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Kyaaaaaa, tembak abang terusss neng! Muaaacchh!

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:26:09 -0500

Kyaaaaaa, tembak abang terusss neng! Muaaacchh!

Audio

Sun, 18 Nov 2012 08:57:06 -0500

Chase & Status Feat. Delilah - Time If you can find the...

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 04:57:13 -0400

Chase & Status Feat. Delilah - Time

If you can find the time
To give your love to me
I will wait for you
If that’s all you need
If you can find the time
If ever you’re free
Just drop me a line
And tell me where you’ll be
I’ll be right here
If you can find the time
Just be sincere
If you can find the time
I’ll wait for you
But if you can’t find the time
Then cut me loose

Cause I don’t have the time
And I don’t have the patience
What do you take me for?
Why am I still waiting?
Cause while you decide
I’m stuck here suffocating
Cause if you can’t find the time
My bleeding heart won’t make it

My bleeding heart won’t make it

If you can find the time
To give your love to me
Just drop me a line
And tell me where you’ll be
I’ll be right here
If you can find the time
Just be sincere

Cause I don’t have the time
And I don’t have the patience
What do you take me for?
Why am I still waiting?
Cause while you decide
I’m stuck here suffocating
Cause if you can’t find the time
My bleeding heart won’t make it [x3]

I’ll be right here
If you can find the time
Just be sincere
If you can find the time
I, I’ll wait for you
But if you can’t find the time
Then cut me loose

Cause I don’t have the time
And I don’t have the patience
What do you take me for?
Why am I still waiting?
Cause while you decide
I’m stuck here suffocating
Cause if you can’t find the time
My bleeding heart won’t make it [3x]

Cause I don’t have the time (I don’t have the time…) [2x]
My bleeding heart won’t make it

#ChilledDubstep

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 15:54:03 -0400

#ChilledDubstep

Electro Swing Vol.1 (Mixed by OSGD) #electroswing

Sun, 05 Aug 2012 17:42:00 -0400

Tracklist :

1. Fragment Eight The Sound Of Swing by Kenneth Bager Ft. The Hellerup Cool School Choir

2. Pick Up 52’s by Mestizo & Mike Gao

3. Revue Noire (Instrumental) by Nicolas Repac

4. Puttin’ On The Ritz (Club Des Belugas Remix) by Fred Astaire

5. Memories by Waldeck

6. Scratch Marchin’ by Kormac

7. Minor Swing by Belleruche

8. Hello Joe by Vono Box

9. La Voix Humaine by G-Swing Feat. Le Major Melon

10. Artichaut by Chinese Man

11. Jazzhole by Free The Robots

12. Hip Hip Chin Chin (Maxim Illion Mix) by Club Des Belugas

13. Cinnamon Girl by Dunkelbunt Feat. Boban I Marko Markovic Orkestar

14. Get A Move On by Mr Scruff

15. Libella Swing by Parov Stelar

16. Belleville Rendez

17. Jolie Coquine by Caravan Palace

18. The Mambo Craze by De-Phazz

19. I Want A Little Doggie (Remix) by Lena Horne

20. Hold The Night by Lyre Le Temps

Download link : http://www.mediafire.com/?b9eru6uz44udr7e

(Jump Up)

Mon, 30 Jul 2012 11:14:47 -0400

(Jump Up)

When you found a strong love, you must listen to this song...

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 20:26:58 -0400

When you found a strong love, you must listen to this song “Stay by Komatic & Technicolour ft. Jayma” :D

Lyrics:

I don’t know why it took so long
To let somebody in and give them all I got
You have taken me to another place
I look into your eyes and I wanna stay

So I listen to my heart this time around
And I won’t let my own fears bring me down
You’re bringing me closer, closer to myself, yeah yeah
You’re bringing me closer, closer to myself, myself, yeah yeah yeah

Running away from love, I never stayed too long
But with you right by my side, I feel this love is strong
You have taken me to another place
I look into your eyes and I wanna stay

So I listen to my heart this time around
And I won’t let my own fears bring me down
You’re bringing me closer, closer to myself, yeah yeah
You’re bringing me closer, closer to myself, myself, yeah yeah yeah

Running away from love, I never stayed too long
But with you right by my side, I feel this love is strong

PHUNKTION#77 presents @Homogenicworld - June 15th...

