Sunday, October 28, 2012

SHG Radio Show, Episode 136

Welcome to this week's edition of Subterranean Homesick Grooves™, a weekly electronica-based radio show presented originally on CHMA FM 106.9 at Mount Allison University in Atlantic Canada (but expanded to a distribution on other terrestrial radio stations), and also distributed as a global podcast through iTunes and numerous other sites. The show is normally programmed and mixed by Jonathan Clark (as DJ Bolivia), although some weeks feature guest mixes by other Canadian DJ's. The show encompasses many sub-genres within the realm of electronic dance music, but the main focus is definitely on progressive and tribal house, and a small amount of trance & techno. Liner notes for this episode (SHG 136) can be seen below.

Para la información en español, vaya aquí.




Here’s a link so you can listen to the show or download it from SoundCloud:



In addition to being able to download each episode from SoundCloud, you can also visit our DJ Mixes folder on Dropbox (which allows for bulk downloads).  That folder hosts hundreds of episodes and other DJ mixes.  Here's the link:


And of course, you can download Bolivia's individual tracks from this link:




Today I had an epiphany. I need to start playing some conventional instruments again, perhaps start playing guitar again and start up a band. Let me think about that for a month. Don't worry though ... I won't stop DJ'ing.

Here are Track Listings for episode 136:

01. Layo & Bushwacka, "Intro" (Original Mix).
02. Greg Fenton, "Night Porter" (Original Mix).
03. Davide Vario, "Inside Me" (Original Mix).
04. Le Brion & Rha Roo, "Pianolicious" (Original Mix).
05. Brian Cid, "Stereo Groove" (Original Mix).
06. Jad Cooper, "Cephlaxis" (Original Mix).
07. Oliver Moldan, "Hustle Harder" (Analog Effect Remix).
08. Magitman, "All Bets Off" (Original Mix).
09. Del Horno, "Money" (Original Mix).
10. Steve Lawler, "Courses For Horses" (GTR Mix).
11. RPO, "Conceal Your Pain" (Original Mix).
12. Tom Thunder, "Edge Of 17" (Original Mix).



Here are links to either personal websites, MySpace pages, or [usually] the SoundCloud pages for a few of the original artists and remixers/producers listed above:



Layo & Bushwacka (Britain)
Greg Fenton (Britain)
Davide Vario (Italy)
Le Brion & Rha Roo (United States)
Brian Cid (United States)
Jad Cooper (Japan)
Oliver Moldan (Germany)
Magitman (Israel)
Del Horno (Spain)
Steve Lawler (Spain)
RPO (Mexico)
Tom Thunder (Britain)


If you're a producer who is interested in submitting music for possible inclusion on future episodes of SHG, visit DJ Bolivia's SoundCloud dropbox. Please note that not all submitted mixes will be played on the show. If you have a track that fits the format (progressive and/or tech-house), then your chances of having the track featured will increase.

Subterranean Homesick Grooves is a weekly specialty EDM music show with a basic weekly audience base of about 1500 listeners per week through podcasting and direct downloads, another hundred or so listeners through SoundCloud, and an unknown number of listeners through terrestrial FM broadcast. If you're a radio station programming director, and would like to add Subterranean Homesick Grooves to your regular programming lineup, contact djbolivia@gmail.com for details. We currently release SHG as an advance download to a number of stations globally on a weekly basis (at no charge), and we welcome inquiries from additional outlets.


We also have a file containing complete track listings from all of DJ Bolivia's radio shows, studio mixes, and live sets. The PDF version can be viewed from within your browser by clicking directly. Both the PDF and the Excel versions can be downloaded by right-clicking and choosing the "save link as" option:

View as PDF file: http://www.djbolivia.ca/complete_track_history_djbolivia.pdf
Download Excel file: http://www.djbolivia.ca/complete_track_history_djbolivia.xlsx






Follow Jonathan Clark on other sites:
        SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/djbolivia
        YouTube: youtube.com/djbolivia
        Facebook: facebook.com/djbolivia
        Main Site: www.djbolivia.ca
        Music Blog: djbolivia.blogspot.ca

Saturday, October 27, 2012

Ableton Live 9.0 released

Literally hundreds of thousands of music producers have been eagerly or impatiently awaiting the release of version 9.0 of Ableton Live for about two years now. It is finally available to the public.

