Category: Drum n Bass

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Spoilt For Choice Kiki

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Did you listen to this already?  Soooooo good.  So many mixes, so little time. 💜💜💜

Tracklist

Enei, Charli Brix – Homeworld (Break Rmx)
Bert H, High N Sick – Salat
Satl, Kasper – In The Sun
Dave Owen – Jukin’ N Jivin’ (feat. Impression and Anita Magenta)
Samuel Riser & Jenna G – Red Velvet (Dave Owen, Jaybee, ZeroZero, Brothaman Rmx)
Move Mode, GLXY – Sill Here feat. Elizabeth Swan
Children of Zeus – Still Standing feat. DRS (Lenzman Rmx)
Changing Faces, M.Bass – Brighton Love
Move Mode, Collosus – The Valley
Edlan – Rewind
Pola & Bryson – Flat Jam
Changing Faces – Dusk
Humanature – Without You
Bachelors of Science – On The Line (Random Movement Rmx)
Bank – Old Reels (OUT NOW!)
Bank – Dawn Summit
Utah Jazz, Random Movement – Be Right Here
Insideman – Venezuela
Paul T & Edward Oberon – Fifteen

Drum n Bass · Mixes

Teenage Dream Kiki

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I’m totes reliving my teenage raver life.  I spend hours mixing records, I lay in my room and listen to dnb while reading suspense novels,  and zone out to mixes while doing house chores.

I listened to this mix while trimming the hedges, and mowing the lawn for what will hopefully be the last time this year… we’ll see.  

I def need to get a dnb show fix.  I was trying to go see the homie Submorphics last Friday, but had previous engagements, and couldn’t swing it.  Fingers crossed I can make it to one soon.

Dope mix. 😍😍😍

Drum n Bass · Mixes

Grass Clippings Kiki

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My current life back in the US seems to entail me doing numerous things I don’t feel like doing. Unpacking my stuff from Japan… nope.  Going to the DMV… nope.  Going through my entire life’s belongings that I moved from Chicago to my Mum’s house, before I left to go to Indonesia 3 years ago… nope.  Mowing the lawn… nope.  

You get the gist.  

I did mow the lawn though, and Hybrid Minds made me hate the whole grass clippings process a little less. 💕💕💕

Tracklist

Artificial Intelligence – Shrine
Hybrid Minds – Music Talks
BCee – Come & Join Us (Klute Remix)
Emperor – Haste
Q Project – Champion Sound (DLR Remix)
Logistics – No Hurry Time
Lenzman – Every So Slightly
Mediks – By A Thread (Hybrid Minds Remix)
Jakwob – Blinding (Hybrid Minds Remix)
Karma – Proposal
Pola & Bryson – A Good Thing
Sub Focus – Airplane
Technimatic – Transference
Logistics – Take Me To Another World
Calibre – Under Bars
High Contrast – Remind Me
T.E.E.D – Garden (Calibre Remix)
Alix Perez & Ivy Lab – Maiden
Emperor – Foxholes
Villem, Linden,Mako & Fields – Saturate
Netsky – Memory Lane
Hybrid Minds – Lifted
Hybrid Minds – Reincarnation
Hybrid Minds – Touch

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Custodian Kiki

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8 days left.

8 days of doing nothing but cleaning. Straight up janitor Kiki here.  

Cancelling everything, going to city hall to say I’m no longer going to be a resident of Togane, blah blah, blah, blah.  Thank god for Mika, my ALT supervisor.  So much paperwork, so much Japanese.  

One thing that has been very interesting about living in Japan is the rule oriented lifestyle. That was a strange change for someone who lived in Chicago for 12 years and had learned the art of fighting with Comcast, ComEd, Peoples Energy and the like, whenever they did something I wasn’t down with.  I had become accustomed to being salty af, arguing my point til I’m blue in the face and then eventually ending up with 3 months free HBO or whatever.  That does not seem to happen here.  The rule is the rule and there’s really no negotiating.  

