Parity Party

November 3rd, 2010 No comments »

With the Aussie dollar hitting long fabled parity here's a list of audio things you don't need.

BULLET HEADPHONES
Thanks to www.wiretotheear.com

“In another earphone first, MUNITIO has pioneered the use of extreme industrial grade coatings for the SITi (standard issue titanium) line of earphones. No other earphone on the planet has ever attempted to integrate this specialized technology into its products because no other earphone is made the way MUNITIO nines are. “

Classy

MOOG FILTATRON
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/filtatron/id396776418?mt=8

Filter, Oscilator, LFO, Envelope Follower, FX and Filesharing, for US$5.99 which is only like three aussie dollars or something.

NI – THE MOUTH
http://www.native-instruments.com

 ;”Native Instruments has introduced The Mouth, an US$79 performance instrument and sound processor designed by electronic artist Tim Exile. Based on Reaktor technology, it generates melodies and harmonies from any audio signal on the fly, turning vocals, drum loops and other sources into electronic textures and original sonic mayhem.”

This is darn cool and I will be grabbing a copy just for a bit of fun.

RIDICULOUSLY PRICED MONO SYNTH
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270649298010

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'The SH-101 is very cool, especially for techno, drum&bass and ACID! It's a monophonic bass synthesizer. Its sound lies somewhere between the TB-303 and a Juno bass sound. It has a lot of simple but cool features. You can control the VCF, pitch, LFO or all from the pitch bender. It has a white noise generator, arpeggiator with up, down and up/down patterns and a simple real-time sequencer. The LFO offers random, sine, square or noise waveforms. And normal or auto portamento effects give you that elastic bass sound. There are external clock inputs for the sequencer and arpeggiator, CV/GATE inputs and outputs and a CV hold pedal.'

 ;At only $1460 (don't worry, that's only US dollars) why not buy three and make yourself an awesome poly synth.

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BeatGeek Records Podcast – Kultrun In The Mix

September 24th, 2010 No comments »

Download BeatGeek_Podcast_20100919_Kultrun_In_The_Mix www.beatgeekrecords.com 24-09-2010 (206.9 MB)

Duration: 90:21 m – Filetype: mp3 – Bitrate: 320 KBPS – Frequency: 44100 HZ

BeatGeek_Podcast_20100919_Kultrun_In_The_Mix www.beatgeekrecords.com

BeatGeek_Podcast_20100919_Kultrun_In_The_Mix www.beatgeekrecords.com

  • TRACKLIST 19/09/2010

    Andrez Bergen – Disquo (Kultrun Remix)
    DJ Sprinkles – Grand Central, Part 1 MCDE Remix) Ehsan Gelsi – Spacewalk Way Out West – Future Perfect
    16 Bit Lolitas – 4v2
    Way Out West – Surrender (Eelke Kleijn Remix)
    Super8 Tab – Empire (Kultrun Remix)
    Kultrun – Modem
    Kultrun – Busty Nurse 2010
    Kultrun – Googs
    Kultrun – A moment in time
    Quivver – Surin
    Charlie May & Cortney Tidwell  – Apache Palace (Audio Junkies & Sahar Z Vs. Will Saul & Tam Cooper) Kultrun Bootleg
    Zade,Kayne Cross – Appearance Of Daylight (Deepchild Remix)
    Yapacc – Celaya Calling Anna miranda – O Rei Mirko Greco – Nada Es Para Siempre (Matias Rivero Remix)
    Kultrun – Raglafart Roland M. Dill Taurine On Sunday (Egbert Remix)
    Dany Rodriguez, Davy Dee -  Emotion 1 (Dimitri Andreas Remix) R.E.Z. – Sunderland (D-Sens Remix)

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Studio Spring Clean – Gear for Sales

September 17th, 2010 No comments »

Jut doing a bit of spring cleaning and unloading some gear, thought i’d post here…

APC40

Pretty self explanatory really, if you don’t know what it is you probably don’t need one Pretty much unused, in box. Awesome piece of kit but didn’t really suit my workflow. Awesome machine though, just not for me.

$400 SOLD

KORG NANOKONTROL

Very nifty little all purpose controller. Surprisingly these are actually really well built so I’ve found it’s perfect for leaving in my laptop bag for impromptu breakdance jams and other less interesting events. Needless to say controller is in immaculate condition.

$70 SOLD

ECHO GINA 24 96 PCI SOUNDCARD

I love this soundcard an would still be using it but I use my Virus for soundcard duties these days. It’s one of the most solid no nonsense soundcards I’ve seen weighing in at 8x 1/4 inch outs and 2x 1/4 inch ins plus the other usual outdated ADAT nonsense that they still seem to put on everything but no one uses.

