{"id":8106,"date":"2014-08-07T12:38:55","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T16:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=8106"},"modified":"2015-01-07T13:17:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T17:17:30","slug":"summer-of-technomusicology-2014-dj-mixes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=8106","title":{"rendered":"Summer of Technomusicology (2014): DJ Mixes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/technomus-megamix.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/technomus-megamix-300x62.png\" alt=\"technomus-megamix\" width=\"600\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8107\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fifth etude in <a href=\"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=7999\">our summer session<\/a> required students to cook up short DJ mixes that follow a particular musical thread across time and space. As readers will know, I&#8217;ve made a <a href=\"http:\/\/theclustermag.com\/2011\/04\/lambada-is-a-feeling\/\">few<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=556\">of<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/wayneandwax\/zunguzung-mega-mix\">these<\/a> over the years, and I&#8217;m obviously enamored of such an audible form of storytelling about music culture in the age of digital sampling. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, not every etude made it up on Soundcloud thanks to its algorithmic\/automatic pre-screening according to a draconian and short-sighted copyright regime &#8212; sensors are the new censors, innit &#8212; but several are still standing, spinning, and shining there. Allow me to share a few. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a ton of Ashley&#8217;s Roachclips:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/160593320&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And here are several iterations of Barry White&#8217;s &#8220;I&#8217;m Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby&#8221;:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/160750500&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Variations on Beethoven&#8217;s Moonlight Sonata, perhaps?<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/160650654&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Or echoes of Nina Simone&#8217;s \u201cFeeling Good\u201d?<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/160746059&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>How about a big playback for &#8220;The Big Payback&#8221;?<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/160729430&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Finally, in quite an inspired, creative departure, here are some Polynesian war\/rugby chants sutured onto remixed dubstep instrumentals:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/160728719&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fifth etude in our summer session required students to cook up short DJ mixes that follow a particular musical thread across time and space. As readers will know, I&#8217;ve made a few of these over the years, and I&#8217;m obviously enamored of such an audible form of storytelling about music culture in the age [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[278,394,191,12,209],"class_list":["post-8106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-audio","tag-dj","tag-ethno","tag-mixx","tag-sampling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8106"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8117,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8106\/revisions\/8117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}