Jordan Waeles, Trance & House DJ, Producer & Remixer

After years of work, I am going to have my first official remix released on the market! The artists are Collin/Replay, and I've been remixing a track of theirs called "Close your eyes", which was freshly released on the Selecta Beats label. Together with other artists, we've been working on remixes and those will be available for sale around mid-2008.

My remix is highly energetic, has some fine melodies with an uplifting trance drive as well as the beautiful voice of Lena collin. Over the last couple of weeks, I've been mastering the track together with Owen Replay, the leader and producer of that project, and we expect the work to be done in the next couple of weeks. Expect some huge hammering of this fine track on FM, on the Trance Mutation Podcast and in clubs. I'll post a clip of this huge remix as soon as we're done with it.

The Trance Mutation podcast will be updated today, I'm posting the 41st set this evening. I'm posting a set every two weeks, so if you want to subscribe to this podcast, go ahead!

I'll be spinning at NRJ Extravadance on tour on Saturday the 29th of march, have a look at my gigs schedule for more info. If you're not attending that party, don't miss my gig at the You Nighclub on next friday, or all the other parties where I'm mixing at the Enigme club in Brussels.

Last but not least, I've been working together with Christopher V on a couple of tracks for a common project we have, the one that still doesn't have a name. I'll tell you more about it in a near future!

PS: if you followed the troubles I had with my servers, those are over for quite some time now. I finally found what the issue was: some bots were flooding the web service, creating a denial-of-service attack. I've fixed it by putting in place some kind of speed limitation, so that it's still possible to browse the site and download sets at a decent speed and still prevent those bots from generating way too much traffic for my machines.

Rule number one in server-administration: never ever fix something that is not broken.

I spent 8 hours today on fixing one of my two servers, the one that is hosting all my personal sites, because I thought it sounded like a good idea to update a few libraries on my system.

As a matter of fact, my server crashed very badly, and I had to rebuild all the modules with the right options and so on... so that's why it was unavailable for the last 8 hours.

So, instead of producing or updating the podcast, I had to type thousands of Unix-commands and find out by searching on google why it didn't work... to eventually come to a conclusion that my homemade suEXEC wrapper for Apache 1.3 didn't appreciate the glibc update, I managed to isolate the line that was causing suEXEC to segfault, but I couldn't find any bug in that line...

So I decided it would be cleaner to install suPHP that is made for that... but that was to find out two hours later that suPHP wasn't fully supporting Apache 1.3. Yipee. After installing Apache 2.0, reconfiguring it, recompiling PHP and its modules, I finally managed to get this server back online.

I don't even remember why I wanted to update glibc... I guess this had something to do with DomainKeys, postfix and so on... but I'll find that later on.

When I think I wanted to spend this day on music... :(

Update Friday 1st of february: I noticed the sets download script doesn't work anymore, I'll work on fixing this tomorrow, sorry guys!

Update 1st of march: There still are some issues from time to time, the server load rises up for unknown reasons. I am investigating this, and I hope I'll be able to find out what is happening. Sorry for all the bad experience this causes, I'm sure it will soon be fixed and that I would learn a lot of that :)

Trance Mutation 13 is coming up! It will a 80 minutes set packed with 20 tracks ranging from melodic to euphoric uplifting trance, with a bit of tech trance at the end. I am pretty sure that those of you that liked the previous editions of Trance Mutation won't be disappointed. I am adjusting the very last bits of it at the moment, and I will see if and when it will air on Digitally Imported. My guess would be that you would discover it somewhere in february.

Be the first in line to get it!

I created a Facebook page. Become a fan of mine and be the first to get Trance Mutation 13 for free download! There will be other advantages coming up as well, so subscribe now to my Facebook page and I'll keep you posted about this!

New residency at L'Enigme

February will be a very exciting month for me as I will be starting to work at a new club, it's called L'Enigme, it is located in Brussels and you'll find me over there every weekend. It's a small cosy and warm place where I will be spinning house mainly, together with my friends Mann, Mendi and Miss Jewel. The club is open every Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Go and have a look at my agenda for more details regarding when and where I will be playing.

Podcast

As you might have noticed, the frequency of the episodes I post on the podcast has increased again. After a quiet period where I didn't put any show, I am now posting a new show every two weeks. I decided to stop talking over my shows, as it was too time consuming. That way, I am able to improve my productivity and focus my efforts on the mix instead. I am very open to any feedback you might have on this... but why would you complain anyway, less talk, more music and more shows...

New equipment in my studio

Latest addition to my pile of legally-owned music software, the reFX Nexus is a powerful synthetiser module that is very versatile, and whatever it does, it sounds so fantastic that I will have a hard time choosing which sounds to use for my productions. But Nexus has a solid competitor that is more customizable and allows a lot more for editing, it is the Z3Ta+, by Cakewalk, and that is one fine purchase of mine as well.

And last but not least, a piece of hardware that I consider as one of my best buys of the last months... the ADAM A7 monitor speakers. Coupled with my Audiofire 12 sound interface I showed you earlier, I hear details in songs that I never heard before, such as tiny percussions in the background and instruments clicking, on top of a fantasticly clear and precise sound.

Expect some neat productions in the next couple of months!

Oh, and by the way, I wish all the best to all of you for this new year! Don't think too much and enjoy life as much as you can!

Jordan