Cole's Notes Vol. 2

Cole's Notes Vol 2 is the sophomore release from Toronto, Canada based DJ and Producer DJ cDoc. Smashing together the best progressive, dutch, and electro house, this 2 hour long banger promises to get you feet moving and keep your ears listening! Released March 26, 2012 on MonoMachina Records. Album artwork by Justin Jackson. Mixing/Mastering by Cole Docherty (DJ cDoc) Tracklist: 1 Trio (Original Mix) - Arty, Matisse & Sadko 2 Titanium feat. Sia (Alesso Remix) - David Guetta 3 Rio De Janeiro (Original Mix) - Maison & Dragen 4 Villo - Archie V. 5 Levels (Original Mix) - Avicii 6 Nothing But Love (Extended Vocal Mix) - Axwell feat. Errol Reid 7 So Much Love ( Original Mix ) - Fedde Le Grand 8 Wild One Two (feat. David Guetta, Nicky Romero & Sia) (Original Mix) - Jack Back 9 Paradise (Fedde Le Grand Remix) - Coldplay 10 Trilogy (Original Mix) - Laidback Luke, Arno Cost & Norman Doray 11 Sunshine - David Guetta & Avicii 12 Guess What - Archie V. 13 Beating Of My Heart (Matisse & Sadko Remix) - M-3ox, Heidrun 14 Pressure (Alesso Remix) - Nadia Ali, Starkillers & Alex Kenji 15 Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall (Avicii's 'Tour' Mix) - Coldplay 16 Ultimate (Original Mix) - Probe 17 Kick Out The Epic Motherf**ker (Extended Vocal Mix) - Dada Life 18 Go! (Original Mix) - Stefano Pain & Marcel 19 Vancouver (Original Mix) - Afrojack 20 What Happens in Vegas (Ibiza VIP Mix) - Chuckie ft. Gregor Salto 21 No Beef feat. Miss Palmer (Original Mix) - Afrojack & Steve Aoki 22 Move It 2 The Drum (Nick Svenson Edit) - Chuckie 23 Spaceman (Original Mix) - Hardwell 24 All About Cobra (DJ cDoc's Mashup) - Hardwell vs A-Division & MC Flipside 25 Bumpy ride (Chuckie Remix) - Mohombi 26 Room For Happiness feat. Skylar Grey (Feenixpawl Remix) - Kaskade http://www.monomachina.com twitter.com/cdoc07 twitter.com/realmonomachina

Cole's Notes Vol 2 is the sophomore release from Toronto, Canada based DJ and Producer DJ cDoc.

Smashing together the best progressive, dutch, and electro house, this 2 hour long banger promises to get you feet moving and keep your ears listening!

Released March 26, 2012 on MonoMachina Records.

Album artwork by Justin Jackson.
Mixing/Mastering by Cole Docherty (DJ cDoc)

Tracklist:
1 Trio (Original Mix) - Arty, Matisse & Sadko
2 Titanium feat. Sia (Alesso Remix) - David Guetta
3 Rio De Janeiro (Original Mix) - Maison & Dragen
4 Villo - Archie V.
5 Levels (Original Mix) - Avicii
6 Nothing But Love (Extended Vocal Mix) - Axwell feat. Errol Reid
7 So Much Love ( Original Mix ) - Fedde Le Grand
8 Wild One Two (feat. David Guetta, Nicky Romero & Sia) (Original Mix) - Jack Back
9 Paradise (Fedde Le Grand Remix) - Coldplay
10 Trilogy (Original Mix) - Laidback Luke, Arno Cost & Norman Doray
11 Sunshine - David Guetta & Avicii
12 Guess What - Archie V.
13 Beating Of My Heart (Matisse & Sadko Remix) - M-3ox, Heidrun
14 Pressure (Alesso Remix) - Nadia Ali, Starkillers & Alex Kenji
15 Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall (Avicii's 'Tour' Mix) - Coldplay
16 Ultimate (Original Mix) - Probe
17 Kick Out The Epic Motherf**ker (Extended Vocal Mix) - Dada Life
18 Go! (Original Mix) - Stefano Pain & Marcel
19 Vancouver (Original Mix) - Afrojack
20 What Happens in Vegas (Ibiza VIP Mix) - Chuckie ft. Gregor Salto
21 No Beef feat. Miss Palmer (Original Mix) - Afrojack & Steve Aoki
22 Move It 2 The Drum (Nick Svenson Edit) - Chuckie
23 Spaceman (Original Mix) - Hardwell
24 All About Cobra (DJ cDoc's Mashup) - Hardwell vs A-Division & MC Flipside
25 Bumpy ride (Chuckie Remix) - Mohombi
26 Room For Happiness feat. Skylar Grey (Feenixpawl Remix) - Kaskade

http://www.monomachina.com
twitter.com/cdoc07
twitter.com/realmonomachina

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LOC NES - Vacation (Akai MPD32, Ableton Live 8 & Anguilla)

For the past week I was vacationing on the beautiful island of Anguilla. Home to some of the best beaches in the world.

