After a long break, I’m back with a new 180-minute Netmix Global House Sessions Podcast. Has it been a year already? I guess so. Life kind of got in the way. I’m brushing off the laptop cobwebs and putting together a hot mix for the holidays.

There are 29 tracks in this mix, which is approximately 3 hours and 8 minutes. I inadvertently used Lukas Greenberg’s “A New System” twice. I don’t know what I was thinking, but enjoy it two times around, because it is a slammin track!

1. No Turning Back – Original Mix – Gui Boratto – Kompakt
2. Libellules – Original Mix – Agoria – InFine Music
3. Praise You – Fatboy Slim vs. Fedde Le Grand Remix – Fatboy Slim, Fedde Le Grand – Skint Records
4. Feels Like I’m Dancin – Ahmet Sendil Remix – Ahmet Sendil, Sivana – Bazooka
5. 73 Tomtom Avenue – Jimpster Mix – Jimpster, David K – Tsuba
6. The Rhythm Track – Jimpster Remix – Jimpster, Milton Jackson – Freerange Records
7. A New System – Lukas Greenberg ‘Drift’ Mix – Ross Couch, Lukas Greenberg – Body Rhythm Records
8. Stoppage Time – Reshuffle Remix – Guy Gerber, Niv Hadas – Bedrock Records
9. Dance Bits – Original Mix – Tek DiLuxe – Overline Records
10. Acid – Lost In Acid Ausfahrt Mix – David Tort – Strictly Rhythm
11. Good Life – Original Mix – Kim Fai – Size Records
12. I Like House Music – Original Mix – DJ PP – Soulman Music
13. I’m Gonna Get You – Remix – Bizarre Inc. – S2
14. Rhythm Is A Dancer – Tee’s Mix – Snap – Arista
15. Rhythm Is A Dancer – Armand Van Helden Remix – Snap – N/A
16. Balearic – Original Mix – Submission DJ – Tribal Spain
17. Can I Get……?! – Matthias Meyer Remix – Matthias Meyer, Alex Niggemann – Supernature
18. That Feeling – DJ Chus 2010 Revisited Mix – DJ Chus, The Groove Foundation     Defected
19. Amalfino – Original Mix – Kaiserdisco – MBF
20. Wobble Night – Original Mix – Remerc – Greelpound
21. Je T’aime – Carlo Lio Mix – Kolombo, Carlo Lio – Hotfingers
22. Empty Trash – Original Mix – Joris Voorn – Rejected
23. A New System – Lukas Greenberg ‘Drift’ Mix – Ross Couch, Lukas Greenberg – Body Rhythm Records
24. Matter – Original Vocal Mix – Matteo Marini – Deeperfect Records
25. To The Six – Original Mix – Boom Jinx, Andrew Bayer – Anjunadeep
26. Who Dares To Believe In Me? – Martijn Ten Velden Remix – Martijn Ten Velden, The Believers – Strictly Rhythm
27. Joy – Original Mix – Butch – Bangbang!
28. Celebrate – Original Mix – Manuel De La Mare, Matteo Matteini – Hotfingers
29. Hidden Source – Original Mix – Daniele Papini – Break New Soil

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Netmix Global House Mix Show for 11-2008 by DJ Tony Z

DJ Tony Z is back with 3 hours of tech and progressive house, masterfully mixed using Ableton Live 6. For bookings, contact djtonyz (at) netmix.com.

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Netmix Global House Podcast

We’re back with a new podcast, Global House Sessions – August 2008. All tracks are available through Beatport.com. Subscribe to the podcast to download.

