Lega, aka Weltschmerz, releases ‘To Sigh’ featuring remix from Joshua Collins & Rachael Starr.  

[No Smoking Recordings]  
Release date:   5-15-2008

Release date:  05-05-2008

I’ve had this plan for a long time to make an EP entirely using Open Source software only… a great tool to use that I’ve found is UbuntuStudio. As far as linux distributions go its one of the easiest (if not THE easiest) to get around and use.

Probably will use ARDOUR which is kinda like Cubase/ProTools/Logic. UbuntuStudio also caters to Video and Graphics apps, not just Audio… pretty badass interface as well.

UbuntuStudio:
www.ubuntustudio.com

Ardour:
www.ardour.org

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Joshua.Collins.-.April.2008.Warm-up
Part 1
1. Serge Flibustier - Nowhere (Ricky Ryan Edit) [Sick Watona]
2. Manue - Bistro2000
3. Robert Owens - Inside My World [Compost]
4. Kalim Shabazz - Peak Bomb [Thugfucker]
5. Dark Star (Francios DuBois Tweaked Remix)
6. Blackfeel Wite - First Night (Jan Zyabovski Remix) [Moonbeam]
7. Milton Jackson & Sei A. - Jinzou [Urbantorque]
8. Bush II Bush - Road To Caracas (16bit Lolitas Remix) [Cr2]
9. Scope & Leigh Morgan - Isle of Indigo (Robert Rodriguez Mix) [Helvitica]
10. Lank - Beef Freak [No Smoking Rec]
11. Applescal - Do the Night (Ricky Ryan Edit) [Sick Watona]
12. Francios DuBois & Master H - La Balance [Urbantorque]

Moonbeam are two extremely talented guys from Russia. Severly overlooked (for the moment at least). These guys are poised to blow-up at any second. The original track is a beatdown with some spoken-word vocals on it. Honestly, it is one of those tracks where you say to yourself “how could I possibly make this any better!?” Well, I definitely took it down 2 new roads. I did 2 remixes for it, both are solid. My favorite is the Joshua Collins Dark Dub. Has very middle-eastern sounding melodies and I think will create an awesome vibe in any club at peaktime. [digital]

Click here to listen:
http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/1283355-02.htm&highlight=moonbeam

Also licensed to the compliation ’BALEARIC HOUSE SUPER CLUB’ CD:
http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/1298134-02.htm&highlight=moonbeam

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http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/1296116-02.htm&highlight=joshua%20collins

Click here to listen:
http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/1292054-02.htm&highlight=joshua%20collins

Click here to listen:
http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/1283397-02.htm&highlight=joshua%20collins

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Bradler & Dualton - Al Arab (Audiojack Mix) [Twisted Frequency]
Fusiphorm - Green Chocolate (Koljah’s Eploding Cake Remix) [minimood]
D-Formation & David Ferrer - What U Want (Original Vision Mix) [Yoshitoshi]
PUZIQUe - Don’t Go! [BoyzNoize]
Yaron Cohen - Faceoff (Ran Shani Mix - 16 Bit Lolitas Edit) [Brandnewvibe]
Bastards of Funk & Sonic Union - You’re To Blame (Chris Micali Rubberband Mix) [Commonwealth]
Plastikman - Spastik (Dubfire Rework) [Minus]
Jessie Garcia - Lanzarote [Tribal Spain]
Jelo & Deadmau5 - The Reward Is Cheese [Rising Trax]
Hipp-E - Get Ready (JC Edit) [Soco Audio]
Dominik Eulberg - Autopfoten [Cocoon]
Roland Klinkenberg - On My Mind (Mashtronic Remix - JC Edit) [GU Music Digital]
Snake Sedrick - Los Angeles (Mashtronic Remix) [mashtronic]
Popof - Alcoolic [Cr2]
Moonbeam - Just Try To Remember (Joshua Collins Dark Mix) [moonbeam]
Rachael Starr - To Forever (Joshua Collins Synth Mix) [Silent Machine]
Prime 33 - Burn (16 Bit Lolita’s Headspinning Vox Mix) [morrison]
Daso - Meine [Spectral Sound]
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http://www.friknfrak.net/Joshua.Collins.-.December.2007.Mix.mp3

Joshua Collins: ‘LILO’

URTR039
Released: 26th November 2007

Time for a heavy-hitter. With over 140 releases under his belt, Chicago’s Joshua Collins is nothing less than prolific, and those who fear such a high production turn-over may lead to a lack of quality have not heard LILO. The epic emotive opulence of LILO is enough to handle, but remixes from Satoshi Fumi and Chris Fortier on the vinyl together with additional mixes from Chris and from UT fave Harold Heath on the digital format might just send you sprawling.

‘LILO’ (Original Mix) – Electro-tech-epic house hybrid, as unique as it is heavy. Gorgeous trippy melody and tender piano collude with aggressive bass and punchy beat to mesmeric effect.

‘Satoshi Fumi Kaleidoscape Remix’ – Emphasises the tech, as snippets of spacey melody are slid smoothly together by the young man from Japan.

‘Chris Fortier_40oz Remix’ (Vinyl only) – Spliced melody and broken beats suffice on this brilliant deconstruction.

‘Chris Fortier_40oz Remix - Extended Mix’ (Digital only) – The full lowdown on Chris’ genius breakdown. You’ve got to deconstruct to reconstruct.

‘Chris Fortier Classic Mix’ (Digital only) – Intense, melancholic and eerie, but with a bass that purposefully pummels and rolls; you won’t be able to hold this one down.

‘Fortier Ambient Tool’ (Digital only) – Take a deep breath. This is harrowing stuff.