It's funny how a simple change in your surroundings can inspire one to create. The pace is so relaxed in Anguilla. By my third day there, I really started to absorb the lifestyle and the mindset. I feel that frame of mind came through in this track.

This is a 100% laptop beat. All the sounds (including the drums) were made in Reason 6 and Ableton Live 8. Instead of doing one of my usual pad-mashing routines I did a live arrangement using Ableton Live's session view (triggering scenes, muting/unmuting tracks, applying effects using my trusty Akai MPD32).

The footage that you see comes from the various beaches that I visited while there. Those include Crocus Bay, Rendezvous, Shoal Bay and Coritot. It was shot using a Canon T3i with a combination of a Tokina 11-16 wide angle lens and a 60mm macro lens.

My only regret is that I didn't get footage of Shoal Bay. Otherwise this was a labour of love.

Hope you enjoy and if you like what you see and hear please subscribe, comment and "like" the video.

Peace and dope beats!

AIFL - Encased In Amber (Akai MPD32 + Ableton Live 8)

So i'm still in my phase of sampling synths. Last episode I only sampled synths from Reason 6. This time around I sampled sounds from my trusty MicroKORG (except for the vocal sample, that came from a podcast about the human imagination).

The MicroKORG is a little beast. The sounds that come out of it still amaze me, even after having owned it for so long.

I first attempted to make this beat on my MPC 1000, but it's hard to go back to it after being spoiled by Ableton. I ended up abandoning the MPC and put everything together on the computer.

Why can't they make a hardware sampler that has the same power of software. Maybe I'm being naive but I think this should be possible.

Anyways, I hope you enjoy the tune and if you like it please subscribe and comment. Your feedback is always appreciated and as always very encouraging.

Peace and dope beats!

Fiction - Toronto to Glasgow Vol.1 {[Electro, Breaks & House Mix]}

Fiction Presents:
Toronto to Glasgow Vol.1

"My personal mix of of bass pounding Electro, Breaks, & House. I plan on making this a regular release that pays tribute to some of my favourite artists and remixes that have helped to add the soundtrack to my music career between Toronto and Glasgow. Hope you enjoy"

Chris
Fiction

Track Listing:

[ Start ] The Crystal Method - Sine Language feat.LMFAO (Future Funk Squad Remix)
3:10 Dem Slackers - Swagger (Evil Nine Remix)
9:05 Dj Chuckie - Let The Bass Kick (Como Remix)
12:01 The Whip - Secret Weapon (Alex Metric Remix)
17:18 Audio Bullys - Flickery Vision (Extended Mix)
21:00 Fedde Le Grand vs. Marco V - Back and Forth (Blake Mix Mash)
24:30 Marc Romboy vs. Blake Baxter - House Ya
30:01 Zinc vs. Smash - Disco Nexx
33:34 Dave Spoon - At Night
36:46 The Chemical Brothers - Galvanize (Andrew Philips Remix)
40:19 Alex Metric - Open Your Eyes (edit)
44:20 Roger Sanchez - Lost (D.Ramirez Lost in Rave Remix)
49:01 Beastie Boys - Sabotage (Alex Metric Re-Edit)

AIFL - Doves (Akai MPD32 + Ableton Live 8)

AIFL - All The Broken Pieces (Akai MPC 1000 & Korg EMX1)

I was feeling in a "hardware mood", so for this beat I fired up my Akai MPC 1000 and my Korg Electribe MX1 and got busy. I've always had a love/hate relationship with my Electribe. I love how it is capable of generating so many sounds. At the same time I hate that it is so difficult for me to get the sounds that I want out of it. I guess I still have a lot to learn about synthesis.

I've also been getting into music making apps for iOS (iPhone 4S) and recently discovered Camel Audio's Alchemy mobile app. It's easy to get sounds out of this and on top of that they sound awesome. I threw it into the mix as well.

Regardless of the challenges, I'm happy with the way this beat turned out. Enjoy and if you're digging the sounds please subscribe to my youtube channel.

Peace and dope beats!

AIFL - The Solid (Akai MPD32 + Ableton Live 8)

This was a beat that I had made about a year ago and just left alone. I rediscovered it a few months back while I was organizing/cleaning up the files on my hard drive.

For whatever reason it sounded better to me the second time around so I decided to use it for the first installment of the AIFL Beat Blog.

It consists of a few different samples from vinyl. Those samples were chopped, rearranged processed then placed into drum racks using Ableton Live 8.

The controller I'm using is an Akai MPD32 with modified pads (thick fat pads) from mpcstuff.com.