The Broken Beats – The Rules (Eumig & Chinon Remix) by Eumig & Chinon

Freedom is a track inpired by Jean-Claude Petit’s soundtrack for the 80′s TV Show Champs-Elysées! Feedbacks, comments & supports welcomed!

Freedom by wizemusic

Sometimes, you listen to a track and think this is exactly the kind of track you would have loved to produce. DJ DLG’s rework of Rozalla’s famous track “Everybody’s Free”, is definitely that kind of track! Big, powerful, melodic, with a huge hook this new shot by DLG really has everything! And the best part : it’s FREE!

DJ DLG vs Rozalla – Everybody’s Free

I heavily use the web to promote my work. And WordPress is the starting point of all my communications : news, music, gigs, newsletter, etc… WordPress is now a key tool for anyone in the music business.

Here are 10 essential plugins for WordPress, a DJ or a musician just can’t leave without!

1. Contact Form 7

Every artist needs to keep in touch with his fans, and being able to be contacted straight from his website is really important. Contact From 7 does just that: creating simple or advanced forms you can embed in a page or a post. The only thing that misses for me is the ability to generate form with dynamic data (such as a list of posts to be selected.)

2. WPaudio

WPaudio is a simple yet clean Flash Audio Player for WordPress. It automatically replaces any mp3 links with a nice minimal player. I tested a lot of different players over the years, but this one has the most neutral style and is easy to custom (select Style in the option of the plugin.)

• Example: Selections By Wize – May 2010

3. eShop for WordPress

If you need a small digital shop for your site, eShop will perfectly fit your needs. You upload a track, put a name on it and, this is the most interesting feature, you embed it to a post. For me, the fact that you can put your digital product straight into any post or page, without the need for the visitor to go to a specific catalog page is very interesting. I just regret the poor style of the initial layout.

• Example here

4. Gigs Calendar

Gigs Calendar is the only relevant Gigs management plugin I found. I implemented it for my friend RLP. You create your venues, gigs, tours, and every event is linked to a post so that you can attract visitors to your site. It also generates very useful pages and widgets to be implemented to your site, and also a rss feed that you can embed in an email signature if you like.

• Example: here

5. Twit Connect

Twit Connect allows your Twitter fans to directly comment your post using their Twitter account. Also your fans can connect to your site with their Twitter account without the need to register. Very interesting feature that I start to heavily use on my sites.

6. WordPress Download Monitor

This plugin is one of the most important plugins for me. It allows to tracks downloads of any file on your site, you can also limit the download to registered users. I use it for Free Downloads reserved to my members only. Very easy to configure and flexible for quite tricky customisations such as the modification of the output of your links (you can add the size of your file, an icon linked to its type, etc…)

7. Lifestream

This plugin aggregates your social activity to a single and very classy stream you can display in widgets. You can add a lot of social portals such as Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, etc…

8. All In One SEO Pack

Simply one of the plugins I can’t live without. Almost no configuration and it works like a charm optimizing your blog for search engines. Great and effective plugin to have in its WordPress intallation.

9. Popularity Contest

This is a very famous plugin that classifies almost everything in your blog by popularity. Very useful to put in a widget like “Most Popular Posts”.

10. Facebook Connector

Facebook Connector brings Facebook to your blog. But it’s quite tricky to configure and needs some skill in PHP, Javascript and Facebook API. People can comment on your blog from their Facebook account just like Twit Connect does.

Hi all! Just a few words to present you my brand new 1 hour mix which is available on Sismic Music Podcast!

Here is the tracklist:

1. Wize – Grand Voyage (T.B.S Remix) – Sismic Music
2. Phunktastike & Electrobios – On My own – Baroque Records
3. Tim Versace – Linda (Original Mix) – CDR
4. Artego vs Pryda – The Nebo And Zemlya`s Gift (Wize Dub – Ricky Ryan Mashup) – CDR
5. Hernan Cerbello – You Are Divine – Baroque Records
6. The Adjuster – I Want It – Dumbest
7. Monkz – Lifetime (Jay Lower Jr. Remix) – Radiocity Records
8. Wize – Grand Voyage (Original Mix) – Sismic Music
9. Dirty South – The End (Tocadisco Loves Techno Instrumental Mix) – Vicious
10. Tony Blunt – Nearly – Epsilon Trax
11. Wize – Grand Voyage (Artego Remix) – Sismic Music

You can subscribe to the podcast here.

