I’ve been listening to jump-up for like 5 hours. Should my sanity be questioned? Probably… but I finished writing 2 final exams and graded a bunch of work so whatevs.
Category: Drum n Bass
Hawaiian Tropics
When I lived in Minneapolis, there was this girl I used to rave with sometimes that we called Hawaiian Tropics. It wasn’t a diss, she was actually trying her damnedest to become Miss Hawaiian Tropics. I had never heard of this competition until I met her. She was always really orange.
Currently, I’m pretending I’m on a beach listening to dnb and drinking margaritas. Really it’s 8 am, it’s rainy season and muggy as hell and I’m sitting in my office with a fan blowing in my face.
There is a bright spot though, I just transferred some old mixes from an external hard drive that I forgot I had brought with me to Japan, to my laptop and have been listening to some oldies but goodies. Of course I find the hard drive while I’m going through my things to pack up shit to move back.
Lets be honest though, this is not really that different from every other day where I spend a majority of my time listening to dnb from 15 odd years ago. This time around though, I have an even bigger library of mixes to choose from. 😉
This track is 14 years old. Am I really that old? LOL
Sardines
I have eaten a lot of sardines this year. I live next to Kujukuri, which is famous for its sardines, and have eaten them fresh many times. おいしいですね。
The only reason I’m talking about sardines is because I’m currently listening to the Ed Rush & Optical track.
I only teach one lesson on Wednesdays, so I spend the rest of the day lesson planning. Currently got a pretty awesome Ed Rush & Optical soundtrack going. ❤
Bacteria = forever winning — Biggin’ up the chair dancin’ massive
Wine & Dine
I don’t always need rowdy DnB to get motivated to clean. Sometimes a soulful mix can cajole me into getting ish done.
10 weeks left? That’s crackers!
Listening to this mix as I slowly sort out stuff I don’t need, don’t want, need to throw away, need to sell etc.
Tracklist
01 // Etherwood- We’re Nothing Without Love feat. S.P.Y (Ivy Lab Remix)
02 // ST Files & Response- Wanna B 3
03 // Nuage & Gerwin- Back In The Moments (Confusious Remix)
04 // Alix Perez & Ivy Lab- Maiden
05 // Kolectiv- Can’t Explain
06 // Facing Jinx- Lover
07 // Command Strange & Intelligent Manners- Mastermind
08 // Submorphics feat. Adrienne Richards- Maybe It’s Time
09 // Calibre- Kiya feat. Crow
10 // Alix Perez & Ivy Lab- The Last Light
11 // Malaky & Satl- Her
12 // Madcap- Melanie
13 // Saxxon- High Tide
14 // Command Strange & Intelligent Manners- Make Me Alive
15 // The Vanguard Project- All That I Need (feat Pat Fulgoni)
16 // Calibre- Down On You
17 // Command Strange & Intelligent Manners- Early In The Morning
18 // Malaky- Now or Never
19 // Random Movement- Meat Sauce
20 // Apache & Humanature- Spectral Advice
21 // Alix Perez & Ivy Lab- Arkestra
22 // Phil Tangent & Pennygiles- Ascension
23 // Technimatic- Transference
24 // Actraiser & Tremah- Tipping Point (Actraiser’s instrumental)
25 // Logistics- Sentimentality
26 // Command Strange & Intelligent Manners- Mr.Cool
27 // Logistics- Highway 1
28 // Saxxon- Blue Harbour (Command Strange Remix)
29 // Actraiser- Separation Anxiety ❤
30 // Insideman- Imperfect Child
31 // FBD Project & Madcap- Nema
32 // The Vanguard Project- Blacklist
33 // Phase 2- London After Dark
34 // Malaky & Satl- Dreams Are Gone (Silence Groove Remix)
35 // Command Strange & Intelligent Manners- Stay True
36 // Alibi- Fire feat. Charli Brix
37 // Logistics feat. Zara Kershaw- Finish Line
38 // Calibre- All One Call
39 // dRamatic- Save The Game
40 // Random Movement- Same Old Feelings (feat Collette Warren)
41 // Total Science- Soul For Sale
42 // Commix- Generation
43 // Zero T- Too Close To See (feat. Steo)
44 // The Vanguard Project- Driftwood
45 // Phaction- Stratos (Total Science Remix)
46 // Anastasia & Thesis- The Bridge
47 // Philth feat. Collette Warren- Earth
48 // Calibre- Love Word Soul
49 // Alix Perez & Ivy Lab- No One Else
Insomniaville – Population 1
I’m quite active when I have insomnia. Most of the time I’m way too wide awake to pretend that sleep will actually find me, so I just kick it in my apartment like it’s the afternoon, instead of the wee hours of the morning.
Got a little Bank keeping me company. ❤
Tracklist
A Sides, MC Fats – A Certain Sound
Calibre & High Contrast – The Other Side
Kjell – Lincoln Place
Calibre – Feeling happy
Zyon Base, Hobzee, Brother – 125th Street
Donnie Dubson – So Simple
Random Movement – Revealed
Pola & Bryson – Whisper to Me
Satl – I Wish
Flowrian – Bo Dem Caminho
Marky, Bungle – No Time 2 Love
Andrezz & DJ Chap – Hyrda
Urban Dawn, Bungle – Sacred Floor
Akuratyde – Still Perfect (Random Movement)
Flowrian – Encalyptic
Pogo – No Worries (Hybrid Minds Remix)
Bank – Old Reels
HumaNature & Kalum – Untitled Dub – I need this tune!
A Sides – Crazy
Bliss
It’s nice out. The kids have exams next week so this week is just review. I’ve finished writing all my exams. Now I’m just catching up on some grading and listening to some good choons.
A nice mix from earlier this year.
