutch Cargos
FRI 11-Apr-08 Toronto, Kool Haus
SAT 12-Apr-08 Chicago, House of Blues
MON 14-Apr-08 St. Louis, Dantes
TUE 15-Apr-08 Minneapolis, Epic
THU 17-Apr-08 Guadalajara, Foro Alterno
FRI 18-Apr-08 Monterrey, Autocinema
SAT 19-Apr-08 Mexico City, Arena Mexico
TUE 22-Apr-08 Seattle, Showbox Sodo
WED 23-Apr-08 Vancouver, Plush Nightclub
THU 24-Apr-08 Portland, Roseland Theater
FRI 25-Apr-08 San Francisco, The Warfield
SAT 26-Apr-08 Coachella, Coachella Festival
5 sites for downloading great DJ sets
http://alldj.org
http://aimnat.blogspot.com
http://www.newmixes.com
http://www.technoport.prv.pl
http://www.clubpages.net
Update: One more that I found:
http://mixriot.com/content/essential-mix
Another:
Thanks to Covert Curiosity and Jamie Moore for the links.
Ghostland Observatory - Live ACL recording and Robotique Majestiqe Release Party
Ghostland Observatory has posted one of their new tracks, Dancing on My Grave (click to download the Let There Be Vinyl Remix), from their upcoming album Robotique Majestiqe on their myspace page. They played this thumper at their Ghostland at the Opera show at UT’s Hogg Auditorium towards the end of their set and it stuck in my head.
They are scheduled to play the Austin Music Hall on Feb. 29th and have sold the show out with a month to go. While the price of admission is a bit high ($32 before fees), you do get a copy of their new album. I’m sure it will be a killer show and I’m truly happy for all their success. They’ve got a great sound and their live show with the lasers and all is pretty intense.
Quick back story, the company I work for, Roxwel.com, hosted a SXSW party in 2005 on the roof of Light Bar. This was just before Paparazzi Lightning really started taking off and I ran the setup of the show and the mixing board for them. I’ve also worked with them at one of the Texas Rollergirls roller derbies. Both Aaron and Thomas are very professional and take their shows very seriously. Aaron, the singer, is super nice and definitely has amazing charisma. Thomas is more of a mad scientist and doesn’t come off as friendly, but from what I can tell he’s really just very focused and concerned with the sound and visuals of the show regardless of the circumstances. Thomas also used to be a rave promoter back in the late nineties and I actually attended some of his raves. I’m sure that’s where their love of lasers come from.
On that note, here’s Ghostland’s set from ACL this year, hope you enjoy it as much as I did and remember to support the artist by buying their ablums.
Ghostland Observatory Live at Austin City Limits 2007:
Also, check out some of their videos on Roxwel.com:
Ghostland Observatory - 101x In Studio (SXSW)Music Videos at www.roxwel.com
Ghostland Observatory - Sad Sad City
Free Videos at www.roxwel.com
Austin Electronic Festival
Its that time of year agian. The Austin Electronic Music Festival hosted by Slow Motion Music, Eternal Networks and Disco Productions. Headliners include: The Crystal Method(DJ Set), Deadmau5, Dubfire(Deep Dish), Infected Mushroom(Live).
Its gonna be a barn burner this year, check out the teaser flyer:
Buy your four day pass here.
Slow Motion Music , Eternal Network & Disco Productions
Present
Austin Electronic Festival March 12-15 , 2008
@ Sky Lounge
416 Congress Ave
512-542-0029
www.skyaustin.com
Austin , Tx
Wednesday March 12
Jeremy Dawson ( Shiny Toy Guns – LA,Ca)
Freq Nasty (www.freqnasty,com London, United Kingdom )
Vice Device ( Eternal Network – Austin, Tx
Thursday March 13
Infected Mushroom ( Live ) www.infected.co.il
Bruce Gibbons ( Eternal Network – San Antonio , Tx )
Andrew Parsons ( Eternal Network – Austin , Tx )
Firday March 14
Deep Dish - Dubfire (Washington DC )
Lance Cashion ( Slow Motion Music – Austin , Tx )
Allen Tagle ( Eternal Network – Austin , Tx )
Saturday March 15
The Crystal Method (thecrystalmethod.com )
Deadmau5 (deadmau5.com - Toronto,Canada)
Jesse Brede ( Slow Motion Music – Austin ,Tx )
Toddy B ( Slow Motion Music – Austin , Tx )
Second Room Upstairs
Aurelius Scott (Eternal Network)
Black Tie Beats ( Dj Nate B & Dj Enum – area 512 , Austin , Tx )
More TBA …
4 days passes available for Pre-sale @ www.groovetickets.com
More djs to be added soon on Full lineup
Info : austinelectronicfestival@gmail.com
Top 5 Sexiest Dance Music Videos from Blastro.com
For those of you who know me, you likely know that I work at an awesome company, Blastro, Inc. We run 3 online music video websites, Blastro, Roxwel and Yallwire, and if you didn’t know, well now you do. Blastro was started by Rob Campanell in the late 90’s during the rave days. The original idea was to do internet TV. They had nightly shows where local DJs came to their studio and mixed live sets while the Blastro guys did live video mixing over a blue screen. What’s cool is that I played on their shows a few times before I really knew any of them. For the time, this was some seriously advanced technical stuff they were doing. I met Casey Charvet, a good friend of mine, through Texture nightclub which was run by Tarek Morshed in 2000. Casey was running visuals and lights and I was the sound guy. I really liked what Casey was doing with his visuals and decided I wanted to do it as well. Alex Thurlow, my long time roommate, friend and member of the SemiAudiks, and I bought some gear and basically started ripping DVDs and learning Flash, Adobe After Effects and Premier. We came up with some pretty decent stuff but it never really compared to Casey’s work. At the time, I was working for SKYLIST and wasn’t handling the job too well, Casey asked me to work for Blastro and the rest is history.
I now present to you, my top 5 hottest Dance Music Videos (courtesy of Blastro.com):
That’s all for now. Hope you enjoyed.