May EP25 Progressive Mix

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[116 MB | 85 min]

Tracklist:

The Temper Trap – Science of fear (Michael Woods Remix)
Mentelibre – Mi Alma (Namito Remix)
Juan Magan – Una Rosa (Victor Magan Remix)
Edward Maya ft. Vika Jigulina – Stereo Love (Dave Ramone & Alaa ft Xin’aa Remix)
Nalin Kane – Beachball (Grant Nelson Remix)
Whelan & Di Scala – Big Apple (Original Mix)
Criminal Vibes – Saxone (Original Mix)
Dr Bellido & Roger G – A Luz De Tieta
Paul Gasille – Housecall (Enton Mushi Remix)
Pleasure Sound – Essential (Original Mix)
Slajh (Steve Lawler) – Red Carpet Mile (Original Mix)
Inna – Hot (E2Beatz & Xin’aa Remake Mix)
DJ Dalysovich – Sunkissed (Original Mix)
S Groove – Sneakin’ Up (Stan Kolev Remix)
Cirez D – Fast Forward (Original Mix)
Giulio LNT – Hello Chicago (Original Mix)

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NYC ImprovEverywhere goes naked. Really?

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In a time of deceit…

Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don’t know where you are going.

Stay strong. Live long.
~Sina


Photo by Sina Nedadahandeh

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Sushi Etiquette

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EP24 Carpe Noctem Deep Progressive Mix

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Download EP24 Carpe Noctem Deep Progressive Mix
[92 min | 107 MB]

How am I supposed to give this EP mix a fair presentation? This is by far the most intriguing and self-explanatory episode I have done so far. Deep meets Progressive in a big House! Carpe Noctem, which means “Seize the Night” is a story line.
Ep24 consists of a twenty-something minutes long introduction with a levitating ambience of big spaces and echoing shatters. I was trying to recreate something out of this world without pushing it to the limit. I’d like to call it a sincere sloppiness of sounds. Before making an anticlimactic transition around the 30-ish minute, I make sure to blend a touch of Empire of The Sun with their Walking On A Tree. From this point I make sure to lift the mix with a range of great tracks. You’ve probably been peeking on the tracklist, so the musical goodies have already been spotted. I’ll let you put the rest of this story together. Let’s rumble, ayy!

Tracklist:

Sidekick – Deep Fear (Sina’s Phobia/Andrea Roma Mashup)
Christian Smith & John Selway – Daytona
Nemanja Kostic – Orion
Bob Sinclair ft Dirty South – The Russian March
Belocca vs Empire of The Sun – Walking On A Plastic Crock (Bartosz Brenes Mashup)
Leventina – Attitude (Dub Mix)
Tom Stephan & Pete Gleadall ft Rowetta – Lights Out (Eric Entrena Mix)
Miguel Luismi Lopez – Hard Rain
Paolo Driver & Stoned Chicken – Miss Sarabanda ft. Esmeralda (Riva Starr Remix)
Paul Thomas & Sonny Wharton – Cashback (Rosie Romero & Mark Holmes Remix)
Lentos – Forget About Us Barnes And Heat
Nirvana – Teen Spirit (Mobin Master Remix)
Lorcan Mak – Gypsy Bum (Rubix Refix)
Juan Magan & Marcos Rodriguez – Mueve Su Pelo (Gregor Salto Remix)
Jerry Ropero & Tom Novy – Touch Me ft Abigail (Extended)
Funkagenda vs Eurythmics – Sweet F**k
Jonathan Landossa vs Black Eyed Peas – Boom Boom Rulezzz (Bartosz Brenes Mashup)

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October EP23 Mueve Su Pelo House Mix

October EP23 Mueve Su Pelo Progressive House Mix

Download October EP23 “Mueve Su Pelo” Mix
[74 min | 85 MB]

Yet another monthly EP mix is out! I’m so glad to see that people from all corners of the world are downloading my EP mixes. Every now and then we receive comments and gratitude from fans that enjoy the EP mixes on their MP3-players and at their parties. It’s quite humbling and we’re glad that you enjoy our music as mush as we love it. Sonido Electronico!

Dedicated to my fellow “South America”-loving friends. You know who you are.

