This is a beatport exclusive for now, so you have to head on over to their new and improved website to grab it. A search for an artist and a track name still doesn’t come up with any results, but at least they’ve added a button so you can link straight to the page you’re on.

Josh Wink – Counter Clock 319

Josh Wink – Don’t Laugh (Acapella)

Buy Counter Clock 319 on beatport

Josh Wink on myspace

It sounds like something from a sci-fi movie: mathematicians, having discovered a secret formula behind all good music, are able to produce powerful dancefloor destroyers using only mathematical calculations.

According to beatport.com Mat Cooper is using some clever mathematical formula to create the all the melodies on his EP called ‘Harmonisch Serie’, named after the mathematical modelling research projet he is involved in.

Usually I love this kind of stuff and I don’t think there’s any doubt that there’s a mathematical formula behind the music, I just don’t understand why he decided to use the melodies his math project came up with to create techno? Why not “fluffy piano trance”? Or just a midi “piano”? When it comes to electronic music it is all about the sound and not the melodies, and if I understand this correctly, his math formula doesn’t choose drum samples for him. I doubt it picks compressors, effects or the EQ settings either. What I mean is, once you’ve come up with a melody for your track, you still have the other 90% left until it’s finished.

I’m not sure Mat Cooper is completely to blame though, he might just want to make electronic music and thought it would be fun doing it using the research he’s involved with. It could just be the first paragraph in the article on beatport which pisses me off.

Here’s some good music mixed by Josh Wink. ]]> http://thesundancekid.net/blog/2009/01/max-cooper-and-his-magic-music-formula/feed/ 0 http://thesundancekid.net/blog/2009/01/the-bulgarian/ http://thesundancekid.net/blog/2009/01/the-bulgarian/#comments Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:51:02 +0000 flat20 http://thesundancekid.net/blog/?p=91 Christmas and new years is over and I just came back from a crazy week in Sweden with nothing to show for it apart from a three day fever I came down with as soon as I got back to London. Three days in bed means three days wasted if you ask me, but at least I kept my head clear enough to crawl to the laptop, push play on winamp and make it back to bed again. What I’m trying to say is that I’m sorry for the lack of updates and I haven’t given up listening to music!

So, here’s one of my favorite producers, The Bulgarian. He’s got a quite identifiable crazy fidgety house sound, yet every one of his tracks seems so different from each other. Not sure how that works really, you better just listen for yourselves. Disfunktional Caterpillar is an all time favorite and the first of his tracks I heard. The bassline kills it!

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Larry Tee – I Love U (The Bulgarian Remix) [via FuckBadMusic.com]

Urban Monkeys – Disfunktional Caterpillar (The Bulgarian Remix)

the bug – run the place red (KiNK vs the bulgarian rerub)

konflict – messiah (le castle vania remix – the bulgarian 127 re-beat)

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http://myspace.com/thebulgariantracks

http://soundcloud.com/thebulgarian