SHG Radio Show, Episode 030

Welcome to this week's edition of Subterranean Homesick Grooves™, a weekly electronica-based radio show presented on CHMA FM 106.9 at Mount Allison University in Atlantic Canada. The show is normally programmed and mixed by Jonathan Clark (as DJ Bolivia), although some weeks feature guest mixes by other Canadian DJ's. The show encompasses many sub-genres within the realm of electronic dance music, but the main focus is on progressive and tribal house, and a bit of trance & techno. Liner notes for this episode (030) can be seen below.

Para la información en español, vaya aquí.

By the way, if you're looking for DJ mixes in styles other than progressive/tech-house, check out www.djbolivia.ca/mixes.html. That page has a number of mainstream/top40 dance mixes (the "Workout Mix" series), as well as some deep house, drum and bass, and other styles.







Here's our Podcast Feed to paste into iTunes or any other podcatcher:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/shg

Older episodes of the show are not directly available from our servers anymore, to conserve space for more recent episodes. However, all older episodes have been archived permanently on SoundCloud.

Here’s a link so you can listen to the show or download it from SoundCloud:





Here are Track Listings for episode 030:

01. Stereofunk, "Happy Piano" (Peaktimeboutique Remix).
02. DJ Groover & Jelena Milosev, "At Night" (Nalder Clay & DJ Lewi Mix).
03. Patrick Hagenaar, "Work It Till Ya Pass Out" (Houseshaker Mix).
04. Roland Clark, "Black In My Soul" (Tiger Stripes Main Remix).
05. Proper Villains, "Put Me In A Box" (Faskil Remix).
06. Julian Jeweil, "Techno Corner" (Original Mix).
07. Philip Whirlpool, "Time Has Come" (Brother Mix).
08. Mark Knight & Wolfgang Gartner, "Conscindo" (Original Club Mix).
09. Marshall aka Luigi Rocca, "Just Believe" (Original Mix).
10. Rah Band, "Clouds Across The Moon" (Jay Lumen & Umek Hey Baby Remix).
11. Crazibiza, "Spinning Around" (Tommyboy Remix).



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And here we are with episode thirty. I don't really have much more to say! Happy Thanksgiving Weekend, to everyone living in Canada.


Go to the Mix Downloads page on the main DJ Bolivia website if you'd like to check out a number of our older mixes, or visit our SoundCloud page for individual tracks and remixes.

We also have a file containing complete track listings from all of DJ Bolivia's radio shows, studio mixes, and live sets. The PDF version can be viewed from within your browser by clicking directly. Both the PDF and the Excel versions can be downloaded by right-clicking and choosing the "save link as" option:

View as PDF file: http://www.djbolivia.ca/complete_track_history_djbolivia.pdf
Download Excel file: http://www.djbolivia.ca/complete_track_history_djbolivia.xlsx




Follow Jonathan Clark on other sites:
        Twitter: twitter.com/djbolivia
        SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/djbolivia
        YouTube: youtube.com/djbolivia
        Facebook: facebook.com/djbolivia
        Main Site: www.djbolivia.ca
        Music Blog: djbolivia.blogspot.ca

Jeremy Messersmith - "Tattooine"

For those of you who enjoy indie productions, you MUST check this video out, which was only released to YouTube yesterday:



YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp7UzGSg8g0

Jeremy is from Minnesota, but I wish that Canadians could claim him as one of our own.

Web: http://www.jeremymessersmith.com

And yes, although the song is great by itself, don't forget to note that the video portrays the original Star Wars trilogy, rendered in lo-fi paper animation.

Las Vegas Mix from July 30th

I've got a mastered copy of the set that I played on July 30th, 2010, at the Defcon 18 Hackers' Convention.

