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There’s definitely something up with my track recording set up – at present I manually update the track titles in Nicecast and that gets picked up by a console log file but it’s not picking up each one and it seems to be getting worse… hmm. something more to sort out… anyway lucky for you, dear podcast listener that you get the full and proper (but probably misspellled)…

Tracklisting

Snowblink: Don’t stop till you get enough
Massive Attack: Psyche
Lost Idol: Lightwerk
Alucidnation: Technically Warm
Helios: Halving the Compass
Lusine: The Thick of It
Prince: 17 Days (Professor LaCrois remix)
Justice: New Jack
Prodigy: Wake Up Call (ft Kool Keith)
The Gossip: Spare me from the Mould
Yacht: We have everything we wanted
School of Seven Bells: White Elephant Coat
Red Snapper: Lagos Creepers
LCD Soundsystem: 45:33 (Prins Thomas diskomix)
Kraftwerk: Music Non Stop (LIve version)
Flight of the Conchords: Inner City Pressure
Telefon Tel Aviv: Introductory Nomenclature
Booka Shade: Havana Sex Dwarf

BTM20100513 by machv

Here I am showing a few instruments, or modes, overlayed. Most instruments are designed to simply make sound when I interact, but others are self generative (like the bouncing balls) so that aspect of them persists between modes. I haven't really payed much attention to musical key or the 'edges' of the sounds, so its a bit of a cacophony I'm afraid, but I wanted to play with it again and thought i may as well blog it. Each time I do this I go away and make improvements, so perhaps itll be better next time! I really must work out how to switch of auto focus on my camera tho!

No show from me this week, as I managed to bork the recording. Instead, by way of recompense, get your teeth into the next in the Isolated Mix series, this one coming from the man behind both Lunar Testing Lab and Secret Station Records, Eric Watson.

isolatedmix 08 – Lunar Testing Lab by astrangelyisolatedplace

This week, thanks to the A Strangely Isolated Place blog , all the bands featured in the show are signed artists to Secret Station Records who, in an act of supreme generosity, allow you to take a healthy slice of their roster, completely free of charge, and what a roster it is. Here’s the

Tracklisting

Lunar Testing Station – Sounds of Today (Rising From Earth)
FUR – Black Castles
Verulf – Reprise
Specta Ciera – All around the trees
United Club Wear – ill capitano
Our Valley – Caladium
Drexon Field – Limoncello Liquor is Wonderful
FUR – Friends (Drexon Field remix)
United Club Wear – You are a Pro
Paneye – Bay of Withered Gardens
Verulf – Sunday
Lunar Testing Lab – MK Naomi
Drexon Field – My Little Snowflake
Spectra Ciera – It’s Barely There (Benjamin Dauer remix)
Straywel – Mathematics
FUR – UB3131
Drexon Field – Message
Invays – M1 Motorway
Kontyx – Notion

This set is my first “laptop dj” set as I’m now a proud owner of Torq (http://www.torq-dj.com/). Proud but still a little bit confused… For those who are interested, I’m running it on a Mac Book Pro G5 Power Book and (at present) i’m using one control Vinyl and one control CD. I was hoping to be running two control cds but I’m finding the control vinyl to be far more responsive and easier to get on with, but due to the way my decks are set up, using two control vinyls is going to take some DIY to build something for the laptop to sit on as, right now, my laptop can only sit on one of the turntables. On the Mac, I’m running spaces, with Torq running in one, with Second Life, Nicecast, Textedit and Console in another, and in a third, I’m running Beatunes (http://www.beatunes.com/). One thing I’m guilty of, in doing these weekly shows, is concentrating on the newer music of my library so, to help me “dig deeper” I’m using Beatunes matchlists to suggest tracks that it thinks are like a track I’m playing. Beatunes analyses your itunes library in a unique way: it works out bpm values, the tonal key of the track and also “colour codes” it it listens to the track and gives it a colour to represent what it thinks the track sounds like, the colours creating a unique palate or view of your itunes library. Then you can build “match lists” based on a single track (or more) and specify how much you’d like the resulting tracks to be like the ones you chose.