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

Shopping Cart IconSome of you might have noticed that the Mashit MP3 Shop went down for a minute there. If you recently tried to come buy stuff and saw absolutely nothing, it wasn’t ’cause we closed up. We were just having some tech issues, but we’re back up and running full steam ahead now. Our apologies for any inconvenience.

Now Go shopping–>

New Release

DJ C & Zulu; Gods & Robots ->

DJ C and Zulu Gods and Robots Album CoverWicked ragga vocalist Zulu comes together with dance-floor dominator DJ C to activate a next level blend of dancehall, dubstep, club and all around party music.

The album also features Montreal bounce-maestro, and Ninja Tune recording artist Ghislain Poirier’s remix of Darling, along with a slammin’ juke version of Body Work by Chrissy Murderbot of Chicago’s Sleazetone records. In addition, Freestyle Fellowship founder Aceyalone, and dancehall deejay Jah Orah provide guest vocals on the album. And topping the whole package off is the brilliant cover illustration by Bartek Karas.

[The album is] a heavy slap of blazing ragga bashment - Zulu’s Panamanian lyrical flow is very much to the fore, with the eagle-eared amongst us spotting both some new DJ C rhythms and a couple of gems unearthed from the vaults and given a shiny new rub. It’s fast, mean and easy, and a guaranteed fire-starter - throw in remixes from Ghislain Poirier and Chrissy Murderbot and it’s an undeniably solid package. - Fat Planet

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Previews

Exhibition Virtues (Hardcore Tonight Remix)

Dear John

Gods & Robots

Soundgun Emergency (DJ C Mix, ft. Aceyalone & Jah Orah)

Buy Gods & Robots Now ->

Recent Releases

DJ Flack Rock to the Rhythm DJ Flack; Rock to the Rhythm
(2 track single. $1.49)

fresh beat formulas for the dance-floor
Listen/Buy Now ->

Boston Bounce compilation MP3 downloadBoston Bounce compilation
(14 track album. $8.99)

fresh beat formulas for the dance-floor
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DJ C and Zulu Darling MP3 downloadDJ C & Zulu; Darling
(4 track single. $2.99)

They’re back to stun you with the bounce!
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Bong-Ra Panther FightBong-Ra; Panter Fight
(2 track single. $1.49)

2 tracks of raving madness
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DJ C & Zulu Body Work Album CoverDJ C & Zulu; Body Work
(4 track single. $2.99)

Dance-floor killer in a Boston-bounce style.
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Murderbot Ruff In The Bunny Fizness Album CoverMurderbot; Ruff in the Bunny Fizness
(11 track album. $8.99)

11 jungle-rave anthems.
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DJ C - Sonic Weapons album coverDJ C; Sonic Weapons
(16 track album. $8.99)

To kill sound-systems and destroy dance-floors.
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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, Read Them, Leave One

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

Wayne pointed out this article by Sasha Frere-Jones on The New Yorker site about Auto Tune. It’s the Auto Tune 5software 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 Usherhadn’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.

Rainbow Since You’ve Been GoneTom 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.

MP3 Download
DJ C; Since You’ve Been In This Club* ->

* 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:

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Free Club Mashup: Big Whoop!

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

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) ->

Ooh Wadda Screen Capture

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.

Continue reading ‘Free Club Mashup: Big Whoop!’ ->

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More Vinyl

Published by DJ C on June 2, 2008 in Gear and Music. 7 Comments, Read Them, Leave One

I started writing this as a comment on the last post about the death of the turntable, but it got too long. There are lots of great comments on that post already Edison Phonographtoo.

A friend just forwarded this article about the vinyl comeback from Boston.com. It’s worth a read. Apparently vinyl and turntable sales are sky rocketing compared to CD sales.

That kind of invalidates the title of my last post; Turntables No More. On the other hand, that post was specifically directed at DJs, whereas the sales boom in question is being driven by non-DJ consumers of indie-rock, pop, etc. releases with pressings of 10,000 and over.

