Trav's Pre-Burn Disco Mix, 2010

I'm not going to Burning Man this year, but that doesn't mean I can't still play some tunes for you! I know the long journey from San Francisco to BRC can be much more pleasant with some music to pass the time, so I thought I'd throw some of the recent tracks I've been loving into a longish mix and pass it along.

It's 90 minutes, so won't fit on a regular CD unless you burn it as an MP3; fortunately most CD players now play MP3s.

Have a fun and safe burn, friends. Enjoy these tasty disco nuts.

(right click Save As to download) 2010 - Trav Lovely Disco.mp3

Trav DJ Mix from New Years day, BOC 2010

I looooove playing Breakfast Of Champions (BOC), and I love playing the opening set even more.  The eager ears and feet surround you, waiting for you to give them a sweet release they've been waiting for.  But for me it almost didn't happen this year!

Do you remember your excitement as a child, waiting for the day when
you would open your Christmas presents?  Getting the email about your
BOC DJ spot is a close second.  34 DJs around San Francisco were
foaming at the ears.  We'd all been told we would play, but at what
time?  which room?  Was I going to play a zipper-core set inside, or
big-gay-haus outside?

The lineup came out on  Dec 27th, and I didn't get a present.  No slot
for me -- how could this be?  I poked Andrea Loinstar about not having
a box to unwrap.  "WTF!  STFU!  NO WAY!  GTFO!"  was the immediate
response.  Somehow in all the planning I'd fallen off the roster.
Luckily in 5 minutes she made everything right again.  The Cowboys
decided to open up the outside an hour earlier and I would take the
opener slot.  I went from having no present at all to having the
biggest one under the tree -- I love opening at B.O.C.

This set perfectly captures the mood of my morning -- slowly breaking
the crowd in with some beautiful melodic Deadmau5, ramping up with
some soulful  house and funky breaks, and finally  peaking with some
classic breakbeats from 2003.

A hearty thank-you to Kevin Wardell for shedding his blood on the
conga drums, to the dancers up front for getting the crowd all worked
up, to Zach Moore for capturing it all & providing tech support (and
beer!), and to the Space Cowboys for throwing the best party of the
year.

Download here: Trav at BOC 2010.mp3

1 - Deadmau5 - Strobe (full length version)
2 - Oxia - Whole Life
3 - Butch - Disco Shhh
4 - Joey Negro, Akabu - Sax my Bitch Up (Audiojack remix)
5 - Disco Boots - Upside Down
6 - Dario Nunez, DJ Montxco - Zul
7 - Timewarp Inc - Break Up to the Sunshine
8 - Duck Sauce - aNYway
9 - DJ Stefunk - Everyone loves to dance (Timewarp Inc remix)
10 - Zeb - Afro Disco (Infraghandi & Chameleon Selekta remix)
11 - Cut & Run - Take it to the House
12 - Stanton Warriors - Reckless Girl
13 - Elite Force - Driving me crazy (Rennie Pilgrem vs. Elite Force  Remix)
14 - B.L.I.M - 2 Freaks
15 - Zero - Emit / Collect (Rennie's Agatha Stop Mix)


-- Trav

2009 DJ Trav Sets from Paso Loco

I had a great weekend at a campout with The Deep End and Space Cowboys crews in Paso Robles. Horses, camping, beats, sun, and Scrabble on a beautiful ranch with a couple hundred of my closest friends.. ;-)

Zach Moore did a diligent job in capturing all the DJ sets. Here are 2 hours of music from my sets over the weekend.

The first set was the opener for the inside-barn area. The set tries to stay on a tech-haus tip, but dips into breaks and gay-haus on a few occasions. Download Here

Set number two was a real thrill for me. I played on the Unimog as the afternoon sun was fading, which gave me a great chance to break out all my 'sunshine' related haus music (and a special treat .. Mr. Bill Withers). Enjoy on a sunny day @ a BBQ. Download Here

Releasing 12 Inch Taffy

I played a lot with making some mashups with Ableton Live about a year ago and realized I had never released this particular one.

It combines 'Twelve Inch Therapy' (the cut by Bass Kleph) and D4L's "Shake that Laffy Taffy"

The two go great together. Enjoy!

12 Inch Taffy

2009 nosql Conference Talk - VPork

The nosql meetup last week provided great insight into the current state and future direction of various Open Source distributed hash table projects.

A distributed hash table is a technology which has been recently popularized by Amazon (Dynamo) and Google (BigTable). It allows websites with massive scalability requirements to handle the workload without stressing out their operations teams and developers. The downside is that interaction with the hash tables is fairly limited (simple get/put, no relational operations, etc.)

The Dynamo paper is published online. Read it at Werner Vogel's blog

My takeaway from the meeting is that the developers who are working on these projects are really enjoying the tasks at hand. There is room for consolidation between the projects, but people are eager to explore the requirements of Dynamo and write them from scratch. As some of these projects get closer to being 'Dynamo Complete', I assume we will see some drop out of the race.

I gave a lightning-talk on work that I had done at Hyperic in validating performance of distributed hash tables across clusters of different sizes in Amazon's EC2 cloud. Specifically, I spoke about the Cassandra and Voldemort projects.

Here are the slides

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NOSQL - VPork from martind on Vimeo.