Another week of some quality tunes…

Gonna start this week off with a couple mixes sent to us from our friend Brian Armand of The ElektroKatz. Brian is a regular in our comments section, which is well worth checking out thanks to people like him. This “Day-Oh/A Milli” remix he did sounds sooooo dope!!

Brian says, “They are both original productions, no samples, just of course the vocals! I made 2, One featuring Lil Wayne, however the straight Day O “Daylight Hangover” remix has a backstory I created for it.The original song as Im sure you guys know is about banana boat workers on the night shift wanting to go home….My version is about leaving a city club at about 4 or 6 a.m. in the morning after a long night drinking and dancing. As you walk outside from the club its Daylight, and your hangover is just about kicking in, hence the beginning vocals, “Daylight come, and we wanna go home”

With so much talk of 6 Foot 7 Foot being the new Milli, I figured I would combine them within my original production, and for good measure, of course add some of what Lil Wayne sampled from..Day O…I didnt have access to the 6 Foot Acapella, so I went right to the source, the original Day O song. I think Harry Belafonte remade the song years and years ago, however I used his original 1956 recording, because its easier to make an acapella from music back than, being the fidelity was not as good as todays technolagy as you know! I used a parametric EQ amongst other FX to filter out any drums and such. Its much in the same vain as what Jason Nevins did with Run DMCs ” Its Like That” and others.”

Make sure you guys thank Brian in the comment section here. This is definitely the best take I’ve heard of “Day-O” so far. Peep for yourself!

Harry Belafonte – Day-O (ElektroKatz 2011 Daylight Hangover Club Fix) —- DOWNLOAD HERE
Harry Belafonte ft. Lil Wayne – Day-O (ElektroKatz 6 Foot Milli Club Fix) — DOWNLOAD HERE

Next up, is DJ Geometrix, who presents his remix of David Guetta & Rihanna’s “Who’s That Chick”.  Any questions about Geometix’s qualifications? Just peep his bio HERE.  He’s been the man in DC for over ten years now and still going strong.  Don’t sleep on this mix!

David Guetta ft. Rihanna – Who’s That Chick (DJ Geometrix Remix)  — DOWNLOAD HERE

Last but not least, our boy DJ Mike Gloria wants you to have his latest remix.  Mike’s been very consistent lately, and his hard work is really paying off.  Here’s his Big Room mix of the latest Flo-Rida hit.

Flo-Rida ft. Akon – Who Dat Girl (DJ Mike Gloria Big Room Mix) — DOWNLOAD HERE

By request, here’s the Aca-in/out edit that JD and I used during last week’s Playlist Wednesday episode.

Three Six Mafia – Stay Fly (Aca In/Out) (JD/Jay Spring Edit) —– DOWNLOAD HERE

Enjoy!

What’s up everyone — here’s a few tracks for this Christmas weekend.

First up, DJ EDUB made some much needed intro versions to the new Lonely Island track. This ZIP contains Clean/Dirty of the full length and quick hitter mixes that EDUB was nice enough to share.

The Lonely Island – I Just Had Sex (DJ EDUB Edit Pack) —-   DOWNLOAD HERE

Next, our boy DJ Donk blessed us with a few tracks.  Here’s what he told us:

“The first one is a G6 edit that goes from the original, then flips to some dope dubstep.

Far East Movement ft. Dev – Like A G6 (DJ Donk OG to Dubstep Flip) —-    DOWNLOAD HERE

Second – a transition of the new “Mann” single called “Buzzin”. It’s starting to get a lot of play in California…. let me know how you like it.

Mann – Buzzin (DJ Donk Down Transition 128-103) —– DOWNLOAD HERE

Last – My buddy DJ Butter did this edit to “bass down low”. Pretty dope, its sped up to 128 and has some dutch sound to it.”

Dev – I Make Her Say Bass Down Low (DJ Butter Remix)  —- DOWNLOAD HERE

Happy Holidays everyone!!

Over the last few months you may have noticed our sponsors ads at the beginning of our videos.  Thanks to them we can continue to bring you Remix Report on a regular basis!  Of course there are costs associated with running our site, so we’re very appreciative of the support from YourDJDrops.com, YourDJLogo.com & YourDJSkins.com.  We wouldn’t have them advertise on our site if we didn’t believe they offered a top notch product that all DJ’s could benefit from.

Please take a minute this holiday season to see if our sponsors have a product you can benefit from.  Your support of them helps support us!

Thank you and Happy Holidays!

