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Sebastien Leger does it again with Plik Plok

Sébastien Léger at Kings
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I have been a fan of Sebastien Leger for a while now. I first wrote about his remix of Manson, The People last September.

Even before that I did a quick tech blog post showing him mixing some stuff in Ableton for his live show. In fact it sounds very similar to this song Plik Plok.

I really love the minimal feel of this. It still has very prominent sonic elements; this song fills your speakers out! What’s great about this song is its very DJ friendly. If you love electronic music this is the type of track you could play as a loop in your set and add SO much in terms of effects. Reverbs, Delays and a few glitch and volume modulation effects and you’ve got a banging live remix of this track . . . in the right hands of course!

There is a huge bass line that might get in the way. If you killed the bass all that would be left would be the high pitched pattern, instant DJ TOOL! Also, the did I mention that the percussion sounds really great?

What more can I say, Seb Leger tu l’avez fait trés bien!

Check out the song on YouTube below and support this artist on Beatport, iTunes etc! (and the audiophile in me also screams; BUY THE WAV not the MP3!! but thats a whole other problem)

Updated with YouTube video:

Edited: June 21st, 2010

Happy New Year – DJ Set

New Years Eve Fireworks overlooking the bay in Hong Kong

Better late than never at all!

For the past few years I have been having new years parties at my house in Ottawa. This year I had a two hour set planed in Ableton Live with a couple underground remixes I was working on.

The first one is is my LTWB 2010 remix. This song is originally by Laidback Luke, Sebastian Ingrosso, Axwell and Steve Angello but I felt it needed something more. The was actually sub-ing (pun intended!) in a new bass line and mixing some drums as well as including a chord progression from another remix of the song.

Enjoy

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Tracklist:
1) Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll (A-Trak Remix)
2) Laidback Luke, Sebastian Ingrosso, Axwell, Steve Angello / Firewire – LTWB 2010 Remix
3) Madonna – Revolver (David Guetta Extended Mix)
4) Boy 8-bit – Baltic Pine
5) Deadmau5 – Slip
6) Sebastien Leger – Slip Remix
7) Sebastien Leger – Talisman
8 BSOD – Roflcopter
9) Fake Blood – I Think I Like It
10) La Roux – Bulletproof (Dave Aude Remix)
11) Glenn Morrison – No Sudden Moves
12) Laidback Luke & Gregor Salto feat. Mavis Acquah – Step By Step
13) Sebastien LEger – The People
14) David Guetta feat. Kid Kudi – Memories
15) BSOD feat. Marcie – Push It Harder
16) Sebastian Ingrosso – Laktos
17) Phil Kieran – Skyhook 1
18) Dizzee Rascal feat. Chrom – Holiday (Laidback Luke’s Rave It Up Remix)
19) Deadmau5 – Bot
20) Steve Angello – Monday
21) Sydney Blu – Senses & the Mind (Olivier Giacomotto Remix)
22) BSOD – A Bit Sketchy
23) WTF? – Redic
24) Spoon, Harris, and Obernik – Baditude (Dub Mix)
25) Little Boots – Remedy (Avicii Club Remix)
26) Deadmau5 vs Jelo – The Reward Is Cheese (Johnny Krazy Rework)
27) BSOD – Echoes

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Edited: May 30th, 2010

Sebastien Leger brings down the house . . .literally!

Sebastien Leger brought the house down at this 2008′s Creamfields in the Czech Republic. And I’m not just using a figure of speech.

“The gig was going really well but the weather was terrible,” he recalls. “Suddenly the wind ripped the roof off and then the speakers collapsed almost on top of me. It was a nightmare!” The rest of the event had to be canceled and luckily nobody was injured. Leger and many caught the incident on cameras and the footage is now on YouTube.

You can check out footage of the event below:


Here is a version with better audio from Leger’s own camera:

Edited: September 5th, 2009

Sebastien Leger – The People (Pryda Friends)

Here is a fairly new track from Leger. It’s an interesting mixture between the alternative metal version from the 90′s and a solid pumping house track. My favorite part is how it manages to retain the feel of the original while still bringing something new in the way of production technique.

“The Beautiful People” is a song from Marilyn Manson’s second full length album, Antichrist Superstar, released as a single in September, 1996. An alternative metal hit written by Marilyn Manson and Twiggy Ramirez, and produced by Trent Reznor, Dave Ogilvie and Manson, its lyrics discuss two major themes: what Manson refers to as “the culture of beauty”, and that culture’s connection to Friedrich Nietzsche’s theory of master-slave morality — the song’s “weak ones”, who are “always wrong”, are oppressed by and exist solely to “justify [the existence of] the strong” (the so-called beautiful people).
The single peaked at number 26 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart and remains known as one of Marilyn Manson’s most famous and most successful original songs; in a 2004 review, Richard Banks of the BBC called the track “still the most impressive” in the band’s catalogue, and it was ranked in 2006 at number 28 on VH1′s 40 Greatest Metal Songs.

Download:
Download at zippyshare.com

Or watch on YouTube:

Edited: August 31st, 2009

Sebastien Leger playing a new track in the studio

Very exciting to see the techniques and tools that this techno/house master is using.

“I was jamming today with one of the elements of the live show i’m working on at the moment – This is a very smooth and groovy part of the live, track is called “Labyrinthe”.
For the nerds ;-) I’m using here Ableton Live 8 as the sequencer, an Akai APC40 (on the left hand side) that i’m using to launch clips/loops and also effect from Live. Also using a UC33 as the main midi controller for synths and FX (on this video especially), but also to trigger like hell some drums elements i programmed for other parts of the live (not in that video) – And finally a DX2 from Faderfox to control even more FX such as beatrepeat-EQ and secret plug ins ;)
Again this is only a VERY little part of what you can expect form the live !
Enjoy the music and see you on stage in 2010 with a whole Live set full of new bombs and oldies, with nice visul production around it as well ! :-)

Edited: August 31st, 2009

Altar Synth feat. deadmau5, Sebastien Ingrosso, Pryda and more!

Recorded June 2009 in Ableton Live by firewire.

Tracklist:
1) Changes (The D. Ramirez Squeezebox Remix) – Dirty Vegas
2) Eat What You Kill (Part 1) – Olivier Giacomotto, DJ Tonio
3) Redic – WTF?
4) Senses & the Mind (Olivier Giacomotto Remix) – Syndey Blu
5) Stubby (Acquaviva’s 2009 remastered edit) – Mat Zo, Tyler Michaud
6) Physiological Rhythms (The Dark Night Mix) – D. Ramirez
7) Loops: Slip (Sebastien Leger Remix) – NuFunk (Deadmau5 Remix)
8 ) Laktos – Sebastian Ingrosso
9) Slip (Sebastien Leger Remix) – Deadmau5
10) Reeperbahn – Pryda
11) Last Life – BSOD
12) Call & Response – James Harcourt
13) Catbread – Deadmau5

Download Altar Synth – Mixed by firewire here!

Edited: January 22nd, 2009

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