Scratch Experiment #16 – Layering Scratch Samples
Last night I started playing around with layering additional sounds on top of the classic “Ahhh” and “Fresh” scratch sample. The sample is repeated four times. The first one is combined with a spacey/alien sample, the second is combined with an orchestral style style stab, the third is the classic air horn and the fourth is a random vocal sample with a lot of FX.
Right click on the link below and Save As. The file type is WAV.
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IMTC 102 – Gentlemen’s Dubstep
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Anyone who knows me (Mr MixTrain aka SmiTTTen aka Fatter Agnus aka Raging Doris) will tell you how much I loathe Dubstep. As far as I am concerned, it’s just a bunch of synthesizers with chronic speech impediments catering to the needs of the great unwashed. That in mind, I set the crew a task, put together an hour’s mix that represents Dubstep for the more refined generation. No annoying stammering bass lines or Wall Streetesque drops that the kids can nod to.
What they created was 60 minutes of Dubstep music that I don’t hate. When it comes to this genre, this is without doubt, the highest level of praise imaginable. So, it’s actually very good and you should listen to it.
Howitzer (Nottingham, UK)
Phaeleh – Lounge
Sepalcure – Taking You Back
XXXY – You Always Start It
Ramadanman – Humber
Pinch – Get Up (RSD Remix)
Maxx Traxx (South Coast, UK)
Price – Contempt for all humankind (Submerse Remix),
Phaeleh – Afterglow,
Synkro – Everybody Knows,
Lung – Afterlife
Benny M (Somewhere selling time shares in deepest, darkest Australia)
Emalkay – A.G.S. – Original Mix – N/A (Facebook Freebie)
haywirehaywire – Sanguinary – Original Mix – Newgrounds.com Audio Portal
Jogo – Atra – Original Mix – N/A (Squittybubbler Freebie)
Jogo – Subconscious – Original Mix – N/A (Squittybubbler Freebie)
FutureKing (South Coast, UK)
Conquest – Forever
Fat Freddys Drop – Cays Crays (Digital Mystikz Mix)
HighFee (Boulder, Colorado, USA)
Psychedelic – Eddie K & Minus – Hench Recordings
We Are IE – Lennie De Ice (Caspa & Rusko Remix) – y4k
Jumpin’ (Original Mix) – Kromestar
Professor Ben (LA, California, USA)
OSC – Evolution
Sharmaji & DJ Boo – Skank Ethics
Vaski & Sublime – Summertime (Crunkinpublic smashup)
Hey-O-Hansen – Zulu
Sabat’ Machines – Sylvia
Vestax Pad-One Traktor FX TSI
I just started messing around with the Vestax Pad-One. The Pad-One is like the Korg Nanopad only it’s built to last. I have already been playing with it for a while now and love the velocity sensitive pads and the XY pad.
I created a TSI that uses all 4 FX banks. All 4 banks are in group mode. To engage a particular bank hold down one of the four buttons on the Pad-One and use the XY pad to change the amounts.
You can use them individually or in combinations. The main purpose of the TSI file is to act as a framework. Everything is set up so that all you have to do is go into Traktor’s Controller Manager and change the SELECT EFFECT parameter to whatever you want.
This is very basic but it’s start for someone who wants to play around with the Pad-One without getting into Traktor’s Controller Manager.
I will upload a more developed TSI as and when I do more with it.
IMTC-100 The Beach House
Having taken most of the summer off to work on solo projects, sun tans and rehab, one could be forgiven for thinking that IMTC crew should be sprinting off the start line like a terrier strapped to an Exocet. The reality is that is has taken two thirds of an ice age to get the first trains of the new season out of the gate. That is of course with the exception of a crack team of mix-ninjas who crafted this house-tech mix seemingly in a matter of minutes.
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1. Inkfish – Detroit (Bedrock)
2. Tom Hades – Come on (Bedrock)
SmiTTTen (aka Fatter Agnus)
1. The Visionaires & Ginny Koppenhol – Indian Winter (Bang-er Re-Edit)
2. Underworld – Dark & Long (Christian Smith Hypnotica Dub)
Will Darling
1. Julien Jabre – Swimming Places (Original Mix)
2. Crazy P – The Unbearable Lightness Of Being
3. Processory – Nightfall (Aeroplane Remix Version 2)
4. Nikola Gala- Close 2 U (Original Mix)
5. C&M Productions feat. Marcel – True House (Lexicon Avenue mix)
The Mystery Ninja
Innate
1. Tiger Stripes – Together (original mix)
2. City Life Feat. Cari Golden (Maya Jane Coles Remix)
Dragon versus Kitten 5 – Just good old fashioned Techno.
It’s a deep, dark grin machine. Carry on..,
- j’s Music – “No Comment” (Original Mix) Define Records
- Slam – “Night Train” (Original Mix) Drumcode
- Slam – “Area 51” (Original Mix) Drumcode
- Louie Cut – “Fat Bee” (Original Mix) Droplet Music
- Erik Bruce – “Nightstalker” (Original Mix) White Label
- Adam Beyer & Alan Fitzpatrick – “Human Reason” (Original Mix) Drumcode
- Willy Real & Davip – “PrapDynamite” (Nodin Remix) Vi Tva Records
Pre-Made Batch File for the DJTT Optimizer
If you have just read the DJTechTools article on Windows Optimization and are having trouble getting the file to work you can download the batch file from my Dropbox HERE.
- The download comes as a zip file
- Extract the file to a folder
- To run it right-click on the file and select Run As Administrator (you should only have to run as the admin the first time)
Pre-Season Trainery
After a couple of months off, the IMTC is back and gearing up for a new season that will run until December. We have a team of new players joining the crew for the fall so we thought we would give them an opportunity to to throw some tunes down ahead of our official August kick-off. As we’re in the mood for trying something new we thought we would throw out the first slot of the Pre-Season mix train and give you a taster of what’s to come.
The first slot of IMTC-099 features DJ Theory. With plenty of experience under his belt, DJ Theory has become a key part of his local dubstep scene in the Chicago land area. Paying attention to detail and filtering his music collection, he makes a point to only play whats worth hearing. Mixes come monthly, and there’s always the occasional mini mix.
WARNING: There is strong language in this mix so if the word “girder” offends you – best walk away now.
For more Theory make your way over to: Facebook.com/TheoryDubstep
The Mix Train 