The only way for me to get a move on when it’s a rainy, dreary, grey morning, is to zone out to some dnb and go on auto-pilot.
Thank you Logistics. One of my fave tracks of the Electric Sun LP.
Category: Drum n Bass
Countdown
First day of actual classes today.
It’s my last term here in Japan. Even though the school year in Japan starts in April, our contracts follow the American school year. So we basically arrive in the middle of the school year, and leave in the middle of the school year.
I’m really looking forward to coming home.
I’ve enjoyed the past 3 years of travelling around and teaching. I’ve learned so much! Especially at Togane High School. Being given the opportunity to plan a curriculum from start to finish and really assess what happens to the kids English education upon entering the international course and follow, guide, and tweak what they leave with, has been really eye opening and rewarding. It’s exactly what I went to school to study, and have been able to put my copious amount of student loan dollars to use!
That being said, 3 years away from family and friends is a long time. I’m ready to go from always being 14 to 16 hours ahead, to the more acceptable pace of actually talking to people and having us both be on the same day of the week.
Current mood —
Cleaning
I’ve been putting off cleaning for so long, and now I’m pretty sure I’m going to be doing it for 8 million hours. And of course, I can’t even think of getting out of bed until I find the perfect tracks to accompany this momentous occasion. 😉
Def. need this bootleg in my life. ❤
Currently…
Getting my Planet V: Drum & Bass, Vol. 2 on, as I write these exams. ❤
December
So far December has been wonderful. I’m pretty sure I’m just super excited to go home on Thursday, so I’m unnecessarily geeked about everything.
I somehow managed to talk my 85 year old dad through fixing the internet on his new computer and video chatting with me. I was so proud of him and it was so awesome to see his face. Technology is cool yo. So that was awesome.
Next I went to the Human Elements night on Saturday. Makoto, Velocity, Tokyo Prose, Akira, Dx, Aya… Everyone was amazing. I don’t use this phrase, but for real, that gave me life. LOL.
I listen to drum n bass every day. Here, I listen to it in my headphones at work or and have little speakers in my apartment. They have dnb nights in Tokyo and I don’t go because I don’t lead that life anymore where I can just stay out all night and party and roll up to work like it was nothing.
But hallelujah, this night was on a Saturday. I danced for 5 hours. The venue was nice and intimate with loads of people dancing and good sound. I had so much fun. So much good music.
I felt like it gave me a boost. My life here is not even anywhere close to the life I lead in the States. And I’m not really that bothered by that, but the one thing I do miss terribly, is not having regular access to go listen to dnb with other peeps who are as crazy about it as I am.
This is one of my fave Makoto tunes. ❤ (Besides Golden Girl of course. :P)
Mess
My place is a mess. Listening to good mixes while you clean up, helps to pretend that it isn’t one of the most annoying tasks ever. (That’s what I’m telling myself anyways)
Tracklist
1. Naibu – Into The distance (Break Remix) [Horizons Music]
2. LTJ Bukem – Music (Technicolor 12’’ Rework) [Good Looking]
3. LSB – XLRS [Shogun Audio]
4. Simplification & Translate – Desire [Shogun Audio]
5. Karma – The Searching (ft. Emmy J Mac) [Shogun Audio]
6. Logistics – Jungle Music [Hospital]
7. Ivy Lab – Gomeisa [Critical]
8. Halogenix – Paper Sword [Metalheadz]
9. Technimatic – Bristol [Shogun Audio]
10. Nelver – Just One Day [Expressions]
11. Break – The Flux [Symmetry]
12. Whiney – Don’t Wait For Me [Liquicity]
13. Mindmapper & Silvahfonk – One Step Closer [Fokuz]
14. ID – ID [Dub]
15. Drake – Hold On Were Going Home (J:logic Bootleg) [Soul Deep]
16. Commix – Painted Smile [Metalheadz]
17. Break – Pushing Me On [Symmetry]
18. Zero T – My Name [Dispatch]
19. SUBSEQUENT – Let Go [Liquid Tones]
20. Chroma – Sovereign [ProgRam]
21. Zen Dub – Believe (SEKTOR Remix)[Soul Deep]
22. Planetary Secrets – Wormhole (Silence Groove Remix) [Offworld]
23. Muzzy – Feeling Stronger (Priority One & NCT Remix) [Monstercat]
24. Dawn Wall – Angel Field [Integral]
25. GLXY – It’s Whatever [Liquid Tones]
26. SEKTOR & SUBSEQUENT – Take it to Me [Liquid Tones]
27. SEKTOR – The Story of Our Lives [Liquid Tones]
28. Bipolar – Sublime [Fokuz]
29. T-Base – Zeitreise (SEKTOR Remix) [C Recordings, forthcoming]
30. Legion & Logam – Holding On feat. Micah Freeman [ProgRAM]
31. Amphix – Twilight Town (Pulsate Remix) [Bay6]
32. Flame – Saturn [Lush Stuff]
33. > Hybrid Minds – Lifted [Spearhead]
34. Pennygiles – Looking In [Tempo]
35. Enei – Just One Look feat. Charli Brix [Critical]
36. GLXY – I Want 2 [Limitless]
37. Dimension – Dark Lights [MTA]
38. > North Base – Join the Dots [Hospital]
39. L – Plus – Raindrops [Technique]
40. Monrroe ft. Emily Jones – Dawning [Liquicity]
41. Silence Groove – Only You [Fokuz]
42. Radicall – Cosmopolis [Influenza]
43. Pola & Bryson – Bad Habit (Arch Origin Remix) [Soulvent]
44. MOS – Halcyon [Influenza]
45. Seba – Blaze And Fade Out [Special Ops]
46. Silence Groove – Air Up There [Offworld]
47. Northern Zone – Faint [Limitless]
Professional Mix Listener
Is that a thing? I could def. do that for a living. When I have a lot of work to do I just bulldoze through mix after mix.
