██▓ █████████▓ ██▓ ██▓ ██▓ ██▓ █▓ ██▓ ██████████▓ █▓ ██▓ ██▓ █▓ ██▓ ███▓ ██▓ █▓ █▓ ██▓ ██▓ ██▓ ██▓ ███▓ ██▓ ██████████▓ █████████▓ ██▓ #006 - 072303 ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████▓ █████▓ RELEASE INFO █████▓ artist : VA album : Kirk Degiorgio: FX.Mix.01 year : 2003 label : Keep Diggin' genre : Lo-Fi catalogue : KEEPCD008 url : www.keepdigginrec.com quality : CD 192k HQ True Stereo ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████▓ █████▓ TRACKLISTING █████▓ VA - Fx.Mix.10 █.Clashing Egos - Brightness in the Morning (Kirk Degiorgio Rmx) █.Kyoto Jazz Massive - the Brightness of These Days(Quantic Rmx) █.Magic Number - Sorry █.O Ball - Slack █.Panoptica - She's in Fiestas (Bauhaus Rmx) █.Red Nose Distrikt - NYB █.Phil Asher Presents Focus - Having Your Fun (4Hero remix) █.John Beltran - Felicidad Nova (Jimpster Rmx) █.John Arnold - Fabric █.Victor Davies - Lady Luck (Procreation Rmx) █.Trouble Man - Where We Stand █.Filta Facta - Elektrik Shok █.Family Values - Open Plan (exclusive track to this mix) █.Blue Binary - Crescendo (exclusive track to this mix) 01 track █ 56:05 mins █ 77,0 MB ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████▓ █████▓ RELEASE NOTES █████▓ Breathing new life into the mix album concept was never going to be an easy task but that's exactly what Keep Diggin' recordings have done with FX.Mix.01. Whil ethe rest of electronic music argues about the rights and wrongs of live turntable versus computer-based mixing, FX.Mix.01 goes one better with an album that uses the latest software but based around a live DJing experience. Kirk Degiorgio is the DJ in question, the software he used is Ableton's Live 2 and his mix is based around a recent tour of japan. Together they make a sublime combination that takes the mix album to a whole new level. Surely the art of mixing is to make the total greater than the sums of the parts and that's exactly what Kirk has achieved on FX.Mix.01. The source material has to be of the highest order of course, and our man has come up trumps with artists and remixers like Kyoto Jazz Massive, Phil Asher, John Beltran, Victor Davies and 4Hero, and labels like Versatile, Ubiquity, Far Out, Mantis and Compost. There's also a couple of exclusives from Kirk Himself under his Family Values and Blue Binary monikers, as well as his remix of 'Brightness in the Morning' by Clashing echoes which opens up the album. As befits a man with wide musical taste, Kirk delves deep into latin house, broken beats and detroit techno territory along with a smattering of nu-jaz, afrobeat, drum & bass and 2-step flavours. Mellow strings and delicate, soulful vocals sit alongside more melancholy moments and deep brooding basslines. On top of this he's added his own percussion loops and infused everything with the warm glow of the dancefloor. Surprisingly for a man with such an impressive catalogue of work behind him, this is Kirk's first proper mix album and he was determined to choose records that worked at a club level. "I wanted things that were dancey and not just musical" he explains. "things that work on the dancefloor or in the car or at a party. I like to bring in music from different genres to keep things interesting". What makes FX.mix.01 really special however, is the way it's all put together. It's not simply about beat-mixing the individual tracks: instead Kirk weaves them into a sinuous whole where you litteraly can't tell when one track ends and another begins. Sometimes tow, wometimes three tracks are playing simultaneously with his own loops sliding over the top. Using the Ableton software, Kirk has been able to remix, re-edit, loop, cut and paste to perfection. So, what makes it such a useful box of tricks ? "Ableton Live is basically a music arranging software tool" he says. "You can work in the arrangement screen which is more like a traditionnal sequencer or in a live screen where you can take as many tracks as you wnat and drop them in from your hard drive. You can have them all playing at the same time and it's synched to a global tempo." Ableton is more than just a clever bit of studio technology, however, as Kirk found when he tried and tested it on a recent tour of japan with Ubiquity Recordings. He used Ableton Live on a basic Apple Max laptop live on stage and certainly put it through its pacesn although he took a bag of records just in case. Fortunately, he never needed them once over the whole two-week tour. "For me it's a more creative tool than using vinyl." says Kirk. "at some points during the japanese tour I was mixing three tracks together, plus loops on top, and introducing delays and filters. The audiences were hearing well-known tracks in a totally new way. "Cueing is 75% of DJing with vinyl, so using Ableton you have a lot more time to do other things and be creative because you're not constrained by the cueing process. You can go overboard, of course, by using loads of plug-ins but the way i prefer to work is to re-arrange other people's tracks and then bring in acappellas and my own drum loops". Not long after, Kirk returned to the studio and set about recreating his mix for Keep Diggin' based on these experiences.On the end result there is hardly any point in the mix where there's only one record playing - quite possibly a first for a mix album. Quite simply, you'll hear tracks like you've never heard them before on FX.Mix.01. This is a mix album in the true sense and it demands to be listened as a whole. In short, FX.Mix.01 is a unique musical experience, never to be replicated and often to be appreciated. As we said, the total is greater than the sum of the parts. Matthew Duffield, may 2003. --keepdigginrec.com PS: u might wonder why i didn't put artist name and track info in the .cue file. First of all, as explained above, this is not an ordinary mix. Almost all the time, at least two tracks are played at the same time. In addition to that, the cover doesn't show any ordinary tracklisting like 01. blah blah, 02. blah blah etc... it only shows the different tracks used in the mix but in no particular order and also the CD has 15 tracks while the mix only contains 14 titles. All the track names are provided with this releases anyhow (above, but in a random order), and i'm sure you'll recognize the amazing tracks our man Kirk chose for the mix while listening. It's a great mix ! Enjoy ! PS2: sorry for the fuck'd up nfo (no release notes and wrong rls#) in VA-Soul_of_Science_3-(Obsessive)-2003-dCi released today. Some of us are abusing weed. peace. █████▓ █████▓ ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████▓