UPDATE, Evening Nov 5th: Files should be working again, although I'm not sure for how long. Would people be willing to donate a little bit of money so that we can host using Amazon S3?

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EDIT, Nov. 5th: First off, Yes we Did! Second of all, we are experiencing server problems related to an administrative dispute at my university. I don't have time to setup alternative hosting for this week, much less the other podcasts, until this evening. I'll update once the problem is fixed.

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It's the big day: do we elect the oldest incoming president ever, backed up by a VP who can't even tell the difference between two radio jocks prank calling and President Nicolas Sarkozy, or do we elect someone with even-headed competence? I'll leave the choice to you, but I find it to be obvious.

Now that I have offended half our audience... This weeks mix completely unintentionally summed up the status of the political race as we head into election day. I'm sure you can decode it from the tracknames and lyrics for yourself, so I wont do it here. I'll just emphasize the last track, Modeselektor - Vote Or Die. While it's not quite that dire a situation, it's an appropriate sentiment for today. Oh, and there is shameless propaganda spread throughout the mix. Should make appropriate background music for your victory party as the votes start to roll in!

So, hopefully I'll still see you all in two weeks, when nothing much will have changed except my lack of shame every time I walk outside my apartment. Don't worry - it'll be back in six months if the direction of the country hasn't started to change.

Cheers,
DJ Transit

 

dj ego and myself were able to get together in the flesh this past weekend and, along with dj ego's better half (i.e, wife), had a great time gallivanting through Ticino (and drinking wine). We managed to spend a couple hours behind the decks, and the result is this week's podcast.

Since dj ego is still waiting for his shipping container in Napoli, he came into the whole thing with a rather large disadvantage: no CDs, no records, and several months without standing behind a mixer. So we decided to lighten it up, and ended up tag-teaming every two tracks. The podcast starts about 30 minutes into the set, after we got our trainwreck out of the way, and continues to the end.

As luck would have it, a number of tracks we haven't played before ended up in the mix. Two of these are worth highlighting: Vincenzo - The Fruit Fly (The Fruity Bug Edit) (the edit is Steve Bug), and Dan Mangan - Resorcerer. The second of these has been sitting around in my collection since the end of 2006 and somehow managed to be forgotten. Which is quite sad, because it's a real rocker. Thanks go to dj ego for pulling both of these out and throwing them down.

Other stuff: Allison's comment on the last set inspired me to go look up the non-remixed version of Gustav's We Shall Overcome. Give it a chance. For your enjoyment:

Finally, in the spirit of the season, here's a link to DJ Z-Trip's Obama Mix. It might surprise a few of you that dj ego and myself are in full agreement on the Presidential election this year, and we hope you'll consider Z-Trip's endorsement (along with all the others that are actually worthy of consideration) before you vote. (For those of you not in know, the fact we both live in Italian speaking areas of the world is an incredible coincidence - we're both from the U.S.)

Enjoy the mix!
DJ Transit

 

I've been slammed with work these last couple weeks, so I've reached into the bin of old recordings and recovered the set I wanted to post when I was in California. However, the source file is an only a moderately high-quality ogg, not a full quality wav. As such, there is no 320 kbps mp3 this week, and I'd suggest sticking with the ogg if you can, as the 192 kbps mp3 is just a transcode.

Really only two songs in the set qualify for the title of "Tech-Pop," and they, in a way, are the stars of the set: Telepopmusik - Love Can Damage Your Health (Abicah Soul / Dennis Ferrer Remix) and Gustav - We Shall Overcome (Wighnomys Okkasion Re(h)and). I really love the second of these. How often do you find a well produced anarchist pop-ballad with intelligent lyrics? Not very. Consider it my statement on the upcoming U.S. Presidential election.

This set has long been a favorite of mine, and I hope you all enjoy listening to it as much as I do. It's not perfect, but it does what my favorite sets do: tells a more complex story than a linear build. There are four distinct movements in this one: tracks 1-3, 3-5, 5-8, and 8-12.

Two weeks from now we hope to have a surprise for you. Stay tunned for that.

Cheers,
DJ Transit

Edit: Oops, there is indeed a little blip at the end of the set. I'm going to leave it there to avoid any further re-encoding.

Edit II: Link to the OGG is fixed.