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DJ Empirical: Nous Nous Appelon Disco (promo mix)

noreply@blogger.com (dj empirical) — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:24:00 +0000

download: DJ Empirical, "Nous Nous Appelons Disco"
11 mar 2010

This is a mix I made to promote my monthly disco night, Nous Nous Appelons Disco. It's an 80 minute mix of stuff I play at my night, meaning Disco (of any kind, but especially space/leftfield/nu-disco), Italo, High NRG, and even some proto-House -- basically anything even vaguely related!

The tempo of this mix ramps up from a beginning-of-the-night 109 to a frantic 133 near the end, to mimic the usual pace of the Nous Nous Appelons Disco nights.

If you dig the stuff in this mix, come out on Friday!

Here's the track list:

Z - Silver Lady Disco (Nous Nous Appelons Disco edit)
Hipnosis - Windland
Glass Candy - The Chameleon (Johan Agebjörn remix)
Gaznevada - I.C. Love Affair
Happy Mondays - WFL (Vince Clarke mix) (Autodisco's "We Love Mondays" edit)
Pink Floyd - Keep Talking (Nelue re-edit)
Västkustska Ryggdunkarsällskapet - Vansbro Boogie
Beatconductor - Funky Boogie
Colonel Abrams - Trapped
Ilya Santana - Discotized
Soft Rocks - Leave Your Earth Behind
Majeure - Teleforce (with samples from Steve Dahl and his disco demolition)
RAF - Self Control (Trustus' Deeply Existential remix)
Cecile & Venice - Rimmel
Electric Minds - Pick Me Up (Casual Touch mix)
Sisters of Transistors - The Don
Trilogy - Not Love (instrumental)
Change - Angel in My Pocket
Ottawan - D.I.S.C.O.
Munich Machine - Space Warrior (DJ Empirical edit)
Giorgio Moroder - From Here to Eternity
Space - Magic Fly
Divine - You Think You're a Man (Disco Beard's Big One edit)
Sylvester - Do Ya Wanna Funk
Zombi - Sapphire
Visage - The Damned Don't Cry
Greg Vandike - Clone
A. Hobson - Perpetuum
Sylvia Love - Instant Love
The Flirts - Danger (Macho mix)
Kano - I'm Ready
Tantra - Hills of Katmandu (Patrick Cowley mix)
Gil Mantera's Party Dream - Eyes of Blue (DJ Empirical edit)

DJ Empirical, "Party Like It's Before 1990"

noreply@blogger.com (dj empirical) — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:50:00 +0000

download: DJ Empirical, "Party Like It's Before 1990"
14 feb 2010

This is my debut release on AERO, the longform mix release sublabel of Race Car Productions. For this one, I'll let them speak for me:

DJ Empirical
Party Like It's Before 1990
released: 2010-02
catolog #: AERO 013

Stephen Boyd is a fascinating character. As DJ Empirical he employs his knack for obscure music collecting and correlating seemingly unrelated tracks just perfectly. Here we find him behind the wheels of a Delorean going back to where it all began.

To add to that, basically I felt like early techno and electro (as well as acid) was not something I was as familiar with as I should be. I figured that doing a set of those tunes would force the research I needed to close that gap a bit.

Enjoy! And visit the AERO site for more excellent mixes.

Tracklist:

Model 500 - Sound of Stereo (instrumental) [1987, Metroplex]
Hithouse - Jack to the Sound of the Underground [1988, CBS]
Rhythim Is Rhythim - It Is What It Is (Majestic mix) [1988, Transmat]
Armando - World Unknown (My Mixx Is Dunn) [1988, Warehouse]
Phresh Phantasy - Come on Acid [supposedly 1988, released 2005, Logistic]
Phuture - Acid Tracks [1987, Trax]
Virgo Four - In a Vision (808 State edit) [1987, Trax, edit 2008, Harmless]
Amnesia - Ibiza (Loco Acid remix) [1988, Indisc]
Jack Frost & The Circle Jerks - Shout (Ashley Beedle edit) [1987, FLEX, edit 2008, Harmless]
Cybotron - R-9 [1985, Fantasy]
Juan - Techno Music [1988, Ten]
A Tongue & D Groove - Feel Surreal [1988, Ten]
Adonis - No Way Back (Greg Wilson edit) [1986, Trax, edit 2008, Harmless]
Model 500 - What's the Game [1988, Metroplex]
Rational Youth - Dancing on the Berlin Wall [1982, Yul]
Channel One - Technicolor (long mix) [1986, Metroplex]
Mike Dunn - So Let It Be Houze! [1988, Westbrook]
Forgemasters - Track With No Name [1989, Warp]

