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Bring back zero to hero 

Setup for a soundcheck for party on the weekend. Am going to re-deck out this room for studio/music things and make this a permanent space.
 

SB1 - We Are Legion [Speedballas LTD - SPD009]

SB1 returns with a dark trip to the lake of fire on We are Legion!
The flipside features a monstrous dark rolling Jungle stepper by UK based Sikka!


01 / SB1 - We Are Legion
02 / SB1 - We Are Legion (Sikka Remix)

Grab your copy on:
https://speedballaone.bandcamp.com/album/we-are-legion
https://www.beatport.com/release/we-are-legion/2778148
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Stream here:
https://soundcloud.com/speedballaone/we-are-legion
https://open.spotify.com/album/7qwpdGKACDEPrqztfxXCIp
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Follow to support:
https://www.viberate.com/artist/sb1/
https://www.viberate.com/artist/sikka/

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The Sound Effects are BBC copyright, but they may be used for personal, educational or research purposes, as detailed in the license.
For commercial use, you can license sound effects.
Download here: http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/
 

Got the CDJs mounted & turntables setup. Who’s coming around for a mix?

Got the ground lift adapters in today, and they've made a world of difference.  
I can still here a tiny bit of the squeal if I get close to the speakers while the GPU is going hard, but it's inaudible from my seating position and definitely so while playing back audio - the quality of which doesn't seem to be affected. I'm very happy with my $10.04 solution! 
Cheers for the advice guys. 

aww chyeaa noice scratching.

Comeback is in the works! Stay tuned for revival details.

The EP used to be up on the bandcamp site with a link to a free download which is when I got it... Just checked back and the link is still there but doesn't work anymore 🙁
I did find the individual track on bandcamp for purchase though https://fatimayamaha.bandcamp.com/track/whats-a-girl-to-do
If you can find this JV edit anywhere as well it's a pretty sick version 
 

This is a quick how-to submitting music to Spotify, Apple Music and other streaming and online music services. 
Uploading music to streaming platforms or online music stores without a record label is quite simple. All you need is some 3rd party involvement, I guess commonly known as distributers. Most of these distribution services offer something slightly different. I'm not going to go through all of them and what they do, that's something you can do the research on but I'll put down links of a few of the commonly used ones.
By submitting your music to these platforms, they take care or all the little business things the labels would have to do (paying royalties, licensing and monetisation, and above all else the distribution). The good thing about going independent is you take total control of your works and you retain 100% of your intellectual property rights, meaning you own everything which I feel is very important. Record labels take the IP rights from you making your music their asset. In exchange, they're supposed to invest in you as an artist but it can go either way. Whatever happens, whether you become famous or not, they still own your works for along as the contract states and if you were to part ways from the label you'll then need to seek permission to perform the music that you wrote. Artists big and small fall into this trap all the time. Kesha and Taylor Swift are prefect examples of artists struggling to claim royalties or performance licensing because of record labels refusing to cooperate. 
Below are 3 commonly used services; 
https://cdbaby.com
CD Baby is a popular service that gets your music just about everywhere and they're a pay-as-you-go service. They have a bunch of stuff they can do for you like mastering and production of physical copies, CD's etc. As far as the royalties go, you get 91% paid to you.
https://distrokid.com
I use distrokid for my submissions. They're subscription based with a limited number of artists you can distribute under, so if you wanted to set up a little label I guess you could do that through distrokid and have up to 5 different artists. It's a super easy process to submit music and the dashboard is nice and clean to navigate so you can keep track of your releases and make changes to them whenever you like. Distrokid pay 100% of the royalties to you. They're currently beta testing submissions to Beatport so if that's going to be your primary source of output I'd suggest looking elsewhere.
https://www.tunecore.com
I think TuneCore is a pay-as-you-go service too and I believe you also collect 100% of the royalties. I haven't done too much research about whether they submit to Beatport so you'll have to have a look. It's not a service I looked too much into, even just scraping the surface of their website didn't tell me too much. 
I know it's all super bland but everyone's needs are going to be different but hopefully the 3 above give you that little bit of a head start. There are many more that offer lots of different things.
If anyone has any further questions I'll be happy to try assist where I can

Hi Mark,

It isn't unusual for a program to run into troubles and crash every once in a while. This has been a constant thing swinging producers and DJ's into the Mac industry, though I've seen the problems occur on both platforms Windows and Mac.

Your best bet is to try and do as much on the computer as possible and do some practice at home to see if you can get it to crash again. There's a lot of things happening in the background between that controller, the program and the sound card in the controller all at once. 

Another thing with laptops: check to see if sleep and hibernate are off in your power settings. If the system wasn't rebooted cleanly for some time, this could be the easiest thing you can do. Sometimes where I've put the X - on the screenshot there's an option for a fast shutdown or Hybrid shutdown. If you have that, turn that off.

Start an Elevated Command Prompt by clicking Start > typing "command" > right click "Command Prompt" and choose "Run as Administrator"
Type powercfg /h off
This will turn hibernate off as well and reduce you to shut down and restart only. 

@Cupe this is the closest I can think of off hand. Those sounds are great.
 
 

Bump - BeatLeSS needs TOTD lists. Cmon ya'll.

Sarp everyone,
Current set up, moved into the 'den' a space in the hallway with a large desk, the monitors are sitting at about 190cm high angled down which is perfect for mixing.
I prefer this than being in the spare room, now I use the speakers more often and the house shields the noise levels to my neighbours.
The DDJ RZ is about 10cms higher than id like but having it above the monitor serves a better purpose leaving space for the keyboard and mouse below.
Looking at getting a midi keyboard or Maschine next

Office revamp after tax.

Thanks man, I know it's a small contribution but any traffic flow for the site helps.

Bigups for the continuous mix posting homie! Digging the mixes! 

Hey all,
I just put together and recorded my latest Progressive Evolution mix.
Arguably some of the smoothest mixing I have ever done to date.
I really enjoyed putting this one together and hope you enjoy it too.
Listen to it here

No better ay to kickoff the long weenend than with some fnky tech house. All for your listening pleasure.
https://soundcloud.com/craigggee/live-tech-funk
Showing some loves always helps 😋

Daaaamnnnnn that F1 is boss.