Bassline Mix

I’ll keep it short, a bit like the mix. I glide through 13 tracks in 40 minutes. I’m about to give up on classifying my mixes, since I’ve been overusing the terms ‘electronica’ and ‘ambient’ over the past 3 years. This mix contains some glitch, dubby techno, electronica, dubstep… what do they all have in common. Bassline. Enjoy the mix and please leave comments below.
Big thanks to Basil for his amazing photo – more beautiful photography can be found on his website skanvas.basdriver.nl

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Podcast by Warren Daly – Bassline Mix May 2012

Tracklisting – Aritst – Track – Label

1. Warren Daly – unnamed souls – Invisible Agent Records
2. Al-B – La Deuda Eterna – Static Disco
3. DML – fluid – Grünfeld
4. Mr. Bitterness – beat down – Bandcamp
5. Richard Savani – Loveless (Original Mix) -  BPM:120
6. toaster – i think everyone is gone – Invisible Agent Records
7. unknown – unknown (I’m working on finding out…)
8. B-Mus – ocean ground (zzzzra remix) – sublimeporte
9. Warren Daly – ocean – Invisible Agent Records
10. Sb-six – only you – IDMForums Netlabel
11. random walker – radio arctic – Deep In Dub
12. Jiggawatt – circus of mind – IDMForums Netlabel
13. paranerd – slumber lovers – one

Rebecca Salvadori has made a video for the Danseizure track ‘No Ideas but in Things’, featuring the voice of Ryan Van Winkle.

Sleep inducing podcast

Dedicated to the insomniacs, restless sleepers, and the sleep lovers of the world. This podcast was mixed at my home studio ‘on the fly’ and induced sleep to 100% of the audience. (Okay,there was only 2 people listening, but none the less it sounds impressive and the results speak for themselves). It’s a one hour chilled-out podcast featuring music from a range of talented artists signed to the best Netlabels in the World.

Recommendations & shares

A recent share on Twitter by @vuzhmusic allowed me to discover the AudioTong Netlabel and the layered and distorted guitar loops by Zubik. Darren Harper never ceases to amaze me, he captures so much light and positive energy in his production. As always I included more releases from BFW Recordings and FeedBackLoop, they truly are connoisseurs of fine music. Don’t forget about Ambienteer who has recently launched his 30th album, congratulations again James. The new Future Sequence compilation entitled Sequence3 is amazing and will most certainly feature heavily in my future mixes, another noteworthy Netlabel. Last but not least, Drew Miller a.k.a The Northern Hemisphere helps me fade out of the mix. I am looking forward to including tracks from his (5th) upcoming album. Exciting times. Enjoy the mix and be sure to leave a comment below. Thank to Alex Leonard for his fantastic photo for the cover artwork.

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Podcast by Warren Daly – Soundscape mix April 2012

Tracklisting – Aritst – Track – Label

1. Zubik – Engine 3 – AudioTong
2. Darren Harper – Wind Thru Glass – Bandcamp
3. piper ben – Speed Of Sound – BFW Recordings
4. Meteer – Codex Tempera Magnificat – BFW Recordings
5. Meteer – Phenomenographic Aluminum Scan  – BFW Recordings
6. ambienteer – early bird – Ambienteer
7. IXE-13 – You Die You Dead – Future Sequence
8. Ambienteer – ice cycles – Ambienteer
9. BpOlar – Yemanja – FeedbackLoop
10. Artificial Memory Trace – Centralon - Impulsive Habitat
11. The Northern Hemisphere – Goodnight – Invisible Agent Records

Several years ago I decided to move to the other side of the planet. Before I departed my biggest issue was what I would do with my sizable record collection. Luckily for me I have a very generous friend (Steve, thank you) who is taking care of my collection while am I away. I recorded and compressed some of my records, allowing me to bring parts of my collection with me. The lack of record shops in South East Asia and the sweltering heat hampers lugging around 20 kilos of Technics, so it was a ‘no brainer’ to go fully digital, or so I thought.

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Over the past 2 decades a whole range of new hardware and software has been readily available to the audiophile, with ever-increasing features at even more affordable prices. All these shiny boxes with flashing lights and inbuilt wizardry would make our lives easier, music production better. Some even make you a cup of coffee. A far cry from the days of 2 turntables and a simple 2 channel mixer. It is now, as I stare at an Ableton recovery prompt, last night it was a locked up Torq session, constant “driver issues”, incompatible formats and corrupted files, I fondly remember my vinyl collection.

What I miss most about my Vinyl collection

Obviously I miss listening and mixing on a trusty pair of Technics 1210s, but I miss the artwork and other details too. Inspecting the cover, the colorful and sometimes crazy artwork. Staring at the patterns of the ‘cut’, and of course reviewing the center stickers. Most importantly, scanning the inner bleed meticulously, searching for a message from the cutting engineer. The higher quality pressing have a tiny scrawl, not a blemish, an import mark in the run out, ‘NILZ – THE EXCHANGE’. After seeing this a smile of reassurance is sure to follow. The cutting engineers handle the delicate stages of vinyl production, from cutting voltages, bass responses and much more. Recently I was sad to read that Nilesh Patel passed away in late Decemeber 2011. Nilz was one of the finest cutting engineers ever, may he rest in peace.

Macs Technics ‘just work’

All this reminiscing brings me to my second favorite past-time of all, having a go at Apple users. Apple users often make idiotic statements such as ‘I use a Mac because they just work’. Sorry, but Technics owners got there before you. A record player doesn’t have to ‘boot’, there are no ‘updates’ to run, no hard-drive failures and no proprietary connectors. Technics just work, and I miss them a lot. Instead of spending hours chatting about and listening to music in the local independent record shops, I find my time consumed by endless searches of forums for bug fixes, driver updates and the nightmare of connecting equipment to firewire and USB ports in a convoluted sequence. But I guess that’s the price of progress.

You can enjoy all our Invisible Agent vinyl releases here on your new fangled digital device. Good luck