Charles Fox » Main http://charlie.la my attempt to share what fuels me Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:08:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Big gig in Hollyweird: Opening the Honey Lounge in Avalon, March 5th, 9:30pm! http://charlie.la/main/big-gig/ http://charlie.la/main/big-gig/#comments Fri, 04 Mar 2011 04:39:04 +0000 Charles Fox http://charlie.la/?p=669 Hey Team!

Hope you’ve been happy, healthy, and listening to good music! It’s been ages but this weekend is such a big opportunity for my musical career that I had to get over my spam anxiety and reach out to my friends for support. I miss you guys and feel a bit shy about this mode of reconnection, but sincerely: I’d love to see your faces and conquer the upcoming weekend with your help.

Saturday, March 5th I will be DJing the opening timeslot for Honey Lounge inside of club Avalon in Hollywood from 9:30pm to 11pm.
Joining me will be my incredibly talented friend Dory and another professional DJ named Jay-You in Honey Lounge while the main room features grammy award-nominated Morgan Page and an afterhours set by house music legend Donald Glaude. The Honey Lounge will close at 4am but the main room should go until well after sunrise…

I apologize for the late notice I’m giving you and I realize that not everybody is free (or even in town) but this dream come true will be even better with you there! 9:30 is super early, but there will be an open bar during my set and you’ll still have plenty of time to handle your other plans ;)
If you rsvp, cover should only set you back $15 if you arrive before 10pm and $20 before 11pm.

Avalon has featured everybody in the entertainment world in the 80+ years it has been open including Sasha, Digweed, and every other big DJ to various musical talents like Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Nine Inch Nails, The Beastie Boys, Madonna and even Judy Garland. Come check out the amazing venue and get down to the deep sexy tech-house I will be playing as respite from the higher-energy main-room circus. Bring some friends for us to meet or some electronic neophytes and connoisseurs as the Honey Lounge will be a perfect introduction to my deep house soundscapes.

You can find a flyer for the event below as well as links to RSVP for discounted entry:


http://giantclub.com/blasts/030511_la.html
 http://charlie.la/rsvp

I really have all kinds of good news to tell you like my new job at Shaboom Records and the launch of my new 4-hour podcast series but I’ve felt swamped by the idea of messaging everyone or anxious that a newsletter would be unwelcome if I didn’t set up a new mailing list. If you’re interested in hearing more about these things, winning giveaways on my radio show, or hearing about badass events could you please sign up for my mailing list at the bottom of http://charlie.la ? I’m rather hypersensitive to the idea of humping you with unwanted musical love so please be patient with me as I get the list situated. Enjoy this pre-release copy of my first podcast episode and my 2010 epic “Mucho Gusto” as a token of my thanks!
http://charlie.la/ef001/
http://charlie.la/music/mixes/mucho-gusto/
 When’s the last time somebody gave you nearly 10 hours of their absolute favorite music? Don’t worry, I’ve got hundreds more and I’m always interested in feedback so hit me up or leave some comments on the page!

Thank you all again for your encouragement over the years and for spending the time to read through this excited technobabble

Take care and I hope to see you Saturday night,
Charlie

]]> http://charlie.la/main/big-gig/feed/ 1 EF003 – February 22, 2011 http://charlie.la/main/ef003-february-22-2011/ http://charlie.la/main/ef003-february-22-2011/#comments Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:23:39 +0000 Charles Fox http://charlie.la/?p=603 Charles Fox here, hittin you with another fresh dose of Electronic Frequencies!
I’m currently in the mix and on the air @ http://UCLAradio.com so get over there and click Listen Live for a ladle of love.

Here’s the running tracklist:

  1. Gorge – Erotic Soul Feat. the Writers Poet
  2. Evan Evans – Repitition (Art Of Tones Remix) [Part Seven]
  3. Bescheerer – Even Odds (Original Mix)
  4. The Gathering – In My System (Soul Minority Remix)
  5. Addex feat Ocean Gaya – Voyage (Forteba Remix)
  6. Round Table Knights feat. Ogris Debris - Say What (Ogris Debris Dub) [Made To Play]
  7. Tube And Berger – Fog Head (Louis Osbourne & Jamie Anderson Remix)
  8. Bescheerer – Lettuce Be Cereal (Edmund Remix)
  9. Metodi Hristov – The Sen Sei (Bescheerer UK Mix)
  10. Veitengruber – Last Train (Helmut Dubnitzky Remix)
  11. Radiohead – Everything In Its Right Place
  12. Radiohead – My Iron Lung (Yamil Colucci Unofficial Remix)
  13. Lo - Fear (Manuel Romero Remix)
  14. Philippe Autuori – Redemption (Peace Division Remix)
  15. Jozhy K – Tamango (Jean Jeak Remix)
  16. Manik – Keep that Fresh (Original Mix)
  17. Secret Cinema - Timeless Altitude (Egbert’s Tijdloze Hoogte Remix)
  18. Alex Sosa – A New Bohemio (Original Mix)
  19. Shonky – Le Velour
  20. Marc Romboy and Stephan Bodzin – Atlas (Gui Boratto Remix)
  21. Sezer Uysal & Evren Ulusoy – At Night (Karol XVII & MB Valence Remix)
  22. Robytek & Shield – Right Thing [Downtown Soul]
  23. Maxie Devine & Veenus – Vowels (The Timewriter Remix)
  24. Dead Seal – Oklearence (Marc Smith Remix)
  25. Robytek & Shield – Right Thing [Downtown Soul] Maxie Devine & Veenus – Vowels (The Timewriter Remix)
  26. Dead Seal – Oklearence (Marc Smith Remix)
  27. Jimmy Somerville – Bright Thing (Robert Dietz Remix)

