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Kaizoku

Lots of time has passed since last show again. Lots of things happened during this period. Including the crash of my computer which put things off for some time. Even now I had technical problems which delayed the broadcast for an half an hour and made me go live with a bit unfinished set.  Sorry for the low volume on voiceover and some glitches in mixing. Going to be lot better next time!

Tracklist

1. Ankst – The Wicked (Damnation Remix by Cyvergence)
2. Kaizoku – Something In Blood
3. S-Wrong – Everybody Pump
4. Modlys – Det Nu (breakcore remix)
5. Sodiufas – Shhhhhhhhhhhh(h)
6. Saine – Rocket Science
7. D Fast – Liquid Cool
8. Braintwister – Identity Matrix
9. Beatslaughter – Frozen Dawn
10. Transient – Deep Robot
11. Keith303 – Thumbworker
12. Vivace – Zaaderdag
13. Amok – Endless Autumn

Renoise 2.6 has gone to beta

This show also celebrates the Renoise 2.6 going into beta. This time the tracker gets the long awaited scripting and extension capabilities. Lots of people are working on this right now, playing with the available tools and writing new ones. If you haven’t already, join the fun in Renoise forums.

Renoise also got a Long Sample Support (aka Autoseek) which makes it much easier to handle vocal takes, guitar riffs or any other kind of longer sound clips. The samples are still kept in the memory so one still can’t mix whole recording sessions, but this is not what renoise is meant for anyway.

As an interesting sidenote, Remixta is also broadcast and recorded using Renoise 2.6, it is used in the chain as effect processor and for mixing voiceover and the music. The bit unfortunate configuration this time was not the fault of Renoise (which performed perfectly) but my own misconfiguration due to limited time before going live.

Saine

Soundcloud

Soundcloud has grown to be the most important music distribution place for Renoise users. Many artists in this show have lots of great stuff up in the SoundCloud.

Saine for example, who Released one of the greatest Renoise albums “Break a Pattern” some time ago, has soundcloud page which has gained several new sets in last months.

From the set Elevator Music I played the track “Rocket Science”. The set has lots of nice downtempo dub-technoish music to Chill To. And yeah. It’s all free.

He also has just recently compiled another set Still Life which has more ambient, soundscape music.

Sodiufas has also a nice collection of tracks available on Soundcloud. This is where I acquired one of his latest tracks, Shhhhhhh. Although most of us now Sodiufas by his great ambient melodic soundscapes, this time he surprises us with more industrial and much more rougher sounding creation. Some people find this track bit irritable and disturbing, I find it pleasantly hairy and exciting. The dynamics and soundscapes could even be compared to the ones created by the grand master mr_mark_dollin on his Smargaid Maerd albums.

Talking about mr_mark_dollin, he has recently made his  albums available on Bandcamp for purchase. I wanted to play some of his tracks too on that occasion, but lost all of them due to hardware crash, and didn’t feel like purchasing them again. Which doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do that.

And the First Remixta Epic Compo  is over for this time. We had lots of great entries and lots of fun. Thanks to everyone for their submissions, and votes, I hope you all enjoyed this as much as I did!

The results

1. Rampage by Braintwister (28 points)
2. Noon by biteof (25 points)
3. Out of Coins by Garfferen (18 points)
4. Trinity by Rex Sathum (17 points)
5. Dreamscape by Suva (17 points)
6. Trippel by thus (16 points)
7. Silts by MattWolfe (15 points)
8. Serious Burial by dread (14 points)
9. 24-22hOTNbC by magOwl (12 points)
10. Chinese Salami Reggae by Den (6 points)
11. Adventures of the Solitary Mind by xaos.tek (5 points)
12. Saltyburbs by Ilisity (4 points)
13. Drifting by dugonshoe (3 points)

You can listen to the entries here: http://remixta.net/stuff/RECVotePack.zip

Thanks to everyone again!

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And another great month for Renoise has passed and and again Suva played a bunch of new and old tracks. This time I started off with a metal track by Next life, and continued with some nice ambient and chillout music, some drum and bass and dance music coming in later of the show.

