Queen of the North mixed by Kenny Grant

I’m excited to share my latest dj mix titled Queen of the North. It’s a 65 minute mix of deep, soulful, groovin, and jacking house music. Huge thanks to the designers, my little lady, and the podcast subscribers. Hope you enjoy the mix, don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast for free house music.

Tracklist:

01. Fred Everything – Here I Am
02. Bah Samba – Live In The Summer
03. Knee Deep – All About Love
04. Roberto De Carlo – Electric Soul Power
05. Tortured Soul – In My Fantasy
06. Deep City Soul – Groove School
07. Jay West – Love Me Not
08. Johnick – The Return Of The Meatman
09. Kirby & Damien Bailey – I Like it
10. Easily Influenced – Rockit
11. KB Swing – Klets
12. Chris Harris – This Is It
13. John Hawley – Electric Lush
14. D-t3ch – Unseen Things
15. Soydan – Funky Daddy
16. Monoman – Gotta Move
17. The Girth – Nubian Funk
18. Kinky Movement – Two Minute Warning
19. The House Inspectors – Come Back

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Dj Mateo – Cest Tres Bon

Dj Mateo kindly passed on his latest cd titled “Cest Tres Bon”. It’s a fine selection of french and nu disco house. Hope you enjoy the mix, full tracklisting below:

01. High Fashion: Love (DJ Anonymous Edit)
02. Phoenix: Listzomania (Classixx Remix)
03. Lovebirds – Tuesday
04. David Rubato – Circuit (Aeroplane Remix)
05. Noah and the Whale – Blue Skies (The Twelves Remix)
06 Dj Flipout – Los Hermanos Autotune
07. Damn Arms – Destination (Cassian Remix)
08. Escort – A Bright New Life (Morgan Geist Re-Edit)
09. Magic Fly – 2 Planets
10. Kotey Extra Band (Feat. Chaz Jankel) – Sooner or Later (Chicken Lips Instrumental)
11. Major Lazer – Cash Flow (Classixx Glass Bottom Dub Mix)
12. Claude Von Stroke and Chrisitan Martin Vs Pitbull – Groundhog Day/Girls Gone Wild (Emynd Blend)
13. Alex Gopher – Handguns (Dada Life Remix)
14. Major Lazer – Pon Di Floor (Smoke & Mirrors Edit)
15. Diplo and Laidback Luke – Hey (Original mix)
16. Chelley – Took the Night
17. U-Tern (Feat. Kutcorners) – Disco Sizzurp
18. Turbotito – Liquid Disco
19. Empire of the Sun – Walking on a dream (Treasure Fingers Remix)
20. Ladyhawke – Paris is Burning (Cut Copy Remix)
21. Kris Menace – Metropolis (Night Version)

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Techcrunch.com gets hacked

Here is a sceenshot from techcrunch.com, it appears they have been hacked. No news on who is claiming responsibility. Here is a picture from their site:

Update – 1154pm. Techcrunch have changed their homepage to show ‘we’ll be back soon’

Update – 1156pm. Site keeps going down, timing out. Flashed back to previous hacker message for a few minutes incuding rapidshare.com links

Update – 1250am. Techcrunch updated their site with the following message:

Earlier tonight techcrunch.com was compromised by a security exploit.

We’re working to identify the exploit and will bring the site back online shortly.

Armand Van Helden Mix from 1993

Stumbled across this dj mix by armand van heldon from 1993. It’s a great flashback on where house music was and where it is today. The mix was titled Rise Volume 1, complete tracklisting below:

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Tracklisting:

