NORTHERN ALLSTARS vs HARDINO - DON’T STOP BELIEVING vs IT GIRL / How much in the world is purer than the intent of this mix of songs? Since I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed by the concepts expressed in this track, I’ll just make a short list of things I’m impressed with here and hope you can help me connect some of the dots.

- “Midnight Train” recontextualized as rave drug reference
- Boy or girl singing? Is this concept a Steve Perry reference?
- Sample clearance for guitar solo or complete re-record?
- The generic rave build owes a lot to Journey anyway
- Now Americans have the wherewithal to create mix CDs called “Clubland Smashed”
- Might make your uncle’s entree into rave scene
- This will be many teens’ first exposure to these lyrics
- ”Hold On To That Feeling” also recontextualized
- Repetitive lyrics not too far from standard vocal trance anyway
- The “It Girl” comes just as you were about to stop believin’

HIGH CONTRAST - THE ROAD GOES ON FOREVER / High Contrast has very quickly become one of my very very favorite music guys in the whole world, and his label Hospital Records has very quickly become one of my very favorite things in the entire universe. It has always been hard for me to directly express the ecstasy (doink) one simple, gentle raver experiences through music in a non-disgusting way, and most of the people involved in Hospital do it every day for a living! Can you imagine such a job? Like all real real clever artists in 2012 they have also figured out a way to make shitloads of money off of their releases through a tightly-woven ecosystem: unmissable weekly podcasts, a breathtakingly-paced release schedule (that seems to be 100% leak-proof), endlessly fascinating/sold out/independently-wrought parties, and most importantly, a refreshingly simple take on what music should be in peoples’ lives: a constantly powerful force for fun and emotional workout. If this is what it’s like inside the hospital I don’t wanna be well! Make sure to check out some sick early remixes from High Contrast of Missy Elliott, White Stripes, Kanye, and especially his very cute “drum n’ bass / surf” remix of M.I.A.’s “Born Free.”

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DJ TRENT - NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL 2012 / This one is kind of nasty, a lot of Ibizan-American beats, starting off with a Youtube prophet and Britney and Ke$ha + Nicki and ending up with Skeeter Davis, making pit stops at the corner of Gucci Way and Kavinsky place and later E-40th Ave and U2nd Streets.  It will keep your party raging until you will wish you hadn’t raged at all in the first place.  It also features new technology developed specifically for 2012 called “JUMP TO RIHANNA.” If you’re not feeling the music, simply skip to the next chapter on your iPhone iPod iTunes whatever to go to the next Rihanna song in the mix, because everyone loves Rihanna.  This M4A download is called “NOW That’s What I Call 2012” and it’s also available at djtrent.com/mixtapes.  It is probably good at the gym.

ENDLESS ANNIHILATION OF THE PLASTIC NOW / NEW three-hour mixtape about the present.  To download, and for lots more mixtapes (including one about PRESENTS) you can always go here.

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HELLO PODCAST 001 // Sun’s Getting Colder / Hello and welcome to a brand-new music venture / broadcast opportunity from DJ Trent called HELLO PODCAST. Very high-quality (style AND bitrate, LOL) enhanced shows tell you what you are listening to as it gets mind-squeezed into another song from a different dimension. Please listen, SUBSCRIBE, love, and learn learn about new music (DIE ANTWOORD + Wiley + Frederic Robinson) and old music (Willow Smith Dubstep Remix + Arpeggiator Paul McCartney + Sky Ferreira dn’b rmx) at and reblog. HELLO PODCAST

FIAT Production Station at Fader Fort CMJ 2011

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Relevent Partners asked me to design a workstation where visitors to the Fader Fort could produce their own beats using actual FIAT parts to control the sound: hammer out a beat on the drum pad, use the steering wheel to add effects, hit the gas or brakes to layer in synth instruments as headlights flashed along to the sound.  Creations were uploaded to Soundcloud and shared with the producers’ friends online.  Served up in less than a week!  Fabrication work by Bednark Studios, hardware programming by Matt Davis, Scott Peterman, and Liza Stark, production by Sachar Mathias.

NORTHERN ALLSTARS vs HARDINO - DON’T STOP BELIEVING vs IT GIRL / How much in the world is purer than the intent of this mix of songs? Since I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed by the concepts expressed in this track, I’ll just make a short list of things I’m impressed with here and hope you can help me connect some of the dots.

- “Midnight Train” recontextualized as rave drug reference
- Boy or girl singing? Is this concept a Steve Perry reference?
- Sample clearance for guitar solo or complete re-record?
- The generic rave build owes a lot to Journey anyway
- Now Americans have the wherewithal to create mix CDs called “Clubland Smashed”
- Might make your uncle’s entree into rave scene
- This will be many teens’ first exposure to these lyrics
- ”Hold On To That Feeling” also recontextualized
- Repetitive lyrics not too far from standard vocal trance anyway
- The “It Girl” comes just as you were about to stop believin’

KATY PERRY - LAST FRIDAY NIGHT (T.G.I.F.) - JOHN MONKMAN & JOHNSON SOMERSET REMIX / Did you know that my favorite genre of music is “remix?” I have known it, inside, for a long time, but never fully acknowledged it to myself, especially to Tumbler, until I heard this song. Remixes are important. Remixes bring a song to you many months or even years after you originally knelt at its altar in a form that comes at you subtly (if it’s done well). Sometimes, there’s no hint of the original at the genesis of the remix, and as you detect familiarity mixed in slowly over the course of a few bars, your heart starts to melt and your eyes get blurry but you are not sure why. It’s like you have tasted the slightest hint of Purr in the air but you don’t even know what Purr is. Then, as a pre-verb of blissful proportions brings itself into aural view, a smile comes to your brain, and then…only then, after the brain smile…do you realize what is going on, and you fall in love all over again, and that is what music is for, and that is why remix is my favorite genre of music: it lets you do it again.