Soporific Airs (DJ Bolivia): April 2020

Sunday, April 12, 2020

Icebergs & Albatrosses (But Mostly Penguins)

I have a new book online. This one is a photo journey through the Drake Passage and on to Antarctica.

Imagine a journey from South America's Cape Horn, through the Drake Passage (also known as the Sea of Hoces), and on to rugged and majestic Antarctica. You'll see stunning views - ice, snow, mountains, water, seals, whales, and penguins (plus several dozen other types of birds and animals). You might think that it is possible to get tired of those views, but the author disagrees. This edition is a collection of photographs taken during two weeks on a Russian icebreaker vessel, including time spent camping on Antarctica itself, sleeping in the snow. For the few that have experienced similar voyage, it's the adventure of a lifetime. For those who dream of making this trip someday, these photos will be a tantalizing hint of what is to come.

Here is a link to the print edition. This is Amazon's Canadian subsidiary, but you can just change the country code extension in the URL to find the book on your own version of Amazon:

www.amazon.ca/dp/B086Y39VCQ

Here are links to the various digital editions, which are priced at only $3.99 Canadian ...

Kindle Store: www.amazon.ca/dp/B0871R94Z9

Apple Books: books.apple.com/us/book/id1507716543

Google Play: play.google.com/store/books/details?id=G3HcDwAAQBAJ

(In Google Books, you may have to change the setting from "Flowing Text" to "Original Pages" on some devices in order for the content to display correctly)

You can learn about my other books at: www.jonathanclark.ca

Enjoy!

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

djbolivia.ca/training

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

djbolivia.ca/tracks

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YouTube: youtube.com/djbolivia

SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/djbolivia

Blogger: djbolivia.blogspot.com

Main Site: www.djbolivia.ca

Friday, April 10, 2020

Berlin - Techno Track with free Ableton Project & Stems Pack downloads

Francis & I just finished up a new techno track recently, called Berlin. We're offering free downloads of the track, and also of the Ableton project files and a Stems pack.

First, here are two versions of the track. The structure of both is the same, although I prefer the instrumentation and mixing/mastering on the Self Isolation Remix:

Now if you're a producer/remixer and you're looking for access to the Ableton project or the Stems, we have them set up in Dropbox. Go to my public account at djbolivia.ca/dropbox and then look in the "Bolivia's Remix Projects" folder. There are four archives there for Berlin. The two Ableton archives have the same contents (despite different archive sizes), but we wanted to make them available as both RAR and ZIP archives, because some people prefer one type over the other. Same deal with the Stems, both archives have the same contents. There's also a rich text file that gives a bit of basic info about the source files, ie. things like key, tempo, external effects and processing, etc.

If you make a remix, feel free to share it online, but please use the following for a filename format: "Urban Francis & Bolivia - Berlin (Your Remix Name)"

Finally, here's a video:

Check out more tracks by Urban Francis:

soundcloud.com/urban_francis