Il va varier selon le ton donné de la production, un vaste choix de banque de samples reprennent les sons des TR 808 et 909 de chez Roland ou encore du LinnDrum qui sont réputés pour leurs qualité et leur efficacité.

Si un sample ne vous satisfait pas suivez ces indications sinon passez directement à l’Etape 2 avec le sample choisi :

Prenez un Kick avec une attack longue et frappant dans les bas et prenez un deuxième avec une attack très courte avec un ton sec puis mettez les sur deux pistes audio.

Afin d’éviter de passer dans le rouge au niveau de la sommation une bonne équalisation fera l’affaire .

• Pour le pied bas :

Sonalksis SV-517 Mk2 Equaliser Plug-in

• Pour le pied sec :

Sonalksis SV-517 Mk2 Equaliser Plug-in

Envoyer les deux kick dans un même Bus.

Etape 2 : Mix & Compression

Réglez les niveaux des pistes en fonction de l’effet désiré, le principal étant de ne pas saturer, traitez la panoramique afin de ne pas créer un hors phase lors de la sommation à l’aide d’un plug par ex Direction Mixer de Logic.

Direction Mixer by Logic Studio

Mettez une compression sur le bus avec une attack très courte 0,08 ms par ex, plus la release sera courte et plus elle rallongera votre pied, un ratio de 4.1 sera suffisant afin de ne pas écraser trop le kick avec un seuil à -8 db.

EQ

Etape 3 : EQ

Afin de redonner du punch au kick rajouter après la compression un EQ en remontant les bas vers 120 hz.

Sonalksis SV-517 Mk2 Equaliser Plug-in

Par Edu O

However, what I’ll try to explain in three steps today is: how to get a killer over compressed sound like Justice, Revolte, etc…

Step 1: Choose The Right Drums

Everyone knows a good electro track is before all: good drums! So take time to create rich and punchy drums & beats.

• If your old-school midi-composing style (like me) try my all time favorite PlugSound Volume 3 Drum & Percs (VST/DirectX)
• If your more drum loops oriented then give a try to Mutekki Vengeance Electro Essentials.

Step 2: Choose The Right Overdrive

Most of dirty electro tracks today have, among over-compression, a crunchy and noisy effect on basslines, synths or guitars…

There are of course a lot of effects to put some overdrive on your tracks… But if I could only pick one plugin, it would definitely be the GuitarRig by Native Instruments. You need a huge configuration to make it work properly, but the result is here: awesome!

• Select the kind of distortion/overdrive you want to apply (eg: guitar, bass, etc…) in Bank Menu.
• Select the preset in Sound Menu.
• You can also setup everything manually from amp to reverb on the right…

Don’t hesitate to try it on your drums or synth!

Step 3: Choose The Right Compressor

Again, there are a lot of compressor in the market. So I will talk about what I know and use heavily. In fact most of the time, I use the natural compression of my sidechain effect.

But when I want to add a powerful crunchy and pumpy effect, I use the CompressorX by Timeworks. It simulates analog compression and really rock it, giving a warm and powerful feeling.

Compressor X is amazing. Where do we start? This is more compression control than you should need in this lifetime. [...] this unit has it all, I am able to emulate Urei’s 1176′s, DBX 165a’s, Manley variable MU’s, Digital comps, you name it. This thing is amazing. Try it, see for yourself what it can do. (source: www.sonictimeworks.com)

As long as we compress differently, I will give you a different setting that the one I recommand in the 3 Steps To Get A Killer Mastering, but this fits better for a Justice-like musical style, and that’s what it’s all about, right?

So, add the CompressorX to your master or a bus with the drums (at least the kick). This will replace the sidechain. You will compress the overall mix, and your track will react with noises and overdrive to your compression and distortion.

Then set the CompressorX as follow:

• Put the Out button a bit on the right (not too much this would crush your channel)
• Put the Threshold button a bit on the left in order to make the track pump.

Be careful with thos settings this can quickly make your mix more dirty than you really want it to be. Don’t hesitate to test it on several speakers (hifi, headphones, etc…) and compare with other tracks…[/lang_en]

Mastering and mixing are some of the most important skills a producer has to master… The question is how to get your averall track sounds:

• Clear
• Powerful
• Wide

Step 1: Do I Have The Right Speakers?

Ask yourself the question: do I have the right headphone or speaker?