DJ Empirical, Covers Mix for Bubbles in the Think Tank

noreply@blogger.com (dj empirical) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:01:00 +0000

DJ Empirical: Covers Mix for Bubbles in the Think Tank, 2010-02-08 by djempirical

I made a set of all cover songs for my friends' radio show. Their archive of the show turned out a bit wonky (at least, my part of it did), so I rendered the set separately and upped it here. It's a nice mix of rock, metal, electro, metal, and whatever else I could scrape together.

Check out their show at Bubbles in the Think Tank.

Track list (radio safe, by the way):

Quicksand, "How Soon Is Now?" [The Smiths]
KMFDM, "Mysterious Ways" [U2]
El Michels Affair, "Shimmy Shimmy Ya" [Ol' Dirty Bastard]
Coal, "Ace of Spades" [Motörhead]
Cassettes Won't Listen, "Need You Tonight" [INXS]
Institute of Technology, "King of Rock" [Run DMC]
DJ Gyngyvytus, "The National Headbustaz Anthem" [Radiohead]
Squarepusher, "Love Will Tear Us Apart" [Joy Division]
My Brightest Diamond, "Tainted Love" [Gloria Jones]
Kiko & S Deschezeaux, "Rock Your Body" [Justin Timberlake]
Tiga, "Hot in Herre (feat. Jake Shears)" [Nelly]
A. Human, "A Horse with No Name" [America]
U-Bahn Kontrollöre, "Policy of Truth (VG edit)" [Depeche Mode]
Señor Coconut and His Orchestra, "Around the World (full version)" [Daft Punk]
Bigod 20, "Like a Prayer" [Madonna]
Dsico, "Smells Like Electro" [Nirvana]
Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra, "Toxic" [Britney Spears]
Fear Factory, "Cars (feat. Gary Numan)" [Gary Numan]
Faith No More, "Let's Lynch the Landlord" [Dead Kennedys]
WhoMadeWho, "Satisfaction" [Benny Benassi]
British Whale, "This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us" [Sparks]
Slayer, "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" [Iron Butterfly]

DJ Empirical, "Ideomotor" (promo dubstep mix)

noreply@blogger.com (dj empirical) — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:00:00 +0000

download: DJ Empirical, "Ideomotor"
dec 2009

This is my half-hour mix from the December 2009 Pris promo double cd of mixes entitled Basic Pleasure Model. (Get it? :) )

We only made about 50 of the cds, so I thought I should share it here.

Tracklist:

Basement Jaxx - Raindrops (Joker & Ginz remix)
Boxcutter - Sidetrak
José James - Blackmagic (Untold remix)
Fault - Don't Dread on Me
Blasta - Your Dub Delay
MIDIval PunditZ - Atomizer (Nucleya remix)
Rusko - How Low (feat. Chali2na)
Eskmo - I Dream I'm Flying
Annie - My Love Is Better (Sunkh Knight remix)
Ultrablack - Dirty Dirty
Tom Encore - Jig
Miss Platnum - She Moved In

DJ Empirical, "Halloween Mix 2009"

noreply@blogger.com (dj empirical) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:12:00 +0000

download: DJ Empirical, "Halloween Mix 2009"
30 oct 2009

I made this (as you would expect) in preparation for Halloween 2009, as I'd never really made a Halloween themed mix before (that I could remember).

