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BRODINSKI

french: ces morceaux resument exactement mon travail du moment, un travail d'homogeneité, un travail d'amour de la musique house hypnotique, j'essaye de travailler sur une oeuvre complète, une oeuvre à écouter en fermant les yeux, inspiré du son anglais du moment.

google translator: these pieces summarize my work of the moment exactly, a work of homogeneity, a work of love of the hypnotic music house, i try to work on a complete work, a work to be listened by closing the eyes, inspired of its english of the moment.

brodinski - process part 016 by modyfier

1.Cagney & Lacey - Your Girl Pukes All Over The Dancefloor (Jesse Rose Remix) : This is my favorite track of this month. It's just a big dj tool! The original version was very interesting too.

2. Walter Meego - Through a Keyhole (Solid Groove and Sinden Mix) : The new remix of the furious English producer...Switch and Sinden. The voice of Walter Meego is amazing and this remix is a BOMB!

3. Dave the Hustler feat. Filth N Dirt - I81u812 (Speaker Junk Vocal) : Speaker Junk, Herve & Trevor Loveys, with Paris the Black Fu as guest (the voice of Detroit Grands Pubahs).

4. Infusion - Careless Kind (Switch Remix) : One of the first remix of Switch, with a touch of Switch in a pop track. Just amazing!

5. Speaker Junk - Foxxxy : Ahah! A fucking bootleg for a fucking dancefloor and a fan of house shit!

6. Kerri Chandler - Bar a Thym (Tom Middleton Cosmos Remix) : A classic. Just a classic with a love of Kerri Chandler and the great Tom Middleton aka Cosmos for a lovely remix.

p.s. modyfier will be on hiatus for a couple of weeks...in the interim...be well, make space.

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SENSU

there was a time when i used to be able to talk more about music, but nowadays, it seems as if i have difficulty expressing what i hear...process...i see my self as a live dj, someone that needs an audience to play, i'm very much a vinyl person, i need to be able to physically feel what i play and vinyl comes closest to this aim i have, the frequencies are better, more interesting and there's the object of course, much more tactile than mp3's, also there's the apparent contradiction in playing vinyl that contains futuristic musical information, in my opninion, a lot of electronic music plays with contradictions or seemingly contradictory elements...i've been playing minimal music for a few years now, this minimal stance always drew my attention, whether it was techno or house or even classical music, basic channel and all things berlin ten years ago are a big influence, first and second wave detroit producers, dub and reggae, modern classical music, but equally the first european wave of electronic pop music in the seventies...ah well...it is difficult to mention influences because music is always and still changing, it is every music lover's experience to discover new and inspiring things all the time...right now i'm getting deeply into the london dubstep phenomenon...

in my mix you will hear some of the sounds that have been prickling my senses over the last few weeks, in some cases months and there's a few older tracks in there as well...i'm not adding individual track descriptions...the playlist is there...so...

sensu - process part 015 by modyfier

01. mordant music – 'hummdrumm' mordant music
02. dave aju – xibalbanasazi – circus company
03. half hawaii – out of you – perlon
04. disappear here – climate flu – glimpse recordings
05. acid circus – minimal junk (acid circus) – droid
06. benjamin fehr – feed me with your kiss – catenaccio
07. rhythm & sound with cornel campbell – kind in my empire – burial mix
08. melodo boy 2000 – monotone fantastique – futuro advertising agency
09. pendle coven – waterplate – modern love
10. marcel dettman – quicksand – ostgut ton
11. dapayk – cleansea – mo's ferry prod
12. stamp – i a c – stamp
13. shackleton – in the next world – clandestine cultivations
14. shackleton – hamas rule – skull disco
15. kode 9 & spaceape – kingstown (vocal) – hyperdub
16. jamie woon – wayfaring stranger (burial remix) – live recordings

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CHELONIS R. JONES

If I had an euro for everytime I was asked : "How did you come up with those sounds on your "DISLOCATED GENIUS" debut cd???", I could probably set-up (for myself) a proper studio in beverly hills!! I have always been obsessed with -sound- since i was 9 years old, so it comes as no surprise that my debut longplayer came fully equipped with it's own soundscape.

"Mythologies" has been said to be my so-called 'masterpiece' ---it is my most challenging song to date (it came with 3 parts) - i can still hear Booka Shade & MANDY pleading with me: "Does it have to be so overblown??? So complex??? That long???".

88% of the sounds on that cd have nothing to do with modern technology, nor software. Many find this arduous to swallow, but it is a fact! It would take the average person 12 years to unravel the seemingly easy complexities which mystify that album.