Thu, 31 May 2012 00:43:00 -0400

PHUNKTION#77 presents @Homogenicworld - June 15th at @MarleyJakarta with Jerome, Random, OSGD, Adder, DFMC, MC Drift!

When I listen to this song, it makes me remember her, first i...

Wed, 30 May 2012 22:30:00 -0400

When I listen to this song, it makes me remember her, first i heard on bbc radio 1 with her, when she “menye menye” to me :)

ahh~ ~~good~~ bad memories…

Lyrics :

Love is a potion
Mixed up by careless fools
And it takes two
And it takes two

Love isn’t searchin’
It comes right out the blue
And when she casts her spell
There’s nothing you can do.

Love is a potion
Mixed up by careless fools
And it takes two
And it takes two

Don’t let me down

I will stand up for you
When you hold me like you do
I’m right here next to you
But I don’t understand
The games you play with my heart

Love is a potion
Mixed up by careless fools
And it takes two
And it takes two

Love isn’t searchin’
It comes right out the blue
And when she casts her spell
There’s nothing you can do.

I will stand up for you
When you hold me like you do
I’m right here next to you
But I don’t understand
The games you play with my heart

Love is a potion
Mixed up by careless fools
And it takes two
And it takes two

Love isn’t searchin’
It comes right out the blue
And when she casts her spell
There’s nothing you can do

VEELA (What All Her Songs Mean)

Sun, 27 May 2012 22:51:38 -0400

Might as well have them all in one place.

Blackmill ft Veela - Let It Be

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDI6HTR9arA

I wrote this one about one of my great friends. He’s a very young, very high level politician who reached out to me saying he loved my music. After hearing him tell me his secrets and fears, I realized that they were very similar to mine. We connected on a deep level, wanting to help the world. He is one of the bravest men I’ve ever met.

Captain Panic ft Veela - Offering

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm3cOOy4qOw

When I first listened to the song, I immediately thought of a cult case. I wrote a story about a woman who became obsessed with a case of disappearing women. The followed the trail of clues back to the lair of a sacrificial cult. She had planned to kill them all, there were about 15. She sneaks in and gasses them, hoping to find some of the missing women. She did. They were all hung on the walls around her, dead.

CatatonikC4T ft Veela - A Step Ahead Of Fate

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyN1nGkFqqM

This one’s about a woman who had left her husband a long time ago who took all her money from her. She was left homeless on the streets, pickpocketing people to survive. One day, she succeeded in snatching a very full wallet only to realize, as she turned around, that she had stolen it from her ex-husband. He starts pleading for her to come back to him but she just tells him off and goes back to her life poor and morally sound.

DayOne ft Veela - Shade

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M1toCyBhTY

Simple to explain - it’s the Skyrim Thieves Guild Quest storyline from the perspective of the player.

Feint ft Veela - The Journey

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noZnlqQUyiQ

One of the few songs about a boy. I know a guy (hint: he was in one of my videos) who I find so interesting. He’s very reserved. I always just wanted to bring him home, sit on his carpet and have him just open up to me. He drove me nuts, and I loved it.

Helion ft Veela - Mistress Intution

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8hvynV8Z5w

This song was dedicated to my sister, Madi. It’s about how I saw us, how she made me feel. She always knows how to unlock my creativity and push me a little harder. There is also a lot of reflection in this song about how we are married to our art which makes love difficult. I love you, my Madi.

JFI ft Veela - Hardlock

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xke-PNr5CQg

This is a one-line song. One line answer? My friend kept going back to an abusive boyfriend and I couldn’t stand it.

Maduk ft Veela - Ghost

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEA2prf_x48

People keep interpreting this song sort of correctly. It is Sarah Kerrigan’s (Starcraft) story. I’m narrating post-tranformation back to human form. She’s getting nervous that parts of the Queen of Blades have stayed in her soul. She is worried about Jim’s safety so she makes a decision. I never tell you what she decides… (We don’t really know until Heart of the Swarm come out now do we?)

Saint Empire ft Veela - Venetia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj11JtwM4UY

I wrote these lyrics about a young sorceress/potions woman who had to fight for the human in a war against the gifted (those with magic). The war is going on outside and she locks herself in and works her magic in privacy even though she won’t make it out alive even if she wins. The humans have no idea this is going on, they’re just freaking out because the world is falling apart around them and they don’t know why.
Her name was Venetia.

