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Mango Aioli Tiefrot mix

Ronny — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 23:44:19 +0000

Digging this mix by that ugly fella from Cologne a lot. Good stuff, rare “Northern lights” remix featured, solid tracklist. Guess he’d dig it if you pay him a visit at his blog. And if you wanna get a download link for his mix, you can request it from him.

Asides, Mixcloud is the thing these days?

Terminal M night in Hamburg

Ronny — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:57:51 +0000

TMBase was lots of fun, played a quite whack set from Vex’d to Fast Eddie, Donna Summer to Slam, Byetone to Radioslave and back. This friday (march, 26th), Monika Kruse will stop by Hamburgs’ Uebel & Gefaehrlich where my buddy Cranque and myself will assist. Less step, more tech i guess ;)

TMBase festival, Romania

Ronny — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:04:27 +0000

I’ve been invited to this years TMBase festival in Romania to talk about digital DJing and share my N.I. Traktor experiences. Looking forward to play alongside with Drum & Bass legend Doc Scott, no idea what he’s up to these days. Should be fun!

10 quality DJ sets from 2009

Ronny — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:48:53 +0000

2009 was the year in which i discovered the DJ set. Quite seriously – until then i was usually listening to either music albums or my own mixes cause most sets didn’t really do it for me. Since this changed a lot last year, here are my ten favourite sets from ’09 (in no particular order).

Joe Babylon – Hiatus mix

A very proper Deephouse set by the co-founder of Plug Research featuring a superb selection of tracks. Link

Surgeon – FACT mix 106

Imho, Mr. Child is THE DJ of 2009 and his set for FACT Magazine puts a stress on it. Link

LWE Podcast 36: Kirk Degiorgio

Talking about technical brilliance, Kirks Little White Earbuds podcast is my fave straight techno set from 09. Link

Move D’s Bunker Podcast

I didn’t really have Move D on the plate for quality Deephouse until i discovered this one – a keeper! Link

2562 – FACT mix 81

Another FACT mix, this one by dutchman 2562 who’s exploring the space between dubstep and Detroit techno. Link

RA.177 by Sandwell District

Functions set for Resident Advisor is probably the darkest techno mix from last year. Link

Nation Podcast #2: James T. Cotton

Mr. Cottons contribution to Traxx Jak Nation podcast simply puts Jack back to the beat. Link

Surgeon live at Fabric

I’ve got a fever. And the only prescription is more Surgeon! Link

Waxtreatment Podcast 001 by DJ Pete

Substance aka DJ Pete shows what dubstep is all about. Deep! Link

Akira Kiteshi Live at The Fat Club

I have no idea who this fella is nor how i got this set, but whoo – that’s some sick and kicking shit! Link

Some of the sets might be offline already but i’m sure you’ll be able to find any of above sets online somewhere! Those are really worth it.

Cheers,
Ronny

Ikeahacks: DJ console

Ronny — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:33:22 +0000

Building a DJ console is quite a task on its own. Depending on available space, money, the amount of vinyls and equipment to keep solutions are almost endless. Here’s one nifty, small ikeahack by Pim Hansen for the bare minimum setup and a reasonable lot of records. Via Ikeahacker.

Party: 20 years of Loveparade

Ronny — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:05:12 +0000

Dr. Motte celebrates 20 years of Loveparade and invites everyone to party like it’s 1989! The venue is Berlin’s “Haus der Kulturen der Welt” and issued for Feb, 21st – that’s next saturday. Setting off at 22h music will brought to you by Mijk van Dijk, Tanith, Hardy Hard, Rok, Jonzon and myself. Btw, entrance is free. See you there!

RP @ Allesfliesst, Rote Flora/HH 05.12.08

Ronny — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:27:11 +0000

After 13 years the Allesfliesst-crew takes some time off and celebrates its last party for the time being. I’ll be part of the huge lineup and asked to give you some straight Chitown-Ghetto-tracks (yay, looking forward to that!) :)

The complete “GeburtstagsundBabypausen-
AbschiedsRaveGala” lineup:

Hall:
Todd Bodine (Tresor/Berlin)
Addicted (Malaria/HH)
Manuel Ferrera & Phil Stephson (Narcotic Electropolis/Marburg)
RenÃ¨ Dachner (Weald/HH ) & Blessing (smallville)
Steffen M. & Patrick Schlender (Allesfliessst/HH)

Basement:
Activists69-live (HH)
KRIEK (Tresor/Berlin)
Markus Ihne (Allesfliessst/HH)
Punisher (Acidwars /Berlin)
& myself.

Join the party to make it a worthy banging end for now!

There’s a paaaarty goin on!

Ronny — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:22:21 +0000

Coming up next friday: Bypass @ Hamburg’s Fundbureau with Get Physical’s Italoboyz, Amir N., Jame and myself. Tell your friends & family, take a shower’n get shaved, drop on by and jam on it! Sounds like a proper night to me. On a sidenote, i’m moving home this week – hence the lack up updates.

4 recent topnotch, non-minimal DJ sets

Ronny — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:22:22 +0000

Nothing beats a good mix. You can discover new tracks or rediscover old ones, explore stuff you already knew from a different point of view. In best case it drills a hole into space and time and helps you to get rid of those dumbass daily tasks without noticing. Here are 4 sets you shouldn’t miss.

