November chart
A chart of records for November:
1) Fastgraph - Evasive Manoeuvres [Klakson]
More fasted paced 145+ bpm electro from Fastgraph, just the way I like it!
2) Smith N’ Hack - Space Warrior [Smith N’ Hack]
Smith N’ Hack, buy on sight!
3) Synthme - Vol. 1 [Planet Mu]
A bit late with this one, infectious acid techno from one of the newer Planet Mu artists
4) Andrea Parker - Here’s One I Made Earlier (Sampler 2) [Touchin’ Bass]
A two part collection of rare and unreleased Andrea Parker tracks, I didn’t like the sound samples of the first 12″ but I liked this one
5) DJ Boss - Bottle Treatment EP [Dolegate]
Saw him play at The Cavern a while ago, liked this tough little number
6) Osbourne - Outta Sight [Spectral Sound]
I’m a bit late with this one also, the Luke Vibert remix is the standout track here
7) Unknown Artist - Ugandan Speed Trials [Downwards]
Killer broken beat techno from Surgeon’s label
8) Members Only - Historical Archives Vol. 6 [Members Only]
Classic disco action!
9) Various Artists - We Bring More Drama [Frustrated Funk]
Squelchy sounding Dutch electro styling here. Scottish artist Marco Bernardi might be familiar to some of you seeing as he’s played in Dublin a few times recently
10) Gescom A1-B1 and C1-D1 [Skam]
Two 12″s of mutated acid weirdness, super essential!
I sold my Ecler Smac Pro 4 mixer recently. It was a grand ‘oul piece of equipment but I felt it was time to invest in something a bit fancier. I’ve been eyeing up the Rane Empath 3 channel mixer (the normal one, not the rotary version). Anybody out there use one of these before? Yay or nay?
The vinyl encoding is still ongoing, only 760 records left to do, over the half way mark! I’ve added more records to my records for sale thingie on Discogs, sure you might as well have a bit of a browse while you’re here!
on November 24th, 2007 at 12:51 am
Isn’t recording and then selling on your records slightly dodgy? as in regards to the license to the content, selling second hand goods is a grey area, but having recorded and then sold on the content is probably breaking the law, no?
on a side note,What do you think the life span of the digital media will be? are you gonna make multiple backups of the content? im sure you know the risks involved though, life span of cdr etc? hopefully no harddrive failures, etc
on November 24th, 2007 at 10:56 pm
The records I’m selling are ones I don’t play any more, so I’m not recording them. I’m sure recording and then selling on is probably against the law, just like copying tapes is against the law, not sure if anybody was ever charged for it during the 80s though!
So far I’ve got two copies of all the music I’ve recorded, both on different hard drives. It looks like I’m going to be able to fit my current entire record collection on a 750 gig hard drive, so eventually I’ll probably have three copies on three different hard drives, just to be sure to be sure.
on November 24th, 2007 at 11:01 pm
Actually that last thing I wrote is a lie, I double checked and I have recorded some of the records I’m selling! :o
on November 25th, 2007 at 1:48 am
hi skkatter,
I just found my way here by trying to dig up some tracks from the dj food mix (raiding the 20th century). I haven’t heard anything from you yet, but that “diddy” snippet i heard was fun.
anyway, I can definitely recommend the rane empath mixer. I’ve used it a few times and it’s great. I usually play with a friends TTM-57 SL (because of the Serato), but the sound and build quality are great, a lot better than any Vestax I ever used. Also the faders are really smooth and nearly indestructible, they’d still work if you drowned them in beer (altough I’d still advise against doing it on purpose).
I sound like a commercial, but I doubt you’ll find anyone disagreeing. If you just use conventional sources, go for the empath, if you’d also like to play digital files, try the SL57 first, as of now this is too the best solution for pseudo-vinyl. (compared to DigiScratch & FinalScratch)
Enough of this, I’ll go check out some of your mixes now.
on December 19th, 2007 at 2:01 am
“I’ll probably have three copies on three different hard drives, just to be sure to be sure.”
And to be Sure To Be Sure, you need to store one of those drives in a different place, It’ll be fcuk all use to you if your gaf burns down
Kind of like the dog in a car joke and “Can he put fires out?”
Sk