Miqz ft Veela - Metrion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQTIMbCqq1A

I wrote these lyrics about the one and only Teen Titans/DC Comics Raven. Her story is tragic and powerful. It’s also very long, so it’s best to read the wiki here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven_(comics)

NCT ft Veela - Go Back Home

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAp-d3xinqs

Descriptions are getting kind of short now aren’t they.. This one is about a particular scene in Disney’s Atlantis. It’s when Kida gets stunned by the king circle “Heart of Atlantis” and does the ritual.

Starz ft Veela - Second Nature

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBmROluwLkc

This one may or may not be about Dolan.

TwoThirds ft Veela - Dreaming Aloud

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzY-mDzEmKk

It always helps me out a bit when producers give me a title to work with. Dreaming Aloud. Well.. I might as well dream. I closed my eyes and saw a scene with a girl in the middle of these four ruby orbs, floating all around her. They were lying to her, telling her everything was going to be beautiful and okay when really they were just killing her in her dream, unless she woke up. They successfully seduced her and she never woke up.

TwoThirds & Feint ft Veela - Starscapes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRa8hb_CAKc

One line song, one line description - A girl who is frustrated by a guy who won’t chase her even though she’s playing hard to get, so why would he.

Tyler Clark ft Veela - Gazer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTIEIdNheaA

When I heard the track I thought of a girl who was into astronomy. It was the only thing she could really understand. Her refuge. She was very antisocial but felt like a goddess when she was watching the sky. This can be a metaphor for lots of things.

Publicly Anonymous ft Veela - Killings

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-Q95YGKD0Y

Storyline of Bioshock. This song is from many different points of view. It starts off as Tanenbaum warning the player about Fontaine. Then it’s the player talking to Little Sister. Then it’s Little Sister (RAPPING!) to Big Daddy (the player). Boom.

Bustrexx ft Veela - Not Anymore

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOML96hNVPc

This song is about Helen Keller. I always find her story fascinating. She had to resort to very primal instinct to convey her feeling and emotions through to people of power. Had to write at least one song about her.

Feint ft Veela - Horizons

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unW_KknTMFo

This song is sort of literal. I imagined a girl on her deathbed wanting to live vicariously through a loved one’s life. Her brother would sit with her and tell her stories. She would close her eyes and pretend they were real.

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That’s about all I can think of right now. If there are some that I missed, let me know in the comments. <3 (-Veela)

The D&B Scene on Twitter

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:01:58 -0400

Never really thought we would use Twitter that much, but it’s turned out to be useful for all sorts of things.
Here are some other D&B people who are using it.

Agencies
Anger Management – www.twitter.com/AngerTherapyDnB
ESP – www.twitter.com/ESPagency
Evolution Artists – www.twitter.com/evolutionartist
Faze2 – www.twitter.com/faze2agency
Groove Connection – www.twitter.com/grooveconnection
Reprise – www.twitter.com/HowardReprise
Urban Agency (USA) – www.twitter.com/urbanagencyusa

Mastering & Cutting
Beau (Masterpiece Mastering) – www.twitter.com/beauthomas
DubStudio (Cutting house) – www.twitter.com/DubStudio
Finyl Tweek Mastering (formerly Heathmans) – www.twitter.com/finyltweek
Shane (Finyl Tweek Mastering) – www.twitter.com/ShaneTheCutter
Stuart Hawkes (Metropolis Mastering) – www.twitter.com/StuartHawkes
Subvert Central Mastering – www.twitter.com/SCMastering

Press & PR
Backdrop PR – www.twitter.com/BackdropPR
Infectious PR – www.twitter.com/infectiouspr

Art / Graphics / Photography
Andrew Attah (photography) – www.twitter.com/bazil83
ithinkitsnice (artwork & graphics) – www.twitter.com/ithinkitsnice
Trickartt (artwork & graphics) – www.twitter.com/trickartt

Distribution / Shops / Publishing
Key of Knife Publishing – www.twitter.com/keyofknife
SRD Distribution – www.twitter.com/_SRD
ST Holdings Distribution – www.twitter.com/stholdings