It's a very pan-genre mix, running the gamut from rap to metal, from industrial to disco, and with a Wesley Willis track to cap it all off. All of the songs have a scary theme/title, whether it be monsters, murder, or something in between.

Very NSFW (or radio) at times, for those of you who care. Let me know if you want/need an edited version for whatever reason.

Tracklist:

Whodini - The Haunted House of Rock (remix)
Gnarls Barkley - The Boogie Monster
Grand Buffet - Murderfuck
Danzig - Twist of Cain
Skinny Puppy - Testure
Goblin - Tenebrae (main title)
Addrisi Brothers - Ghost Dancer (Hey Convict! Rebirth)"
Fudgie & Fufu - Surfin' Dracula (a cappella)
Hot Ice - Theme from 'Friday the 13th Part 3'
13 & God - Ghostwork
Cesare vs. Disorder - Midday Vampire
Clark - Dead Shark Eyes
The Bulgarian feat. Spoek - Jack It Like a Zombie (Santiago & Bushido remix)
Bloc Party - Hunting for Witches (Ruckus Roboticus remix)
Metalchicks - Dead Loss Angeles
Otto von Schirach - Tea Bagging the Dead
20goto10 - Halloween
Buckethead - Mad Monster Party
Wesley Willis - Suck a Werewolf's Dick

With selections from General Mills cereal flexi-disc "The Monsters Go Disco", William S. Burroughs' "Naked Lunch", and a few horror films.

DJ Empirical, "Scary House / Dead Skin Mask" (mashup)

noreply@blogger.com (dj empirical) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:27:00 +0000

download: DJ Empirical, "Scary House / Dead Skin Mask (Kid D vs. Vitamin String Quartet)"
29 oct 2009

This is a mashup that came out of preparations for my Halloween mix. It didn't really work in the mix, but sounds just fine as a standalone track.

The electronic half is an older grime track by Kid D, "Scary House". I mixed it with the Vitamin String Quartet's cover of Slayer's "Dead Skin Mask".

Mojo Nixon, "Machines Ain't Music (DJ Empirical remix)"

noreply@blogger.com (dj empirical) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:07:00 +0000

download: Mojo Nixon, "Machines Ain't Music / I Got My Mojo Working (DJ Empirical's Non-Music remix)"
jul 2009

Michael Jackson died a couple days before our Pris Prom event, so I had planned on doing an MJ remix to play that night. Thing is, after a couple days, it just seemed superfluous.

So, instead, I did something completely unrelated, and remixed Mojo Nixon. Specifically, a song he did hating on electronic music.

Take that, Mojo Nixon!

DJ Empirical, "Here Are Some Songs: June 2009"

noreply@blogger.com (dj empirical) — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:51:00 +0000

download: DJ Empirical, "Here Are Some Songs: June 2009"
jun 2009

I made this some time during the last week of june, 2009. I was practicing, making sure the upgraded version of Serato worked fine on my machine before my gig at the Pris Prom. It wasn't particularly tight, and it required a lot of ex post facto level adjustments, but there's some good stuff in there, so i thought i'd post it.

Tracklist:

Cerrone - Supernature
DAF - Brothers
Bobby O - She Has a Way
Ottawan - You're OK
Parvati Khan (Bappi Lahiri) - Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy Aaja
M.I.A. - Jimmy
Magic Men - Pop Corn
Sparks - Tryouts for the Human Race
JPLS - Spooked
Portishead - Machine Gun (Noise Floor Crew remix)
Uusitalo - Nälkälaulu
Die Haustiere - Danneggiato (Evan Scott remix)
Sarah Goldfarb - Confusion
Ellen Allien - ITS
Pole - Winkelstreben
The Librarian - The Enemy
OI!tER - I Wanna Be Your Underwear
Random Source - Face Like a Robot (original)
Front 242 - Tragedy >For You< Skepta - Rolex Sweep (extended mix)
NWA - Something 2 Dance 2
Apotheosis - O Fortuna (Apocalypse Chorus mix)

As you can see, it starts out with italo & disco, then delves into techno for a while, and ends up in a very ridiculous place.

oh, and about halfway through, i bumped the phono/line switch and you get to hear about a second of the serato record. ha! very professional.

