This is supposedly the last Nukleuz Records set for awhile. I don’t know if I can stick to my promise or not. I don’t want to subject you guys to the same tracks week after week, but after giving the first hour a second listen this morning I was pleasantly surprised. There’s a lot of decent mixing in the first hour (I’m a perfectionist so you won’t often hear me praise my own mixing) but I was pretty disheartened after the first colossal trainwreck. It wasn’t so much a trainwreck of a mix as the golden mistake of cuing the record with the level all the way up. Argh!

I find at the radio station I’ve been mixing more with the gain knobs than usual. I like it – but you really have to watch that the level slider isn’t left up when you start to cue the next record. 

All in all it was a good listen.

The second hour is a bunch of B-Sides thrown together. The radio show has always been about having fun for me and the second hour is just me playing around with a bunch of records that I have rarely if ever played.

This week I tackle mixing on 3 decks, or as close as I can get at the radio station. The studio here has a Rane Serato SL-3 which has a built in SP-6 sampler. So I can play triples where I start with the samples track and then mix two tracks into it. Unfortunately the studio here only has a 2 channel mixer, so it’s a little tricky mixing 3 audio sources with only 2 faders. Some of the mixes are a little rough around the edges, but I’m pretty sure some of the triples worked out pretty well, so it’s just a matter of refining them. I think you’ll see more 3 deck mixes from me soon. Maybe even a CD this summer.

Caddyshack has gone full on into a hardcore drum and bass phase, which I am loving. His taste in music has traditionally been very similar to mine, so all the tracks he’s been searching out have the kind of sounds and elements that I like.

dj Smiley Mike on 3 decks
2  turntables and a sampler

Ephedrix – Evolving Moods (Chronos Remix)
Aquila – Alice (Ephidrex Remix)
Ephidrex – Fly Away (DNA Remix)
Indigo feat. DJ Anneli – My Time
Visual Contact vs. Electro Sun – Facing the Future
Quadra – Time Immemorial
Bizarre Contact – Run Away (Electro Sun Remix)
Dapanji – Attention Please
Mad Maxx & XSI – Creeping
Talamasca feat. Nomad – The Awakening (Ephedrix Remix)
Dapanji vs. Crazy Tone – Dance 2da Music
Save the Robot – Robotz
Quadra – Time Immemorial
Quadra – Cyberfunk
Peacemaker – Hallucination Power
Peacemaker – Japanese Tours
Ephedrix & Aquila – 10 Miles Out
Hunab Tech & Antigravity – Nitro (Lamat Remix)
Space Cat vs. Onyx – Time Wolers

dj Caddyshack Hardcore Drum & Bass Mix

Pendulum – Slam
State of Mind – Dune
State of Mind – Sunking
Netsky – Eyes Closed (Original Mix)
Netsky – Sweet Dreams (Bootleg Mix)
Prodigy – Voodoo People (Pendulum Remix)
State of Mind – Back to the Jungle
State of Mind – Real McCoy
Netsky – Lost in this World
Zyon Base – Tombstone Blues

We’ve really been on fire the last few weeks! Here’s another installment that starts of with the psychedelic influence of Disco Hooligans before blowing the roof off with Simon Qudos and Nick Robertson. Caddyshack brings the funk in the second half of the show with a bunch of Cut n Run old skool breaks mashups mixed in with a few other tasty treats.

dj Smiley Mike Psytrance set:

New Born – Trip of the Luna King
Disco Hooligans – No Judgement
Disco Hooligans - Easy to get Lost
Disco Hooligans - Clear Skies
Disco Hooligans - String Theory (Alternate Mix)
Disco Hooligans - String Theory
Disco Hooligans - It’s Good to be Alive
Clone – Perseids
Magic & Witchcraft - Superstructure
Christopher Lawrence & John 00 Fleming – Beyon the Limit (Deep Mix)
Nick Rowland & Toryn D – Timeline (Original Mix)
Geezk & G.R.G. - Madcake
Simon Qudos –  Lets Get Higher
Nick Robertson – Identity Crisis
Simon Qudos - Acension Protocol
Simon Qudos - Next Generation

dj Caddyshack Oldskool Breakbeat set:

Cut n Run - In for the Pill
Cut n Run – No Good
Cut n Run – Outta Space
Beach Boys – Good Vibrations (Stanton Warriors Remix)
Far Too Loud – Play it Loud (Broken Robot Mix)
Cut n Run - Done it Again
Young MC – Knowhow (Stanton Warriors Edit)
Cut n Run - King of the Bongo
Cut n Run – Horny Disco Balls
Shimon & Nixon – White Noise (Original Mix)
The Prodigy – Take me to the Hospital (Adam F & Horx Remix)
Josh Wink – Higher State (Hexadecimal Re-think)

It’s been just a month or two since we finally went all digital. Still using Technics 1200s with a vinyl interface but now connected to a Macbook running Serato — the potential seems to have blown through the roof. The colour coded waveform is perhaps the biggest advancement in DJing since the 1200s. What a difference, and what a great visual representation of the music.

dj Smiley Mike set:

Nick Robertson – Cattleships & Bruisers
Nick Rowland – Timeline (Original Mix)
Christopher Lawrence & John 00 Flemming – Beyond the Limit (Deep Mix)
Christopher Lawrence & John 00 Flemming – Beyond the Limit (Nicholas Bennison Remix)
Ben Nicky – Catapult (Fabio Stein’s Uprise Mix)
Nicholas Bennison – Spirit Chamber
Nicholas Bennison – Exocet (Bennison Rework)
Nick Robertson – Identity Crisis
Nick Sentience feat. Nick Rowland – Meridian
Nick Sentience – Electrify (Tech Mix)
Nick Sentience – Electrify (uplifting Mix)
Fabio Stein – Stroboscopic
Fabio Stein – Panic Mode (Danny Oliveira’s Future Tech Remix)
Nick Larson – Push (Fabio Stein’s Back2Basics Remix)
Organ Donors – In Power (Fabio Stein’s Under the Knife Remix)
Lab 4 – Concept of Love (SQ’s Electrik Shandy Remix)

dj Caddyshack’s tracklist is super secret.

Sorry about the delay in posting this week’s podcast. There was a glitch with the podcast server but it’s fixed so this week’s show is ready for download.

This week Caddyshack and I were going to play a Nukleuz Records tag team set but we’ve postponed that until next week (Sep 14). In it’s place this week’s set is filled with tracks off the brilliant intelligent hard trance label WellWicked as well as the complex layered trance of Noom Records.

I tried to write down the playlist as I went but be warned there could still be a few tracks out of order.

Natious – Lift (Bluestone Records)
Nuw Idol – Polly’s Pharmacy – Dr Bob X-SDose Remix (WellWicked Records)
Nuw Idol – Not Afraid (WellWicked Records)
Natious – Another World (Bluestone Records)
Nuw Idol – Kick Drum Domination (WellWicked Records)
Sonik Kross – Walking with Dreamz (WellWicked Records)
Nuw Idol & Gianni – The Gates of Time – Nuw Idol UK DK Mix (WellWicked Records)

Les Logos – 1.17 – Original Mix (Noom Records)
Instinct – Zero (Noom Records)
Nuw Idol – Out of Id (WellWicked Records)
Natious – Thrust 1
Nuw Idol – Dreamweaver (WellWicked Records)
solarize – DJ Idge (WellWicked Records)
Snack vs. Uwe Hacker – Dampframme – Street Mix (Noom Records)
Waterhouse – Is It Right (Noom Records)
Nuw Idol – The Gates of Time (WellWicked Records)