Haha, the thread actually reached the drama level much faster than I thought.

Haha, the thread is well on its way to become drama. Just give it two more days. :)

Ufot and Host One, I don't get why you don't like that he posts non rave related content on the board. Isn't the majority of the content of this board completely non-rave related anyways?

To me, [ Rave.ca ] breaks down about like this:
97% - Drama
1% - Random crap
1% - Chat between "clique" members that nobody gives a damn about
1% - Rave-related content

I guess this thread falls into the "random crap" category. Although, like every other thread, it always has the possibility of eventually falling into the "drama" category, which would make it all the way more legitimate to everyone else on the board I guess. ;)

Making an actual iPhone app that would go in the App Store would be a lot of trouble, but making a "web app" would probably be easy enough for Noah and provide all the cool things we'd like to have. It's basically just be a new format for th site.

I don't know if doing a poll is the best way to go about it. I say you should make a poll so people could give their opinion about wether or not a poll is the way to go.

Haha, it was awesome! :)

Holy shit I want my click back.

Nice to hear that Maxxx rocked it as usual!

Yeah, thanks for the support! Should be a massive one!

Go Maxxx!

This causes a problem with hyperlinks where your name is in it. For instance, whenever I post a link to something on my website [ www.djomni.net ] if I look at the post, it comes up all fucked up because it's trying to change the formatting around where my name shows up. However, if I sign-off and look at the same post, it looks just fine. It should only affect your username when it's text, not inside the actual contect of a hyperlink.

For his first release on Tasty Bytes, Push Rec+Play takes no detours with DVDA, a powerfull and visceral electro track. A heavy distorted bassline sits on top of dry and raw percussions, developping into a climax that will explode even the most jaded dancers.

DVDA is supported by a remix by Alice & The Serial Numbers who takes out her guitar and injects a good dose of rock in the original, and by an Omni remix, who revisits the track with more square 8 bit sounds that are still just as mean.

Clips
1. [ www.djomni.net ] (Original Mix)
2. [ www.djomni.net ] (Alice & The Serial Numbers Remix)
3. [ www.djomni.net ] (Omni Remix)

Available on most major music download sites, including [ www.djomni.net ] [ www.junodownload.com ] and [ www.djdownload.com ] Download.

Visit Tasty Bytes Records on [ www.myspace.com ] and [ www.facebook.com ]

Thank you for your support!
Tasty Bytes Records
www.tastybytesrecords.com

Hehe, I still can't understand why being a DJ at an event doesn't bring any coolness on this site. :)

Funny story. [ Rave.ca ] is the only website that I visit only with explorer. For some reason, whenever I visit this site with Firefox, no images show. I see all the site with the text and all, but no images. I tried clearing the cache, cookies, etc, but it doesn't change anything. I'm sure that wiping out all my Firefox data would fix the problem, but I don't want to loose all the saved passwords, bookmarks and all, so I left it like that... and I use explorer to visit [ Rave.ca ] Hehe.

Ok, so here's my most kick-ass set in a long time. Listen to it loud and disturb your neighbors.

DJ Omni - The Fall
[ www.djomni.net ]
(Copy and paste in your browser. If it starts streaming with Quicktime or something like that, just go in the File Menu of your browser and choose "Save As". I had to do this because [ Rave.ca ] fucks up my link because of the address format I guess...)

Tracklist:
1. ZZT - The Worm (Original Munich Version)
2. Koma & Bones - Letters (10 Rapid Mix)
3. ...
4. 30Hz - Crazy
5. Blende - Peaches
6. Lee Coombs - Control (10 Rapid Mix)
7. 30Hz - Pounce
8. 10 Rapid - Robotic Perfection
9. Dilemn - Stopless
10. Circuit Freq - Push Button Reject (Vox Mix)
11. Dilemn - Brazen Boogie (Blende Remix)
12. Shadow Dancer - Cowbois (Dilemn Remix)
13. Dylan Rhymes vs Blende - Stars (Koma & Bones Dub)
14. Alex Gopher - Aurora (Shinichi Osawa Remix)
15. Dubood - Traverse de RN85 (Dubmood vs Facter Remix)

By the way, here's where I'll be playing in the next few weeks:
6 dec - Live @ Electro-Chic @ SAT
31 dec - Live + DJ Set @ SOMA @ Théâtre Sans-Fil
31 dec - DJ Set @ Intense (QC)

Enjoy!

Fuck yeah!

Yeah, animal shit is usually fine, but human shit.. [ www. ] :)

Haha this picture is awesome.

