the guys @ OPenhouse are stepping up this January with some of the biggest names in house music today.

one of the best house trax of all time. enjoy.

download

really the only thing going down for NYE 2009-10.

Talib Kweli's new side project. Hot as damn.
download song here

2 Hour Set
Live at MAI in Nashville, TN
download or stream here

Nashville's only weekly house music night.

Reports have surfaced that the Technics will cease prodction of the Technics 1200s and Technics 1210s turntables. As some one who who still plays vinyl and to be honest really dislikes CDJs this is sad news. RIP Technics you will be missed. -B

The DJing community and the greater dance music scene mourns the loss of a clubbing staple today. No, Steve Aoki hasn’t hung up his record bag, but rather news has emerged that iconic turntable manufacturers Technics will be stopping production on their universally loved Technics 1200s and Technics 1210s.

In a statement re-posted on dance board Global Hardstyle, the company behind the production of the Technics turntables Panasonic announced that they would cease the manufacture of Tehcnics turntables in February next year, citing an increasing decline in sales as the motivation behind the line’s demise.

The Australian arm of Panasonic issued a similar statement today, expressing their disappointment that the brand’s 35 years-and-running legacy was to be put to bed.

“It is a sad day today but due to low sales globally in analogue turntables a decision to stop production has been made on Technics Turntables,” Panasonic spokesman Ian North explained. “For Australia this means we will receive our last shipment in March.”

With the disappearance of Technics decks now imminent it’s becoming increasingly clear that the digital juggernaut is showing no signs of slowing down. We’ve already heard from trance icon Tiesto how he’s abandoned the ‘outdated’ medium in favour and gone for the ease and accessibility of digital tune libraries. Indeed, the new (and might we just say super-sexy) CDJ-2000s from Pioneer look to be making things easier than ever before with USB stick functionality, employed just last weekend by another digital convert Sasha.

Whilst we’re sure the classic Technics turntables will live on in the hearts of many club-reverent folk out there – not to mention in more than a few purist clubs – it’s still a crushing blow to lose the decks, and if nobody minds, we’ll be bringing beer o’clock around early this Friday afternoon.

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Enjoy Nashvilles only weekly house music podcast with RPD and friends every Monday @ 2PM(CT).

Openhouse is a weekly celebration of the finest in underground house music provided by Brandon Wahl and Arturo Gomez. Join them as they embark on a new tradition on the side room at MAI along with Mindub in the main room.

So it's only fitting that I ease back into this after a good two weeks away from posting with the newest NIGHTY NIGHT MIX by NA+HAN.
Simply download, layback, drift away and enjoy.

NIGHTY NIGHT MIX 2
1.Air –“Alone In Kyoto”
2.Emily Haines (Metric) “Crowd Surf Off A Cliff”
3.Charlotte Gainsbourg – “Beauty Mark”
4.Boom Bip – “First Walk”
5.Clue For Kalo – “Empty Save The Oxygen”
6.Iron & Wine – “Each Coming Night”
7.Boards of Canada – “Kaini Industries (Bibio rmx)
8.Prefuse 73 – “Untitled”
9.Speedometer – “Sky”
10.Boards of Canada – “Under The Coke Sign”
11.Boom Bip - “The Matter” feat Nina Nastasia
12.Air - “Modular Mix”
13.Air – “Dark Messages”
14.Zero 7 – “Solstalgia”
15.XX – “Nightime”
16.Junior Boys – “What It’s For”
17.Slag Boom – “Poppy Seed” (Boards of Canada rmx)
18.Boards of Canada – “Heard From Telegraph Lines”

Good friends RPD & NA+HAN will be playing with special guests including yours truly. So come out and support a good cause.

can't stop laughing at this. enjoy.

KAP10 and Personify just finished up a new mix consisting entirely of tracks and samples glorifying alcohol in all its many forms. There's something here for everyone, no matter you drink or genre of choice... Grab a drink, pop it in your deck, and rage it! enjoy.

