A multi-part Electro Pop Mix for the masses

01. David Guetta – Memories (Bingo Players Remix)
02. Klubbheads – Kickin hard (DJ Solovey Remix)
03. Desto – Crazy (Lindberg And William Remix)
04. Snap – The Power (DJ Pomeha Remix 2010)
05. Gubellini vs Pain feat Darook Mc – Shake It Up (Javi Mula Remix)
06. Sabien And Alim – Naughty Feat Jerique (Shahin Remix)
07. Loleatta Holloway – Ride On Time 2010 (Bruno Ramos & HytraxX Mix)
08. DJ Eako & Morelly feat. Omega Brown – I Can’t Stop (Steel Mix)
09. Queen – You Don’t Fool Me (Dj Denis Rublev & Dj Natasha Baccardi Remix 2010)
10. Andrea Paci feat. Michelle Weeks – Big Mama (Elektro Mix)
11. Crookers Feat. Miike Snow – Remedy (Magik Johnson Vocal Remix)
12. Axwell – I Found You (DJ MikeY 2010 Remix)
13. Robbie Rivera feat. Fast Eddie – Let Me Sip My Drink (Chuckie Remix)
14. Topmodelz – Have U Ever Been Mellow (Rekoilz Electro Remix)
15. Niels Van Gogh And Emilio Verdez – Black Is Black (Club Mix)
16. Soul Puncherz – Speakerz Bumpin Loud (Filthy Rehab Remix)
17. Shadow Stars – Desintegration feat. Sergei Khovanksy (Mario Ochoa Remix)

                          

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Anoter day another mix…… back in the style of electro madness!

1. David Guetta feat. Kelly Rowland – When Love Takes Over (Electro Extended Mix)
2. Melleefresh, Deadmau5 – Sex Slave (Original Mix)
3. Costello – Girls Speak Louder (Donique Mix)
4. Alexis, Darmon, Eran Hersh, George F – Girls Who Like Girls (Original Living Room Club Mix)
5. Larry Tee Feat. Roxy Cottontail – Lets Make Nasty (Afrojack Remix)
6. Jewlez – Get Down (Original Mix)
7. Pain, Gubellini – Shake It Up feat. Darook Mc (Maurizio Gubellini & Stefano Pain Main Mix)
8. Martin Solveig – Poptimistic (Bingo PLayers Vox)
9. Mowgli – London To Paris (Original Mix)
10. Laidback Luke, Lee Mortimer – Blau! (Original Mix)
11. Funkagenda – H3lix (Original Club Mix)
12. Wolfgang Gartner – Latin Fever (Original Mix)
13. Starkillers – Bitch Ass Trick (Original Version)

Incidentally, this is my first recorded mix on the APC40 with Ableton

                          

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Just messing around with some choonage, only 30 minutes or so long but some interesting choons and it doesn’t sound too bad.

                          

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Its been a long time coming, but here it is… a fresh mix on a totally new rig, so excuse the flaky mixing

                          

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I have performed a large number of public speaking events both for external organisations and on behalf of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. I cover topics related to my specific disciplines and usually put a different spin or angle on it to keep it interesting. Current topics of choice are:

• Data Compromise – A voyage into the realms of data, its value, those who would seek to acquire it and the underground economies that exist.
• Threat & Vulnerability, The Reality – A ground up view of the Hacking world, techniques you can use to protect yourself and the commercial world of penetration testing.
• Identity Theft, a Data Centric view - A view into the world of identity theft and the economies built around it from the perspective of the data itself.
• Payment Card Industry, Data Security Standard – A complete view of the standard, what it means, who needs to comply, who the stakeholders are and some tips and tricks to get you trough.
• Anatomy of an Attack and Defence Strategies – In part one of this presentation we study the anatomy of an attack and dissect it in detail, including an analysis of the threat agents, attack vectors & attack surfaces to better understand and formulate the potential threats to your environment. In part two we look at defence strategies that can be applied to defend against the threats identified as well as techniques that can be employed to better ensure appropriate spend of available budgets on controls that count.

In the last two years I have performed the above presentations and variations thereof at:

• Heads of Internal Audit Forums (Numerous Locations)
• Risk & Governance Forums (Numerous Locations)
• North East Fraud Forum
• CIPFA North West
• Specific Organisations/Groups (Numerous Locations)
• ACCA/IIA Annual Networking Events (London – PodCast Download Available)
• 22/04/2010 – Bristol Insurance Club – Anatomy of an Attack and Defence Strategies
• 16/07/2010 – PwC IT Forum Norwich – Anatomy of an Attack and Defence Strategies
• 22/07/2010 – Private Presentation to Senior Management for a large insurance company -Anatomy of an Attack and Defence Strategies

Upcoming Dates:

• TBC
  

                          

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Well, this one is definatley better quality, on all fronts!! Music, mix & production. Let me know if you like it!

