It’s that time of the year– well actually two months ago it was that time of the year, but we’re late. Either way, here is the “2008 Beat Feast” mix filled with all sorts of surprises and new DJ tricks bound to make you wonder how much free time I have (ironically not that much). Hop on over to the Pirate Radio section to download it now. Also, check out this week’s value special in the Merch Shop. This week we have the N parody DF logo tee on sale for $9.99. Grab it while you can. Happy New Year!
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DF Pirate Radio – “2009 Beat Feast”
| Title: Vol. 5 Episode 1 (Click Link to Play) | Rel: 1/6/09 |
| Description: “The 2009 Annual Beat Feast” – Celebrate the New Year with a brand new live mix set by DJ digitalflood. 60 minutes of rock, rap, hip hop, and death metal (that’s not a typo). This annual mix gets released a bit late this year, but is well worth waiting for. With a new year upon us DJ digitalflood breaks out some new tricks to recreate some well known hits in his “Cut Like Crack” mixing style upping the ante in the art of DJing once again. | |
Shameless Self Promotion
New for 2009, we now have an official Merchandise Shop for you to pick up official digitalflood clothing, cups, and miscellaneous crud. May I recommend the dog t-shirt featuring the “Cats – The Other White Meat” logo for your favorite pooch? Nobody ever said we had good taste. For Christmas I picked up an M-Audio XSession Pro MIDI Mixer controller, which will most certainly lead to all sorts of hooligan DJ activity. As I type this I’m listeing to a raw mix of the latest live DJ mix of digitalflood Pirate Radio. I think you’ll agree– this one was worth the wait when you hear.
DF Pirate Radio – Cliffnotes (2008 Season)
Cliff Notes – 2008 Season
* After two years (since 2006) on hiatus and the first time since November 2007 any new sets have been released, DF PIrate Radio returned to the webcast scene in October 2008 with a brand new show.
* Chrissy is DJ digitalflood’s wife in real life. They were married in April of 2007.
* The current Pirate Radio studio is in the Welch household’s living room.
* The speaking interludes in Pirate Radio are actually recorded days before the show is engineered and produced. The playlist is one of the first pieces of Pirate Radio that is determined. From there a format is fleshed out. A general plot decided. Then recording takes place. The music and sound effects are added in later during production.
* Every live mix show has contained at least one track featuring Old Dirty Bastard. This is an homage to DJ digitalflood’s favorite rapper.
* Live mix shows take longer to actually make than the normal spoken format shows. On top of the normal four hour production time required to create an episode, a one hour recording session must be performed in real time. Normal shows only require about 30 minutes of recording to tape the voice interlude segments. Mixing then occurs in the production software and not in real time thus speeding the actual creation process.
* The lost episode (11/3/08) took some four months to be released. Production began in one version of Sony software and ended in another. Yes– we took long enough to go up a version during production.
Happy Holidays
As we draw to the end of yet another year and reflect on all that was 2008, I’d like just take a second to thank you all for making this year one of many accomplishments. One never knows what to expect when they make a return after two plus years on hiatus, but I’m pleased to say that I personally feel both accomplished with how well things went and humbled by all your continued patronage. I’d like to wish you and all you hold dear both a very Happy Christmas, as well as, wishes for a joyous New Year. This year has been one of the best gifts I could ever have had and I’d like to thank you for being part of that.