KAP10 & Personify - Beer Me That Disc

Tracklist :

1. KAP10 & Personify - Beer Me That Disc Intro (Personify cuts)
2. Jamie Foxx ft. T-Pain vs. Arrested Development - Blame it on the People (DJ Fabian Blend)
3. Cassidy - My Drink and My Dolly (Ross Hogg Remix)
4. Eazy-E ft. Gangsta Dresta - Sippin’ on a 40 (Personify cuts)
5. The Dogg Pound ft. Snopp Dogg & Nate Dogg - Bigg Pimpin’
6. Snoop Dogg - Gin & Juice
7. Mobb Deep ft. Q-Tip - Drink Away the Pain
8. Discotech - Pop Champagne Break (KAP10 & Personify Edit, Personify cuts)
9. Rock-It! Scientists - Pop Bottles Break (KAP10 & Personify Edit)
10. Ron Brownz vs. Ludacris - Pop the Potion (KAP10 & Personify Remix)
11. Busta Rhymes - Pass the Courvoisier Remix
12. Young Black Teenagers - Tap the Bottle
13. Tha Alkaholiks - Only When I’m Drunk

St. Ides Commercial Break
14. Ice Cube ft. King Tee - Get Your Girl in the Mood Quicker
15. Geto Boys - My Malt’s Playin’ Tricks on Me
16. Snoop Dogg ft. Nate Dogg and Warren G - St. Ides in the LBC
17. Ice Cube - Wish They’d Come Out With a 12 Pack
18. Kool G. Rap ft. DJ Pooh & Sir Jinx - Get a Grip, Take a Sip

19. Nas - Made You Look (Apache Remix)
20. T-Pain - Bartender (b.cause Spoonie 83 Remix/Discotech Remix)
21. KAP10 & Personify - The Last Barman Poet (Interlude)
22. Gil Scott Heron - The Bottle
23. Sabo - Everybody Drunk (KAP10 & Personify Edit)
24. Danny Diggz - All the Girls Like Me/Girls on the Dance Floor
25. LMFAO ft. Lil Jon - Shots, Nirvana Shots NY Hitmen Mash (KAP10 & Personify Edit)
26. DJ Bling - Who Wanna Get Fucked Up (Put Ya Drinks Up/Patron Tequila Break)
27. Nick Thayer - I Can Drink Patron
28. Tittsworth ft. The Federation – Drunk as Fuck
29. Name That Artist - Too Drunk to Fuck
30. R. Kelly - Ignition Remix (Cousin Cole Bmore Remix)
31. DJ Class ft. Lil Jon - I’m The Ish Remix
32. Lil Jon and Tha East Side Boyz - Snap Yo Fingaz (KAP10 & Personify Remix)
33. Gucci Mane - Wasted
34. KAP10 & Personify - Tequila PSA (Rock-It! Scientists Break, Personify cuts)
35. T-Pain vs. UB40 - Buy You a Red Wine (Crooklyn Clan Remix)
36. Ludacris - One More Drink
37. Problems ft. Jim Jones - I’m Toe Up Remix #3
38. KAP10 & Personify - I Don’t Remember Anything Outro

Twerk
enjoy.

Press Release
ALLEN & HEATH LAUNCHES NEXT GENERATION DJ CONTROLLER FOR SERATO ITCH

After weeks of speculation and buzz around the industry, Allen & Heath and Serato Audio Research have announced the launch of the Xone:DX, a new Plug'n'Play DJ controller, the result of close collaboration between the two companies. The DX, another development in Allen & Heath's Xone:D range of controllers, is a 20-channel USB soundcard and features total integration of the brand new 4-deck Serato ITCH software.

Boasting the ability to send up to 168 individual MIDI control messages, a 20-channel 96kHz/24-bit USB 2.0 soundcard, two dual layer deck simulators, and RIAA/phono inputs for external decks, as well as the central 4 channel mixer section which directly manipulates the DSP mixing within the computer, the Xone:DX is the most versatile, high specification professional DJ controller to date. A full version of the new Serato ITCH software is supplied with the DX, providing unique 4-deck control, and a comprehensive set of digital DJ FX, as well as looping and time-stretching.

“Serato has always been an admirer of Allen & Heath’s DJ hardware and we’ve watched the development of the Xone:D series of controllers with keen interest. In our opinion, Allen & Heath design some of the best music production software controllers in the professional field,” explains Serato MD, Steve West. “Rather than a partnership to simply bundle our products, we wanted to collaborate with A&H at the drawing board stage, and design a product that would fully manipulate the new version of ITCH.”

The Xone:DX is also fully compatible with other leading DJ software brands, and has Allen & Heath’s customary pro modular design build and high quality components. It also has bi-colour LED feedback layer assignment, UV light sensitive legend, mix outputs on RCA and balanced XLR, a separate booth output, and measures 50mm deep to fit conveniently in a laptop bag.

