Alpha Blondy - I Wish You Were Here

One of the best Pink Floyd covers i ever heard.

Laurent Garnier - The Man With The Red Face (Live)

More of the weekend material!

Nine Inch Nails - Head Like A Hole

Enough said. Weekend track!

In the Pocket (Rhodes and Moog Light Paint)

In the Pocket (Rhodes and Moog Light Paint) from Ethan Goldhammer on Vimeo.

Nice video and song. Sounds simple yet it has some awesome variation going on.

Ed - Liveset Rehearsal

Well played ableton liveset. Great selection of gear: Novation launchpad and Novation SL Mk2 midi controller. More liveset videos here.

Order3 - Peace Festival Performed Live

Order3 - Peace Festival Performed Live from Order3 on Vimeo.

You know I really hunt for livesets. Here's another one. Go to liveset section for more of those.

The Sacrifice - Michael Nyman

Great piano theme!

Roger Sanchez - Mix for Amsterdam Dance Event 2011

Roger Sanchez - Mix for Amsterdam Dance Event 2011 by Roger Sanchez

Cool dj set by Roger Sanchez. You can also download it if you go on Soundcloud.com.

1. S-Man - Animalz [Stealth] 2. Raoul Zerna - Sweet & Low [White]
3. Robbie Rivera & Roger Sanchez ft Fast Eddie - Believe (S-Man's Remix) [Juicy Records]
4. Stefano Noferini - Fact [100% Pure] / Erick Morillo & Eddie Thoneick ft Shawnee Taylor - Stronger [Subliminal Records]
5. Nader Razdar & Matthew Codek - Alegria [Stereo Productions]
6. Xpress2 & Tim Deluxe - Lost The Feelin' [Skint Records]
7. Reboot - Enjoy Music (Patrick M Edit) [Bootleg]
8. Kaiserdisco vs Klosman - Callao Bombato (Acanto Mash Up) [Bootleg]
9. Nick Rockwell - Che Guevera [White]
10. Ralph Good ft. Polina Griffith - SOS (Richard Dinsdale Tanzanite Remix) [Spinnin' Records]
11. Piek - Burn Baby Burn - Danny

Re-post of LogisticDubLab -Live @ TavernaDelMaltese

LogisticDubLab -Live @ TavernaDelMaltese 02/03/2010 from LogisticDubLab on Vimeo.

I am re-posting this liveset just because it's a great dub liveset! Amazing live performance. I keep coming back to it on my blog regularly. Hope you enjoy it too. And do not forget to check out the liveset videos section for the livesets alike.

Check your hearing

Been enjoying ear buds & headsets a lot? Been enjoying dancing next to 500 watt speaker? Been making music loud? Take the check to know if you can carry on with these good old habits of yours before it's too late.

FUR VOICE "d´acords" LIVE @ MIMAA

FUR VOICE "d´acords" LIVE @ MIMAA FESTIVAL_ELCHE SPAIN from cristobal jurado on Vimeo.

Beautiful electronica liveset by Fur Voice. Check out more livesets here.

Rewarding Failure

Beautifully written post by PhilSequence at Reason101. The author talks about how failure can be rewarding to music making, and what happens if one stops fearing it. It is really something that i am dealing with more than six months now. I cannot make music no more. I am in a creative block which is so bad that I don't even try to make music anymore. Give up after ten minutes (used to be hours before).

Surely, there are some circumstances or excuses if you will, I do not have my gear with me anymore. Midi controllers, monitors etc. all got left behind. I just got my desktop PC with ableton and reason installed, but got no computer desk, so it’s basically laying on the floor. Yet, I could work something out if only I could break of my current state of mind. And such articles like this one, are just about how to tackle such problem. Have a read and you will see.

The Ananda Project - Cascades of Color

Just the tune for the early morning, or the evening depends when you listen to it.

Linux MultiMedia Studio Free Music Making Software

As I await my desktop PC with Ableton and Reason, and MAYA soundcard shipped to the Netherlands ( where i live now) I tried to search for music making software products that are available out there for free. The one I stopped by was Linux MultiMedia Studio.

LMMS is absolutely intuitive, especially if you ever used fruity loops. LMMS has a pianoroll as well as a beat sequencer just like in FL. It's also got a nice array of effects and some in built instruments. LMMS supports VST but I have not figured how yet. Looks good compared to what other free software looks (dodgy colors, sloppy design).

But there's a catch. I have a i3 vaio laptop, 4 gigs of ram, builtin sound. It's not much but it should be able to handle a few samples. However, in LMMS the sound constantly freezes off or turns into noise, the software often becomes unstable. Even more so, if you start building up effects chain.

Another serious limitation I notice is that you cannot copy multiple patterns, even though there is a selector tool. You only have to do it one pattern per single track at a time. This is not helping electronic music creation is it?

May be that on Linux it works great and not so much on Windows or my laptop is too slow but if LMMS can fix these problems, especially the sound one (i could live with copy patterns one by one), I will seriously look into sequencing a track with it, for instance, using Freesound.org as a sample resource. I do enjoy simplicity in making music software and that's got one. I really liked it!

If you have had different experience with LMMS, be sure to comment!

Deep house dj set by Eddie Quinlan

House and techno mix by eddie quinlan
Tranquil deep house/electronica dj set. Tracklist:

1. Desolte - Aviance 
2. Efdemin - Acid bells (martyn mix) 
3. Desolate - Divinus 
4. dj t - burning feat maurer - (art department remix) 
5. mario basanov - sheiker 
6. sek - aretha’s house (roy giles remix 2) 
7. lawrence - just like heaven 
8. pablo bolivar - cool down 
9. no milk - bubble people 
10. maceo plex - vibe your love 
11. dj le roi - i get deep feat roland clark 
12. jordan peak - kooch(raw groove) 
13. rio padice - pequenitas groove 
14. kevin yost, peter funk - watcha thinking 
15. klartraum - i don’t know 
16. kris wadsworth - You Called (nick harris mix) 
17. maya jane collins - humming bird 
18. luke hess - agape dub (james flavour) 
19. kris wadsworth - crushed 
20. danilo schneider - flashforward 
21. kink - detunator 
22. djamel - kireru (reeko mx) 
23. phil weeks - slow dance (u cry)

Bloc Party

Bloc Party - Banquet

Bloc Party - Flux

Bringing the good times back...