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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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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.
Download the podcast or listen to the mix using the player below.
Download June 2008 Netmix Global House Sessions Podcast
For DJ bookings, contact me.
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.
Mushrooms – Justin Martin Mix – Marshall Jefferson/Noosa Heads | 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!
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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.
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.
Tony Zeoli is an innovative digital media product development executive who has been at the forefront of the convergence of music and technology since he founded Netmix.com in 1995.
He has guided music, video and web application product development and strategy for a wide range of companies including Cablevision, the Associated Press, Entertainment Media Works and is currently Vice President of Product Development, IA and UxD at Zaah Technologies. He also advises the organizers of the National Museum of Hip Hop and Hall of Fame on interactive strategy
With a celebrated DJ career spanning 25-years, today, music fans from around the world enjoy his DJ mixes through Netmix podcasts.
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