00:00 Mood II Swing I Need Your Luv (Right Now) (Lem’s Church Mix)
03:23 MAW & Company feat. Xaviera Gold Gonna Get Back To You (Mood II Swing “Big Thick” Dub)
06:40 Sultans Of Swing Move It To The Left (3rd Level Banji Mix)
10:58 The S.O.U.L. S.Y.S.T.E.M. It’s Gonna Be A Lovely Day (Palladium House Anthem I)
18:43 unknown unknown
22:21 Jazzy Lonely (Underground Goodie Mix)
24:50 Cajmere feat. Dajae Brighter Days (Underground Goodie Mix)
27:04 Robin S. Show Me Love (Stonebridge Club Mix)
32:56 Nightcrawlers Push The Feeling (The Dub Of Doom)
37:10 T.M.V.S. Don’t Be Shy
38:39 unknown unknown
41:22 unknown unknown
43:31 Martha Wash Carry On (Tee’s Dub)
48:23 Happyhead Digital Love Thing (Underground MK Mix)
50:23 Armand Van Helden Te-Quiero (Casa Cabesa Mix)
54:53 unknown unknown
57:44 unknown unknown
59:14 Kenny “Dope” Gonzales All I’m Askin’ (Roger S. Remix)
1:01:30 House Of Gypsies Samba
1:03:40 Frank Ski Whores In This House
1:05:07 Uncanny Alliance I Got My Education (which mix?)
1:09:58 Trey Lorenz Photograph Of Mary (MAW Dub)
1:13:06 Aly-Us Follow Me (Club Mix)
1:16:37 unknown unknown
1:18:22 Karen Pollack You Can’t Touch Me (Murk Remix)
1:21:51 Liberty City Some Lovin’
1:24:21 Coral Way Chiefs Release Myself

source – redlightmusic,com

New DJ Serato Rane 68 Mixer Announced

Earlier today Rane proudly announced its latest dj mixer for the scratch live serato hardware called the Rane 68 (or Rane sixity-eight). The four channel mixer will give djs the ability to que and mix 4 tracks at the same time with 2 computers!!! We were lucky enough to get our hands on some pictures of the new beauty, check them out below:

Here are some quick details on the new mixer:

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Support for two DJs at once.

DJ handover is easy with two USB ports. Easily switch between two laptops without interrupting the music. e.g., DJ A can be playing out channels 1 and 2, and then hand off those channels one at a time to DJ B.

Two DJs can perform in parallel on the same mixer: Two DJs connect, configure which channels they output in software, and then DJ side by-side off the same mixer. eg., DJ A can play out channels 1 and 2, and DJ B can play out channels 3 and 4 at the same time.

Two computers, two USB ports, four decks and a range of effects.

Introducing the first professional DJ mixer with two USB 2.0 High Speed ports with support for real-time connection of two computers. Two DJs can work in parallel and/or seamlessly transition from one DJ to another.

* • Two independent USB 2.0 High Speed ports, each supporting twenty-two, 32-bit floating-point audio channels at 48 kHz.
* • Real-time support for two computers.
* • Support for 2, 3 or 4 Virtual Decks on one or two computers.
* • Direct control of over 30 Scratch Live Library, Cue and Loop functions.
* • Unique FlexFx bus:
o Process a sub-mix of up to six audio channels.
o Six internal effects with seamless on-beat switching between effects.
o External analog insert support for legacy hardware effects.
o USB insert support for computer-based effects.
* • Four full-featured input channels:
o Four stereo Phono/CD inputs of Line, Phono or S/PDIF.
o Four stereo auxiliary inputs.
o Four stereo USB playback options.
* • Two mic inputs: one with phantom power and one with line-level.
* • 3-band full-cut EQ, plus new High-pass / Low-pass Filter.
* • Flexible USB recording options, record from any PGM or output.
* • Internal universal switching power supply (100-230 VAC)
* • Unit size: 14.3″H x 12″W x 4″D (36.4 cm x 30.5 cm x 10.2 cm)
* • Weight: 11.3 lb (5.2 kg)
* • Shipping Size: 7.75″H x 12.75″W x 19.25″D (19.7 cm x 32.5 cm x 49 cm)
* • Weight: 12 lb (5.5 kg)

Upgrading hard drive on my Macbook Pro 13′

After selling my Mac G5 Tower, I walked down to the Vancouver Apple store and purchased a 13′ Mac Book Pro. I was really torn between the 13′ and 15′, but finally decided on the 13′ as I wanted something small and portable. I need the laptop for day to day use including djing, coding, and making beats. The 13′ comes with 2 gigs of ram and a 5200 rpm 128 gig hard drive, something I wanted to upgrade right away. I used my student discount and apple upgraded my ram from 2 to 4 gigs (in 10 minutes as i played with the beautiful 30′ apple cinema screens.. *drool*).