I can assure you one thing, as long as I plugged my PC to a Hi Fi I’ve not been able to master anything. The bass boost was completely falsing the overall mix and when I sent some demos at this time I got feedback such as “Your music is cool, but, damn! Your sound sucks!“. Ask Joachim Garraud when I sent him some track in early 2004…

If you have to invest in something for your studio, it’s in the speakers. It’s like when you recover your sight when putting on your glasses…

For me, there’re two options:

1. You got people around you who don’t care about your beloved but noisy boom boom boom music and you need to work with a headphone: I use you this one: Sony MDR-V700DJ. Excellent and precise sound.
2. You don’t care about other people! You want to work with a speakers, then here are the monitors I use: Samson Rubicon R5A.

What you have to retain of this step is: Speakers are the most important part of the studio.

Step 2: Never Touch To The Master Channel

I never touch the master out. I used to and I never got any good result. I tried to compress, I tried to EQ but nothing clean and powerful came out.

What I advise you to do is to work on the sound of buses separatly. Work the equalization, the compression, or whatever of each buses instead of applying a compression to the general channel.

This needs more work but you will definitely make your mix more clearer, more powerful and easier to modify.

Step 3: Cherish The EQ

The basis of all good mix is a clever management of frequencies. You know that, right?

• A bassline, kicks, etc… by definition will deliver bass frequencies
• Cymbals will deliver high frequencies.
• Pads will mainly deliver medium/high frequencies.

The idea is to try to isolate each instrument in its range of frequencies. Results will be immediat.

If you cut a little bit of bass of your pad and add a little more high frequencies you’ll see your pad will be clearer and the overall mix cleaner.

Anyway, the secret of a good mastering is every instruments used can be precisely heard… Work on frequencies of each instrument until you hear everything clearly.

But be careful to go easy on adding or cutting dB for frenquencies. It’s a matter of precision.

I tried a lot of effects and settings before finding the final and accurate sidechain I would never leave for my productions and remixes. But before getting to that point I needed a little bit of theory:

Side-chaining uses the signal level of another input or an equalized version of the original input to control the compression level of the original signal. (source: Wikipedia)

That’s all you need to know! Basically, if you want to make your synth channel pump, you will need to apply a signal that will compress your channel on the beat.

For me, a good sidechain is making the overall mix pump without crushing the instruments and the stereo.

Step 1: Choose the right signal

Click

This is the signal I use to apply sidechain on the channels of my track. Just a metronome click.

1. I create an audio channel called “Click” to put my click loop.
2. I create a bus called “Sidechain” that will receive the sidechain signal… I will root the channels I want to sidechain to that bus.

Step 2: Choose the right compressor

As a compressor, I use the same effects for years.

This is a 39$ effect you will never leave: dB-D Dynamic Processor by Db Audioware.

1. I add this effect to my “Click” channel to send the signal. I put the Gain button to “Mute” and the Send button to “A”.
2. I add this effect to my “Sidechain” bus to receive the signal. I put Thresh to “-30.0″, Ratio to “LIMIT”, Attack to “0.5″, Decay to “100″, Knee to “1.5″ and RECV to “A”.

You can also play with the overall compression settings by normalizing the Click loop, this will increase the compression.

Step 3: Choose the right mastering

As far as I remember, I didn’t have to use more than two separate sidechain buses on my tracks.

For example, on my remix of Itajai Vibes I used two sidechain buses:

1. A bus for the bassline only to keep it warm, powerful and pumping without crushing other elements.
2. Another bus for the other elements.

In the case you want to create more than one sidechain bus you repeat exactly the same manipulation but the buttons Send and Recv are to be set to “B”, or “C”, etc…

They simply made the Queen of Funky bassline…

Maybe you would be interested to know how to setup such a bass sound with VST instruments and effects? Well, that’s what I’ll try to explain you.

Step 1: Choose the right bass sound

I’d recommand an old-school fingered bass sound, to give this warm sound Fred Falke have…

Trilogy by Spectrasonic is amazing and features a large choice of Fingered/Picked basses that can definitely be a good basis for your sound.

Step 2: Choose the right EQ effect

OK. Now you got your nice fingered/picked bass… But how to give it this such warm and special sound?

Since 2002, I use the same effect to EQ my basslines and make them warmer. This is the Renaissance Bass module by Waves.

Use the preset Nose Job and have a listen… You’ll see what it’s all about.

(I advise you to adapt the Freq. (Hz) setting to fit your master mix.)

