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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

dog years, blog years...

Good gravy... last week vanmega.com turned 8 years old.

EIGHT. EIGHT? EIGHT!

This is where I thank those of you who've been reading and/or contributing to the site over the years.

It's absolutely insane that this site has been around for so long. Also, absolutely insane: the amount the focus of this site has changed over the years... this thing started as a over-sharing E/N type blog, moved into a team keep-in-touch blog, a travel blog, a music blog, an mp3 blog, a personal blog. I'm not saying all the content was good... just that there's a lot of content (most of the embarrassing stuff has happily been wiped from the servers).

With all of that said, it's a fair question to ask where this site is going. Clearly the volume of posting has dropped off. There's 2 main reasons for this (1) blogger is the most archaic publishing system in the world, (2) I spend all my time on tumblr blogging there. This has been the case for the last year or so.

So, in the next week or so, I'm cutting vanmega.com over to the tumblr platform permanently. Don't worry... the monthly mixtapes and dj sets and media will all stay/continue, the rambling posts about bands and Vancouver and the like will stay/continue... I'll now be in a position to happily post multiple times a day about more things. Plus, the site gains all kinds of nerdy functionality like search and mobile browser friendly views. You know, normal stuff that non-blogger based sites have.

What does this mean to you?... not much, just keep reading and emailing and watch the look of the site to change a bunch. Feel free to provide feedback on the changes and be a total darling and let me know if you see any technical bugs. Also, if you access the site by RSS feed only add this feed to your reader:

http://vanmega.tumblr.com/rss

elsewhere

Death Of Autotune - Black Moon & ATCQ

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Friday, November 14, 2008

adventures in fake dj'ing: quick mix edition...

Just in time for the weekend... I DJ'd up a set for you.

This is a bit a redo of a set I did a few weeks ago for a house party. The original version was an hour and a half long, this time I approached it with a mission to make everything rapid fire... so the revised set is all edits and quick mixes, resulting in 21 songs playing in a span of 31 minutes. Lots of fun, lots of energy... an rather good weekend jump-off point.

Setlist:

Intro - Michael Jackson...
Daft Punk - Something About Us (EASTAR Remix)
Alan Braxe and Fred Falke - Intro
Mr Ozio - Steroids (ft. Uffie)
Pete Heller - Big Love
Lykke Li - Little Bit (CSS Remix)
Mr. Scruff - Get A Move On
Duffy - Mercy (Morsy Mix)
Basement Jaxx - Miracles Keep On Playin' (Red Alert remix)
Kanye West - Love Lockdown (Chew Fu Small Room Fix)
Hot Chip - Boy From School (Erol Alkans's Re-Work)
James Pants - Ka$h (Trizzy & XXXchange Remix)
Alan Braxe and Fred Falke - Penthouse Serenade
Ladyhawke - Paris Is Burning (Cut Copy Remix)
The Ting Tings - Great DJ (Calvin Harris Remix)
Mr Ozio - Jo
Gusto - Disco's Revenge (Freemasons Edit)
Pest - Pat Pong (Switch Remix)
Champion - No Heaven
Mylo - Ottos Journey
Friendly Fires - Paris (Aeroplane Remix Feat. Au Revoir Simone)
Fleetwood Mac - You Make Lovin' Fun (Trailmix Remix)

*Download the mp3 here* [58MB, right click & save-as]

Or better yet, subscribe to the fake dj set podcast here. (full details can be found here).

elsewhere

"this modern love" performed acoustic, live outside a german pub

Labels: fake dj'ing, mp3

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Wednesday, November 12, 2008

november mixtape

Really like some of the music that's coming out right now... maybe it's a pre-Christmas release thing, but it just seems there's lots of good stuff out there right now.

This month's mix seems to ping pong between organic rock and electric beats. Of course, I mean that in the best way possible.

Perfect for those winter nights where the sun sets at 4:15pm.

click here to download and/or stream the mixtape

elsewhere

understanding jewel, part I

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