Davin Greenwell

tonight’s show (10:30 PM – 3:00 AM) will consist of some original hybrid material from their first album, a tonne of remixes in the form of a DJ mix by me and nick gurns, and also the good old resonance hybrid interview if we can get the damn computer to do its job. heh heh. we’re live on 101.9 FM here in victoria, 104.3 on cable. streaming audio here.
intro tracklisting:

• Hybrid – Beachcoma (Distinctive)
• Hybrid – Dreaming Your Dreams (Distinctive)
• Hybrid – Snyper (Distinctive)
• Hybrid – Theme from Wide Angle (Distinctive)
• Hybrid – We are in Control (Distinctive)

mix tracklisting:

• BT – Godspeed [Hybrid remix] (Renaissance)
• Sarah McLachlan – Fear [Hybrid’s Supercollider remix] (Nettwerk)
• Hybrid – Higher than a Skyscraper [Hybrid’s Twitch and Sweat remix] (Distinctive)
• Kinnie Starr – Alright [Hybrid’s Toronto Tech Dub] (Release)
• Montano vs. The Trumpet Man – Itsa Trumpet Thang [Hybrid remix] (Serious)
• Freq Nasty featuring Phoebe One – Boomin’ Back Atcha [Hybrid’s Music to Plough Fields To mix] (Botchit and Scarper)
• Lennie de ICE – We Are IE [Hybrid’s Dark mix] (Distinctive)
• John Creamer and Stephane K featuring Oliver Twist – I Love You [Hybrid’s Claustrophobic remix] (Acetate)
• Conjure One featuring Sinead O’Conner – Tears From The Moon [Hybrid’s Twisted on the Terrace Dub] (Nettwerk)
• BT featuring M. Doughty – Never Gonna Come Back Down [Hybrid’s Breaktek mix] (Nettwerk / Distinctive)
• Grayarea featuring Erik Shepard – Gravity [Hybrid’s Love From Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch Remix] (Hope Recordings)
• Hybrid – Celebrity Science (Distinctive)
• Two Bad Mice – Bombscare [Hybrid remix] (Distinctive)
• Ron Houder – Outskirts [Hybrid’s Tech Funk Breaks Mix] (Global Cuts)
• Monk & Canatella – Enter the Monk [Hybrid Electrotek Dub Mix] (Telstar)
• Hybrid – Snyper [High Velocity Edit] (Distinctive)
• Andreas Johnson – Glorious [Hybrid remix] (Distinctive)
• Moby – Bodyrock [Hybrid remix] (Distinctive)
• Jaded Little Pill – Accelerator (Distinctive)
• Hybrid – Kill City (Distinctive)
• Hybrid – Finished Symphony (Distinctive)
• Energy 52 – Café Del Mar [Hybrid’s Timetraveller remix] (Hooj Choons)
• DJ Rap – Bad Girl [Hybrid remix] (Distinctive)
• Vernon’s Wonderland – Vernon’s Wonderland [Hybrid’s Echoplex mix] (MP2)
• Hybrid – Theme From Wide Angle [Rolling Thunder Mix] (Distinctive)
• Albion – Air [Hybrid Supersonic Mix] (Platipus)
• Gouryella – Walhalla [Hybrid’s Echoplex Mix] (Tsunami)
• Golden Girls – Kinetic [Hybrid’s Audiopyrotechnix Mix]
• Kriminal – Loud ‘n’ Proud [Hybrid Mix] (Intravenous)
• James & Truman – Hear Me [Dub] (Vicious Vinyl)
• Ron Houder – Outskirts [Hybrid Tech Funk Mix] (Global Cuts)
• Maurice – Feline [Original Union Mix] (Distinctive)
• Musique vs. U2 – New Years Dub [Hybrid Remix] (Serious)
• Hybrid – Symphony [Original 96 Mix] (Distinctive)