Ableton has produced a fifty-minute YouTube video, which you should check out here if you’re an existing Live user.




If you want a quick preview of what the video talks about, and some of the interesting new features, here’s a spoiler list:

- Over 1.8 million people world-wide are now using Ableton to produce music.
- AL9 will analyze an audio clip (say some humming, or a saxophone solo) and extract a MIDI version of the melody.
- Same concept with audio clips as a “convert to drums” option.
- Instrument rack presets now preview in the enhanced Live browser (actual instruments, if you’re confused by thinking this was possible before).
- Three thousand new instrument racks in Live Suite (did I hear that correctly? Three thousand?)
- Lots of new Max for Live effects modules.
- Max for Live is now integrated into Live Suite, not a separate entity.
- Recording of automation in Session view.
- Automation curves. Finally. Both in session clips and arrangement view.
- Real-time gain reduction graph output in the compressor, which can be useful, for example, for playing with sidechain parameters.
- Consolidate a time range in the arrangement view and print all of the data within that range back into a scene in session view. So cool! Essentially, you can create your final song in arrangement view and then quickly re-create it as a number of scenes in session view.
- Single-click to create break-points in envelope editing, a minor detail that I like.

The video also demonstrates Ableton’s “Push,” a hardware controller that might potentially become as ubiquitous to Live as the APC40 did for many producers and performers.

You really need to see that part yourself, rather than have me try to fully describe it. If you didn’t want to watch the entire video above, go directly to the 32:40 mark, where there is ten minutes devoted to describing Push. For the gear junkies out there, it’s pretty slick. And quite intuitive, from the looks of things.


That should be enough to whet your appetite. I did a couple of DJ-related tutorial videos this past spring about Ableton Live 8, which have received over a hundred thousand views already. You can see those by checking out this post. I'll be spending some time in the studio this winter to cover a number of other topics, including:
- Live performance DJ'ing using Ableton Live.
- Creating and programming kick drums.
- Creating and programming bass and pads.
- Producing house/trance/techno tracks from scratch.
- and a whole bunch of other ideas.


For now, check out more at the Ableton website:

www.ableton.com




I'm Jonathan Clark, known online as DJ Bolivia.  Do you want to learn more about DJ'ing and music production?  If so, visit:



If you happen to enjoy techno tracks, most of my tracks are available as free downloads from this link:



Thanks so much for visit, and for your support!  I really appreciate the fan base that I've been able to build up over the years.

Also, if you want to visit any of my other sites, here are a few links:
    YouTube:  youtube.com/djbolivia
    SoundCloud:  soundcloud.com/djbolivia
    Blogger:  djbolivia.blogspot.com
    Main Site:  www.djbolivia.ca

Friday, October 19, 2012

SHG Radio Show, Episode 135

Welcome to this week's edition of Subterranean Homesick Grooves™, a weekly electronica-based radio show presented originally on CHMA FM 106.9 at Mount Allison University in Atlantic Canada (but expanded to a distribution on other terrestrial radio stations), and also distributed as a global podcast through iTunes and numerous other sites. The show is normally programmed and mixed by Jonathan Clark (as DJ Bolivia), although some weeks feature guest mixes by other Canadian DJ's. The show encompasses many sub-genres within the realm of electronic dance music, but the main focus is definitely on progressive and tribal house, and a small amount of trance & techno. Liner notes for this episode (SHG 135) can be seen below.

Para la información en español, vaya aquí.




Here’s a link so you can listen to the show or download it from SoundCloud:



In addition to being able to download each episode from SoundCloud, you can also visit our DJ Mixes folder on Dropbox (which allows for bulk downloads).  That folder hosts hundreds of episodes and other DJ mixes.  Here's the link:


And of course, you can download Bolivia's individual tracks from this link:



Here are Track Listings for episode 135:

01. David, "Medusa" (Original Mix).
02. Martin Eyerer, "Bells A Go" (Bushwacka's Just Be Remix).
03. CJ Faver, "Imperialism" (Original Mix).
04. DJ Manzi & Paride Manzi, "Paridopolis" (Original Mix).
05. Toitoi, "Stones In Here" (Original Mix).
06. Falk Bachert, "Dump Trump" (Original).
07. Paul C, "Last Paradise" (DJ Ferry & RedDub Remix).
08. Rodriguez Jr, "Bagpipe Woman" (Christian Smith Remix).
09. LKS, "Casual Conversations" (Yankat Remix).
10. Namito, and Pig & Dan, "Agent Orange" (Original Mix).
11. Dean Newton, "Baile What" (Original Mix).
12. DJ Dan & Brian Matrix, "Africa" (Original Mix).



