ill-esha (PH1, Agroculture, Reverse, Breakbeat Science)

Everyone Must Vote For This Awesome Talented Dj/producer


Really Who Else Makes Such Great Beats, Sings Live Annnnd Djs. That Is Some Talent.. Please Take Time And Vote For Lovely Ill-esha



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[wishbone]

congrats on being in the sun, but they barely talked about what you actually do :p

[ill-esha]

Yah, they were just consulting me for a piece they had already planned to do. Apparently the reporter was happy with my contributions though so.. more connections is always good, right?

[ill-esha]

If anyone's interested.. here's the story
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/n...7-de510ca48d11




Mixing it up with the right grooves
MIX-MASTERS I Some argue the art of the mix tape is dead, but new technologies are making it more accessible

Modern day mix-master Elysha Zaide, shown here in her recording studio, calls mixing 'a really personal expression of somebody's soul.'
Photograph by : Bill Keay, Vancouver Sun


Chantal Eustace, Vancouver Sun
Published: Saturday, January 06, 2007

Ear crammed against a boombox, a basement mixologist waits for the next song to begin before releasing the pause button.

Record.

Nirvana's All Apologies howls from the ghetto.

Pause.

Next up, Linger by The Cranberries. It gets slurped up in an analog puddle before oozing into Bjork's Violently Happy.

The tape cuts out seconds before the song ends.

Sound familiar?

Anyone who ever made a mix tape before digital recording remembers the thrill -- and the challenges -- involved in dubbing together just the right grooves.

Now fast-forward to the present.

These days, with file sharing, a person can download any song at any given moment. Songs flow in and out of playlists with the click of a mouse. Compilations can be assembled in seconds using shuffle or mix options. And ambitious mixers can buy software like Garage Band, which lets you overlap songs and play DJ.

Cassette tapes? They're fossils. After the invasion of the compact disc in the mid-'90s, the old cassette-to-cassette recording systems disappeared, preserved in dusty shoeboxes or basement cupboards.

Some argue that -- like bad denim and hair scrunchies -- the mix tape is dead and buried, but that's not true, says Elysha Zaide, also known as DJ ill-esha.

"It's a really personal expression of somebody's soul or their personality," says Zaide, 24, a modern-day mix-master. "It's like 'this is me' or 'I'm thinking of you.'"

She says new technologies just make mixing better and more accessible to people.

"The best part about the way technology has changed is that now you can just use parts of songs and stitch them together," she says.

"Even an average person can buy software to do it."

There's a mix waiting to be made for every person, event and emotion out there, says Ken Beattie, a Vancouver musician and music promoter who estimates he's made about 1,000 mixes in his lifetime.

Rewind. Beattie's mix-mastering started when he was 10 years old. Back then he had to use the radio to make his mix tapes, not even a tape-to-tape recorder. He remembers skipping supper on New Year's Day because that's when the Top 100 countdown would air on the radio.

"I'd shush everyone around me," says Beattie, 45, shaking his head at the memory.

He still makes mixes. Even if technology like shuffle options and endless playlists may seem to diminish the appeal of a compilation album, he says, it is still tough to create a really good combination. And people still want his creations.

"It's all about the way I assemble the music," he says.

Beattie says he "ties" the songs together lyrically or creates unity through the music's themes, mixing three or four genres together on one album. Songs should be thought-provoking, too, he says, since songs take people places.

"It's hard. It's a challenge," he says of the scrambles. "I'm always thinking about how a song fits together."

He's passing on his talents, too. Right now his son, Decklan, 10, is making a mix for his babysitter. So far the next-gen dubber has blended Corb Lund, David Bowie and The Beach Boys together on one album.

"It's unique," says Beattie. "It's a one-of-a-kind gift."

It's also highly expressive, says Zaide.

If you could chop up your thoughts and then glue them together again, you'd be close to the experience of making a mix album, Zaide says.

"It's like a collage of the mind," she says. "Music can be a really important way of expressing yourself."

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[wishbone]

i think they just wanted a pretty DJ in there ;)


(but in no way am i knocking you down with that....your skills are on par with the best, as i've seen you live and have your mixes somewhere)

[ill-esha]

be sure to check out my new mix in the personal promo section! *smile*

this girl is going to KILL it tonight.. cant WAIT