TRANSMISSIONS

Cyrusfx to co-headline June’s Slow & Low

May 19, 2012

… Honolulu’s only dubstep regular event, every second Saturday at Lotus Soundbar in Chinatown (a venue that features one of the “best sound systems in Hawaii“, and personally my favorite place to go for quality music on the island.

Alongside yours truly will be local DJ phenom Dallas Debauch, warmed up by resident DJs Monkey and Toki. I plan on doing a smooth, funkified mix of both new and old deepness, some “post-dubstep” and potentially “future bass” or perhaps some unreleased Cyrusfx productions as well. Come for the low warmth & beats, stay for the drinks & atmosphere! MAHALO.

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Electronic music since the 1800s?

May 17, 2012

Its true, according to this new, creatively-executed Electronic & Club Dance Music Timeline, published on the Music Tech Hub website. It takes the form of an easy-to-follow slideshow and mentions the bulk of the greatest electronic instrument innovators of all-time, as well as artists who definitively challenged the publics perception of what music could or could not be.

From the “first electronic instrument” (the Teleharmonium), to the atonal, alien-like orchestrations of  Arnold Schoenberg and John Cage, to the varied precursors of hip hop and ultimately modern electronic dance music. The Institute gives this project a steadfast two thumbs up as an educational resource that is necessary for proper music history education, and for being readily digestible, especially if you enjoy learning history via picture form.ed.: unbelievably, invariably, some people have yet to accept the fact that this prediction was a spot-on forecast.

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The complexity of the soundwave and how to treat it right.

May 13, 2012

ResidentAdvisor came out with a pretty fascinating, long-form article about how to maximize expression of club music via proper sound system logistics and acoustic environmental modifications. Much of the article is a sales pitch for a high-end speaker brand, but the rest is very educational and definitely worth reading if you are one of those electronic music audiophile nerds (such as I).

Here are a couple of my favorite excerpts from the article:

“Sound covers a range of ten octaves, and we’ve only got one with light which is the rainbow. So it’s quite easy to get a full range of frequencies of light out of one light bulb because you’ve only got one octave, but in sound you have ten. So the differences between the top octave and the bottom octave in terms of wavelength and the amount of energy you need to make them is huge. The engineering requirements are almost contradictory between the top octave
and the bottom octave, and that’s why it gets divided between woofers,
mids and tweeters—or even four or five ways. It’s very hard to get all the frequencies out of one speaker because it’s so broad.” – Tony Andrews, excerpt from The esoteric art of great sound. 

I also particularly enjoyed the sentiment of this end paragraph:

“A human being’s hearing is capable of more than we could possibly measure and understand. We need to treat audio and human hearing with the respect that it deserves, and we need to push it forward. All we can do is get the technological sound of it as perfect as possible, but there are still things we don’t understand about how humans react to sound. The only thing we all agree on is that when’s it’s right, it feels amazing.“ – Rich Cufley

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DJ Colette returns to Honolulu May 11th

May 3, 2012

One of my very favorite house DJs from back in the day (a friend burned a copy of “Our Day” for me in 2001 and I’ve been a fan since), diva DJ Colette is coming to Chinatown’s SoHo next Friday, 5-11. Her original productions and vocals are silky smooth, just the way house music was meant to be. So c’mon down if you find yourself in Honolulu and you’re bound to have a good time. I did last time she was here, and am planning on it again!

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New dubstep mix for y’all

April 30, 2012

Here’s a new deep/esoteric dubstep mix while the Institute awaits its completion. I’ve been working on this baby for a lil while now, hope it tickles the right neurons for you. You can download it as an mp3 here (right-click to download).

So for the last 3 years or so, there’s a debate that’s been raging in the dubstep community about the legitimacy of “Brostep,” which first started off as a mutant, aggressive version of dubstep with more emphasis placed on ravey, hi- and mid-range sounds, rather than focusing on sub-bass and the traditional low end of the frequency spectrum.

What’s happened now is brostep has replaced dubstep in terms of worldwide popularity, thanks to rave DJs (first Rusko, then Excision and now Skrillex) emphasizing this souped-up, steroidal version of dubstep. The dubstepforum is pissed to see their original beloved bass beats transformed into basically a slower version of happy hardcore.

This mix is comprised of other current happenings in the dubstep scene, tracks that tend to avoid the screechy, mid-range stuff and concentrate on depth & roots. It starts out kinda grimey and ends up in deep space.

 

“A collection of some of my favorite dubstep tracks across the last couple of years, subtle shifts in mood woven together for optimal flow and aural pleasure. Starts out kinda grimy, ends up deep as fuck. Its indeed a journey through time. And not that I really have anything against Brostep, personally, you just won’t find any in this mix!” – Cyrusfx

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