Time for the next instalment in my new mix series.
Got my hands on a nice pack of C120’s, so 60 mins this time!
Recording to reel-to-reel tape for a bit of nice tape compression mastering and master copy. Recording on cassette for my own listening (and maybe someone else’s?). Yes, I mostly listen to vinyl and cassette nowadays because I just love that tactile feel of the physical media.
Tracklist:
Abel, Rona Ray – In My Dreams (P.M Project Dub) – Atjazz Record Company
DF90 – Eternal Return – Crossfade Sounds
DF90 – Fading Memory – Crossfade Sounds
Toishy Koshimi – Forest Floor – Crossfade Sounds
Pablo Bolivar, Celestial Sphere – Second (Echo Inspectors Remix) – Seven Villas
S.Y.M – Mia – 3rd Avenue
Toishy Koshimi – Damp Earth – Crossfade Sounds
Dj Meoz – Silent Footsteps – 3rd Avenue
Ricky Kk – Just Remember – HouseBeat Records
RYAN (AR) – Discordia – Deep Clicks
Demarkus Lewis – Feed My Vibe – HOUPH
Dj Feevos – So Sweet (Manuel Kane Remix) – HOUPH
Fred Everything, Joseph Malik – Not A Club Song (Jimpster’s Unreleased Vocal Remix) – 2020 Vision
BiG AL – Habitat – Mali
Fred Everything, Atjazz – Derby – 202 Vision
Daniele Aloisi, Soire – The Deep – BEATZ
Marga Sol – Cala & Sky – M-Sol DEEP
ROZE (SL) – Lucid Dream – Future Avenue
TimAdeep – Pillow for My Fears (Savvas Remix) – Seven Villas
Sven Wegner – Guardians Runner – Blur
L.G.V – In The Black Sky – Oh! Records Stockholm
All tracks bought on traxsource.com.
As you might tell, I’m really feeling the dubby stuff coming out on Crossfade Sounds at the moment. Go check it out, so much good stuff.
Gear:
* Old Pioneer DDJ SB2 Controller – I could mix on a potato if I had to, so does the job.
* Mixxx – Works flawlessly and it’s FOSS, love it!
* Revox A77 mkIII HS 2-track + 1970’s used Agfa PE36
* Pioneer CT-656mkII + 1990’s(?) Maxell UR C120
* RME UFX converters
Soundcloud link for audio only: soundcloud.com/miklo/deep-house-mixtape-vol-2a
Insta: www.instagram.com/miklomusic
What good is a mixtape without a B-side? Not much, so without much further ado here it is.
Check out the description of previous instalment in this series for the thought process going into this: youtu.be/ss2kKKuGA94
Tracklist:
1. Rheinkalk – Invisible bodies – Crossfade Sounds
2. Lucalag – Fly Mode – Piston
3. Processing Vessel – Nordic Lights (ZaVen Remix) – M-Sol
4. Ricky Kk – Inkunzi – HOUPH
5. Edu Russo – Sismo – 3rd Avenue
6. Miklo – Memory Colour – Personal Belongings
7. Daniele Aloisi – Fluctuation (Moe Turk Remix) – KudoZ
8. Lenz (DE) – Litha – Cross Land Music
9. Malloch & Subnode – Closing Cycles – Crossfade Sounds
10. Viel – Stay in Love – Ready Mix Records
11. Moe Turk – Underground (Algrthm Remix) – KudoZ
12. TEO (SL) – Spirit Bloom – M-Sol Deep
13. Hypnotic Progressions – Black Vines (Instrumental Mix) – HOUPH
All tracks purchased on Traxsourse – support the artists!
Soundcloud link for listening: soundcloud.com/miklo/deep-house-mixtape-vol-1b
Crazy that I haven’t posted a video in so long!
Had to take down the studio a while to save on energy/heating, and never got it uncluttered enough to record videos once I got it up and running again.
Anyway, trying something a bit different here on this channel for a bunch of reasons:
* Got my Revox A77 reel-to-reel repaired recently and absolutely fell in love with the tape medium. Not just the sound, but the whole tactile experience and also because how awesome the technology is. I mean, it’s soundwaves converted to magnetic fields encoded in particles of iron oxide (aka rust. Rust! How cools is that?!) on a thin strip of plastic film. So now I want to do everything with it!
* Speaking of tactile, this also got me into cassettes – got a couple of tape decks and started building a little collection of some mostly 80s and 90s music that shaped me as a musician over the years, and I really want to do something on that medium too.
* Canceled my Spotify subscription after they sponsored the orange turd’s inauguration, and subsequently almost stopped listening to music for an entire year. How depressing is that?! This completely changed though once I started getting some physical media. Been listening to my small but growing collection of tapes and vinyls like crazy since I started. Getting out a cassette or vinyl from the sleeve and putting it in the player becomes a little event that sparks JOY, as opposed to the opening up the soulless and exploitative streaming services knowing what they’re doing to the underground/independent music industry.
* Actually paying for music again also feels surprisingly good. I’d rather get back to also buying digital releases and supporting the artists than paying the streaming platforms where my money gets stolen by the major labels who own them regardless of what I listen to (user centric royalties now!)
* Finally, I DJ’ed at a small private event this summer and realized how much I miss doing that occasionally. So here’s me recording a mixtape for myself to listen to with my living room cassette deck, and on the Revox just because (and to keep a master recording if I need to make another copy ofc). There’s some damn fine music in there, so figured I should share the love as well.