Here are links to either personal websites, MySpace pages, or [usually] the SoundCloud pages for a few of the original artists and remixers/producers listed above:



Martin Eyerer (Germany)
Bushwacka (Britain)
CJ Faver (Italy)
DJ Manzi (Brazil)
Falk Bachert (Germany)
Paul C (Britain)
DJ Ferry (Iran)
Rodriguez Jr (France)
Christian Smith (Brazil)
LKS (Greece)
Yankat (Canada)
Namito (Germany)
Pig & Dan (Spain)
Dean Newton (Britain)
DJ Dan (United States)
Brian Matrix (United States)


If you're a producer who is interested in submitting music for possible inclusion on future episodes of SHG, visit DJ Bolivia's SoundCloud dropbox. Please note that not all submitted mixes will be played on the show. If you have a track that fits the format (progressive and/or tech-house), then your chances of having the track featured will increase.

Subterranean Homesick Grooves is a weekly specialty EDM music show with a basic weekly audience base of about 1500 listeners per week through podcasting and direct downloads, another hundred or so listeners through SoundCloud, and an unknown number of listeners through terrestrial FM broadcast. If you're a radio station programming director, and would like to add Subterranean Homesick Grooves to your regular programming lineup, contact djbolivia@gmail.com for details. We currently release SHG as an advance download to a number of stations globally on a weekly basis (at no charge), and we welcome inquiries from additional outlets.


We also have a file containing complete track listings from all of DJ Bolivia's radio shows, studio mixes, and live sets. The PDF version can be viewed from within your browser by clicking directly. Both the PDF and the Excel versions can be downloaded by right-clicking and choosing the "save link as" option:

View as PDF file: http://www.djbolivia.ca/complete_track_history_djbolivia.pdf
Download Excel file: http://www.djbolivia.ca/complete_track_history_djbolivia.xlsx






Follow Jonathan Clark on other sites:
        SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/djbolivia
        YouTube: youtube.com/djbolivia
        Facebook: facebook.com/djbolivia
        Main Site: www.djbolivia.ca
        Music Blog: djbolivia.blogspot.ca

Friday, October 12, 2012

SHG Radio Show, Episode 134

Welcome to this week's edition of Subterranean Homesick Grooves™, a weekly electronica-based radio show presented originally on CHMA FM 106.9 at Mount Allison University in Atlantic Canada (but expanded to a distribution on other terrestrial radio stations), and also distributed as a global podcast through iTunes and numerous other sites. The show is normally programmed and mixed by Jonathan Clark (as DJ Bolivia), although some weeks feature guest mixes by other Canadian DJ's. The show encompasses many sub-genres within the realm of electronic dance music, but the main focus is definitely on progressive and tribal house, and a small amount of trance & techno. Liner notes for this episode (SHG 134) can be seen below.

Para la información en español, vaya aquí.




Here’s a link so you can listen to the show or download it from SoundCloud:



In addition to being able to download each episode from SoundCloud, you can also visit our DJ Mixes folder on Dropbox (which allows for bulk downloads).  That folder hosts hundreds of episodes and other DJ mixes.  Here's the link:


And of course, you can download Bolivia's individual tracks from this link:




Here are Track Listings for episode 134:

01. Gustavo Godoy, "Chompiras Flower" (Original Mix).
02. Mario Calegari, "Burlap" (Original Mix).
03. Kristian Heikkila, "Diet" (Original Mix).
04. Dark Mood, "Dark Acid" (Extended Acid Mix).
05. David Mayer, "Celsius" (Original Mix).
06. Namito & Eyerer, "Shibuya" (Original Mix).
07. Robert Babicz, "Cyberlove" (Original Mix).
08. Sven Wegner, "So It's Sunday" (Original Mix).
09. Branchie & Jeremy Bass, "Angry Dad" (Original Mix).
10. Edy Ramas, "Ciborg" (Original Mix).
11. Paco Maroto, "Calling" (Original Mix).