DJ Empirical, Les Deux Sexy

noreply@blogger.com (dj empirical) — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 03:38:00 +0000

download: DJ Empirical, Pris Mix June 2009: Les Deux Sexy
jun 2009

Earlier this year, Pris released a promo double cd, Les Deux Sexy, containing mixes from each of the six of us dj's in the group. Now that there are no longer copies of the cds, here's my mix.

Tracklist:

Mexican Institute of Sound - Cumbia
El Remolon - Modeselektor vs Calle 13
Aman Hayer - Heer Ranjha
Architecture in Helsinki - Heart It Races (Spruce Lee remix)
Jahcoozi - Shake the Doom
Shakti - Do the Thang Thang (Bhangra remix)
Wilman de Jesus - Walk Like an Egyptian (Pytter mix)
Beck - Black Tambourine (remixed by South Rakkas Crew)
Ty - So U Want More (refix feat. Roots Manuva)
JaConfetti - Deksloc
Frikstailers - Ta Duro Kuduro
Yelle - Je Veux Te Voir (Disco D remix)
Buraka Som Sistema - Sound of Kuduro (feat. M.I.A.)
Schlachthofbronx - We Nah Fraid

DJ Empirical, "Straight Line in Space-Time" (May 2009)

noreply@blogger.com (dj empirical) — Sun, 24 May 2009 02:58:00 +0000

download: DJ Empirical, "Straight Line in Space-Time"
may 2009

This is a space-themed dj mix I did in Ableton for Pris Mix 003, which was a mix tape (yes, *tape*) given out at the space-themed "2009: A Pris Odyssey" event in May 2009. Each song was space-related in some way, including the instrumentals, if only in a titular way.

Tracklist:

James Saunders - Fanfare for Space
Star Wars - The Ewoks Join the Fight
The Jonzun Crew - Space Is the Place
Mesu Kasumai - After Mars
Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is a Place on Earth (a cappella)
Neil Armstrong - One Small Step
Atmosfear - Dancing in Outer Space (Dubbed in Space version 3 by Masters at Work)
[unknown] - Roswell, NM, Radio Announcement
Fred Giannelli - Telepathic Space Grass
Dr. Richard Wolfson - Curved Spacetime
Andreas Ammer / F.M. Einheit / Ulrike Haage - Space I
Sifl & Olly - Haunted Spaceship
Björk - Earth Intruders (Lexx remix)
Coldcut - This Island Earth (feat. Mpho Skeef)
White Zombie - Starface
Byetone - Plastic Star (session)
LB - Ashes to Ashes
Boney M. - Nightflight to Venus
The Juan Maclean - By the Time I Get to Venus
John Swigert, Jr. and James Lovell - Houston, We Have a Problem
James Kochalka Superstar - Bad Astronaut

I'm particularly proud of the White Zombie / Byetone mashup. :D

Update: Evan's mix from the other side of this tape has just hit the web. Check it: Into the Galaxy, Volume II.

The Presets, "Kicking and Screaming (Sisyphus mix)"

noreply@blogger.com (dj empirical) — Fri, 08 May 2009 02:11:00 +0000

download: The Presets, "Kicking and Screaming (Sisyphus mix)"
may 2009

Here's another remix by RaceCarProductions' The Librarian and me, under our Schwarz moniker.

This one we did for a remix contest, though we never did hear back from them. We didn't really expect to, anyway. :)

DJ Empirical, Spring 2009 Dubstep Mix

noreply@blogger.com (dj empirical) — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:40:00 +0000

download: DJ Empirical, "Spring 2009 Dubstep Mix"
apr 2009

Here's a short (~22 min) mix I did this weekend. I just replaced my needles from when they were stolen in February, so I've been off the decks for a minute.

