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This is my fresh new electro/progressive house track featuring samples from a popular internet program.. 
This Thursday, I’m back in Santa Monica – DJing at the weekly DANCEiSM vs. Gotta Dance Dirty VERSUS party at The Central: Social Aide & Pleasure Club.
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Last week was so much fun partying with Cory Enemy, thanks to everyone who came out!
We have some really talented musicians lined up for you this week with sets by LOL Boys, gLAdiator, Paul Loeb, and Check&Mate. DJ Sets by: ► LOL Boys ► gLAdiator ► Paul Loeb ► Check&Mate ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ► RSVP @ http://danceism.com/ ◄▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ► RSVP Closes at 7:30p day of the event @ The Central: Social Aide & Pleasure Club ► Thursday January 19th ► $5 Red Bull Vodkas til 11pm! |
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DJ Russ P gets Mary Katherine up to the mic to tell the world about her Monster! boyfriend wrapped into a series of super cool beats. “I’m in love with a monster!”
This is a cross-post from a guest blog that I wrote on Stoney Roads, an awesome dance music blog in Australia.
Akai is best known for their classic Music Production Center (MPC) line of drum machines, MIDI sequencers, samplers, and disk recorders. You can hear the MPC at work in many records from the past 23 years – starting with the MPC60 – including hits by Dr. Dre, Zombie Nation, Lady Gaga, Christina Aguilera, and many more. Recently, Akai has experienced a new resurgence from their line of Ableton Performance Controllers (APC) – most notably the APC40. Now that competition is heating up even more in the USB/MIDI controller arena, where companies are integrating both hardware and software (read: Native Instruments’ MASCHINE), Akai has stepped their game up with the release of the APC Renaissance. Akai is dubbing their new machine as “the instrument for music production”, which is a bold claim.
The Renaissance should look familiar to those who already use Akai products. It includes an integrated USB soundcard, lots of I/O, MIDI, and even a dedicated turntable input. The Renaissance features Akai’s legendary touch-sensitive drum pads and their modern encoders from the APC line. Where the new machine really shines however, is in its bundled software and digital connection. The software runs either standalone, or as a VST, AU, or RTAS plugin in your favorite digital audio workstation (DAW) and allows seamless integration with the controller for both studio production and live performance.
If all this new technology doesn’t impress you, then you might like the “vintage” mode that recreates the sound of the legendary MPC3000/60 crunch. Don’t worry, you don’t need to hook the Renaissance up to a computer; it works just fine as a standalone unit.
While the competition for hardware/software music production solutions is hotter than ever, Akai seems to have killed it with the new MPC Renaissance. I will be most interested to watch how musicians use the device in the coming months; whether they will use the standalone hardware by itself, use the fully integrated software, or use the software as a VST inside Ableton Live perhaps?
In this video tutorial, I show you how I made an edit of “Barbra Streisand” (Darth & Vader Remix) for my friend Rachel’s birthday party.
You can download the Ableton Live Set shown in the video here:
