This one time, helllla years ago, my friend and I dressed up as Justice and performed a fake DJ set at a house party for Halloween. I think that was the night I met Stephanie Luz. It was a pivotal moment for me, because back then, nobody was using MIDI controllers to DJ (in fact, there were hardly any dedicated DJ controllers on the market; at that time I think there was maybe 2 total), and when I heard she might be coming, I was wondering if a “real” DJ’s set-up would make my set-up look silly. As it turned out, she showed up to the party with a netbook and a Trigger Finger and played an Ableton set. So there you have it, one of the reasons I was motivated to keep using controllers for DJing is because I saw a “real” DJ show up to our party with a frickin’ netbook. It was awesome.

Stephanie’s DJing challenges me to give the audience something more than just the gift of dance. Her mixes make you feel and think as much as they make you move. It’s a hard style of DJing to pull off, because at any moment you run the risk of boring the audience. She pulls it off not only successfully, but perfectly.

Stephanie titles her mix “Surfacing,” partially due to the fact that she’s “been hiding under rock for the past year in grad school and it’s nice to finally put out a mix again.”

She can regularly be found DJing at “Beats and Boardgames” in San Francisco, and has also been a regular DJ the last few years at the San Francisco Trans March. For more info, and to hear more of her music, check out her site at Toy Box Radio.

TRACK LIST:

1.) Curtis Mayfield - Move On Up (DJ Broken Record Edit) [surfacing…hehe]

2.) Rigo Tovar - Quiza Quiza Quiza - Pa-Kongal & Spike Devil Disco Refix [Absolutely incredible edit. Really good DJ tool also.]

3.) Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Home (DJ Broken Record Remix) [Been a while! One of my most popular edits!]

4.) Swedish House Mafia - Don’t You Worry Child (Feat. John Martin) (Acoustic Version) [My favorite SHM track (the original one I mean) and one of my favorite tracks of that year.]

5.) Apparat - Goodbye (Instrumental) [Shouts out to Breaking Bad]

STEPHANIE LUZ - “SURFACING”

6.) Max Richter - On the Nature of Daylight
7.) Heinali - Her Favorite Place
8.) Tibetan Singing Bowl - Heart Meditation
9.) Balmorhea - Candor
10.) Tone Color - In Bruges
11.) Daughter - Shallows
12.) Origamibiro - Ballerina Platform Shoes
13.) Jon Hopkins - Candles
14.) Nadia Sirota - Étude 3
15.) Helios - Every Hair On Your Head (Ben Boysen Remix)

The Broken Record Radio Show 05-17-13 “Surfacing” by Dj Broken Record on Mixcloud

Yes yes ya’ll, back with another installment of THE BROKEN RECORD RADIO SHOWWWW this time featuring a BIG producer and DJ by the name of SIETE CATORCE aka DEN5HION from Mexicali, Mexico. This dude has been such a huge influence on me in my productions and continues to push innovations on the game. If you’ve ever seen me DJ you’ve most likely heard a lot of his tracks. Like most music nerds, he has moved toward a more sophisticated ambient/tech/deep sound in his latest work, as this mix shows, but he stills keeps his signature cumbia and 3ball rhythms ….WHICH IS AWESOME. I love hearing the Latin American steelo creepin into the European 3AM sounds. I hope he explores this sound more!!! And I hope that one day I’m a good enough DJ that I can successfully play a 6 hour “deep” set.

Track List (stream the mix below, direct link here):

1.) Celso Piña con El Gran Silenio - Cumbia De Poder (Den5hion Remix) [Instant Party Starter]

2.) Johnny Love - Sonora (Udachi Remix) [Neki Stranac Edit] [One of my favorite Moombahton edits ever]

3.) Lido Pimienta - Buena Persona (Den5hion Remix) [They should do an album together]

4.) Moby - God Moving Over the Face of the Waters (DJ Broken Record Remix) [Cumbiahtonical inna da place]

5.) Popeska - I Wish [One of my favorite tracks ever, seriously. Still waiting for him to email me back =(]

EXCLUSIVE MIX BY SIETE CATORCE:

6.) Den5hion - Alma Deshechable

7.) Fantastic Mr. Fox - Over

8.) TNGHT - Bugg’n (siete catorce edit)

9.) Lechuga Zafiro - Isla de Flores

10.) L-Vis 1990 - Ballad 4D

11.) Den5hion - Distante

12.) LOLgurlz - Digital Divaz ft. Unique (instrumental)

13.) Equinox - Zomby

14.) Sango - On my mind all the time

15.) Siete catorce - Flor de Lirio

16.) Siete Catorce - Somnolencia

17.) Cyber Snake - Nasty Ways

18.) Massacoormaan - Cumbia Embotado

19.) Siete Catorce - Deseo

20.) Siete Catorce - Verdad

The Broken Record Radio Show 05-03-13 “Siete Catorce” by Dj Broken Record on Mixcloud

http://www.mixcloud.com/sietecatorce/

http://soundcloud.com/den5hion

http://soundcloud.com/sietecatorce

Till next time! -br

Daft Punk’s “Alive 2007” world tour, and more importantly its accompanying live album by the same name, was the dance music album that taught me that dance music could live outside of the night club. It’s a concept album, a story with a beginning, middle, and end, amidst millions of Beatport singles with one-week lifespans. It was an expression of vulnerability, literally screaming out to us that they are humans after all. And indeed, in the harmonies of the finale, “Superheroes / Human After All / Rock’n Roll,” I can hear more humanity and emotion than in almost any acoustic song I’ve ever heard. Daft Punk’s studio albums gave me some of my favorite dance songs ever. But this album changed my life.

