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Since You’ve Been In This Club Again

Published by DJ C on June 28, 2008 in Free Tunes, Mashups / Remixes and Podcast. 3 Comments

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DJ C; Since You’ve Been In This Club (Dub Mix) ->

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DJ C; Since You’ve Been In This Club (Kelly Clarkson Vocal Mix) ->

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Usher Makes Love in the Club After I posted Since You’ve Been In This Club — my remix of Usher’s Love In This Club and Sasha Frere-Jones singing Kelly Clarkson’s Since You’ve Been Gone — I got a comment from Refusenik asking if I could post the instrumental, or perhaps a version with Kelly Clarkson’s original vocals on it. So I messed around with Clarkson’s vocals and came up with an interesting, but by all accounts annoying (the vocals are way pitched-up) mix, in addition to a dub/instrumental version. Give ‘em both a listen above.

DJ C, Tactic, FSTZ in Kansas City, Sat.

Published by Mr. Mashit on June 20, 2008 in Events. 0 Comments

Versions
DJ C
Tactic
FSTZ

Sat. June 21, ’08
The Skylight Room @ Crosstown Station
1522 McGee, Kansas City, MO
21+, $5, 10pm-1:30am

DJ Intel “Bump Me Loud!” Mix

Published by DJ C on June 11, 2008 in DJ Mixes, Free Tunes and Podcast. 4 Comments

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DJ Intel Bump Me Loud! ->

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Here’s another in our continuing series of summertime ’08 mixes to bump at your next sublime experience.

I had been noticing DJ Intel‘s name on flyers all over Chicago recently, but hadn’t had a chance to hear what he was up to until we rocked a party together a few weeks ago. His set was so dope! This mix is also dope; kind of epic in fact! It’s not about beat-matching and blends per se, but instead about moods and magic:

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Max Ulis “BEEPER FOR Hipsters”

Published by Mr. Mashit on June 10, 2008 in Free Tunes, Mashups / Remixes, Podcast and Video. 6 Comments

Max passed us this rmx recently and we’d like to pass it on over to you:

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Max Ulis; BEEPER FOR Hipsters ->

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The Cool Kids; Hit Me On My Beeper Video:

Kid Kameleon & Ripley in the Chi, Sat!

Published by Mr. Mashit on June 10, 2008 in DJ Mixes, Events and Free Tunes. 2 Comments

Saturday, June 14, 2008
No Mas Tequila Presents
Kid Kameleon & Ripley

With: DJ C, Chrissy Murderbot, & Zebo

@ SubT, 2011 North, Chicago, IL
$5, 21+, 10pm-3am
Free b4 11

Kid Kameleon
A beat strategist and technology enthusiast who blends, chops, restructures and generally smashes rhythms from across the sonic spectrum. From breakcore and ragga-jungle to dubstep and grime, with stops along the way at B-More, dub, dancehall, hip-hop, DnB, electro and the straight up unclassifiable, he’s a champion of underground sounds and outsider music. The Kid has dropped his fast-paced, eclectic style at parties from California to Estonia, sharing stages with the likes of Kool Herc, U-Roy, DJ Spooky, Asian Dub Foundation, Alec Empire, Squarepusher, The Bug, Vex’d and The Plastician, and many more. A blogger ( kidkameleon.com, riddimmethod.net, and localoaf.org), he also writes a monthly column called Basic Needs for XLR8R magazine covering “Low End Necessities from Ragga to Dubstep and beyond”.

DJ Mix Download: Kid Kameleon; Aim High ->

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Ripley
Ragamuffin Dubwrecker. “rootical rally-cry uproar, rythmic danger in overdrive.” “lifesaving whirlwind mistress of sonic devastation with hot sauce.”

DJ Mix Download: DJ Ripley; To The Party Members ->

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Ghostbeard “Not a Latest Dance Craze”

Published by DJ C on June 9, 2008 in DJ Mixes, Free Tunes and Podcast. 2 Comments

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Summer’s just about here and that means it’s time for a sweet, waist-winding dancehall mix. Montreal’s DJ Ghostbeard (AKA Jeff Waye, the guy who runs Ninja Tune’s North American office) just happened to drop such a mix on me recently and I feel it’s only right to share.

Ghostbeard’s like the only dude in the world who doesn’t have a Myspace page (at least that I can find) but this article sheds a small amount of light on the shadowy character. Anyway, it’s probably best to let the mix speak for itself:

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Rickrollin’ With Obama

Published by DJ C on June 7, 2008 in Music and Video. 3 Comments

Let me begin by saying that I’m not trying to make Obama look bad here, in fact I hope with every fiber of my body that he becomes our next president, but I want to share with you an observation I made recently.

