Persian Wedding Song Remix (in Farsi)

A couple of weekends ago i DJed a wedding party for Sarge and Leyla.  Leyla's mom brought me a couple of CDs with some persian wedding music to play.  I thought one of them was pretty interesting to i kinda worked it into a beat i was working on.

The lyrics are in farsi so i don't know what is being said and i'm not sure that the arrangement is in a way that the lyrics make any sense now.  i do think it sounds kinda cool though.  When i put this together i did it because i like the idea of blending different musical styles together, i sincerely hope this isn't offensive or rude towards anyone.

Some of the tricks i tried to use involved some grouping of effects in a timeline.  Using a simpler in a bassline and warping and cutting in arrangement mode.  there's a couple filter delays in there, oh and i used a corpus effect on the bass drums after i wired them through their own audio channel.. that was a trick i learned in a tutorial from dubspot.

The wedding was great by the way and both Leyla and her mom are adorable.  Thanks for the tracks.....

Big House Pimpin' - dj jesster [jay-z house mix]

here's a house music mix i put together..  the concept was to weave "big pimpin'" throughout it and make it a quick little mix.  it's about 35+ minutes.  i looked for about 6 months for the jay-z acapella but had no luck (even tried to tweet the man himself.)  i gave up and did the mix with the original.  thanks to my main man Kev Goreham for the v.o. work...

It's Time For the Percolator (dj jesster Re-Edit)

always loved the song "percolator" by cajmere.  on the flight back from LGA today i put most of this together.  i finished it off back here in atlanta.   it's short and sweet, clocking in at 2:00 min on the nose.  the breakdown with the high-pitched synth got the auto-pan xformer trick which is one of the tricks i got from abe duque in the dubspot workshop.  unfortunately i didn't get to say "thanks" to him in person after the class, i had my head in the apc when he took off.

Dubspot Ableton Class with Abe Duque

this weekend i took a class in NYC at dubspot... it was dope.  it was a two day ableton workshop specifically addressing the use of the apc-40.  our teacher was abe duque, he did a fantastic job.  i would say the information was split 20/80 between the two days.. after day one i thought "yeah it's pretty cool" but after day two i was pretty much in the "mind has been blown" category.  some of the things we covered were mapping to buttons on the apc, warping, chaining effects, effective ways to use the effects in transitions, using the crossfader on the apc, mapping to macros, beat repeat, a transformer effect using the "auto pan" and general clip triggering (including "follow actions")

it was a lot of information to digest in two short classes.. we even had homework after day one to bring a few warped tracks to the next day's class that we would work with.  i kinda went with the NYC theme on that one.  when the class was done i tried to record my mix but they were closing up shop and i had to cut it off after about 5 and a half minutes.  here's what i did before i had to stop...

some of the effects are a little over the top but we were trying to experiment and i wanted to try and touch on as many of the things we learned in the class as possible.  this is pretty much "straight to tape" with the exception of one or two minor things that i cleaned up after the fact.  far from perfect but much different from what i would've been capable of before taking this workshop.  

i don't have an apc40, we'll see if i end up getting one.  it's a pretty useful tool in the studio and it would be great for performing.. not sure i'll ever give up the two 1200s though.

NYC Mix (Dubspot Homework) - dj jesster

funny story to add: at the beginning of the class we were going around talking about what brought us to the workshop.  after i had mentioned that i got started working with an ensoniq mirage, sp 1200, eps 16+ and mpc, abe asked "what are you, 60 years old?"