Soporific Airs (DJ Bolivia): san jose

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Mix: DJ Bolivia, "Live In San Jose, 2006"

I've been playing around with my DJ Mixes page on my main site a bit lately, trying to tidy it up and provide better info. Some people are probably curious about track listings for some mixes, and other than the Subterranean Homesick Grooves radio shows, track listing info is generally almost impossible to find for some of my older stuff. So to fix that, I'm in the process of digging up track listings for everything that isn't already available, and publishing them here in my blog so they can be found more easily.

Today, I'm publishing info on a live show that I did at the Game Developers' Conference (GDC) in San Jose in 2006.

Mix Name: "Live in San Jose, 2006-03-22"
Details: Progressive/Tribal House set recorded live at GDC 2006
Recorded: March 22nd, 2006.

Track Listings:
01. The Vintage, "Wake Up America" (DJ Mendo vs The Vintage Remix).
02. Noel Sanger & Dauby, "One Drop" (Vox Mix).
03. ADF, "Obsession" (Original Mix).
04. Spector, "Elektrify" (Lexicon Avenue Remix).
05. Little Green Men, "Morena" (Little Green Dub).
06. Alma Matris, "Rapido" (Back In Town Edge Mix).
07. Aston Martinez, "Twisted" (Club Mix).
08. Chris Cargo, "Warning" (Original Mix).
09. David Forbes & Mallorca Lee, "Hurricane" (Scanners Beduin Mix).
10. Headz feat Chris Jam, "Not 'Bout Love" (Thought Disorder Mix).
11. Little Green Men feat Eliza, "Through With You" (Thomas Penton Remix).
12. Chris Cargo, "Saddle Funk" (Graeme L Remix).
13. Bush People, "Nothing's Safe."
14. Chris Cargo, "Shift It" (Sick Joke Remix).
15. David Forbes & Mallorca Lee, "Go Out Get Fucked Up" (Scanners Original Mix).
16. The Crystal Method, "Name Of The Game" (Kupper's Deep Pump Mix).
17. Transducers, "See You Dance."
18. Miss Kitten, "Professional Distortion" (Subsky In Your Face Mix).
19. Probspot, "Midnight."

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Friday, March 24, 2006

GDC 2006 Game Developers Conference, San Jose

I DJ'd at the Game Developers Conference in San Jose (California) last night, and then flew back up to New Brunswick today. It was a lot of fun, but next year I'm going to have to try to take a week off and go back so I can sit in on some of the seminars. Wow, there was a lot of stuff happening there!

GDC is an annual conference devoted to computer software programmers, known more frequently as coders. Quite often, I don't think the general public appreciates just how much work goes into creating software, and just how big an impact computers have had on increasing the standard of living and GDP in the past few decades. The coders are the people who make it all work, and although this conference is designed specifically for developers of video games, people who work in just about every branch of programming should find something of interest.

The show was very well organized by the ShoutCreative team (www.shoutcreative.com). After I played, Uberzone (www.uberzone.net) took to the stage, playing a set based on Ableton Live with scratching and live drumming. It was basically a breaks set with a lot of interaction and effects, and it was really enjoyable. If you ever get a chance to see Uberzone, do it. After seeing that, I realized that I've got to get myself up to speed with Ableton.

One of the craziest parts of the night was the fact that there were combot wars happening at the party. A "combot" is a specialized type of robot, built specifically for these matches. Basically, it's like a hi-tech version of smash-up derby, with remotely controlled machines that are about the size of Fat Forrest (my 110 pound black Labrador). Now I'll admit that I had never seen anything like this before, so I didn't know what to expect. Before the show, I noticed that there was a huge enclosed structure built for the competition, and I thought to myself, "that's a little bit over the top." After all, I thought this was more of a game than a sport (it's only a sport if you can lose an eye). Or so I thought.

Anyway, while I was playing later on, I could just barely see the combot arena from the stage, and at one point during my set I looked over just as two of the combots attacked each other. All I saw was large chunks of wood and metal flying about eight feet up in the air as a huge cheer went up from the crowd around the arena.

All in all, it was a very fun experience, although I don't think in general that the Americans drink nearly as much alcohol as Canadians do. The party had open bars everywhere, and if they had that kind of setup in Canada (complimentary drinks with a thousand people in the room), they would have needed truckloads of beer and liquor!