Mixes
New mix "West Side Summer"
07/19/2008 07:47 PM Filed in: Mixes
A brand new mix that is not a radio show is available for download in the current mixes page. I wasn't planning on recording a new mix but this one kind of just happened. Sandra's new single is doing great, the WCC might start a new residency night on the West Side, and my VFX business is cranking out the jobs even in these hard economic times. Basically I don't have much to complaint about and I'm happy, so when I'm happy I like to jump on the decks and the result is this summer mix. I hope you enjoy it and don't forget to rate it.
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WCC interview on LA's #1 Hip Hop Station (!?)
Ok, ok. In all fairness it was on a Electronic Dance
Music show called PowerTools and it did air at 2
in the morning. Still check it out and listen to
our manly voices. I'm the one that sounds like a
chipmunk. You can also catch an exclusive mix I
did for the interview. Click on the play button
below.
PestoMix up again - New & Improved
03/27/2008 01:46 AM Filed in: Mixes
The NEW PestoMix is now up and its IMPROVED since it does not have any Defected tracks in it. If you are wondering why read the post below this one. This whole thing with this major label has left a real sour taste in my mouth and I feel it has tainted something I hold sacred which is the spirit of House Music. I also found out that I'm not the only one of their ex-supporters that they have done this to. Check this out. Please go out and support small independent labels like Pesto, Barcoda, Compost, Poji, Shifted Music and many others that are keeping the spirit of House alive and let's leave Defected and its sub-labels chase bedroom DJs for compensation. I'm sure they will make lots of money and pass the profits to their artists (yeah right). I hope you enjoy the mix.
And I Really Used to Like DEFECTED...
Some of you are wondering what happened to the DJ Mix I did for Pesto Music. Well within minutes after Pesto posted the FREE podcast they got this email from Defected:
"I have received a newsletter with a Pesto mix that includes 2 of Defected tracks that are unreleased. Defected has not granted you any authorisation to use them and we control the copyright. Please remove them from this mix immediately. You are giving our music away for free when you do not have the rights. We will seek compensation for this illegal usage."
First of all I purchased those "unreleased tracks" on Traxsource directly from Simon Dunmore (Defected's boss) Top 10. They don't even seem to know what tracks they are releasing or selling. Second, a big "respected" label like Defected coming after a small independent one man label like Pesto and threatening to sue them for giving them free promotion just floors me. Defected is in their legal right to do this but is it morally right? I've been a big supporter of Defected for years I have PURCHASED every single release I have from them vinyl or digital. No more. This is a slap in the face to our community. If this is their attitude then they will go down just like all the other main stream dinosaur labels that are crying that their profit margins are shrinking and are coming after the end users. I will re-do the PestoMix with out any tracks from Defected. Only tracks from labels that support and understand DJ culture. If you care to voice your opinion to them you can do to the label manager at their contact page here. The email above came from "Business Affairs and Licensing Manager". If you do contact them please be respectful. Like I said they are within their legal rights, I just feel they don't know how to pick their battles.
New Mix for Pesto Music
03/25/2008 11:08 PM Filed in: Mixes
Pesto Music asked me to do a DJ Mix that coincides with the release of my wife Sandra's new track coming out on their imprint April 20th, 2008. Sandra's new track called "Higher" will be coming out in two EPs. The first one (Pesto 011) will include Jay-J's (Shifted Music) mixes and Jon Silva's aka The Mulder (Pesto Music). The second EP (Pesto 011R) will have remixes by Justin Michael (Hermosa Recordings), Thomas White (Natural Rhythm), and our own Torin Rea (WCC). We've already passed out some promos to a few jocks and we are getting great feedback. You can hear Jay-J's vocal mix in my set (track 11). If you are part of the Pesto community you will get this mix as an iTunes Podcast. If not you can download right here. You will also notice that this mix is at higher bit rate. The mixes on this site are at 128kps but as of the PestoMix they will be 192kps. Bandwidth is getting cheaper so I'm passing on the savings to you :)
Tracklist is Complete for Balance Live Set
All of the tracks for our 6 hour set at Balance back
from November are accounted for. If you downloaded the
set and are curious as what those are you can check it
out here. BTW the WCC will
be back at the best House Club In Los Angeles on
February 2nd, 2008. Mark your calendars cause it
will be another epic night...