L'interview que j'ai donnée à l'émission [ ] Pushers de [ www.karteltv.com ] TV est maintenant en ligne. Vous pouvez également y voir des images de ma prestation live au Parking en novembre 2007. L'interview date aussi de novembre 2007, mais ne met pas trop l'accent sur des trucs spécifiques à cette période-là, alors ça vieillit tout de même assez bien.

[ ]

The other option, from what I understood in Screwhead's posts is: download all the software you want, but don't come here giving moral lessons to people about downloading tracks.

Even if what they had come up with was the single most awesomest logo you have ever seen, 500k is way too fucking expensive for a logo.

Haha, awesome website!

Maxxx put this on at my place once a while back and that was a sick set from what I recall!

Tasty Bytes Records is a brand new record label founded by Alice and the Serial Numbers, Omni and Push Rec+Play!

Our first release is now available in all major DJ webstores. Start by Omni includes remixes by Fredzefred, Alice and the Serial Numbers and Push Rec+Play. Heavy bass and distorted sounds are on the bill on this driving electro-tech release.

Clips:
1. [ www.djomni.net ] (Original Mix)
2. [ www.djomni.net ] (Fredzefred Remix)
3. [ www.djomni.net ] (Alice & The Serial Numbers Remix)
4. [ www.djomni.net ] (Push Rec+Play Remix)

Stores: [ www.djomni.net ] [ www.junodownload.com ] [ www.djdownload.com ] Download

Visit Tasty Bytes Records [ www.myspace.com ] Myspace and [ www.facebook.com ] Facebook!

Thank you for your support!

Tasty Bytes Records
[ www.tastybytesrecords.com ]

Compliments are the new diss. :)

Hehe, click on the red phone to nuke us all! :)

Vas-y avec Luna-1! Aparemment c'est un bon buddy à avoir pour un roadtrip au BC. :)

Ex girlfriend = Too slutty?
Alors met une annonce en ligne pour trouver une "vraie salope".
BONNE IDÉE!

A brand new electronica label based in Los Angeles and Montreal is going to launch its first release in October 2008!

First release include tracks by Omni, Alice and the Serial Numbers, Push Rec+Play and Fredzefred. More to come!

All will be available on Beatport.

We are looking for friends, feel free to join us [ www.myspace.com ] Myspace and [ www.new.facebook.com ] Facebook to hear our upcoming releases in advance!

[ www.tastybytesrecords.com ]

Keep it up guys!

Here is a DJ set that I have recorded in July 2008 for UCP's radio show on [ House-Pacific.com ] Quite a few electro bangers in there along with some of my tracks.

http://www.djomni.net/DJ_Omni_@_House_Pacific.mp3
(Copy & Paste the whole address in your browser as [ Rave.ca ] doesn't like the fact that there is a "@" in the address.

Tracklist:
1. Eclier - The Geneticist (Original Mix)
2. Mr. Seir - Cobra (Facteur Remix)
3. Boys Noize - Let's Buy Happiness (Proxy Remix)
4. Eclier - Boxon Say Hello (Eclier Remix)
5. Léonard de Léonard - Elephantizer (Facteur Remix)
6. Eclier - D.I.S.C.O.
7. JHz & Hyper - Computer Says No! (Hystereo Rebrand Mix)
8. Missil & Loris - Glitch feat. Jahcoozi
9. Lady B - Turn It Up
10. Goose - Nike Original Run
11. Omni - Start
12. Detect - Dance Division (Blende Remix)
13. Push Rec+Play - DVDA
14. Difuzion Krew - Where's Dario (DIM Remix)
15. Omni - Rocking Monster
16. Omni - Start (Fredzefred Remix)

Enjoy!

[ www.djomni.net ]
[ www.myspace.com ]
[ www.tastybytesrecords.com ]

I tried it and thought it sucks.

Hehe.

When you take the music that you have produced and decide to make a live act out of it, one thing that is 100% sure is that you will have to do tradeoffs. You have to make difficult choices because it's impossible to have everything work exactly the way you want.