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Track Listing:

• Rock To The Beat – Kevin Saunderson – Christian Smith & John Selway Remix
• Reynosa – Emilio Fernandez – Original Mix
• Diablo – Oliver Huntemann & Dubfire – Original Mix
• Chime – The Shapeshifters – Martin Ten Velden Remix
• Born Slippy – DJ Joe K and Beto Dias Remix
• I Begin To Wonder 2008 – Jean Claude Ades – Jerome Isma-Ae Remix
• Solid – Sweno N – Original Mix
• Space Time – Deadmau5 Vocal Mix – Mike Di Scala, Colin Airey
• Get Wild – Sharam – Steve Agnello Remix
• Deep Down feat. Shirley Davis – J Nitti – Original Mix

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I am re-releasing this podcast from 01-02-06, which aired only on Netmix Internet radio but was never available for download through the new Netmix Podcast RSS feed.

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I am re-releasing this podcast from 04-01-06, which aired only on Netmix
Internet radio but was never available for download through the new Netmix
Podcast RSS feed.

I am re-releasing this podcast from 10-10-05, which aired only on Netmix Internet radio but was never available for download through the new Netmix Podcast RSS feed.

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Beatportal.com, the daily blog journal run by the folks at Beatport.com, where kind enough to run my latest Netmix Global House Podcast in the Community feed section. You can check out the posting here.

Many companies are now looking to users to generate content for their blogs. Hiring bloggers is an expensive proposition against revenues. If you’re traffic doesn’t cover the cost of the hosting and content production, then it’s smart to look to the user community to develop content for a web site. We may be doing that ourselves very soon!

On another note, we’re moving away from Podpress for Wordpress as a Podcasting plug-in. It seems the developer is no longer supporting the application since 2007. As far as we can tell, Podpress has become extremely problematic, conflicting with more recent plug-ins, to the point that it breaks the plug-in repository in your Wordpress admin. We found the new Podcasting plug-in. When used in conjunction with a Feedburner_Feedsmith plug-in, we think it works quite nicely.

Podcasting supports iTunes, but it does not have links to the other podcasting web site featured through Podpress. It also does not host a download link with its player, nor does its player show the number of downloads. A bit disappointing, yes, but do I really need to tell people how many podcasts have been downloaded? Or, is that just a bit of ego on my part? I’ll go with the ego and forgo displaying the number for now. As long as I know what it is and that number is in overall subscriptions, I’m going to say that’s more important to Netmix growth over the long term.

That being said, my workaround was to simple. I added a text link under the Podcasting player provided by Feedburner to allow anyone to subscribe to my podcast feed. That way, it will ping users who have subscribed to the podcast with updates, in the same way that Podpress functions.

In a nutshell, I think we’ll be better off for the time being. Feedburner is quite a powerful way to organize and distribute feeds. For Netmix, that’s another great analytics tool, which compliments our Google Analtyics and GetClicky accounts.

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The next installment in Tony Z’s Global House Mix series for June 2008. This mix is dedicated to my girlfriend, Missy, who has been so supportive despite my disappearing for hours in the studio to produce these shows. It’s also dedicated to all those who are seeking inspiration to pursue their goals and realize their dreams.

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If you want to purchase the individual tracks, click on the download links at the end of every song title to purchase from Beatport.com.

1. Love In War – KID Remix – Pete Gust | Download
2. Give It Up – Alex Gold Remix – Adam K/Soha | Download
3. Jupiter Calling – Original Mix – Thomas Schwartz | Download
4. Sunrise – Original Mix – Dave Spoon | Download
5. Pjanoo – Original Mix – Eric Prydz | Download
6. I Just Want To Be – Antoine Clamaran Remix – Sebastien Drums/Rolf Dyman | Download
7. Automatic – Tikaro/J.Louis/Ferran Remix – Ultra Nate | Download
8. Rhythm Is A Dancer – Tom Novy Remix – Snap! | Download
9. Down Down Down – Mattias Remix – No Tone | Download
10. You – Tom Novy Remix – Steve Mac/Paul Harris | Download
11. Got That M – Original Mix – Patch Park | Download
12. Vertical Smile – Original Mix – Andomat 3000 | Download
13. Rising Up – Christian Malloni Remix – Ross Couch | Download
14. Yes We Can – Original Mix – House Music United | Download
15. 4 AM – Adam K & Soha Mix – Kaskade | Download
16. Moscow After Autumn Rain – Original Mix – Elastic Sound | Download
17. Silence (feat. Sarah McLachlan) – Neils Van Gogh vs Thomas Gold Remix – Delerium | Download
18. Delightful Encounters – Terry’s Deeplightful Edit – Terry Lee Brown Junior | Download Not Available
19. City of Lost Souls – Stan Kolev Remix – Pete Moss | Download

