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Mystik Mega Opus – Behold the “Believer”

Mystik - Believer Mystik has completed a large production project that started as an experiment and ended as a proof of concept with tangible and very positive results. Behold Mystik - Believer. A full hour-plus long house and techno dance electronica set written from scratch in one continuous project. The idea began with the concept of starting to write a custom built, new set, composed from scratch...all in one DAW project. I chose Ableton Live for this experiment due to it's extremely flexible time-stretching and warping; since I was exploring a bunch of new sample banks, this helped greatly as the tempo of…

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Mystik + Scottino + Jeff Richmond = Trilobyte

Trilobyte - Future Fossils Mystik has started a new side project with San Francisco locals Scottino & DJ Jeff Richmond. The new project - TRILOBYTE - is born of each performers love of gear and jamming, but also focused on capturing the magic from these spontaneous and often improvised sessions and transforming them into "future fossils" i.e. refined studio cuts that will stand the test of time. Stay tuned for more! More about everyone here:  MYSTIK - soundcloud.com/mystiksound SCOTTINO - soundcloud.com/djscottino, www.djscottino.com DJ JEFF RICHMOND - soundcloud.com/djjeffrichmond, www.djjeffrichmond.com

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Mystik 2012 kickoff, w/Scottino, Carlos Caminos and more!

It has been an exciting, productive and busy holiday season here in the Mystik studio. In addition to continuing my long-standing residency with RadioExplore.org, I am also developing several new tracks and collaboration projects with local and foreign musicians. DJ Scottino is one of my studio neighbors and also a music producer, and it has been fun to jam together and exchange studio sessions, strategize about gear, and other conversations regarding optimal live setups, performance and recording options. Although we've only jammed a few times, there is good potential to develop a project further, incorporating both live elements as well as…

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