I found it really strange apple doesn’t offer a 7200 rpm drive on their 13′ models, I suppose they want everyone to upgrade to the 15′ model. Anyways, i spent a few days researching different 2.5 hard drives and finally decided on the Seagate 500 gig 7200 rpm hard drive. I wanted a 7200 rpm hd for music and video editing, and all of the seagate tests blew everything else out of the water. Big warning for those that are looking to upgrade, DO NOT BUY THE ASG MODEL, this model will cause mega problems and headaches. Tons of people had problems after upgrading, including loud noises, vibrations, and random beeps. If you plan on upgrading to this specific hard drive, make sure you buy the non anti shock drive. New egg offers the best prices, but make sure you read the small print and ensure you purchase the right model.

The actual installation process is super straight forward. Equipment wise, all you need is a small screwdriver set, and a torx 6 screwdriver. After removing the bottom cover, i realized i didn’t have the torx 6 screwdriver. I ended up borrowing the screwdriver from London Drugs (thanks buddy that works in computer department on Robson St). Check out the screenshots below, it should only take 5 minutes to swap out the hard drives.

After swapping out the drive, I booted up, formatted the drive, and installed snow leopard. After 45 minutes, the installation was complete and i was back up and running. It’s been a few weeks and still no beeps, pops, or errors with the new hard drive. There were a few errors, but they were quickly resolved with a pram reset and repairing disk permissions via disk utilities. The process is is very straight forward, save time and money, save some money and upgrade the drive yourself!

edit: now installing firmware update to allow SATA 3Gbps transfer - http://support.apple.com/downloads/MacBook_Pro_EFI_Firmware_Update_1_7_

Some useful mac utilities:
http://osx.iusethis.com/ – Nice little site for finding useful apps
NTFS-3G – read/write ntfs partitions. Should come in handy for bootcamp users. Works great and is stupid easy to install.
AppFresh – Keep your apps up to date
AppCleaner - Completely remove an app including all its settings and other files like those kept in Library
Adium – IM
Grow – notifications
Perian – QT plugin for other media types. This didn’t work that well for me. I still prefer VLC.
iStat Pro – system monitoring widget.
iStat Menus – I really like the network monitor and the hard drive activity. You can set it up to display the little color coded activity arrows to mimic the funciton of a hdd activity led. I really miss my hard drive light and this works just fine. It also displays temps which you can compare to this list of temps.
Onyx – multifunction utility. maintenance
TinkerTool – easy access to hidden settings and preferences.
The Unarchiver – It’s no winrar but then again what is.
ClamXav – antivirus
coconutBattery – all sorts of neat battery info
Handbrake – great transcoding utiltiy though I mostly use it on my quad core PC.
JollysFastVNC – It’s much faster than the built in vnc client and has an interesting zoom mode.
iStumbler – find wifi hot spots.

Nu Disco Mix > Dj Deadbird – Yacht Funk

Looking for a great nu disco mix? My good buddy John (aka DJ Deadbird) has compiled a grooving selection of indie, french, and nu disco. Without slagging him too much about his race or the fact that he used to play nu skool breaks, I’ll let him introduce his own mix.

“Yacht funk is a term some are using now to describe a sub-genre in nu-disco/dreamwave that, basically, sounds like music you’d be listening to on a yacht on a sunny day. This is my tribute to summer, friends, and sailing on the ocean. I hope you enjoy the smooth basslines and fun lyrics!”

Also, it’s true. Deadbird kills birds, keep your daughters locked up – throw your hands up!