Mushrooms – Justin Martin Mix – Marshall Jefferson/Noosa Heads | Download

20. Papaia – Original Mix – Tony Lionni | Download
21. We Are Facing The Sun – Original Mix – Sascha Funke | Download
22. The Big Blue – Original Mix – Billy Dalessandro | Download
23. Here Come The Beats – Original Mix – Fred Everything/JT Donaldson | Download
24. Manta – Original Mix – Jona | Download
25. No Comment – Original Mix – Solomun | Download
26. Berno – Mark August Remix – Till Von Sein | Download

After a few starts and stops, I’ve finally gotten around to finishing up my latest 3-hour mix show. Things have been hectic over the last few months and I just didn’t have the time to focus on it. But, it’s finally done!

I love the 3-hour format, because you can really stretch out and program a variety of tunes into the set. So, download to your desktop and transfer to your portable device—or simply just listen to it here.

I’ve also provided links to download each individual track from Beatport.com when available. I know I was hard on Beatport in the past, but the service finally got around to building out a text linking program through their partnerships with Linkshare, an affiliate network that provides companies with the tools to build out affiliate programs. I found most of the tracks, but there were a few I couldn’t track down. It might be because they are new and haven’t pushed an update to Linkshare yet. Beatport have also created an API through LinkShare, which I hope to use in the future. But for now, we’ll just keep it simple.

Would love to know what you think, so please come back and post your comments. Enjoy!

Track Listing:

1. Pianeep – Satoshi Fum | Beatport Download
2. Atlantic Deep – Christos Kessidis
3. No Te Vas feat. Angela Jones – Christos Kessidis| Beatport Download
4. Here Comes The Sun (Stryke’s Sunshine State of Mind Remix) – The Timewriter | Beatport Download
5. Not Exactly – Deadmau5 | Beatport Download
6. Faxing Berlin (Chris Lake Edit) – Deadmau5
7. Sweet Sensation – Satoshi Fumi, Deptech | Beatport Download
8. It’s Majik (Terry Lee Brown Jr Remix) – Gui Borratto | Beatport Download
9. Blonda (Funk D’Void Remix) – Shlomi Aber, Itamar Sagi | Beatport Download
10. Cosmic Force (Soul Minority Remix) – Andy Cato (Groove Armada) | Beatport Download
11. Do You Want it Right Now (Mischa Daniels Funktion Remix) – Degrees of Motion | Beatport Download
12. Toto – Brazen | Beatport Download
13. Twilight – Adam K, Soha | Beatport Download
14. Back In My Life feat. Fourfeet – Chuck Love | Beatport Download
15. Space Carnival (Global Communication’s Remix) – Azymuth | Beatport Download
16. I’m Not Afraid of The Future (Jimpster Mix) -Akabu | Beatport Download
17. Make It Move – Pete Moss | Beatport Download
18. Pass The Suntan Lotion (Nic Fanciulli Remix) James Talk | Beatport Download
19. Tribe – The Mulder | Beatport Download
20. World, Hold On feat. Steve Edwards (Wally Lopez Factomania Vocal Remix) – Bob Sinclair | Beatport Download
21. World, Hold On feat. Steve Edwards (Wally Lopez Factomania Dub Remix) – Bob Sinclair | Beatport Download
22. Can’t Let Me Down (JJK Remix) – George Morel, Romina Johnson
23. Don’t Go – PUZIQUe
24. Hydrology – Glenn Morrison | Beatport Download
25. Everybody’s Free feat. Rozalla (General Electric Mix) – Global Deejays
26. Toca Me (Inpetto 2008 Remix) – Fragma
27. Seka (Francesco Pico Remix) – AMB

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After a long semester at NYU and the exciting events that have taken place at StarStyle over the past 6 months, I finally took some time to learn how to DJ with Ableton Live 6. The program is a mix show programmer’s dream. With it, you can either DJ live or you can use the sequencing feature to lay your tracks into the timeline. The software uses a feature called “warping” to identify and sync the beats from two different songs.

