Ed.: Social networking, online sites (this being one of them), Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace … sometimes it seems like all the connections are being done online. Naturally, the Web’s real power is when you can meet all those virtual personalities you’ve gotten to know offline. Far better than getting demo CDs in the mail or listening to someone’s tracks on MySpace: meeting them at a party over a drink and getting their music from them directly.

Such is the genius of Chicago’s Demo Swap. Co-organizer Liz has this wrap-up of what July’s party was like. Non-Chicagoans (heck, fellow New Yorkians), clearly this is a model to be replicated elsewhere. A huge thanks to all of the CDMers who showed up. It was fantastic to meet you, and I hope to see you again soon — ideally with more leisure time to hang out! (I’m in Chicagoland regularly.) I was especially impressed by Karl, who was in Chicago from Austria and was embarking on a cross-country drive across the entire length of Route 66 the following morning. Why is that foreigners appreciate America better than most Americans do?

Here’s how the demo swap went; read closely for some nice music tips and perhaps insight into how to get a demo swap going in your neck of the woods. -PK

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90 minutes of summery goodness. TRACKS: thomas bangalter - club soda / vitalic - no fun / alan braxe - intro / the sounds - rock n roll / css - let’s make love (diplo remix) / prince - when doves cry / diddy f. hella people - last night remix / lloyd - get it shawty / michael jackson - p.y.t. / hall & oates - private eyes / corey hart - sunglasses at night / federation - stunna glasses at night / ludacris - roll out / n.e.r.d. - brain / i just wanna fuck bmore / diplo - touch it / lil scrappy - money in the bank (technics remix) / kanye west - stronger (mano remix) / mr post man bmore / paul simon - 50 ways chipset rockwell version / radiohead - everything is in its right place (technics remix) / justice - d.a.n.c.e. (mstrkrft remix) / soulwax - another excuse (dfa remix) / gucci crew - sally / jj fad - supersonic / ghost town djs - my boo / duice - dazzey duks / 69 boyz - tootsie roll / afro rican - give it all you got / freestyle - don’t stop the rock / debbie deb - when i hear music / kelis - bossy (braxe/falke remix) / alan braxe - in love with you - Source Site:http://siik.org

live turntable mix. straight fire. "the music of the past with the touch of today". big-ups to the whole tensdays fam! track list: (1) Marvin Gaye- "Got to Give it Up" (2) ESG- "Dance" (3) Prince and Revolution- "Erotic City" (4) Prince vs. Daft Punk- "Kiss" (5) DJ Technics- "Think 2K1" (6) Krazy B- "Handclap" (7) DJ Technics- "Pork Chops 2K1" (8) Diplo vs. the Beatles- "Shhake it Up" (9) Dj Frie vs. DJ Samir- "Same Old Song" (10) Omarion "Ice Box (Booty Remix)" (11) Frankie Valli "Beggin'" (Pilooski Edit) - Source Site:http://www.zshare.net/

In 1974 it is against the law for Humans to get into the boxing ring, all the fighting is now done by robots. But when Lee "Steel" Marvin's Battling Maxo android breaks down, determined Steel puts on a pair of gloves and his best robot face for a bout in The Twilight Zone (link).

Perhaps Marvin should have spent more time working on those pecs (link).

(A live mix recorded right before the most vicious fight I'd ever been in. In other words, it was my last time DJ'ing there.) - Source Site:http://www.mixdepot.net/JaimeJames/DearSuziLiveCardiffLoungeNCalifornia

Okay, calling anything “Web 2.0″ is about as cool as casually slipping in the word “synergy.” Generally meaningless; definitely faux pas. But splicemusic.com was already tending that direction, with a website that allowed users to remix each other’s music live on the Web, and share and network with other community members in that process. Now, Splice itself has reached its own 2.0 release, and things are heating up fast. It’s not so much the typical Web community features that set it apart (blogging, becoming “fans” or friends of other users, bright, Web 2.0-y colors, and community-based ranking). Instead, it’s the fact that Splice can do things previously only possible in dedicated, offline software:

• Online arrangements: as before, remix and arrange tracks without leaving your Web browser
• Real-time effects — yep, you read that right. You can actually apply common effects like flanger, delay, and distortion via the Web interface.
• Online virtual instruments in the Web interface
• Store drafts online privately, until a track is finished
• Collect samples from around the site to use in your song

Splice

Real-time effects and instruments in a Web browser? That’s a surprise. Java has made that possible for some time, but it’s new to Flash, and even in Java actual implementations have been few — let alone integrated in a full-blown community site open to the public and ready to use.

Best of all, we hear that Bram de Jong, famed as the gifted plug-in developer in the Smartelectronix collective, engineered the new plug-in system. There’s even a Web version of his SupaTrigger plug-in. If you don’t know Bram’s work already, check out his cross-platform, donationware plugs:

Bram @ Smartelectronix

We’ll be talking to Splice more about what’s new, where it’s going, how it was developed, and what this means for music making on the Web; stay tuned.

In the meantime, I’ll say it again — don’t assume you’ll be throwing away your non-Web music software anytime soon.

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Reverb Rick writes to tell us he’s got various synthesized samples free for your use:

Sample Giveaway

There’s an interesting idea behind it: people can only use the sample once. Once it’s been used, it’s removed. So you run zero risk of hearing the sample in someone else’s song. This could be a fun way to get a song going if you’re stuck for ideas. Let us know if you do anything with them.

composing, free, open source, Sampling, Sound design, soundware, synthesis

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