Friday 18 December 2009: Hard Dance Brisbane (Hardstyle)

My second HDB appearance, this time is going to be even harder! I’m going to absolutely blow the place away with some deep dark driving hardstyle then on to some more melodic nu-style towards the end. My good friend DJ Julianu is also playing on the night, make sure you come down and check it out

Saturday 02 Jan 2009: Arvo Funké @ Birdee Num Num (funky house)

Arvo Funke is a new open decks afternoon at Birdee Num Num, they welcome all style that are fused with funk. The event runs from 3-9pm so its the ideal saturday pre-drinks type setup. (its even got a pool/spa). This is the chance for me to go back to one of my old genres, funky house. It really is a very smooth and melodic and funky (derr) genre… remeniscent of a time when not all music was banging out full force!!!

Friday 29 Jan 2009: PHD @ Planet (Hard Trance)

This is the most exciting night to hit Brisbane in as long as i can remember! On tour once again PHD (my old shuffling ground) will be here to rock the planet for one night only. Bringing Soul-T (PHD, Melbourne) and S-Dee (Sydney) to our small hard dance scene. The night is guaranteed to satisfy the needs of any hard dance fan. I’ll be playing outside and getting down with some hard trance, come along, lets get MESSY!!!!!

Here is what i have been working on lately… I think it really takes into account the lessons i have learnt about music theory and song structure.

I have really branched out into synthesising my out sounds to make my songs more personal to me.

I hope to revisit this song a little later and fix it up

Groovewell (http://pretensionmusic.blogspot.com/)

Yeah very cool mate. That’s a pretty solid riff you’ve got there. It could use some variation however.

The drums you’ve got there are sounding good. Gated snare awesome but there is definitely room for more percussion. that would help to fill it out a bit more and keep it interesting.

countermelodies are working well too. Nice arrangement.

Toilet Trained (http://soundcloud.com/moth-hunter)

I like the sounds you have got there.

I would put some off-beat hats in there to get the off beat groove going better. in fact i would develop the percussion a bit more actually get a bit of variety

In terms of general composition, it felt a bit..well bitty, in the sense i felt it could have built more to slightly more obvious peak. i think if you added some percussive elements to get the song going you could restructure it a little bit.

But, thought production was good, liked the vibe

LifeOnMTV (http://soundcloud.com/machinetooloperation)

acid fuck yeah

yeah the drums could use some work, as mentioned above, i was expecting an offbeat hat and some shakers and stuff hahaha i know it’s cliche, but its effective in getting the groove going.

nice ideas in there, dark at first then not so dark, even a bit festive in some parts.

nice work man

Thierry01 (http://soundcloud.com/thierry-le-dj)

Sounds good i like the acid sound you introduce through out the track sound great for the dance floor but i can’t really hear the Hats i would say rise them up a little..but other than that its really good

Latest Mix:

Beniii – Makes you wonder

Jordy Lishious – 1up (Original Mix)
Orli & Martie – White Flower (Jerome Ismae Remix)
Martijn Ten Velden – Together (Original Mix)
Jorgensen, Bsd – I Don’t Care (Deadmau5 Remix)
Jon Flores – Dreams (Original Mix)
Young Rebels, Eddie Thoneick, Francesco Diaz – Perfect Moment (Radio Edit)
Adam K, Soha – Who Cares (Original Club Mix)
Shallowgrave – Lakeshore Drive (Original Mix)
Rouzbeh Delavari – Think Inspiration (Christian Cambas Remix)
Criminal Vibes – Caribe (Matteo Marini Remix)
Rapsoul – Tanz In Die Nacht (Niels Van Gogh Instrumental Mix)
Matteo Marini – I Never Find (Original Mix)
Yammy Yammy Toyz – Metropool (Original Mix)

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Hi Guys,

Playing my debut HARDSTYLE tonight at Hard Dance Brisbane, hope you can come along!!!! Support Hard Dance in Brisbane, its the only club that plays Hard dance ALL NIGHT!!!!

Here is the update from HDB facebook: (thanks DJ breakmaker)

Hi everyone how are we all? Sorry about the last minute update this week, but everything has now been finalized so here’s the latest HDB news!