brent has been referred to as ‘the godfather of electronic music’ here on vancouver island. his generousity and spirit have touched many, including myself, and i am incredibly sad to say that earlier today brent carmichael passed away. this was just posted on ravevictoria.com:
“As some of you know, Brent Carmichael was having health problems that he kept close for personal reasons. Due to complications of these health issues Brent passed away at 8:25am sept 2nd 2004.
In respect of Brents wishes, there will NOT be a funeral service.
With his approval there will be a celebration of his life at a later date.
This is not a joke. I, David Tillson, Brents friend for 25 years am writing this on Brents roomate Ians pc.[ if you so need comfirmation ]
The end of Brents life was witnessed by myself and 4 of Brents closest friends. We have tried to phone and contact many people in person, we apologise to those who we could not reach.
‘We love you Brent’
peace.”
www.ravevictoria.com/msgboard/msgdisplay.rave?msg=369337

and another track is done. the name for this track came to me for whatever reason and i could not -not- write a tune to go with it. and i think it’s one of my finest to date, once again pushing my production to a new level, ’cause the fun is in the innovation, especially when you’re crossing genres as this one does. there is not a spot in the track where the hithats break — this is a veritable wall of sound without a doubt. and it’s got punch to it. and large noises, of course — large noises. i played it saturday night at the pirate party and it thumped really well. i played it after that new hybrid remix of grayarea’s “gravity”, which i bought on vinyl from boomtown.
i hate vinyl.
let me qualify this. i disliked vinyl and the imperfections that it is susceptable to. however, saturday night is when i actually started to hate on it. one of the many problems with vinyl is the needle that is needed to make sound with vinyl. some needs are good, others not as good, and finally, some needles just decide to break randomly in the middle of a performance on 15,000 watt system.
such as the one sitting on that hybrid remix of grayarea. it decided to break mid-cue and drag on the record, skipping and producing muddy sound and awful bass response. so much for the mix. at this point in the night (just after midnight), i didn’t want to stop the music, so it kept going, though not sounding as spectacular as it usually would, or for that matter, should. this is a fabulous piece, one of hybrid’s best in recent years.
so what do you mix out of a failing needle?
i decided the only DJ tool i had fit for the job was the Dance of the Minataur, with its huge DJ lead in. so, i threw the CDr in the CDJ-1000, and then i layered that underneath the crappy sounding output of that needle and it worked perfectly. the lead in gave the hybrid remix enough time to play itself out before the massive bongos of DotM came in and picked up the groove.
i wasn’t quite prepared for how the bassdrum would sound.
the woosh came before the 65th bar and then..
THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMPTHUMP THUMP THUMP THUMPTHUMPTHUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMPTHUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP!
[echo, natural hall reverb]
dude! this was huge. it sounded completely massive! it sounded like one of those memorial arena parties with the huge wide open spaces and the large sound systems. this was a decent sized sound system but no other bass drum sounded like this the whole night. this was totally fully what i want!
so happy with that.
and then it occured to me, since, you know, the track had only been finished for a few hours, that i had never really mixed anything out of it in front of people before. i had been playing breaks for a bit and wanted to go in a different direction. so, like i did with the radio show, i played ASAP – Heavy Water afterwards and it worked out quite well.
the best thing about this was that during DotM i barely looked at the crowd to see the crowd response. i knew that the track was going to work and it did. while i was turned around looking through records, i could hear yelling and shouting of approval. it was awesome, but i was too busy preparing for the next mix to take it in. what a great crowd too — the dancefloor was full by 11 PM and stayed that way until i left at around 3 or 4 AM. the other DJ’s (nigel haze, yoseff and josh) played quite well, so it was probably no coincidence.
i don’t have any plans for this track yet. as far as things go on pacific front, there is plenty of material waiting to be released already, though i am pretty certain we’re looking for a remix of Dreamcache now.
that’s all for now on the music front!

the shot of me, the nerd cards, and leah were by gurton. i shot the rest sans le tripod. i don’t know if that is good or not, but man, my hands sure are steady these days! 🙂
the last shot there is of tim. he has moved to saskatchewan. bye tim, we’ll miss you!

ahh damn, i have a tonne of pix in cue for a massive picture post, but i don’t have time to do that right now. so instead take a look at this shot of neil, anand, my cousins tara and marisa, and me. more tomorrow!