Currently zoning out to this one as I catch up on some grading. 🙂
Tracklist:
01 // Technimatic v Nils Frahm – Music Is Familiar
02 // Artificial Intelligence – Nothing But
03 // Random Movement – Lost In Time
04 // DBR UK – Hexton ft. Skeptical
05 // Technimatic & Lucy Kitchen v LSB – Looking For Tonight
06 // Random Movement – A Day Without Death
07 // Phaction ft. Leo Woo – Stratos
08 // Friske – Down
09 // Stealth – The Truth ft. MC Fats
10 // Random Movement – Yes You Are
11 // Alix Perez – Recall & Reflect
12 // John Newman – Tiring Game (Spectrasoul Remix)
13 // SP:MC – We Run This
14 // Mr Joseph – Signs and Signals
15 // Changing Faces – Inside Your Mind
16 // Artificial Intelligence – Take Me There ft. Steo
17 // Macca & Loz Contreras – One Touch (Technimatic Remix)
18 // Artificial Intelligence – Rizon
19 // Dawn Wall – Seeds Of Change
20 // Command Strange – Ghostman (Philbee Remix)
21 // Technimatic – Untitled
22 // Zero T – My Name (Lenzman Remix)
23 // Phil Tangent & Pennygiles – Ascension
24 // Hosta ft. Jessica Avis – Need Some Time
25 // Olski – Salem Royale
26 // Technimatic – Flashbulb VIP
27 // Calibre – Bullets ft. Diane Charlemagne
Wilin’ Out
This term has been so so so busy. I’m exhausted and just excited to get a 3 week holiday at home for Christmas.
Exams are coming up and we’ve got 4 finals to write. I already wrote one, so only 3 more to go. *sigh*
I’m rewarding myself for all the good teacher behaviour by going to this Human Elements show on the 12th.
I will most definitely be that old lady shaking my booty to some dnb for endless amounts of hours. I mean come on, Makoto, Velocity and Tokyo Prose… bruh. I’ll be wilin’ out fo sho.
Currently listening to this Zero T gem. So many goodies on here.
Enjoy.
Gym Motivation
Ugh, dreary, cold, rainy. Trying not to be a lazy git.
Current treadmill listening mix. Love me some Bank. 🙂
Tracklist
Bank – Strictly Extracurricular (love this ❤ ❤ )
Random Movement – We’ve Been Lost In Time
Alix Perez – Never Left
Zero Tolerance – Goes Around
Commix – Everything
Break – Hope (feat. Celestine)
Bakersville – Times (Document One Remix)
Break – Pushing On Me
Commix – Midas Touch
Alix Perez – Stray
Stich, Icicle, Alix Perez – This Is How
Alix Perez – Losing You
Tokyo Prose – Tell Me
Intelligent Manners, Command Strange – Flirt
Rowpieces – Sibyllic
Random Movement – A Day Without Death
Rowpieces – Nisa
Fred V – Resolved
Atmospherix – Memories
Altitude – Cotton & China
Gerwin – Vibrating For You
Velocity, Key MC – Ladder
Submorphics – Lexdray City Series – Volume 52 – Welcome to Detroit
Been a bit quiet on my end. School is pretty cray right now. Mad busy.
Enjoy a mix from the homie Submorphics in the meantime. 🙂
Murderapolis
If I wrote a proper post about Murderapolis (a rave in Minneapolis in ’96), this post would be long as hell. The Formation tour came through Minneapolis and it was amazing.
It’s a holiday today and I’m putzing around my place, pretending to clean. I’ve got Itunes on shuffle and Trace’s Mutant Revisited just came on. DJSS opened his set with it at Murderapolis.
Definitely put a big smile on my face this a.m. 🙂
Morning Pick-Me-Up
Definitely need this, cuz writing midterms is not where it’s at this a.m.
Tracklist:
1. Zen Dub – Panacea
2. LSB – