Adventures in Arts & Entertainment
I updated the below post with more shows and an updated intro essay. It applies to music and video games, videos, applications, text, intellectual property, whatever. It’s important and a lot of stuff I am writing on here no one talks about. Dave Matthews sings, “…and these crimes between us grow deeper.”
I’m thinking about a new mix for next week as I type and listen to ‘Black Messiah’ by D’Angelo.
With most of the DJ scene grieving, I am posting June’s homework early. Seems like I am posting these early every month, but this time I was really going to wait. One DJ that was and is always pushing the style boundaries and reaching new places with me back when I listened to his podcast regularly and now on Soundcloud is Laidback Luke. My friend in Russia, a young doctor/student at the time made me listen to Luke later. Andrey and I met on the street after a concert in St. Petersburg where I saw DJ Gira. I followed her podcast, while she was doing that, after discovering it when I moved back to the States. Anyways, a lot of this list ends with tracks from Mixmash Records and OTW. They are effective for me right now. I rediscovered his trail while recently checking up on all my VIP DJs which you can find on this page. I guess we all have to find new ways to dig when we reach a dead end or some rut online as many of our record stores and CD shops are closing. World travelling DJs just can’t haul around a huge collection, so unless there is an alternate dimension where shops crate out a collection to mix on stage with shock absorbing record players, I don’t foresee it being beyond local niches. I’m also using my unresponsive label list, Pitchfork and radio leads. I added a book find of the month and I’ll update the links of the month section at the end for stuff to click on while your listening to other than instagrams.
Mix in the Making #6
No Mana – Someone to Erase
Camila Cabello – Never be the Same
3LAU & Said The Sky – Fire (Feat. NÉONHÈART)
Super8 & Tab – Seconds Away (feat. Sarah DeCourcy)
David Gravell – The Future
System of a Down – Hypnotize
CADE – Warning Sign
Phil:osophy – Remember
Nicky Romero & Teamworx –
Champion Sound or Nicky Romero & Florian Picasso – Only For Your Love
Nicky Romero & Lucky Date – Rip It Up (Nicky Romero Edit)
1788-L – P U L S A R / B E A M
Tchami – Adieu (Heroless Remix)
Hardwell – Here Once Again? or We Are Legends (would be good for a real power summer exercise warm-up)
Kelsea Ballerini – Legends
Felix Cartal – Worry (Ft. Victoria Zaro)
Ghastly – Black Mamba
Taska Black – In Your Eyes (ft. Ayelle)
Gryffin – Winnebago (feat. Quinn XCII & Daniel Wilson)
Alison Wonderland – Church or Church (Naderi Remix combined with The Presets Remix)
Pryda – Stay With Me
Tom Enzy – Origins
Selecta – I Can’t Wait
Basky – Cantamos (feat. Le Prince)
iMVD – Ryuu
Shane54 – First Time (David Gravell Remix) (would be good transition from poprock to trance or house; starts strange otherwise)
Syskey – Mind Right (EXPLICIT)
BSNO & Gama – Tornado
Josh Goodwill – Armour
PBH & Jack Shizzle X AFISHAL – Genres
Chill
Duskus – Find You
Vera Blue – Lady Powers (TOKiMONSTA Remix)
Robert Glasper Experiment – No One Like You or Written In Stone (KAYTRANDADA Remixes)
Fakear – Lost Colours or Sea Song
Jeremy Zucker & Chelsea Cutler – Better Off
Lauv – Getting Over You (R3HAB Remix)
Albums out now
Robotaki – Science – EP
Various Artists – Toolroom 15 [TOO15OOM]
Sting & Shaggy – 44/876 (Deluxe)
Seeb – Nice to Meet You – EP CLEAN VERSION
Stryper – God Damn Evil
Eric Prydz – Tonja Holma EP (I like Global or Trippleton so far) available on Beatport
Ones To Watch – EPs from last seven months found on Laidback Luke’s Soundcloud named after wild creatures from Mixmash Records (Scorpion, Grizzly, Wolf, Elephant, Rhino, Mamba) EXPLICIT EXPLICIT EXPLICIT
Out later
Sugarland – Bigger
J Balvin – Vibras
Armin van Buuren – A State of Trance 2018
Pendulum – The Reworks
Other Notes:
Catch up on Trance (Armin, Gravell and live at dreamstate festival ’17 there is also a gallery podcast, Etc.)
Catch up on other labels (Protocol, Wall, See Pages for ideas) & review my top DJs list (already did some of Romero’s SC and some of Hardwell’s; most of featured and started on others)
What about Sirius (Just chill)
Playlist search
Book Find:
Erin McKenna recommends…
Look Alive Out There
by Sloane Crosley
Saturday 21st April 2018, 19:39
44:45
I have a lengthy story to go along with this one, but it is difficult to tell as at is split up over six years. So I don’t steal the show, I’ll just say I saw Avicii at the only EDC Chicago ever. He put out the most relaxed vibe ever with the trademarked backwards hat he shares with Prydz.
Rick Pier O’Neil – Throaty
Wheats – Terminal
MORTEN – Beautiful Heartbeat (feat. Frida Sundemo)
Avicii – Waiting For Love (Prinston & Astrid S Acoustic Version)
KillSonik – Never Dream of Dying
CJ Solar – Get Away With It
Robotaki – Together We’re Screwed (feat. Nevve)
Avicii – Somewhere In Stockholm
Smooth Jazz All Stars – Never Be the Same
Miranda Lambert – Over You
This is bringing together the first two mixes of the year with a special edition. There are a couple tracks from a previous mix and using Maroon 5 plus similar style conflicts from the first mix of the year. It’s the general difficulty of fusing all these together in which I realized I should start making some of these myself (to make sure they can be done). Without too many track choices at the moment in my library, I am basically throwing most of them out there. I’ll update you when I think I am going to mix a really fresh summer kickoff. Special thanks and farewell to Magan from crossroads center.
Monday 16th April 2018, 17:54
34:38
Felix Cartal – Walking By (feat. Iselin) Instagram instagram Album Version
Mahalo – Good Vibes Only Twitter
Boys Noize – Starwin Instagram
Maroon 5 – Wait Instagram CLEAN Album Version
Luke Bryan – Light It Up Instagram
Julian Calor – You Can Have the World Instagram
Phantogram – Fall In Love (Until The Ribbon Breaks Reimagination) Instagram Instagram
CADE – Sorry for Myself Instagram
Maroon 5 – Don’t Wanna Know (feat. Kendrick Lamar) Kendrick’s Socials Instagram Twitter CLEAN Album Version
Julian Calor – Charge Me Up SC
For more listening online I have just finished this mix (Tiësto – Live at Ultra Music Festival 2018) while linking albums on the Mix in the Makings.
Craving some rock? I just found this online streamer for a rock station
Twitter I listen to sometimes while driving. DJ/Announcer Payton is on between 10-2 (weekdays).
This was going to be for ‘Mix in the Making #6’
However with the ways things are going, I think I may start fresh with #6 this weekend since it is only halfway through April. I was just reviewing these and added some more albums at the bottom. So here is more homework for you over-achievers looking to spin more burns poolside. Disclaimer: Not all tracks that are EXPLICIT are marked as such (at the time of this post).
Mix in the Making #6 #5 Encore
Imagine Dragons – Whatever It Takes or Whatever It Takes (Jorgen Odegard Remix)
Luke Bryan – Light It Up
Wet – There’s a Reason
Whipped Cream & KTRL – Gray?
LOCASH – Don’t Get Better Than That
Radiology – Phobia
R3HAB & Waysons – Shanghai or
R3HAB & Khrebto – You Could Be
Kayliox & A-SHO – Ocean (Alex Schulz Remix) from Pack The Pool
The Beach Boys – Good Vibrations or Wouldn’t It Be Nice
Mike Williams X Dastic – You & I (BVRNOUT Remix)
Xie – DRIP EXPLICIT
Felix Cartal – Walking By (feat. Iselin) goes well to…
KillSonik – Never Dream Of Dying or Marren Morris – I Could Use a Love Song
Axel Boy – Days Gone?
Flite – Progression (goes well to LOCASH)
Seven Lions & Jason Ross – The Sirens
Krewella – Fortune ft. Diskord (what about New World Pt. 1? Lots of other recent Krewella releases passed on)
Koven – My Love
Kane Brown – What Ifs (feat. Lauren Alaina)
Operator – Soulcrusher
The Weeknd, Kendrick Lamar – Pray for Me (from Black Panther)
Dr. Meaker – Dirt & Soul ft. Laurent John & Celestine (Voltage & Dr. Meaker Remix) (others from this album)
Dr. Meaker – Wanna Feel Love ft. Yolanda (Octo-Pi & Dr Meaker Remix)
Already out that might have good choices on them-
Charli XCX – Pop 2 EXPLICIT
From above to add: Porsche (feat. MO), Unlock It (feat Kim Petras and Jay Park) or Delicious (feat. Tommy Cash)
Purple Haze – Sectrvm
Already used ‘Neiloj’
Taylor Swift – reputation
Dr. Meaker – Dirt & Soul Collaborated (good for working) Original Versions Album
Two in above list already
Later-
Mike Shinoda – Post Traumatic EXPLICIT
Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino EXPLICIT
Rings a bell (also out later)-
Johnny Marr – Call The Comet , Morcheeba – Blaze Away , Illan Bluestone – Scars & Simian Mobile Disco – Murmurations ?
