February 2011 Podcast – HEAT Worship House – White As Snow 2
This past weekend I was in Ottawa, ON and got to DJ at HEAT Worship House’s White As Snow 2 party. There was a huge turnout and everyone came ready to party. I had an awesome time and can’t wait to go back and do it again!
Track List
Deeflash – Let It Go (Original Mix) [MK837]
Netzik – Dependence (Craig Williams Remix) [MK837]
Ben Moore – It’s Been Awhile (Original Mix) [MK837]
Dirtydelay – Digital Reaction (Original Mix) [MK837]
Suspect 44 – Hold Me (Original Mix) [SongBird]
Decktonic – Midnight (Deeflash Retro-Electro Remix) [MK837]
Deeflash – Insomnia (Original Mix) [MK837]
Superlounge, Alex Niggeman – Play House! (Original Mix) [BlaBla]
Dima – Journey (Netzik Remix) [MK837]
Deeflash – Untitled [White Label]
Xen Ochren – Heart (Brother Brooks Remix) [MK837]
Kevin Oneel – Negative Ghostrider (Original Mix) [MK837]
Noel Sanger – Hemisphere (Retroid Broken Spell Mix) [Moist Music]
Prok & Fitch – Walk With Me feat. Nanchang Nancy (Axwell vs. Daddy’s Groove Remix) [Hed Kandi (America)]
Mark Webb – In Love With You (Original Mix) [Natura Vibe]
Burns – First Move (Fred Falke Remix) [2112 Records]
RPM Challenge – Starting To Feel The Pressure
Tuesday night I was able to get my third track started. I’ve been getting some great feedback on my first two tracks that I posted in the player, so that’s very encouraging. Some of my friends said that the first track is a different sound for me but they still like it a lot. I need to work on naming my tracks also. I currently just refer to them as track 1, 2, and 3, but I don’t think that’ll work for a final album.
I’m starting to feel the pressure to get the project further along but I am not sure how much more time I’m going to get to work on it until I get back from an event I’m DJing at in Ottawa. I have a little time tonight to work on finishing up the 3rd track and then I’m hoping to find time this weekend but I still need to prepare for DJing.
I’m hoping I get some awesome inspiration after going to Ottawa and seeing some friends that I haven’t seen in a while.
RPM Challenge – 8 Days In…
So I was able to find some time over the weekend to polish up my first two tracks, I put them in the RPM player so check them out. I’m pretty happy with how they sound but I will hopefully find some time to tweak them still. I need to finish the ending of the second track.
I’ve been finding that I am actually tracking out a lot more live and leaving them that way, rather than going over parts in Ableton and tweaking them manually and I am really liking the end results. Tonight I will be trying to come up with some new stuff. I’m hoping I can maybe get another two songs started.
RPM Challenge – The Challenge Begins
This month I am participating in the RPM challenge. It is a challenge hosted by The Wire Magazine where you create a full length album, 10 songs or 35 Minutes, in the month of February. It has to be in the mail postmarked by March 1st.
Last night was my first night getting to work on my RPM challenge album. I was able to get two tracks started. I found myself last night beginning to just use my standard processes for writing and about an hour into it I had that “moment” occur where you start to throw all that stuff out of the window and actually start putting down what you are feeling rather than what you think would just sound good. I think that’s the freeing part of this album project, I decided from the start that this is more of a creative artistic journey than a perfect album and that frees me from staying in the confines of my safe areas and expanding out of just doing the things that I know work.
I’m looking forward to getting some more recorded over the weekend and will keep everyone updated on the process.