Tracklist:

Chase & Status - Against All Odds (feat. Kano) (dubstep remix)
Jazzsteppa - One
Fault - Don't Dread on Me
DZ - What You Won't Do for Love
Cult of the 13th Hour - Wickedness
DJ Hatcha - Just a Rift
Headhunter & Ekelon - Timewarp
Lady Sovereign - A Little Bit of Shhh! (dub)

Flight of the Conchords, "Too Many Dicks on the Dancefloor (Schwarz remix)"

noreply@blogger.com (dj empirical) — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:49:00 +0000

download: Flight of the Conchords, "Too Many Dicks on the Dancefloor (Schwarz remix)"
feb 2009

Schwarz is RaceCarProductions' The Librarian and I doing co-remix duties. For the hell of it, I wanted to take this (hilarious) snippet of a track from the episode (the album wasn't released yet) and turn it into a dancefloor gem, and Matthew was eager to help. A lot of the original electro feel is still there, but we stretched it out, added bass and acid, and chopped the hell out of the vocals.

DJ Empirical, "Bale Freakout Dub"

noreply@blogger.com (dj empirical) — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:30:00 +0000

download: DJ Empirical, "Bale Freakout Dub"
05 feb 2009

So in case you haven't heard it yet, Christian Bale went on a little rampage on the set of... Terminator 4 or something.

Nowadays it's cool to remix the hell out of any old audio clip that hits the web, but all the remixes I've heard have been wack as hell, so when stAllio! suggested that *someone* remix it well, i figured I'd give it a whirl.

This isn't quite done yet, but it's sharable. At this point, I'm maybe not even going to revisit it, so... yeah.

DJ Empirical, 3-3-2 Mix Test Run

noreply@blogger.com (dj empirical) — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:08:00 +0000

download: DJ Empirical, 3-3-2 Mix Test Run
28 jan 2009

I discovered a great mix by Wayne and Wax, an early entry in the "Blogariddims" podcast, called "Another Crunk Geneaology". His mix "traces out another crunk genealogy, seeking the common grooves and feedback loops between crunk and clave, reggaeton and ragtime, bhangra and bounce, to name a few". Check his lengthy explanation of the 3-3-2 beat, its influence on music, and definitely listen to his mix.

This appealed to me not only as a music nerd, but also as a dj, since I'd been mixing music with this beat for a while -- I just didn't have the proper music knowledge to identify the common element.

I spent a couple days pulling together music that uses that 3-3-2 pattern for a mix, and did a short (~18 min) test run, with a sort of random track list.

This was mostly a proof-of-concept, so there are some tracks of questionable bitrate, and lots of pitch-shift aliasing to deal with, for sure. (Then again, Ludachrist has Ableton aliasing all over his mix.)

DJ Empirical, Summer 2008 Mix

noreply@blogger.com (dj empirical) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:47:00 +0000

download: DJ Empirical, Summer 2008 Mix
jul 2008

Here's another Serato mix, an hour of mostly of dubstep, bassline house, and the like. I have at the moment lost (if I ever had it) the tracklist. I know it starts with Andrew W.K., and has Benga & Coki, Dexplicit, T2, DJ Q, TS7, some Drop the Lime... and some more stuff.

Donald Spivak, Introducing Donald Spivak

noreply@blogger.com (dj empirical) — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:07:00 +0000

download: Donald Spivak, Introducing Donald Spivak
spring 2008

Donald Spivak is the name I use when residing predominantly within the techno genre, and this set reflects an early attempt at an entirely techno dj set (though I did sneak in some mashup goodness right at the end).

Much thanks to The Librarian for quite a few of these tracks.

DJ Empirical, "Back Into It"

noreply@blogger.com (dj empirical) — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 04:20:00 +0000

download: DJ Empirical, "Back Into It"
27 feb 2008

This is another "practice" set I did before one or another of my gigs; judging from the date (02/27/08), I was preparing for the March '08 edition of Schwarz, the electronic night hosted by The Librarian and me.