My favorite sound on the album is a haunting ghostship sound, called: CHEpsycho proustian t. t.. It took weeks for me to get the layering fx perfect! Neurothug, who's been working with me since day one, can absolutely testify to this struggle! my motto in life: IF YOU DON'T STAND FOR SOMETHING...YOU'LL FALL FOR ANYTHING! So i took a big chance to shape&change what was popular&typical around 2004...and move towards 2019!

I went to london 3 years ago and bought an extremely rare 12" white label test pressing (the smiths "Barbarism Begins At Home") - it cost me nearly 3oo pounds(!) because on the flip side was rare test tones, which were hauntingly scattered, and they completely rendered me speechless; i knew there was a reason to be magically drawn to the record to begin with. Voodoo?

I knew something was missing on "Mythologies", but i was advised to leave it alone...my label wanted the cd to be finished! But I wouldn't send it, not just yet. I refused to consider the track finished...until I added CHEpsycho proustian t. t. ! I'll never forget how it sounded, once added; I had goosebumps! NOW the track was complete! Many have told me that my cd is so eccentric that it would take years to comprehend --there might be some truth to this statement, since i get mails all the time (to this very day), saying that the cd is starting to make sense after the passing of a couple of years!

I have said in many interviews: "I'll NEVER be able to equal the weird science/mystery of -DISLOCATED GENIUS - everything I create will either fall UNDER or TOP...but never EQUAL it!" - The 12 songs have fallen into an URBAN MYTH category...and that's where this album shall remain!

chelonis r jones - process part 014 (chepsycho proustian t t) by modyfier

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...:::...i come back to "the teeter and the wobble" in my wondering and wandering...

keeling heavily to one side, i am compelled to follow intuition more than reason…reason, sits shapelessly opposite me…i can only guess at what its form might be from the abstract of it’s lengthening shadow...

and i wonder how much of what i know is from easy reception…(i tune my channels manually between the static and the hiss)…from what I learn through play and doing...like how i draw lines…like how these make space…like how i like losing myself between those long and empty marks across the page...

i’ve been thinking about how to recognize pivot points when they start hinginig before me. like, how do i know when to trust gravity (because when i fall, sometimes i do it lightly and other times with a dull and graceless landing)?…i really like the possibility of dark matter when i find myself there, between standing and the ground. i like that there is so much more unknown than i can ever imagine. that sometimes i glimpse what possibility looks like and make it real by believing...

the simplicity of it is that in all the things i gather around me from day to day, that it is rhythm and sound that i find filling the joints between life’s moments and materials...music that absorbs the expansion and compression between the tectonic plates of routine...music that holds my hemispheres together...

download: 070316-modyfier part01

komytea – kaktus city (sasse aka freestyle man remix) : mar 2007 on laka
audision – vanish (sascha funke remix) : oct 2006 on &nd
lopazz – share my rhythm (isolee remix) : mar 2007 on get physical music
paul kalkbrenner – der senat (12” version) : mar 2007 on bpitch
black devil disco – the devil in us : oct 2006 on lo recordings
dada life – the great fashionist swindle (serge santiago remix) : feb 2007 on pickadoll
reynold – l’arnaque : feb 2007 on persona
robyn – konichiwa bitches (menta remix) : feb 2007 on konichiwa records
ark & mikael weill – elephant hunting : jan 2007 on karat
tim paris – ambition buddy feat catchy jose : feb 2007 on battle

download: 070316-modyfier part02

phonique – closer groove : mar 2007 on exun reecords
soundbros – supervicky (boldrini & luperini original mix) : mar 2007 on acid milk recordings
move d – ushinokoku : mar 2007 on das modular
nytronome – the praise : jan 2007 on tishomingo
swain & paris – come as one (chopstick mix) : feb 2007 on spin out records
sascha funke – i love this tent : mar 2007 on bpitch control
titonton duvante – chi doro (titonton refreak) : mar 2007 on das modular
pan/tone – gringo grinder (shaka’s swiss cheese remix) : mar 2007 on revolver records canada
carsten jost – atlantis 1 : mar 2007 on dial records
al haca – citrus feat stereotyp, rqm & tolcha’s rasda : nov 2006 on traktor records

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PINKTRONIX

It`s always good to sweat a little bit, to close your eyes and just play.

