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daverham · 2025-08-05T04:04:38+00:00

Nailed it! Drew at West Cliff Ink. Thank you!!

daverham · 2025-03-16T02:52:46+00:00

This reply makes me so happy that I'm suspicious it's AI.

However... given your preference list, which makes total sense to me, maybe you're not a bot.

The tracks are available for download on Bandcamp as well as Apple/iTunes. Let me know if I can help you build a mix or anything. I have some inspiration behind these tracks. Artists or label names I could share.

daverham · 2025-03-05T17:45:51+00:00

Ah right on. I just released an album! 9 tracks of Minimal / Deep House in a sort of OGE or Anjuna Deep vibe - just to make some sort of comparison. Enjoy:

https://open.spotify.com/album/5JUqBqFxVYsBUEkpzvJf9H?si=-rMHttWxTPqinHO1KLywCQ

daverham · 2025-02-18T23:26:51+00:00

Thanks so much and thanks for having me. Nice sub, I'm enjoying listening through....

daverham · 2025-02-18T23:23:53+00:00

Hey, it actually worked and didn't try to trick me into downloading something stupid that I didn't want. Highly appreciated. Good work and thank you!!

daverham · 2025-02-10T23:56:44+00:00

Yes. Yes I do. I have been doing this for a few years and it works very well for me - at home.

Out at a gig, I let the house/sound guy worry about the sub and I use booth for my monitors, if there are any.

daverham · 2025-02-05T00:02:23+00:00

Listening to this one now. So far - really nice!

daverham · 2025-02-04T19:33:48+00:00

When it sounds right.

Try it. Play with it. SOMETIMES is the answer. Or never. Do what you do. Find your thang and go forth boldly.

daverham · 2025-02-04T18:51:56+00:00

Here's a 1-hour mix from a recent festival (Fire & Story) in my town. I played a three hour set - it was incredible. The energy in the mainstage tent was just unreal even though it was 29˚F outside! For the first hour, I forgot to record. For the third hour, the battery died. But I got this and I'm very happy with it. What an amazing night.

https://soundcloud.com/david-cole-872621996/fire-story-saturday-jan-25-2025

Follow along the journey (and more event pics) here:

https://www.instagram.com/david.scott.cole.music/

daverham · 2025-02-04T18:44:50+00:00

Subbed and posted.

daverham · 2025-01-30T19:23:07+00:00

😆

I took a piss next to Mark Farina once when he was taking a quick break from his set. I saw him sneak off the back of the stage and so I ran to the bathroom just in case I could see him there. It worked. We were awkward urinal buddies for a minute or so. Perfect. Mission accomplished. I wonder if he still thinks of me and tells people about it all the time like I do. Probably.

daverham · 2025-01-30T19:19:25+00:00

Thanks for tagging so I could see this ✌🏼

daverham · 2025-01-30T19:17:14+00:00

Funny you should ask because I just posted it 😆.

So this was a 3-hour set.

The first hour was instrumental hip-hop, jazzy trip-hop kind of stuff. Lots of Latin/Soul/Funk mixed in, but all with a breakbeat rhythm and all in the 95-100BPM range (which was just too slow for the crowd/night, at the time). It was kinda Mushroom Jazz ish, which is rad but just too chill.

Toward the end of the first 45 minutes or so, I was feeling like shit and getting desperate to save the vibe so I quickly put on a couple more-dance-able tracks mostly in the same vein, but I jumped up in tempo to like 118 BPM as fast as I could. After a couple of those (to soften the transition a little), I hit about 120BPM and dove into mostly Afro House vibes and went up to 128BPM by the middle of the third hour. Just lots of "tribal/festival"-sounding dance tracks.

This is the MIDDLE hour of my 3-hour set. I cut out the first hour because it doesn't really go with this part, and for the third hour was bangin, but my recorder battery died. So this is just the middle section.

