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Posted on August 21st, 2007 by Joshua Mostafa.
Categories: music.
A quick roundup of good listening material:
BunZer0’s tribute mix of Wascal’s dubstep tunes is heavy - that first track (remix of D-Force’s Original Bad Boy) alone is worth the download.
I skimmed through a mix of 100% Japanese dubstep by DJ百窓, which is interesting, if a bit odd, especially the choice of vocal samples (Goodfellas sample made me laugh, and there are some weird poppy vocals in there that just sound silly over big basslines). And Neurosis Orchestra’s mix The Shadow Forest is great moody stuff.
DiamondEye has a couple of dnb mixes for download - one liquidy one of his own tunes and a mad ragga/dubwise one with some classics on it. I missed Alix Perez’ Sydney show last weekend so I’ve been listening to his mix from JJJ.
shut your precious whining analogue mouth
Posted on August 20th, 2007 by Joshua Mostafa.
Categories: tech.
People who complain about digital media, who moan on about the difference between the “warm” sound of vinyl versus digitally encoded music, really piss me off. I could understand if they were fully committed Luddites, playing ancient madrigals on harpsichords, and condemning all forms of audio recording as sterilising music, that it should be a moment shared between musician and listener. I would disagree, but I would respect their point of view.
But people who claim to prefer the sound of digitally produced music when it has been recorded onto vinyl? Stupid. Peter Kain’s post on CDM sums it up:
If “new records have sound all over them”, and MP3s “take out some of the music,” does that mean the resulting record has the right amount of sound on it? You know, like taking your finger and wiping extra jam off of toast?
The flipside to this is the crappy sound quality that’s being accepted as OK in consumer devices and software. The default import bitrate for iTunes is a measly 128kbps, which means that a lot of the music I’ve imported (and thrown away the CDs, probably) is now way too low quality to play out. I will have to find these tunes and again and import them. But that was my bad for trusting Apple, or at least not thinking enough to distrust them.
320 MP3 is fine for most uses, or use FLAC if it really matters … the difference between the best and the worst in either digital or analogue is way more (to human ears) than the difference between the two. JA 7″ singles, for instance, are often of crap quality - way worse than even a low bitrate MP3. If you really object to digital encording, I have some overdue news for you:
Curse! This means the end of the horned phonograph and the little doggie that looks in to it!
hipstepradio
Posted on August 3rd, 2007 by Joshua Mostafa.
Categories: music, sydney.
NY-based Hipstep Massive is spreading its tentacles across the globe. It has reached Sydney, first in the form of a Sydney-based slot on its net radio show (featuring 4th Quadrant’s DJ Aggrovator and yours truly, tune in to hipstepradio.com tomorrow midday Sydney time) but there’s more to come in a tangible form .. watch this space.
kontakt script language
Posted on July 31st, 2007 by Joshua Mostafa.
Categories: tech.
I just bought Kontakt, and its script language looks interesting, but I can’t find a full API … anyone know where I should look?
ozreggae online shop
Posted on June 15th, 2007 by Joshua Mostafa.
Categories: music.
Just heard from my mate Yoni (of Melbourne’s Top Ranking Sound) that ozreggae.com has opened an online shop. Getting hold of tunes in this neck of the woods is pretty hit-and-miss so this is filling a much needed gap. Big up!
heavyweight soul
Posted on June 6th, 2007 by Joshua Mostafa.
Categories: music, sydney.
Shapeshifter ripped it up at the Forum … blinder. I’m in awe.
infinite potential politics oddcast
Posted on May 21st, 2007 by Joshua Mostafa.
Categories: music.
Just listened to another hilarious offering from Infinite Potential … the “Politics Oddcast” - brilliant. The audio-spliced George W Bush cover of Imagine is gold.
rowdy mix
Posted on May 18th, 2007 by Joshua Mostafa.
Categories: music, mix.
I recently found an old studio mix of mine from last year on a spare promo CD … it’s from last year but still worth a listen:
Roll Deep - Beenie Man
Limb By Limb - Cutty Ranks
Hot Like We - Cecile
Real Hot - Capleton
More Tea, More Beer - Herbaliser feat. Jean Grae
Big n’ Bashy - Fallacy
?? - M.I.A.
Move Ya Ting - Lotek feat. Roots Manuva + Sandra Melody
Hum Hum - Beenie Man
Gal Bruk - Elephant Man
Love Guide - 2Culture Clash feat. Ms Thing
Free Up the Atmosphere - Bounty Killer
More Punanny - Dr Evil
Under Mi Sensi - Mr Vegas feat. Alozade + Hollow Point
Rude Bwoy Pledge - Cham
Overmovement - Semper Fi + Halfcast
Deep - TC feat. MC Jakes
Too Bad - Taxman
Dub Rock Sound (Benny Page rmx) - Visionary feat. King
Direct link:
http://www.mydjspace.net/plugins/music/mixdownload.php/4450
Or see my profile page on mydjspace.net.
listening material
Posted on May 11th, 2007 by Joshua Mostafa.
Categories: music.
There are a few mixes I’ve downloaded that I keep coming back to … I thought I’d post links to the ones that are still online …
Diamond Eye’s reggae-flavoured Soul’n'Bass mix has been online for a while but well worth checking out. There’s a King Tubby Tribute Mix I came across recently by someone called Fhex; an hour and a quarter of proper old dub. The Infinite Potential Oddcasts are brilliant, tongue-in-cheek sonic excursions that are rooted in hiphop but take in random snippets from all over the place, each one about twenty minutes on a particular theme. I dig Semper-Fi’s Dub Come Forward mix as well.