Calibre – Latin Ways
Logistics – Sentimenality
Dawn Wall – Simple Mind
Bachelors Of Science – Before You Go (feat. Dylan Germick & Audio Angel)
inZtance – The World We Live In
Mick Pedaja – Seis (Bone Remix)
Stunna & Physics feat. Jere Garcia – World Keeps Turning
>>> Alix Perez – Recall & Reflect
Digital – Stolen Desire ft Spirit
Soul Intent – Give Me a Dub
Planeet – RPG
Friction & Fourward – Battle Scars (feat Jakes – Alix Perez remix)
Dub Motion – Off The Record
Shiver – Fragmented
Goldie presents Rufige Kru – Dark Rider (SCAR Remix)
Deadcode – Bomboclat
Dub Phizix – Doberman (feat. Ward 21)
Roni Size & DJ Krust – Snapshot (Swindle Remix)
Moresounds – Rahstok
Break & Kyo – Nevaeh
Roni Size & Reprazent – Share The Fall (Grooverider’s Jeep Style Mix)
Total Science – Notes Of Blue
Response B – Up All Night On Dopamine
Zero T & Beta 2 – Election
Tokyo Prose – Tell Me
Commix – Emily’s Smile
Anile – Stay With Me
Reso – Echo Loss
Nope
Crabby af.
Not a good way to start Monday.
I have too much work to do and I’m not look forward to it.
Liquidy rollers should do the trick right? 😉
Birf
Guess who’s 8?
Happy Bday DnB & Kiki!
I’m glad I decided not to scrap this blog. I like having a place to wax nostalgic about my love for dnb whenever I feel like it. That was why I started it in the first place! ❤
I know this mix is old but it’s still so good and it’s what I felt like listening to today. 🙂
Tracklist:
Loz Contreras – Baby It’s You
Total Science – Soul Patrol
A.I – Movin’ On (DJ Marky & Bungle Remix)
Random Movement – Good Enough
Total Science, S.P.Y & Riya – Piano Funk
Command Strange – Rock Steady (Lenzman Remix)
Random Movement – Can’t See You
Dave Owen – Deep Breathin’
Intelligent Manners & Malaky – Get Funky
Technimatic – Looking For Diversion
Macca & Loz Contreras – Wanna Be Your Lover
Satl – Joy
High Contrast – Make It Tonight
Satl – B.L.O
Intelligent Manners – Love Is Love
Chris Turner – Liquid Love (Kasper Remix)
Loz Contreras – Disco Kiss
Macca & Loz Contreras – Players Ways
Zero T & Icicle – Go 4 Yours
Makoto & MC Conrad – Golden Girl (Lenzman VIP)
Zero 7 – In The Waiting Line (S.P.Y Remix)
Dave Owen – Yo Girl
Malaky & Satl – For Your Love
Submorophics – Long Been Gone
Loz Contreras Vs. Apex – Favela Stories/Space Between
LTJ Bukem – Atlantis (I Need You) (DJ Marky & S.P.Y Remix)
DJ Marky – Silly
Impish – The Groove
Macca & Loz Contreras – Honey Sugar
I’m Awake! I’m Awake!
I’ve had the worst insomnia lately, and it’s been really hard to get a move on in the mornings. I trudge around my apartment as slowly as possible, and just groan and groan and groan.
This morning I really wasn’t feeling it and my iPhone knew it. (You know Apple knows everything). I hopped in the shower and pressed play on my speaker (one of my fave Xmas gifts ever) and this came blasting out. I just laughed and lamented out loud “I’m awake! I’m awake!”
The version that played off iTunes is from some compilation, so the tune just started right after the breakdown. Oh it was so damn loud.
I have a pretty wonderful memory about this record. It definitely wasn’t wonderful at the time, but now I think about it, it reminds me of some really fun times during my raving years.
I was a hardcore Bad Company Stan. Who wasn’t? I remember taking the bus to go pick up my copy of Planet Dust at the record store. I couldn’t wait because I of course had been waiting FOR-EVA for it to come out. I went there, picked it up, left immediately and was so excited to go home and mix it. I then proceeded to get off the bus and leave my damn record on it. I called the bus company (yes I did) and they said I should call at the end of that driver’s shift, 8 hours later, and I could see if the record was still on there. Um nope.
Being the most dramatic person I could be, was definitely my speciality in 2001. I went into my apartment, sulked for like 10 minutes, left the house and got on the bus again and returned to the record store to get another copy. I held on to this one for dear life. I’d be damned if EVERYONE was going to be playing it that weekend without me. LOL
I’m still dramatic af now, but dang, I really was killin’ it in ’01. 😛
Repeat
I’m not a person that worries too much about age. I like getting older. *shrugs* I do think it is weird though when you think about stuff and you’re like “Dang that was a really really really long time ago.”
I just keep my iTunes on shuffle when I’m getting ready in the morning and this track came on. I remember buying this bootleg and just being so excited that it was a combination of Masters at Work and DnB. It sounded pretty and made me think of summer, simple as that.
Shout out to my roommates back then that pretended it wasn’t annoying af that I just kept this ish on repeat.
Morning Tears
About to spend my morning cleaning.
Ugh. Cleaning is the worst.
The cleaning mix I made, starts with the Marky & Bungle remix of Tears.
Yasss. That song is the best.
I loved that period of time where it was nonstop Marky & Bungle remixes.
Versatility
DnB you are so versatile. I zone out to you when I’m planning a bunch of lessons and, I zone out to you when I know I have no intention of planning said lessons. This morning it’s the latter.
Thanks Juju for the reminder, I am now in full-blown Atlantic Connection mode.
It’s gorgeous outside this a.m. and I’m only planning on listening to tunes from 2006 – 2007 today. 🙂
DnB & Kiki 