Mike's strength is in his programming. He kept the energy flowing. His mixing reminds me of Donato Dozzy where the blends were beatmatched well but it was also obvious that the track was switching. The mixes werent bad at all they just were in contrast to someone like Danny Howells for example who long mixes often and goes for the seamless blend. Mike played all vinyl. First time I've seen that in awhile.
The question I had was, Mike had a black hockey puck looking thing that he was attaching to the spindle on the technics. It was about 3 inches in diameter, an inch tall, and shaped like hockey puck. He only had 1 of them and he would move it back and forth between the records so that the record that was playing out of the speakers was the one that had the puck on it. Does anyone know what this thing is called and what the purpose is?
And to be honest, RA did their first Versus event in Japan with Patrice Scott and Mike Huckaby, and when you compare the two (it was broadcast live), Mike's mixing was just downright atrocious. I don't know if you listen to Patrice Scott Mark but that nigga is the real deal.
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It's called a record clamp:
And to be honest, RA did their first Versus event in Japan with Patrice Scott and Mike Huckaby, and when you compare the two (it was broadcast live), Mike's mixing was just downright atrocious. I don't know if you listen to Patric Scott Mark but that nigga is the real deal.
Cool thanks for the info! Yea Mike's mixing was just okay but he made up for it with programming. He wasnt train wrecking or anything when I saw him.
In a side note, Ripperton was playing before Mike went on. He ing murdered it. He played a Global Communication track called "8 07" from 1994 and it was incredible. He did not play all of his own productions or really anything that sounded like what he produces. Just a really dark grimey slow mix (my thing all the way).
He's a really quiet guy I was asking him a couple of questions after the set and he seemed a bit eccentric and I also think english isnt his first language which might have made things a bit more difficult. Ripperton started out around 120 bpm put on a ing clinic. It was an awesome display in mixing and programming.
I will check out Patrice if I ever get the chance.
wotyzoid
You were at that party? wtf? Ripperton played the dj koze remix of naked also which was SICK!
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You were at that party? wtf? Ripperton played the dj koze remix of naked also which was SICK!
You were there too?
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You were at that party? wtf? Ripperton played the dj koze remix of naked also which was SICK!
Yea I was wearing a white shirt and beige pants, dancing dead in front of the dj booth the entire time, facing back towards the crowd. Got ed up during Ripperton's set and was running around the place
corjay9
I saw Mike in Detroit at DEMF in may, he played an all vinyl set as well.. he headlined the Made in Detroit stage on saturday night so he was spinning techno at 128-130, high energy set.. I agree his programming was perfect, and yeah he doesn't blend all too much, a lot of channel fading, EQing in the highs quickly.. mind you there wasn't much melody in his set that night. stabs and loopy samples. Yeah he went off beat a little, but he still killed it.. he played his last record and people went nuts, he came back out and played one last bomb. Awesome set..
Jay Daniel vs. Kyle Hall's set, their mixing was a little weak but again they more then made it up with awesome track selection.
DOOMBOT
I was totally digging Mike's set. He seemed like a cool guy too. I asked him for an ID and he just handed me the record after it was finished playing. :)
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I was totally digging Mike's set. He seemed like a cool guy too. I asked him for an ID and he just handed me the record after it was finished playing. :)
I talked to him on facebook this morning. Stand-up fellah.
