Jay Def

Digeum Mix Session: 03 Kilo

Digeum Mix Session 03 Kilo was completed and posted this weekend.  This is a Dubstep mix at 140 BPM.  This is the first mix I’ve done using Traktor Pro.  (I upgraded from Traktor 3 a couple of months ago.)  Due to that, there are some flubs mostly centered around my playing around with the new FX stuff.  Despite that, I really like how this one turned out.  It’s a good mix of Dubstep music with a few surprises in there.  It was pretty fun to complete and it makes me want to do another mix very soon.

Listen or download here.

Digeum Mix Session 03 Bravo

On Sunday, I threw down a (mostly) electro-house mix.  I really think this was my best mix yet.  I took the time to setup grid-markers in Traktor and it really helped to keep the trainwrecks to a minimum.  The only one that kinda sounds trainwrecky is the transition into and out of the track Electro Cla$h, but I think that was built into the song.

The first 4 tracks are especially spot-on and I get a little giddy when I hear the transitions between them.  Specifically the transition between Dirty Freak 2009 and Bass Fresh.  Bass Fresh had a little lead bit with just an 8-bar vox sample.  I looped it and hit that.  Every 16th bar I would slide the crossfader over to just that track and play the sample.  On the third loop, I accidentally slid it over too early and created some dead air for a second before the sample came in.  Even that worked.  It’s a subtle trick, but it makes me happy.

http://www.digeum.org/2009/09/07/mix-session-03b/

New Mix Session: Digeum Mix Session 02 Juliet

I flew down to the San Francisco bay area this last weekend and spent some time with my friends there. I was staying with Apollo, so we produced a new tag-team Mix Session which got named 02 Juliet.

This is my first mix on the road (or at least the first that was produced outside of Idaho).

Digeum Mix Session 02 Juliet is 2 hours and 12 minutes of mostly soulful and disco house with a few surprises thrown in.

Check it out here.

Digeum Mix 01 Yankee – Mixed by Jay Def

After a hiccup on Sunday which resulted in a 1 gb file filled with 2 hours of dead air, I slammed it hard with Digeum Mix 01 Yankee last night.

It’s kind of appropriate that the Yankee mix happened on President’s day.

Check it out.

Digeum Mix Session 01 Quebec

Digeum Mix session 01 Quebec has been uploaded to digeum.org. This mix is code named “Dirty, Nasty, Filthy.” I completed this mix this evening. It is a collection of tech- and electro-house tracks. It was a blast to record.

New Mix: Digeum Mix Session 01 November

Hi everyone.

Digeum Mix Session 01 November is recorded and uploaded to digeum.org. This mix can be downloaded/listened to here:

digeum mix session 01 november

This mix is dedicated in loving memory of Angelica Wooten who was my roommate and a very good friend. Angie will be missed.