Yesterday though, a little miracle happened.  Everything was just taking soooooooooo long and I’m definitely not that patient of a person.  The paperwork gets really annoying after while.  Can we just have a website please?  Trust…  this shit would go so much quicker.  Everything takes forever. 

Anyway,  I was getting uber restless and super annoyed and so when my internet wanted to charge me a cancellation fee for being 5 days short of my 2 year contract, the Chicago Kiki came out.  I argued my point, came up with several other ways to combat this fee, asked for some official explanation behind paying the fee.  The fee wasn’t exorbitant but it wasn’t cheap either, when you added it to the total of also paying my last bill.  Anyway, they agreed and waived the cancellation fee.  

When I chose my internet service, I purposely chose one where they had English speakers so that I could handle stuff on my own if I had any problems.  Internet is life yo.  

Would they have listened to my gripes if it was a Japanese speaker translating back and forth between me and Mika?  Who knows?  All I know is I just wanted one mini victory for my day of annoyance and I got it.  😛

Currently listening to Spectrasoul and going through all my lesson folders and worksheets as I try and figure out what to throw away and what to keep for Neda.

 

 

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Waterworks Central

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So that’s all she wrote!  

Exams are over.  Nothing more to grade.  I’m still not really sure what exactly the kids do til next Wednesday when school officially finishes.  All  I know is it has nothing to do with me.  I’ll just be sitting in my aforementioned hot ass office, waiting for August 3rd when I blow this popsicle stand.  

I said goodbye to my students and it was waterworks central.  smh.  I’m such a crybaby.  LOL.  I still have a farewell English department dinner and have to give a speech at the closing ceremony next week.  I’ll be too busy memorising my Japanese to actually cry then. 

Currently listening to all the drum n bass.  😂  I’m just going through my Itunes  having a solo dnb party as I clean out my desk and throw away all the rubbish I’ve accumulated over the past two years.

Oldie but goodie. 💕💕💕

 

 

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Exam Inferno

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I just have to make it through this week of grading exams and then it’ll be just me sitting in a hot ass office for the 4 weeks until I leave.  I don’t have any nenkyu left so there’s no last minute summer holiday and I’m okay with that.   The remaining days I had left, I’m using to come home a little bit earlier.  

I think i’m going to have to make friends with some of the teachers in the air conditioned offices.  “I know it’s been 2 years and I haven’t spoken a word to you, but can I sit in here and watch Netflix so I don’t  collapse from the heat?”  😛

My supervisor was laughing at me yesterday because my fan is pretty much touching my face.  It’s hot af in my office.

I have 200 exams to grade today, so I’m making an epic playlist to zone out to.  It’s the first years, so there’s no essay, and they will be easy to grade, but I might die from the repetition.

 

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Kiki Poppins

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6 weeks?  Dang, wasn’t I just telling you there was 10 weeks like yesterday?  I guess not.

I’ve been pretty diligent about devoting time to packing up, cleaning and throwing shit out every weekend, so I’m on track and don’t think they’ll be any stressing out when the time actually comes.  We’ll see…

I’m having a pretty good morning and Bank is definitely helping contribute to that. 🙂

Tracklist

Bank – Moonshot
David Boombah, Rowpiece – Wish Upon A Star
Random Movement – Nobody’s Business
Kasper, Satl – Something Nice
Silence Groove – Slapper
Random Movement – Sleazy Bitch (Ivy Lab rmx)
Paul T, Edward Oberon – Somebody Else (VIP)
Random Movement – In Space, No One Can Hear You Funk
Need for Mirrors – Son of Sorrow
Andreez and DJ Chap – Hydra
Bcee – Come and Join Us (Klute Rmx)
Calibre – Under Bars
Lurch – Imperfections
Lurch – Count the Days
FD – Snowdrops
Hugh Hardie, Phaction – If Only
Hybird Minds – Touch (Tokyo Prose Rmx)
Silence Groove, Hugh Hardie – City Soul
Satl, Malaky – What You Waiting For
Protone, Roy Green, Lynu – Freshy
Random Movement – Goblin Jazz Banquet
Flowrian – Sunbeam