Here are links to either personal websites, MySpace pages, or [usually] the SoundCloud pages for a few of the original artists and remixers/producers listed above:



Gustavo Godoy (Brazil)
Mario Calegari (United States)
Kristian Heikkila (Sweden)
David Mayer (Germany)
Namito & Eyerer (Germany)
Robert Babicz (Germany)
Sven Wegner (Germany)
Branchie & Jeremy Bass (Mexico)
Edy Ramas (Spain)
Paco Maroto (Spain)


If you're a producer who is interested in submitting music for possible inclusion on future episodes of SHG, visit DJ Bolivia's SoundCloud dropbox. Please note that not all submitted mixes will be played on the show. If you have a track that fits the format (progressive and/or tech-house), then your chances of having the track featured will increase.

Subterranean Homesick Grooves is a weekly specialty EDM music show with a basic weekly audience base of about 1500 listeners per week through podcasting and direct downloads, another hundred or so listeners through SoundCloud, and an unknown number of listeners through terrestrial FM broadcast. If you're a radio station programming director, and would like to add Subterranean Homesick Grooves to your regular programming lineup, contact djbolivia@gmail.com for details. We currently release SHG as an advance download to a number of stations globally on a weekly basis (at no charge), and we welcome inquiries from additional outlets.


We also have a file containing complete track listings from all of DJ Bolivia's radio shows, studio mixes, and live sets. The PDF version can be viewed from within your browser by clicking directly. Both the PDF and the Excel versions can be downloaded by right-clicking and choosing the "save link as" option:

View as PDF file: http://www.djbolivia.ca/complete_track_history_djbolivia.pdf
Download Excel file: http://www.djbolivia.ca/complete_track_history_djbolivia.xlsx






Follow Jonathan Clark on other sites:
        SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/djbolivia
        YouTube: youtube.com/djbolivia
        Facebook: facebook.com/djbolivia
        Main Site: www.djbolivia.ca
        Music Blog: djbolivia.blogspot.ca

Friday, October 5, 2012

SHG Radio Show, Episode 133

Welcome to this week's edition of Subterranean Homesick Grooves™, a weekly electronica-based radio show presented originally on CHMA FM 106.9 at Mount Allison University in Atlantic Canada (but expanded to a distribution on other terrestrial radio stations), and also distributed as a global podcast through iTunes and numerous other sites. The show is normally programmed and mixed by Jonathan Clark (as DJ Bolivia), although some weeks feature guest mixes by other Canadian DJ's. The show encompasses many sub-genres within the realm of electronic dance music, but the main focus is definitely on progressive and tribal house, and a small amount of trance & techno. Liner notes for this episode (SHG 133) can be seen below.

Para la información en español, vaya aquí.




Here’s a link so you can listen to the show or download it from SoundCloud:


In addition to being able to download each episode from SoundCloud, you can also visit our DJ Mixes folder on Dropbox (which allows for bulk downloads).  That folder hosts hundreds of episodes and other DJ mixes.  Here's the link:


And of course, you can download Bolivia's individual tracks from this link:



This week's episode is dedicated to a friend of mine, Jay Hamilton, who passed away yesterday morning due to cancer. Jay was one of my favorite Canadian DJ's. Click on his name to learn a bit more about him, and check out some of his music.


Here are Track Listings for episode 133:

01. Matthias Schenk, "Tanzwut" (Original Mix).
02. Deep Sector, "Rainbows" (Original Mix).
03. Bastard Boy, "Don't Mind" (Original Mix).
04. Rainer Weichhold, "The Bridge Hugo Remix" (Original Mix).
05. Solo, "Cringe" (Original).
06. David Gtronic & Medeew, "Chicks Luv Us" (Senisas' Original Mix).
07. Nicole Moudaber, "Hair" (Original Mix).
08. Danniel Selfmade, Tony Verdu, & Charlie Demir, "La Playa" (Original Mix).
09. DJ PP, "Old Class" (Simon Doty Remix).
10. Zenbi, "Kubwa" (Ron Costa Remix).
11. Gruuve, "Keep The Change Dude" (Jeremy Bass Remix).
12. Jon Flores, "Into Your Mind" (Original Mix).
13. Luis Hungria, "Dada Deep" (Original Mix).