A bit of background about the set:
- I was pretty reluctant to post this at first, because I didn't think it was that great. But after listening to it this week, I realized that it didn't turn out that badly.
- The first half hour has some rough mixes - the show was the first time that I had touched a pair of CD players in four months, so I felt a bit rusty. After realizing that I was a bit wobbly, I played extremely conservatively for the rest of the night, and just focused on making sure that the timing was good.
- I was playing on a mixer that I wasn't entirely familiar with, so there are no effects or filters in the set.
- Yeah, I screwed up a bit just before the 18:00 mark. I started to bring a track in, and faded it out quickly.
- The track of my own that I played during the set (Highway 22) was not mastered properly (I was working off a laptop and headphones all summer), so it sounded pretty lacklustre compared to the other tracks from Beatport and from other producers. I mixed out of it well before the end of the track for this reason. I won't apologize though, since my mastering of the full set this week masked some of that weakness.
- The end of the set was slightly distorted, I don't remember why I cranked the levels too high on that very last song. Not major, but noticeable to the trained ear.
- The mastering sort of tamed all the levels down for the version that you're downloading, but if you're a producer and looking at the audio file closely, you'll see where tProphet's announcements at the start were pretty peaked, so I ended up hard limiting them even after massive compression on the rest of the set.

The crowd was pretty much perfect for my first set in four months. About maybe 250-300 people by the time I finished playing, but it was more of a socializing crowd than a dancing crowd, since the event was a mixer party first and foremost. However, I was surprised to get quite a few people on the dance floor by the end of it.

I've played some of these tracks on my radio show in the past couple of weeks, and if you listen to both, you'll notice the ones on the show are different than the ones in this set. On the show, I don't edit any of the tracks, and leave all the breakdowns alone. For the live sets, I chop out almost all of the breakdowns and do a bit of other editing before I burn the tracks to CD, to keep the dance floor sweating. However, based on my positive experiences with making my radio show in Ableton lately, these could have be the very last two major live house/trance/techno shows that I ever perform using CD's. By the way, if you want to know which remixes I used as the basis for these edited tracks, you should be able to figure out most of it from the track listings of my Subterranean Homesick Grooves episodes from the past three weeks. If not, email me and I'll let you know which mixes I started with.

I played again the following night at the Ninja Party, off-strip. The Ninja set was amazing, in my own opinion, and one of the best shows that I've played. I'll be posting the mastered version of the Ninja Party set here in a few days. I have a radio show to make first though, for Friday night, and a show on Saturday night, so I probably won't have time to get the Ninja set online until Sunday. So think of this set as a warmup to the Ninja set.

Here's the download link for this set:

http://www.chma.fm/DJ_Bolivia_-_Live_in_Las_Vegas,_2010-07-30.mp3


Here's a photo that is quite unrelated to this set:




And finally, here are track listings from the set:

01. Human Beans, Manambros, & Vidaloca - House Of The Rising Sound (Original Mix).
02. Edo van Asseldonk - Fly To The Moon (Bolivia's Re-Edit).
03. John Acquaviva & Ramon Zenker - Dot Bomb (Bolivia's Re-Edit).
04. Marco Bros - I Hook U Up (Bolivia's Re-Edit).
05. Helvetic Nerds - Mistaken Identity (Bolivia's Re-Edit).
06. Patrick Hagenaar - Work It Till Ya Pass Out (Bolivia's Re-Edit).
07. Basti M & Brockman - Sweet Sexy Housemusic (Bolivia's Re-Edit).
08. Marc DePulse - El Lobo Loco (Bolivia's Re-Edit).
09. Erick Morillo & Eddie Thoneick feat Shena - Nothing Better (Bolivia's Re-Edit).
10. Promonova - The Rhythm (Bolivia's Re-Edit).
11. DJ Ortzy - Infected (Bolivia's Re-Edit).
12. Horny United - Lady Of Ice (Bolivia's Re-Edit).
13. DJ Groover & Jelena Milosev - At Night (Bolivia's Re-Edit).
14. Stereofunk - Happy Piano (Bolivia's Re-Edit).
15. Bolivia - Highway 22 (Vegas Instrumental Dub).
16. Oliver Garcia feat Dilek Taskin - House Wa (Bolivia's Re-Edit).
17. Slava Flash & Alena Lvova feat Alena Lvova - Her Jogging (Bolivia's Re-Edit).
18. Technotronic, Dimitri Vegas, & Like Mike - Pump Up The Jam (Bolivia's Re-Edit).
19. Tune Brothers & Anthony Locks - I Like It 2010 (Bolivia's Re-Edit).