6 hour live mix for your NYE from the WCC
First of all Happy Holidays to you and all of your love ones. I want to thank you for the support that you have given me through out 2007. I can't believe this year is already over. It certainly flew by for me.
As a "Thank You" and a late holiday gift I would like to offer you the full set from our last gig at Balance here in Los Angeles. This is kind of rare that you will find sets like these online because it is 6 hours long! It is our full night un-edited. If you are looking for music for your NYE party this year you just put this on and you are good to go. It starts off smooth and then just peeks with some old, new and rare tracks that we like to take out when we play live.
You will find the tracklist for all 57 tracks on the download page with who was playing what. Basically Torin Rea, Dustin Brown and myself were rotating every 4 tracks so we kept it fresh. We compliment each other when we play but we all have a little bit different style (in a good way).
This download is pretty big, 317 MB. On a standard broadband connection it could take from 10 to 20 minutes to download so please be patient when you do. I need to thank Pablo Godel of Server Grove Networks for letting me host the mix on his servers. If it wasn't for Pablo's help I wouldn't be able to offer this mix to you because of the amount of bandwidth it would eat up with all the downloads that it will have. If you need any kind of hosting solutions please check out Server Grove Networks and give them a try.
Again thank you for 2007 and have a wonderful, safe and fun New Year Eve and stay soulful trough-out 2008!
Last Shameless Sessions of the year is up
12/01/2007 10:49 PM Filed in: Mixes
The last Shameless Sessions radio show for 2007 is now available for download. For this one I actually took out some of my old vinyl that I haven't played in a long time. These are a bunch of old white labels that I hardly take out anymore since turntables are hard to come by at clubs these days. For the last few years I've been playing mainly digital files from CDs on CDJs. You will probably hear the sound difference from these old records when you hear them in the mix. I played the hell out of these tracks and they are a little worn out. Don't be alarm if you see Michael Jackson or Diana Ross on the track list... You might be pleasantly surprise ;)
The Mailing List is Back
11/04/2007 07:26 PM Filed in: Personal
In the last few months I have received quite a few
emails from people wondering what had happened to my
old mailing list or why I wasn't sending any
updates. They were wondering if they had been
dropped from it. I would send an email once or twice a
month to let them know about new mixes or gigs. When I
re-did the new site and I included a blog I didn't
think I would need the list anymore since people can
subscribe to it and get the updates right here. Well,
the list is back! New and improved. When you join
now you can chose your interest so I can send you an
email that is relevant to what you want to be informed
about. For example most people want to know when I have
a new mix up but not necessarily when I have a gig in
Los Angeles if they live in Barcelona. The emails are
also in HTML format now so they look much better than
the old ones. You can join on any of the site's pages
by entering your email and clicking join on the sidebar
to your left.
Shameless Sessions Mix For November is posted
11/03/2007 08:11 PM Filed in: Mixes
Shameless Sessions Mix For October is posted
10/07/2007 01:12 PM Filed in: Mixes
My Shameless Sessions show for the month of October is available for download. It aired Sunday the 7th of October on SS Radio UK. Just to make it clear; My Shameless Sessions shows airs every month on the first Sunday of the month not necessarily the first week of the month. I had quite a few emails this week asking me where the mix was. I even had one that said that "it's been more than week and where is the fuckin' October mix?". Wow, did not know that people got so emotional about these sets. I hope it's clear now when they come out. Peace and enjoy the "f@#&ing" mix ;)
New mix "Glow Nights"
09/23/2007 10:21 PM Filed in: Mixes
I posted a brand new mix that is not a radio show. It's been a while since I had done one that's your standard 70 minutes set that fits on a CD. "Glow Nights" captures the vibe of the residency I had for about a year now in Marina Del Rey, California. The tunes are high energy and they are meant for the dance floor. You will recognize a lot of the tracks in the set but these remixes might be brand new to most of you. Let me know what you think and enjoy. Also a new Shameless Sessions coming up in the first week of October.