Also this show is dedicated to Renoise 2.5 which was released just few days ago. If you haven’t already go get your copy now, the best Music making software of all times!

Tracklist

1. Next Life – Anti Matter (From Ressurection split EP)
2. Visinin – House From Home
3. Transient – Time Slips Away
4. magOwl – I Thought I heard Someone Thinking (From Sowl Files)
5. Hunz – You Said Hello (From Thoughts that Move)
6. Braintwister – Extensive Search
7. Bachelor Machines – Method/Function
8. Priq – Nitrogeniq
9. Modlys – Uden Dig (From Flow)
10. Jonas The Plugexpert – Stride
11. Razor Shock – Heaven In My Hands
12. magOwl – Laugh… Gone

Thanks to relatively high interest in Remixta show, we have been planning on making a Remixta based netlabel in the near future. The netlabel will start releasing albums by great artists from Renoise scene.

As for now, we are looking a first artist and first album/EP to release. If you have some great stuff, please get in touch with me. Send me a demo tracks and project descriptions (see Contact page)

1. There is no money involved. The music will be released for free for everyone.
2. There will be considerable amount of promotion for the artist
3. This will not be a free service to upload your random music like soundcloud.
4. We will not release just any material you give us. It has to be high quality music which you are proud of, and which has other fans too.
5. Material should be original, and not released before.

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Second time live, with a terrible hangover from last night which took it’s toll. I forgot to press record button when I went live so 2 minutes of the show beginning were lost forever. Also I accidentally played an old version of Metylonia track. The new one is actually much cooler. Also messed up many pronunciations, like usual. I’ll promise, next time I’ll get pronunciation counseling. (See more for the tracklist) More…

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First time, Remixta was broadcast live over shoutcast. Thanks to everyone who tuned in and enjoyed the show with me. If you didn’t have time for that, or you missed it for some other reasons, you can always listen it now!

Tracklist

1. mr mark dollin – Take The Red Pill
2. Kaizoku – A Doomed Planet
3. Hyperartist – High Speed Lullaby
4. B-Complex – Beautiful Lies
5. Braintwister – Fluctuation
6. Benefit of the boomerang – Put Blinky On The Bill
7. Charly Linch – Choke
8. Achenar – Twin This Highlight
9. Transient – Old Ones
10. Misk – Subterranean Crawlspace
11. Neurobash – Wealth Of The Others (Platimatic Remix)
12. Void Pointer – Strawberry
13. Blac Waldo – Chicken Eggz 2.0
14. Eeter – Orgaaniline Hookus-Pookus

Excuse me my mistakes. This is first time for me to do remixta as live broadcast, and as always, I had some little technical difficulties and some stage fear, maybe.

Hope you enjoy the show and see you next time!

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And again, DJ Suva from Estonia releases other episode full of awesome music from awesome renoise artists. This time we have four great albums to showcase and other great music, both old and new.

Like every time, every song in this show requires a hilight, but other than album tracks I would like to hilight the great track by DDtMM from year 2006, not much to say: there is a good reason why I would play that old track. Also, special mention goes to the ending track by Joulac. Starting off as really cheesy trackerish house track with a little twist that takes you somewhere totally else.

But who wants to read a lots of words, better start listening!

Tracklist

1. Polybius – Appleyard
2. Lackluster – Ism Psm Sm (EP Aeration)
3. Helvetikone – Bender (Album Bubble Hum)
4. Charly Linch – The Fall
5. Next Life – The Reunion (Album The Lost Age)
6. Next Life – World Map (Album The Lost Age)
7. mr mark dollin & Alex Strain – Saint Santa (Album mmd_as)
8. DDtMM – The Breakup
9. Transient – You and Me
10. Juolac – Feel Your Heart Started

Albums of Greatness

mr. Mark Dollin and Alex Strain – mmd_as

After long time of work two musical masterminds have created this amazing release free for everyone to listen. Mixture of complex ambient soundscapes, haunting lyrics and impressive rhythm sections are the keywords that can be used to describe this album, but there surely more than just those things that make this release as good as it is.