When I sat down and started to prepare my live act, I first made a list of priorities about how I wanted it to be and then looked at the different options to make this real. It looked something like this:

1. Stability
2. Sound Quality
3. Easy to run the show
4. Ability to improvise
5. Cannot run without my interaction (I can't just push play and leave)

Here's a little breakdown of the reasons:

Stability:
Not much to explain here: you want everything to run smoothly and want to avoid any possible crashes during the show. This is, in my opinion, the most crucial thing you should look at. If something looks or sounds cool, but it's not 100% stable, then you should forget about it. To fulfill this criteria, I have taken the following decisions:
1. I chose Ableton Live. It's a very stable software that was mean for live acts and runs smoothly on little processing power.
2. I chose to use no VST synths and instead bounced all my sounds to .wav. If I need several variations of a certain synth sound, then I can have them all as .wav in Live and go back and forth between them. No need for the processor-hungry VST which will sound exactly the same as the .wav but will use up all my computing ressources, especially if I want a lot of sounds to play at the same time, which is very likely, eh...
3. I decided to limit the number of tracks that would play at the same time for each track by merging some of them together. There is no need for all the sounds to be on separate tracks as it won't add anything to my set and it'll use up precious resources. After playing around with my tracks, I have found out that 4 tracks is enough. Track 1: Kick + Snare, Track 2: Hats + Cymbals, Track 3: Bass + Synths, Track 4: Vocals + Sound FX. This is what works for me, but you might find better combinations according to your tracks. This means that the maximum number of tracks that my computer has to play at any time is 8. That is during a transition between two tracks.
4. I decided not to use separate instances of effects plugins on each track separatly. Instead, I have one instance of 4 different effects that are set-up on the two FX Send channels of Live and I play with the Send level of each track to add the effects. The effect is not as drastic, but I have tweaked it so that it sounds the way I want and I save an enormous amount of resources that way.

Sound Quality:
For obvious reasons, I wanted to make sure that any decision I took to save on resources was not going to affect the sound quality of my set. Having my sounds run as loops in Live did not affect the sound negatively at all, so it was still a good decision.

Easy to run the show:
It might sound silly, but this criteria is very important when setting up your live show. If the show is too complicated to run or nearly impossible for you to recreate perfectly without banging your head on the wall, then you will most likely always make mistakes and it'll take out all the fun of doing it. Making your show easy for you to run will allow you to focus on other important aspects of your show, like interacting with the crowd and improvising/changing things on the fly. If you need to be 100% focused all the time to play your set without fucking up, then you have no fun, you don't look at the crowd once during all the set and you certainly don't have any room for improv since it's so hard to do it right in the first place.

Live was a good choice in that regards because it is clearly designed with the performing musician in mind and is meant for playing live. I arranged all my clips in it so that they were all sorted by tracks, then by sections of each tracks. It is all arranged so that I can easily run the tracks in their intended structure without having to look all over for the loops I want. They are already in the right order.

Ability to improvise:
This is important because you want to be able to adapt to your crowd to a certain extent. If certain things work, then you can integrate more of that into your set and if some things don't, then you want to be able to cut it out as you go. If you want to extend a track or add a new breakdown or throw in a sample from another track to tease your crowd, then this has to be easily done and integrated seamlessly. To allow that, I have color-coded my loops in Live so that there is a different color for each loop depending on wether they are an intro, a breakdown, a buildup, a bridge, or an outro. This allows me to easily pick a new loop to throw in if I want to improvise. If I want to throw in the breakdown of one the bass of one of my tracks, then I can spot it in seconds and make it play right on the beat by starting it up. Easy, fun and flexible.

Cannot run without my interaction:
It is very important to me that my live is not just a "push play and dance" solution. With my current setup, if I press play and leave, then you'll hear just the same loop playing for hours on end. The set goes forward with my interaction and goes in the direction that I want. The performer is the center of the set and is essential to it. All the rest is just a set of tools that have been put in place to facilitate the performance. This is also why I decided not to use something like Cubase, where all the tracks would be layed down one after the other and I would just have tweaked effects as it went along. That type of set-up allows the performer to just press play and sit back, which I wanted to avoid at all costs.

So... I guess that was my little wall of text for now. Just so you know, my set is nowhere near a techno set. It's an electro set with song structures that are closer to a standard pop track (intro/chorus/verse/chorus/blabla/outro) and are not just a a combination of layers and FX like a lot of Ableton sets you might have heard. You just have to use it differently.

Of course, it's not necessarily perfect yet, but it's getting there and it's pretty stable and sounds just the way I want.

Also, you have to optimize the shit out of your machine and remove all the crap from it so it runs very smoothly.... but that is an entirely different topic... ;)

Hey Deadfunk, what do you use for you live set? (I mean what type of computer and what software?)
I have spent a great deal of time trying to optimize my system and my live show as I was preparing for Eclipse and I might have some tips for you. :)

Fuck man. Someone give me my click back.

Demain!

I don't know if there is a lot of psy on there, but when I want to submit a track to labels, I usually get the contact info for the labels I want off [ www.discogs.com ] and send them my stuff.

It's a good way to make sure even less people come to the events and stay home instead partying with friends while getting the music without showing up. Nice! ;)

Soon!!