‘Harold Heath Remix’ (Digital only) – Our favourite party man injects a bit of bounce and jack. He knows.

Trained pianist and cellist, Joshua Collins, has been producing house and techno for ten years. Raised on the sounds of Chicago, Josh took his inspiration from Bad Boy Bill and Julian Perez of the famous Hot Mix 5, and since 1997 has had releases on prestigious labels such as Hooj Choons, NRK and Gourmet amongst others. Remixes on this release come from fellow American, Chris Fortier, and Urbantorque artists, Satoshi Fumi and Harold Heath.
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LINK:
http://urbantorque.com/article.php?story=20071107183755178

FEEDBACK FROM DJ’S:

Laurent Garnier - “”i have been hammering loads of your new releases on the past week end - LILO is ace”

Onionz - “LILO - JOSH COLINS, ONE OF THE BADDEST PRODUCERS AROUND - ORIGINAL MIX IS THE ONE”

James Talk - “the satoshi fumi mix is wicked”

Fabrice Lig - “Really like the Satoshi Fumi Mix, my favourite here, nice one, melodic and powerful”

Aldrin - “Been a fan of Satoshi’s work and here he rocks again with some beautiful tech house!”

Murray Richardson - “great set of remixes on this with my favourite being harlods remix!,,,solid stuff indeed from him and the original will work the place aswell,,,,nice!”

Louis Osbourne - “Wow! what a track….. The original is awesome. Such a stand out sound, quite unusual with quite a unique arrangement too. Very interesting. I love it. It takes you away somewhere……… Liking Chris’ 40oz mix too, the best of the remixes…. Nice & stripped down. Awesome all round”

DJ Linus (pacha – exun  - munich) - “For me the original mix. Perfect feeling and perfect for my sets Thanx!”

Nacho Marco (Freerange) - “Good one !!! Played Lilo since I received on the Urbantorque sampler. Love Satoshi Fumi´s mix, that´s the one for me”

Anil Chawla - “Love the Satoshi Fumi remix, and the fortier mixes have got a really nice feel too”

Alex Santos - “Fantastic! Deep house for the Electro generation! Loving this.”

Tyler Stadius - “Still love the brilliant original mix the best.’

Steve Parry (3 Beat) - “satoshi fumi mix rocks!”

Adam (3Beat) - “fortiers classic mix is the one”

Tom Taylor (Electric Press) - “will play the satoshi fumi remix and will use the ambient tool in our ableton sets”

Subsky - “ve been playing the original and satoshi mixes for a long time, especially satoshi mix is awesome. Harold Heath mix is very cool too. Great release again!”

Alex Flatner - “My fav. tunes are the Satoshi Fumi and the Chris Fortier 40oz Remix…Very nice…will play and support”

Matt Masters (Freerange) - “The tracks that I am really diggin’ on here though have to be the Harold Heath remix and also the Satoshi Fumi remix. Two very contrasting remixes but both top class. Will be playing both out 8/10.”

Jemmy (3 Beat) - “The Fortier classic mix is absolutely amazin, i can see me playing this tune years down the line. The Fumi Kaleidoscape remix is right up my street aswell.”

Nico De Ceglia - “Thanks for this one by Joshua Collins. I like it and I like the remixes. I’ll surely play it out”

Alex McCulloch (Shafunkers) - “Lovely package from the UT crew with some real deep, electronic house music. Choice cuts for me are the Harold Heath remix, which is amazing… as is the Satoshi Fumi remix. Will be caining this”

Chris Rawles (Elektrotherapy) - “Top tuneage again from your camp.  Im loving the Harold Heath mix.  Featured on the Elektrotherapy podcast this week!!”

Strakes (Kahua Music) - “this on’es all about Harold’s mix for me, jacking yet still techy with all of Harold classic touches.  Think it deserves a whole new sub genre “deep house rave”"

Kollektiv | Nuno dos Santos - “Diggin the Chris Fortier 40oz remix!!”

Neil Bainbridge (Shindig) - “harold heath remix for me, great stuff - played straight away that night and worked brilliantly, cheers”

Rob Salmon - “The Satoshi Fumi version was cool..has a nice Spiritcatcher vibe. Will play”

Dave Van N (Hungary) - “play original from may 2007 almost on every gig, always got some feebacks from the dancefloor,usually people dance with close eyes…looking forward to test the remixes too on the dancefloor”

Spin Science - “Killer package! Fumi, Fortier 40z and definitly heath’s remix are my favs! Will chart&play!”

Robbie Lowe - “can’t go past the original. Out of the remixes definitely the Harold Heath mix.”

Gomzez (Energy 107.6 Cyprus) - “finally! my favorite track from the miami sampler! which one to pick though? this is heavy as f**k!! all of em for different occasions. already burnt”

Alan (Mode Music) - “It’s the Original Lilo here by a country mile, one of the tunes of the year ..its as simple as that..Congratulations on signing it!!”

C&M Productions - “my absolut favourite mix from joshua collins “lilo” is chris 

frontiers classic mix. absolut melancholic…..very intense…..i love it so much!!!!”

Nolan Kane - “still at the front of my box. All the mixes do the origional justice.. but the origional still is king for me!”

Liz Cirelli - “The original mix is simply gorgeous!”

James Huxley (Pulse Radio) - “Ooooohhh, Decisions, decisions. It’s out of the Orig, Satoshi and Heath and the winner is……..My monies on the Harold Heath mix. Tough beats, and bouncy synths and a real chunky ‘Bar A Thyme’ feel to it, and that can only be a good thing. Don’t need to say I’ll be supporting this. Top stuff.”