Depravity on the Road: Overheards
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Over the past two months I have driven across America twice, stayed in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Vermont, New York, Chicago, Aspen, Breckenridge and Las Vegas. I’ve been drunk for the last 9 days, jammed with Matt Hoffman and Shaun White and got my ear pierced four times with a blunt earring. I stayed in a hotel that cost $1800/night (but didn’t pay for it), put 6,400 miles on my car, took 1,000 photos at parties and ski events and did a couple assignments for school.
During that time, I haven’t made a single mix or even touched a midi controller. So instead of trying to scrape something together, here are some notes from the road that probably only I will enjoy, but I want to read them again one day, so here they are, permanently imprinted on some server in Houston, Texas.
Heather and Brittany, official party animals.
Person 1: I have never seen a giant banana hold hands with a chicken.
Person 2: That’s a little too, “I’ve seen it a million times before,” Kristi.
The 80s called. They said to throw you away, because even they don’t want that haircut.
If an RPG comes flying by, don’t try to knock it down. Two of us lived out of six of us. They gave me this little pin.
You don’t die for Bush. You fight for your friends who are beside you. It’s the coolest shit in the world.
You gotta kill them or they’re going to kill you. These mother fuckers are going to hunt us like we’re deer.
It’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt. [followed by overly enthusiastic hysterical laughter]
Nightwish is like Evanescence with a quarter the suck and four times the rock.
Dude, the bathrooms smell like a hot chick.
Me with Olivia and ShayWill.com
They’re all living in a big fish bowl and I’m on the outside watching them.
The MSTRKRFT Remixes Mix
Saturday, December 13th, 2008
“I remixed a remix, it was back to normal.” – Mitch Hedberg
Here’s a mix of remixes from remix masters MSTRKRFT. Download
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Dear You: Get Fucked – New Mix
Friday, November 14th, 2008
I’m officially the worst blogger in the history of the blogisphere. A month without a post?! Some nerd somewhere is rolling over in his grave.
Anyway, last night I got wasted and – inspired by recent chaotic events in my life – I bashed this mix together. I’m listening to it right now for the first time (sober) to see if it’s passable, and I think it’s pretty alright. There’s clearly some serious anxiety and aggression coming out in this one.
Couple repeat tracks, but whatever, I was drunk.
Enjoy. M. Download
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Harvitronix – Boulder Theatre + Bacaro on Thursday
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Last weekend’s Turbo premiere down at the Bluebird Theater in Denver went OFF! The place sold out and the crowd was roudy. Thanks to everyone for coming down early for the DJ set.
Photo: Chip Kalback
Photo: Cecilia Kunstadter
This Thursday, come see Turbo at the Boulder Theater. Doors (and my set) are at 8, movie is at 9. Then, for the 21+ crowd, head on over to Bacaro for some late-night shin digs at the Level 1/Freeskier party. I’m playing from 10-2. Hip hop for two hours, electro for two hours. I recommend just coming for the second half. : )
Here’s the flyer:
The Presets Mega Mix!
Thursday, September 25th, 2008
I’m not going to lie, The Presets have really got me through these last couple days, with issues due and new ones already behind schedule. So tonight, before heading out to the Infected Mushroom show in Denver, I threw together this Presets Mega Mix.
Goddamnit, I love you, Presets. Download
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Upcoming shows – Sep 27, Denver; Oct 2, Boulder
Friday, September 19th, 2008
Come party at two huge movie premieres in Denver and Boulder!
The first one is on September 27 at the Bluebird Theater at 3317 E. Colfax Ave. I’ll just be playing a little hour-long set starting at 8:00 p.m. before Level 1 Productions‘ showing of TURBO. Check the flyer below.
Then the real party starts on October 2nd at Bacaro at the corner of 9th and Pearl. It’s a Level 1 Productions and Freeskier magazine after-party, starting around 9:30 p.m. I’m playing until the bar pulls the plug at 2 a.m., so bring your dancing shoes and drinking face. The actual premiere is at the Boulder Theatre at 7:00.
Denver Premiere flyer.
Live at West End – the Mixes
Friday, September 12th, 2008
Last week, I played a show at West End in Boulder as part of the Boulder Freeride welcome party.
Here are the live recordings, split into two parts. About 75% of the tracks I played can be found in HTW 1, 2 and 3.
Couple quick notes:
- There are a couple spots where the event people had to do announcements. The announcements aren’t recorded in here, but I did turn my volume down (on the mixer) and randomly started/stopped a track or two. So when you hear a weird, abrupt, nonsensical mix, hopefully that’s the reason.
- A drunk friend of mine decided to see what would happen if she hit every pad on my MPD24 in the middle of a mix — twice. I tried to do damage control, but hey, it’s live, and these things happen.
Hope you like it. I particularly enjoy part 2 (even though there are a bunch of glitches, as per above).
Live at West End, Part 1 – Download
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Live at West End, Part 2 – Download
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Dear DJ Shares and Shaywill.com: A mashup 4 U!
Monday, September 8th, 2008
I was toying around with the idea of doing a “How to Make a (bad) Girl Talk Song in One Hour” tutorial when I found myself getting into it and just made a little 1:42 mix instead.
Using some lots-of-swearing-and-terribly-popular hip hop tracks with underlying classic rock songs, I present to you: Music for College Kids.
Enjoy,
M.
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How-To: DJing with Ableton Live, the Easy Way
Saturday, September 6th, 2008
There are all sorts of Ableton Live Djing tutorials out there, but I haven’t found one that explains how to do it exactly the way that I do, so I figured I’d share.
Note: This tutorial doesn’t cover pre-monitoring with headphones. There are a bunch out there so I won’t get into it. Also, unlike other Live DJing tutorials, I don’t use the crossfader. That’s probably the biggest different between this tutorial and others you will find.
Here’s how we’ll go from a blank Live Set to one ready for you to mix live in front of thousands of adoring fans:
1. Set up Live’s session view.
2. Pick the tracks you’re going to play.
3. Time warp all the tracks.
4. Add the effects (like EQ, filter) that you want to use
5. Map the effects to keys/controllers
6. Play around!
Live at West End, 9/4
Friday, September 5th, 2008
Thanks to all of you who came out to West End last night for the Boulder Freeride party. Packed house, free drinks, free food, dancing, yelling, and two-and-a-half hours of electronic music. Sounds like a perfect evening to me.
I’ll post up the live mix later. Here are some photos.
Shay performs the mandatory taste test.
Jen, P Chill and Digi
Dropping tracks!
Cecilia's seal of approval
Mixing so fast, fireballs are flying.
My MPD preset.