The Madness Of DJ Guy (download)
This set is one friggin skillshot! 54 tracks in 48 minutes featuring lots of goodies from early chicago & detroit days alongside with that snap of ghettotech – perfectly executed! My fav set at the moment.

An Electro Assault by Placid (download)
Another goodie by Acid-House.net curator Placid. Lives a lot from the very good selection of tracks. Must have for robots and electro fanatics.

Bleepradio 124 (download)
Hosted and mixed by Trevor Wilkes, here’s the latest issue of Bleepradio. Bleeps and clonks a lot – nothing for the faint-hearted.

Naks – Kosminen Disko Mix (download)
Naks from the jormas camp drives you crazy with this intergalactic trip into space.

PS: I decided to ditch the tracklists for the moment since they would have blown this post up to several pages. If you’re in need of some track ID’s have your say in the comments, i’ll help you out. Otherwise, google’s your friend, locating the tracklists for those should be fairly easy.

Timbap – a fresh approach towards digital DJing

Ronny — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:23:17 +0000

Still in development and currently available as public beta (version 0.5.1 as of now), Timbap is a very interesting and different approach to play digital tracks in clubs compared to other software. The concept gets rid of mouse & keyboard interaction, even a screen if you own a lcd projector and entirely relies on turntable interaction. I guess it’s hard to figure that out until you’ve seen it yourself…

Basic interaction with Timbap
[flash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0Lfz4ysWf0]

Direct positioning with Timbap
[flash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24AK85daawM]

Further information, photos and the public beta (currently supporting Windows and MacOS) is available at Timbap.de

Date: Techno4Amnesty 04JUL08

Ronny — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:18:18 +0000

One for the northern germany based readers: Techno4Amnesty is happening once again this year on 4th July 2008 at Hamburg’s Waagenbau. The lineup counts people like DJ Emerson, Tim Thaler, Timo Burdorf and many others as well as myself. It’s a charity evening so come and get some!

Open thread about jogwheels on midi controllers

Ronny — Tue, 13 May 2008 21:32:36 +0000

I’m a midi controller addict, i currently have 4 of them (Axiom61, BCF2000, MK225c & Drehbank) and if something new jumps around the corner it instantly raises my interest. Above combination serves all my needs for studio production and spinning as long as i don’t leave the house. Pity, the final word on the mobile frontier hasn’t been spoken yet and it’s like the industry doesn’t care much. Seems as there aren’t many DJs amongst those who layout midi controllers – or why in devils name does every recent controller have to feature a big and bold jogwheel?

I consider myself being one of the early birds using DJ software (namely Traktor due to several reasons) after spining vinyls for more than 10 years. Luckily testing Final Scratch to the bone and back i decided to either carry records OR use a laptop with Traktor but not both at the same time. It’s certainly been a matter of preference and not technical issues which led me this way. When using the software i’d like to control as many aspects of it as possible. Once you took a box of records, a bag with laptop and additional midi controllers to a venue, realizing there is simply no space for your setup, especially the midi controller(s) you may fall the same direction. Thus leaving the records home wouldn’t really improve the situation.

In contrary to the controller of my dreams the recent devices slip away further and further by technical design. The bigger the jogwheel, the merrier the marketing efforts. Dear product designers – WHY? In which way do jogwheels improve anything for digital DJ’s?

Most of the ones on midi controllers don’t have a motor on their own thus they don’t spin, that kinda spoils the entire “huh, i’m touching an actual vinyl” experience. Ah – i should use the joghweel to cue through my music like using the shelf on a record? Let’s face it: it’s not that any there would be any mp3s that containing several tracks at once. Apart from that almost every DJ application has a cue marker where it jumps to after loading a file. Even if there are people using let’s say 5 to 10 cue points in a single track skipping between them doesn’t really demand a jogwheel for operation. They’re often even too unprecise to not jump over the point one’s heading to.

What’s left? Scratching! Hands up, how many digital DJ’s actually scratch? Shooting in the dark i’d say maybe 3 out of 100. If you, the product designers would actually like to sell your controller to any of those 3 you’d most probably get the physics of a spinning turntable emulated straight in your product which usually isn’t the case. Using the jogwheel for pitchbend goes into the same category for me. No go.

I employed the touch sensitive pads of my Axiom 61 to take care of pitchbends. They do the job with such a high accuracy and precision i could never reach with my hands on an actual vinyl, not even thinking about the rather sluggish realized lot of jogwheels on midi controllers.

Dear industry – it may be fun for you to tell people to buy your fancy vinyl-look-alike DJ controllers but maybe you could get rid of that idea and develop something that simply doesn’t waste space in first place? Once your customers realize there are better ways to get in control of DJ applications they’ll throw your products back at you. Or maybe you could invest some time and get your jogwheels straight at behaving like a vinyl at a smaller scale.

Now -

if you think i missed a certain aspect which is highly important – let me know!

if you believe your jogwheel driven midi controller kicks ass the way it is, i’d love to check it out! Yes, i’m negative about the concept but due to negative experience with it. You’re invited to convince me of the opposite!

Sincerly,
Ronny