DJ Hardy

I’ve been the Friday night resident DJ at The Hills Bar & Grille in Rochester Hills, MI since they opened doors for business back in 2007. It’s a great upscale venue that caters to a nice group of clientele with some great dishes and a variety of beverages on their menu until 2 AM. Having said all that, here’s a short 30 minute mix that gives you a sample of what you can expect to hear there:

Live At The Hills – Part 1 (Uptempo Dance + Classics)

And with last night being the first anniversary of Michael Jackson’s death, I decided to close out the night with a little tribute set. This includes some of my favorite MJ songs and was done spontaneously with any pre-planning involved:

Michael Jackson Tribute Megamix

Hope to see some of you on a Friday night in Rochester Hills!

Here it is, this year’s version of my annual Frequency mix! I started doing this mix-CD for my Saturday night residency at Necto nightclub in 2007. My good friend and former resident at Necto, DJ Binzo, also released a couple of these CDs before he moved on to bigger and better things. Over 600 copies of this CDs are distributed for free each year, as a “thank you” to our regular patrons who have made Frequency Saturdays such a monumental success.

For more than five years, we have been sold out and packed every Saturday night. And that is quite a feat! We are a relatively big nightclub in a college town that loses thousands of students every summer when they return to their hometowns. We are located in a state where the winters are brutally cold and you can’t escape snow between mid-November and April. The unemployment rate is over 15%, which tops the nation. Despite all these factors, we have the most loyal and amazing group of people who have kept this night going strong, and the end is nowhere in sight. I have to also say thanks for the hard work and support to the staff at Necto – club’s owners, managers, bartenders, bar-backs, doormen and the maintenance staff – for making it such a great place to work!

Having said all that, here is the link to the mix (right-click on the picture to save the mp3 to your desktop):

Tracklist

Mike Posner – Cooler Than Me (Gigamesh Remix)
Katy Perry ft. Snoop Dogg – California Gurls
Pitbull ft. Trick Daddy – City Of Gods
Kennedy – Karate
Shakira vs. Afrojack – Give It To Me (Scene Bootleg)
Major Lazer vs. Harold Faltermeyer – Pon De Foley
Black Eyed Peas – Rock That Body
Dondria ft. Jermaine Dupree & Chuckie – You’re The One
Basement Jaxx – Jump n’ Shout
Gramophonedzie – Why Don’t You
Bingo Players – When I Dip
Lady Gaga ft. Beyonce – Telephone (Starving DJs Remix)
La Roux – Bulletproof
The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army
Usher ft. Will.I.Am – OMG
Gucci Mane – Lemonade (Scene Remix)
Steve Aoki ft. Zuper Blahq & LMFAO – I’m In The House (Seven Fiddy Edit)
Jimmy 2 Times – Errbody Drunk
DJ Bam Bam ft. Robotic – Watch The Club Go
Black Box – Strike It Up (Scooter & Lavelle Edit)
Wynter Gordon – Dirty Talk (Laidback Luke Remix)
Kesha ft. 3oh3 – Blah Blah Blah (Skeet Skeet Mix)
Pascal & Pearce – Disko Biskit
Nicki Minaj ft. Lil Wayne – I Get Crazy
Fresh Prince ft. DJ Jazzy Jeff – Book Shake The Room
Big Boi – Shutterbug
Soul II Soul – Back To Life
Diddy ft. T.I. – Hello Good Morning
Drake – Find Your Love
B.O.B. ft. Bruno Mars – Nothing On You
Wale ft. Lady Gaga – Chillin’
M.I.A. – Paper Planes
B.O.B. ft. Hayley Williams – Airplanes
Jaime Foxx ft. Justin Timberlake – Winner Remix
Chiddy Bang – Opposite Of Adults
MGMT – Kids
Clinton Sparks ft. DJ Class & Jermaine Dupree – Favorite DJ
Lady Gaga – Alejandro (Afrojack Remix)
David Guetta ft. Kid Cudi – Memories (FMIF Remix)
Uffie ft. Pharrell – ADD SUV (Armand Van Helden Remix)
Calvin Harris – I’m Not Alone

This mix was done in one shot. There is no multi-tracking involved. Feel free to pass this around to your friends and post it on facebook and twitter. Thank you!

-Hardy

A couple of songs I’m diggin’ right now. I did simple edits for these, as usual, to fit my mixing needs. Feel free to download and pass it on to other DJs.

Gyptian – Hold Yuh (Major Lazer Remix – DJ Hardy Edit)

Gyptian – Hold Yuh (DJ Hardy Short Edit)

Jump Smokers – Dance, Rock, Shake, Pop (DJ Hardy Acap Intro)

-Hardy

I hope everyone is having a great long weekend and all my local friends have gotten a chance to visit DEMF.

I’d like to share a mix I did last summer for a local gym. It’s mostly house music with some mainstream dance tracks squeezed in occasionally.

BFit 2009 Mix (Right-Click and select ‘Download As’)

To all those who served + all those who lost loved ones serving, thank you for your sacrifice.

