DJ Aphrodite

DJ Aphrodite goes by the real name of Gavin King, but he is also known as A Zone or DJ Aphro. He is a UK jungle and drum’n'bass DJ/producer commonly referred to as the ‘Godfather of Jungle’, who works along with Micky Finn on their joint Urban Takeover label. Aphrodite is one of the oldest dnb producers, he is largely contributed to and influenced drum and bass’ current styles and techniques. (Based on Wikipedia)

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Download a kickass Aphrodite live recording here or listen to it using the flash player above!

(Aphrodite feat Schooly webflash video below, wait for it to load (3.4mb) then press PLAY)

See Aphrodite live this year (2007) at:

# April 21st – PPC, Graz, Austria
# April 27th – Tivoli, Utrecht, Netherlands
# April 30th – Ting!-Club, Bremen

# May 11th – BSG on VUB Site, Brussels, Belgium
# May 24th – USA Tour
# May 25th – USA Tour
# May 26th – USA Tour

# June 08th – R.I.F.F., Viru Keskus, Estonia
# June 15th – Club Fleda, Czech Republic
# June 22nd – Toronto Canada
# June 23rd – Denver, USA
# June 30th – Zoo Club, Vienna, Austria

# July 03rd – USA Tour
# July 04th – USA Tour
# July 05th – USA Tour
# July 06th – USA Tour

# August 03rd – Tempo , Shrewsbury
# August 04th – Urban Art Forms Festival, Austria
# August 18th – Summer of Love Festival, Czech Republic

# September 27th – Paris, France, TBC

# November 30th – Big Re-Union, Skegness

For updated dates, see his site
Maybe also interesting: Hoochie Aphrodite Flash Video

Aphrodite Recordings Back Catalogue

Amix

Re Cuts Series

V2 Records Releases

Aladdin Back Catalogue

Aphrodite Remixes

Duration: 41 minutes
Size: 49mb
Bitrate: 160kbps
Date: march 2007

Download second oldskool mix – good tunes / oldskool jungle MP3 | mirror

Listen to it live below, and if you like it, leave a comment, thank you a lot
[audio:http://mp3.trancin.com/jez_www_h4x3d_com_oldskool_mix_march07.mp3]

* oldskool is really wierd to mix :Ü

Duration: 36 minutes
Size: 43mb
Bitrate: 160kbps
Date: january 2007

Download first oldskool mix ever good tunes / oldskool jungle MP3

Listen to it live below, and if you like it, leave a comment, thank you a lot (some parts are crap, sorry about that)
[audio:http://mp3.trancin.com/january_2007_www.h4x3d.com_oldskool.mp3]

A1 Ready Or Not (Club Mix) (5.58)
B1 Killing Me Softly (4.53)
B2 Killing Beats (5.33)

This remix and another one can be found in Aphrodite’s DJ SET around minute 47 or so. Some other great Fugees classics in there as well.

Also check this out – Drums and bass mp3 mix set collection

Electronic music such as:

* Ambient
* Breakbeat
* Electronica
* Electronic art music
* House
* Trance
* Industrial
* Synth pop

[Electronic music is a loose term for music created using electronic equipment. Any sound produced by the means of an electrical signal may reasonably be called electronic, and the term is sometimes used that way -- in music where acoustic performance is the norm, even the introduction of electronic amplifiers may touch off discussions of electronic music (jazz and folk music, for example, have gone through a good deal of argument about the topic). , employing fast tempos (150-190 BPM This article is about tempo in music.]

In musical terminology, tempo (Italian for “time”) is the speed or pace of a given piece.
The tempo of a piece will typically be written at the start of a piece of sheet music. In most popular forms of music the tempo is usually measured in beats per minute (BPM).
Jungle borrows samples
[In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument in a new recording. This is done with a sampler, which can be a piece of hardware or a computer program on a digital computer. Similar to sampling is the technique of creating loops of magnetic tape with a reel-to-reel tape machine. Often "samples" consist of one part of a song used in another, for instance the use of the drumline from Led Zeppelin's "When the Levee Breaks" in songs by the Beastie Boys, Mike Oldfield and Erasure, and the guitar riffs from Foreigner's "Hot Blooded" in Tone-Loc's "Funky Cold Medina". "Samples" in this sense occur often in hip hop and R&B, but are becoming more common in other music, as well. and styles from almost any type of music, assimilating them and bringing them into a completely different context]

Jungle is originated in London, England and played by black urban musicians, jungle merges a syncopated hip-hop rhythm with dub reggae bass lines and sampled break beats. As with hardcore, speeded up samples of other records are also incorporated for the rhythm tracks, giving jungle a dense and complicated rhythmic base.

Jungle is quite chaotic and has a breakbeat of 160BPM with the bass drum on half speed. If you’re not used to it, it’s hard to predict when there is a beat and/or bass. Jungle’s origins are from England and it is named after the big concrete, metallic “jungle” city. Different mixes with reggae and hardcore are divided into three categories: Drum ‘n’ Bass, Hardstep, and Intelligent jungle. Intelligent jungle can also be called “artcore”, which has a slight trance “flavour” into it. Artists such as LTJ Bukem, PFM, Jamie Myerson, and Goldie are known for this style of music.

Source: the net / google