As I mentioned when I uploaded this before:

i'm a little rusty, so this week is going to be devoted to un-rustifying.

i threw this together earlier just figuring out what i'm doing again :) it's mostly dubstep-ish things.

Tracklist:

77 Klash - Mad Again (feat. Johnny Osbourne)
Vex'd - Pop Pop V.I.P.
Lone Wolf - Slayed by Shadows
Aaron Spectre - Music Is the Weapon
Benga & Coki - Night (Buraka som Sistema remix)
Cloaks - Hi Tek Buzz
Drop the Lime / Mathhead - Bricks
Twista - Tattoo (a cappella)

Quahogs, "/rupture Removal"

noreply@blogger.com (dj empirical) — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 05:52:00 +0000

download: Quahogs, "/rupture Removal"
09 feb 2008

This was inspired by Language Removal Service, and also People Like Us' "The Bits in Between".

In fact, it can be considered a cover of the latter, as I used DJ /rupture, one of Vicki Bennett's WFMU colleagues, as the source material. Specifically, I used the February 6, 2008 episode (see here), which featured his interview with Dexplicit.

I didn't strictly stick to the bits in between words; I also left in self-identifiers ("Mudd Up", "DJ /rupture", etc.) and words like "wow" and "like".

DJ Empirical, "A Quickie with DJE"

noreply@blogger.com (dj empirical) — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 04:02:00 +0000

download: DJ Empirical, "A Quickie with DJE"
aug 2007

This is a short, 20-minute-ish Serato mix dating back to when I was first starting to play at Clique. There are a couple rough spots, but it's a good view of where I was musically at the time.

tracklist:

Jamelia "Something About You (Mr Oizo Mix)"
Lil Mama "Lip Gloss (Kid Fresh & Haterboy ReFix)"
Lillica Libertine "Ultra 10"
Cybotron "Clear"
Debbie Gibson "Only in My Dreams"
Federico Franchi "Electron"
Chromeo "Bonafied Lovin'"
Black Ghosts "Let's Get Physical"
Midnight Juggernauts "Road to Recovery (Miami Horror remix)"
Dandi Wind "Stop Die (remix)"
PROFF "You'll See (original)"

I was burning it on 3" cdrs for people for a while. Most people didn't know what to do with them (especially people with macs) so I stopped.

DJ Empirical, Sandpaper Set, Live @ BASE Gallery, 2007-03-30

noreply@blogger.com (dj empirical) — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 03:22:00 +0000

download: Sandpaper Set, Live @ BASE Gallery, Cincinnati, OH 2007-03-30
30 mar 2007

I was asked to play a noise show downtown Cincinnati at a place called BASE Gallery. Instead of trying the stuff I'd been doing in The Black Fives, I wanted to do something new: play a dj set with pieces of sandpaper instead of records.

I used normal turntables & needles, along with a Kaoss Pad for effects. Someone asked, in a myspace comment, something to the effect of, "Wouldn't that mess up your needles?"

In short, yes:

The blue needle on the left of the low-quality scanner image is a new needle; the two black ones were old, worn out needles i hadn't yet thrown away. As you can see, the sandpaper completely ravaged them. :)

And for the record (no pun), I used multiple grits of sandpaper over the course of the set, and some with masking tape in a plus-sign shape across the sandpaper to make a kind of rhythmic sound.

Illegal Art Mp3 Compilation Curated by DJ Empirical

noreply@blogger.com (dj empirical) — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 03:10:00 +0000

In December 2004, I curated an online mp3 compilation (click through to download) for the incredible illegal art records. I tried to make my choices quite eclectic, and to include many acts from around the world, with a special spotlight on my fellow Cincinnatians.