                          

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Well, it’s been a long time coming, but until today, there has always been a reason not to. Recently, I managed to cobble together my old Stanton Final Scratch V1.1, and sure enough, the old girl worked a treat. So here is the result. The first mix of 2008, and although I am obviously a little rusty, its not too shabby! (Appologies to any listeners, there is a small low level hum you pick up during quiet moments due to the old laptop I am using. The next mix will have this fixed)

Enjoy!

                          

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My innovation and creativity can be traced back to the age of seven, when I received my first computer for Christmas. This created the foundation which assisted me in forming the fundamental skill of logical analysis. Five months later, I had mastered Commodore Basic and I created my first computer program. My parents nurtured my talent and treated me to my first PC at the age of eleven. By the age of sixteen, I built a Network for a local solicitors firm. My talents had now surpassed a hobby and it was at this point I realised I was heading for a career in IT!

A job became available as a PC Engineer in an emergent company by the name of Tandem Software. They gave me my first step on the ladder, throwing me in at the deep end by placing me on customer sites with minimal understanding of the systems they had implemented. The learning curve was steep but rewarding, as I constantly had to face obstacles that seemed insurmountable. It was here that I discovered my aptitude to thrive on challenge, which was the core skill I took from the experience. I progressed through the company until I hit a glass ceiling, and as I was at the beginning of my career, it seemed a suitable time to progress to a larger organisation. This led to me joining Advanced Networks & Solutions Limited.

Advanced Networks & Solutions Limited hired me without a formal interview. Whilst waiting in reception, the MD walked up to me and asked if I knew about web hosting. I said that I did and he hired me on the spot! My first assignment was to build a subdivision of his business to handle the hosting and design of web content for all of the companies’ major clients. After getting this new division to a viable position, I realised the profitability of my own knowledge and decided to move into the freelance consultancy arena. Barclays Bank was my first freelance assignment.

Barclays opened my eyes to large-scale business with zero tolerance for failure. This, I realised, was the environment that I could thrive in. I showed true business acumen by streamlining business practice through the strategic use of new and emerging technologies. This environment welcomed these innovations and rewarded them. Whilst in this role, I was awarded three commendations for innovative solutions and demonstrable technical leadership. At the end of my contract period, Barclays offered me a permanent position within the organisation, however thirsty for more; I decided to continue with my chosen path.

This led me to Executive Travel Club. They were an operation with a key piece of technology that could change the way car leasing was performed globally, but a lack of understanding of the technology needed to achieve the goal. The business relationships were in place, however, to achieve the objective, the company needed to change their technology from a local to a global system. I embraced this challenge and delivered them a global solution that scaled beyond there expected scope, and provided them with the platform to succeed. Once the architecture was created, the project was handed over to a large-scale consultancy for global implementation.

After successfully accomplishing the company’s goals, I moved on to my next challenge, which provided me with an opportunity to relocate across the Country and continue my career path. This contract was with Electronic Arts. This was a great environment for my creativity to thrive, as they expected innovation through technology by default. As the Internet Systems Administrator I was given full control and management of the entire EMEA 24x7x365 online infrastructure, which gave me the freedom to improve and scale to a solution that sustained over 11 million visits per week, serving static, dynamic and game content to these visitors. It was a natural progression for me to take these skills and innovations into the corporate environment when the online and corporate networks merged, so the promotion to Lead Network Engineer and offer of a permanent position marked a change in direction.

The corporate networks were more archaic and required major change in order to better serve the needs of the business moving forward. One of the key challenges and best experiences involved managing this change to a new technology on a global scale as it influenced every aspect of the business and related systems. Room for error was simply not an option. I continued my innovation by looking at the way the business operated and ensuring it was making the optimal use of available technology. As I found new and improved ways of achieving business goals, I would communicate the findings to senior exec so that they could see the fiscal benefits.

The ability to create a seamless long term technology strategy, a short term tactical technology direction, and evaluate new technology while aligning it against business process, became a core element of my position at EA. Senior Management recognised my talent and created the role of European IT Security & Audit Manager, where I led the security function for the EMEA region. My in depth knowledge of the systems, infrastructure, security and business served to build a winning team and strategy within the department. To further compliment my knowledge, I attained the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) qualification to ensure best practice within the ten domains of security. This reinforced my business and technology orientation to risk management and gave me the framework to implement Information Security in an enterprise environment.

