Kelly D - ableton-based mix - 14.07.04

[kd]

Maybe not many know me or maybe a few have seen a few 'known' DJs play some tracks by me periodically, but this is a 2 hour mix I did for an online net-station. They had some difficulties and I'm not sure it was ever broadcast, so I made the mix available at my site...

It's done with Ableton. I didn't go nuts with it, but I used it mostly to really blend the tracks, and loop/edit portions, etc. There's a couple parts where I've literally got pieces of 3 separate tracks working together.

This mix probably isn't for everyone though - I tend to be a little closer to the fringe as a DJ than most would expect, but it's more fun for me that way..

You can grab it at my site ( http://www.kellyd.com ) or this direct link should also work:

http://69.72.189.151/kd/kelly_d_-_desertfm.com_07-14-04.mp3

Here's a tracklist, which is also transposed into the 'Comments' field of the MP3 tags:

- voodoo warriors of love - imagine (em:t)
- gabriel ananda - 2.1 (trapez 017)
- estornel/tutera - one day (sub static)
- sten - anti-establishment 1 untitled (italic)
- eloi brunelle - moch5 (thinner)
- baby ford - after shock (sender)
- jeff samuel - fcote/knob remixes b2 (trapez)
- misc - the magic number (sender)
- 2 dollar egg - tow@.com (i220)
- dj manny groove - back 2 face u (bambossa)
- monolake - static (monolake)
- adjd - believe (poker flat)
- the flaws feat mc chick-a-boo - freek [ewan pearson remix] (bitches brew)
- gabriel ananda - espresso (karmarouge)
- joris voorn - take off (sound architecture)
- hakan lidbo - televinken (poker flat)
- robag wruhme - jena makks (milner modern)
- hakan lidbo - give me your disease (poker flat)
- misc - flow control (sender)
- adam kroll & riley reinhold - static people (traum schallplatten)
- jeff bennett - markings (sensei)
- selffish - why (thinner)
- agoria - stereolove [paul kalkbrenner remix] (different)
- baier and box - duck dub [taho remix] (thinner)
- ada - ...and more (areal)
- plaid - zeal (warp)
- boy robot - when broken consider it sold (city centre offices)

[Jenks]

this mix =

[FM]

have to listen...curious with others using Ableton...

[MJ]

Re:: Kelly D - ableton-based mix - 14.07.04

Absolute shear quality this mix is, the best i`ve heard in a long time.

Give me more young sir, i want more and i want it now. More, more, more more

Please :P

[kd]

Re:: Kelly D - ableton-based mix - 14.07.04

Yeh, this is sort of one of those "love it" or "hate it" mixes, but I'm hoping the people that really don't like it will pull it out six or nine months from now and check it out again.. Dance music is so fleeting, yet there's certain aspects and attitudes that can be timeless if you're careful.. (case in point - my "snake" track that sasha played on some of his last mixes was actually composed and recorded in late 2001, shortly after 9/11, but only recently released.. my production is better since then obviously, but the composition style was actually fairly timeless..)

i really didn't push ableton to the limit in this mix.. most of what i did i could have done live, but i wanted to do some minor track editing like looping certain parts, added some filter sweeps, simple stuff like that..

i really think the future of ableton for DJing is somewhat like live re-composition of tracks - a little bit like the idea of 'closer to the edit' but done live...

incidentally, three of the tracks in this mix are from a netlabel called "thinner" that is really one of the best labels around right now, and their stuff is free at their website, http://www.thinnerism.com .. i'm not affiliated with them, i just like what they do..

[robocat]

i want to check your mix

btw ableton is great program
i have played with him and it's just great

[Jibgolly]

been waiting to hear something off ableton.
this looks like a fun set.
thanks for sharing.

[ShaneLittle]

Downloading now, excited to hear what you've done and will post thoughts. No doubt it is gonna be nice. Thank you!

[clintlove]

Re:: Kelly D - ableton-based mix - 14.07.04

Can't wait to hear this. I've enjoyed your work in the past. Thanks for sharing this mix.

[evo7]

Re:: Kelly D - ableton-based mix - 14.07.04

HI, anyone know which tracks are at around 55mins and around 75mins, cheers!

[nightfly]

Re:: Kelly D - ableton-based mix - 14.07.04

interesting.. downloading now + will comment

[ShaneLittle]

Very ecclectic! I like it, little housey, little dark, little airy all in one. Nice job bro!

[Nigel Harkness]

Re:: Kelly D - ableton-based mix - 14.07.04

Listening now and I like what I hear so far, sound very smooth so far...

[JetaTek]

Excellent mix. I really enjoyed it.

[kd]

Re:: Kelly D - ableton-based mix - 14.07.04

right at 55 minutes is a combination of 'freek' by the flaws (the ewan pearson mix) and 'espresso' from gabriel ananda.. most of the music is actually ananda, but i looped the little 'freek!' vocal and used it in the background for a while..

75 minutes is a combination of 'give me your disease' by hakan lidbo (which is on that '10 years of pokerflat' release) and 'flow control' by misc on sender.. the sorta housy part is the lidbo track and the one coming in with the rippy driving, techno-ish sound is the misc one.. the misc. track is playing alone by about 75:55, so you can probably tell if that's the one you mean at that point..

there's remixes of 'flow control' and the original release.. this version is the one from the original release..

that label sender is very good.. they do get a bit 'out there' at times, but it's one of my favorites right now.. holden used a jake fairley track from the sender label on his balance mix-cd..