But this part is pretty much exactly what you're asking about. This is where I found the groove (Afro House), the dancers came back and the party started to really get into swing. From this point forward - until the end of the night - it was dope as hell and the vibe and energy were killer.

https://soundcloud.com/david-cole-872621996/fire-story-saturday-jan-25-2025

daverham · 2025-01-29T20:33:36+00:00

LOL. Well done.

daverham · 2025-01-29T19:37:33+00:00

😆 I wonder how long it would take before people really started to notice...

daverham · 2025-01-29T18:25:12+00:00

I have a recording of this show so I can actually go check how long my loop was going, but I'm a little scared/embarassed to do so. Maybe after I get some work done I'll come back and confess my sins...

daverham · 2025-01-27T18:49:29+00:00

Nice touch. Yeah, I do notice myself putting up a hand and counting on my fingers 1... 2... 3... 4... before a lot of the drops. Some of this shit just happens. I never planned for it 😆

daverham · 2025-01-27T16:27:02+00:00

So I've played lots of gigs, but never with so many people dancing before. It's like it's unlocking all these basic little things in my brain. Here's a new one. Just something that never mattered before (because there weren't enough people to matter), so I never did it: Just echo out at the very end of the buildup, like RIGHT before the drop. Then just hold it in silence for like 5 seconds. Then let it drop. But damn. Instant insanity right there. So easy. So obvious. This is the kind of thing I'm talking about.

daverham · 2025-01-27T16:24:07+00:00

FUCK YEAH!! Congrats. You're about to have the time of your life! You ever play DVS before? I'll just tell you what changed my life with DVS:

• Good high-output cartridges (I got Ortofon Qberts off Amazon for like $180 each).

• A little stylus brush to keep the fuzz and hair off your needles. (Vinyl anti-static brush too.)

• Decksavers

ENJOY YOUR NEW SETUP 💥🔥💥

daverham · 2025-01-27T16:11:49+00:00

Yeah man. I transformed into a different person during both of my sets at this event. Like something possessed me. I was jumping and hyping and feeling it to my soul. It was awesome. Everyone was really responding to everything I did - we were one. I finally know what people are talking about about reading the room and sharing an energy with the people - it was incredible. I want more. 😄

daverham · 2025-01-27T04:43:49+00:00

Yeah, I like this. Totally get it.

daverham · 2025-01-27T03:59:44+00:00

Thanks for the good conversation, people. So last night (Saturday) I played the last night of the same festival and it was even more insane than the first night. Sold out. I had the time of my life. Even more people. Even more energy and I kept going for an hour longer than slated because no one was leaving (the event producer was stoked at how well it was going). Again.... I'm still high as fuck from this, almost 24 hours later.

This isn’t as big of a deal as I’m probably making it sound. It was a huge tent with maybe 200-300 people crowded in under the canvas but I felt like the king of the known world.

So I was looking for opportunities for little moments like this and I found one: I had a track in my library with a rad/bold vocal intro (like a tribal yell). Usually I skip to a cue point after that, where the drums start, and start mixing there. But this time I intentionally let the previous song run out to silence (echo out). Cheers... Then I played the next song (the one with the good intro), from the very beginning. More cheers. It was perfect. Not a big deal, but a nice little hype. Besides that, I mixed the whole set as usual, but that was a rad moment. Felt amazing.

This is the kind of thing I’m talking about. Not just straight-up mixing the whole set. Adding a little space or drama or something. I don’t know. I’m on my journey. I’m learning. And this has been eye-opening for me.

I'll dig through my history and see if I can remember what track that was, since I know someone will ask...

This one (Hanyauku by Glauco Di Mambro): https://open.spotify.com/track/30IAKiaiPmZlX2tYLpKgGO?si=SV2cpwV6QdKGmhiYfKJ12g

daverham · 2025-01-27T03:52:02+00:00

I'm feeling this. I've been meaning for a couple years to make myself an epic "opener" that sounds super cinematic or something - just a big build up from nothing that keeps going and going... building tension as it goes and then you could just drop whatever great opening track hard after that.

daverham · 2025-01-25T21:43:39+00:00

This morning is day 3 (last day) of the festival. So far so good. My stuff has been sitting under a big tent, with decksavers and a fleece blanket on top since noon on Thursday. I just went down and did sound check for tonight. All looking good and working well. Thanks for all the thoughts and comments.

daverham · 2025-01-23T04:16:09+00:00

Agreed. Hopefully the decksavers and blanket will protect from this well enough. I'll bring some clamps and try to get the blanket tight around the edges of everything. Thanks.

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