Magazines
DJ Mag – www.twitter.com/djmag
iDJ – www.twitter.com/iDJMag
Knowledge Magazine (Colin) – www.twitter.com/kmag_colin
Knowledge Magazine (Rachel) – www.twitter.com/rachelknowledge
Mixmag – www.twitter.com/Mixmag
XLR8R – www.twitter.com/XLR8Rmag

Shops
Beatport – www.twitter.com/beatport
Blackmarket – www.twitter.com/bmsoho
Chemical – www.twitter.com/TomAtChemical
Juno – www.twitter.com/Junorecords
Redeye – www.twitter.com/redeyerecords
Surus – www.twitter.com/surusltd

Audio

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 11:41:25 -0500

7 Tips & Tricks For Using Traktor Like A Pro

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:34:57 -0500

1. Correcting auto-beatgridded songs when they’re off by a beat or two

The quickest fix for this is to find the first beat of the song by either using a jogwheel or clicking with a mouse. When you have this selected, click cue point 2 (found in advanced deck view then cue points) and go to the arrow beside “cue”.

Click this and click “load”, then click the “map” button to the right of this and click on your white grid marker. It means you will only be using one cue point, and also when you load the song it will now be right at the start of the first beat/the melody.

2. Using the loop recorder to free up your decks

It took me a while to figure out a use for the loop recorder, but basically this is the way I use it nowadays. I have it set up with two decks and two FX decks (due to screen size and mixing style).

So say I have two songs playing a nice tune together that has gelled well. If it’s getting near the end of the songs and I don’t want to stop one to load a new song, I’ll set the loop recorder to an eight-bar loop and hit “record”. (Once done you may get phasing so be quick to pause both decks and just let the loop recorder play.) This frees up both decks to mix in the next song.

Then just fade out the volume of the loop recorder and start again. (I do this all with my mouse since I don’t have it in my mapping yet, maybe one day on the iPad I will though…)

Remember to practise this lots before you try it live as it is quite easy to mess up, but if you know how it works it can be fun and a lifesaver too.

3. Finding the snap and quantise functions

Ah, so they’re the S & Q underneath the MAIN volume know. Thanks!

Many people for some reason struggle to locate these.

These two buttons are located under the main volume knob labelled “S” and Q”.

I tend to leave S on most the time bar when setting cue points. If you want to set a cue point not on a beatgrid (usually in dubstep for me) you have to turn off snap.

Quantise is rather handy for cue point juggling, as it basically keeps your song in tempo and ensures you land perfectly on the beat (I think of it as an advanced sync mode).

4. Letting Traktor sort your gains out for you

A lot of people don’t trust software to judge gain for them, but the auto gain mode in Traktor has to be one of the best I’ve ever used.

To engage it, go to Settings > Mixer > Level and then click “Set auto gain when loading tracks”.

The next song you load is set by the last track’s peak volume (but be careful not to turn up a track if it’s just in a build-up as when it drops it may distort). Traktor will usually set the gain levels just before the limiter to get the most out of reach track.

5. Using the keyboard for FX select

Are you ready to start mapping your keyboard in the Traktor Pro 2 configuration settings?

This is something I use that few people seem to do. Basically I don’t really need to use my laptop keyboard for anything else when using Traktor, so I have a few keys set to be FX auto load.

I currently have the keys S for beatmasher (sampler), D for delay, F for filter 92 and G for gater on FX deck 2. This means while playing I can quickly load FX without having to use a jogwheel or my mouse.

To do this for the gater (for example), go to Settings > Controller manager > Generic keyboard.

Click Add in – FX single – FX select – Type of control = button – Interaction mode = direct, Assignment = deck 2 (you can use any), Set to value = gater. Click learn and hit G.

Just do the same for any key with any FX you want; it’s just that I use those above the most.

6. Adjusting latency for smoother running

I’ve heard a lot of people saying Traktor can be glitchy at times and usually the first thing to pop into my head when this happens is to check if the latency is set way too low.

To adjust this, go to Settings > Audio setup and locate the latency slider. Slowly move the yellow slider to the right; even one notch may fix your problem (but keep note of original settings).

7. Using the advanced delay to create a loop roll effect

You may already use this or think it’s old but I love it too much not to mention it!

You basically load an advanced delay into either of the FX decks and set it up so Wet/dry is at 0, Filter is at 0, Feedback is around 50 and Rate is either 1/4 or 4/4 (I prefer 1/4), then leave “frz” ticked. When you want to use it, just press “on”.

