New studio mix coming soon

I think it's about time for another new one, so expect a new Autonomic studio mix probably next week at the beginning of the month.  Plenty of upfront music to showcase in this one from myself, Vaccine, Consequence, DJG etc.

Also, while I'm on the mix tip, it might be time for Deep Space 14, but I'm not gonna set any deadline for that one!

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LP Update - Test press status

Test presses for the LP are in, which means I can tell you the confirmed listing for the vinyl side of things.

NONPLUS006 - LP Sampler

a1 - Phobos

a2 - Oort Cloud

aa - Matter Of Time

NONPLUSLP001

Plate 1

a - Absent Mind

b - Fade Away Seasons (feat. Consequence)

Plate 2

c - Lost For Words

d - The Depths

Plate 3

e - The Ubiquity Incident

f - Opus (feat. Vaccine)

The cuts sound great.  Thanks again to Beau at Masterpiece for a great job.  I should also point out that the 2 tracks on one side of NONPLUS006 is nothing to worry about.  Oort Cloud is a 2 min ambient outro which follows Phobos, which is roughly 6 mins, so don't worry about any suffering to the quality of the vinyl for that side.  More info about everything else real soon.

Autonomic..nomic..nomic...

828 probs

As you may well know from my post the other day, I picked up a MOTU 828 MkII USB2.0.  Now usually, after everything I've read about Firewire vs USB2, I'd have gone with the Firewire unit, but the price was too good to turn down, so I thought I'd take a gamble.  It was most certainly that for a while.

First of all, I had trouble getting rid of the M-Audio drivers still on the studio comp and I had a feeling that perhaps they were interfering with things and may have been the cause of the sound just cutting out completely from the MOTU.  This wasn't the case.  I then found out that you need XP SP3 minimum to run the 828 on.  I had XP SP2 still on my studio machine - if it ain't broke etc.

In the end, I took the leap of faith and went to Windows 7, but the problem still persisted.  I'd get around about 8 mins max from the MOTU before the sound just dropped out completely and I had no idea what was causing it.  After researching similar problems, I tried isolating the unit on the USB2 hub on my comp with nothing else attached, as this seemed to be a solution for some people.  Nope.  Didn't work.  I then installed the drivers on my net machine, which still has XP SP3 on and the MOTU had no problems at all.  Weird.  Both my machines have VIA chipset USB, which is what MOTU recommends for use with the 828, but for somehow the studio comp just didn't want to know.

So anyway, to cut a long story short, I ended up grabbing a Dynex DX-2C2P 2 port USB2.0 PCI card, installing it on the studio comp, making sure there was no IRQ sharing/conflict issues and now the MOTU is running fine.  I figured I'd post this up for anyone else who may have got the USB2.0 version of this interface and is having any sort of similar problems.  This might be the solution for you also.  Good luck!

James Zabiela

First of all, 'Porcelain' is featured on the new Renaissance Masters series mixes by Zabiela, called Life. More info here:

http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=11741

And from this weekend just gone, he dropped a luscious Essential Mix for BBC Radio 1, in which he featured an older track of mine called 'Floating Point':

http://elbo.ws/post/2450564/james-zabiela-essential-mix-bbc-radio-1-03042010/

Halcyon Rays on Mary Anne Hobbs' BBC Radio 1 show tonight

You can hear a new 140bpm track of mine tonight on Mary Anne Hobbs' show on BBC Radio 1 tonight.  Tune in at 02:00 - 04:00 GMT for all sorts of electronic goodness.

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