DJ Mute City - PlayStation 1 DanceMix Vol.1 CD
4 4x6 photoprinted screencaps of past PS1 streams
once again a little late on things mostly due to high shipping costs during the holidays, but will be finally shipping this batch out to my patreon supporters this week. I still plan on getting the next CD finished and shipped early spring. I’ll do a poll on my patreon page to see if people want either GameCube DanceMix Vol.1 or PS2 DanceMix Vol.2 for the next CD (both have not been publicly available yet but are chunks from past unlisted livemixes for patrons!) as far as the next unlisted stream goes.... it might be time to do another PS1 mix since I only scratched the surface of all the tracks I’ve been collecting.
anyway, happy Chinese New Year and enjoy my vidmix of this synced within the game Internal Section if you haven’t checked it already!
A month behind on my end of summer themed batch for my Patreon ‘Reactor Mode’ supporters but will be shipped next week finally. Was real fun making this one out of my Fluid / Depth (a literal dolphin DAW for PS1) stream from last year. Not pictured: a bonus EP for the two longish tracks that couldn’t fit onto 1 CD. Next release will be sent in December which is usually PS1 themed month for me so probably be based around that... anyway, thanks @ the current and future patrons!
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Amapiano, a Nguni word loosely translated to "the pianos", is a South African subgenre of house music that emerged in South Africa in the mid-2010s. It is a hybrid of deep house, jazz, and lounge music characterized by synths and wide percussive basslines.
There is ambiguity and debate concerning its origins, with various accounts of the musical styles in the Johannesburg townships. Because it has a small similarities with Bacardi, some people assert the genre began in Pretoria but it remains uncertain. Various accounts as to who formed the popular genre make it impossible to accurately pinpoint its origins.
The word amapiano is a IsiZulu or IsiXhosa, or dipiano is a word loosely translated to "the pianos", The genre is mostly sang in Zulu and Xhosa, Sotho, Setswana, Xitsonga, one of South Africa's native tongues.
Amapiano is a subgenre of house and kwaito music. It is a hybrid of deep house, jazz, and lounge music characterised by synths and wide percussive basslines.
Amapiano is distinguished by high-pitched piano melodies, kwaito from South Africa basslines, low tempo 1990s South African house rhythms and percussions from another local subgenre of house known as tribal house.
An important element of the genre is the prevalent use of the "log drum", a wide percussive bassline, which was popularised by producer MDU aka TRP. According to amapiano pioneer Kabza De Small:
I don't know what happened. I don't know how he figured out the log drum. Amapiano music has always been there, but he's the one who came up with the log drum sound. These boys like experimenting. They always check out new plug-ins. So when MDU figured it out, he ran with it.
The use of percussive basslines in South African house music predates amapiano, and was possibly pioneered by kwaito producer M’Du (also known as Mdu Masilela.)
Every day, DJs play at the location from evening until the night, and their performances are broadcast to the world. HÖR is pronounced “forr” in German and means “to listen". HÖR is located on the first floor of a street-level apartment building, with a glass-fronted cube-like room where DJ equipment is set up so that passersby can enjoy watching the DJs play from the outside.