It will loop the current part of the track until you hit the “on” key again to toggle it off, but meanwhile the track has carried on playing in the background.

January 04 Mix, 2012

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:16:31 -0500

There is NO “dark side” of the Moon by Osgd on Mixcloud

You can download this mix on: http://dnbshare.com/download/There_is_NO_dark_side_of_the_Moon.mp3.html

Promo mix There is NO “dark side” of the Moon (Free download)
Any feedback will be appreciated.
DJ booking is available
Contact: opisillygoddisco@Live.com / @OpiNoviar (Twitter)

Tracklist :

1. Untold Future by S.P.Y
2. Rolling In The Deep (Nu:Tone Remix) by Adele
3. Last Frontier by TC
4. Song In The Key of Knife (VIP) by London Elektricity
5. Global Love (Calibre Remix) by High Contrast
6. Changes (Calibre Remix) by Danny Byrd
7. Tutti Frutti by High Contrast
8. Space Between (feat. Ayah) by Apex
9. Feel Good (The Prototypes Remix) by Modestep
10. Someone (feat. McLean - The Prototypes Remix) by Friction
11. The Big Blue by Brookes Brothers
12. Close by Drumsound & Bassline Smith
13. System (Matrix and Futurebound Remix) by Nu:Tone
14. B.R.I.S.T.O.L (feat. MC Risky) by Danny Byrd
15. Gold Rush (feat. Brookes Brothers) by Danny Byrd
16. Strobot (Netsky Remix) by Shameboy
17. The Meddler by AMC & Mattix & Futile
18. Shoreless by Camo & Krooked
19. Ohrwurm by Culture Shock
20. Overkill by Delta Heavy
21. Stomp by Sub Focus
22. This Feeling by Agent Alvin
23. Raggamuffin by Soundclash
24. Lassitude (Sigma VIP Remix) by Sigma & DJ Fresh
25. Heaven (Nu:Tone Remix) by Emeli Sandé
26. Stay Too Long (Pendulum Remix) by Plan B
27. Party Line (Muztang Remix) by SATCF
28. Round The World In A Day (Royalston Remix) [feat.Elsa Esmeralda] by London Elektricity
29. U Gotta B Crazy (Enei Remix) by London Elektricity

Download EP Skream Dan Benga Gratis

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:37:53 -0500

Skream dan Benga, dua nama besar di musik Dubstep mengeluarkan 5 track yang bisa didownload gratis. Download pack ini berisi 2 lagu dari Benga dan 3 lagu dari Skream. EP gratis ini mendahului release dari album solo Benga dan album kedua Magnetic Man, trio yang beranggotakan Skream dan Benga juga.

EP ini bisa didownload di sini :

http://preemtiv.com/widgets/skream-benga/

Scion A/V presents Skream and Benga tracklist:

1.Benga – Any Steppers
2.Benga – Electro West
3.Skream – Ice Cream Jelly Roll
4.Skream – Nefarious
5.Skream – Phat Head

30 Min Royalston Mix To celebrate the release of his “Cerulean...

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 07:44:28 -0500

30 Min Royalston Mix

To celebrate the release of his “Cerulean Blue” EP, Royalston did a 30 min mix for PandaDNB. Check it out.

Tracklisting:

Hide Your Tears Because We are In Heaven – Unquote
Bonesinger – Royalston
Heisenberg – Royalston
Hexagon-Blokhe4d
All my Life feat. Mark Berry – Royalston
Late Nights – Royalston
Iceman – Royalston
Untold Future -S.P.Y
Chemicals – MRSA
Everyday – Rusko (Netsky Remix VIP)
Magic Fountain -Art vs Science (Royalston Remix)
Cerulean Blue- Royalston
Basic Memory – Phace
Mantequa – Royalston
Future Unknown – TKR (Royalston Remix)
Japanese Bones – MA (Royalston Remix)

Africa Hitech

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 08:40:02 -0500

In all honesty, we’re not exactly sure how UK outfit Africa Hitech found the time to put together an exclusive mix for the XLR8R podcast series. Earlier this year, the duo of Mark Pritchard and Steve Spacek released its debut album, 93 Million Miles, and now, the pair is about to wrap up a lengthy North American tour, which actually comes to an end this weekend with a string of West Coast dates. In the middle of all this intercontinental activity, Africa Hitech did manage to assemble this podcast, pulling heavily from two genres in particular: footwork and drum & bass. While those genres are rarely uttered in the same sentence, the similar tempos and shared reliance on frantic percussion actually allow these seemingly disparate styles to mesh together quite nicely, a phenomenon that Africa Hitech explores at length on this mix. As one might expect given the genres involved, the mix is a wildly upbeat and energetic listen, but, more importantly, it shows that even in a post-everything electronic-music landscape, there are still exciting new sound combinations to be discovered.

