The holiday season was good to me. – Stuffed my face over Thanksgiving and spent some quality time with my family, – Jaunted over to Sierra Leone with my mum for Christmas. – Visited my dad (him being buried in Sierra Leone is bittersweet, as I don’t get to visit as often as I’d like.) – Finished up the year in Wisconsin with my sister and brother-in-law.
January is trudging along. I’m just here listening to Emma G. This month’s episode has her all vinyl demo mix from 2006 and it’s so good! So many amazing tracks came out during that era.
Mondays suck after you’ve had an enjoyable weekend.
I’ve made new friends in LA, but it’s still such a treat to see my besties. Adult life is not for the weak. Navigating families, time off, kids, and packed schedules makes it hard to find quality time with your people, especially when they don’t live nearby.
I’m fortunate to have close friendships that span 20 to 30 years. Most of those friends are in Minnesota, Chicago, or overseas, so I don’t get to see them often. Luckily, one of my Chicago besties moved to San Diego, so it was nice to get a good girl hang in for a couple of days.
I really don’t feel like switching to work mode now. 😭
Listening to another one of my besties and working on getting this module ready for UAT.
The first time I went to university, (🤣 giggling at “The first time”. Being 49 is a trip. There are so many versions of your life to look back on.) I went to the University of Minnesota. I lived in Minneapolis for 8 years and have such fond memories of my raving and early dj years there.
My friend Dave owned Bassment Records and I spent so many hours of my sophmore year of hanging out there. I bought my first jungle records there and then just never really left.
Dave also mixed dnb and put up with me nattering away endllessly about my fave tracks. It reached a point where I would skip class and spend the whole day in the shop. He would let me mix for hours on end since I didn’t have my own turntables yet, Eventually that turned into me working there and helping with the orders.
Today, I’m going to mix some vinyl at FeeLIT Records in San Diego. They do a vinyl-only recording at the store. It’s pretty cool. https://www.feelitrecords.com/
While picking out some records to bring for today, I got hit with a wave of nostalgia for my time at Bassment. That was such a fun, formative chapter in my little raver life. I got to hear all the latest tunes and chat to everyone who came through to get their records. I loved it.
I’ve just been listening to my old records all week. Man, there are some really great old tunes.
With all this Bassment talk, it feels fitting that today’s tunes be my first purchase there. 🥰
I’m so stubborn about my collocation tracks. If I decide you two go together, that’s it. Mates for life. Soz.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a planner. I usually just mix whatever, but once I decide two tracks are an elite combo, I find it hard to not hear them together and I love riding out a long blend.
What’s even funnier is that I have ADHD, so my working memory is shit. I’ll always be like “ooh these two will sound super good together” and get excited about the combo and then I’ll listen to an old mix I made and it’s the same two tunes that I mixed together ages ago. 😁
Current life partners I’ve been mixing a lot are Fox and Satl’s “Revellin'” with Benny L’s “Pulp Fiction” remix.
Working and listening to Satl’s mix from this year’s Sun and Bass. I was there and got to enjoy it in person. Happy I get to listen to it again. 🥰
Had a lovely time at SnB. I love that it’s just a great hols with dnb sprinkled all over. I got to hang with my girl Alley Cat, have some great meals, jaunt around Sardinia, and enjoy heaps of really enjoyable dnb sets. Perfect holiday imo. 🥰
Morning commute shuffle delivering the goods this a.m. 🧡
Loved this month’s Bankbeats installment. Lots of oldies to enjoy.
Tracklist 1. Maysev — Left (Original Mix) 2. Hydro, Fields, Mako (UK) — Suspension (Original Mix) 3. War — Justice (Original Mix) 4. Veak — Pulsating Dub (Original Mix) 5. Umbra — Close Enough (Original Mix) 6. Noppo, Anya Asia — Something Real (Original Mix) 7. Walk\:r — Cherry Blossom (Original Mix) 8. Trail — Midnight Sun (Original Mix) 9. Amoss — Below The Horizon (Original Mix) 10. dRamatic — Cirqus Voltaire (Original Mix) 11. Fox, Zero T — Fantastic (Original Mix) 12. Kublai — Revelation (Original Mix) 13. Marcus Intalex, Mako (UK) — Keep Your Cool (Original Mix) 14. TeeBee — Gun Tune (Original Mix) 15. Amoss, Hugh Hardie — Break (Original Mix) 16. Amoss — The Seventh (Original Mix) 17. Break, SOLAH — Raise Your Hands (Original Mix) 18. Technimatic — The Golden Section (Zero T Remix) 19. Amoss — A Lot To Give (Original Mix) 20. Leks, Speaker Louis — Shella (Original Mix) 21. Circumference — Pyramid (Askel & Elere Remix) 22. ZeroZero — Sand Cave (Original Mix) 23. Conrad Subs — Vintage (Original Mix) 24. Calibre — All Day (Original Mix) 25. 4Hero — Better Place (Marcus Intalex & ST Files Remix) 26. Calibre — Barca (Original Mix) 27. Calibre — Understand (Original Mix) 28. Jaheim — Put That Woman First (Calibre Vocal Remix) 29. Calibre, High Contrast — The Other Side 30. Badmarsh & Shri — Signs (Calibre Mix) 31. Kubiks & Lomax — Get It On 32. Lomax — Avenue feat. Eveson (Original Mix) 33. BCee & Lomax — Changing Faces 34. Kubiks, Lomax — Lost Language (Original Mix) 35. Lomax, Focus — 5 Weeks (Original Mix) 36. Autumn — Cut Away (Lomax Remix) 37. Kubiks, Lomax — Reveal It (Original Mix) 38. Kabuki — Trailblazer (Original Mix) 39. Fracture & Neptune — Sagrada Familia (Original Mix) 40. Redeyes, Peyo — Delight (Original Mix) 41. XRS — Pao Sovado 42. Chino — Jade Sunrise (Original Mix) 43. Cyantific — Good Weather (Original Mix) 44. Danny Byrd — Round And Round (Original Mix) 45. Icicle — That Tune (Original Mix) 46. Logistics — Glitch
Wrapping a project means laser like raving focus as I QA/QC my Storyline file checking all the variables/triggers etc. This is usually done while listening to drum and bass at full volume. It’s 8:18 am and I’m at my desk getting my 48 year old raver granny on and that image just cracks me up sometimes. 👵🏾
I love words and language. “Sedulous” was my dictionary word of the day recently. I’m deep in the throes of building this project I’ve been working on, so I suppose I am actually being quite sedulous.
I barely have any meetings this week, which means I’ve been able to focus most of my time on completing this module. Hence the rare window to crank out three posts in a single week. 🤣
Working. My favourite thing about my job is that I can just sit at my desk, blast dnb in my headphones, and get on with it. I’m way more productive with music than without.
Just picked up this Archangel yesterday. Been waiting for it to get released! 😍
I’m here. Toiling my summer away. I am whinging about working through the summer, like it wasn’t me that made the decision to not work in academia anymore.
Instead, I guess I have to just get used to having an end of summer getaway of some sort. I’m tagging along to Sun and Bass again this year, so I am trying to keep my moaning at bay and wait for that trip.
Haven’t really been to many shows as of late. Just spending my time mixing in my bedroom and still listening to heaps of dnb as per usual.
I really enjoyed the Pola & Bryson album. My faves:
The weather’s quite lovely. I’m working at one of the standing desks and taking in the downtown LA views, listening to Klute.
DnB & Kiki 