Step 3: Compose the right bassline

If you have a listen to Alan Braxe & Fred Falke’s track Running, you’ll hear that, as a lot of Funky tracks do, the note used are very short and follow or complete the rythm. Depending on your composing level, try to use eighteenth or sixteenth notes.

Don’t hesitate to give me your feedback about this short tutorial. I plan to write a lesson every 2 weeks or so if you guys like it!

The Heels ‘Bloody Rain’ on Sismic Music is a wonderful pastiche of 1980s electric synth pop, with a melody that reeks of familiarity and a feel not unlike Rockwell’s ‘Somebody’s Watching Me’.

But don’t let that reference fool you as this über cool Gallic instrumental will suck you in with its enveloping sound with each successive looped bar.

Created by the talented Basile Fanon (aka Wize), who delivers another offering that’s very much in the current big room electronica sound.

Phat, tech-etched and twisted that also works extremely well in Leeroy Daevis and Slow Motion’s respective new wave electrophonic funk mixes that keep you wanting more long after the run out (or whatever the digital equivalent maybe these days!)

Lewis, thank you very much for your support!

Tracklist Club Life 049 – Direct Link

1. Nick Fiorucci feat. Kelly Malbasa – The Night [chris ortega electro mix]
2. Yoav – Club Thing [redroche rmx]
3. Sultan & Ned Shepard – Itajai Vibes [wize rmx]
4. Everything But The Girl vs. Noel Sanger – Wrong Perfection [nick wax mashup]
5. Airscape – Cruising [scape mix] (Tiesto’s Classic)
6. Headstrong feat. Kirsty Hawkshaw – Love Calls
7. Johan Gielen – Physical Overdrive [kris o’neil 2008 rmx]
8. Duderstadt feat. Kirsty Hawkshaw – Beatitude [marcus schossow rmx]
9. Amex feat. Anna Basel – Komarna [eddie sender rmx]
10. David & Carr feat. Jenna Colaizy – Every Day [dennis sheperd rmx]
11. Milan Lieskovsky – Elenya [heatbeat rmx]

Want more?

• Visit DJ Tiesto’s official website
• Subscribe DJ Tiesto’s Club Life Podcast

It’s time to celabrate! After a storming Episode 1 on January 26th wih Top class DJ friends Muttonheads, Fat Phaze & Slow Motion, let’s party once again!

For the release of my EP Bloody Rain on Sismic Music, a very special event is organized, don’t miss the night: February 23rd @ La Loco, Paris with the worldwide acclaimed DJ RLP along with Sismic’s rosters Fat Phaze & Slow Motion!

A guestlist is opened: olivier@sismic-music.com

Bloody Rain Release Party

Just a few words to tell you the highly supported Itajai Vibes masterpiece, is reviewed on Beatportal by my old friend Lewis Dene! Check this out!

“SNM are Soultan, Ned Shepard and Maher Daniel, each no stranger to the dance arena, while the track also comes with a mixes package featuring 16 Bit Lolitas, Roman Rai, Claes Rosen and Artego, who each offer much to underscore why ‘Itajai Vibes’ is already racing up Beatport’s dance chart.

However, for me, it’s Wize’s ethereal dreamy journey that needs to be heard from beginning-to-end, with loved ones close at hand and preferably at sunset on a sun-kissed beach, to be fully appreciated. Sacredieu!”

http://www.beatportal.com/feed/item/itajai-vibes-with-remixes/

Lewis Dene – MySpace

Lewis Dene’s Solitaire alias has already enjoyed a trio of chart topping and dancefloors filling hits with versions of ‘You Got The Love’, ‘Thinking Of You’, and – ‘I Like Love (I Love Love)’. The latter a huge international hit, that spent 15-weeks in top 40 of the Australian sales chart, ending the year as the third biggest club record of 2003 in both DJ magazine and the Music Week club charts (it spent more weeks on the latter chart than any other)…

Venez fêter la sortie du maxi de The Heels “Bloody Rain” sur Sismic Music le 26 Janvier 2008 à la Loco en présence des producteurs et remixeurs du maxi ainsi que des DJs Slow Motion (Sismic Music), Muttonheads (Serial Records) & Fat Phaze (Résident Loco, Sismic Music)!!