Dancing samba
Mira como mueve su pelo
El mundo entero
Le tiene celo
Ella se mueve like nothing else matters
Getting closer, me vuelvo el miedo
Como decir, cuanto te quiero

Tracklist:

Ovidi Adlert – Afrikan Feeling (Aitor Galan Mix)
Alex Under Base – Privacy
R.E.M ft. Thomas Gold – Losing My Religion
Round Table Knights – Belly Dance
Jason Rivas – Carnivale (Original Club Mix)
Adrian Lux – Can’t Sleep (Ali Payami Remix)
Bob Sinclair ft. Kevin Lyttle – Belly Dancer
Paolo Mojo – The Dancer (Original Mix)
Patrick La Funk – Yeah (Darwin & Backwell Mix)
Da Fresh – Yesterday (Zoo Brazil Remix)
Alex Barroso ft. Rebeka Brown – This is My Life
SHM & Laidback Luke – Leave The World Behind (Isle Mix)
Juan Magan & Marcos Rodriguez – Mueve Su Pelo

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September EP22 Progressive Mix

September EP22 Progressive Mix

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[74 min | 85 MB]

The world is yours! I hope you enjoy this new mix set. Progressive House, Electro House, Club, Michael Jackson and all things Electronica!
Sonido Electronico!

Tracklist:

Steve Angello – Flonko [Intro]
Rasmus Faber ft. Linda Sunblad – Always (Studio Apt. Tech Mix)
Diva & Jones – Thriller (David Jones Mix)
Dirty South ft. Sebastian Ingrosso – We Are Kidsos (Bootleg)
Javi Torres – Acoustic Feeling (Original Mix)
Ashkan & Kooshan – Dooset Daram (Remix)
Pryda – Aflon (Original Mix)
Pryda – Reeperbahn (Original Mix)
Giordano – Amazonia (David Tort Mix)
Stan Kolev – Closer (Original Mix)
Jonathan Meyer ft. June Grey – U Know Me (Main Mix)
Guru Da Beat & Mauro Mondello – La Colegiala
Steve Angello – Isabel (Mark Mendes Remix)
Itaka – La Danza De Ibiza (Joe Maker Mix)
Discount Rhinos – Pills & Champagne (Christopher Norman Remix)

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June EP21 Melrose Progressive House Mix

June EP21 Progressive Mix

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[81 min | 92 MB]

It’s great to be back on track with the EP mixes. This is presented with peace and love for all my friends on the interwebz!
The Melrose Garden; an intergalactic round trip.

Tracklist:

NTFO – Don’t Cry (David Kassi Mix)
Joe Santoro – Atlantis (Original Mix)
Ronnie Maze ft Jennfier Cella – Alive (Angel Manuels Dub Mix)
Abel the Kid – Tell Me (Raul Ortiz & Javi Reina Remix)
DJ Joss ft. Tokafun – I Wanna See You
Franky Rizardo – Afrika (Original Mix)
John Dahlbäck & ATFC – Bon Bon (Original Mix)
Veerus & Maxie Devine – Fujiko (D.O.N.S Remix)
Sandy Vee – Bleep
Calvin Harris & Soulsearcher – Can’t Get Along (Dirty South Bootleg)
D.Ramirez & Mark Knight – Columbian Soul (Remix)
Norman Doray & Albin Myers – Drink ‘n Dial (Original Mix)
Miguel Blonde – Right In The Night (Original Mix)
Metyu – Bikini (Original Mix)
Bra Belmonte & Manuel Santos – Sulay (Original Mix)
Antoine Clamaran & Tristan Garner – Cancun Paradise

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The present is beneath, the future in front

Parisian Park

I know, I know. I am sorry for my absence, once again. I thought silencium would be the best way to lead the way for you guys. It’s time to be cryptic, once again. You remember the track “Columbian Soul”? Yeah, I love that one as well. D. Ramirez is a crazy fella’, I am telling you. I remember Erick Morillo to be the same calm guy that suddenly makes the sudden turn to the dirty electro B-side on the 12″. Oh, right… the 12 inch vinyls are from a past saga, long forgotten.

So, I tweaked down my hi’s and lo’s on the mixer, and faded in the ultimate track, “Columbian Soul” – the original one. I remember how the strobe was flashing. Sampled a short loop from my long time favorite “Bleeep” by Mr Ten Velden the Dutch. The bleeps started with a low pitch, and I had a flanger effect to make the experience a bit “out of this world”. Stump stump, and my heart was pumping as the song came to the climax, you know the 1 minute climax that we all progressive lovers call “the minute crunch”. Here, my friends is the critical moment to make the move. A MIDI signal tweaked to a wired box we all know as the “groove box”. Hell yeah, sure it knew that the time was coming, and within milliseconds it responded with a full blast of pounding bass.

