if Alan Braxe was around in 1983, I Imagine thats what this would sound like, taking influences from some of the most obscure and bizzarre sounding Tv Shows and films they somehow manage to blend all this into some quality synth based discoey tunes, coming in at around 110 – 120bm, bit of a bitch to mix in, and a bitch to find anything remotely that fits with it. I had a nice bootleg going on with an Empire of the Sun acapela the the other week, but I decided that most people are sick of empire of the sun, so i left it in my head.

Not much info about regarding Futurecop! (the exclamation mark is part of the brand, not me being a twat) We know they are from London, we know they played in Manchester recently in a bar, for the princely sum of a fiver. They are 27 in age (i’m not sure if they are one or two, if thats a combined age or what)

Anyway get it in your ears

Download

Well around that era, I discovered a tune by Floorjam, a little funky guitar house tune. It’s well due a remix I reckon, but hey what do i know. I bought it from some shitty little record shop in Rhyl which i forget the name of, It was near the Cinema and was only good for buying the occasional tune, a mix tape, and tickets for cream.

Anyway, Floorjam Stoneage, on Deep Distraction

Download here

The ever brilliant Groove armada are back with this amazing track from their forthcoming album

Download Paper Romance Here

Anyone that knows me, or that used to listen to me DJ knows that I’ve always been a fan of not only Groove Armada, but back in the day when Andy was recording as Beat Foundation with some epic mixes on Skinny Malinky.

I picked it up from Vinyl exchange in Manchester in the late 90’s, I used to love that place, it was an Aladins cave for DJ’s, you never knew what was going to be there, what someone else might have considered shite, was a classic to you, and vice versa. Bring your shite promos in, and my god did i get sent a lot of shite promos. Take em to the desk, and buy some classics.

Originally on Cowboy records, I first heard this tune in a club in Stafford called Swoon, the resident DJ was some bird called Angel (who incidently released a massive tune a few years later called Come back to me) It might be the cheesiest record in the history of cheddar, its one of those time and a place tunes. And I was there at a good time, in a good place.

Enjoy.

http://www.discobiscuit.co.uk/audio/Only%20you%20(Chris%20and%20James%20Mix).mp3

Back in the year 2000, I’d returned to Preston from a couple of years living in the sesspit that is London. And I was demoed a pair of the orignal CDJ1000 mark 1’s, I said then this has changed everything and I have a feeling this is going to change it all again, bringing the CDJ closer to the laptop and Traktor than ever before. I can’t wait to get my mits on one.

Evolution. Changing times call for changing tools. That’s why Pioneer’s new multi-format player is the natural selection for the next generation of DJs. It’s been 15 years since the genesis of Pioneer’s first CDJ deck, which led to the world-beating CDJ-1000 series. Now it’s time for something completely new. Introducing a major leap forward for the club standard CDJ series: the CDJ-2000 – Pioneer’s new professional player for the digital age.

The CDJ-2000 fizzes with fresh DNA and can play music from multiple sources, including CD, DVD, USB storage devices and SD memory cards. It also comes with the revolutionary music database management software for DJs: rekordbox™. Based on Pioneer’s ‘Prepare & Perform’ concept, rekordbox™ works (for both Mac and PC) like the leading music database management software, but is more creative and more DJ-friendly. rekordbox™ allows DJs to prepare more before their performance and opens a door to tools such as Hot Cue Banks and Quantize, for perfectly synced loops every time. DJs can then export data to a USB or SD device to access vast libraries of music files and perform live – without the need for extra equipment or any inconvenient rewiring in the club. No need to burn CDs, simply take your USB device to the club, plug in to the CDJ and play. Through the industry-first Pro DJ Link, music files and database data on one single USB or SD device can be shared simultaneously by up to four players connected via LAN (local area network) cable. Plus, the data history of each DJ set is automatically saved and can be made into a playlist that can be loaded back into rekordbox™. Another key facet of the CDJ-2000 is its advanced HID (human interface device) and MIDI capabilities for native control of DVS (digital vinyl systems) via USB. What’s more, it achieves Pioneer’s highest sound quality to date through an improved audio output circuit, a new audiophile-pleasing Wolfson DAC processor, and a built-in 24-bit/48 kHz sound card.

