Over the last few months I’ve had a number of people request PDF versions of my Production Guides and Tutorials, mainly for storing and referencing on their iOS devices.  I apologize that it took me so long to get this done, but things have been pretty busy here lately to say the least! But, at long last I now have …

  Blue Dreams Downtempo DJ Set What can I say, I’ve been on a roll lately I guess.  :) Here’s a new downtempo DJ set, recorded live on Feb 13, 2012 using Ableton Live 8, Allen & Heath Xone62, Akai APC40, and NI Traktor Audio 6. Tracklist: Time – Artist – Track – Label 00:00 – Culture Cruisers – La Piscine …

  This is the first run through of my new live set, something a little more upbeat than my usual downtempo.  I had a lot of fun doing the downtempo set I posted two weeks ago (Here), so I decided to go ahead and convert some of the more clubby tunes from my Ableton sets into something for the Elektron …

Like I’m sure a lot of fathers do, over the years my dad used to repeat a lot of different phrases that he liked.  And while he never originally intended any of them to be about music-making at the time, none the less I’ve recently come to realize how many of these I’ve inadvertently adopted myself over the years. So, …

  Since about the time I got my first groovebox (Roland MC505), I noticed that it generally doesn’t take me that long to learn and start using a new piece of music equipment.  Usually within a week or two I feel pretty comfortable with something I recently purchased, and most likely it’s already gotten used in one of my songs …

Normally when I wrap up a project, I look forward to moving on and putting it behind me. But I’ve been having so much fun performing on the Machinedrum and Octatrack this week, I wanted to give it one more go.  Plus, I felt bad that I wasn’t able to capture the last peformance on video, when I knew so …

Been getting a few questions about how I did my recent Elektron live set, so I’ll tackle the set up and how I performed it here on the blog.  The set can be downloaded here if you haven’t heard it but are curious: http://tarekith.com/m-dot-live-elektron-set/ So the basic idea was pretty simple, could I take my current downtempo live set that …

  M-Dot Live PA This set was recorded live on Jan 28th, 2012 using an Elektron Machinedrum-UW and Elektron Octatrack, recorded via an RME Fireface400 at 24bit/96kHz. This set is the first thing I’ve recorded with the Octatrack, and I knew before I even got it that I was going to try and recreate my laptop live sets in it …

1. In your mixing tutorials you’ve always emphasized that one should listen to the mix on several different systems to see how it sounds. How can I translate those impressions to tweaks at my mix position to make the mix more portable? Is it just finding a balance between what I hear at the mix position and what I remember …

Quick tutorial showing people how to set up Scenes and the Record Buffers to help with transitioning between songs in a live setting. Based on comments and ideas found in this thread over on the Elektron-Users.com forums: http://elektron-users.com/index.php?option=com_fireboard&Itemid=28&func=view&id=133970&catid=9