this is the tracklisting for resonance, on 101.9 FM CFUV in victoria. i host it with nick, and we have some guest DJ’s. this friday night it started at 10:30 PM and it continues to go until 3 AM.
Featured intro mix: DJ Bedlam – Live @ Spec (30 mins)
Featured mix: Charles Paul / Chompers Dubs

• Geoff, White & Dialogue – Dialogue, Tongues [Geoff White Rework] (Intergroove)
• Steve Walker vs. Theorem – UR Forms (Minus)
• Dimbiman – Toyl (Perlon)
• Jackmate – Do San (Philpot)
• Chompers dubs – Slifty (Unreleased)
• Someone Else + Mistake – Rip It Cookie Muenster (Foundsound)
• Osbourne – Graphite (Spectral)
• Futago Technologies – Damaged (Futago Technologies)
• Studio 1 – Green Side A Track A (Studio 1)
• Chompers dubs – Panty Thief (Unreleased)
• Lucien-N-Luciano – Remix for Amael [Ricardo Villalobos Remix] (Peacefrog)
• Adam Marshall – Kings & Heroes (Antennae)
• Stockholm Decadence – Panic Button [Hitoshi Ohishi remix] (Frogman)
• Robin Porter & Jasper – Compromise (Immigrant)
• Cabanne – Can’t Stand (Seventh City Records)
• Matt Thibideau – Love Letter is like a Bullet from a Gun (Cynosure)
• Ozy – Smartrass (Thule)
• Ric Y Martin – Froebel (Perlon)
• Michael Mayer – 17 & 4 [Auftrieb Remix] (Kompakt)
• Robert Hood – Untitled 5 (M)

Featured mix: The Devils Advocate

• Martin Accorsi and Tim Skinner – Playing for Silence (Bedrock)
• Quivver and Sutton – Cold Rush [Mix A] (Electric Music People)
• Tony Thomas – Butterfly (Purpose Records)
• Satoshi Tomiie – Love In Traffic [Dark Path] (White Label)
• Vampires – Live In The Light [Evolved Trip] (Plastica)
• Sasse – The Time Together (White Label)
• Diamond Dogs – Nothing Else [Trafik remix] (Climax Recordings)
• BT – Never Gonna Come Back Down [Hybrid Dub] (Nettwerk)
• U-Facilities and Sciatica – Free My Soul [Steve Lawler Edit] (Harlem)
• Paris and Sharp – Do Anything (Orient)
• Aloud – Sex and Sun [Eric Prydz remix] (Open)
• K-Klass featuring Kinane – Talk 2 Me [Kidstuff Vocal mix] (Soul Underground Soul Unity)
• Andain – Beautiful Things [Josh Gabriel] (Black Hole)
• Rhythm Unlimited – All I Wanna Do (Silver Planet)
• Gadgets – Go There (White Label)
• Henrik B – Hardwired (Illgorhythm)
• Hybrid – I’m Still Awake [Christian J remix] (Distinctive)
• Ben Camp – Burial Ground (Silver Planet)
• Inner System – Soul Trade [Nugen vs. Archer remix] (SOG Chrome)
• Danny Howells – Sexmachine (Sexonwax)
• Inkfish – How Can I Believe [Martin H remix] (White Label)
• Greed & Van Bellen – City Lights [Matthew Dekay remix] (SOG)
• Ericke – Make You Smile [Dr. Kucho remix] (Little Mountain Recordings)
• Stisch featuring Magnus Carlson – Beauty In Me [Barfly remix] (Sound of Habib)
• DJ Phantom – Nobody (White Label)

so! aside from seeing posters for Hybrid all over town with my name on them, guess what else is happening which is incredibly cool?
pacific front recordings first release, my first official release as AFK, is available online now:
http://www.edmdigital.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=24
note the chart on the right. 3 mixes of magnetic (my own, formulate’s massive remix, and chompers deadly mercy kill mix) are in the top ten at the time of this post.. not bad! please buy our music online! woohoo!!!
by the way.. i am DJing this weekend at an “all night event” .. if you know me, then i hope to see you there .. and no, it is not on a boat any more. 🙂

i am in vancouver staying at my aunt and uncles. i almost found a place yesterday. looking more today. i think i am getting sick. ack! i am going back to victoria later this afternoon.

happy birthday krishen! woohoo!
secret present!!