For the second half of tonight’s show, we’ve got DJ Dory with a live-recording from the Compound in San Francisco. She and Desyn Masiello melted hearts, minds, and makeup that night for “Gallop Sessions 04″ thanks to Listed Productions. Dory’s set was truly one of the highlights of the 2010 Love Fest weekend.

Head over to Dory’s homepage and facebook to learn more and stay in the know!

Also on a need to know: Dory and I will be playing the Honey Lounge with Jay-You inside of Avalon March 5th 2011 and would love your support! Check out the flyer below and sign up to RSVP!

RSVP HERE

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Nowadays, And.ID is known for his one-man ensemble of techno, house, jazz, and bossa nova music which he harnesses for Mobilee Records. Please enjoy the following interview I recorded with the gentleman in anticipation of his visit to the states.

Join him, Anja Schneider, and Ralf Kollmann on September 11, 2010 to celebrate the 5 year anniversary of the record label as they bring Hi-Five Mobilee World Tour to Los Angeles @ The Ecco in Hollywood. Click here for event information & ticket sales

And.ID on MySpace

Mobilee Records

And.ID’s newest release, “Isalos”:
And.Id – Isalos by Mobilee records

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Download (Right Click and Save Link As)



I get things started though with the following tracks the first hour:

  1. Masomenos – Indian Cowboy (feat. Firetongue)
  2. Andres Garcia – No More Tears
  3. Matthew Bandy – Far Away (Brother’s Vibe Remix)
  4. Maetrik – Relax
  5. Phonogenic & Sasse – Chi Chi (Wiretappeur Remix)
  6. Sebo K – Way Back [Off the new HiFive Mobilee]
  7. Atnarko feat. Nica Brooke – Solid Ground (Fred Everything’s Lazy Dub)
  8. Gabriele Baldi – All I Want
  9. And.Id – Ephoria
  10. Lee Van Dowski – The Variable Man
  11. GummiHz – Desire
  12. Pan-Pot – Charly

Moving forward, it’s time to dish up the exclusive mix Ralf Kollmann spun at my loft for UCLAradio.com and layer in the 20 minute interview he afforded.

The final hour I mixed live at the station to give you another  dosing of my love, here’s a listing of that sonic armada:

  1. Touane – The Band
  2. Pleasurekraft – Tarantula
  3. Men in Trees – Planet Calypso
  4. 2000 and One – Wan Poku Moro
  5. Marcin Czubala – Spinning The Roulette [Off the new HiFive Mobilee]
  6. Dan Curtin – Marsupial
  7. Super Flu – Oktavlachs
  8. Hermanez – Necotine
  9. Sebo K feat Max Moya – Spirits (Drum Version)
  10. Marcin Czubala and Hugo – Zoo Comunale
  11. Pan Pot – Happy Birthday [Off the new HiFive Mobilee]
  12. Robag Wruhme – Robadella
]]> http://charlie.la/main/special-mobilee-showcase-ralf-kollmann-interview/feed/ 1 A d&b introspectrum and a portal to the new albums from Trentemoller, Ewan Pearson, Digweed, and Ellen Allien http://charlie.la/main/a-db-introspectrum-and-a-portal-to-the-new-albums-from-trentemoller-ewan-pearson-digweed-and-ellen-allien/ http://charlie.la/main/a-db-introspectrum-and-a-portal-to-the-new-albums-from-trentemoller-ewan-pearson-digweed-and-ellen-allien/#comments Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:21:25 +0000 Charles Fox http://charlie.la/?p=277 Charles Fox – “The Spectrum” [2005]

01 – Lemon D – Back to Chicago
02 – Squarepusher – Lost in Space
03 – LTJ Bukem – Music
04 – Holdtight – Mr. Brown
05 – Craggz And Parallel Forces – Love Insane
06 – Adam F – Eightball
07 – Sub Focus – Scarecrow
08 – Dieselboy – Subculture (Dieselboy + Kaos VIP)
09 – Kaos + Karl K. – Street Knowledge
10 – Aphex Twin & Squarepusher – Port Rhombus
11 – Pendulum – Slam (A side)
12 – Prodigy – Voodoo People (Pendulum Remix)

Stay tuned as I open the giftwrap on new releases from Trentemoller, Digweed, Ellen Allien, and Ewan Pearson!