My time within EA was akin to a typical consulting role as the business used IT & Security in a familiar consultative manor which made the transition to PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) a seamless and obvious one. PwC hired me as a senior manager with the sole remit to “create a security and technology business from the ground up in the north”. This was an ideal opportunity for me which I grasped with both hands and successfully delivered. During me first two years with PwC I built a team of strong, well respected consultants, developed the internal and external markets and gained recognition from my peers and clients alike resulting in a thriving business with strong revenues and consistent growth. Along this journey of growth I identified a set of products that had been missing from the firms repertoire for some time, specifically in the realm of Threat & Vulnerability Management (TVM). Naturally, I picked up the mantle in this case and as a side note, developed a  practice specialising in this field for the firm. Soon this practice had surpassed the original practice I had been asked to develop and as such, I was asked to take the TVM practice to a national status full time and pass back the mantle of the North’s security practice to another.

With this change of focus came my Directorship, and the creating of a new shared service that was able to focus and specialise in the field of TVM. This team of experts, some brought with me from my prior leadership position in the north, got the focus, training and support they needed to truly excel, while I took the role of innovation and thought leadership to heart, so as to create something truly unique, competitive and state of the art within the market. The results of this focus and effort is a strong growing client base and revenue streams as well as innovations the likes of which have never been seen before.

The creation of this practice brought together all of my skills within the technology space and combined them with my expertise in business allowing me to navigate the inner workings of the firms complex structure and create a fully standalone business that sits outside of the firms accepted working models. This feet was not an easy task and took months of planning, strategising and lobbying to pull off, but the result is what can only be described as a boutique company operating within PwC on its own P&L.

Naturally, given my success and demonstrated expertise to date within the firm combined with my wider career, the firm has asked me to be part of the “OneSecurity” Leadership team, steering the wider national security practice through aggressive growth plans as we “step change” within the market.

My LinkedIn profile also has a number of recommendations and acts as my online CV:

                          

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Once upon a time I made my living playing music in clubs, then i realised that was never going to earn me anything more than pocket money, so I made my hobby (IT) my day job, and my day job (DJ’ing) my hobby. The result is a confused view of reality half baked in the deeply technical world of threat and vulnerability vs a constant drive to create new and unique music through my instruments of choice – Needless to say, allot of crossover occurs, so occasionally I find myself pushing the limits of technology in my music, and getting very creative in my work!

I got my first set of decks aged 16, a cheap (well expensive at the time) set of “Disco2000″ Belt Driven 1210 Replicas. They were actually quite good and held tempo well despite being driven by elastic!! A couple of months after i got my decks I started working as a glass collector in a local night club, not long after starting that job, I got chatting to the resident DJ and blagged myself the evening warm up slot which got me my first live gig! I was very much into Happy Hardcore, Techno and House at the time, so I was always in trouble with management for my choice of music, but more often than not the punters loved it!. Eventually, I got my own night, well I say my own night, it was a shared “alternative” night, largely frequented buy goths who came to bounce around to Nirvana! Despite this I would play a 2 hour slot of Hardcore and Techno and occasionally even had the Goths bouncing along with the few ravers who dared to brave the crowd! About a year later I got a full time residency at a local pub, 7pm through to midnight, unfortunately, it was playing typical club/pub music and not what I wanted to play. That said, it paid the bills and as a bonus I got a 1hr slot from 12-1am in the club that was part of the complex, where I could play house to a welcoming crowd. I considered this my career for a couple of years, but the reality set in that I was not likely to ever become “Pete Tong” so I decided to get a real job and put the decks back in the bedroom.

I have progressed beyond the good old days of vinyl, all be it with some resistance to be honest and now prefer the limitless potential of midi-control-surfaces combined with computer software and MP3. I transitioned straight from vinyl to MP3 through the use of technologies like Final Scratch when they first came out, but completely missed the whole CDJ movement in favour of a jump to midi. These days I have an M-Audio Xponent linked to TorQ for generic track-2-track mixing and an Akai APC 40 linked to Ableton Live for what I like to call “Real-Time-Remixing”. The latter of these is a real pleasure and a steep learning curve, but fits my skill set quite well so is a lot of fun to say the least.

I still release mixes when I get the time so check out the Live Mixes section of this site or my podcast to see if there is anything that you like, its all free!

The following is a guide to the styles I mix:

                          

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Oldschool Hard House from the archives

                          

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Oldschool Hard House from the archives

                          

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Oldschool Hard House from the archives

                          

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