$100

All of these are pickup from Melbourne from next week, am happy to post interstate at your expense. All gear is in great condition and has been treated exceptionally well.

Shoot me an email at blinky(at) beatgeekrecords.com

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Prog Heaven

September 13th, 2010 No comments »

It goes without saying that Melbourne is very spoilt when it comes to landing stellar lineups in intimate venues but an announcement from Darius this morning (although under unfortunate circumstances) has taken our fair city’s good fortune to a whole new level IMO

“Due to album commitments, Audiofly are now unable to tour Australia in October. The Sydney and Melbourne performances for Audiofly have been replaced by Israel’s GUY J and UK’s KING UNIQUE, a rather huge replacement one might say!

The rest of the event lineups remain unchanged, including the headliner SATOSHI TOMIIE who… will be returning down under, along with Gregor Tresher and Marc Marzenit.

Therefore the FULL international Line-Up is:

Satsohi Tomiie
Guy J
Gregor Tresher
King Unique
Marc Marzenit”

Would have been cool to check out Audiofly but the net effect of their unfortunate cancellation gives us one of the hottest lineups of the year as far as I’m concerned.

Details here

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=143748375655450

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OPEN RECORDS Compilation: Expansion feat Blinky and Def Digital

August 25th, 2010 2 comments »

Hells yeah, have been waiting for this one for a while!!!

“Open Records are proud to present our long awaited third CD compilation Expansion Pack, compiled by label boss and pioneering force in the Australian underground dance music culture, Ian Woodsman.

Anyone who knows the man himself, knows that Woodsman doesn’t do anything in halves. So when it came to the task of putting together his own compilation at the start of the year, one disc alone was never going to cut it.

After months in the lab, he is finally ready to give us Expansion Pack, a 2-disc collection of deep, intelligent, genre-mashing dance music, held together with Ian’s distinctly staunch, epic sound that has earned him the title of one of Australia’s favourite open-air DJs.

From international heavyweights like Matador, Erphun, Boris Brejcha, Pow-Low, Fiord, SQL, Ndsa, Weekend Heroes, Perfect Stranger, Astronivo, Sheff, MUTe, Grouch, Alexander Madness and A. Balter, through to home grown Aussie favourites like SunControlSpecies, Sensient, One Tasty Morsel, Waltone, Blinky, Def Digital and Algenon, the music of Expansion Pack sits at the point where techno, progressive and minimal meet and is proof that quantity and quality can co-exist without compromise.

Representing a significant step forward for Open Records on the international stage, Expansion Pack is one of the ‘must buy’ CD releases of 2010, for both the DJ or listener alike.”

Nuff said

Grab a copy here

http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/opn/opn2cd003.html

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KissFM iPhone App

August 25th, 2010 No comments »

Thought I’d post this up here because it’s really been rocking my world the last couple of days. As everyone knows Kiss Melbourne’s reception is pretty poor in most areas so this app is a bit of a godsend really.

Top of the tick list for me is bandwidth usage- around 30mb an hour so at least I know I can listen to an hour or two each day without getting myself in trouble.

“Kiss FM is Australia’s original and premier dance music radio station, showcasing Australia and the world’s finest DJs and producers doing what they do best—spinning and making music to aurally excite lovers of syncopated rhythms. Stream Kiss FM’s blissful and blistering vibrations direct to your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad, no matter where you are.

Please note that streaming uses 28-29MB per hour, so please check your data plan costs with your carrier.”

Download Kiss FM for iPhone

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=378266663&mt=8

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releasepromo.com Artist Profile – DEF DIGITAL

August 19th, 2010 No comments »

This one found it’s way to my inbox this week, thought I’d share….

Good work fellas!

Def Digital
Australia
Introducing “Def Digital”, one of the freshest, most promising electronic acts to come out of Melbourne, Australia. Jake Scarmozzino and Warwick Browne met in 1999. Sharing their passion for production and music the two began writing and producing together in 2003 and founded the group “Transit”. After some time writing, producing and performing the duo decided to have a break and it wasn’t until the summer of 2007 that would see the two reform to create Def Digital.

Not willing to compromise on quality and intent on presenting their driving, progressive signature sound to the best of their ability, Def Digital deferred all releases until their first official release in July 2009 on the BeatGeek records label. Creating a buzz, “Beautiful Insomnia” shot to number one of the Release Promo charts (www.releasepromo.com) and remained there for two weeks. After a promising pre-release, expectations where high for the duo’s debut EP and Beautiful Insomnia shot to number 7 on the DJ Download progressive charts.