Our guest for this week is DJ TechOne/ Beniii(aka Benjamin Doyle).

Benjamin Doyle plays diverse styles in electronic music. He has been playing electro with the name of Beniii down at the Gold Coast supporting some big names in the business such as Kid Kenobi.. however! This young ex-soldier has got alot more to offer than electro.

When it comes to playing his favorite genre hardstyle, he goes by his alias DJ TechOne.

Living on the Gold Coast and starting up his DJing career there, Ben had no choice but to play electro to score gigs around his area. He has played in front of a big crowd many times keeping the punters happy and dancing all night.. He’s now ready for a change, a change to follow his passion and to conquer his goal: To make a name for himself in the hard dance scene.

Come and see/ dance your ass off to this young DJ’s debut hardstyle set @ HDB tomorrow night!

*Links to Ben’s pages:
Benjamin Doyle–> http://www.facebook.com/djbeniii
Beniii(Fan Page)–> http://www.facebook.com/djbeniii?ref=mf#/Deejaybeniii
Beniii(His own website with his mixes on there)–> http://beniii.com/

*Few more news for this week!:

1. DJ Akajik is now an official resident @ HDB every Friday night as of this week! we all know how hard she goes.. so bring some baby powder and tape up your shoes, or else you won’t be able to keep up!

2. Breadmaker this week is playing one of his favorite styles in music of all times, happyhardcore!

For those of you who was planning to have a quiet Friday night or was going to go head out else where, think again! you’d kick yourself in the teeth if you missed out on this night!

Set times for this week:

9-11 Akajik
11-1 Kazuki
1-3 TechOne
3-5 Breadmaker (Happyhardcore)

Thanks very much for taking your time to read this notice guys! We really hope to see you there!

The HDB Team

Tracklist:
SMF vs. Bas&Ram – MDMA
Refresh – A Step Too Far (Original Extended)
Brian M & Dark By Design – No One Can Hear You
Dozer – The Church Of The Darkside
D-block & S-te-fan – Music Made Addict
Hardforze Vs Soul T – Let The Beat Drop
Headhunterz – Just Say My Name

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Beniii – This is Beniii
This is a mix of non-vocal house with a few flavours thrown in there. It really is a a whole lot of songs that i have grown to like over my time as a DJ. I hope you like the selection, it has some real solid tunes inside.

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Tracklist:

Michael Jackson – Thriller (laidback luke remix)
D.Ramirez and Mark Knight – Columbian Soul
Jurgen Pappe – Take That (Drive Remix)
Eric Prydz – Pjanoo (DJ Max-A Remix)
The Prodigy – Breathe (Mike Kastenholt Remix)
Surkin – White Knight Two (Laidback Luke Remix)
Robot Needs Oil – Volta (Oliver Giacoomotto Remix)
Sunfreakz – Counting Down The Days (Axwell non-vocal Remix)
Nick Coleman – Faces of Meth (T-Rek Remix)
Federico Franchi – Cream (Pure Two Remix)
Mark Knight and Funkagenda – Man with the Red Face (Bjarf Whistler Mix)
Justice – Phantom Part II (Boys Noise Remix)

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New Remix – Fat Boy Slim – Praise You (Beniii Remix)

Was playing around with some sounds, found this song… Decided to put my own touch on it.

Let me know what you think

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Check it out, it’s my new DJ profile, check it out.

Basically this is just a remix i did to test out a few ideas and try to figure out how some of the top artists make their sounds.

How it started was, i listened to it on my ipod on the train. Got home and got the chords off a tutorial. Transferred them to ableton, using superwave p8 synth for most of it.

Took around 6 hours. What do you think? Given that it’s bascially my first and i didn’t spend to much time on it?

Eric Prydz – Pjanoo (beniii remix) -Mixed and Mastered

Some feedback on the track:

Fig Smiff (inthemix.com.au – Forum user):

hey man i love this really good work [= do you have anymore ?

Thierry01 (inthemix.com.au – Forum user):

fuck yeaaa this is awesome!
i really like the hiphop type of sample
and the white noise building just before that cymbal and the piano come’s back in…
this is very good.

Drapey (inthemix.com.au – Forum user):

wow, im pretty impressed by this! sounds nice, love those vocal cuts. Good work!