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        Main Site: www.djbolivia.ca
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Bolivia - "Highway 22" Track

Earlier today, I was starting to master the recordings of the shows that I did in Vegas a couple months ago, before putting them online, then discovered another project that I had forgotten about. There’s a track that I played both nights (slightly different versions) as an experiment – one that I had produced myself. The style is sort of a progressive house sort of track, no vocals or anything. It wasn’t a finished track, but I’m going to post it here anyway for fun. This is more for educational purposes than as a professional release. I’ll try to get the final version finished next week and share it.

In terms of the production, this version is entirely self-contained as a Reason 4 file. You can download the mp3 if you want, or if you have Reason 4, you can download the RPS or RNS song files, if you want to see how it was put together. It’s pretty basic, and at the moment, everything is done within Reason. When I finish it up next week, I’m going to Rewire it into Sonar and then it needs some serious mixing and mastering. I also have a ton of little changes that I'd like to make to the basic sequencing and midi data for the "final" version. Especially in the drums, which are far too repetitive right now.

And here are the links to the Reason files:

http://www.djbolivia.ca/production/Highway_22_Reason_Ninja.rps
http://www.djbolivia.ca/production/Highway_22_Reason_Ninja.rns

Feel free to share them around, if you want. Actually, once I get the final version done, I might release those files too, and tell people that they may feel free to remix it if they want. I could even pick a few of the best remixes and publish them on my website and Facebook fan page.



By the way, highway 22 is NOT in Bolivia, in case anyone thinks that is where the photo was taken. It's a highway in Alberta that I was working on at the time that I put the track together.

If any other producers out there want to give me some helpful feedback and critical analysis, feel free to write to me at djbolivia@gmail.com. Most importantly, remember that this was done in headphones on a laptop, and there is no mastering yet, so the overall levels don't have much punch (yet).

Music/production copyright ©2010, Jonathan Clark.

SHG Radio Show Episode 029

Welcome to this week's edition of Subterranean Homesick Grooves™, a weekly electronica-based radio show presented on CHMA FM 106.9 at Mount Allison University in Atlantic Canada. The show is normally programmed and mixed by Jonathan Clark (as DJ Bolivia), although some weeks feature guest mixes by other Canadian DJ's. The show encompasses many sub-genres within the realm of electronic dance music, but the main focus is on progressive and tribal house, and a bit of trance & techno. Liner notes for this episode (029) can be seen below.

Para la información en español, vaya aquí.

By the way, if you're looking for DJ mixes in styles other than progressive/tech-house, check out www.djbolivia.ca/mixes.html. That page has a number of mainstream/top40 dance mixes (the "Workout Mix" series), as well as some deep house, drum and bass, and other styles.







Here's our Podcast Feed to paste into iTunes or any other podcatcher:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/shg

Older episodes of the show are not directly available from our servers anymore, to conserve space for more recent episodes. However, all older episodes have been archived permanently on SoundCloud.

Here’s a link so you can listen to the show or download it from SoundCloud:





Here are Track Listings for episode 029:

01. Matteo DiMarr feat Dashka, "Blower" (Original Mix).
02. DJ Chus & Gonzalez Gonzalo, "One Night In Havana" (Original Mix).
03. Promonova, "The Rhythm" (Vincent Vegas Remix).
04. Alejandro Montero, "Brasil" (Original Mix).
05. Marco Bros, "I Hook U Up" (DJ Pearl Remix).
06. Basti M & Brockman, "Sweet Sexy Housemusic" (Fisher Fiebak Remix).
07. Helvetic Nerds, "Mistaken Identity" (Incognet Remix).
08. Tune Brothers & Anthony Locks, "I Like It 2010" (Tune Brothers 2010 Mix).
09. EDX, "Thrive" (EDX's Fe5tival Mix).
10. Horny United, "Lady Of Ice" (Mike Candy & Christopher S Remix).
11. Slava Flash & Alena Lvova, "Her Jogging" (Wow & Flute SutilVox Remix).