When pinktronix was born 4-5 years ago we always wanted to take it live, to add an edge to what we were doing in the studio. This is our first live effort. It`s me on drums and vocals and Alex on his laptop and vocals. We wanted to have maximum control, like if we were in the studio producing music, so there is a knob to twist for every sound that you hear, and even the acoustic drums are processed in the laptop. We are rmxing our song live, blending one into each other. Nothing is planned, we are just listening and looking to each other, having fun and doing our best.

There is something special when you lose yourself playing with someone else, you create a mental link between the two. I always know what Alex is going to play. We stop together to do a break down, we start again. It`s almost magic. Yeah, there are some mistakes, but that`s human, that`s dirty, that`s live, and sometimes it's very good.

From this recording our aproach is changed a lot in the studio. Anything that we record is more live, no way a synth line is going to be the best bar looped 100 times. It`s going to be as live as possible. To do a new track we almost always start jamming new ideas and then build the track. We also have a rearshal space, where quite often we have Captain Mantell playing bass and singing, putting down ideas for the next record.

Our next record will be more band oriented. I see some groovy tracks coming on the way. We like the idea of losing ourselves a little bit more in the music and not overthinking any single bit of a song. To be be more "punk" and spontaneous.

We will see what`s next for pinktronix.

pinktronix - process part 013 by modyfier

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ROTOSKOP / SONI CODE

pathetique:
Though I really love my wife, she knows that there is another love (she calls it possession) in my life - MUSIC. I am always looking for new tunes, styles and artists. That is why I check some mp3 blogs as 'modyfier'. And this love is the reason why I work as a musician. I cant imagine a day without at least listening to music.

schizophrenique:
I started with my alter ego ROTOSKOP a few years ago. In 2003 I released my first album including collaborations with artists like FOETUS and PHILLIP BOA. All tracks had quite a dark mood. Though I really like these kind of tracks I started my other alter ego SONI CODE. This gives me the possibility to make more 'dance' orientated tracks. That is the reason why I normally create 2 or more versions. At least a dark one by ROTOSKOP and a 'lighter' one by SONI CODE.

technique:
I really tried a lot of tools. Logic, Cubase, Reason and even Fruity Loops. But I always come back to Acid Pro. I like to work fast. And because of knowing this prog so well I still use Acid Pro. I dont use VSTi very much. I normally use loops and cut and paste and cut and paste...Wavelab is my favourite tool for 'sound design'. My sound library is very huge because of the fact that I sample everything I got on CD and an audiofile.

inention:
LCD Soundsystem is one of my favourites today. The whole album is brilliant. I was lucky to get a copy of 'Sound of Silver' via Internet. I used the vocals of the title track and played around with it. That is what remixing is all about for me! Playing with tracks, sounds and moods. Sometimes I feel like a kid being locked in a toyshop. And I definitely forget everything around me.

download: lcd soundsystem - sound of silver (rotoskop & soni code remixes)

lcd soundsystem - sound of copper (soni code remix)
lcd soundsystem - sound of alumninum ( rotoskop remix)
lcd soundsystem - sound of amalgam (rotoskop remix)
lcd soundsystem - sound of bronze (soni code remix)
lcd soundsystem - sound of platinum (soni code remix)

scale versus proportion...

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...:::...i am interested lately in thoughts about scale and proportion...about how one thing relates to the next...and about how things interact and change meaning through proximity...

recently i have been working on a project that has brought context to this distinction. but rather than describe the quantifiables in a laundry-list fashion, i think better to talk about it's translations...across a tilting plane of meaning (remember? i slide around on it in my socked-feet)...

proportion can be a factor of scale, where as one dimension increases, so the others do equally. but what i am more interested in is the feeling of these relationships...of knowing when the balance is right, even if it appears asymmetrical...a lead ball next to a helium-filled balloon...

and sequencing sounds, i think, is very much about proportion...about how placing one song next to another can shift it's weight...about how it is less the length or tone or melody, and more how these elements create a dialog, press against one another into new shapes and forms...about how they build a new and wonderful wall-less room around you through testing their proportions...in constant movement, adjusting the teeter and the wobble that comes not from looking for a happy medium, but from getting a little lost sometimes so that you can learn new boundary conditions...