Remixta plays a track Saint Santa from the album which is a critical view of the commercialized holiday called christmas. This track was also released earlier as a christmas present for the community.

My favourite beside this track is Phoebe, but as said, this album is full
of greatness and you can hear from every single note that those two australian artists have spent more time working with each individual track than many other artists spend time on entire album.

Transient – Symphony of Curves

Transient brings us a new album filled with amazing collage of samples. A downtempo/triphop release which in it’s whole goodness is availabe as a free download for everyone.

Crisp master, positive and groovy melodies together with lots of
variations keep the listener engaged through the entire album and leave them wanting for more. Not much to say here but the same words I left in the Renoise forums under the album thread: This release just pure awesomeness.

Remixta plays first track from the album, You And Me. Not neccesarily my favourite track from the album, but as all the tracks are good and have their own special moments full of goodness needed to play I just chose the easy way out and started from the beginning.

Next Life – The Lost age

Something totally unexpected from Renoise scene. Some progressive metal music mixed with chiptune elements, complex rhythmic structures, ripping guitars and various electronic textures. This two man project from norway surely knows what they are doing, and not only on album — they have said to have great live shows. I have heard the claim from many people I trust so I am confident to recommend for you to go and see them next time they perform nearby.

The album contains 16 tracks, each of them less than two minutes long. The short tracks are bit problematic for radio DJ like myself, but together as an album work very well in continous pushing structure.

Remixta plays two tracks from this album.

Helvetikone – Bubble Hum

The artist name is said to be just some random made up word that doesn’t bring too many unrelated google search results, but thanks to the finger of fate the word sounds very close to Helvetin Kone which in finnish means “The Hells Machine”. This is actually what the music sounds like for me. Minimalistic electronica with touch of something really dark and hellish.

How exactly it sounds for you is up for you to decide as Remixta presents track number six, Bender, from the album. It is also interesting to note that the man behind this project is also the man behind Renoise. The allmighty Taktik himself.

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This time we are looking back into year 2008 and listen to some of the greatest tracks produced in this year. We are concentrating on more heavier electronic dance music, but won’t forget other styles either. There was lots of goodness released in 2008 and although I was trying to be objective, I still couldn’t get over the DJ side in myself and played more on the flow. So many extremely good artists were unfortunately left out cause I just couldn’t fit them in. Don’t worry though, I will play your songs some other time for sure!

Hilights of the show are probably the first track by Polybius and my inability to pronounce some song and artist names. I hope anyone doesn’t get offended of me twisting their names. And if you do, please let me know how to pronounce them correctly, so I wouldn’t screw it up next time.

In this episode we also have some great breakcore artists, my favourite Charly Linch, and everybodys favourite Venetian Snares. Also we have pretty cool Trance/House music artist, Scott Althams, who I discovered recently from CC Mixter, thanks to tip by himself. Also, let’s not forget the names of Keith303, an amazing techno expert. B-Complex, true dnb guru. Beatslaughter & ptrance doing an amazing darker techno mix together, and It Alien, super technical artist with musical variation as wide as a national
library.

Special mention goes to Benefit of The Boomerang with a demo track for the shiny new Renoise 2.0, which has had lots of feedback and interest from many people. His usage of bassline is extremely expressive and thanks to the technique the song truly connects to the listener using truly minimal set of instruments.

As a special thank you for the community for helping me to assemble the show, I give away one free renoise T-Shirt to one of the people who helped me. The hand of fortune, who indirectly picked the person, belonged to Taktik. He picked a random number which after some math made the selection. Who actually won the Shirt? Well, listen to the show and find out!

And after you have done listening to the show, go to Renoise.com if you haven’t done it already, and fetch yourself a brand new version of Renoise. I hear this time they give you a nice selection of samples together with the software for free.