Tracklisting:

1. yacht – psychic city
2. the virgins – rich girls
3. pelifics – forever
4. supermal – bigger than big
5. miami horror – make you mine
6. luther vandross – never too much
7. bag raiders – shooting stars
8. the bpa – hes frank feat. iggy pop
9. classixx – ill get you
10. antoine r – brunch
11. cut copy – far away
12. frankmusic – confusion girl
13. boss in drama – favorite song
14. pnau ft. ladyhawke – embrace
15. miami horror – dont be on with her
16. empire of the sun – walking on a dream
17. delorean – deli

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Top 10 House Music Chart – October 2009

As Halloween approaches, its starting to get dark and gloomy. With that in mind, I’ve been playing a lot of warmer funky beats. Sonny Fodera has been on fire, and could literally fill my entire chart.. but instead, i’ll post my top 10 house music chart for October (minus Sonny):

• Organized Crime – Crime Hurts
  just ridiculous. Taking me back to 2000.. sweet spot

• Ricky L – Born Again
  purple music delivers pure fire

• Aly-Us – Follow Me (Fred Everything & Oliver Desmet)
  the old classic gets a revisit, simple grooving melodies. Fantastic.

• Michel Cleis – La Mazcla (copyright remix)
  great building track, watch the heads turn and churn any dancefloor

• Keri chandler – Heal My Heart (Fanatix DJ Tool)
  It was tough to choose a favourite mix, but this simple groover sets the stage for bigger and better. Very effective

• Oliver Desmet – Just like heaven
  great production, great remix. Hard to pick a favorite remix

• Organized Crime – Feel Me Up
  my feelings for you have always been real

• Bart Simpson – Easy Come Easy Go
  simple and just works. Great bouncy bassline to get the bins and floor moving

• John Hawley – Electric Lush
  feel good house, sitting on top of the world. The ladies love this.

• Crazy P – The Hit
  don’t even know what to say, but one of my fav tracks of the year… by a mile

• Chris Harris – this is it
  bouncy whoop whoop music.. amazing

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Previous House Music Charts:
August- Top 10 Chart
July – Top 10 Chart
June – Top 10 Chart

Latest House Mixes:
All Bombs – Volume 1
My House My Rules – Episode 08

Selling My Apple G5 Mac Tower

It’s a sad sad day. I’m selling my baby, my fully loaded Mac G5 on ebay. I tried to list the apple tower on craigslist, but continued to see a horrendous amounts of spam and heart breaking low ballers. Any serious offers eventually lead to people no call no show or backing out at the last minute. I’m absolutely baffled that people pay 4K for a new mac pro tower with the same processor speed and can’t see how this is an amazing deal. Regardless my computer has served me well and churns out amazing performance for professional audio and video editing.

Here are a few details:

* QUAD 2.5 GHz PowerPC processors – Late 2005 Model
* FASTEST G5 Mac produced by Apple
* UPGRADED 4.5 GB RAM memory
* UPGRADED 500 GB 7200 RPM Hard Drive
* UPGRADED nVidia 7800 256 MB Video Card with dual DVI ports
* Upgraded Wireless Apple Airport Card
* Firewire 400 + 800

I’ve included a few pictures in the gallery attached.

So why bother selling it?

A few reasons really.. Mostly because my Dell Laptop died a few weeks ago, and I need a laptop for djing purposes. I made the switch from vinyl and cd to serato back in 2006, and its pretty much impossible to dj without your own dedicated laptop. Not to mention, the new laptop will come mighty handy for the road, and work meetings. Once I sell the tower, I’ll have the fun task of researching the various mac book pros, the mother board configurations, and any sound issues associated with all of them. If you have any advice or words of wisdom, i’d love to hear about them. In the mean time, check out the ebay listing and let me know if anyone’s interested!

-edit- pics to come once i get home

One Phunky Friday – The Ocean Club > Oct 23, 2009

Come down to the Ocean Club to see myself and Jesse Jay rock the dancefloor at One Phunky Friday. We’ll play a fine selection of house from deep, disco, jackin, french, and electro. It’s been a while since Jesse and I threw down, so it should be a fun times. Free cover, and some great drink specials. Ping me for more details.

Event: One Phunky Friday
Where: The Ocean Club
Date: Friday, Oct 23, 2009
Directions: Google Map

Additional Links:
One Phunky Friday – Facebook Event
Kenny Grant latest mix – All Bombs Vol 1
Jesse Jay latest mix – Summer 2009 Electro

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