Toutes les infos ici

La Loco – Plan
90, Boulevard de Clichy
75018 Paris – France

Fat Phaze – MySpace

Olivier Huguenard, DJ for 15 years and Emmanuel Plégat, musician and composer, started their cooperation in 1998.They quickly developed a very specific sound in their productions, as a signature, synonym of power and efficiency on the dance floors.Many projects came out, included one in a major company (Fizz), but FAT PHAZE project actually started in 2001 to freely express electro 80′s influences from their teens influences made of enthralling melodies and atmospheres, and entrancing choruses. This parisian duo mixes with talent peppy rythms and harmonies, and mostly uses analogical sounds to transmit their musical universe.

The result of the growing complicity between Emmanuel, musician and Olivier, DJ, is now a matured project with own identity and recognizable style. For integrity they kept through their releases, major artists and producers such as Moonbootica, Sharam Jey, Mylene Farmer, Lottie, Da Fresh (and many more) took interest in their work. So started cooperations and frienship, giving you remixes from/for FAT PHAZE these 3 past years.

Their fame increasing, strong labels such as Polydor, Missdemeanours rec, King Kong rec, Underwater, Work it Baby (and others) invited FAT PHAZE to work with them. Thanks to the confidence various producers and labels grant, FAT PHAZE experiments with great pleasure and opens up on new horizons.

Next step ? one album and one live set?

My remix is charted #20 in Beatport Global Top 100!

Thanks again very much for your support!

Will it reach the 1st place? This is up to you guys!

Sultan’s December 2007 Top 10

1. Sultan & Ned Shepard – Eye Spy – Harem
2. Patch Park – Pitch Black EP – Shinichi
3. Daniel Portman – White Russian
4. Soultan, Ned Shepard & Maher Daniel – Itajai Vibes (Wize Rmx) – Sick Watona
5. Splittr – All Alone (Ned Shepard Rework) – Netswork
6. Jim Rivers – Brassed Off – Misfit
7. King Unique – Yohkoh – Curfew
8. Gold Ryan & Tapesh – Collapse – Timbee
9. Tracey Thorn – Grand Canyon (Dirty South vs Ned Shepard) – CDR
10. Albert Vorne – Ravens Over My Rave (Ozgur Can Rmx) – Armada

Sultan - MySpace

From the desert heat of his country of origin to the winter rigours of Canada, Sultan has travelled a road quite out of the ordinary. In the past four years Sultan has established himself as one of the most innovative and respectable djs and producers in the electronic dance scene. Sultan has had releases on various labels including Deep Dish’s Yoshitoshi label and John Digweed’s Bedrock Breaks Label, as well as several compilations appearances including “Global Underground 25: Toronto” mixed by Deep Dish, Tiesto’s “In Search of Sunrise 4”, Dave Seaman’s “Renaissance Masters”, Deep Dish’s “George Is On” which features “Deep Dish vs Dire Straits – Flashing for Money”(Sultan Club/Radio Mix), hailed as being the worlds first ever legally cleared mash up/remix garnering praise from the electronic dance scene as well as rock legends Dire Straits. And most recently “Global Underground 29: Dubai” mixed By Sharam which features three tracks including Sultan & Ned Shepard’s latest releases “Connected” and “Together We Rise” on Shinichi Records.

In September of 2006 Sultan joined world class Dj agency, Bullitt Bookings. Having toured cities across the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa over the past two years, Sultan has made his mark as one of the most exciting and technically sound performers in the DJ scene today.

In early 2007, Sultan began working closely with good friend Nadia Ali (Former singer of IIO). The two, alongside Ned Shepard, spent the month of January co-writing and co-producing songs for her forthcoming solo Album to be released later this year. Recently both Sultan and Ned Shepard have joined Nadia on tour with Sultan playing guitars and Ned playing keyboards for her Live Show.

Keep an eye out for Sultan’s monthly radio show “Connected Live” the last Monday of every month on DI.FM and Sultan’s forthcoming compilation on Yoshitoshi “Yoshitoshi: Montreal” due out September 2007 .

Last.fm

Maybe you don’t know about Last.fm, UK-based internet radio and music community website. This site is just amazing for artists & labels to promote their sounds, and for music lovers to discover new artists and music related to their musical taste (thanks to audioscrobbler tool.)

I recently added 4 samplers of upcoming releases on Wize Recordings: Freedom EP, Grand Voyage EP & Violin EP!

Link to Wize Recordings’ page on Last.fm

Link to Wize artist’s page on Last.fm

Leeroy Daevis – MySpace

Jonathan Perea – MySpace

Jonathan Perea is a 23 years old remixer, composer & producer. His influences goes from minimal, to house and dance music.