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.

New Track: Jay Def – Pump & Flow

I completed a new track last night, and I am pretty happy with the final product.

Here are the details:

• Genre: Jungle/Drum & Bass
• Tempo: Vivacissimo (173 BPM)
• Time: 6m 33s

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Enjoy!

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/

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.

1995 called. They want their DnB back.

Jay Def – Darling
168 bpm
5:27

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New Track: Beastmaster?

Jay Def – Beastmaster? A new Drum’n Bass track. Completed 11/13/2008.

New Track: Get Outta This Place

This is another new track that I completed over the last week. This is more of an Electro-House track. I wasn’t sure if I liked this one and thought it needed more work. But I listened last night, and I liked it much more.

I think this one will go on my next Digeum mix.

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New Track: Eliza’s Fuji Apple

This is a song I’ve been working on for the last couple of days. I’m really happy with how it has turned out. It’s pretty spacey stuff.

The name was suggested by be secret and exult.

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Remix: Jay Def – U’re Gruv! I Has It! (Dometown Funk Mix)

This is a remix of a song I wrote a couple of months ago. I wasn’t happy with the original, so I cleaned it up some and just made some changes. Oh, and this one really is pretty much House. Promise.

I’m very happy about the slap bassline I created with this one.

U’re Gruv! I Has It! (Dometown Funk Mix)

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