Shameless Sessions Mix For September is posted
09/02/2007 06:03 PM Filed in: Mixes
My Shameless Sessions show for the month of September
is available for download. It aired Sunday the 2nd
on SS Radio UK. If you want to the listen to the
online stream with the voice overs you can do so
here on SS Radio and you can
also vote and leave comments on it. Fun with
acapellas , some unreleased promos, and some nice
classics. Enjoy!
Shameless Sessions Mix For August is posted
08/05/2007 05:48 PM Filed in: Mixes
My Shameless Sessions show for the month of August is
available for download. It aired Sunday the 5th
on SS Radio UK. If you want to the listen to the
online stream with the voice overs you can do so
here on SS Radio and you can
also vote and leave comments on it. The shows
includes that great track from Vernon &
Dacosta "As Darkness Falls" that I was talking
about in the post below. Enjoy!
Artwork for the Mixes is Complete
07/07/2007 09:00 PM Filed in: Mixes
I finished putting all the artwork together for my
mixes that are online on my site. Not only does the
artwork show up in the mixes page for downloading but
also in the MP3 file itself. This means that when you
play the mix from iTunes, an iPod or an iPhone you see
the artwork in al it's glory. Pretty :)
Shameless Sessions Mix For July is posted
07/02/2007 01:10 AM Filed in: Mixes
Shameless Sessions Mix For June is posted
06/03/2007 06:56 PM Filed in: Mixes
Shameless Sessions Mix For May is posted
05/13/2007 10:20 PM Filed in: Mixes
Radio Shows For 07 Are Posted
05/11/2007 06:28 PM Filed in: Mixes
All of my Shameless Sessions radio shows are now
posted. On my old site I
used to replace the one that was online with a new
show every month. Now I will leave them all
available for the whole year. I will post the show
for May this coming Monday after it airs this
Sunday the 13th on SS Radio UK.
All Archived Mixes are up
05/10/2007 10:45 AM Filed in: Mixes
I just finish posting this morning the rest of my
legacy mixes going all the
way back to 2002. These were available on my old
site except for one that I added called "Later At
The Loft". I'm also re-mastering some of the first
mixes I posted on the web which were on Deep House Network back in
2001. They were only available in Real Audio back
then and the quality was poor. Next up are the My
Shameless Sessions for this year and the guest
mixes. Hopefully I can have this done in the next
few days.
Archived Mixes Are Coming Online
05/10/2007 12:09 AM Filed in: Mixes
I just posted 7 mixes from the archives that range from 2004
to 2005. Included in there is my most downloaded
mix, BLANC, and two live sets that I did back in
the days for Planet Soul Network. Those were my
first radio shows. I still have another 7 to
upload in the archives and also, on a seperate
page, all of my Shameless Sessions radio shows for
2007.
Main Mixes page is up with new mix
05/08/2007 12:42 PM Filed in: Mixes
Sorry for the slow update of the site but work has been
crazy busy lately as we got awarded a couple of big
jobs. I just posted the new main mixes page. You will find
in there the current mixes. I will create other
pages for the archived mixes (before 2006), guest
mixes, and Shameless Sessions radio show. Check
out the new interface and let me know what you
think or if you have any problems. If you are on a
mac (or PC for that matter) the mixes should NOT
open in a blank page with Quicktime like they used
to. No need to do a key combination when you click
on download mix. The link should automatically
download to your desktop (or where ever you
download files).
At the top of the list is the live set I recorded from the Jay-J and friends party we did in Miami WMC 2007. I will also so post soon my May set from Shameless Sessions.
At the top of the list is the live set I recorded from the Jay-J and friends party we did in Miami WMC 2007. I will also so post soon my May set from Shameless Sessions.
