Ok, so I got my new DJ Controller to play around with, the famous Novation Twitch. Its a nice peice of hardware… not flawless (weak plastic bottom, eq knobs too tight, no grip on the knobs) but good.

While playing around with Seratos Itch which is new to me I found out that I dislike some of the Effects – the Delays and Echo is very quiet, so you can use it only as a fadeout effekt, the Loop Section has no 3/4  for example … for that you gotta use Beatslicer Effect and this one just doesnt feel as in Time as Traktors Beatsclicer or Abletons Beat repeat.

But the most annoying thing was the feeling tht the sound wasn’t as good as with my previous Reloop Diskjockey 2 / Traktor setup. While I was at first blaming the internal Soundcard of Twitch I later found out about 2 Things:

• NI Traktor puts kind of a compressor on Top of its sound. makes everything more PHAT … and in a good way
• Pitching in Keylocked Mode sounds just a bit more choppy, crappy on Itch than on Traktor

But just listen yourself: It is popmuschi with “once again” pitched up from 128 to 141.8 BPM first in Itch, than in Traktor and finally in the most trusted Program for warping stretching and timeshifting: Ableton Live (I used complex pro mode)

Liste closely and you will hear the BIG difference in choppyness etc. This makes Itch unusable for me – even worse because you can start hearing artefacts from around 2.5 percent pitchbend change !!!!

Back to Traktor it is….

Some little bootleg I am getting out there after rediscovering it in my 2009 Musicfolder. With the outmost Respect to the original Artist Erykha Badu whose Work I love.
Feel free to download and buy some original Badu if you want to contribute

A cooperation with Aisha Eisas “Magical Dollhouseparade” … so far 4 Tracks and more to come… stay tuned on Soundcloud

Getting some Airplay for my FELA KUTI Remix on JANGO … Nice to meet new “Fans” …

somebody care to do vocals on this?

check out the dirty soundtrack I did with my project afterwax for this video featuring the AND_i totem collection.

get the full track here: http://afterwax.net/track/panic-excitement

check out my club remix of the ubiquous 90ties hit from ace of base…

(some already ask me when my first ABBA remix will follow… uhm … :] )

http://www.indabamusic.com/submissions/show/41633

Some water has been flowing down the good ol’ Danube since we first started our work on the Remix of a Track of the well known Punk Band Gang of Four (Original here). Today is d-day and just 2 Nights ago we had another – more Housey Idea and now we got two Remixes entering the competition:

This new remix by me is a Favela Breaks Remix of an the Nigerian Musician Fela Kuti. The Original was recorded somewhen in the 70ties but it’s Text has not lost it’s political meaning. With my Remix I tried to underline the message instead of cutting it up into danceable sample bits. Enjoy!

FREE download under CC License HERE!

I have made a electrostep remix of this wonderful track.

DJ Fresh – Gold Dust on YOUTUBE

Check it out here and leave your comments:

ps.: Had the wrong Soundcloud Link Up First – to a remix I will post here later when it is really done :]