AtomX remixes and spins my track

My buddy DJ AtomX asked me if I was going to catch his show on Example FM .NET live this week. It's at 6:00pm on Saturday nights, and since I'm doing homework I was able to catch it live.

I sent him a remix I did a couple years ago of "The Hand That Feeds" by Nine Inch Nails; Trent put the master out in Garage Band format in April of 2005 and I fucked with it. It's only 3 minutes long and I've long since lost the Garage Band project I used to make it.

Lo and behold, Adam remixed it up to about 8 minutes and spun it in tonight's show. We talked after, and both agreed it could use some tweaking, but it was pretty hot to hear my shit live on stupid Internet(s) radio.

I'm downloading the un-fucked original G.B. masters now, and I think I'm going to take another stab at it. Looks like I'm going to be laid up for a few weeks in August, so I'll have time to mix some more shit up.

And it looks like my super-secret DJ name might finally need to come out of hiding.

The DJ AtomX Podcast

Your pal and mine DJ AtomX followed the New Years resolution I sent him and setup a Podcast on Podomatic.

Out of nowhere today, "A State of Pants, Volume 4" just appeared in iTunes. I can't remember the last time I was so delightfully and genuinely surprised. My inner sycophant shot a thank you email his way:

From: theAlphaJohn
To: DJ AtomX
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:57:18 -0500
Subject: state of pants vol 4

I fucking love your podcast. iTunes was like "bitch, you have a newpodcast" and I was like..."huh?"I sprang like 8 boners when it just showed up. Fucking love this man.

I'm listening to it now, and it fucking rocks. It even has Dangerous Power on it. Do me a favor if you haven't checked him out already and go subscribe.

Concert :: DJ AtomX, live at Goodlove in Baltimore

George, Timothy, and I took a trip up to Goodlove in Baltimore to see DJ AtomX's return to the booth.

Tim was first to point out that the club was basically a three level townhouse, though that didn't stop 180+ people from coming through the doors Friday night. There was a shitty house DJ downstairs that spun even shitter amp'ed up house tracks for the Fubu thugs and gaggle of worn out house fraus away from their husbands and kids for the night. The upper two levels were musically served by a DJ booth on the third level that overlooked both sets of stairs. The top level was like a loft in a townhouse, only there weren't any windows behind the mini-blinds hanging on the walls.

At one point, I did turn to George and Tim to say, "When we leave, let's go on Baltimore's Craigslist and get a hooker for all of us to share. Now I know we'll need to compromise because Tim will want his to be a tranny, and George will want his to have a USB port. Maybe we can meet someone in the middle and get a regular girl?"

Much was drank, bar tabs were small, and AtomX blasted out a four hour set (and was surprised he got paid for it). Was good to finally meet him, but it was even better to pass out in the back seat before we got on 95 and wake up in front of my house. Thanks for driving, George.

DJ AtomX at Goodlove 11/24/2006

AtomX, my favorite local DJ, will be spinning the day after Thanksgiving at Goodlove in Baltimore. My turkey day travel plans have already been adjusted to accommodate an evening on ATOMX HOUSE remixes.

A Tale of Two Soundclips

Occasionally, electronica djs will mix in a soundclip to create something more than blips and beeps backed by beats. They're typically added through production, not live on the tables (even most scratch masters don't do this live unless they're battling). If it's not something being done on the fly, we can be critical of production quality.

Here's an example from DJ AtomX with clips about the Goldstone Observatory that's done well:

and here's one that DJ Jon Carpenter spun that's not so good:

The clips should blend seamlessly (the second set really don't), and they should accent the song, not be the song. Otherwise we'd just put a techno track behind the state of the union and Americans might actually know what the fuck is going on.

Music :: DJ AtomX - The February MiX 2006

It's been a year since I discovered an obscure trance DJ from Southern Maryland on the Groovenauts forums for DC Club Glow, but just in time for our anniversary DJ AtomX (a.k.a. Big Jim Slade) has managed to spin my new favorite mix:

From: Big Jim Slade
Date: Saturday, February 11, 2006
Subject: The February Mix. Peak Hour Trance!

Nothing but peak hour bangin trance/tech here for this month, so if your one of those who likes there music to build , listen to a prog set and then download this. here we go:

1. Friend Or Foe- JK Walker (original mix)
2. Pictures- Timo Mass (PVD remix)
3. Puma- Sunny Lax (original mix)
4. Static Bullet- Ton TB (Jochen Miller remix)
5. People Are People- Depeche Mode vs Tony Arzadon (Tonys original mix/AtomX H.O.U.S.E. version
6. Damager- Scott Mac (Marc Zimmons remix)
7. The Loves We Lost- Allure (original mix)
8. Take A Ride- Shocksteady (Shocksteadys brazillian wax mix)
9. Hung Up- Madonna vs K.I. (bootleg vinyl/AtomX H.O.U.S.E. version
10. System Overload- Fred Baker vs Fred Nash (original mix)
11. Monday Bar- Nic Chagall (original mix)

and here are the links: Copy and paste

Number 1 and Number 2

No idea how long the You Send It links are going to work, but there they is.

He's right though, Progressive Trance is for tossers.