“Ever since we launched the MIDI-enabled Xone:92 in 2003, followed by the multi-media Xone:3D in 2005, we have strived to design controllers that would fulfil a digital DJ’s wish list. The Xone:DX is the next step in this journey, with a versatile and wide-ranging set of features in a compact package,” comments Xone designer, Andy Rigby-Jones.

Friday October 9

Georgia Theatre
presents
Bassnectar

Support: DJ Vadim
Door Time: 9:00 PM
Ticket Info: $21.50 Advance
Info + Links Tickets on sale at School Kids Records in
Athens and School Kids' Charge-By-Phone
at 706.353.1666

What started back in the mid nineties as an experiment fusing youth culture and social action has turned into a multi-faceted, multi-faced creature called Bassnectar. It is the brainchild of Lorin Ashton, and it exists as an open-sourced musical project that is as diverse as it is heavy, as raw as it is meticulous, and as fierce as it is imaginary.

Bassnectar combines sound and force with weight while spanning the spectrum of sonic style, covering every genre imaginable, and smashing it all into a collision of wobbling, perverted basslines, hypnotic hide-and-seek adventures, and pretty much anything that strikes his fancy. He calls the end product “omnitempo maximalism,” which basically means no rules, no limitations, and no hesitation in fusing the familiar with the strange or the classic with the cutting edge.

Whether remixing, collaborating, writing, DJing, performing live or working on constant social networking, Bassnectar’s music is the lure and social impact is the very sincere intention. According to Ashton, “we are so blessed, and so deeply fortunate to be alive and awake right now…it’s a basic truth, but it’s very powerful. I think privilege confers responsibility, and Bassnectar is a reflection of that opportunity to give back; the motion of my cells bouncing back at the world.”

Idealistic? Maybe. But with wall-to-wall shows night after night in city after city, with endless music being concocted and pumped out of the labs by a growing legion of collaborators and bass-scientists, and with an ever-growing fan base of loyal bass-freaks on the loose, maybe idealism isn’t all that bad…

Stay tuned for gobs of new releases on Bassnectar’s own imprint “Amorphous Music” as well as heaps of free tracks, mixes and transmissions at podcast.bassnectar.net.

Loving this remix to the newly released Phonat album.
enjoy

Emerald City

Can not get this track out of my head right now. SO GOOD! enjoy.

On this the 250th anniversary of Guinness, I bring you
the Six Steps to the Perfect Pint by Guinness Brewmaster Fergal Murray. enjoy.

1. Always us a clean, dry 20 oz Imperial pint glass

2. Hold glass at 45 degree angle and never allow the spout to touch beer or glass

3. Pull faucet down and allow beer to fill glass

4. Allow the nitrogen bubbles surge, creating the beautiful creamy head

5. Once the beer has settled (distinct gap between dark liquid and head), the glass is topped up slowly to create a domed effect on the head

6. Give this creation of the perfect pint to an adoring customer

New Cudi

We lost Roc Raida on Saturday. Roc was not only a great DJ but was also a very genuine and all around nice guy. I met Roc at a show he played at that I was involved in back in 1999 in Cincinnati, Ohio. RIP Grandmaster, you will be missed...

Pioneer continues to be at the forefront of the CDJ market with the release of the CDJ-2000. The CDJ-2000 allows you to organize easily, precisely quantize and loop on the fly, plug and play, and so much more. I personally still prefer Technic 1200 turntables but this is a very sexy and tempting piece of equipment. I will be very excited to try one of these and/or the new CDJ-900 out. enjoy.
Gizmodo article

Originally recorded in 2001, Kamaal/The Abstract finally has been released to the masses. The album was to be released by Arista/BMG Records on April 23, 2002, but it was canceled because the record label deemed the album too un-commercial. Defiantly before it's time this is not your typical "Tribe" record. The musicianship and true artistry combines hip hop and jazz to a produce a very good record. enjoy.
Q-Tip

When it comes to Dubstep, it doesn't get much better then Rusko. Also, if you enjoy electro then you have to check out the live set by Sanchez & The Shockers. After just hearing a half dozen unrealeased tracks this past weekend, I can tell you they are poised for greatness. enjoy.

Everythings Nice and Thick as Thieves present "Nashville gets Dubstomped" !! An evening of dubstep, electro, and hip-hop featuring local, regional, and intercontinental talent ready to wreck your dome and dubstomp your step.
Dubstomped will feature a Live Art setup sidestage and outside. There will also be firedancers, permits permitting.

