KillaMC [MySpace] – I found KillaMC while surfing around the Twitter for new music. I stopped by his MySpace and liked his music so I asked him for the track below to post here on the blog. Big thanks to KillaMC for sending me this track late last night! Give it a listen, I love the old school vibe. Not only is it quality, but it’s local. Keep support for the local music scene up, DFW has a lot going on and I’m digging more quality work up every day. Get more KillaMC by checking out his website and by following him on twitter.

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KillaMC – See Dem Blades Chippin’ [download]

During the Sore Losers / Fizzy Dino Pop at City Tavern on Friday Sore Losers did a live version of the Fizzy Dino Pop remix of Bizarre Celebrations. I thought I had posted this song before, but it turns out I hadn’t. Skip listening to it and just download it, you’re going to want it. The song was even recognized by the Dallas Observer and was named the number 4 song from the DFW area for 2009.

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Sore Losers – Bizarre Celebrations (Fizzy Dino Pop Remix) [download]

Gucci support continued to come in over the weekend with a remix to “Boi” by DJ Skeet Skeet and Cory Enemy. Check the remix from the pair below.

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Gucci Mane – Boi (Skeet Skeet & Cory Enemy’s Leaned Out Rmx) [download]

Earlier today Diplo and Mad Decent put out the Free Gucci mixtape for free. I’ve got a track below to preview, but to grab the whole album you’ll have to go on over to Mad Decent’s website and sign up for the mailing list to get your download.

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Gucci Mane – Break Yourself feat Lil B (Diplo Remix)

Catch Fizzy Dino Pop, Sore Losers, and Darktown Strutters this Friday at City Tavern in Dallas. According to the amazing show poster below the show is at 8 PM, but according to Brown from Sore Losers and City Tavern’s website the show is at 10 PM. Choose your own adventure! Who do you trust? I’ll just get there when I get there.

Bonus Barrel! Check out Yeahdef’s remix of Darktown Strutters track Juvenile and, a little unrelated, his Neon Indian remix he put together for the Neon Indian show last Monday.

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Darktown Strutters – Juvenile (yeahdef’s detention center remix) [download]

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Neon Indian – 7000 (Reprise) (yeahdef’s remix) [download]

You know you can’t resist Yeahdef’s 90s night every Tuesday. Just in case that isn’t enough, he is taking over 80s night at Hailey’s in Denton starting this Thursday! I hear there will be tons of 80s good-ness including some old Fat Boys. Who cares if it’s supposed to be less than 20 degrees tomorrow night? It’s warm inside and free to get in the door!

Let the unboxing and construction begin!





Check out larger pictures + more pictures in my Flickr album for the MIDIFighter.

The MIDIFighter DJ MIDI controller takes the world of Japanese arcade machines and DJ equipment, tosses them into a blender, and pours out this interesting looking device. The MIDIFighter comes stock with 16 holes for arcade buttons, but can also be expanded with some elbow grease and solder to incorporate two analog knob controls and a handful more buttons.

I’ve only played with the MIDIFighter for about an hour altogether and have it currently set up in Serato to have 8 buttons per channel. Then each channel gets 4 hot loop buttons and 4 hot cue buttons to make jumping around tracks and firing up loops easier than ever, no laptop interaction necessary. I’m already looking at the possibilities of expanding the stock controller to include two joysticks, one per channel, for music selection in Serato.

According to DJ Tech Tools the controller firmware will slowly update to accommodate new features and controller uses. It’ll definitely be a fun journey as the controller firmware grows along with the community and my own modifications. DJ Tech Tools will also offer kits to make the MIDIFighter more enclosed and box-like instead of open to the elements like it currently is. Due to my own dark plans for this project I’ll end up having to build a custom case for my unit.

Want more information on the MIDIFighter or want to get one? Currently the first 150 DIY units are sold out (my unit is #9!), but more will be available soon. Check out the DJ Tech Tools website.