Archive for December, 2009

New Remix Goodness // Fiord – Keen String (Blinky Remix)

December 22nd, 2009

keen_I have to say I’m  really excited about this release. Fiord a.k.a Antix are one of NZ’s most quality exports so going into it I knew alot of the entries to this competition were going to sound tasty so suffice to say I’m stoked to be included on the release and so far feedback has been great.

Open records are without doubt one of Australia’s best up and coming underground progressive labels so if you’re that way inclined make sure you add them to your labels when you check out the release on Beatport because they put out nothing but quality…

 

The festival season is firmly in swing, Christmas is nearly here and it’s the beginning of the massive summer festivus season.

It is in this party spirit that Open Records is giving our fans both at home and abroad a special Christmas treat in the shape of Fiord’s Keen String Remixes EP, featuring 7 top tracks including four winners from our remix competition earlier this year.

The end result was almost overwhelming and with over 200 entries from all corners of the globe, we decided the standard was so high to declare four equal winners in a variety of styles to join Open Records artists Fiord, GMJ and Eegor on our final release for 2009.

Canadian-born, Melbourne-based producer Timothy Allan immediately impressed with his sophisticated melodic progressive house interpretation, while another Melbourne producer, Blinky, also proved he is a name to watch with a driving progressive techno bomb.

Mexico’s Interactive Noise caught our ear with a big outdoor festival stormer, while New Zealand act Opiuo rounds the EP off in spectacular style with a glitchy, bass-heavy broken beat monster that has been tried and tested at events all over the globe.

Open Records are proud to work with these exciting artists and thanks everyone for their efforts in the Keen String Remix Competition.

Tracklist:
1. Fiord – Keen String (Original Mix)
2. Fiord – Keen String (GMJ String Theory Remix)
3. Fiord – Keen String (Timothy Allan Remix)
4. Fiord – Keen String (Blinky Remix)
5. Fiord – Keen String (Interactive Noise Remix)
6. Fiord – Keen String (Eegor Remix)
7. Fiord – Keen String (Opiuo Formula One Remix)

l_5f26750b14e259ba00fa777dd3b8b56cCHECK IT HERE : https://www.beatport.com/en-US/html/…&a486-index=15
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Making Prodigy’s “Smack My Bitch Up” in Ableton by Jim Pavloff

December 18th, 2009

This is just wicked, some of the EQs and use of choruse (and a fair bit of mono) are quite specific and must have taken quite a while to work out.

I suppose I’d never really thought about it in relation to the Prodigy but I’m really surprised about the amount of sampling that goes on in some of my favourite music. 

10 points to Jim Pavloff for putting this together and also Timothy Allan for shooting us the video.

Have you got any examples of awesome sampling?

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Pure Awesome: Ctrl Z Producer Master Class

December 8th, 2009

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I always love a good tutorial. As writing tunes can sometimes be such an introverted pass time it’s always refreshing to get an insight into other people’s workings and thought processes. This tutorial is by far one of the most interesting and technical I’ve seen and although it centres around breakbeat I think it’s still relevant to anyone who’s tinkering in the studio as Ctrl Z is technically brilliant. Enjoy.

Ctrl Z are a production duo hailing from London. They are one of the hottest acts in the breakbeat world and have become pioneers and trendsetters of harder edged breakbeat.

Tom Petais and Nicky D’Silva, aka Dash and Inch, met through the Community Music Program in London. The pairing up of these two DJs by their tutor was to be the start of something special. When Ctrl Z’s first production was unleashed, it was snapped up by DJ Mutiny’s Funkatech Recordings. ‘Disko’ and ‘Pain’ was a defining episode in break beat history as it caused a tidal wave in the Breaks scene. It blasted it’s way straight to number 1 in the Mixmag charts and straight into the boxes of the Breakbeat elite. This dancefloor bomb paved the way for the duo, but was just a hint of what was to come.

Their DJ sets have to be seen to be believed, headlining Events all over the world, In 2007 they were one of the main drawcards in Annie Nightingales Tent on the Opening night of the infamous Glastonbury festival and became residents at the legendary End club for DJ Friction’s Shogun Audio Night. Always looking to take things to the next level, Ctrl Z have started their own label ‘Never Say Die Records’ in 2009 as an outlet for their ever changing and uncompromising sound.

http://www.myspace.com/ctrlzuk

 

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Awesome Beatportal Article – How Progressive House Sounds In 2009

December 4th, 2009

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To casual observers, dance music’s multitude of genres must seem amusingly pedantic. How many ways are there to describe electronic music that you can dance to?

House, trance, techno, drum & bass – it’s a confusing world with its own language, and that’s before they started chucking adjectives into the already dubious pot. Minimal techno? Psychedelic trance? Progressive house? Talk about splitting hairs.

And then when you consider that language develops over time, especially in electronic music which is intrinsically linked to technological change and the fickle trends of youth, you’re left with, well, meaningless drivel.

What does progressive house in 2009 mean exactly? Call us fools, but we’ll try to answer that. » More: Awesome Beatportal Article – How Progressive House Sounds In 2009

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