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More information is available on our Website:
   http://www.subterraneanhomesickgrooves.ca


Our Odeo-based audio player that normally shows up in the blog is apparently not working at the present time. I'll look into this over the coming week, and try to find a replacement.

For anyone who follows my facebook page at facebook.com/djbolivia, I will be posting my sets from Las Vegas (end of July) at some point in the next few days. Sorry for the delay!



Go to the Mix Downloads page on the main DJ Bolivia website if you'd like to check out a number of our older mixes, or visit our SoundCloud page for individual tracks and remixes.

We also have a file containing complete track listings from all of DJ Bolivia's radio shows, studio mixes, and live sets. The PDF version can be viewed from within your browser by clicking directly. Both the PDF and the Excel versions can be downloaded by right-clicking and choosing the "save link as" option:

View as PDF file: http://www.djbolivia.ca/complete_track_history_djbolivia.pdf
Download Excel file: http://www.djbolivia.ca/complete_track_history_djbolivia.xlsx




Follow Jonathan Clark on other sites:
        Twitter: twitter.com/djbolivia
        SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/djbolivia
        YouTube: youtube.com/djbolivia
        Facebook: facebook.com/djbolivia
        Main Site: www.djbolivia.ca
        Music Blog: djbolivia.blogspot.ca

SHG Radio Show Episode 028

Welcome to this week's edition of Subterranean Homesick Grooves™, a weekly electronica-based radio show presented on CHMA FM 106.9 at Mount Allison University in Atlantic Canada. The show is normally programmed and mixed by Jonathan Clark (as DJ Bolivia), although some weeks feature guest mixes by other Canadian DJ's. The show encompasses many sub-genres within the realm of electronic dance music, but the main focus is on progressive and tribal house, and a bit of trance & techno. Liner notes for this episode (028) can be seen below.

Para la información en español, vaya aquí.

By the way, if you're looking for DJ mixes in styles other than progressive/tech-house, check out www.djbolivia.ca/mixes.html. That page has a number of mainstream/top40 dance mixes (the "Workout Mix" series), as well as some deep house, drum and bass, and other styles.







Here's our Podcast Feed to paste into iTunes or any other podcatcher:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/shg

Older episodes of the show are not directly available from our servers anymore, to conserve space for more recent episodes. However, all older episodes have been archived permanently on SoundCloud.

Here’s a link so you can listen to the show or download it from SoundCloud:





Here are Track Listings for episode 028:

01. Marc DePulse, "El Lobo Loco" (Koen Groeneveld Remix).
02. Adam K feat King Sunshine, "My Love" (EDX Ibiza Sunrise Mix).
03. Peter Punck, "The Mix" (Clevz Remix).
04. DJ Rooseter & Sammy Peralta, "To The Girls" (Alejandro Montero Remix).
05. DJ Dan, "Seduction" (Original Mix).
06. Spencer & Hill, "GoGo Girl" (Dirtyloud Remix).
07. Dada Life, Dimitri Vegas, & Like Mike feat Tara McDonald, "Tomorrow Give In To The Night" (Original Mix).
08. Victor Del Guio, "Americano" (Original Mix).
09. Nick Muir & John Digweed, "Tangent" (Marco Bailey Remix).
10. Harry 'Choo Choo' Romero, "Phuture" (Joris Voorn Remix).
11. DJ Josh Blackwell & Miss Babayaga feat Rachel, "Professional Widow" (BB Edit).



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I think my favorite three tracks from this mix are probably "To The Girls," "Seduction," and "Professional Widow." Alejandro Montero, a DJ and producer from Argentina who remixed "To The Girls," seems to be putting out a lot of work lately. Anyone who enjoys progressive house with a Latino twist should definitely check him out. The original of "Seduction" was released a couple years ago, but the track is probably new to some people. And "Professional Widow" is a really bouncy traditional house style track, as you'll hear.


