DUUUUUBSTEP!

I fell in love with Dub Step a few years back, and it has been making it's way into my mixes over the last 2 years or so. For those of you who have been downloading my mixes, you'll notice that the last 20 minutes or so of my latest few have been laced with some of my favorite Dub Step songs.

I connect with Dub Step because it has a lot of elements that I love infused in it. It has BIG, crushing, dirty, hard Bass lines, a lot of Hip-Hop styled percussion and structuring, as well as a lot of eclectic off-beat melodic stuff. Hip-Hop and Hard Dance where really my 1st two musical loves when I was 1st branching out into music on my own (aside from Punk Rock) and DubStep seems to be a perfect marriage of the two.

Anyway, I've taken a bunch of my favorites from over the last few years and threw them together into 1 epic mix, instead of just the last 20 minutes of my usual stuff. It starts off kind of melodic and ends on a more wobbly, hard note.

Click the Down-facing arrow to download it for free.


Nick Sandoval - Dubstep Mix December 2010 by Nick Sandoval

The Tracklist:

1) Delphic - Counterpoint
2) Chromeo - Night By Night
3) Robyn - No Hassle
4) Florence & The Machine - Raise It Up (Swith Remix)
5) Deadmau5 - I Remember (Caspa Remix)
6) Robyn - Dancing On My Own (Jakwob Remix)
7) Passion Pit - Sleepyhead (Bogore Remix)
8) Simian Mobile Disco - Cruel Intentions (Joker Remix)
9) Attacca Pesante & Shea Soul - Make It Funky (Rusko Remix)
10) Flux Pavillion - Night Goes On
11) Jinder - Youth Blood (12th Planet Remix)
12) Freestylers - Cracks (Flux Pavillion Remix)
13) We Bang - Smash The Floor
14) Benga - 26 Basslines
15) Sublime - Doin Time (Zeds Dead Remix)
16) WTF & Dead Prez - Hip Hop
17) ???????????????????????????

I'm dedicating the last song to Cat Rendel and Levi Neshkoff. I've always wanted to end a mix with this song and, they'll know why when they hear it!!

Kick-Start

Here's my latest mix for you. About an hour and 20 minutes of big fun tracks.

I closed out this mix with the song I had been closing out each stop on the summer tour with, which i have been getting a lot of requests to upload, so .......here it is finally!

Download and enjoy, it's free!!


Nick Sandoval - Kick Start (2010) by Nick Sandoval


The Tracklist:

1) Example - Kickstart (Afrojack Remix)
2) NERD - Hot & Fun (Boys Noize Edit)
3) Katy B - Louder
4) Dragonette - Volcano (Zed's Dead Mix)
5) Lee Mortimer & Foamo - Superman (Edit)
6) Uffie feat Pharrell - ADD SUV (AVH Edit)
7) Deadmau5 & Wolfgang Gartner - Animal Rights (Original Edit)
8) Sander Kleinenberg - R.Y.A.N.L.
9) Estelle - Freak (Kid Kaio Edit)
10) Crookers - Royalty (Original Edit)
11) Crookers - Royalty (Riva Starr Mix)
12) The Freaks - Creeps (Nick's Vandalism Refix)
13) Duck Sauce - Barbara Streisand (Nick's Git-it Git-it Edit)
14) Yolanda B Cool & D-Cup - We No Speak Americano (Nick Sandoval T-Shirt Time Remix)
15) DJ Zinc - Wile Out
16) Sandro Silva - Told Ya (Apster Remix)
17) Afrojack - Take over Control (Nick's Unplugged Edit)
18) Wynter Gordon - D-Talk (Laidback Luke Mix)
19) Steve Angello - Knas
20) Martin Solvieg - Hello (Sidney Samson Edit)
21) DJ Mujava - Mugwanti (R3hab Mix)
22) Vato Gonzalez - Badman Riddim
23) Diplo & Don Diablo - POP
24) Drop The Lime - S-Sax (Nick's Cut & Paste Edit)
25) Ludacris - How Low (Acapella)
26) Ludacris - How Low (Nick's Dillan Francis Re-Edit)
27) Rusko - How Low Can You Gizzo
28) Doctor P - Sweet Shop
29) Rusko - Hold On (Sub Focus Remix)

Transmissions From The Tour Pt. II

DON'T STOP BELIEVING!

I threw this at the kids here in Illinois, it took most of them by surprise. I got the idea from a guy on the tour in Colorado. (Thanks Mr. Frankie Ocampo!!) Just a simple re-edit and mixable version of the famous "Don't Stop Believing". The kids (and adults) seemed to really enjoy it, especially when I cut the sound and left only their voices to fill the room. It's always hard to find a good balance of music that will keep the kids moving that is fun/current, and also doesn't offend anybody. This song seemed to do the trick!



It looked like this:





It will definitely be on the Summer Camp mix, so stay tuned!!!

Transmissions From The Tour

AND A MILEY SONG WAS ON...

The summer tour has been amazing. I've got 2 weeks down and a hand-full to go. The kids have been so fun every night and all the CIY staff has been rad in every city, but that was to be expected. What wasn't expected, however, was how much I was going to have to play a certain Miley Cyrus song this summer.
Turns out that her song "Party In The USA" was the unofficial anthem of the CIY summer. I hadn't heard the song until my 1st week this summer (too much surprise of some people) and it turns out that the kids go absolutely bonkers when it comes on. They even learn a dance that goes with it, which looks pretty unbelievable when 1300 people are all dancing the same dance all at once.
If you haven't heard the song, this is it here. Incredibly poppy and catchy.

Now as most of you know, it's not really the style of song that i would typically play. With this busy summer schedule, I definitely didn't have time to make a remix of my own and last week I really tried but I just couldn't find the time. I found a couple decent ones out there so did a little re-editing of one of them and it worked out OK but it wasn't enough for me. So, what I decided to do was to flip it up a little by actually dropping in a few of the songs that she claims to be her favorite in her lyrics (rumor has it that she hadn't actually heard a Jay-Z song before she recorded this.)

Anyway, the kids weren't expecting this or the remix which is quite a bit faster (128bpm) than the original version (around 96Bpm). Some of them were into it, some were hating on it, some were way to cool for school, and some of the others were just straight up confused as to what was happening. Regardless, almost all of them jumped in when the chorus came in and it looked like this:

(make sure you watch both drops, Jay-Z and Britney)

The footage isn't that great. I tried to wedge my camera up between my turntables and my mixer and I ended up only catching the right side of the auditorium, which was a bummer because the left side seemed to be a lot more into it and hyped up, and with the lighting you can't really see any of the kids in the back. Anyway, this is just a little preview of some of the fun I've been having.