I was watching the video for Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up on YouTube (I don’t know, I think I got Rickrolled) and I noticed that the way he was dancing looked familiar, and then I realized; Obama dances like Rick Astley!

Just check out that arm shake in the beginning of this video:

And then in this one. In fact watch them together:

Mashit MP3 Shop

Published by Mr. Mashit on June 6, 2008 in Mashit Info, Mashit Releases and Music. 0 Comments

Update: As of April 2012 the Mashit Download Shop is no longer online. We got hacked and the crappy software we were using to run the shop was irreversibly damaged.

Some of our recent releases are available through iTunes, Amazon MP3 etc. See below:

DJ C; Umami
(16 track album: Amazon MP3, iTunes)

Deliciously varied and delectably danceable
Listen/Download atÂ Amazon MP3 ->

DJ C; Sonic Weapons
(16 track album: Amazon MP3, iTunes)

To kill sound-systems and destroy dance-floors
Listen/Download at Amazon MP3 ->

Electro Organic Sound System; Roots Wreck Remix
(10-track Album: Amazon MP3, iTunes)

Wreck-step, ambient-dub, jungle, & dancehall
Listen/Download at Amazon MP3 ->

Electro Organic Sound System; Herbanism
(6-track Album: Amazon MP3, iTunes)

Mid ’90s ambient-dub and breakbeat experiments
Listen/Download at Amazon MP3 ->

Our out-of-print back catalog is listed on our Shop page ->

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Since You’ve Been In This Club

Published by DJ C on June 5, 2008 in Free Tunes, Gear, Mashups / Remixes and Podcast. 6 Comments

DJ C; Since You’ve Been In This Club* ->

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Wayne pointed out this article by Sasha Frere-Jones on The New Yorker site about Auto Tune. It’s the software that makes singers on many of todays pop songs sound inhuman. It’s purpose is to artificially correct the pitch of sung notes, but when tweaks are made to the settings other-worldly effects occur. Think Cher’s Believe, or almost anything by T-Pain and you get the picture.

A couple months ago DJ Flack pointed out to me that he’d been listening to the hip-hop / R&B station in Boston and for an hour straight every track featured the effect. A bit annoying innit? Certainly it’ll sound dated next decade. Yet still, there’s something awesome about breaking technology to create newness.

In order to illustrate the Auto Tune effect Sasha went into a recording studio and sang Kelly Clarkson’s Since You’ve Been Gone. Engineer Tom Beaujour recorded him and then demonstrated various uses of the software on Sasha’s voice.

When Ripley asked if I was going to make a remix of Sasha’s cover song I have to admit it Usher hadn’t occurred to me, but then I thought it just might be the perfect accompaniment to the remix of Usher’s Love in This Club that I had been meaning to make.

If you haven’t heard yet, Love in This Club was made using stock loops from Apple’s Garage Band software. I went and found the loops and made this remix out of them. Those Apple Loops are royalty free right? So I can remix Love in This Club all day long and not have to worry about rights infringement? I guess that remains to be seen. I’m sure there’ll be more on that later.

Tom Beaujour is featured on my remix explaining how the “Cher effect” is created and then Sasha sings “Since You’ve Been Gone.” In addition to the Auto Tune that Tom had already applied to Sasha’s voice, I also copied it to a second track and re-pitched the notes to create a harmony, but instead of Auto Tune I used Ableton Live to tweak the notes up and down by hand.

Full disclosure: I didn’t use the Garage Band or Auto Tune software in the making of this track.

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DJ C; Since You’ve Been In This Club* ->

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* ft. Sasha Frere-Jones & Tom Beaujour

BTW: Have you noticed how similar Love in This Club is to The Office theme?

BTWx2: Wayne also pointed to this absolutely awesome (slightly frightening) animatronic video version of Love In This Club:

Free Club Mashup: Big Whoop!

Published by DJ C on June 2, 2008 in Free Tunes, Genres, Mashups / Remixes and Podcast. 6 Comments

You’re probably thinking “Great, another free club mashup. Big whoop!” But you ain’t heard Big Whoop! yet. Give this a listen:

Big Whoop! (DJ C, Ripley, Kid Kameleon, & Tones); Ooh Wadda Doo Dadda (Big Whoop Mix ft. Timbaland, Magoo. & Sebast) ->

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While I was out in the Bay Area last week Ripley mentioned that if she were a producer she’d make a club version of Timbaland and Magoo’s Indian Flute with an accentuation on the “ooh wadda do dadda” part. One night while she, Kid Kameleon, and I were all chillin’ over at Tones‘ place she brought it up again and I was like “lets do this!” There was born the Big Whoop! collective. Everyone gave input on the track while I edited the pieces together in Ableton Live.

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