YourDJDrops.com
YourDJLogo.com
YourDJSkins.com

Yes, this was another busy weekend – I did the usual Friday, Saturday, Sunday.  However, the real work was put in at my place on my computer.  All four of the major remix sites are currently having big sales, which lead to JD and I performing a nice, quality raping.  After dropping a little loot, (yes we support our friends!), we came away with close to 100 new tracks.  No, we don’t have plans on playing 100 remixes in a row, BUT, now we do have plenty of new ammo to keep from going stale.   I’m not gonna go in depth about this experience now, instead I will save it for tomorrow’s editorial, so make sure to check back manana.  I will say this now though:  All the DJs who are constantly asking how to switch up your sets, head to the sites now while you can get double for your money!!

www.YourRemix.com
www.CrooklynClan.net
www.Crack4Djs.net
www.StrictlyHits.com

Trust me, this isn’t an advertisement — this is advice.  Between all four sites, there is definitely plenty of useful stuff that we all are better off having in our crates!  Stock up now while you can get the most bang for your buck.  Again, more on this tomorrow.  (Don’t wait for our editorial before you buy, because the sales may be over!)

Speaking of the remix sites, I hope by now that everyone has copped DJ AM’s “It Takes Rock” from CrooklynClan.  It’s a track I draw for each and everytime I play at Scorpion Bar. Of course, with this weekend being the one year anniversary of AM’s passing, it made me think a little as I loaded it onto my serato deck.  I wish the crowd knew that this was an AM remix and if I had a mic there, I would have definitely mentioned it.  This track was really mind blowing to me the first time I heard it.  It was done about five or six years ago, and that was before doing something like this was more commonplace.  My crowd hears it every week and it never fails.  AM still lives for sure.

Finally, big shout out to Clinton Sparks!!  He’s been busier lately (busy is normal for him) knocking out tons and tons of custom edits of “Favorite DJ”.
When someone goes out of their way to take care of us, we NEED to support them.  This is a dope record to begin with, so that shouldn’t be asking too much.  Check out www.facebook.com/DjClintonSparks for info on how to get yours!  I can’t say it enough:  Support Clinton, support Lil Jon, support Honorebel, and anyone else who is going out of their way to service DJs with free drops.  Artists are like athletes who’ve been trained to say all the right things.  Of course they all say how much they appreciate the DJ, but few have actually put in the time and effort to show it.  That’s why it’s important to support the ones that do!!!

Spring
www.facebook.com/JaySpringFans

———————————————————————————

Yes, another weekend has come to an end, and like Spring said, a good couple hours of it went to sifting through the remix sites for a few quality remixes/mashups.  You really have to dig sometimes, but you’ll find some gems.  And at $.99, even if you get a flop or 2, it’s not the end of the world.

If you like sales, you should also check out Guitar Center’s sale through tomorrow where you can Buy 1, Get 1 Free on select items.  I picked up 2 50ft. XLR cords for $50 and plan on getting 2 more by tomorrow.  We always need more wires!!

I have to say, this weekend was great.  The energy Friday night at Shrine was off the hook and I felt really good about my set.  Saturday I played a local bar, for the first time in a long time, for a friends birthday party.  It was an interesting night.  It was one of those, do I play what the person who hired me wants to hear, or what the girls dancing want to hear, kind of nights.  Everyone said they had a great time, so I guess I bridged that gap alright.  Until next weekend…

JD
www.facebook.com/therealdjjd

     Very busy week for JD and myself, and we both wanna apologize for the lack of updates this week!   We will be back on Monday 4Sho!!

A couple notes:

1)  Big shoutout to DJs Donk, C-Flo, and Chi Duly!!  Their remix and video collage of some of the most popular YouTube clips cleverly put together has been gaining quite a buzz lately — even earning them a retweet from Ashton Kutcher.  Pretty big deal!  It’s called “Happiest Wedding Cry In The World.”
Watch Here

2) Also, make sure to check out “Born To Be Wild 2010″ by The Anthem Kingz which is moving up Crooklyn Clan’s monthly Top 20 real quick.  They took a bare bones rough draft that I had, and seriously took it to another level.  Really amazing what they did – and it works very well in the club!!

——- Dj Jay Spring
www.Facebook.com/JaySpringFans

If you spin at an “Open Format” club, then you should definitely be familiar with the work of Joe Maz and DiscoTech.  With their countless quality remixes on CrooklynClan.net, they definitely raised the bar for every other remixer/masher in the game.  I don’t know what I would do at the club if my DiscoTech tracks disappeared, and I’m sure many of you feel the same.  Anyway, enough of that, cause Joe really needs no intro.  His new cd entitled “Fashionably Late” features 11 unreleased DiscoTech remixes/re-edits which will be released very soon!

Joe Maz – “Fashionably Late”  Download Here

     Ever since JD and I started this site, we’ve been getting numerous emails (please keep them coming!) on a variety of topics.  But one of the most common, is from younger remixers, who want to know how to get their remixes out there.  We also run into some DJs who question whether it’s worth putting their mixes out there in the first place.

