Let me begin by saying that I’m not trying to make Obama look bad here, in fact I hope with every fiber of my body that he becomes our next president, but I want to share with you an observation I made recently. I was watching the video for Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up on YouTube (I don’t…
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Mashit MP3 Shop
Update: As of April 2012 the Mashit Download Shop is no longer online. We got hacked and the crappy software we were using to run the shop was irreversibly damaged. Some of our recent releases are available through iTunes, Amazon MP3 etc. See below: DJ C; Umami (16 track album: Amazon MP3, iTunes) Deliciously varied and delectably danceable Listen/Download at Amazon MP3 -> DJ…
Since You’ve Been In This Club
DJ C; Since You’ve Been In This Club* -> [audio:https://archive.mashit.com/audio/Since_Youve_Been_In_This_Club.mp3] Wayne pointed out this article by Sasha Frere-Jones on The New Yorker site about Auto Tune. It’s the software that makes singers on many of todays pop songs sound inhuman. It’s purpose is to artificially correct the pitch of sung notes, but when tweaks are made to the settings other-worldly…
Free Club Mashup: Big Whoop!
You’re probably thinking “Great, another free club mashup. Big whoop!” But you ain’t heard Big Whoop! yet. Give this a listen: Big Whoop! (DJ C, Ripley, Kid Kameleon, & Tones); Ooh Wadda Doo Dadda (Big Whoop Mix ft. Timbaland, Magoo. & Sebast) -> [audio:https://archive.mashit.com/audio/Ooh_Wadda_Doo_Dadda.mp3] While I was out in the Bay Area last week Ripley mentioned that if she were…
More Vinyl
I started writing this as a comment on the last post about the death of the turntable, but it got too long. There are lots of great comments on that post already too. A friend just forwarded this article about the vinyl comeback from Boston.com. It’s worth a read. Apparently vinyl and turntable sales are sky rocketing compared to CD…
Turntables No More
What is the future of the DJ turntable? Most of my colleagues and I use tools like Serato Scratch Live when we DJ, allowing us to bring huge libraries of music to the party without hauling heavy crates of vinyl. We’re still using turntables ’cause they’re what we learned on, so we’re comfortable with them, but it seems to me…
DJ Ripley “To The Party Members” DJ Mix
DJ Ripley; To The Party Members -> [audio:https://archive.mashit.com/audio/To%20The%20Party%20Members.mp3] Next month DJ Ripley and Kid Kameleon will be on a tour which will bring them through Chicago to rock with us at the No Mas Tequila party. Ripley recently put together this mix of dance-floor mashers called To The Party Members which we present here in order to wet your appetite…
DJ C & Zulu “Gods & Robots” Album
Gods & Robots @ iTunes Music Store -> Gods & Robots @ AmazonMP3 -> <a href=”http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fwidgetsamazon-20%2F8014%2Fb6ccf9cd-197f-46b1-ba67-fbfb1dddf838&Operation=NoScript”>Amazon.com Widgets</a>About the Album Wicked ragga vocalist Zulu comes together with dance-floor dominator DJ C to activate a next level blend of dancehall, dubstep, club and all around party music. The album also features Montreal bounce-maestro, and Ninja Tune recording artist Ghislain Poirier’s…
Joystyxx Radio Premier, 5/19/08
Chrissy Murderbot, Micada and I began our bi-weekly Chicagoland radio series; Joystyxx Radio this week. Stay tuned for the audio archive. Every other Monday evening from 8 to 10 pm we’ll be kickin’ it old-school, new-school, and everything in between-school over the airwaves of Loyola University’s WLUW, 88.7 FM in Chicago and on the web at www.wluw.org. It’s always a…
Kid Kameleon & Ripley @ No Mas Tequila
Saturday, June 14, 2008 No Mas Tequila Presents Kid Kameleon & Ripley With: DJ C, Chrissy Murderbot, & Zebo @ SubT, 2011 North, Chicago, IL $5, 21+, 10pm-3am Free b4 11 Kid Kameleon A beat strategist and technology enthusiast who blends, chops, restructures and generally smashes rhythms from across the sonic spectrum. From breakcore and ragga-jungle to dubstep and grime,…