01 Traxman “Footworkin’ on Air”
02 DJ Tre “Ping Pong Trak”
03 Jlin “Erotic Heat” (Planet Mu)
04 Hudson Mohawke “Cbat” (Warp)
05 Cadenza “The Darkest Hype (Philip D. Kick Remix)” (Dummy)
06 Africa Hitech “Out in the Streets” (Warp)
07 Africa Hitech “Out in the Streets (VIP)” (Warp)
08 Krampfhaft “Perfect Gain Structure” (Saturate)
09 DJ Rashad “Welcome to the Chi”
10 DJ Earl “Dragged” (Booty Call)
11 DJ Rashad & DJ Rome “Dat Shit Huff” (Planet Mu)
12 Dillinja and Berti B “Lion Heart” (Bert 1)
13 LTJ Bukem “Horizons (Phillip D. Kick Remix)”
14 Ballistic Brothers “I’ll Fly Away” (Junior Boy’s Own)
15 Formula 7 “Soundboy” (Quayside)
16 Marvellous Cain “Roll Dat Shit” (R:IQ)
17 Ninjaman, Bounty Killer, Beenie Man, and Ninja Ford “Bad Boy Lick A New Shot (Jungle Bullet)” (Greensleeves)
18 Traxman “Lifeeeee Is For Ever” (Planet Mu)
19 Moondog “Viking 1” (Honest Jon’s)

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Five Minutes with Hyetal at Primavera Club

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 08:36:06 -0500

After our visit to Madrid for this year’s Red Bull Music Academy, we decided to kick around Spain for a few more days and stop in Barcelona for the annual Primavera Club. Designed as an autumn counterpart to the massive Primavera Sound festival, Primavera Club features an array of acts—most of whom are not Spanish—scattered throughout smaller, more intimate venues in both Barcelona and Madrid. While many acts were only in Barcelona for a matter of hours, we managed to pin down a couple of them for a quick chat, including Bristol-based producer and twinkling synth maestro Hyetal.

On the heels of a solid string of singles—including collaborative efforts with Shortstuff and Peverelist, not to mention Velour, his project with Julio Bashmore—Hyetal (a.k.a. David Corney) released his debut full-length, Broadcast, earlier this year. Anchored by breakout track “Phoenix,” the album found Hyetal taking his music deeper and extending his reach by working with a vocalist. We spoke with the producer back when his album was freshly released, but decided to check in again now that some time had passed. Hyetal gave us some insight to his thoughts on the response toBroadcast, the development of his live show, and the evolution of his sound.

XLR8R: It’s been about six months since the release of your debut album. How are you feeling about the response?
Hyetal: I’ve been really pleased. I wasn’t too sure what to expect with the album coming out. In comparison to some other people, it was fairly early on in my career making music. It’s gone really well. It’s done everything I wanted it to do. I thought it might be the right way to take the next step, because I found it difficult to say everything I had to say releasing 12” records. It was difficult to get the range of ideas I had into two tracks. I thought an album would be a better way to do it, and that gives you license to do some more experimental stuff that you couldn’t put out on a 12”.

When you refer to “saying everything you had to say,” are you speaking in terms of musical ideas, or is there some kind of more literal message?
Nothing is too literal. Maybe to me, but I like to keep it vague and open to interpretation. I certainly don’t have any kind of political agenda or anything like that. I’m not drumming any kind of specific message home. There are obviously things, things that are important to me, but I like to leave them open to interpretation.

You started playing live this year, in parallel with the release of the album. How has that been, especially in comparison with DJing? Are you still doing both regularly?
I haven’t been DJing so much, actually. I am still doing both. I DJed for the first time in three months the other weekend. It was really nice, because I hadn’t done it for so long. Getting back to it was kind of cool, but the live thing is really good. There’s a fair amount of improvisation in what I do. I really like that, it kind of keeps me on my toes. The set has evolved as well. There has been a certain amount of learning on the job. When I first started doing it, it was my first experience performing electronic music and I didn’t really have such a clear idea of how I could present my stuff in a live situation. But the longer I have done it, the more confident I am in what I’m doing, and the set’s changed. It’s great, it just continues to evolve.

