welcome to portland

wooohooo

i have a lot of free time on my hands, at least until i get a sweet job...., but to keep my brains in my head, i mix it up. the other night i was sounding pretty good so i decided to start recording in the middle of a session. here are the results. i'm pretty proud of it. i started out with a funky vibe and worked into a darker harder sound. let me know what you think. hopefully now that i'm in portland i can find a way to start doing this for more people, or doing these in a live setting, which would be ideal.

anyways, keep your fingers crossed that the radio station i've been hassling will email me back soon. if that happens i might get my own radio show. how sweet would that be! if that does indeed happen, stay tuned because i'm sure i'll tell you all about it.

okay, well, enough for now. stay tuned and enjoy the mix.

Welcome to Portland(mp3) by coastmusic

my my - everybody's talkin'
zed bias - givin' it up feat. pete simpson
ricardo villalobos - bahaha bahi
voodeux - the paranormal
claude von stroke - the whistler (aston shiuffle remix)
ben klock - pulse
giorgio gigli - self-reflection
radiohead - everything in its right place(Gilgamesh/DiscoTech Remix)
voodeux - bones
frozen border - 3.1
extrawelt - messy machinery
deuce - guttering
silent servant - violencia (function mix)
marcel dettmann - shatter proof
ben klock - gloaming
shed - slow motion replay
bloody mary - interlude

new mixtape!

my dear friends. here is a new mixtape of beats for you. I figured this is to anticipate our going away party that is happening this weekend. Feel free to download and enjoy. If you can't download, I can burn it for you when i see you this weekend.

Hopefully, my next mix will be from portland. We'll see how that great adventure goes. I might post some other tidbits from that journey here as well. so stay tuned. excitement is everywhere!

So long beat (beatmix4) by coastmusic

Tracklisting:
1. Mount Kimbie - Sketch on Glass
2. P.O.S. The Basics (Alright)
3. DJ Krush - Kill Switch with Aesop Rock
4. Dam Funk - Toeachizown
5. J Dilla - On Stilts
6. Ratatat - track 6 (from 9 beats)
7. Astronautilis - Dinner with Andy
8. 13 & God - Afterclap
9. Bonobo - Recurring
10. Gold Panda - Quitters Raga
11. Múm - Faraway Swimming Pool

haven't enjoyed drum and bass in a long while. this album is resonating with me quite a bit. a little bit of everything, dub chords, micro rhythms, sub bass... really fresh. the more i listen it probably feels a little more like electronica than real drum and bass, but electronica is such a trash word that really doesn't mean anything, but makes you think of airport music and cheesy syths.

really fresh and mature. think porcelain, bone, electric wires, windmills and rubber cement.

besides, the track: song about my dog, is about his pug.

http://www.iambop.com/releases/medic15/

Dubsteppin

YAY! new mix up. for your information, this mix is part one. part two will be coming probably next week. (give you some time to digest this one).

I sat down and wanted to play with some new tracks i had and ended up mixing for almost two hours, thus splitting this mix into two parts. this half is solely dubstep. i pull a few tricks with looping and beatmashing and a few effects but mostly just putting tracks together that sound good. i'm a big fan of openings and closings, hence the openning track playing again at the end. it also opens the second mix, but you'll hear that one later.

MixPart One(mp3) by coastmusic

figured i'd post the mix tracklist here for easy reference.

l-viz - girl from codeine city

ramadanman - revenue (untold remix)

various production - sweentess

joker & rustie - play doe

scuba - klinik

untold - anaconda

kode 9 - bad

fantastic mr. fox - bleep show

anstam - cree b

jamie vex'd - in system travel

burial - etched headplate

zomby - test me for a reason

ital tek - massive error

martyn - velvet

boxcutter - foxy

pangaea - bear witness

pangaea - deviant

ikonika - millie

2562 - kameleon

l-viz - girl from codeine city

get that groove out, makin' changes

i feel like i need to do a better job at presenting my media on this here blog. so i did a little snooping around the blogosphere to find a way to embed my mixes directly, so its easier for one to play and listen right there. i remembered philip sherburne posted a bunch of mixes he made a while ago. so i figured i'd give it a try.

let me know if you like the mix, or the format. also, if you make music, share it via the drop box up in the corner. if its fantastic, i'll post it here. or put it in a mix. or just tell everyone how awesome you are. come join the fun! hop along cassidy!

Get that groove out(mp3) by coastmusic

get that groove out

awesome.  through a series of events i was inspired to make a mix.  its been a while since i posted one so i though t i should quit being selfish and share with you all.  the opening sample is janis joplin.  there's a little goldfrapp as well. pretty saucy.

check it out here.

let me know what you think. i'll post a playlist soon, once i go back and sort it all out.  i figured i'd strike while the proverbial iron was hot.

26 mixes for cash

a little background on this album

if you are not familiar with Richard D James, or Aphex Twin 

i purchased this double cd back in 2003, prior to my graduation from high school.  i had been a fan of aphex twin for a while, owning a handful of his earlier cds.  i loved the glitched out sounds of the richard d james album.  one could argue that at the time i was attracted by the sounds that were upfront, lacking a kind of subtlety.  whatever it was i loved it.  i had never heard anything like that, music with drum lines smeared into fast moving rolls coming in and out of the capability of being produced by a human.  i had been performing as a cellist in orchestras for about 6 years at that time and aphex twin was so alien to what i had been around.  

and the other half of his work also spoke to me.  while being capable of writing abrasive and almost harmful music; he was also able to write melodies on the piano with a softness likening him to Satie.  

for your consideration

aphex twin vs satie

clearly this man is/was a genius.  

so back to my original story.  i bought this album with high hopes.  needless to say i listened to it and was stricken with horror that there were perhaps only 2 songs over the two cds that were riddled with machine gun drum loops.  the wilting beauty was around, but always half submerged and not clear enough for my brain to really latch on to. so as many cds i have purchased over the years, it went in a stack in my room to a shelf to a cd case to a box to the basement.  

today, while visiting with my parents for mothers day and a microvacation, i was at a loss for something to listen to, having only my laptop and ipod, which do not mesh well with my parents' new sound system.  down to the basement i went, finding the boxes and boxes of old cds i am storing there.  much to my suprise i found 26 mixes for cash and decided to give it another try.  i have tried many times to give this album another chance, each time i wasn never able to really give it a good listen.  

clearly today is the day.  its always a wonder for me when i rediscover cds i purchased years ago and find them satisfying so long after i had forgotten about them.  have i grown in my musical tastes?  have i opened my mind beyond what i liked and didn't like as a high schooler?  well i should hope so.  but i also wonder if the reason i can enjoy this cd now is perhaps the time has come around again for aphex twin.

these songs are weird, to put it bluntly.  but with the current state of things, everything either is either garbage can or will be there soon due to our negligence.  at the same time we're filled with hope at our new administration here in the states.   people are terrified but also stricken with a strange kind of hopefullness that keeps the trains chugging along.   this album is good to listen to because its weird and resonating with my personal experiences, private and public.  a little weirdness, a little beauty, a little hard edge.

and citing the wikipedia article, this album is a big joke too.  richard d james was paid for the remixes, yet they barely resemble the original.  basically he was paid to write new songs, under the guise of remixing.  i love it when people are taken advantage of because they don't know what they're getting into.  requesting probably the greatest electronic mind of our days to remix some obscure bands track is like asking Einstein to help you with your physics homework.

but all in all i have found a new friend this sunny afternoon.  a new old friend really.  expect a new mix coming soon where some of these strange tunes are sure to pop up.