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DJ Empirical, "Follow the Mustache" (minimix)

This is a five minute minimix, a bit like the ones on Annie Mac's BBC show. It's short, but there's a lot packed in there. You can download from the soundcloud widget, or click here.


Tracklist:
01) Graham Philip d'Ancey - Sacred Dance
02) Sheila Chandra - Strange Minaret
03) Moon Boots - Aretha (Zimmer remix)
04) The System - You Are in My System
05) Cut Copy - Sun God (Andrew Weatherall Arp version)
06) Fan Death - Veronica's Veil
07) René & Angela - Save Your Love (for #1) (feat. Kurtis Blow) (12" version)
08) Thompson Twins - Love on Your Side (No Talkin') (12" version)
09) Liaisons Dangereuses - Los niños del parque
10) The Who - Eminence Front (The Love Supreme edit)
11) schädel - [untitled] (rpm 04)
12) Genius of Time - Houston We Have a Problem
13) Zodiac - Pacific (original mix)
14) Baron von Luxxury - That Disco Beat
15) DAF - Brothers
16) Ellie Herring - Hunter's Dreamboat (schädel remix)
17) The Black Madonna - Exodus

schadel, "Merma"

Lexington musician Ellie Herring organized a compilation of electronic music entitled Sorghum, to which I donated the above track. All proceeds from its purchase will be donated to the Mid-East Kentucky Chapter American Red Cross to aid the tornado victims of West Liberty, KY.

It features some excellent music, and has a minimum of $4 to purchase. Click through to check out the other songs.

schadel, "[untitled] (rpm 04)" (preview snippet)

I've been doing a lot of production in the last couple months, mostly under my resurrected alias schädel. Above you can hear a preview of one of the songs I produced recently, which is as yet untitled.

I have a good amount of material mostly complete, which I hope to release this year.

Adam WarRock, "Fantomex (DJ Empirical remix)"

I just did another remix for Adam WarRock, this one being the bandcamp exclusive remix of "Fantomex".



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Adam WarRock vs. DJ Empirical, "It Was Like That When We Got Here, Vol 1"

So, here we are: we've arrived at the release date of the full-length debut from Adam WarRock, entitled The War for Infinity, which also means it's the release date of my latest dj mix. As I mentioned last week, it's a mixtape available exclusively as a free bonus download with the purchase of the deluxe version of TWFI.

Here's the tracklist of the mix, including most, if not all, of the little samples here and there. I threw in a couple drum loops from some producer sample-type discs as well. And just because I'm a bit obsessive, I've added a link for most of the tunes, so you can hear them out of context.

A.R. Rahman - Ishq Bina (remix) [watch]
Longmont Potion Castle - Get Fresh Crew
Rye Rye - Bang (instrumental) [watch vocal version]
Lee Dorsey - Get Out Of My Life, Woman [hear]
Adam WarRock - No Album (a cappella) [hear original]
Dirty Projectors and Björk - Ocean [hear]
Radiohead - The National Anthem [watch]
Aoki Takamasa - RN4-09 [hear]
Adam WarRock - SCDP (Build Something) (a cappella)  [hear original]
Iamamiwhoami - B by Tara Busch [hear]
Machine Drum - If Yu Know Your Cockie Bruck Dung (instrumental)
Roni Size and Cypress Hill - Child of the Wild West (instrumental) [hear]
Adam WarRock - The Great Recession (a cappella) [hear original]
The Mighty Boosh - Killaroo [watch]
The Mighty Boosh - The Hitcher [hear]
Ali G and Shaggy - Me Julie (instrumental) [watch original]
Adam WarRock - Girl Comics (a cappella) [hear original]
El Remolón - La Bonita [hear]  
The Conet Project - Phonetic Alphabet NATO [hear]
Mr. Flash - Champions (instrumental version) [hear]
Adam WarRock - Bad Meaning Good (a cappella) [hear original]
Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip - Sick Tonight [watch]
Marteria - Amy's Weinhaus (instrumental) [hear original]
Adam WarRock - PBR (a cappella) [hear original]
Kavinksky - Night Call (Sun Butler mix) [hear]
Adam WarRock - Smashed Gordon (a cappella) [hear original]
Maker - Silver Mountains [hear]
Martin Galway - Green Beret Loader [hear]
Adam WarRock - My Tea Party (a cappella) [hear original]
Blixa Bargeld - Skorbut
Pino Donaggio - For the Last Time We'll Pray [hear]
Adam WarRock - Six Million Dollar Flow (a cappella) [hear original]
Schlachthofbronx - Ayoba (instrumental) [watch original] 
Otto Von Schirach - Beta Bodega (La Guerra) (instrumental)
Adam WarRock - Supervillainy (a cappella) [hear original]
Anti-Pop Consortium - Volcano (Four Tet instrumental) [hear original]
Neil Perry, character on Dexter, from the episode "Circle of Friends"
Jonathan Bepler - The Ballad of Gary Gilmore (feat. Patty Griffin and Steve Tucker)

