Archive for the ‘Videos’ Category
Beatbox Cooking Show and Techno Chicken
This has to be one of my all time favorite YouTube videos. This guy is simply amazing. Normally beatboxing is fun for the first few minutes but then turns into a sort of lame drum solo coming out of someone’s mouth. This has a cool concept and let’s get visual with the guy. I love how he opens the “filter” of his mouth as he opens the lid. Solid work Mr. Cooking Beatbox Guy. Drink Bud Light.
Here’s a bonus, Techno Chicken in the house:
New Justice Video
I saw Justice at Coachella a few weeks back and it was simply RAW. One of the loudest shows I’ve ever seen. Very punk, very electronic, very tough. Check out their new video for Stress.
What gear is DeadMau5 using?
I had the pleasure to help Joel Zimmerman, aka DeadMau5, setup his gear not once but two times at the Austin Electronic Music Festival. Toddy B and I also opened the night and you can hear the last track I played just before DeadMau5 goes on in the below video.
DeadMau5 uses a very unique setup. He’s running Abelton Live on a 17″ G5 MacBook Pro ($2-3k) outputting to an Apoge Ensemble ($2k) soundcard. He’s using a 16×16 (256) Monome controller ($800) for what I’m not totally sure and a touch screen Lemur ($3k) made by Jazz Mutant to control his effects. He’s running 4 stereo outs from his Ensemble to whatever club mixer is at hand, in our case, a Pioneer DJM-800($1600) which was also setup with a Pioneer EFX-1000 ($800). As far as I could tell, he used everything that he brought and used it well.
Ghostland Observatory with UT Marching Band
I was lucky enough to see the Ghostland show at Austin Music Hall for the CD Release party of Robotique Mystique. I found a youtube video of it and thought I would share. It was a great show, completely sold out, packed to the walls and the crowd couldn’t get enough.
How to beat tight security - I’m the DJ!
Can’t get in da club? Just say you’re the DJ! Funny as hell.
My laptop is dying
Played a gig on Saturday and the screen turned all Matrix red on me. I’m 100% Serato based and now I realize how bad it is to be dependent on a PC and not CDs. I’ve got to make it through the rest of SXSW with this cracked out screen or go and drop $1500 on a new laptop. Either way, I’m F’d in the A. Here’s a funny video to cheer us up.
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.
Welcome back American Gladiators…We Want YOUR Soul
The American Gladiators are back….I can’t say how happy I am….no really, I can’t…I won’t….I shouldn’t. Dumber than dumb is still dumb. I think they should have chosen a new theme song for the show, say maybe “We want Your Soul” by Freeland. Maybe start it at the Bill Hicks quote.
So there, we have figured out, go back to bed America, your government has figured out how it all transpired. Go back to bed America, your government is in control again. Here, here’s American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up! Go back to bed America, here’s American Gladiators. Here’s 56 channels of it. Watch these pituitary retards bang their f****** skulls together and congratulate you on living in the land of freedom. Here you go America - you are free, to do as we tell you. You are free, to do as we tell you.
Check out the video from “We Want Your Soul”:
Deadmau5 in the stuido
Deadmau5 killed 2007. Here’s a look at his new studio and also his old studio. The 2nd video is worth a look even if its just to listen to Chris Lake describe the gear.
Kerri Chandler rocks Britian with a reel-to-reel dj set
Originally reported on Beatportal. Kerri Chandler took things as old skool as they can get this weekend at Britain’s annual Southport Weekender last weekend when he played his entire set off three reel-to-reel tape recorders.Check out the clips below!It should go as a point to the “Vinyl is King” argument that it doesn’t matter what you are playing on and more what and how you are playing it. CDJ, Laptop, Turntable, reel-to-reel, its all good as long as the DJ is comfortable with it and is playing the tunes the crowd wants to hear. Same goes for the Digital versusAnalog film argument.