Here are links to either personal websites, MySpace pages, or [usually] the SoundCloud pages for a few of the original artists and remixers/producers listed above:



Matthias Schenk (Germany)
Deep Sector (Denmark)
Bastard Boy (Denmark)
Rainer Weichhold (Germany)
David Gtronic (United States)
Medeew (France)
Nicole Moudaber (United Kingdom)
Danniel Selfmade (Spain)
Tony Verdu (Spain)
Charlie Demir (Spain)
DJ PP (Uruguay)
Simon Doty (Canada)
Zenbi (United States)
Ron Costa (France)
Gruuve (Argentina)
Jeremy Bass (Mexico)
Jon Flores (Spain)
Luis Hungria (Spain)


If you're a producer who is interested in submitting music for possible inclusion on future episodes of SHG, visit DJ Bolivia's SoundCloud dropbox. Please note that not all submitted mixes will be played on the show. If you have a track that fits the format (progressive and/or tech-house), then your chances of having the track featured will increase.

Subterranean Homesick Grooves is a weekly specialty EDM music show with a basic weekly audience base of about 1500 listeners per week through podcasting and direct downloads, another hundred or so listeners through SoundCloud, and an unknown number of listeners through terrestrial FM broadcast. If you're a radio station programming director, and would like to add Subterranean Homesick Grooves to your regular programming lineup, contact djbolivia@gmail.com for details. We currently release SHG as an advance download to a number of stations globally on a weekly basis (at no charge), and we welcome inquiries from additional outlets.


We also have a file containing complete track listings from all of DJ Bolivia's radio shows, studio mixes, and live sets. The PDF version can be viewed from within your browser by clicking directly. Both the PDF and the Excel versions can be downloaded by right-clicking and choosing the "save link as" option:

View as PDF file: http://www.djbolivia.ca/complete_track_history_djbolivia.pdf
Download Excel file: http://www.djbolivia.ca/complete_track_history_djbolivia.xlsx






Follow Jonathan Clark on other sites:
        SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/djbolivia
        YouTube: youtube.com/djbolivia
        Facebook: facebook.com/djbolivia
        Main Site: www.djbolivia.ca
        Music Blog: djbolivia.blogspot.ca

Thursday, October 4, 2012

Jay Hamilton

Today, Canada lost an amazing man to a short fight with cancer, and a lot of us lost a good friend. As a DJ, Jay Hamilton started in the midwest and then perhaps made his biggest impact on the East Coast music scene, and more recently lived in Toronto. I think of him mostly because of his years in Halifax, but he and his music were known by many across the country.

There are many positive things that I could say about Jay, but I wouldn't know where to start. I keep remembering the many times that I was at music events and he'd pop up suddenly with a smile and come over to say hello. There were many great conversations that we shared, predominantly about music and production. Let's leave it at that, and let me share some of his music with you:









Everybody dies, but not everybody lives. Jay lived his life as a role model for others, and his memory will live on in a lot of people ...



I'm Jonathan Clark, known online as DJ Bolivia.  Do you want to learn more about DJ'ing and music production?  If so, visit:



If you happen to enjoy techno tracks, most of my tracks are available as free downloads from this link:



Thanks so much for visit, and for your support!  I really appreciate the fan base that I've been able to build up over the years.

Also, if you want to visit any of my other sites, here are a few links:
    YouTube:  youtube.com/djbolivia
    SoundCloud:  soundcloud.com/djbolivia
    Blogger:  djbolivia.blogspot.com
    Main Site:  www.djbolivia.ca

Monday, October 1, 2012

This Is Our Dream House, Volume 04

Here we go with another volume of the "This Is Our Dream House" series of deep house mixes.

After being pretty busy since April with contract work on Canada's west coast, I'm looking forward to being able to work on music and videos a lot more over the fall and winter months.






