DJ Tony Z is back with another slammin’ Netmix Global House Podcast for November 2011. This mix strays from the underground, with a more uptempo popular flavor defined by a big room sound and anthemic, female and male vocals. This is one of the best Netmix podcasts to date. We know you’ll love it.

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• Paul Kalkbrenner – Sky In Sand feat. Kalkbrenner
• Nalin, Kane – Beach Ball – (Joris Voorn Remix)
• Maya Jane Coles – Simple Things (Original Mix)
• Timo Garcia, Amber Jolene – Lady Luck City Lights (Solee Remix)
• Kolombo – I’m On Your Side (Kruse Nuremberg Remix)
• Pezzner – Tarareando feat. Terry Grant (Vocal Mix)
• J. Axel – Every Part of the World (Club Mix)
• Daso, Pawas – El Paso (Yapacc Remix)
• Motorcitysoul – Ushuala (Deetron Remix)
• Funk D’Void – Flealife (Christian Smith Remix)
• Butch – Amnesia Haze (Original)
• Paralleles – Eclosion (Nikoss Loves The Zone Remix)
• GusGus – Thin Ice (Martin Eyerer Vocal Mix)

*All tracks are available at Beatport.com.

After a long break, I’m back with a new 180-minute Netmix Global House Sessions Podcast. Has it been a year already? I guess so. Life kind of got in the way. I’m brushing off the laptop cobwebs and putting together a hot mix for the holidays.

There are 29 tracks in this mix, which is approximately 3 hours and 8 minutes. I inadvertently used Lukas Greenberg’s “A New System” twice. I don’t know what I was thinking, but enjoy it two times around, because it is a slammin track!

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Netmix Global House Sessions Podcast Track Listing for 12-2009

1. No Turning Back – Original Mix – Gui Boratto – Kompakt
2. Libellules – Original Mix – Agoria – InFine Music
3. Praise You – Fatboy Slim vs. Fedde Le Grand Remix – Fatboy Slim, Fedde Le Grand – Skint Records
4. Feels Like I’m Dancin – Ahmet Sendil Remix – Ahmet Sendil, Sivana – Bazooka
5. 73 Tomtom Avenue – Jimpster Mix – Jimpster, David K – Tsuba
6. The Rhythm Track – Jimpster Remix – Jimpster, Milton Jackson – Freerange Records
7. A New System – Lukas Greenberg ‘Drift’ Mix – Ross Couch, Lukas Greenberg – Body Rhythm Records
8. Stoppage Time – Reshuffle Remix – Guy Gerber, Niv Hadas – Bedrock Records
9. Dance Bits – Original Mix – Tek DiLuxe – Overline Records
10. Acid – Lost In Acid Ausfahrt Mix – David Tort – Strictly Rhythm
11. Good Life – Original Mix – Kim Fai – Size Records
12. I Like House Music – Original Mix – DJ PP – Soulman Music
13. I’m Gonna Get You – Remix – Bizarre Inc. – S2
14. Rhythm Is A Dancer – Tee’s Mix – Snap – Arista
15. Rhythm Is A Dancer – Armand Van Helden Remix – Snap – N/A
16. Balearic – Original Mix – Submission DJ – Tribal Spain
17. Can I Get……?! – Matthias Meyer Remix – Matthias Meyer, Alex Niggemann – Supernature
18. That Feeling – DJ Chus 2010 Revisited Mix – DJ Chus, The Groove Foundation     Defected
19. Amalfino – Original Mix – Kaiserdisco – MBF
20. Wobble Night – Original Mix – Remerc – Greelpound
21. Je T’aime – Carlo Lio Mix – Kolombo, Carlo Lio – Hotfingers
22. Empty Trash – Original Mix – Joris Voorn – Rejected
23. A New System – Lukas Greenberg ‘Drift’ Mix – Ross Couch, Lukas Greenberg – Body Rhythm Records
24. Matter – Original Vocal Mix – Matteo Marini – Deeperfect Records
25. To The Six – Original Mix – Boom Jinx, Andrew Bayer – Anjunadeep
26. Who Dares To Believe In Me? – Martijn Ten Velden Remix – Martijn Ten Velden, The Believers – Strictly Rhythm
27. Joy – Original Mix – Butch – Bangbang!
28. Celebrate – Original Mix – Manuel De La Mare, Matteo Matteini – Hotfingers
29. Hidden Source – Original Mix – Daniele Papini – Break New Soil

From iHeartRadio.com comes these amazing video performances by Alicia Keys of singles, “Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart” and “Empire State of Mind Pt II”, from the upcoming album, The Element of Freedom.” The performance took place at the P.C. Richard & Son Theater in Tribeca. There are two song perfomances in this video widget, but if you wish to skip right to and play “Empire State of Mind,” click the Playlist tab and then click the play icon for that performance.

