Millbot's "Fast & Loose" Mix

Another day, another DJ set - this one is a bit more on the hardcore side, but includes some (sped up) deep house and one random dubstep track, as well. Y'know, for fun. The mix is set at 140 bpm so makes a pretty good workout soundtrack as well. Feel free to listen and/or download!



Track list:
1. "Lose It (Mark Pistel vocal remix)" - Austra
2. "Fuck Me" - Omega Drive
3. "Barbra" - Blue Alpha DJs
4. "Mpire" - Moguai
5. "Tahiti" - Ben Rourke
6. "Top of the World" - Schoolboy
7. "Log In" - Omega Drive
8. "Blade" - Blue Alpha DJs
9. "Mississippi Steam" - Jun Akimoto, Mabaan Soul
10. "Breakneck Bastard (Hardcore mix)" - Gammer, Cally Gage
11. "Party Boy" - Instigator
12. "Crowd Control" - Excision & Downlink
13. "Bad" - Instigator
14. "Melody" - Aaren San
15. "Synth Mode" - Stylus, Audiojunkie
16. "In My Mind ft. Georgi Kay (Axwell mix)" - Ivan Gough, Feenixpawl

Millbot's "Women Be Clubbin' Mix" - free download

Well I finally got my act together and put together the gear I need to start DJing in a more serious fashion. My first proper club gig happened this January, for the fourth annual Fire Ball masquerade party at the High Noon Saloon here in Madison (pics or it didn't happen).

It was a blast, and a real trip to at last at last hear my mixing over a big ol' sound system.

Anyhoo, I've just put together a mix based on what I played at Fire Ball (very electro-house heavy), for the purposes of listening and sharing - and also for soliciting future gigs. Check it out:



If you're in the Madison/Milwaukee area and looking for a very decent, versatile, and non-top-40-playing lady DJ, drop me a line: lostalbatross at gmail.com.

Otherwise, just enjoy!

Millbot Mix - July - "Electro-A-Go-Go"

I can't remember exactly how old I was when I fell in love with DJs. Young. Probably around 14 or so. And I'm not talking about radio hosts. My discovery of electronic music coincided with this infatuation and led to me saving my pennies so I could purchase my first set of turntables and mixer.

I got them secondhand from a friend. They were purple Numarks, very plastic and not at all fancy but still - turntables. And they were mine.

I still remember the first record I bought, too. The town where I lived had just gotten its first music store that sold new dance records, so I threw a few bucks together and headed over. I picked up a remix of Tori Amos' "Professional Widow" and a couple other cuts - and that was it. I was hooked. I spent hours teaching myself how to beat-match (because no one I knew in the area really did it so there was no one to pester into being a tutor), bought records, played a couple of house parties...and one day even upgraded to a pair of really nice Numark's and mixer that I still have now.

The trouble was that being a really good DJ requires a serious time commitment that I just wasn't able to make. Between everything else I got up to and a full-time job, both the tables and my skills started to collect dust.

But over the past couple of years - and especially since I've embarked on my desk-jobless life - the allure of mixing has taken hold of me again. And now, with the advent of mp3s and laptop mixing technology, you don't need to lug around an expansive vinyl collection to play shows. So I figured I've let it go for long enough. It's time to get back into the swing of things.

I've got a lot of coins to save before I can get a proper laptop setup, but in the meantime I'm going to work on the basics. A new mix about once a month, if I can manage it, even though I still don't have the ideal set-up (as things stand, the program I'm using doesn't let me hear incoming tracks, so I have to do everything visually and by being really familiar with the songs).

And the first one is here! It's all electro-house (and indie-dance) all the time! Enjoy:


Millbots Electro-A-Go-Go by Millbot