Naturally, the CDJ-2000’s layout is related to its robust, reliable predecessor, the CDJ-1000MK3. However, although it fits easily into the MK3’s footprint, it ramps up performance with the largest (6.1-inch) clearest full-colour screen in the business. Below the screen is an industry-first waveform Needle Search™/Needle Drop ribbon, so that all the convenience of direct file browsing can now be found in an intuitive hardware format. Add to these features a highly evolved illuminated Jog wheel, and an overall enhanced design, complete with carry handles and Kensington lock, and you have the ideal digital innovation for total performance and seamless synchronisation.

‘DJing is increasingly about the endless creative possibilities opened up by digital Darwinism. Natural selection favours superior performance and those who can better streamline processes to channel the best of the software and hardware worlds. It really is all about the survival of the fittest. This new hybrid species of multi-player, our CDJ-2000, is thus an adaptable digital solution for the evolving needs of leading DJs,’ comments Mark Grotefeld, Head of Marketing (Pro DJ), Pioneer Europe.

CDJ-2000 KEY FEATURES
Fully compatible with a wide range of media formats
Besides regular audio CDs (and MP3 data CDs and DVDs) the CDJs can play music files that have been copied to SD memory cards and USB storage devices, such as flash memory and hard disk drives. Compatible file formats are MP3, AAC, WAV and AIFF (16/24-bit). Files on Tonium’s Pacemaker*1 can also be played when connected as a storage device via USB.

rekordbox™ database management software for DJs introduces the ‘Prepare & Perform’ concept
The idea behind ‘Prepare & Perform’ is that rekordbox™ works in harmony with DJs, allowing them to analyse, arrange, edit and export their music and data to digital media before their performance. Put simply, rekordbox™ offers an alternative to taking a laptop to the club. Not only does it function like a database for DJs (and is compatible with the leading music database management software through a bridge feature) but it also offers many more creative opportunities. DJs can prepare cue points, loops and Hot Cues in advance of their show. They can manage music files by editing tag information and artwork, while rekordbox™ analyses such track information as BPM and wave data. DJs can also edit beatgrids, which utilise the CDJ-2000’s new Quantize performance features, so, as an option, all cue points and loops can be set perfectly on-beat every time. In addition, users can create, edit and manage playlists in rekordbox™ and the CDJ-2000 creates a history playlist on your storage device of every track played for review when you next sync with rekordbox™.

Huge full-colour display screen leads the market
A bright, elevated 6.1-inch LCD enables DJs to acquire all information at a glance in the dark. And it’s not just about browsing directly though text, because artwork can also be displayed. Thanks to a combination of the GUI (graphical user interface) and a rotary selector, track browsing/selection is made super-quick and easy. Plus, for on-the-fly programming, tag lists can be created using the dedicated Tag button. Meanwhile, that all-important wave data is displayed with improved precision, so that high/low amplitude components can be grasped in the greatest detail to date.

Industry-first Needle Search™/Needle Drop for speedy searches and previews
This industry first reproduces digitally the action of needle dropping on vinyl. Needle Search™ lets you instantaneously preview music at any chosen point with pinpoint accuracy. Simply slide a finger along the Needle Drop pad while listening to the stuttered preview and checking the wave display to locate peaks and troughs. This tactile ribbon controller can also be used to conduct keyword searches.

Industry-first Pro DJ Link permits multi-play from a single source and file sharing among four players
For the very first time, DJs can connect up to four CDJ-2000s and rekordbox™ by LAN connection and instantly share music and data between the players. That’s one LAN hub, one USB storage device or SD memory card, and countless creative possibilities – multi-directionally reinforced.

Improved quality audio output circuit with Wolfson DAC processor
A high-performance Wolfson DAC processor allows audio to be reproduced with a lush analogue feel. Great news for audiophiles is the better signal-to-noise ratio, giving a massive improvement on the CDJ-1000MK3 processor, and a new hybrid operation amplifier circuitry that also minimises noise. The result is a clear, transparent sound that is faithful to the original.

Advanced connectivity with 24-bit/48 kHz sound card, HID and MIDI control via USB
The CDJ-2000 has a built-in sound card so no extra interface or unnecessary rewiring is required and connection is possible by using only one USB cable. Information can be output as MIDI to software and other MIDI devices via USB. The player can also be used as a MIDI controller. But HID control offers superior interfacing with software, beating MIDI with speed, audio/visual streaming and two-way information on displays. Consequently, the player can easily, precisely and natively control such DVS systems as Serato’s Scratch Live*2, Native Instrument’s Traktor*3 series and MixVibes’ Cross*4 – without any need for time-coded discs.