Having moved to NYC in 1996 to make live my dreams of success in the music business, the original with Jay-Z (YouTube video below) and now this live performance both deeply resonate with me. They remind me of how difficult it really is to make it in New York City. But, if you stay strong and on the grind you will make it, because dreams are made here. I’ve been listening to the original for weeks now on the radio or my iTunes. Having just left my full-time day job to focus more on Netmix and consulting, it’s been an anthem that has energized and inspired me to make a go of it and do what I love.

We’ve had odes to New York City before, but this one is different. It comes out of Hip-Hop, a genre of music born on the streets of the Bronx. With the rap lyrics in the original version delivered by Jay-Z, Hip-Hop’s king pin (move over Diddy), the song comes alive as a testament to the power of one’s self-motivated drive. Sure, there’s some chest-bumping ego going on too, but sometimes that’s the kind of attitude you need to have to move mountains.

The Element of Freedom, is slated for releases on December 15th, 2009. Pre-order your copy of The Element of Freedom at Amazon.com. DJs can get The Element Of Freedom on vinyl. For more info on Alicia Keyes, visit her web site.

Take a listen to the single “Dreamin”:  Alicia Keys – Dreaming – MP3WAXX

Here’s the famous duet on YouTube.

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Share your thoughts on the Alicia Keyes live performance of their duet video in the comments section. We’d love to know what you think.

DJ Tony Z is back with 3 hours of tech and progressive house, masterfully mixed using Ableton Live 6. Unfortunately, we’re not posting track listings for this mix. For bookings, contact djtonyz (at) netmix.com.

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Netmix Global House Mix Show for 11-2008 by DJ Tony Z

We’re back with a new podcast, Global House Sessions – August 2008. This exclusive podcast features tracks by Christian Smith, J Nitti, Sharam, Sweno N, Dubfire & Oliver Huntemann, Emilio Fernandez, Kaskade & Deadmou5, and Kevin Saunderson. Check out the hottest remixes of Chime, Born Slippy, and Rock To The Beat! All tracks are available through Beatport.com. Subscribe to the podcast to download.

Netmix Global House Podcast Track Listing

Netmix Global House Podcast for August 2008

• Rock To The Beat – Kevin Saunderson – Christian Smith & John Selway Remix
• Reynosa – Emilio Fernandez – Original Mix
• Diablo – Oliver Huntemann & Dubfire – Original Mix
• Chime – The Shapeshifters – Martin Ten Velden Remix
• Born Slippy – DJ Joe K and Beto Dias Remix
• I Begin To Wonder 2008 – Jean Claude Ades – Jerome Isma-Ae Remix
• Solid – Sweno N – Original Mix
• Space Time – Deadmau5 Vocal Mix – Mike Di Scala, Colin Airey
• Get Wild – Sharam – Steve Agnello Remix
• Deep Down feat. Shirley Davis – J Nitti – Original Mix

We are re-releasing this podcast from 01-02-06, which aired only on Netmix Internet radio but was never available for download through the new Netmix Podcast RSS feed.

There are not track listings for this podcast. Sorry

We are re-releasing this podcast from 04-01-06, which aired only on Netmix Internet radio but was never available for download through the new Netmix
Podcast RSS feed. There are no track listings for this mix. Sorry

After a few starts and stops, I’ve finally gotten around to finishing up my latest 3-hour mix show. Things have been hectic over the last few months and I just didn’t have the time to focus on it. But, it’s finally done!

I love the 3-hour format, because you can really stretch out and program a variety of tunes into the set. So, download to your desktop and transfer to your portable device—or simply just listen to it here.

I’ve also provided links to download each individual track from Beatport.com when available. I know I was hard on Beatport in the past, but the service finally got around to building out a text linking program through their partnerships with Linkshare, an affiliate network that provides companies with the tools to build out affiliate programs. I found most of the tracks, but there were a few I couldn’t track down. It might be because they are new and haven’t pushed an update to Linkshare yet. Beatport have also created an API through LinkShare, which I hope to use in the future. But for now, we’ll just keep it simple.

Would love to know what you think, so please come back and post your comments. Enjoy!