download: 070309-modyfier part01

gastek – white (king roc remix) : feb 2007 on inminimal
agaric – b untitled : feb 2007 on we are records
intensitive – bit beat : feb 2007 on geometricdeck
kj gibbs – won’t be (bruno’s mascara remix) : mar 2007 on lessizzmore
andreas henneberg – reverb-deverb (minimedley mix mathias schaffhaeuser) : feb 2007 on karatemusik
john tejada & arian leviste – multiplier : mar 2007 on palette recordings
stefan tretau – karawankem blues : mar 2007 on sounderground records
christian quast – dream of me : feb 2007 on glueckskind schallplatten
mike rubin – sandman superstar (florian meindl remix) : jan 2007 on stil vor talent
martin eyerer & toni rios – liberacion : mar 2007 on kickboxer recordings
novatek – normal : mar 2007 on tongut
seuil – affected : feb 2007 on 60sec records

download: 070309-modyfier part02

colorswitch – spy : mar 2007 on clever music
pakt – where is my jeans : oct 2006 on acid milk recordings
sebastian roya – distancias de noche : feb 2007 on connoisseur recordings
christian dittmann – la mafia : mar 2007 on thinner
d.j.a. – noelles : mar 2007 on acid milk recordings
teka – stuch (mlle caro & franck garcia remix) : jan 2007 on sismic music
mike breitfeld – pulsevector : mar 2007 on broque
juno6 – radio am : mar 2007 on 1-bit wonder
d. diggler – odic force (volta remix) : feb 2007 on resopal schallware
bjorn wilke – r u ready ralph (someone else remix) : feb 2007 on level non zero recordings
paul ritch – souba : mar 2007 on resopal schallware
joakim – everything bright and still : feb 2007 on !k7 records

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DJ VERSE aka LAUREN WHEELER aka FIGHTING WORDS

This set was inspired by several things. To begin with, I squeezed myself into a guest spot at Fail Safe, a bimonthly ambient/drone/trip hop/electro/what-have-you night started by Yosh! and Kiechle at Julie's Supper Club in San Francisco. According to Wikipedia, a fail safe is "a device which, if (or when) it fails, fails in a way that will cause no harm or at least a minimum of harm to other devices or danger to personnel." It may also be described as "an operation which ensures that a failure of equipment, process, or system does not propagate beyond the immediate environs of the failing entity."

Seeing as how this was the first time in three years I'd played records beyond the immediate environs of my bedroom, and seeing as how I was primarily a house deejay playing at a venue whose audience I know mostly from the industrial and goth scene, I felt a certain tension to play music that I wouldn't normally bring out to a club simply to appease the masses. However, this was a fail safe. I could play what I wanted with minimal harm, though deejaying in and of itself is a matter of propagating a process beyond one's immediate environs, i.e. the jukebox that lives in my head. I needed to be honest, and fearless.

And so, this is part of my creative process--my emotional and intellectual interior leads to a particular engagement with my surroundings. These must mesh before I attempt to beat-match or write a poem or sing a note. It's not peace I'm looking for as the precursor to making art, but a certain synchronicity. Art is neither consumed nor created in a vacuum.

This mix contains old favorites of mine as well as a couple of tracks I discovered on Rayna's blog; it includes songs that were always "too slow" to play at house parties and songs that are simply not house. At its beginning and at its end, it speaks to a state of mind (and heart) that has been very real to me lately: vulnerability, a lack of defenses, a willingness to take risks. This heart, this mind, are united with a body demanding motion, wanting to move, move, move.

dj verse - process part 011 by modyfier

01. RJD2 - Here's What's Left
02. Everyday People - I Can't Sleep (Afronaught Main Mix)
03. Alex Gopher - The Child (Kenny Dope Radio Edit)
04. Rithma - The New Simple (Joshua's Main Mix)
05. Brett Johnson - You + Me = We
06. Trentemoller - Always Something Better (Trentemoller Dub Remix)
07. Brancaccio & Aisher - Everybody (Original Mix)
08. MAW Electronic - Tranz
09. Snax - Immer So (Kaos Re-dub)
10. Marlow - Exposed
11. Marques Wyatt - For Those Who Like to Get Down
12. Tommy Moye & Bryan Tyson - High Time
13. Jay J & Chris Lum - Freaks Like Us (Original Mix)
14. Paul Jackson - Bulldozer
15. King Kooba - Fooling Myself (Attack of the 50 Foot Kooba From Mars Mix)
16. Amphibian feat. Natalie Elizabeth Gay - Empty (Marlow's Five, Four, Three Version)

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...:::...i have been thinking about the differences between environments that are created from product consumption and intentionally (or permanantly) designed spaces....

when people bring items into their everyday...they begin to re-shape their environments through the things that they choose to have around (or on) them: a t-shirt, a pair of jeans or shoes, a poster on the wall, a song in the air...these are the parts, the temporal things, that construct personal spaces...and if enough of these overlap through interaction, they begin to re-shape the actual built and constructed world through colonizing...like pixelization, like a chuck close painting, maybe...

