Engineer of Sound (EOS)

"... MAKING MUSIC WITH MUSIC..."
BACKGROUND: The Engineer of Sound, EOS for short, began his musical career early in high school as a classically trained singer. Riding the success of his award winning vocal ensembles, EOS made the move to electronic dance music with the purchase of his first set of CDJ's. Over the years, he has begun the journey of listening and critically selecting only the most fitting of tracks to line his CD Bag. EOS's aim is to not only entrance an audience with seamless melodic transition, but to visually stun the crowd with a flurry of hand selected visuals, movies, and images. By taking his cue from recent DJ-turned-VJ Sander Kleinenberg, EOS successfully melds audio and video together to create a unique club experience.Recently, he has been enlisted by Paradigm Shift Productions in a move to unite the Dj Community and grow support for locally grown talent in the Los Angeles area.
STYLE: Over the years, his style has varied greatly. He infuses the uplifting side of artists such as Above and Beyond with the dark groovier edge of producers like Perry O'Neil. With the help of collaborative mix sessions with fellow Paradigm Shift mix-master Dj Rachel D; the two have been forging a completely new sound. Fusing his uplifting edge with Dj Rachel's darker and funkier progressive tones, the two have been making heads turn. It's their hope to open all EDM fans up to the idea that different genres of dance music can coexist harmoniously in the same set.
With regular showings at the world renowned Spundae - Los Angeles in Hollywood, EOS has been gaining a small but steady group of listeners who eagerly await his return. He hopes to continue playing the larger club circuit and turn this once quiet bedroom Dj into a household name.
Hey guys,
I just completed a new guest mix for Christopher Reddick's show Shake Down - Episode 39. Much thanks to him for having me play! You can download the mix from his site by clicking the image below. ENJOY!
Shake Down - Episode 39 tracklist:
1. Lemon & Einar K - Autumn Radicals
2. Above & Beyond - Stealing Time (Deep Club Mix)
3. Ersa & Cellec - Fridays (Sunny LAX Mix)
4. Lemon & Einar K - Hope
5. Alex Arestigui - Discover
6.. Daniel Kandi - Child
7. Ronski Speed - If I Could (Dub Mix)
8. ATB - Renegade (Ronski Speed Mix)
9. Above & Beyond - No One on Earth (Gabriel & Dresden Mix)
10. Cara Dillon vs. 2Devine - Black is the Color (A&B Mix)
Check out the rest of his episodes at www.shakedownpodcast.com

THE FOLLOWING MUSIC REPRESENTS EXCERPTS OF VARIOUS LIVE MIXES. PLEASE NOTE THAT I HAVE NOT PRODUCED THIS MUSIC; BUT AM MERELY MANIPULATING THE SOUND INTO A COHESIVE AND SEAMLESS COMPOSITION. PLEASE CLICK THE FOLLOWING LINKS TO DOWNLOAD MIXES.
EOS - Synergistic ** NEW MIX **
1. Vadim Soloviev - Dash (Progressive Mix)
2. Santiago Nino & Damien Heck - Red Sky (Santiago Nino Vocal Mix)
3. Rank1 & Alex M.O.R.P.H - Life Less Ordinary (Rafael Frost Mix)
4. Signalrunners - One Last Look (Orig Mix)
5. Perfect Pitch - Innocent (Sunny Lax Mix)
6. Neoblitzz - Crying Skies (Paul Nova Mix)
7. Insignia - Piano In the Rain (Probspot Mix)
8. Nic Chagall - What You Need (Orig Mix)
9. Gareth Emery - More Than Anything (5am Mix)
10. Global Illumination - Tremble (Orig Mix)
EOS - Phenomenology
1. Cressida - Slighly Agravic (Orig Mix)
2. Matt Cerf & Shawn Mitiska - Light the Skies (Harry Peat Mix)
3. Store N'Forward - Why Don't We Talk About It (Orig Mix)
4. Cressida - Laika (Orig Mix)
5. Kirsty Hawkshaw & Tenisha - Outsiders (Jose Amnesia Mix)
6. Ilya Malyeuv - Jump the Chance (Orig Mix)
7. Visor & Dark Moon - Beautiful People (Kay Stone Mix)
8. Jose Amnesia - & Shawn Mitiska - My All (Markus Schulz Mix)
9. Elevation - Blinding Truth (Orig Mix)
EOS - Antithesis
1. Amnesia Brothers - Immersion (Matt Cerf & Shawn Mitiska Mix)
2. Genix - Aluna (Cressida Mix)
3. Benya - Mimas (Orig Mix)
4. Maor Levi - Illumina (Orig Mix)
5. Allure - The Love We Lost (Tilt Mix)
6. Boom Jinx feat. - Remember September (Orig Mix)
7. Sonorous - Protonic (Leama & Moor Mix)
8. Galen Behr & Hydroid - Carabella (Orig Mix)
9. Headstrong - The Truth (David West Mix)
10. Ilka - Northern Lights (Tenthu Mix)
EOS - Midnight
1. Ronski Speed - The Space We Are (Orig Mix)
2. Lange & Gareth Emery - Another Me, Another You (Orig Mix)