Here's the tracklisting:

01. Maja Ratkje: Intro (4:20)
02. DJ DQ: Where the Sidewalk Begins, Part 1 (4:59)
03. Enduser: Dizzee (3:46)
04. Burning Star Core: A Brighter Summer Day (15:57)
05. People Like Us: Stifled Love (5:17)
06. Evolution Control Committee: Bred, White and Woo (3:26)
07. Fudgie & Fufu: God Bless America, Especially Florida & Texas (Dissentcinnati Edit) (2:11)
08. Kevin Moore: Intro / It Goes Something Like This (7:55)
09. Mochipet: Yes vs. Nomeansno (4:29)
10. Secret Cheifs 3: Jabalqa/Jabarsa (Blærg Remix) (6:24)
11. Chuck Palahniuk: Choke, Part 01 (4:59)
12. Xentrix: Ghostbusters (2:40)
13. Pantera: Metal Magic (4:17)
Bonus Track: The Black Fives: Live at Recycled Rainbow 9.0 (36:17)

Theoretically, the numbered tracks should all fit on an audio cd, if you were to want to do that. The bonus track, of course, will have to go on a separate disc.

DJ Empirical, "Empirical Excerpt (live 2004-10-30)"

noreply@blogger.com (dj empirical) — Sun, 31 Oct 2004 02:18:00 +0000

download: DJ Empirical, "Empirical Excerpt (live)"
30 oct 2004

This is just under 10 minutes of my performance at the ExBe Showcase in Cleveland. I was plagued with technical difficulties for the first half of the show, as I remember, and you can tell from this snippet: the right channel of one of my decks was not coming through.

The tracklist on this is essentially two mashups: firstly a Venetian Snares track (something from Songs About My Cats) blended with a bit of The Bangles' "Eternal Flame", and then into some exercise record, which blends into something from (I believe) Original Hamster. If you recognize the track, let me know.

That show was particularly special for me, because John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask stopped into the venue to play a few songs. It was the weekend before Election Day, and they were traveling around Ohio (a swing state) to try to just get out the vote. I was (and still am!) a huge fan of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, so I was incredibly excited not only to see them, but to share a bill with them, however accidental.

I was busy playing when they were walking around talking to people, but I did manage to get one pic with John Cameron Mitchell (too bad I look silly as hell).

Click either image in this post to see more from the night.

The Black Fives, Live at Recycled Rainbow 9.0 (2004-10-16)

noreply@blogger.com (dj empirical) — Sat, 16 Oct 2004 05:38:00 +0000

download: The Black Fives, Live at Recycled Rainbow 9.0 (2004)
16 oct 2004

This live set dates from 2004, at Recycled Rainbow 9.0 in Cleveland, OH. At this point I (as Donald Spivak, or schädel) had only just joined the band, which until then had been pretty much what you hear in this set: dark electronic beats with added noise. Essentially all the beats and music in this set, other than a bit of synth stuff I played off the cuff, is Gabe (a.k.a. Harold Knockworthy)'s stuff. The noise and spoken stuff in this set is both of us.

Not long after this, these "songs", the beats & music at least, got pulled into his Seeping Kind project, leaving The Black Fives as an improv ambient noise band. Recycled Rainbow is now an outdoor experimental music-type festival. At the time we played, it was in Every Man's house. The event had a theme of "Classic Literature", so I read bits of the Marquis de Sade's Justine into a baby monitor.

DJ Empirical, Mix for Fashion Show (2004-08-28)

noreply@blogger.com (dj empirical) — Sun, 29 Aug 2004 01:40:00 +0000

download: DJ Empirical, Mix for Fashion Show, Part 1 2 3
28 aug 2004

This was a mix done in Sony Acid for a fashion show in downtown Cincinnati. I would have just done a live mix, but they wanted literally a different song for every girl/outfit (about 45 seconds each), and wanted things to gradually speed up over the course of the show. That would have been well beyond my means in those pre-Serato days, so I spent some time doing it all in advance. There were to be three catwalk segments of 15 minutes each, thus the three parts. Each time you hear a new song, imagine a new girl walking out.

Sorry, no track list on this one. The music is a good mix of stuff, from house music to 80s dance, with quite a few stops in between.