If you are looking to build your name beyond the local scene, then the answer to that last question is almost always YES!!  For DJs who are just starting out, you obviously want as much exposure as possible.  Nowadays, thanks to the many DJ/Remix related sites on the internet, it is relatively easy to get noticed — if you are consistently putting out quality stuff.

     Another thing that the internet has made easy, is the ability for up-and-coming to DJs to find sets played by the DJs they look up to.  When you catch one of these sets, you may very well hear an exclusive remix which the DJ has yet to make available to the public.  DJ AM is a prime example.  Anyone who’s watched the countless AM videos on youtube knows that he had some crazy material which he never released.  Now let me state the obvious:  You (nor I) am DJ AM.  AM was a rockstar.  He was one of the few DJs in this country that could really draw a crowd.  He had a crazy schedule of bookings all throughout the globe, and people were really interested in what he played.   You already how big AM was, but my point is, he didn’t have to release his mixes.  He had enough people making the effort to go to his shows, and find his youtube videos, where he knew the people who cared would find a way to hear his stuff anyway.  He was that rare DJ. 

     Now of course, the main point of being a DJ is to be heard.  So unless you are on top of the game like AM was, where people are gonna search for your live sets, you’ll have to make the effort yourself to get noticed.  That means making dope remixes, and putting them in everyone’s hands that you can.   Being on the remix sites are dope, because your name is there for all to see.  If you build a reputation that way, then people can go to the site to find your whole catalog.  Plus, if you are consistent, you can make a nice little sum of cash.  Still, many of the DJs on the sites have a good understanding of  the previous concept I discussed.  They already know that if they make a remix that’s especially dope, it’s likely in their best interest to give it out for free as well as put it up on the sites.  In other words, the money you can make from selling a mix on a site is good, however the exposure you gain from giving a dope remix out for free, and getting it in as many hands as possible, can be PRICELESS!!

     We all know that marketing is a very important aspect of being a successful DJ.  However, business cards, flyers, and social networking, are only a small part.  Putting dope remixes out on the web will likely trump all those.  Ask Discotech or Rock-It Scientists.  Ask DJ Scooter, who recently saw Def Jam put out his dancehall remix of Rihanna’s “Rude Boy”.  It’s every DJs goal to work with the major labels, and Scooter agrees that if it wasn’t for his music being up for free on sites like DJCity.com and NewMusicServer.com, his mix wouldn’t have had the same success.  “In retrospect, I’m defintely glad I had the music on those sites, or it might not have worked out like it did”, says Scooter. 

     Now thanks to sites like Beezo and Freakonomix, DJs can share more than just their remixes online.  Because of sites like those, DJs can actually put up their live sets for fans to download.  Hence, the same questions arrise with this as with remixes, and really, the answer is exactly the same.  While you may be hesitant to put your best sets for download on the net, you have to understand the same issue.  You do want as many people as possible to hear you, right??  And unless you are travelling the globe, and have fans posting youtube videos of all your performances, putting up your mixes for download is definitely the answer!  Still not sure this is a good idea?  Look at DJ Scene.  He’s one of the top travelling DJs in the country, with a solid fanbase, yet he still makes the effort to give out his remixes and put up his live sets for download.  If someone like Scene is still working for exposure, you should be as well!!

—-Spring—-

Due to the overwhelming amount of spam we’ve been receiving in our comments lately, we have been forced to go to a system where you now have to be logged in to leave comments. As you know, your comments are extremely import to us and our site.  We enjoy interacting with the DJ’s that visit our site and hope this won’t keep you from commenting in the future.  Please take 3 minutes and set up your account so we can continue the conversation.

To register, go to a post and click on the words “logged in” on the bottom left of the page.  Then click “register” on the login page.  From there you can make your own username and a password will be emailed to you.  After you verify the password you can create your own profile and password of your choosing.

Of course we realize this is an inconvenience to our viewers, but we in order to bring you the best product possible we have to do this.  We thank you for your understanding.

While we planned on keeping the site going through the week of WMC, that was alot easier said than done   Slow internet made uploading vids very difficult.  Plus, with so much going, it was hard to find time to shoot as many interviews as we planned on.  However, we did manage to get two very good ones which will be up this Friday!  Next year, we’ll make sure to bring an intern down to Miami with us (No joke!) so we can get more work done.  For now, here is a collage of video’s and pictures from the crazy week that was Winter Music Conference 2010 in Miami. On the positive side, we did meet a LOT of great people and hope to see everyone again next year!!!

P.S.  We are now fully back in Remix Report mode ,which means you can look for our weekly Thursday Edit Edition to be posted tomorrow.