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I’ll be doling out the goods and spinning fresh tech-house during my weekly 4-hour Wednesday show, “Electronic Frequencies,” 10pm-2am PST on UCLAradio.com – Tune in and lock on!

Read more about these globe-trotting wizards on their MySpace and check out some of their tracks if you haven’t been introduced!

]]> http://charlie.la/main/bookashade-giveaway/feed/ 0 Bringin it massif! http://charlie.la/main/bringin-it-massif/ http://charlie.la/main/bringin-it-massif/#comments Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:13:31 +0000 Charles Fox http://charlie.la/2008/10/24/bringin-it-massif/ Congratulations to the winners of the ‘Fabulous’ in Las Vegas giveaway! I’ll be sure to post some pictures soon but for those of you who missed all the UCLAradio.com lovin, here’s a copy of the saved mix:

  1. Gui Boratto – Arquipelago
  2. Dubfunk – Eternal Rhapsody [George Delkos Remix]
  3. Dubfunk – Eternal Rhapsody [Erphun Remix]
  4. Pig & Dan – What Comes Around
  5. Mastiksoul – Moxi Yade Tatu
  6. Mastiksoul – Emergency
  7. Beta Blokka – Beta Blokka [Ali Perc Remix]
  8. Joris Voorn aka Rejected – Cliche
  9. Ferdy, DJ Rene – Legato [Hauswerks Remix]
  10. Style of Eye – Hide
  11. Chris Lake – Only One

Download the mix

]]> http://charlie.la/main/bringin-it-massif/feed/ 0 Kicking off a good year of mixes with an Axwell interview! http://charlie.la/main/kicking-off-a-good-year-of-mixes-with-an-axwell-interview/ http://charlie.la/main/kicking-off-a-good-year-of-mixes-with-an-axwell-interview/#comments Sat, 04 Oct 2008 03:25:55 +0000 Charles Fox http://charlie.la/2008/10/03/kicking-off-a-good-year-of-mixes-with-an-axwell-interview/ Fantastic news everybody! UCLAradio.com and a very, very good friend of mine helped set up an interview with a DJ named Axwell! A phenomenal producer, remixer, and DJ on his own, when he teams up with Steve Angello and Sebastian Ingrosso they’re known as the ‘Swedish House Mafia’ and the world has definitely taken notice. Half way into my set tonight I’m gonna play a long interview we did with Axwell, so in anticipation, i’m mixing 7 or so tracks that he either produced or remixed along with some ‘glue’…enjoy!

Here’s the scoop,

Mix of Axwell Tracks:

  1. Cloudkickers feat. Marcus – Bring On The Night (Rocco Trodeep Remix)
  2. Dirty South & Axwell – Open Your Heart (Vocal Mix)
  3. Magic Johnson feat. Boh Runga – Your Shadow
  4. Moby feat. Mylene Farmer – Slipping Away (Crier La Vie) (Axwell Remix)
  5. Faithless – Music Matters (Axwell Remix)
  6. Tim Davison – Smash & Grab
  7. Axwell – I Found U (Remode)
  8. Random Soul – Key To Soul (Jay-J’s re-tweeked edit)
  9. Axwell feat. Steve Edwards – Watch the Sunrise (Original Mix)
  10. C-Mos – 2 Million Ways (Axwell Remix

Axwell interview:

Techno Set:

  1. Kadebostan – 5:15AM
  2. Pan-Pot – Charly
  3. Kotatsu – Molecular Vibration (Original Mix)
  4. Dan Berkson – The Hollow (Original Mix)
  5. Jamie Jones – I Like You (Original Mix)
  6. Let’s Go Outside – I’ll Lick Your Spine (Repeat Repeat Remix)
  7. Ricardo Villalobos – Andruic [Sei Es Drum EP]
  8. Solar And Poppcke – Useless Beauty (Alex Niggemann Remix)
  9. Stimming – Danke
]]> http://charlie.la/main/kicking-off-a-good-year-of-mixes-with-an-axwell-interview/feed/ 2 Lemme pique your interest… http://charlie.la/main/lemme-pique-your-interest/ http://charlie.la/main/lemme-pique-your-interest/#comments Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:48:57 +0000 Charles Fox http://charlie.la/2007/12/26/happy-holidays-heres-something-for-you-all/ I’ve squatted on a number of interesting links for a good long while now, so let me blow your mind with this freakishly long list that I hope you have the patience to go through…seriously incredible stuff

lol, the last time I had a big list of links like this I had made for Sander Kleinenberg, he just got overwhelmed and never really had the time to go through em – give me a lil more credit than he did ok? Haha I know some of you “Digg”, or use reddit, or plenty of other aggregates, but well I’m being honest, some of these will stun you:

Geeky Shit:

http://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardLilyPad

LilyPad Arduino

Buy it

^^I just bought a set of LilyPad Arduino gizmos and I’m gonna get started on building a MIDI glove over break!

Previously I had wanted to put a piezo in my shoe with regular Arduino on my ankle with a Bluetooth module: then I’d have wireless toe-tapping to MIDI ;-)

Somebody else had a similar foot focus…

Automatic Projector Calibration – To think what this means for holograms and androids =D

Johnny Lee is a badass, here’s another two of his vids:

Make a virtual whiteboard out of ANY surface!

Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote –SOOOO COOL!

Beautiful projected art from a group of French artists

VVVV

vvvv is the visual programming framework that is blowing my mind right now…I really would love a career working with it and music. I’m dead serious.

Creators of vvvv

http://tonfilm.blogspot.com/2007/02/hd-video-rendering-with-realtime-fft.html

Gustavo Bravetti

http://tonfilm.blogspot.com/2007/02/hd-video-rendering-with-realtime-fft.html

http://www.looksgood.de/log/2007/02/03/seelenlose-automaten/

^^represents some of my ideas towards music/video synthesis…I find this example to be boring and rather ugly, but they show the link between music and video through MIDI. I plan on researching many many different methods of synthesis before I really pursue production so that I can better design the simultaneous generation

V-Scratch

VIP Club in St Tropez uses Arkaos Visual Synthesis and removed conventional lighting

Fishbowl Music!

With the rise in high-fidelity sampling and badass controllers…things are getting quite interesting

Some info behind the developments in Intel CPU technology

Monome is a very cool midi interface, but check out this kit towards saving a few hundred bucks
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=7835

DriveImage XML –lets you backup a drive partition progressively

http://www.instructables.com is a site that’s been around a while but not enough people know about! I love how random all the stuff is, one of my cousins wanted that “Dangerous Book for Boys” but he should just logon to instructables…

http://www.instructables.com/id/MintyBoost!—Small-battery-powered-USB-charger/

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-To-Fool-a-Fingerprint-Security-System-As-Easy-/

http://www.instructables.com/id/Torches-and-Firebreathing/

See what I mean? Everything from grandma’s recipes to apartment fixes to mischief…

Wave power market being developed in Cali

Translucent Concrete

Electricity over glass

I’m glad I don’t have so much free time on my hands that I scan vinyls to listen to them…but none the less…its pretty cool to read about :-)

Astronomy pictures of the year

A quick fix for all you PS3 owners to improve picture quality –gah I wish I had some disposable income to have this problem hehe
Using Yahoo Pipes to search websites:
http://www.witigonen.com/2007/10/29/how-actually-search-craigslist/

Artsy and random:

Amazing Light Artists – Make sure to watch their videos, Star Trek vs Star Wars is dope

Theo Jansen’s kinetic sculptures, they are stunning!!!

Intense macro photography of different insects

http://weburbanist.com/2007/06/11/urban-street-art-installation-projects-satirical-sophisticated-silly-sublime/

Absinthe is legal now…too bad it will prolly still taste like licorice shit ;-) I wasn’t a huge fan of our import last year…

one of the reasons why my wait for TimeWarner to install cable isn’t so bad:
http://www.alluc.org

and finally a cool surrealist my gf showed me a few months ago that i just found a link on my cluttered desktop for

Politics:

I don’t mean to push personals…my opinion is that if you just expose yourself to as many different sources of biased information or better yet, factual reporting, then hopefully you can stand in the middle of the polarized madness and reach some kind of awareness…don’t let me offend you guys, but I just wanted to share the following:

Scary but true

This seems to coincide with the FBI news…

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/21/AR2007122102544_pf.html

If we’re starting to laud the lawyers…sheesh

Bush is a liar. Call it like it is.

Wow…did you honestly get through all that? Well then, peep this:

www.charlie.la/sander

Thanks for puttin up with all my ranting, I’m just excited and love to share ideas. Please, please send me stuff that intrigues you! whatever it may be!

Take care,

Charlie

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