Hi, I just thought I'd let people know that since I subscribed to this list a week ago some of you have pointed me to some good hour long DJ mixes in mp3 format. I have burned a handful of these mixes to CD and I want to let you know what I got, so you can join in the fun too:
The first site is htpp://www.frequencydetroit.com I was really impressed with what this site had to offer. Not only can you download mp3 mixes, but they come in different qualities. I usually download the poor quality one first to see if I like it, then I'll download the high quality one if it's going to the burner. The mixes that caught my eye were first, Mike Grant--8.00(techno mix) [not the house mix]. Can I say solid detroit techno enough? Mom even liked it. Then it was Jared Wilson--Audio Abduction...wow, bangin as hell super mechanical techno to start it out, then lighter stuff at the end. Then I burned Reggie Curry -- new mix 2. I can't say I'm a big fan of house, but this stuff is so chilled and detroit sounding I LOVE IT, (i'm listening to it now). I was initially thrown by the vocal track 13 minutes in, but then I read that Curry was all about sexiness, so it made sense--now I look forward to it because it puts a 'sexy' vibe into the rest of the CD. That's all for frequencydetroit for now. I was wondering what others thought of this site. Next it's http://www.vocode.com ELECTRO! Before someone pointed out this site yesterday, I didn't own an electro cd, now I do! I got the Lex November Showcase mix. This mix got me and my roomate to do all sorts of silly robotic dances. We went there today and spotted new mixes! One thing, the site seems slower than freqencydetroit, since it took 30 minutes to download a 50 minute mix and only 12 minutes for a 75 minute mix from frequencydetroit (T3 connection!) Well, those are the sites that delivered! But hey, while I'm at it, I'd like to share some trouble shooting tips with you about burning and downloading mp3s. For one, you will notice that some mixes at frequency detroit are over 74 minutes, but a standard blank cd is 74 minutes. I had to figure out a way to cut off the last few minutes to make it fit, I tried Soundrecorder, but it ran out of memory. What now? Well I use Winamp to convert the mp3 into a .wav file (it does this really quick too BTW) [set the output to Nullsoft wav out] so just hit STOP before you get to the 74 minute mark and you are set to go. Also, and finally, for the electro mix, I had to really turn it up to hear it, how do you fix this? Use Winamp! Set the preamp level in the EQ higher and make it louder, here you can also tweak with the treble and bass, and when you output it to a wav it will output this tweaked version, thus the mix cd I made sounds "normal". Well, glad to share this cherished knowledge with you, let me know if you find and high quality (>=128k) mp3 mixes [the hyperreal ones are only 16k :( I will definitely check them out. ____ /\ \ / \ \ / \ \ / \ \ / /\ \ \ / / \ \ \ / / \ \ \ / / / \ \ \ / / / \ \ \ / / /---------' \ / / /_______________\ \ / / \/_____________________/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