-Hardy

I posted on my facebook page last week about this song I’m really digging at the moment! It’s called “Opposite Of Adults” by Chiddy Bang. Check it out here:

And it samples another one of my favorite songs in recent years – “Kids” by MGMT:

I decided to do a quick (and obvious) transition from the Chiddy Bang song to the MGMT version. Download it for free: KIDS ARE THE OPPOSITE OF ADULTS

It’s been a while since I posted a mix for you all, so just wanted to share this little mix from last Saturday night at Necto!

Right-click this link and select ‘Save-As’:

Live At Necto – May 8th, 2010

It’s mostly some house, electro-house and a bit of pop music at the tail-end. The first 30-40 minutes include some of my favorite songs at the moment. I hope you enjoy it!

UPDATE:

TRACK LIST

Afrojack – I’ll Be There
MC Flipside – In The Zone
Hatiras & MC Flipside – Autograph
Yolanda, Be Cool & D Cup – We No Speak Americano
Jean Claude Ade and Vincent Thomas ft. Sam Obernik – Shingaling
Bingo Players – Devotion
Mansion – Gasaida
Danny Tenglia vs. Klaas – This Time Music Is The Answer (DJ Dan/Mike Balance Mix)
Switch – Grace (Laidback Luke)
Robb Matthias – Up In
Black Box – Strike It Up (Scooter & Lavelle Mix)
Funkagenda – What The Fuck (Scotty Boy & DJ Red Remix)
2 Step (Dj Scene House Edit)
Favorite DJ
Evacuate The Dancefloor
La La La (The Girls Can Hear Us Remix)
Let Me Think About It
Let Me Think About 1999
Put Your Drinks Up – Kardinal Offishall Remix
Just Dance – Trevor Simpson Edit
Let The Bass Kick
Like To Freak (DJ Bam Bam Remix)
I Gotta Feeling
Ghosts N’ Stuff
Birthday Sex
Too Much Booty Anthem
Disturbia
California Gurls
Right Round
Get Get Down
If U Seek Amy
Memories

Just uploaded this for a few friends. Added intro/outro and turned the short silence during the hook into a little build-up using a short loop and reverb.

DJ Khaled ft. T-Pain, Ludacris, Rick Ross, Snoop Dogg – All I Do Is Win (DJ Hardy Edit)

Feel free to pass it around.

UPDATE: The OSC template download doesn’t work well with my web host for some reason. You can email dvdjhardy at gmail.com to get a copy.

If you are like most people, you were a little disappointed with the features – or a lack thereof – with the new iPad that was released earlier this month. I felt the same way, and didn’t give any serious consideration to buying it. However, once I realized the potential of using the iPad as a touch-screen MIDI controller, I decided to try one out. So I picked one out about 3 weeks ago and within 3 days I had an app called ‘TouchOSC’ running as my main MIDI controller for Scratch Live. Here are the screen shots of 3 pages I’m using:

First image includes 5 cue points, 5 auto-loops, 2 loop-rolls, a ‘jump-to-loop’, instant double, and load button for each side. The middle includes library browsing and a button to add track selections to your prepare list. I picked these features and design to fit my needs. Its safe to say this will be different from one person to the next, because we all have our unique preferences for features within Scratch Live.

The second image includes options to control any 6 audio effects available in Scratch Live. Everything here is pretty self-explanatory. On a some-what unrelated note, the audio effects are synced with the effects in VSL in 2.0! Pretty awesome.

Similar to the image above this, I assigned the controls on the 3rd page to select video effects and transitions. I also assigned the faders for video control.

Here’s a brief video of me using the iPad to control Scratch Live:

Here’s a brief tutorial about how to set-up this up on your iPad – or iPhone/iPod Touch if you choose:

1. Download an application called ‘TouchOSC’ on your device. ($4.99)

2. Download the TouchOSC Editor – touchosc-editor-1.2-osx.zip

3. Download my template for TouchOSC (for the iPad only) – http://iknowhardy.com/Share/DJHARDY-SERATO.touchosc

4. Open that template in TouchOSC Editor, and sync it to your iPad. To do this:

-Select the ‘Sync’ button in TouchOSC Editor

-Open TouchOSC and go to the Layout menu

-Under Add, you will see TouchOSC Editor listed as a host.

-Select this and and your new layout will be available in TouchOSC

5. Download an application called Osculator on your computer: http://www.osculator.net/download/

This is the app that converts the signal sent by TouchOSC (Open Sound Control) into a MIDI signal. Keep in mind that Osculator is shareware, but unless you donate the minimum of $19 (I suggest the full $39), you will get a pop-up message every few minutes asking you to donate and when this happens, there is no signal being sent to Scratch LIve. So…make sure you donate at least $19 and you will get an activation code.

6. Use my template for Osculator to save yourself some trouble: Serato-DJHARDY (Right-click, save to your desktop  and open the file in Osculator). You will need to have this file open every time for Serato to recognize commands from your iPad.

7. Open Scratch Live and make a new MIDI template. Assign these controls as you would with any MIDI controller.

If you have any questions, please post in the comments section below so the answers will be visible to anyone else with the same questions.

And on a barely related note, here’s a little video about ‘ToneTable’, an application for iPhone/iPod Touch being developed by Inklen. It will be available for the iPad in the near future!

-Hardy

Hey people! Check out a couple of remixes I uploaded to Gigawax and feel free to pass it along to those who may be interested in these remixes. Thanks for your support!