and i find with music, that if enough of these consumable sounds are sequenced and strung together throughout the day, an intentional environment can be created (in synchronicity with the physical one) to cradle whatever my emotional barometer may be reading...

and then there is a musing for another day about the responsibility of actually designing built spaces...:::...

download: 070305-modyfier

luetzenkirchen & toby montana – last night in vegas : jan 2007 on roy toys
cortney tidwell – don’t let stars keep us tangled up (ewan pearson’s objects in space remix edit) : feb 2007 on ever records
jack rock – morning electric (the international victims remix) : dec 2006 on wir
kab – release : jan 2007 on wir
petar dundov – awakening dream : feb 2007 on music man records
sweno n – black sun feat nik felice (monoroom remix) : feb 2007 on parquet recordings
vermittelnde elemente & c*rock – all gas : feb 2007 on onitor
soulrack – modul age : mar 2007 on cray1 labworks
havana funk – babae (cristian paduraru mix) : feb 2007 on open bar music
claude von stroke – the whistler (worthy mix) : feb 2007 on dirtybird
jurgen pappe – take this : jan 2007 on kompakt
santos – tromba (parker frisby remix) : jan 2007 on hell yeah
alejandro vivanco – nomade : dec 2006 on dumb unit
sasse – gravity (peter dildo dirtymind replay) : feb 2007 on moodmusic
jacek sienkiewicz & marek r – ride : dec 2006 on recognition
luci – da o : sep 2006 on mutek
lee jones – there comes a time (prins thomas mix) : feb 2007 on aus music

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PHARRELL

Place: Orleans, France
Time: 1am
Settings: My Laptop is on my bed, I'm drinking some cherry coke, and I'm on the 4th floor.
Ichat: I'm speaking to Rayna, Idibi and Elodie.

Je construis mes playlist comme des histoires d'amour, mais pas comme mes histoires d'amour, car celles de mes sets finissent généralement bien. J'ai réalise ce mix en live avec Traktor 3, sans controleur, sans monitoring, le tout directement enregistré dans Adobe Audition 1.5 via le mix stereo de la carte son interne de mon laptop. Les morceaux sont enchainés en créant une boucle de 2, 4, ou 8 mesures. Ces 6 morceaux sont exactement ce que je pourrai passer au milieu d'un set vers 4h du matin, chaque morceau étant un baiser avec le mur de sécurité d'une autoroute. J'envisage toujours mes sets comme une longue course, mais pas des tours de stades, plutot une course d'obstacle, pour surprendre le danseur, le reveiller l'espace d'un instant de son ivresse, de son absence, lui rappeler que le beat peut s'arreter pour un long break.

google translator says: I build my playlist like stories of love, but not like my stories of love, because those of my sets finish generally well. I have carry out this mix into live with Traktor 3, without controller, without monitoring, the whole directly recorded in Adobe Hearing 1.5 via the mix stereophony of the chart his intern of my laptop. The pieces are enchainés by creating a loop of 2, 4, or 8 measurements. These 6 pieces are exactly what I will be able to pass in the middle of a set towards 4h of the morning, each piece being a kiss with the wall of safety of a motorway. I always consider my sets like a long race, but not of the turns of stages, rather an obstacle race, to surprise the dancer, to awake it the one moment space of his intoxication, of his absence, to recall him that the happy one can stop for a long station-wagon.

pharrell - process part 010 ((mis)understanding 2.1) by modyfier

01. One-Two - O Hot Brain (Destroyed by Pedro & Panama): This remix is like a melodic riot, or better, like an online war video game.

02. Uzi Suicide - 1971 (Passions remix): I've made a loop with 2 kicks and the dirty noise of the intro, all the track is a game beetween light and dark.

03. Van She Tech vs Utah Saints - Something Good: I've made a loop of 4 kicks to mix with the Uzi Suicide tracks, Van She Tech always bring more and more and more energy, and the voice is so perfect, the end of the tracks sounds like a big mess, but always controlled.

04. Guns'n'Bombs - Nothing Is Getting Us Anywhere (Acid Girls remix): This song is just a BANGER, The wave doing "muhumuhumuhu" with a discret kicks is perfect at the beginning and Jamie & Greg of Acid Girls drop the acid "ouh ouh ouh" with some smart glitches. The end is just a big fireworks.

05. Remute - Please Say Something (Christopher Just remix): One, two, one, two, so binary, the medium break is so peacefull, and bring a big fresh time in this loud remix.

06. Robin S - Show Me Love: Dance classic, need I add something?