Hey there folks,
April has been a really busy month, still feeling the vibe and the fallout from Renaissance which saw the start of the month at the VOX in Leeds, lots of underground talk on the Facebook group Venue44 Appeciation Society, about the next installment and also the DJ's from back in the day are comming out of the woodwork and are getting involved, awesome times, to that end they ran a DJ competition in the group not to win anything just to keep the music alive I guess, so as I am crazy about music I decided to do an entry see the Links:
From this other Ideas and mixes have been springing up allover the place, I started watching a few films also in April, so as to get some quotes and samples for a new project for Sunday nights Chillout sessions, As a Pure DJ I am somewhat perplexed as to the DJ workings of Ableton software but love to play around in the studio with it. As this gathers momentum though studio sessions will become more interesting for sure.
Well in terms of all the Ambient/Experimental/Downtempo stuff I have recorded thus far I have two mixes for you of about 2hrs each, these are fun to do but indeed need alot more studio work, but as I really enjoy doing them I thought that I would share the best with you, hopefully as these sessions get better, the quality will just improve...
This was Sundays entry a week or so ago! - this was the first one and in the main went very well samples from Apocalypse Now, Deadwood, and Butch Casidy & The Sundance Kid! Awesome..
Okay moving on..Other things that have been happening musically this month is that I have created a new mix that is all brandnew for April, I originally did two mixes, however the sunshine came out all be it for a week and my mood changed and an influence told me that what I had done was a bit two dark and Technic and that I should do something for April that is more uplifting decided to change this at the last minute as in the main I kind of agreed with this... However spoke to Paul and asked him to have a listen and Wallop it got his seal of approval so I was quite chuffed with that... so to that end onto the Mixes, the first one is the Original one I ditched, lots of CidInc and Matrik Techno Techno!
So here is the other half to that which ended up being an more melodic spacey mix, as I said to kind of capture spring and the change in weather, but what happened in reality was it pissed down the following week and was snowing....lol
Out of the blue this month I gotten wind of a party happening at the Warehouse in Leeds for the 3rd of June 2012, which was just too good to pass up on, from the old daze of HardTimes (Huddersfield) I followed this everywhere back in the day even up to Glasgow at one point, I will never forget this, a banging night with Miles and Elliot, and a live PA from Barbara Tucker, unfortunately for her some mad arse Glasweigan out of his box, decided to pull her wig off on stage, then naturally it was game over and they walked off...lol. Seen Little Louie Vega & Farley Jackmaster Funk as well as CJ Macintosh, Roger Sanchez, can even remember a night in the Legendary Camden Palace courtesy of the HardTimes Crew.
Simply we cannot miss this so there is a few now going and no doubt it will be a fantastic night filled with memories and nostalgia for all, plus Morales 6 hour set which will be on fire without question, but I guess also very interesting, but I doubt that we will get the closeness as we did with Ian Ossia & Dave Seaman at Renaissance, but we will see what the night brings!!!
And So to bring this Part to a Close I did a Mix and have already released part 1 today so enjoy it, lots of Bangers in there from back in the day from 1995/6 so can't wait for both the 3rd of June at the Warehouse and also concluding the second part of this Legendary club night that for me at least oozes quality and gets my respect, Enjoy folks:
Onto more regular stuff now, I have on a Friday night and midd-week, been going through Promos, both Paul and myself have amassed an absolute stockpile of Records, vinyl and other media, needless to say that it is going to get played and I can see a project in the not too near future that is going to encompass, everything, Vinyl, Ableton and whatever else..Fridays is where I just play out anything that we have accrued in the Week, from 8-10pm, have to say this is still just a wing it on the platters and see what comes up like, but I do post all the tracklistings out there which maybe of use to someone at least, well here you go these are the last two Fridays entries:
Saturday night just gone, I decided to try something different and broadcast from the Studio live a 3 hour Techno special which would feature Drumcode type techno tracks, I knocked up the flyer above and here is the end result, lots of people have messaged me on this and given some very positive feedback...
Deep Space 2012 by Dj Robbed on Mixcloud
Saturday the 28th April saw me Live on Pickering FM (Radio) Live 3 hour set with Erik Bruce B2B, Erik is a fantastic and creative Lad from Portsmouth who loves his vinyl, he blended a 3 hour Vinyl Set including some of his new and innovative remixes! nice one Erik! hopefully we will hear more projects like this very soon. See the Flyer and the 3 hour set which has been uploaded to Mixcloud includes a full tracklisting.
I was very impressed with this art work as all I used was microsoft word 2000 and a few Font packs, amazing to think that many of the flyers I see about on the web are utter shite, not to say this is perfect, but lots of people comented on how good the art work was for this, any how here is the real meat below!
Erik plays regularly and you can also hear him live on
and also you can check out Erik more here :-)
Further on this month I found out from Youtube that I have kept a clean sheet so my account has been given more status, to this end I have uploaded some of my Vs Series for you all to enjoy whilst you are working, a bit of a fuck about to create a .avi file then upload it as a movie but never the less it works for me right now!
From Mixcloud I did a cheeky Little Sasha Super Sunday Mix as it was raining and there was nowt else to do, just threw it together and recorded it here it is if you fancy a listen, naturally all the tracklist is there for you :-)
So that really Concludes me for April Really, no doubt there will be more on the Way, I have a Mix project for Renaissance Venue 44 Appreciation Society on FB which is looking good got about 5 DJ's not including myself also here is the art work so far!!!
A Project with some DJ's from Rotterdam... sounds like it will be absolutely fantastic, I have not worked out the details with them yet, so watch this space :-) I would have put some tracks of the month in but if you do take time to listen to the mixes they are all in there for you to grab....One last thing, Both myself and Paul are eagerly awaiting the new [Sasha Involver 3] keep your Eyes and ears open...2 weeks to go!!!!
Enjoy Your Week Ahead Folks, remember music is the key, lets see what happens next month :-)..
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