I do think it’s an incredibly interesting phenomenon that vinyl continues to survive. DJ and punk rock (mainly 7-inch pressings) culture held the record pressing plants afloat through the past couple of decades, while CD sales soared. Now, as soon as all but the last few vinyl dance music distributors have closed up shop while DJs, labels and artists go online, there’s this resurgence which seems to be tied to the death of the CD.

Continue reading ‘More Vinyl’ ->

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Turntables No More

Published by DJ C on May 28, 2008 in DJ Mixes, Free Tunes, Gear and Podcast. 24 Comments, Read Them, Leave One

Serato Scratch LiveWhat is the future of the DJ turntable? Most of my colleagues and I use tools like Serato Scratch Live when we DJ, allowing us to bring huge libraries of music to the party without hauling heavy crates of vinyl.

We’re still using turntables ’cause they’re what we learned on, so we’re comfortable with them, but it seems to me that the mighty Technics 1200’s champion days are numbered. The next generation of DJs will have grown up without turntables and won’t have any need for them. Especially now that there’s a whole new crop of tools poised to replace the visceral experience of using turntables (see below).

Last november we posted a poll asking our DJ readers which format they prefer to use. 80% said they now use digital tools. The remaining 20% use vinyl only. So far only 21% use digital exclusively but I imagine those numbers will continue to tip away from vinyl. Take a look for yourself:

Vinyl or Digital?

  • Digital Mostly (some vinyl) (23%, 26 Votes)
  • Digital Only (Serato/Final Scratch, CDJ, laptop…) (21%, 24 Votes)
  • Vinyl Only (2 turntables and a mixer) (20%, 23 Votes)
  • Vinyl Mostly (some digital) (18%, 20 Votes)
  • Equal Amounts Vinyl and Digital (18%, 20 Votes)

Total Voters: 113

Vote ->

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Pioneer CDJ 1000Now lets talk about the tools that will replace turntables. I’m already beginning to be booked at some gigs that only provide DJ CD players (CDJs). The Pioneer CDJ 1000 was the first digital tool that really gave traditional turntables a run for their money by providing a touch sensitive platter that DJs can use to control the data on the CDs in a tactile way.

More recently a whole crop of USB DJ controllers have been popping up — self contained units with a mixer and cuing features built in. The best of these also have jog wheels and sound cards built in.

PacemakerMeanwhile there are tiny contenders entering the game too. Yes, some people already “DJ” with iPods but I mean full blown micro DJ Systems like the Pacemaker. And now that Apple has opened up the iPhone to 3rd party software developers I’m sure there’ll soon be some touch-screen DJ apps for that unit coming down the line.

Speaking of touch screen DJ apps. Check out the Atigo TT by Scott Hobbs:

This thing looks really fun but there’s an argument to be made here about portability. If it’s the same size as a turntable why not bring the real thing?

Nothing’s perfect yet but sooner or later there will be an all-in-one DJ controller that’s got everything for a visceral DJing experience in a portable package. Perhaps the Numark NS7.

Numark NS7

Or maybe even better, or at least cheaper and smaller, the Vestax VCI-300

Vestax VCI-300

Both of these controllers are slated to come out this summer and both work with Serato software. Stay tuned…

In the meantime, give a listen to this 100% vinyl DJ mix by Wanklerotaryengine:

MP3 Download
Wanklerotaryengine; What is my Purpose? ->

Tracklist Continue reading ‘Turntables No More’ ->

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DJ Ripley “To The Party Members” DJ Mix

Published by Mr. Mashit on May 27, 2008 in DJ Mixes, Free Tunes and Podcast. 15 Comments, Read Them, Leave One

DJ Ripley; To The Party Members ->

DJ Ripley To the Party Members DJ MixNext month DJ Ripley and Kid Kameleon will be on a tour which will bring them through Chicago to rock with us at the No Mas Tequila party.

Ripley recently put together this mix of dance-floor mashers called To The Party Members which we present here in order to wet your appetite for what’s sure to be a party no members will forget.