RUSKO:

After graduating from Leeds university with a degree in musical performance, Rusko discovered the world of dubstep through SUB DUB and a debut appearance from the “Digital Mystikz”, having spent the past 10 years making future dub alongside Leeds very own Iration Steppas, Rusko connected with the sound and moved down to London to further advance his musical opportunities with Sub Soldiers label mate Caspa.

Veering away from the dark, serious side of the sound Rusko bought a highly driven energy and fun approach to the dubstep massive and quickly coined his own take on the genre and turned the scene upside down. His sound appealed to many people outside of the dubstep world as his productions became more adventurous in formula, sound and energy. His huge hit “Cockney Thug” has been played by everyone from Pete Tong, Switch, Diplo and Santogold. And has been remixed by Buraka Som sistema, Diplo, Drop the Lime and the Scratch Perverts.

His sound continues to develop with different BPM’s that lean to jungle, house, hip hop or electro, either way, whatever BPM or tempo…you can immediately tell a Rusko track.

At 23 Rusko is only in 1st gear, with collaborations on the table with the likes of Switch, Diplo , Yo Majesty and Wiley the future sure is looking bright. Already setting the radio airwaves alight with his own productions and remixes of artists such as Adele, A-Trak featuring Kid Sister, Leon Jean-Marie Rusko is only going in one direction. Onwards, upwards and far beyond any producer could dream of. Rusko is like Dr Dre, Timbaland and Switch all rolled into one with a serious overdose of bass.

enjoy.
Part 2

I do quite a bit of graphic design work on the side and will post things I find useful or inspiring. Tilt-shift photography encompasses two different types of movements: rotation of the lens plane relative to the image plane, called tilt, and movement of the lens parallel to the image plane, called shift. Tilt-shift miniature style photos are pictures of real-life scenes that are manipulated to look like model photographs. Here is a video of live shots taken using this style.

Here is a website that sort of gives you the same effect. Not true tilt-shift but fun nonetheless. enjoy.
tiltshiftmaker.com

Today's Preesh is Studio 1403
Studio 1403 is a collective of musicians and artists located in East Nashville, Tennessee. Posting exclusive sets from the likes of A Tribe Called Quest's Ali Shaheed and Roy Davis Jr. to DNB infused hip hop, Studio 1403 is not locked down to any specific genre of music. Where the site really shines are the offerings from the collective itself. Proof, Blond!e, Aaron Ochoa, Na+han, and TN-Jim collaborate to fuse their own unique styles together to get the most out of each track produced at 1403.
Definatly preesh:
Kid Cudi - Super Boo - Ochoa edit
and the aforementioned:
Ali Shaheed Set

Two reasons for this post: First, the Clipse are one of my favorite groups right now. Can't wait for the new albumn to drop(or be leaked).
Second reason was the genius idea by the promoters Sneaker Pimps to incorporate the audience in the show by allowing texts and pics to be displayed on stage behind the performers. I am not sure if it had been done before but it is the first I have seen it done. Allowing the audience to become part of the show allows then to take ownership of it and creates a unique and unforgettable experience. I think this is the future of live shows as social networking continues to invade our daily lives.
Thanks to Na+han for catching this performance. enjoy.

Remember all those mix tapes for back in the day? Those exclusive mixes and classic tracks you just can't find/hear anymore? Well Eze Skankin Mixtapes is the place to relive those days. Thanks to fellow househead mindub for the link. enjoy.

Eze Skankin Mixtapes

Just finished reading about and watching a few videos on webhooks and I am pretty impressed. To explain how it works at the basic level, it allows the information to be pushed to the user instead of posting the information and waiting for the user to pull. So basically it can allow for realtime updates. Also, to quote the attached video, it "is making the web programmable not programmatic". The ability to tie all devices together with one api is pretty exciting. So if you are into this kind of thing watch the video below. enjoy.

Last year we had 8/08 and this year 9/09. House music all night long! enjoy.
Revolution 909

Just came across the full album. enjoy
New Jay

Found this site that allows anyone to attend lectures given by some of the most well respected and esteemed professors from some of the top universities today. Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education. So if you are currently taking courses or are simply looking to broaden your horizons, enjoy.

http://www.academicearth.org

Came across this guy Pogo from Western Australia. He is known for his work recording small samples/clips from a single film or scene and sequencing them to form a new piece of music. Some of the films done are some of my favorites when I was a kid so I thought I would post. enjoy

His blog: http://pogotracks.blogspot.com/
YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/Fagottron

First post is always the lamest so I won't bore you. This is where I will be posting things I think the world should know. From music, links, lolz, and more.... enjoy.