Quantized beat loop for perfectly synced cue points, loops and Hot Cues
After music files have been analysed with rekordbox™, the Quantize function automatically corrects and syncs the beat during a manual loop or real-time cue in. This even works if the in/out point is off beat. There is also a convenient auto one-touch four-beat loop onboard, if required. And thanks to a new 0.5 frame step, there’s twice the resolution for setting even more precise cue and loop points.

An extra three Hot Cue Banks, available via the rekordbox™ playlist
Aside from the three Hot Cue buttons on the CDJ-2000 player itself, there are also three Hot Cue Banks to be found in the rekordbox™ playlist. This provides users with an abundance of Hot Cues to further extend the editing opportunities.

Advanced new Jog for smooth operability and greater feeling adjustment
The all-new club conscious Jog dial is illuminated in four different places. It’s also much quieter and smoother in operation, and has a far wider tension range when compared to the CDJ-1000MK3.

Sounds Australian, something that Cut Copy or someone on modular might put out, but its not. Its American, which is surprising as everyone knows that at least 90% of American music is wank.

Well, I say that, i’m sure I like quite a lot of American music, I just can’t think of much off the top of my head, urrrm Jay-Z. I like him. Well i occasionally like him.

Well Anyway, these yanks have done this track called Cold Dust Girl, about a girl who lives in a quarry and is too cheap to flick the heating on for an hour.

Girl.mp3
Here’s a bit of bullshit nicked from their myspace.

Rockford, Illinois… not exactly a hotbed of talent, although it has produced rock legends Cheap Trick, and (allegedly) the older brother from the TV hit “Blossom.” Two boys, Saam, age 16 and Jonathan, 13, become heavily influenced by both Blossom and Cheap Trick. Naturally, they form a band.

Eight years later the two reform in Chicago under the Hey Champ moniker. Much smarter and poorer, they begin a musical journey that ended up on the intersection of Gainsbourg Avenue and Jarre Lane. Needing some additional help on the keys, Jonathan calls up his old Princeton chum Pete. The two met as outsiders at one of those tea and crumpet parties where everyone wears blazers and laughs through clenched teeth. His car packed with synthesizers and a prayer, Pete left the creature comforts of the Northeast and drove straight into the musical wilderness of the Midwest.

The trio soon becomes well known around Chicago for their pop savvy and production expertise. During the summer of 2008, they received a phone call from a Mr. Lupe Fiasco, who had seen a video for their song “Cold Dust Girl” on the Internet. Within a month Hey Champ was on a nationwide tour opening for Lupe and starting to record their first album under his FNF imprint. By early 2009, “Cold Dust Girl” had been spun in clubs on every continent (conceding Antarctica) and the band had gained stature in the rock and dance communities by sharing the stage with international sensations like Justice, Sebastian Tellier, The Sounds, Midnight Juggernauts, Kid Sister, Datarock, and The Bloody Beetroots just to name a few. With a schedule including some of the biggest festivals and tours of the year, international acclaim for their hit “Cold Dust Girl,” and a soon to be released debut album, Hey Champ is poised to become…the third greatest thing to come out of Rockford.

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This is where the name of this site comes from, in case you gave a shit.

I doubt you did.

]]> http://www.discobiscuit.co.uk/2009/09/15/discobiscuit-yeah/feed/ 0 http://www.discobiscuit.co.uk/2009/09/15/aeroplane-dj-mix-september-09/ http://www.discobiscuit.co.uk/2009/09/15/aeroplane-dj-mix-september-09/#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:46:31 +0000 discuit http://www.discobiscuit.co.uk/?p=16 I have a lot of time for these aeroplane folk, maybe its my old age, but everything they do at the moment is gold, they first came to my attention with their stunning remix of “Friendly Fires” Paris, where they got that bird from Au Revoir Simone to re-sing the vocals and instantly make it one of my favourite records of the year. Anyway, sometime before the Summer, Mixmag gave away a free mix cd and It has never left the stereo. Its pretty much perfect.

And now we have another one.

September 09 Mix.

Aeroplane Mix Chart September 09 by Aeroplane

Enjoy

Bonus Tune, That remix of Paris Mentioned earlier

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