Continuing their theme of the robot’s inner struggle to find its humanity, Daft Punk have named their new album “Random Access Memories,” a beautifully poetic and clever pun. As we’ve all heard, the first single from the album is a collaboration with Pharell Williams and Nile Rodgers, two artists who, along with Daft Punk, have saved your ass so many times if you’re a DJ that it almost feels like a waste of potentially good new songs to put them all together on the same track. But holy crap is it beautiful. All it took was a 15 second clip of the chord progression (and Nile’s “one time events” guitar playing) to get us hooked. A few weeks later the radio edit was released on iTunes. And now here we are.

If you like the edit, please show it to your friends, and make sure to check out my radio show, which is archived after airing on my mixcloud: http://mixcloud.com/djbrokenrecord

Enjoy, share, and I’ll see you at Daft Punk’s first show for the new album.

What up yall, time for another upload of The Broken Record Radio Show! This originally aired on 88.1 FM here in Sonoma County on April 19th. On this episode of the show we delve in a little into the hot new (or not so new) phenomenon of Zouk Bass. We also feature two unreleased (at the time) tracks from Red Milk, a production duo for Lithuania who caught my ear with their knack for vibes and excellent sampling. Make sure to check out their music on Soundcloud! Speaking of Soundcloud, welcome to my Soundcloud followers who are just discovering my radio show…. just for you, listen towards the end of the mix for some brand spankin new Broken Record production! ENJOY!! =D

Track List:

DJ Paparazzi - Los Terraxa [Deadly groove. Jesus Christ.]

M.E.S.H. - Dusk Balm [Vibes. This producer is killer with the vibes.]

Grahama Knoxx - Diamonds (Secret Sauce Remix) [Beautiful Zouk feel. I hear this is what Zouk was like before Zouk Bass.]

JSTJR x Two Sev x Banginclude - Caxito [How do you pronounce JSTJR? =( ]

Jim Guthrie - The Cloud [My favorite Guthrie! heh]

Hataah - Sekwe [I know, I’ve played this before…but not like this =) ]

Red Milk - Pickaplum [At the time of airing this track was unreleased!]

Red Milk - So Hi [They are not a one trick pony! Totally different tempo!]

Jus Now - Cut Meh Loose [Can’t go wrong with this release.]

Kelis - Milkshake (Munchi’s ‘Thanks To Subeena’ Bootleg Kuduro Rmx) [This must have blown away heads at the time it came out]

Donny & Current Value ft Mc Cidinho Y Doca - Symptomless Coma vs. Rap Da Felicidade (Munchi’s Detangle And Unlearn VIP) [Thank you Munchi for giving me an excuse to put Current Value in this episode.]

DZC Deejays Feat Badoxa Pro - Uengui Dia Ngola Rmx 2013 [This crew is unstoppable.]

DJ Ketchup - Um Ano de Namoro [Mastery of melody, harmony AND rhythm. How many artists can claim that?]

Musiqfuckersz & El Sonido -Portus Cale [Assuming it’s pronounced “Music Fuckers,” I couldn’t say the artist on the air!]

Dj Totex - Saudades Teckny-fox [I don’t speak Portugese so sometimes It’s hard to figure out what the name of a track is!]

Murlo - Soundboy (Chicky Boom Remix) [Yes I play club music sometimes!]

DJ Broken Record - Por El Suelo [Enjoy! =D]

The Broken Record Radio Show 04-19-13 “Zouk Bass” by Dj Broken Record on Mixcloud

Make sure to tune in to the broken record radio show tonight at 11pm pacific! On http://kwtf.net

After Resident Advisor filmed a mini-documentary about Russian DJ Nina Kraviz, some journalists, most notably male journalist Greg Wilson, had a lot to say about whether Nina was using her physical appearance to further her DJ career. He was referring mostly to the fact that the documentary featured an interview with her in the bath and another one with her at the beach. This is how Nina responded to this “controversy” on her Facebook page:

“Guys, are you serious”?” Aren’t you not bored about this 10 times dead topic about females in the industry, the idea that any boy can do what ever he wants and it’s all fine and girl needs to behave?Behave like not even put make up because “oh my god, she can’t be taken seriously if she is pretty and feminine-means if she is her self” Since when, guys? Please don’t put me in your marketing box. I don’t even have a manager. I refused them all. I do what I wanna do. And actually I am the most well behaved dj ever. Who doesn’t take any drugs(and I’ve been djing for 10 years now) who is professional and true to her self. Who never played a single record to please anybody. And stop with this snobism really. Its old fashioned. Even though I was in a fight with RA because they didn’t want to remove some episodes after following me for 3 days non-stop I found it a bit too focused on me as a female. They wanted no talks about acid techno, dance mania and all that they wanted it because they knew it would create a little mess. Of course. Finally the removed a lot but even after that the innocent and in my opinion lovely shoot in the bath makes you mad. So funny.This video is about dj on the road. And djs take baths sometimes. The party in Bulgaria was on the beach. So you wanted me to be on the beach in winter cloths? Just not to be miss understood? Since when wearing a swimming suit on the beach is too much? Ha? And the last thing. In the video I said “being a female in the industry is not easy sometimes because all relationship turn into distant relationship”. For many people I am just too real. But if you think I am gonna change because you don’t feel it or because you are full of cliches and sexism. You think you can control people and tell them what they should be. No, sorry it doesn’t work this way with me. I am producing, exploring, digging for records since ages, sharing music with people -all by my self. I have my right to be who I am and you can like it or not. I love my job and I am just too real for some of you. You think there must be a mistake. There must be something wrong. But no there is isnt’. You can’t control artist and their creativity. Sexism and all similar bullshit must die. And the first step to it is to let artists be who they are regardless of their gender, skin color, sexual orientation ect.. People cliches are for those who have less crafty brains. I hope one day you will find your self on the other side of the road. God bless you all.”