Once you feel the groove coming, you don’t have to think what the next step should be. The past and the future are fused together and will tell what you feel at the very moment. The present.

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Selectivity in Life is just a part of Life

Selectivity is a prime function in our universe. Gravity attracts the same way a ligand binds to a receptor, and humans make their moves into what they believe is a socioemotional selectivity; to narrowing down their social interactions as a part of their growing knowledge acquisition – which at a first glance can contradict to what most people believe is a introvert behavior. Knowing the fact that our lives are futile without the social interactions in society, we still make choices depending on what our guts tell us to do and we forget the essentials for a succeeding state of mind. We make ourselves to believe that our choices are what were intended, and we grow new relationships and slender down our own needs to depend on what others need, forgetting the big chunk of dignity that will remain with our souls when we leave this earth and enter the unknown.

What do you want to achieve in your life, and what do you intend to share with your community?
Do you have anything to say, and do you know how to say it?
Do you know when devotion becomes vocation and vice versa, and where are you getting your inspiration from?
Are you sure this is what you want to do, knowing the fact that it is your final call and other people are depending on your decisions?
Can you put up your case against someone else, if or when that happens?

I’ve been asked these questions, and have taken my time to – harshly but mostly heartily – explain my view on depleting interactions. I am not advocating my case, but it has been a real face-off to confront my case with prominent people that could’ve smoked my case in two quick flicks – but did not, just because I had a fundamental cause to raise what is believed to be a sentimental issue, which happens once in a blue moon to some people, but quite often in my life.

Just be prepared and believe in what is the right way, and move along with your deepest feelings – and remember the fighter spirit:

You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard ya hit. It’s about how hard you can get it and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done! ~ Stallone in Rocky Balboa

All the best,
Sina

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Sina responding on Virtual DJ question

Let me give you a brief background to this post. While browsing one of many forums I visit daily (a potpourri of knowledge), I read a post from a Swedish forum member, asking whether he should buy Mixmeister Control, Numark CM200, Numark DJ/io or Roland SP-404, to start his Virtual DJ career. Holy Guacamole, I said, and took my keen temper to a level of “glorification of the good old days”. This was back in 2008, and my attitude is nevertheless the same. Like Raymond, my pilot friend once said a late night in NYC, “Airline pilots are people too”, I would like to recite and say that Musicians are people too, so try to understand our feelings. By the way, I used to own a Roland SP-303 myself, so don’t get me wrong here.

Det finns alltid “någon” – så skulle jag vilje inleda…
Jag är en old-school’are som kört på klassiska Technics 1210:or, modellerat på Juno, D50 och Moog osv. Och om vi ska se det som att “alla” old school’are kör klassiskt stuk and never looks back – då kommer det alltid en person, oftast av den yngre generationen och säger “ja, men Nils-Åke (DJ-världens Zappa, Marley, Lennon eller annan legend) kör ju numera serrato a.k.a virtualDJ stuff. “Eh okej?!” – tänker jag
“Ja, men om HAN kör virtual, och tjänar multum, står på top100 listan, varför ska det då vara så lågt att köra en sån setup?” – frågar färskingen.

Det är lite pissigt att man uppfann sånt, och det finns ju säkerligen andra som delar samma åsikt som mig. Att säga hur pass bra det var förr, det har man ju hört många gånger men i det här fallet har det påverkat hela industrin på så sätt att riktiga talanger ödslar sin tid åt sånt som inte längre anses som talang.
Det handlar inte om att ta med sig ett gig-bag med 80 vinylskivor som väger 20 kg för att visa att man kör “the real shit” för Nils-Åke kan säkerligen få till riktiga tunga cuts och scratch med sin serrato. Enda skillnaden är att han slipper kånka på 20kg vax, slippa leta efter just “den där” skivan osv.