What is your live setup?
It’s very simple. Most of the tracks are run off Ableton. They’re broken down into individual parts, and I use a Novation Launchpad and a Korg padKontrol. The Launchpad is the brain, as I try not to touch the laptop as much as possible. I certainly don’t hide behind it. I just have it off to the side. I do everything on the Launchpad and play stuff over the top on the padKontrol.

Do you feel like it’s difficult to put together a compelling live show as a solo electronic artist?
Yeah. There’s a stigma about live electronic music being some dude hiding behind a laptop. I didn’t really want to do that. At the same time, I’m not an overt performer, so it’s important for me to find some way to present the tracks that is interesting, in terms of what I would have to be doing to look interesting visually. I also work with a vocalist, Alison Garner, which helps. She comes out and does shows with me as often as she can. She’s in another band, so it’s a bit of a balancing act. Certainly, the two of us together is much more of a natural thing, although by myself, I’m getting more comfortable as well.

When you’re performing live, is there less pressure to build a dancefloor?
I’m not really aware, most of the time, if there’s pressure or not, because there is not really an interruption. If I’m playing my own stuff, it’s got to be the way it is. I don’t really tailor it to dancefloors or specific scenarios. I just play the music. Hopefully, everyone that is there knows what they’re in for.

Your music uses a lot of bright synth sounds, even when it feels kind of dark and melancholy. Is that a juxtaposition you created on purpose?
I’m drawn to a broad range of sounds. I use quite a lot of bright synths. There’s also a lot of noise and atmosphere, and more subtle, darker sounds. It’s important for me to present a range of different emotions. I wouldn’t want to ever be too set in one specific style. Not even so much style, but mood. I wouldn’t ever want to be a “dark” artist. I like the fact that I can do some ’80s throwback tune, or whatever, and, at the same time, do something completely different from that.

Your melodies are often compared to old videogames. Did you actually play a lot of videogames when you were growing up? Is that a real influence?
It’s definitely a real influence. I played a lot of videogames as a kid. Mega Drive stuff, really. I don’t really play games anymore, but I’m from that generation. The Streets of Rage games, Sonic the Hedgehog, all that sort of stuff. It’s definitely a big influence.

Have you started working on new music?
Yeah. I’m trying to get a bunch of stuff together at the moment, which is likely to be another album, if all goes to plan. I’m trying to stockpile tracks at the moment and see where I’m at next year. There will definitely be something new next year.

Moving forward, do you want to get away from doing 12”s?
I definitely don’t want to get away from it, but I just want to do albums, really. I’d still like to be able to put out 12”s if I have tunes that I think suit that format. Obviously, in terms of people DJing the tracks, it’s useful to release [on 12’] for a single. I think albums, for me, are the main focus, but I’m sure there will still be 12”s as well.

How much the notion of “the club” factor into your production?
Increasingly less. It’s difficult to say, because I listen to quite a lot of different types of music, and I find myself in quite a different range of moods when I’m writing. With playing DJ sets again recently, I’ve been going back and trying to get a load of tracks together that are more dancefloor suitable. For that, I’ve been digging back to older house, labels like Trax and Strictly Rhythm. With the influence of that, I found myself remixing one of my own tracks into something with that sort of vibe. [The notion of “the club”] is definitely still there, but it’s not the main focus at all.

Bristol has such a mythical status as a musical city, but how do you feel about the Bristol music scene right now?
I think it’s good. There seems to be a lot of focus on house music out of Bristol at the moment. There are a couple people doing really good stuff. It’s pretty healthy. I think the house stuff has got a little way to go, but obviously, people like Julio Bashmore have put a lot of focus on that.

Speaking of Julio Bashmore, is there ever going to be another Velour record?
Yeah, we meet up and write quite a lot, whenever we have time. It’s a regular thing. They’re kind of fun tracks. Julio and I are good friends, so it’s a different process. When I write by myself, it’s way more personal and serious. Getting together with Bashmore is just fun. We write all the time, and something will come out of it at some point.

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