jopa.

i love danny brown, but nyc hands down. i rap too.

slapstick '96 my life with the thrill kill kult halloween '98. beat junkies (rhett, short, and babu) '99 underworld '01 shellac '01 radiohead '03

yeah, i myself dont even pay attention to those numbers on other peoples stuff. when i put up something new ill check the numbers for the first week or so, but after that i lose interest.

so great in so many ways...

yeah... very solid and slick. exemplary taste and technique.

fuck right! keep the body count coming.

yeah i skimmed through that... i was going to make a post on facebook yesterday like this: "all music after 2000 is garbage" -dj sneak with 18 notable singles since 2001. but i would have burnt any remaining bridges i have in the chicago edm scene.

yeah... i agree. ive never heard of that until now, which is why i just said "who knows?" both you and vekked made some pretty valid points... im on the fence and have decided my opinion doesnt matter any ways because i could never hack it in the battle world. heh.

i dunno... beavo was technically better than myself- tighter, cleaner, better in both scratching and juggling- but i was a little more creative and definitely more knowledgeable about music. i help him build his routine when he was battling; i helped pick out tracks and dug samples for him... we were friends and i wanted him to do better than i could. i didnt feel like it was our set... i just felt like i helped my friend with his. i guess its different if colleagues rather than friends seek you out to help work on their sets, but who knows really.

i cant get down at any party where every dj is playing the same type of music... which is why chicago is so awesome for being the birthplace of house.

hahahahah. thats fair. a lot of it is garbage... hot steamy suffocating garbage... but some of it is fun too. plus i am hispanic and enjoy watching cinnamon colored booties shake. also, the stuff ive been into isnt like that mix diss linked. here are a couple of the tracks in my mix. http://www.youtube.c...ed/HUPYDLBcAUw http://www.youtube.c...ed/rMoOx67s_WY http://www.youtube.c...ed/G_wni8lLwK4 http://www.youtube.c...ed/paGm9iHFQF4

not that house annoyance... like you know detroit electro... apparently theres still people making that ish... try out one hundred 320s for free! http://anti-social-network.bandcamp.com/

oh shit. i gotta change my locale. im back in illinois now!

i really like moombahton, but i cannot stand the word. it really bothers me that dave nada coined it moombahton because of the track "moombah" and the syncopated rhythm from reggaeton, because if the rhythm is all their jacking they should recognize that the rhythm is from dancehall. this is one of those instances that diggla mentions as bullshit ignorance, and maybe this is why the movement is already a caricature of itself. i caught nadastrom at lollapalooza and their dancefloor was empty and there were two dudes behind two decks seemingly sipping cocktails the whole time. i made a quick moombahton mix for a friend and just called it "tropical bass/cumbia sistema" my own idea of what the sound actually is i guess... hispanic sound clash music really. i didnt use any of that moombahcore/step stuff besides one track at the end which is actually a joke remix of "vamos a la playa." i already recorded an advanced version for that friend, but i was inclined to continue working on it. im taking out that joke track and finding one or two closing tracks for it then ill record a little scratch track for the intro and its done. ill post it up if anyone is into that sort of stuff.

Kill it, bro! youre a fucking slayer.

yeah, i understand the need for these labels for conversational purposes and references, but its not meant for people who are supposed to be creative to adhere to formulas with their art. like what kind of producers say "i want to make dubstep" or "i want to make breakcore?" arent they supposed to be saying, "i just want to make something. i want to make fucking music!"

where can i get this boogie tape and this ableton mix?

kevin periera was on JRE a month or so ago raving about this. i cannot play on my current OS. i need a pc just for gaming.

i do listen to music on youtube alot, mostly at work. my playlists are embarrassing though. i have one called "songs" which is stuff ive stumbled upon or people have posted on my wall that i really like. i have one just for npr tiny desk performances i like. one called "lectures" which are basically terreance mckenna, neil degrasse tyson, and TED lectures. i have one called "docs" which is all full length documentaries ive stumbled upon. my favorites... which are mostly funny stuff and dj/live performance videos. and i have one called "hiphopsnotdead" which is supposed to be all newer hiphop i enjoy. i think theres only like four videos in that one though.