For many years, I refused to go from vinyl to CD. When CDs skip, it can cause a very ubrupt digital hiccup. It’s not something that I inherently trusted in a live environment. CD players rely on optics to read the discs. I always thought, correctly or not, that if the player wasn’t cleaned regularly, you’d have dirt accumulate on the lenses and cause a skipping problem. Not to mention, once a CD is scratched, it renders the technogy pretty much useless. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been in nightclubs and heard that awful sound.

A few years back, I’d seen a demo of Stanton’s Final Skratch in beta (before Stanton acquired the technology). I was impressed but had heard there were latency issues. I continued to play vinyl until Native Instruments released the first version of Traktor DJ. After that, I was hooked on digital DJing. You no longer needed to carry crates of records (I used to carry about 400 to 500 to my gigs), lug turntables or worry about CDs skipping. I really liked Traktor 2, but was unhappy with Traktor 3’s new software interface. They’d changed the pitch control from a fader to a knob. I think that was a big mistake. Unless you can assign the knob to a hardware interface, it’s hard to work with the knob using a mouse. I also noticed the the beat sync wasn’t as good as in the prior version.

I’d started to hear about a few DJs, like Sasha and David Waxman, who were using Ableton Live to mix. I’d got a copy of Live Lite 4 with an M-Audio firewire interface. I quickly realized there wasn’t much I could do with it, unless I converted all my mp3 tracks to wav. It wasn’t until Ableton 5 that MP3 was adopted as a supported format. A few weeks ago, I purchased Live 6 from B&H Photo on 34th Street (got a discount with my NYU student ID) and got started learning how to DJ with it. The manual doesn’t offer much real instruction, so I checked out YouTube.com, where I found a few video tutorials, which taught me how to warp my tracks and set up my mixer with M-Audio firewire DJ Mixer.

After a few stops and starts, I learned that I didn’t have to spend three hours at a sitting mixing my set. I could lay all the tracks in to the timeline and match or sync them. What a revelation! It became so simple to put together a set, which I’ve posted here. You can either listen by clicking the play icon or you can download the full set. At about 125 MBs, it’ll take about 25 minutes to download on a cable modem. Of course, you can also tune into Netmix Radio, where the show can be heard between 8pm and 11 pm, Mon. thru Fri.

Netmix presents a SXSW 2007 podcast with Dr. Matthew Dunn, CEO of Music IP. The company is a leader in the audio fingerprinting and music recommendation space with a catalog representing over 28 Million tracks.

Instead of explaining what MusicIP is, here’s a quote from their website: “MusicIP’s unique music matching technology defines relationships between sets of music based on acoustic traits and characteristics. With the goal to know about all the music in the world, MusicIP creates products and services to increase listener enjoyment and artist recognition through a one-of-a-kind music discovery experience.”

Please use the download link to listen. For some reason, the PodPress Flash Player is playing the audio at half-speed. I’ve spent the latter part of the day trying to figure out the problem. It’s a bug I’ve been looking for a solution to. Thanks for your patience.

UPDATE 3/16: Fixed the Flash problem. Mixed the stereo file down to mono. Working fine now.

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Last week, I posted my first ever podcast, but because I had two (2) media files in one blog posting, the enclosures feature for Wordpress didn’t work properly and didn’t send out my podcast through the rss feed. Sure, you could see the links in the post, but if you subscribed to my feed, neither the Real Media or MP3 files showed up in a reader. So, I’m going to try it again individually, until I can figure out how to add two enclosures to a post and have it show up in an rss reader.