San Franjasko

Tonite @ Shotwell, 36 Geary st. Downtown San Francisco: Jasko Begovic opening party for new works.



After Party @ Gallery Arcane 575 Sutter Street. Dj sets with Cool Disco MC Spank Rock & Christopher Rockswell (these guys here)

Mix Tape Edits Part 1

Some people have been asking for blends from a few of the mixes we've done in the past. I'm not big into making blends or mash-ups but ....Heeeeere we go :



From : We Make It Good Volume 2
Play:

Download:
Chaz Jankel/Le Le - 300,000,000 Synths for Brekfast

Red Line District

I am sorry Chris D, but this just had to be doubled up.... I shot this while waiting for the red line to take me to Chinatown in Chicago...

bargain of the week

Throw back Scottie B mixTAPE from 1992

Available NOW from our buddies over @ Shop Gentei......GET IT.

FaceBreaker!

Damn doggy, we did it again! You just can't stop us... or this song. Kenna's "Out of Control (XXXchange & Darko Free Donuts and Shellfish Remix)" is featured on the Electronic Arts (EA) boxing game FaceBreaker, as well as last years MLB 08: The Show. Now, if only we had the licensing rights! Download the remix for free, right here.

Live @ Home part 15

My man Morse Code was one of the first dudes I thought of when I started to reach out to some of the homies for this year's Live at Home mixes. He is also the first of any of the guys I reached out to to come through and actually make (ahem, hope yall are reading this). As you can tell from the tracklist, this looks pretty official. Thats all from my end, here are some words from the man himself...

"I couldn't remember the last time I had set out to make a mix without some type of theme or concept that I thought would appeal to people and just mixed a buncha songs I like. So while relishing that opportunity, I made a lil crate of some midtempo songs I really like at the moment and then hit record and got into it. This was a lot of fun to make, hope u enjoy it!"



DOWNLOAD:
Morse Code - Live @ Home

TRACKLIST:

wu-tang - shaolin brew (st ides ad)
raekwon - wu ooh
large professor - for my people
madlib - two for pay jay
the wailers - soul rebel
flying lotus - massage situation
kenny dope - get on down
pudgee the fat bastard feat. notorious BIG - think big
curtis vodka - madhouse yeah rmx
young jeezy - circulate
3xcrazy - highslidin"
j dilla - 44
jan hammer group - don't u know
q-tip - dance on glass
dexter wansel - the sweetest pain
joe beats - doing the nothing
sly and the family stone - you caught me smiling
kurupt - we can freak it
peedi crakk - more towels
personal touch - it ain't no big thing (re-edit)

GhostLabs Launch!

Been cleaning up some more Max patches I've been working on and made a repository for them all with an equally silly name in the form of GhostLabs. The newest release from the labs is GhostEffects. Here's what it looks like:

The idea for this came from Chris and Ron's persistent use of delay pedals plugged into their mixers. I thought to myself, I've got this whole friggin' computer in front of me can't I use this for some kind of effect? Using the patented Ghost Effects system you can now run RCA (or quarter inch) to eighth inch cables through the in and out on your mac and the aux channel on your mixer. With a good level coming in to your computer you can then send it through one of the simple effects or your favorite VST. Run the whole thing behind Serato for extra fun.

Can you do this same thing with something like Ableton? Probably. And the new Serato betas and updates will probably make this obsolete at some point as well (I hear the newest one has a sampler in it), but you can chalk these little patches up to one nerdy DJ's hobby for now.

Stuff is beta and maybe buggy but try it out if you're so inclined. And watch GhostLabs for updates and other tidbits of info. Ghost out.

stuff that never got released part 5: TOTAL RECALL GIRLZ

Sorry that last post was a total waste of space here's a good one.

The Virgins. A band who, you'd hope, would look like this:

but sadly, they look like this:

and they sound kind of like the strokes. except on dope. or like, the strokes crossed with the modern lovers? anyway I did 2 mixes for them on spec. The first had, according to an Atlantic A&R who will remain unnamed, too many changes, or different parts for a dance song:

"the Atlantic team love the direction you took it
in, but as a remix... they feel that there are to many "feelings" aka
"moods" to keep the average dance floor patron interested and remembering
the song, they would like for you to remove some of the diversity (imagine
that) and keep it a straight dance floor song"

A fair piece of criticism. So I redid it, still on spec, and turned in this version which I thought was pretty good:

TOTALRECALGIRLZ_XXXCHANGE_1.mp3




after I turned this in I was pretty sure it was a wrap but then they came back again this time saying "now it's too dancey." I was beginning to feel like a rat in a maze and more than a little sick of the song, not to mention I had a sneaking suspicion that maybe they were just fucking with me for the fun of it. so I said "ok give me half the money we agreed on up front and I'll do another mix" (not really intending to do shit except take the money). and that's where we left it.

photos courtesy of hangout.altsounds.com and jihadivirginaction.org

@2004@RON

Live @ Home part 14

It's been almost a year exactly since Live@home jumped off and its great to have Chico Sonido here for the birthday party. I asked for a Live@Home mix and he obliged. Lucky for us. This mix is the shit.


On the Mix:
" 'paisadelic' is the word i like to use to describe the sound of my first album wich is a mix between the words "paisa" (that comes from "paisano" that is the term mexicans use to call the one from their own country, in LA this word is used by cholos to refer to mexicans) , and the word 'psychedelic'. "

Mix is released here and over at 8106....they post cool videos and good MP3s...visual game, also tight.


Paisadelic - Chico Sonido LIve@Home 14

TRACKLIST IN COMMENTS

A few things about Chico Sonido : He is from Mexico and is currently living in LA. He did that awesome cumbia refix of Rye Rye's Shake it To The Ground last year. He apparently has an awesome record collection. He is set to release an album sometime real soon. Check out his tracks and mixes here.