Heat Check

Heat check is a minimal-esque techno set mixed live using TraktorScratch.  If you are not familiar with this software, it allows you to mix digital files (usually from a laptop) using turntables and special timecode vinyl records.  

What separated TraktorScratch from other similar set-ups such as Serato ScratchLive and FinalScratch is that it supported real-time key changing allowing you to blend not only beats, but key signatures.  This is actually one of the most appealing features to me when mixing since I like to have control over the key progression during a set.Having done a few prior mixes using Ableton Live, this live set was literally a heat check of my deck chops.  It is also the last mix recorded before storing the 1200s away to make room for a new member of our family - my son, who was born exactly a week later this recording.

Track list:

Mark Henning - Ring of Fire - Trapez
Gui Boratto - Matryoshka - Kompakt
Andomat 3000 & Jan - Entr'acte Music - Cadenza
James What - Mesatennis - Sounderground
Gaetano Parisio - Untitled A (Adagio C) - Adagio
Sian - Forming The Pearl - Octopus Digipack
Teflon - The Wombat - Rebel One
Samuel L Session - Smokestack (SLS Remix 1) - Klap Klap
Jerry Abstract - Mudtsmut - Shitkatapult
Surgeon - Klonk 2 - Dynamic Tension
Mark Broom - Twenty Nine (Black Mix) - BPitch Control
Patrick Skoog - The Distance - Drumcode
Samuel L Session - Velvet (Alex Bau Remix) - One Off
Gabriel Ananda - Trommelstunde - Karmarouge
Par Grindvik - Do Us Apart - Drumcode
Rino Cerrone - Rilis 06B2 (Gaetano Parisio Remix) - Rilis
Andreas Mugge - Grand Slam - Punkt Music
Shlomi Aber - Freakside - Ovum
Christian Smith & John Selway - Lightning Strike (Agaric Remix) - CSM
Alex Under - Untitled 2 (Multiplicanciones) - Apnea