Tracklist:
1. Ariel Stamile – Echoes (Derek Christopher Remix) – Future Avenue
2. Ariel Stamile – Echoes (Edu Russo Remix) – Future Avenue
3. Sound Minds Muzik – Let the Muzik – Deep Clicks
4. Lucalag – Timeless Room – Celestial
5. Kevin Yost – Wanna Dance (Crew Deep Remix) – I! Records
6. Pete Whiteley – Celebrating – Cyanide
7. Steve Kelley – Deep Inside – Sublease
8. Woki Toki – Synthetic Love – Personal Belongings
9. Lenz – Daydream (Rasmus Vels Remix)
10. Resonant Robot – Metal Hearths – Seven Villas
11. Augusta Antonini – Hypnotic Piece – Future Avenue
12. Philosopher – Nothing Matters Anymore (Rossie Remix) – 3rd Avenue
13. Mira Evans – Sara Mangala – M-Sol Deep
All tracks bought on Traxsource. Support the artists!
Gear:
* Mixxx (FOSS FTW!)
* Old Pioneer DDJ SB2 (Still does the job!)
* RME Fireface UFX converters
* Revox A77 High Speed 2-track
* Pioneer CT-656mk2
Soundcloud link for listening: soundcloud.com/miklo/deep-house-mixtape-vol-1a
Another Jazz sample, used in a completely different way. A bit more upbeat this time.
Gear used: Synthstrom Deluge, Novation Peak, Twisted Electrons MegaFM & Acid8 Mk2, Waldorf Streichfett, Mutable Instruments Shruthi-1, Audiothingies Micromonsta, Midiplus X3 Mini, Faderfox LV2.
— My music
Traxsource – www.traxsource.com/artist/488752/miklo
Beatport – www.beatport.com/artist/miklo/306573
Spotify – open.spotify.com/artist/5gzOznSNtFZv8O8SWcVZGN?si=ZZsrqDTnTAaIdAyb_UmDZg
Soundcloud – soundcloud.com/miklo
— Connect – drillville.se/miklo
Instagram – www.instagram.com/miklomusic/
Facebook – www.facebook.com/dj.miklo/
#deephouse #hardware #liveset
Gear used: Synthstrom Deluge, Novation Peak, Twisted Electrons MegaFM, Waldorf Streichfett, Mutable Instruments Shruthi-1, Audiothingies Micromonsta, Midiplus X3 Mini, Faderfox LV2.
— My music
Traxsource – www.traxsource.com/artist/488752/miklo
Beatport – www.beatport.com/artist/miklo/306573
Spotify – open.spotify.com/artist/5gzOznSNtFZv8O8SWcVZGN?si=ZZsrqDTnTAaIdAyb_UmDZg
Soundcloud – soundcloud.com/miklo
— Connect – drillville.se/miklo
Instagram – www.instagram.com/miklomusic/
Facebook – www.facebook.com/dj.miklo/
#deephouse #hardware #liveset
New addition to the studio, Novation Peak, sounding absolutely lush here!
Gear used: Synthstrom Deluge, Novation Peak, Twisted Electrons Acid8 Mk2 & MegaFM, Waldorf Streichfett, Mutable Instruments Shruthi-1, Audiothingies Micromonsta, E-MU Proteus 2000, Midiplus X3 Mini, Faderfox LV2.
— My music
Traxsource – www.traxsource.com/artist/488752/miklo
Beatport – www.beatport.com/artist/miklo/306573
Spotify – open.spotify.com/artist/5gzOznSNtFZv8O8SWcVZGN?si=ZZsrqDTnTAaIdAyb_UmDZg
Soundcloud – soundcloud.com/miklo
— Connect – drillville.se/miklo
Instagram – www.instagram.com/miklomusic/
Facebook – www.facebook.com/dj.miklo/
#deephouse #hardware #liveset
Usually whenever I finish a track I try to record video as well, since these “jams” or performances or whatever are a part of my workflow anyway. The main reason for this is that I have a phobia for an empty DAW project. It prevented me from being productive in music for YEARS until I figured out that it was so much easier for me to make a live multitrack recording of a 10-15 min jam and then edit and mix that down to a finished track than starting from scratch in my DAW.
This one was recorded quite a while ago but I couldn’t edit it until now because of computer issues. Also had some technical issues affecting most recordings during the spring that made it too hard to make into a decent YouTube video.
Anyway, what better time to upload this than now, on the day the resulting track from this jam is released on all major platforms. If you like this, please consider giving me a follow here and on other platforms, check out www.drillville.se/miklo/why-must-it-be for streaming links etc.
Gear used: Synthstrom Deluge, Twisted Electrons Acid8 Mk2 & MegaFM, Waldorf Pulse 2 & Streichfett, MI Shruthi-1, Jomox Mbase11, Audiothingies Micromonsta, Midiplus X3 Mini, Faderfox LV2.
— Soul Room Records – www.instagram.com/soulroomrecordsmusic/
Traxsource – www.traxsource.com/label/44578/soul-room-records
Beatport – www.beatport.com/label/soul-room-records/74013
Soundcloud – soundcloud.com/soulroomrecords-641726419
Instagram – www.instagram.com/soulroomrecordsmusic
Facebook – www.facebook.com/soulroomrecordsmusic/
— My music
Traxsource – www.traxsource.com/artist/488752/miklo
Beatport – www.beatport.com/artist/miklo/306573
Spotify – open.spotify.com/artist/5gzOznSNtFZv8O8SWcVZGN?si=ZZsrqDTnTAaIdAyb_UmDZg
Soundcloud – soundcloud.com/miklo
— Connect – drillville.se/miklo
Instagram – www.instagram.com/miklomusic/
Facebook – www.facebook.com/dj.miklo/
#deephouse #hardware #liveset