Go to the Mix Downloads page on the main DJ Bolivia website if you'd like to check out a number of our older mixes, or visit our SoundCloud page for individual tracks and remixes.

We also have a file containing complete track listings from all of DJ Bolivia's radio shows, studio mixes, and live sets. The PDF version can be viewed from within your browser by clicking directly. Both the PDF and the Excel versions can be downloaded by right-clicking and choosing the "save link as" option:

View as PDF file: http://www.djbolivia.ca/complete_track_history_djbolivia.pdf
Download Excel file: http://www.djbolivia.ca/complete_track_history_djbolivia.xlsx




Follow Jonathan Clark on other sites:
        Twitter: twitter.com/djbolivia
        SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/djbolivia
        YouTube: youtube.com/djbolivia
        Facebook: facebook.com/djbolivia
        Main Site: www.djbolivia.ca
        Music Blog: djbolivia.blogspot.ca

Harper Havoc 2010 Set List

This is another top40/mainstream set, not house/trance/techno. It was a booking at one of the major residences at the University. Not a huge party, maybe 300-400 people, but a lot of fun.

I did not record this show. To be honest, I was scared to. I put out a call for requests before the party, and got a few pages worth - enough for about three nights of music. I tried to play at least one request from everyone, so it led to a very patchwork set for the first few hours. So for any of the professional DJ's looking at this who are thinking, "how can all that flow together?" ... well, it can't. But a busy dance floor works wonders when you're playing popular songs, even if you're switching up the genres frequently. I wanted to mix in some down-tempo, some classic rap, some contemporary hip hop, some rock, and some 128bpm dance tracks. Musical chaos. The last hour and a half felt like it flowed decently though.

Here are the set listings from tonight's show.

01. Kings Of Leon - Knocked Up.
02. Beastie Boys - Paul Revere.
03. ODB - Got Your Money.
04. Everlast - Ends.
05. Outkast - Ms Jackson.
06. Skee Lo - I Wish.
07. Will Smith - Gettin' Jiggy With It.
08. Notorious BIG - Hypnotize.
09. Wiz Khalifa - Black & Yellow.
10. Gucci Mane - It's Gucci Time.
11. Nicki Minaj & Drake - Bottoms Up.
12. Waka Flocka Flame - Hard In The Paint.
13. Kanye West - Stronger.
14. Outkast - Hey Ya.
15. OMC - How Bizarre.
16. Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood.
17. TI & Rihanna - Live Your Life.
18. Chiddy Bang - Opposite Of Adults.
19. Bed Intruder - Bed Intruder Song.
20. K'Naan - Bang Bang.
21. Blur - Song 2.
22. Kelly Clarkson - I Do Not Hook Up.
23. Great Big Sea - The Night That Patty Murphy Died.
24. 50 Cent - In Da Club.
25. Miley Cyrus - Party In The USA.
26. Daft Punk - Da Funk.
27. Lady Gaga - Just Dance.
28. Usher & Pitbull - DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love.
29. Ke$ha - Blah Blah Blah.
30. Rihanna - Please Don't Stop The Music.
31. Cascada - Evacuate The Dancefloor.
32. Taio Cruz - Dynamite.
33. David Guetta - Sexy Bitch.
34. Katy Perry - Teenage Dream.
35. Global DJ's - San Francisco Dreaming.
36. Gossip - Pop Goes The World.
37. Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling.
38. Static Revenger & Richard Vission - I Like That.
39. Machine Supremacy - Gimme More.
40. Yolanda - No Speak Americano.
41. LMFAO - Shots.
42. Timbaland & Justin Timberlake - Carry Out.
43. La Roux - Bulletproof.
44. Lady Gaga - Alejandro.
45. Robyn - Dancing On My Own.
46. Flo Rida - Club Can't Handle Me.
47. Avicii & Sebastien Drums - My Feelings For You.
48. Enrique & Pitbull - I Like It.
49. Beatles - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds.











Adiós para ahora ... I'll be posting some other set lists from nights at Joey's shortly.

- Scooter