Track Listing:

1. Pianeep – Satoshi Fum | Beatport Download
2. Atlantic Deep – Christos Kessidis
3. No Te Vas feat. Angela Jones – Christos Kessidis| Beatport Download
4. Here Comes The Sun (Stryke’s Sunshine State of Mind Remix) – The Timewriter | Beatport Download
5. Not Exactly – Deadmau5 | Beatport Download
6. Faxing Berlin (Chris Lake Edit) – Deadmau5
7. Sweet Sensation – Satoshi Fumi, Deptech | Beatport Download
8. It’s Majik (Terry Lee Brown Jr Remix) – Gui Borratto | Beatport Download
9. Blonda (Funk D’Void Remix) – Shlomi Aber, Itamar Sagi | Beatport Download
10. Cosmic Force (Soul Minority Remix) – Andy Cato (Groove Armada) | Beatport Download
11. Do You Want it Right Now (Mischa Daniels Funktion Remix) – Degrees of Motion | Beatport Download
12. Toto – Brazen | Beatport Download
13. Twilight – Adam K, Soha | Beatport Download
14. Back In My Life feat. Fourfeet – Chuck Love | Beatport Download
15. Space Carnival (Global Communication’s Remix) – Azymuth | Beatport Download
16. I’m Not Afraid of The Future (Jimpster Mix) -Akabu | Beatport Download
17. Make It Move – Pete Moss | Beatport Download
18. Pass The Suntan Lotion (Nic Fanciulli Remix) James Talk | Beatport Download
19. Tribe – The Mulder | Beatport Download
20. World, Hold On feat. Steve Edwards (Wally Lopez Factomania Vocal Remix) – Bob Sinclair | Beatport Download
21. World, Hold On feat. Steve Edwards (Wally Lopez Factomania Dub Remix) – Bob Sinclair | Beatport Download
22. Can’t Let Me Down (JJK Remix) – George Morel, Romina Johnson
23. Don’t Go – PUZIQUe
24. Hydrology – Glenn Morrison | Beatport Download
25. Everybody’s Free feat. Rozalla (General Electric Mix) – Global Deejays
26. Toca Me (Inpetto 2008 Remix) – Fragma
27. Seka (Francesco Pico Remix) – AMB

After a long semester at NYU and the exciting events that have taken place at StarStyle over the past 6 months, I finally took some time to learn how to DJ with Ableton Live 6. The program is a mix show programmer’s dream. With it, you can either DJ live or you can use the sequencing feature to lay your tracks into the timeline. The software uses a feature called “warping” to identify and sync the beats from two different songs.

For many years, I refused to go from vinyl to CD. When CDs skip, it can cause a very ubrupt digital hiccup. It’s not something that I inherently trusted in a live environment. CD players rely on optics to read the discs. I always thought, correctly or not, that if the player wasn’t cleaned regularly, you’d have dirt accumulate on the lenses and cause a skipping problem. Not to mention, once a CD is scratched, it renders the technogy pretty much useless. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been in nightclubs and heard that awful sound.

A few years back, I’d seen a demo of Stanton’s Final Skratch in beta (before Stanton acquired the technology). I was impressed but had heard there were latency issues. I continued to play vinyl until Native Instruments released the first version of Traktor DJ. After that, I was hooked on digital DJing. You no longer needed to carry crates of records (I used to carry about 400 to 500 to my gigs), lug turntables or worry about CDs skipping. I really liked Traktor 2, but was unhappy with Traktor 3′s new software interface. They’d changed the pitch control from a fader to a knob. I think that was a big mistake. Unless you can assign the knob to a hardware interface, it’s hard to work with the knob using a mouse. I also noticed the the beat sync wasn’t as good as in the prior version.

I’d started to hear about a few DJs, like Sasha and David Waxman, who were using Ableton Live to mix. I’d got a copy of Live Lite 4 with an M-Audio firewire interface. I quickly realized there wasn’t much I could do with it, unless I converted all my mp3 tracks to wav. It wasn’t until Ableton 5 that MP3 was adopted as a supported format. A few weeks ago, I purchased Live 6 from B&H Photo on 34th Street (got a discount with my NYU student ID) and got started learning how to DJ with it. The manual doesn’t offer much real instruction, so I checked out YouTube.com, where I found a few video tutorials, which taught me how to warp my tracks and set up my mixer with M-Audio firewire DJ Mixer.

After a few stops and starts, I learned that I didn’t have to spend three hours at a sitting mixing my set. I could lay all the tracks in to the timeline and match or sync them. What a revelation! It became so simple to put together a set, which I’ve posted here. You can either listen by clicking the play icon or you can download the full set. At about 125 MBs, it’ll take about 25 minutes to download on a cable modem. Of course, you can also tune into Netmix Radio, where the show can be heard between 8pm and 11 pm, Mon. thru Fri.