Men när det kommer till att lägga ner sin själ på musiken, på vaxet, på modelleringen eller vad man nu vill säga – då lever man för det man gör och går in för det. Och det finns ju INGEN som kan beskriva känslan att ha en Casio CZ101 eller Commodore64 i knäet och leka med den. Att sitta med sin Moog och koppla trådar hit o dit, pilla och skruva. Även om samma “råvara” finns i mjukvaruversion så är det svårt att beskriva känslan av att känna doften av oscillatorerna från “the real shit”. Det är därför jag är så pass anti.

Jag lirar mycket keyboard, och gav mig in i Korg-världen och köpte mig Pa800 (från att ha varit Roland-supporter to the bone). Har man följt dess historik så vet man att PA-serien är riktigt tunga, men ack vilka problem de haft med hårdvara och mjukvara. Det ena har inte hunnit i kapp det andra, och man sitter där och försöker trixa med en importerad sampling via USB-minnet och tänker på den goda tiden då det bara vara analogt och problemfritt. Nu väntar man ju klistrad vid datorn på deras site för att erhålla senaste OS som ska fixa buggarna. Bugfixes – “my ass” har en grupp av Pa-användare sagt efter att ha tröttnat på hur nya problem dyker upp med de nya OS-uppdateringarna…
Så sitter man där med en tjugosextusenkronors-klaviatur som egentligen bara hade kunnat vara en tusenkronors-MIDI klavve kopplat till Logic/Ableton/Cubase/you name it… Kicka igång en softsynt, sampla på ett naffs, och dessutom slippa besväret med att behöva uppdatera OS på ett instrument som kostat alldeles för mycket. “det finns alltid någon”

Ja, det finns alltid någon som lägger 26 lax på en keyboard istället för att skaffa sig en riktigt bra mjukvaru-setup (softsynths osv). Och ändå sitter jag här och klagar över hur pass eländigt det nya är samtidigt som jag motsäger mig själv och säger att jag är en idiot som lagt så mycket pengar på en usel produkt som jag VET hade kunnat ersättas med mjukvara och en dator. Men det kommer ju alltid finnas någon som gör något…

Därav ville jag börja det här med “det finns alltid någon”, och avslutningsfrasen kan du säkert klura ut :)
Och nu när jag tänker efter så har jag inte svarat på din fråga, men läser du mellan raderna så förstår du att jag inte har emot dator-DJ’s men jag tycker då förvisso inte att dessa individer har talang, och att de aldrig kommer förstå känslan av The Real Shit. Men, “det finns ju alltid”… ja, precis…där sa du det.. “någon”

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My donation to ‘Charity: Water’: NYC Twestival 2009

Twestival NYC 2009

What if we all could gather and contribute a small donation to third world countries. A small donation for the deprived, a bit of sharing for the sake of our self-consciousness and a boost of buoyancy to our self-centeredness. Or shall I say; what if we could gather the geekiest Web 2.0 community and make a united contribution to our planetary fellows?

Commiserated, and still privileged. That’s what lies in my hideous mind. Still, I wake up every morning and contribute to people in need. Okay, I am almost touching the final deceptive punch now, so hang in there. The fact that I have a daily routine for processing a heck load of patient blood samples, through a magical (and very secret) process from a paper-like membrane with DNA (which initially was delivered as a whole blood sample by UPS or FedEX), to the final stage where I decide whether a patient has the right genetic formula for an organ transplantation. Surrounded by efficient technology and two pioneers, we do magic and we liberate many many many people from their daily grief. Daily. Seven days a week, 365 days a year.

Not revealing too much, but we are a world class company with a prime position, and with tiny insignificant competitors around the world that simply doesn’t have the knowledge or the technology to accomplish the great task of high resolution HLA typing, fast paced and streamlined processing with minimal hassle (I repeat: minimal hassle).

So getting to my point by this nice rhetorical segway: On February 12th I will join the Charity: Water gathering here in New York City, along with the tweeting community around the world, we will donate $20 each (or $100 for the highly generous Le Sacré-Cœur’s) to help the 1.1 billion people that (quoting from Charity: Water’s website) “don’t have access to safe, clean drinking water”.

Yes people, it is time to step forward and lend a share to our mates, just for the sake of our karma and whatever you may believe is considered as a good cause for the humanity. I am going just to satisfy my social-addictive musical needs, and not to mention – for the free drinks that will be served! Followed by a LMAO :)

I’ll see you there, 7:30 PM on Thursday February 12th  – sharp!

Charity: Water
http://www.charitywater.org

NYC Twestival 2009
http://newyork.twestival.com/

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