Playlist

1. Polybius – Ephemere
2. Scott Altham – I wonder If God Was Sleeping
3. Keith303 – No More Looking Back
4. Beatslaughter & Ptrance – Crowbar Massacre
5. She – Gum
6. Charly Linch – Marbles
7. Venetian Snares – Gentlemen
8. B-Complex – Acid Trip
9. Benefit Of The Boomerang – Jong Belegen
10. It-Alien – Le Femme Et Le Chien

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This time we have collected lots of great and high quality music. The episode seems to slant towards more atmospheric, and even a bit to darker atmospheres, but we also have some happier stuff that makes you want to dance around the room (or at least nudge your head a little bit).

For showcasing, we got our hands on the brand new album by Saine, I couldn’t wait to play it, truly amazing stuff. This is the album of the month (and also album of the year in my opinion). Also, we have exclusive track from Beatslaughter’s upcoming album. This time into IDM genre, but ofcourse with the touch of his other styles, making it one of the most interesting IDM releases I have ever heard.

Enjoy the music, and see you again next year.

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Album Showcase: Saine – Break A Pattern

The best album of this year came late enough to blast everyone else away and probably to pick some berries in the next year as well. Truly amazing chillout/electronica/dubstep, taking the listener on a trip that they will never forget. This album has more warmth and more air than any analogue recordings I have ever heard. This is really pleasurable listen.

Right now you can buy the album from iTunes or Digital Tunes netstores. But according to Saine, it will also become available as a double vinyl in few months.

I have listened to this album obviously more times than it’s healthy and I still can’t get enough of those ambient grooves. Check out the samples in digital-tunes.net, and buy that album! I mean it… Buy it now! NOW! Click click click!

digital-tunes.net: Saine – Break A Pattern

Track Listing

1. Aflare – Glow
2. Beatslaughter – Bliss (Exclusive preview from upcoming album)
3. Terry Sun – Buddah Fingah
4. Derek C. F. Pegritz – By The Masses For The Masses (From album THX 1138)
5. Wanton Kiosk – Meteor Shelter
6. Saine – The Grinder (From album Break a Pattern)
7. Sector Seven – Station Down
8. Xerxes – Cleopatra (Released in Kindergarden 2008)
9. CAG – Ode to Casion (SDC #33 entry, Remix of Mick Rippon)

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On popular demand we are doing Ambient / Chillout podcast, so expect lot slower tempos and lot more of chillness. Most tracks are released in the past month, but not all of them. Specially surprising stuff is by Xerxes who is in the show with two remixes.

Don’t listen to this stuff when riding in a bus, you may fall a sleep and miss your stop! To avoid getting into looprides with a bus, I ended this show with something bit faster. A remix of hit track from last time.

As I had many other tracks I wanted to play, but had already exceeded the time limits, I may release second podcast this month, with more dance oriented stuff aswell.

Track list

1. Mick Rippon – Legend of Woo (Xerxes Remix)
2. Oleksus – Дзвін (Ringing)
3. Void Pointer – Mushroom Fever
4. mr mark dollin – Long (From album 3 Smargaid Maerd)
5. Nine Inch Nails – Ghosts 32 (Xerxes Remix)
6. Knetter – Sketches of Mind (SDC 32. winner)
7. Void Pointer Feat. Jaede – Stuffed Animals (Haga & Plen’s Schizophrenic ’99 mix)

3 Smargaid Maerd

Todays episode of Remixta includes a track by mr. mark dollin from his latest album 3 Smargaid Maerd. One of the greatest electronica releases in this year.

I picked the track “Long” because this is my favourite track from the new album, it reminds me a bit more of the previous work from 2 Smargaid Maerd. Cold and dark, yet warm sounding and highly technical ambient soundscapes. His music is really original to him, and his distinct sound is something that really sticks with you.

This album, according to his own words, like previous albums in the series, deals with the meeting place of organic melody and quirky electronica: thematically dealing the unknown realms of delicate emotion and lucid dreaming. There is a general progression from loose improvisations to structured dramas.

You can fetch this album together with full digital artwork and his previous works from from his homepage.

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