The Beautiful Insomnia EP received critical acclaim with strong support from not only local DJ’s, but also the likes of PQM, Jaytech, DJ Fady Ferraye, Eelke Kleijn and DJ Lemon8. The duo has managed to gain both a strong foothold and international exposure within the progressive scene in a relatively short amount of time.

They have also gained a well earned following with tunes that range from driving progressive house and trance to dirty early morning prog whilst embracing lush, sweeping airy pads, dominating melodic leads riffs and vocals to create those awe inspiring heavenly breakdowns and skin tingling build-ups.

Support has also come from the likes of radio stations Kiss FM, Joy FM, Proton and Frisky to name a few with the duo’s tracks being played by PQM, Blinky, Derek Howell, and Harry Lemon (Lemon-8).

Def Digital have been invited to craft remixes for the likes of PQM, Blinky, DJ Fady Ferraye, Hyline, Felix Stone, Ninesh Babu and Federico Monachesi. Def Digital endeavours to create and produce music beyond the mind’s limitations, be creatively free and to present their sound to a live audience in the same fashion.

Def Digital’s remix of Felix’s Stone’s “In This World” is out now on Jetlag Digital.

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Blinky says so long to Interview. . . for now

August 12th, 2010 1 comment »

Yes that’s right: after 5 years of successful events as well as touring and working with some absolute stalwarts of if industry I’m taking a break from my residency with the Interview Crew

Interview is a great event and I wish Ben every success in the future and thank him for some amazing times.

There’s lots of excitement ahead for me on radio, on BeatGeek, remixing, producing, sideprojects and gigs so watch this space for news over the coming months.

In the interim please join me this Saturday for a massive last hurrah (at least for the near future).

Bill

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2 New Podcasts

August 11th, 2010 No comments »

Download BeatGeek Records Podcast feat Kaysh 20100813  11-08-2010 (185.23 MB)

Duration: 80:56 m – Filetype: mp3 – Bitrate: 320 KBPS – Frequency: 44100 HZ

BeatGeek Records Podcast feat Kaysh 20100813

  • BeatGeek Records Podcast feat Kaysh 20100813
  • Promo Box Sasha Good – Water Drops (Original Mix) Green Snake Records
    Darren Roach – Summer Soulstice (Vince Watson) Bimbis Records
    Roberto – Bad Omen (Guy Mantzur & Sahar Z Chrome Remix) Aesymetric Recordings
    Marc Moan – Warm Soul  (Original Mix) Green Snake Records
    DJ Masterhouse – Gate In The Club (Salato Techno Remix)Green Mono Music
    The Ladies – Jaso n Halicz (Rodrigo Melo Remix) Anima Records

    Set of the Week

    Kaysh – June 2010 – Unstable Sounds

Download BeatGeek Records Podcast 20100725  11-08-2010 (185.41 MB)

Duration: 81:00 m – Filetype: mp3 – Bitrate: 320 KBPS – Frequency: 44100 HZ

BeatGeek Records Podcast 20100725

  • BeatGeek Records Podcast 20100725
  • TracklistLucenta – Passion (Original)
    Andrew Johnson – Jetstream (Original)
    Manufactura Deep  – 1st Red Book  (Original Mix)
    IrishMan – Child’s Game (Original Mix)
    Francesco Pico – Get Your Coat, Were Going (Original Mix)
    PQM feat Cica – The Flying Song (Zoltan Kontes and Jerome Robins Mix)
    IrishMan – Story (Original Mix)
    Rodrigo Diaz – Pitbull (Original mix)
    Kaysh – Another fucking techno track
    Lank – Daily Surprise (Original)
    Tripzone – Violante (Mory Yacel Remix)
    Marc Moan  – Moonlight  (Original Mix)
    Marc Moan  – Pictor  (Original Mix)
    Isometrica feat.Tellur  – Touch (Denis Dunhill Remix)
    Royksopp – Tricky Tricky (Seb Dhajje Remix)
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Blinky – Bend [KRJ & Staro Remix] HITS THE TOP 10!

July 26th, 2010 1 comment »

Just got word that Blinky – Bend [KRJ & Staro Remix] has just hit the top 10 most downloaded on DJ Download.

The track has been a massive hit with huge support over the opening of the Ibiza Summer so here’s hoping for lots more coming up.

It’s also been licensed my Ministry of Sound Scandinavia for their Anthems II Compilation which is out soon – complete with TV ad!

Looking forward to seeing how far it travels up the chart, if you haven’t grabbed a copy yet now’s the time!

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