Other notes:
listened to Dr. Fresch – The Prescription 036: WHIPPED CREAM Guest Mix 4/8/18
Like Seven Lions & Jason Ross – Ocean (Feat. Jonathan Mendelsohn), but don’t use it
White Zombie?
Catch up with UKF’s SoundCloud
and Circus Records’
-new rusko is spacious and different styles: reggae, maryj industrial rainy (relisten full)
As a follow up or in connection with the previous post, this is the first official MixList of the year. I had a couple unused tracks and bought some new ones after the post saying I had only one song on my iPad for several months. I thought I’d try to put these together.
Monday 9th April 2018, 15:07
47:21
KIDZ BOP Kids – I Don’t Wanna Live Forever
Kaskade & CID – Us
Jauz – In the Zone (feat. Example) EXPLICIT
Calvin Harris – My Way (offaiah Remix)
Wisin – Esta Noche Lo Vamos a Hacer
Ace of Base – The Sign
Maroon 5 – New Love clean version
Miley Cyrus – Bad Mood
Sigma – Nobody to Love
50 Cent – Winners Circle (feat. Guordan Banks) from clean deluxe album
Darius Rucker – Life’s Too Short
Vertical Church Band – Spirit of the Living God
Maroon 5 – What Lovers Do (feat. SZA) from clean deluxe album
Wisin – Prohibida (feat. Zion & Lennox)
The ‘Mix in the Making’ series is a great break for me in some ways. It is an educational outline or a place to start for someone with little time to make mixes or to start listening to good music. It has also given me space to make up progress in some other areas I am lacking professionally and personally. Not only in the present and future, but in my beliefs with entertainment culture pertaining to ethics, popular trends vs. traditional beliefs, ‘crime and punishment’ (so to speak) and how we express our value to one another; whether it be love, family, friendship, work relationships or plain and tough business. I finally bit the bullet with a little push from myself and peers. Avoiding a total deviation from Ckwal’s original mission statement, I bought a new iPod touch and officially formed Ckwal as a volunteer, music service business. All that practice on the glitchy, failing iPad helped me prepare for going back to a smaller screen size with better speed and reliability. My first mix was a remake of Ckwal Mix 2017020. I lost this mix because it wouldn’t back up. I could play it for a while and then I even bought a used recorder to record it. By the time the recorder arrived, it wouldn’t play in entirety. I sold the recorder without using it and was able to scrap together a few more mixes together (including the New Year bridge mixes) using some computer tricks, but recently I couldn’t use the DJ application at all. I look forward to bringing some new mixes this summer to ckwal.net from tracks I’ve already posted, to ones that are yet to be released or discovered in all styles.
Sincerely,
Ckwal
More bad news. After noticing new changes on the labels, I contacted the company that makes Vega. Then, I recently did more reasearch. I remembered something Hershey said about this, but it didn’t register. Seems my old definition for strict vegan is now very difficult to follow in the store. It was based on a suggested label addition in concern to food allergies in this FDA Act of 2004. Apparently these phrases are what companies should be putting on their labels. It is not required by law. So, I guess some of us have a new choice to make. Others like myself may have to wait until we have a kitchen. This may seem like no big deal to most people, but I was looking for those since I saw them when I first decided to become vegan instead of vegetarian. Ironic Vega broke it when their cartons malfuntioned and I had veggie power shake all over me several days in a row. I didn’t tell them about how all four leaked on me because that could have happened anywhere along the delivery chain. So until the act is amended to say ‘must be labelled’ this way, look for the ones that may say in a facility ‘free’ of them. It isn’t being redundant because even Vega.org will approve it for being vegan as long as they are strict with storage and sanitation, or at least they did as far as I know when writing this post. Will we be able to go as far as being vegan is a job requirement in comparison to skills or experience? How much experience? “Are you experienced?”