"Valve - Spectrum The Album" Knowledge mag review

"Miracle FX - Find Yourself / My Visions" out now on Reinforced!

Out now on Reinforced Records, 2 deep slices of Drum & Bass pressure capturing the classic vibes of the mid-1990s coupled with modern production and engineering techniques.

Dillinja suggests permanent artist name change to Dan Miracle

After many years recording as Miracle, Dillinja has suggested that I change my artist name to Dan Miracle

At first I thought this was ridiculous, but to be fair, I had posted on forums as Dan Miracle for many years (primarily so people would know my first name instead of just my music alias)

Apparently it "looks better on paper" (which I'm now starting to agree with...after all, Roni Size looks much better than "Size" does it not?)

So yeah, from now on I will record as Dan Miracle! (plus there already happens to be a few other artists using the Miracle name so at least this will hopefully help distinguish my material)

"Omega Amen" on Zinc* & DJ Friction - Bingo Sessions Volume 1, out now!

Out in all good stores today, Zinc & DJ Friction present Bingo Sessions Volume 1 Double Mix CD (on Zinc's very own Bingo Beats label)

Amongst many other tracks, this release contains Southstar* & Miracle - Omega Amen

Full tracklisting below:

First tracks signed to Valve

After submitting demo CDs for the past 4 months, Dillinja has finally chosen 2 tracks to release on Valve.

Low Down & Dirty: A pimped out roller with a massive sub bassline and blaxploitation vibes.

When Nature Calls: A flute driven amen smasher with deep subs and natural soundscapes.

Miracle mini-feature in Knowledge Magazine

Successful collaboration with Southstar*, Omega Amen complete!

Buzzin' with excitement over the ideas Southstar* mentioned for the Omega Amen tune (and knowing that he wasn't planning to come round to mine until later in the week), I decided to waste no time in knocking up the blue print layout for the track this morning.

It began as a straight amen stepper with stabs, strings and dark sub bass.

Luckily Southstar* was online just as I'd finished the first draft.

Sequenced entirely in Modplug Tracker, I sent the .it file over to him via messenger for his opinion. I received no response from him for at least 20 minutes (which was weird). Then suddenly, he replied with an amended file and told me to check it.

Surprisingly, he had decided to edit the patterns and chop the breaks up. I had no idea that the track would take this direction! His first break edits were impressive, and almost became a challenge for me to ensure that my edits were on par with his.

I then retaliated and sent the file back to him. We decided to edit 16 bars each and send the file back and forth until all the beats were edited.

Within 3 hours the track was virtually complete but still lacked that "special ingredient"

Then Southstar* came up with an idea to record vocals for it. I wasn't entirely sure what he was going to record but within 10 minutes he sent me over various recordings of himself shouting "OMEGA!" down the microphone.

Upon hearing these my mind somehow started thinking about Dillinja's classic "Ja Know Ya Big" and the way he timestretched the main vocal hook on the drop.

I gave that a try, laid the vocals down across the track and voila! It all started to work.

After a few more hours of EQuing and mixing down, our track was finished.

Not only is this my most successful collaboration to date, but also one of the fastest tracks I've completed in a long time!

At least that's 1 track ready for our Valve demo CD now...