NEW REMIX // The Script - Breakeven [Strobonic Mix]

Peep the video to the new remix of The Script's "Breakeven". Originally a top40 rock track, it is now better, faster, stronger...

DJ STEVE AOKI @DIESELPGH WITH DJ STROBE & MORE

Thursday, April 22nd DJ Steve Aoki will be spinning @ Diesel as part of his "I'm in the House North American Tour"

Opening Sets by:
DJ Strobe
DJ CK
DJ B Wood
Tickets:
$10 Advance www.groovetickets.com
$15 Day of Show
$20 Mezzanine Access
$10 with Table Service Reservation
Call 412.651.4713 More info: 412.431.8800
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Owl City Screen Capture

People have been hitting me up from all over the globe that they have heard the Owl City mix and some have been sending me screen captures of their satellite radios and TV. Thanks peeps

New Year Old Blog

This used to be my old blog "Battery Operated" but I decided to turn it more into a music blog then a random thoughts blog in conjunction with my new website launch...

I will be putting different and more up to the minute content here and some special stuff not available on my website. Tutorials, bootlegs, rants, late night after club epiphanys...

Check back often.

Caliente

I was just listening to some good old school Salsa music on my iPod and realizing that right there is an entire genre of music that is being destroyed by the economy and the era of overproduced music. My wife is Puerto Rican and I have loved Latin music since I moved to New York in the early 90's and have seen that people don't want to pay for a full band or a brass section and real musicians, some of the finest in the business are being replaced by samples and keyboards both live and in the studio. Now that Coney Island is going to the wealthy condo buyers, who knows if even the great live Salsa we enjoyed so much in the summer on the piers will even be back in the future.

If there are no outlets for quality musicians, and music can be made simply by plotting notes on the computer using your mouse, how do we encourage the future generations to pick up an instrument and play? Being able to express yourself creatively is one of the true gifts we receive and it concerns me that as time goes by I am seeing creativity replaced by sample libraries and Apple GarageBand. Not that great compositions and tracks aren't made with the new tools, but even I, as a musician, sometimes forget the beauty or interweaving the organic with the electronic.

I am thankful that I can sit at a piano or set of drums and allow inspiration to flow through me but I have to remind myself that in this day and age talent is a very ambiguous term.

New Music Sunday

Here's the video for my new remix of the Kevin Rudolf / Lil Wayne global hit "Let It Rock" already killing it on dance radio and dancefloors around the globe//


Kevin Rudolf feat Lil Wayne - Let It Rock (DJ Strobe Tour De Pants Clean Edit)


Kevin Rudolf feat Lil Wayne - Let It Rock (DJ Strobe Tour De Pants Dirty Mix)


Kevin Rudolf feat Lil Wayne - Let It Rock (DJ Strobe Tour De Pants Dub Edit)



Here's the video for another track, "Obscenly Delicious" by Bulgarion/Uk artist Petia//

Ranting and Raving

This was sent to me by someone respected in the old school rave community and a current DJ & producer of electronic music. This was in response to me wondering why all these new school (and old school) ravers and rave DJs think that unless they know about it or is what they like it must not be good or relevant; and that not everyone who likes a particular genre of music wants to be involved with these parties, especially if you were a part of it the first time around.

"I suppose people want to hold onto the "knowable past." Yeah, I'll pop on a few classics AT HOME on Serato once in a while, but mostly I keep it out of my [rarely] playing out or catering to any semblance of a rave scene. Of course, some classics transcend the scene because they were pre-rave or just plain timeless. My attitude is that I only play, write, remix or produce for the music heads to give them and myself a good journey. Perhaps that's why I don't play out so often - too high a standard and too few willing to bring it up.

Anyhow, people shouldn't talk smack just because a lot of us grew out of it and took lessons learned elsewhere. The lack of historical knowledge is appalling. The lack of re-evaluating or inability to re-evaluate history and the present against historical knowledge is even more so. Historical sources should be inherently distrusted and cross-checked because the only true history that exists is that which lies wordlessly within. Rave culture had its time in human history and rarely are its echoes truly humanistic, adaptive and forward-looking.

Whew, a small vent :)"