3. Heartbeat - Another Loud Thought (Orig Mix)
4. Nicholas Bennison & Gareth Emery - Interlock (Orig Mix)
5. Re:locate & Menno de Jong - Spirit (Orig Mix)
6. Jonas Steur - Second Turn (Orig Mix)
7. Ronski Speed - Alone With You (Dub Mix)
8. Mike Koglin vs POS - Untitled (Orig Mix)
9. Oceanlab - Sirens of the Sea (Kyu vs Albert Mix)
10. Mike Shiver & Marc Damon - Water Ripples (Mike Shiver Mix)
11. Sero M - I Can't Stop (Valve Mix)
EOS - Daylight
1. S-Tune - Urban Silence (Igor Danilovic Mix)
2. Yvel & Tristen - Cyran (Orig Mix)
3. Bastian Bouma - Freezing March (Roger Martinez Mix)
4. Andre Visior - Skyline (Funabashi Mix)
5. Funabashi & Niklas Harding - Addictive (Orig Mix)
6. Boom Jinx - Come Play Perfect (Orig Mix)
7. David West - Suffering Island (Orig Mix)
8. Ilya Malyeuv - Jump the Chance (Orig Mix)
9. Jonas Hahmo - The Fusion (Hawk Mix)
FAVORITE LABELS: Some of his most treasured record labels are Anjunabeats, Electronic Elements, Fenology, Cold Harbor, Lost Language, Adjusted Music, Alter Ego Digital, Anjunadeep, ETC-R, Captivating Sounds, Euphonic, Five AM Records, KTR Records, Enhanced Recordings
WHAT'S TOPS IN EOS' RECORD BAG:
1. Alex Arestigui - Discover (Orig Mix)
2. Lemon & Einar K - Autumn Radicals (Orig Mix)
3. Matt Cerf and Shawn Mitiska - Light the Skies (Harry Peat Mix)
4. Elevation - Blinding Truth (Orig Mix)
BRILLIANT QUOTES FROM TONY OF ABOVE & BEYOND:
On Ableton Live:
"As far as Ableton goes, for me, the experience isn’t quite there yet. I saw Sasha this Saturday night past, and apparently he stopped his set early because people had stopped dancing – but it looks like he’s checking his email up there. You’ve got software that automatically gets your records perfectly in time, so what’s the show? People like to see a little bit of juggling. I’d think CDs are a happy medium between vinyl and a laptop. I love vinyl, I hanker after the different coloured sleeves and labels – as a DJ, it appeals to me in a way that a scribbled-on CDR simply doesn’t. At least when you’re playing a CD, you’re doing something physical live. The concept of focusing on a computer screen is much different from spinning little discs, be they black or silver. With a laptop, you’re looking at the crowd the way you look in an automobile rear-view, it’s not your main point of attention, whereas with CDs and vinyl what you’re seeing is people’s faces. That has got to be your focus as a DJ, you’ve got to be looking at the crowd. If you’re not looking at the crowd how can you possibly play the right record? That keyboard that looked like a guitar back in the 1980s, silly looking thing that it was, the point was to get the keyboard player out from behind the pile of equipment and to interact with the crowd. Ableton is great for radio mixes, but live it’s a big question mark. It’s just boring to watch."
On Key Matching:
"Do we do it? Absolutely, all the time, all our records are keyed. We’re even going to start putting the key on the sleeves of our Anjunabeats releases. It just sounds wicked. Those who don’t think it’s worth the effort, they probably can’t tell the difference between keys anyways – but we’re all musicians, so we do it. Whether every last person on the dance floor notices or not, WE notice. We have all our tracks keyed in a list, and have been doing it like that for some time. It makes so much sense, and it’s really important to us. Especially when we’re doing a lot of travelling in between sets and we don’t always have a lot of time to review every intro and outro of some of the newer tracks we’re going to play ahead of time, key-mixing lets us mix material we don’t know so well without resorting to brute force. If you’ve got a new track that you know the key of, you can always give it a go and you know the mix is not going to be terrible. When you know the key and you know the track, the results are even better. So yes, we’re big believers in key-mixing, you could say!"
-Tony McGuinness in an article on inthemix.com.au
RIGHT SAID.
For more information on key matching, please visit this site:
Harmonic-mixing.com . It isn't the final say on the topic, but will open your eyes on pushing your DJ skills up a knotch. The future is harmonic mixing.
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