i agree with what ztrip said, but i am in disagreement funksmith. i think i would have still been able to enjoy that mix. for me a huge part of djing is the love of music and searching out and finding new or obscure stuff to mix with. i guess i would still appreciate it even if its not new or obscure. if all the tracks, or most, are solid and the mixing is clean i can enjoy it. sure, its not groundbreaking or anything i couldnt do myself, but i think i respect the efforts no less. plus i think the looping intros/outros to mix with goes beyond the average dj. which means homies a cut above his immediate peers. everyone around dude is probably mixing house or dubstep, or just slamming the fader over on hiphop or top 40 ish. i think it shows some integrity to continue doing what you want and like in that kind of environment. and besides, how many young djs do you know making funk mixes?

super solid and flowed really well. transitions and interludes were perceived as an intent rather than a compromise. i dont have anything to offer in the way of criticisms because youre technically on a level far beyond myself, but i did notice towards the end of the first juggle it seemed you were losing the rhythm. could have just been because you were showing off many different patterns and phrasing there that no rhythm was achieved... or it could be that i just dont know what im talking about.

i have a japanese picture disc 10" of butthole surfers "pepper." also a original beat junkies mix tape from '98 - '99 entitled "on the road again" aka "roommates." its a 90min tdk blank cassette recorded by them with graffiti scrawled all over it. i cherish that one. i have three of the vinyl addicts mix tape series from the late 90s, dj bezos, dj stizos, and spontaneous'. theyre packaged pretty well with lots of art in the booklet and each cassette is a different color. def have a few rare records that i probably dont even know about as well.

i think people just voted for pedro fernandes to "carrie" him... and i think he put his video on vimeo so no one would see it.

been buying records since i was a teenager. punk rock diy ethos means lots of 7"s and what not. saw the beat junkies in '99 and started buying hiphop and jungle records immediately. dicked around on a buddys decks a few times that year, but in 2000 beavo got a pair stantons. he was messing around with techno records because he thought the dj on the movie blade looked really cool. true story. i came over with a beat junkies mixtape and some hiphop and scratch records and he went out and exchanged his stanton package for one technic and an sk2f the very next day. i hooked it up so his boombox went through one channel and the technic through the other and we just scratched and scratched (aka transformed and transformed). a month or two later he had saved up for the other technic. we spent the next year in his basement taking turns mixing/scratching and playing ps2 at 30min intervals. by the next summer we were already throwing huge parties in fields, aaaah the mid west, where we would go through more than ten kegs in a night. we did this every other saturday for a whole summer and fall. also playing house parties where we knew other djs had their decks setup. great times. by the end of '01 i picked up a ttm56 and a pdx2000 for myself. had a little setup in my bedroom with my pc on one channel deck on the other to work on my scratch game, by myself at night. actually used that gemeni 626 mixer with a sampler and a modified "skratch" fader in it for a few months before i got the ttm56. to this day i still only own myself that old pdx2000 and that ttm56. i have over the past twelve years or so taught my craft to a handful of good men. one of them keeps their ttx1s at my house and i had both beavos technics for couple of years, but i have since put together a frankenstein ttm56 for him to use at his own house so he took one technic back to continue scratching after a six or seven year hiatus. in short: twelve years. timeline... 2000 - 2002 learning. lots of house and field parties. 2003 - 2004 beavo, white owl, and i start throwing dj parties on a suburban bar circuit. named "rabid vinyl monks presents..." 2005 - 2008 beavo and i start playing in the progressive rock band, the hawk, djing takes to the back burner. 2008 - 2010 the hawk breaks up, RVM 2.0 starts with zerosignal added on, beavo starts post hardcore band, hot garbage. 2010 - 2012 zerosignal movs to cali. i dont want to do RVM without him. i become a recluse having just purchased traktor. i get to pretty much pick and choose gigs from RVM acclaim but as i start choosing fewer - having more than 200 hundred shitty gigs under my belt with the hawk and RVM, and having played some pretty fucking amazing shows in sold out venues with RVM 2.0 - fewer calls start coming in. now i try and scratch a little every night. battles were never my thing as much as i love watching them and as much as i love and respect all the competitors, so i still cant juggle at all really. well, i can juggle but no tricks with timing and what not. and i work on mixing some weekends i dont have shit going on. but im very picky with mixing, as im sure you can tell if youve heard RVM or any of my solo mixes, so i hardly ever finish mixes. but i do the whole art thing for me... and just me really. i still enjoy knowing other people appreciate some of my works, but its really just a release for me.

i would make a post or poke around djtechtools or the NI boards for that homie.