For those of you who aren't normally into EDM (electronic dance music), you might be curious to know the differences between my regular style of progressive/tech-house and this deep house mix. Actually, there aren't always a lot of obvious differences, because I lean a bit more towards the techy side of deep house than the pure organic stuff. So at first, this might just sound a bit like my usual style, but slower. But that would be far from accurate - the deep house in this set can be identified by a few significant differences. First, the instrumentation is often jazzier, ie. there will be Rhodes or Wurli keyboards, more horns, brass, more clean guitar sounds, and more jazzy/bluesy vocals. Also, the tempo of this set is down around 119-120bpm, whereas my mainstream club sets are usually around 128bpm and my radio shows are usually 129-132bpm.


Here's a track listing:

01. Ahmet Mecnun, "Berlin Reisen" (Original Mix).
02. Kolombo, "Whatever U Like" (Original Mix).
03. Finnebassen, "What You Do" (Original Mix).
04. Klangkarussell, "Sonnentanz" (Original Mix).
05. Kate Simko & Jem Cooke, "Go On Then" (Original Mix).
06. Mikkel Vadsager, "Uninvited" (Original Mix).
07. David Devilla & Eli Lop, "Mystical Land" (Original Mix).
08. Dan Martin, "Le Bar De Plage" (Original Mix).
09. Higinio, "Hunting My Dreams" (Original Mix).
10. Dporto, "24 Days" (Original Mix).
11. Hamid feat Valentina, "If I" (Original Mix).
12. Bjorn Storig, "The Return Of The Trompetenfrosch" (Original Mix).
13. Ry & Frank Wiedemann, "Howling" (Ame Remix).
14. Franksen & Redux, "Think" (Original Mix).
15. Hunter & Game, "Don't Feel The Presence" (Original Mix).
16. Audictive, "Cold Mind" (Original Mix).
17. Candi Staton, "Hallelujah Anyway" (Larse Vocal).
18. Andre Crom, "Reality" (Dusky Remix).
19. Hk, "Underground Rainbow" (Original Mix).
20. Floska, "Tears" (Original Mix).
21. Mani Rivera, "Good To Me" (Original Mix).
22. Matt Tolfrey & Geddes, "Back And Forth" (Original Mix).
23. Matthieu Duchesne, "Afternoon In The Garden" (Dilby Remix).
24. BLiv, "A House Prayer" (Original Mix).
25. Meloder, "Take You" (Original Mix).
26. Liam Dee, "808 Rollerz" (Original Mix).
27. Roni Be, "Reborn" (Original Mix).
28. Robosonic, "Over" (Original Mix).
29. Telmo, "Some Nice" (Original Mix).
30. MatJoe, "Safe Flight" (Audiojacks Closed Eye Hallucination).
31. Tom Lustig, "Catch The Move" (Original Mix).
32. Audiojack, "Plastic Dreams" (20 Year Tribute).
33. Supernova, "I Can't Do Without You" (Original Mix).
34. PM, "That Is The Issue" (Dimitry Liss Take On).
35. Prompter, "Vuelo" (Original Mix).
36. Florence & The Machine, "Spectrum" (Maya Jane Coles Remix).
37. Nicky Shah, "Freak" (Original).
38. Vittorio Santorelli, "2Night" (Original Mix).
39. NiCe7, "Space Needle" (Original Mix).
40. Secret Society, "Our Society" (Original Mix).
41. Monte, "True" (Original Mix).
42. Philipp Ort, "Knight" (Original Mix).
43. Smirconia, "El Sol" (Original Mix).
44. Tennis & Pillow Talk, "The Outcast" (Morgan Geist Mix).
45. Luis Armando & J Hecht, "2am Adventure" (Original Mix).


To download any of my studio mixes or recordings of lives shows, visit:


Then go into the folder called "Bolivia's DJ Mixes & Live Shows"

Thanks for your support!


I'm Jonathan Clark, known online as DJ Bolivia.  Do you want to learn more about DJ'ing and music production?  If so, visit:



If you happen to enjoy techno tracks, most of my tracks are available as free downloads from this link:



Thanks so much for visit, and for your support!  I really appreciate the fan base that I've been able to build up over the years.

Also, if you want to visit any of my other sites, here are a few links:
    YouTube:  youtube.com/djbolivia
    SoundCloud:  soundcloud.com/djbolivia
    Blogger:  djbolivia.blogspot.com
    Main Site:  www.djbolivia.ca