Continue reading ‘DJ Ripley “To The Party Members” DJ Mix’ ->

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DJ C & Zulu “Gods & Robots” Album

Published by Mr. Mashit on May 20, 2008 in Mashit Info, Mashit Releases and Music. 9 Comments, Read Them, Leave One

Buy Gods & Robots @ the Mashit MP3 Shop ->

DJ C and Zulu Gods and Robots Album Cover

Last week we released DJ C & Zulu’s Gods & Robots album at the Mashit MP3 Shop (Still the best deal @ 89¢ a track for 320 kb MP3).

Now it’s also available at the iTunes Music Store and AmazonMP3:

iTunes Music StoreGods & Robots @
iTunes Music Store ->

Download from AmazonMP3 ShopGods & Robots @
AmazonMP3 ->


About the Album

Wicked ragga vocalist Zulu comes together with dance-floor dominator DJ C to activate a next level blend of dancehall, dubstep, club and all around party music.

The album also features Montreal bounce-maestro, and Ninja Tune recording artist Ghislain Poirier’s remix of Darling, along with a slammin’ juke version of Body Work by Chrissy Murderbot of Chicago’s Sleazetone records. In addition, Freestyle Fellowship founder Aceyalone, and dancehall deejay Jah Orah provide guest vocals on the album. And topping the whole package off is the brilliant cover illustration by Bartek Karas.

“[The album is] a heavy slap of blazing ragga bashment - Zulu’s Panamanian lyrical flow is very much to the fore, with the eagle-eared amongst us spotting both some new DJ C rhythms and a couple of gems unearthed from the vaults and given a shiny new rub. It’s fast, mean and easy, and a guaranteed fire-starter - throw in remixes from Ghislain Poirier and Chrissy Murderbot and it’s an undeniably solid package.”
- Fat Planet

Shopping Cart IconPreviews

Exhibition Virtues (Hardcore Tonight Remix)

Dear John

Soundgun Emergency (DJ C Mix, ft. Aceyalone & Jah Orah)

Gods & Robots

Buy Gods & Robots Now ->

Also, give a listen to the Gods & Robots Mixtape featuring tracks from the album and many more remixes (free download).

Continue reading ‘DJ C & Zulu “Gods & Robots” Album’ ->

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Joystyxx Radio Premier, 5/19/08

Published by DJ C on May 19, 2008 in Joystyxx Radio and Music. 0 Comments, Please Leave One

Joystyxx Radio Chrissy Murderbot, Micada and I began our bi-weekly Chicagoland radio series; Joystyxx Radio this week. Stay tuned for the audio archive.
Every other Monday evening from 8 to 10 pm we’ll be kickin’ it old-school, new-school, and everything in between-school over the airwaves of Loyola University’s WLUW, 88.7 FM in Chicago and on the web at www.wluw.org.

It’s always a party in the studios, so be sure to tune in and join the fun music, commentary, and antics.

www.joystyxx.com ->

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Kid Kameleon & Ripley @ No Mas Tequila

Published by DJ C on May 18, 2008 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments, Please Leave One

Kid Kameleon and Ripley at No Mas Tequila Flyer

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”.

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

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Surya Dub, San Fran

Published by Mr. Mashit on May 17, 2008 in Events. 0 Comments, Please Leave One

Surya Dub FlyerSaturday, May 24, 2008
DJ C @ Surya Dub - San Fransisco

@ Surya Dub (voted best club night in San Fran 2007)

with Kid Kameleon, Ripley, Kush Arora, Maneesh the Twister, B-love, Ross Hogg & DJ Netta, Jimmy Love, and DJ Amar

Club Six
60 6th St. bet. Mission and Market

Visuals by Ohashi
MC Daddy Frank pon da mic

$10, 9pm-3am

Dubstep, Dread Bass Breaks & D’n'B, Ragga, Reggae, Dancehall, Bhangra, Global Beats

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