2011 retrospect

A quick resume of 2011′s favorite’s and accomplishments.

My favorite track of the year is a Chi’town style House track. Original version by Benny Rodrigues, remixed by Surrealism.

Benny Rodrigues – House Music (Surrealism’s Daft Funk Remix) by EARMILK

I made the first ever EP produced on the Korg M01 Music Workstation for Nintendo DS; Y.A.M.A.

My review of Korg M01 Music Workstation (Or Workstaiton as it’s spelled in the software…) was one of the most viewed posts on my website, along with the TR-505 / TR-606 sample packs for Ableton Live.

Of my own productions, Sick’O'Six is my personal favorite, it’s unreleased as of yet.. (Keep an eye out for a certain 12″ in 2012!). But you can hear it in my Cloudcast: 303 Decks Don’t Need FX. Apparent in this track is my transition from digital to analog production over the year. 2012 will be mostly analog, a happy perspective.

The biggest loss of this year was NOT re-visiting Japan! I miss the place and people and I really hope to be there again soon..

However, the biggest win was going to Paris with @Mooiechocolat. And I’ve been to Paris again with @CaroSiburny. And I’ll go again this very week!!! I ❤ Paris!

A happy, healthy and Acid 2012 everyone!

Youtube Channel Update

The design of the official JordyVision Youtube Channel has been updated

It was in desperate need of a brush-up and Youtube supplied just the thing; Channels 2.0.

Subscribe, befriend, comment or just watch. To make things even easier for you, there’s a small subscribe button up to the right, and one below. Thanks!

JordyVision – 303 Decks Don’t Need FX

New DJ set! It’s been a while…

Playlist:

01. Omar S – Sarah
02. Acid Andee – Feelin’ Me
03. Jordan Peak – Brutal Life
04. Teva – I Wanna Be
05. Black Box – Everybody, Everybody (JordyVision’s 2011 Digital Shoeshine)
06. Eli Escobar – Desire (Ian Pooley Dub)
07. Jay Tripwire – Spaced Out
08. Manuel Araneda – Plato Tipico (Sheehan & Clausen Remix)
09. Timid boy – How To Kill A Piano In 3 Lessons (Dana Ruh Black Flowers Remix)
10. JordyVision – The Grind (V.1 M01)
11. Deep Future – Do It all Night
12. Wehbba – 3 Days
13. Timid Boy & Alex Costa – My Girl
14. Marc ‘o’ Tool – Me
15. Benny Rodrigues – House Music (Surrealism’s Daft Punk Remix)
16. Kris Wadsworth – It’s time
17. JordyVision – White Tie
18. Jay Tripwire – Acid Babies
19. Gingy & Bordello – Amino
20. JordyVision – Sick ‘o’ Six
21. SOL – The Morph Balls

Ableton Drum Rack: DTMF Dial Pad

Dual Tone Multi Frequency

I was cleaning-up my samples folder and ran into these samples I once made, probably back in 2007 or 2008. Simple and funny, the dial pad of a telephone can be used to add a whole different beep to your bang.

Theoretically you can sequence a telephone-number in Ableton and initiate a call! Just hold the phone’s receiver up to your speaker while playing back the sounds and the call should commence. Oh, this will work only with a landline, mobiles don’t dial that way. I have little experience with VoIP phones, so I don’t know if they work with DTMF tones. Head on over to Wikipedia to learn more about DTMF.

Download DTMF Dial Pad Drum Rack

Once downloaded, put the folder “JordyVision” in the samples folder of your Ableton Library, usually found at:

Ableton/Library/Samples

Put the drum rack file (.adg extension) in the correct presets folder of your Ableton Library. That would be “Drum Rack” in this case, typically located at:

Ableton/Library/Presets/Instruments/Drum Rack

You can make your own folder within the Drum Rack folder if you wish. Most of the time I call these “My Presets”, “My Patches” or something along these lines, pick a name you’re comfortable with.

These and more samples can be found on the Son of 8-Bits / JordyVision samples page.

Re-release: LO-FI-FNK – Boom (LO-FI-RMX by JordyVision)

Now available in MP3 format to satisfy everybody’s downloading needs; Lo-Fi-FNK – Boom (Lo-Fi-RMX by JordyVision)