Jay Tripwire

Jay Tripwire Vancouver DJ that pioneered the fusion of House and Techno in a more minimal stripped down fashion a long time ago in a galaxy far far away.
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Now that I have spent time with my dot.mixer I can honestly say it’s the smoothest mixer I have ever played on. The glue...
08/25/2026

Now that I have spent time with my dot.mixer
I can honestly say it’s the smoothest mixer I have ever played on. The glueing of the tracks in the mix and the well thought out design and precision of the channel curve makes your mixes seamless. The intuitive way you use the channels feels like it’s less of a mixer and more of an instrument. The sound is rich and warm, you can hear every detail of the record. The headphone amp sounds spectacular. With my custom headphone stick, my custom rotary and vinyl only- I have achieved the highest level of do**he snobbery!! I can now whisper to people at public urinals as I p*e next to them- “I play vinyl only a custom rotary with a headphone stick” and they will be so impressed we can cross the p*e streams together and send Ghozer back to their dimension.

08/10/2026

Box of records from the amazing
I’ll post vids of each one on my stories and ramble on about them. Thanks Matthias!!!
If you want to send me vinyl DM for Addy!!

07/30/2026

.mixer rotary
I have been eyeing this mixer for a very long time and I got the opportunity to play on it in Poland. The inventor is an amazing DJ, we played a gig together and he brought it. I gave him some €€€ the next day at lunch to start the build.
This mixer is perfect for how I dj, it’s intuitive and it sounds so rich and warm- there is something really special to the channel curve and how the summing just glued together.. The headphones even sound incredible
I was lucky enough to get a custom faceplate and serial number 666.
If your in the market for a boutique rotary- I can’t say enough good things!!

Various places I exist at playing records for all you lovely humans. Say hello, dance a bit, just don’t fart on the danc...
06/01/2026

Various places I exist at playing records for all you lovely humans. Say hello, dance a bit, just don’t fart on the dancefloor. Eat a nice light meal before you go, avoid broccoli garlic beans and heavy dairy and if your prone to fart maybe take some Beano to reduce farting in the club.
Also try to avoid asparagus if you get the stinky p*e, I made that mistake a few times and after I p*ed the bathroom stunk. I felt guilty, now my rule is no asparagus while touring.

03/20/2026

This side was all about taking the .synth mono to its limits of mutation. The glitchy bass/acid is all that one unit, just a free flow of how far it can go in a jam setting.
Drums are and zaps and Operas Rotas
granulated jazz sampled into the blackbox
I played a piano riff right into the sampler and granulated it moving around its start and end points then triggered and the horn is from a rare Louis Armstrong record. Haunting synth off the Yamaha EX5 big blue beast, I played them as I felt so they aren’t always dead on. I probably did about 20 takes of this. My circle suffered hearing version after version of this for 2 years lol.

03/17/2026

When I undertook making this project for from concept to reality, I didn’t grasp that it would become an obsession that overtook my life for a few years. Thank you for your patience going thru the 20 versions I sent. This is a music thesis devoted to Jazz, something I studied. I guess a lot you don’t know this about me. I went to school for music,sound engineering, sound design, I got a degree in music contracts. I went into this life as ride or die, all or nothing. No room for failure.
To gather everything and perform it live. Whether you like or not, I don’t care-this one is truly for me.
This was my Hollands Opus moment of my career.
This idea of performing this live and captured to vinyl was in the back of my head for over 27 years. It took me that long to gather the talent, mindset, studio equipment and skills to undertake such a feat. I had literally re built my studio for this project.
After the project was done I didn’t feel joy, I felt empty and emotionally drained. I cried for days once it was finally sent for mastering. There were low points after where I felt since my personal triumph was completed -I should just stop doing music altogether. The work I did for a while after was not my best, most of it ended up on bandcamp as strange concepts. This obsession to create my personal triumph kept me going thru some of the hardest curveballs and difficult moments my personal life has ever seen. Despite the lows after, I feel that this project might have saved my life. I don’t tell soppy mushy personal things very often, but this needed to be told.

Upcoming gigs. Catch me somewhere, just don’t catch a flu or a cold.I just had that cold so I should...
02/18/2026

Upcoming gigs.
Catch me somewhere, just don’t catch a flu or a cold.
I just had that cold so I should be immune
I will probably need to do laundry at least once in Europe, otherwise I’ll be wearing dirty socks and underwear.

01/11/2026

This is how I make music. This is a remix of and yes it’s vinyl only, don’t ask.
I build patches on the gear till I like the groove - setup my sequences and hit play- No DAW, just a live jam
I record a 40 something min version to DAT tape then I’ll record that into logic and edit it down to the best parts.
Almost every piece of gear I own has its own internal sequencer just running off a midi clock, going to the Trident into the DAT
Gear used
Drums - LXR, .synth Spectral Society Opera Rotas Underneath grit Mescaline

Remix parts are recorded into the Nebulae running through the Alter 2 FX mod

Bass is from the double knot 3 into the zen delay filter and distortion with the delays section bypassed bypass
And the glitchy s**t and static wind are from the Weather drone with cv clock etc from Pam’s Pro Workout

EU Feb 21,22,28 available An ongoing issue-VenuesEven when you get a secure venue the authorities come and shut us down....
01/08/2026

EU Feb 21,22,28 available
An ongoing issue-Venues
Even when you get a secure venue the authorities come and shut us down. It’s getting worse and worse Worldwide.
Prices of real estate to get a venue, licensing, draconian laws-law enforcement, we resist! This is the resistance.
These things go in cycles, political cycles, economic cycles. Been on this ride long enough to see another cycle on the rave rollercoaster as I approach all to familiar scenery.

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