SS Radioshow #2

So, as promised, I present SS radioshow 2 of 3. Expect some heavy duty booty bass. Turn up the stereo, dim the lights and make it hot & sweaty in there!

Technical fail

Since nothing was recorded of the B2B session with cptnemo I tried to give you a home made treat of my own. I put some breakbeat, booty breaks and nu-funk in the mixing pot, added just a hint of dubstep and tried to put it all in the mixture. My decks disagreed and were mad at me for burning (and using) MP3 CD’s, created by the MS Vista burner. The decks went skipping like a monkey on speed, so it all sounded like an alien robot with loose screws. Not good. So I guess now I owe you!

Serato

To be able to toy a bit with cptnemo’s Serato set was nice. I had to try if the laptop thing would suit me. Earlier I actually went from CD’s to Vinyl because I like to feel (and smell!) the media I use. I like to grab it and being able to give it to somebody who diggs the track it contains. Being able to, right. I’m not actually giving away my hard earned vinyl.

So, I was sceptic at first. As always cptnemo is the early adapter in the group, so he has a Serato set-up at home. We went fooling around a bit. Unfortunately we haven’t recorded anything, ’cause I actually got the hang of it. Being able to see the wave-form, to be able to see how the track builds-up (and tears down!) is good added value.

Serato also contains a good BPM counter and Key analyzer. Combine it with something called the Camelot wheel and before you know it, you are rocking the shit out of the place. The only downside of it all is the interface. We had to use the mouse a lot. There are some keyboard shortcuts, but I like to do some serious knobbing when I’m playing. Still, there are a lot of interfaces out there that solve that little problem. All things considered, I felt how good BPM counters and key analyzers can up your game. I think Pio’s CDJ-2k or the Denon S3700’s are more my kind of new-school weapons of choice.

Wordpress skillz

The more I get into this Wordpress thing, the more I’m liking it. Php secret are reveiled each time I try to change something. It doesn’t count towards the music output, but it’s still nice to be able to have your music availble on a neat webpage. Unfortunately I don’t have a testenvironment set-up so the page might look funny now and then when I try something new (or stupid ).

Still a shout out to all the people that contribute to Wordpress. Makes it easy for people like me to show the world what we do. So, big up Wordpress!

Creativity Strikes

I always like the effect that creativity has when it strikes in a group. If one groupmember got some devine inspiration it’ll inspire the whole group. Take cptnemo of Mama’s Funky Flow for instance. He just went Serato on our asses and he has been posting mixes on his Soundcloud page like crrrrrrrrazy. Go check it if you like a good shot of nu-funk and breakbeat.

So the man has been sending out his mixes and that got me inspired to give the website a good fixer-upper . Besides that, we’ll be doing a B2B set which might be recorded and send out too! So keep your eyes open and stay tuned.

SS Radioshow #3

OK, going backwards in time, I present SS Radioshow 3/3!

Hip-hop revival

OK, ok, it’s not a pure allround or booty set but still, it has a Macamba groove. I did this mix for a graduation project, but still listen to it quite often. It’s only 20 minutes long, but this mix reflects part of what hiphop is all about. It contains some great international hiphop artists, but also has some tracks of some old Dutch heroes. There is also some RnB in the mix, but you’ll have to forgive that. It just sounds so awesome in the mix.

It won’t win the most comprehensive hiphop mix of all time, but I’m sure it’ll get you started!

Winter’s here!

So winter is well on its way and that means… gritty tracks! In winter things tend to get a bit more darkier, so that influenced my new radioshow @ SS Radio. It’s available for replay now: just register, replay the playlist of December 23rd and listen every wednesday to our Verse Stroom radioshow. You can find us in the Tuff section.

I will put the radioshows I mix on the website, but they have to get outdated first. If they’re off the website of SS Radio, I put them on here.

Allround Sample #2

So I just found another piece of music that will get you guys groovin’. It’s another piece of the gig I did with Zee (of Mama’s Funky Flow). The piece is a bit more dancefloor oriented and it even contains some booty and b-more nastiness.

About the future…

Well, I’m still having difficulty putting the right things in place on the website. I guess I’ll have to try some things so that will make it interesting coming back to the site .

My first goal is to put some music online first. I want to start with some old mixes to showcase both the allround and the booty side of Macamba. For some newer booty mixes you can listen to some of my ‘Verse Stroom’ radioshows @ SSRadiouk.com. The episodes of July 8th, 2009 and September 30th, 2009. Next one will be the 23rd of December.

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