Also included with the deluxe version of TWFI is the above mix cut up and arranged as separate Adam WarRock remixes/blends/mashups/whatever. It's available on its own as well, but it's free with the album purchase.

Adam WarRock, "No Album (DJ Empirical remix)"

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30 sep 2010



Forthcoming (next week, to be exact) is an album by Adam WarRock, produced by Ruckus Roboticus, entitled The War for Infinity. I mention this here because one of the bonus downloads you'll get with the deluxe version of the album is a mixtape, put together by me, using a number of Adam WarRock TrackLog a cappella tracks, mixed with a healthy dose of eclectic tunes from a wide variety of artists, from Radiohead to Otto von Schirach. As a preview of that mixtape, we've selected the above tune, "No Album (DJ Empirical remix)", pulled it out, and arranged it as a standalone track.

As a dj, I've always appreciated "unmixed" releases of large scale dj sets, so I thought standalone edits would be a cool thing for use in radio shows and by other djs. The full mix, and a set of dj-friendly edits like this one, will be available as a free bonus to the album on October 7th. Check out Adam WarRock's site for all the details on what you'll get with the full release.

Audiography for this remix:

A.R. Rahman, "Ishq Bina (remix)" [watch]
Rye Rye, "Bang (instrumental)" [watch vocal version]
Lee Dorsey, "Get Out Of My Life, Woman" [hear]
Longmont Potion Castle, "Get Fresh Crew"
Adam WarRock, "No Album (a cappella)"
Dirty Projectors & Björk, "Ocean" [hear]
Radiohead, "The National Anthem" [watch]

Koala Fires, "Observers (DJ Empirical remix)"

2010


A few months ago Kendall & Matt of Koala Fires asked me whether I'd like to remix one of their tunes for a remix album, and (of course) I accepted.

The above is the finished version of my remix, and will be is available on their bandcamp page when it's released. You can hear (and purchase!) the original version of the above tune there as well, or click the play button below:

Venetian Snares, "Gentleman (1/4 speed mix)"

download: Venetian Snares, "Gentleman (1/4 Speed mix)"
17 aug 2010


Today everyone's been passing around the 8x slowed down Justin Bieber track. It's pretty sweet, and though I've been playing around with slowed samples for quite a while, I never had an app that worked as well as PaulStretch.

After listening to the Bieber track, I thought I'd see what Venetian Snares sounds like at 1/4 speed. It's not as slow, ratio-wise, as the Bieber thing, but I wanted the result to still have a beat.

If you'd like to hear the original version of "Gentleman", here you go:

DJ Empirical, "Don't Aleja-Round (Ace of Base vs. Lady Gaga)"

download: DJ Empirical, "Don't Aleja-Round (Ace of Base vs. Lady Gaga)"
27 jun 2010


When I first heard Lady Gaga's "Alejandro", I thought the similarities to Ace of Base's classic "Don't Turn Around" were striking. I dug up the Gaga instrumental easily, but the Ace of Base a capella was tougher to find. In the end, I had to use the 2009 version, which has a slightly different vocal rhythm -- not exactly what I wanted, but I think it works.

I upped this onto youtube when I made it, but I'm just now (Nov '10) uploading it here for download.

DJ Empirical: Nous Nous Appelon Disco (promo mix)

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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"

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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

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)

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"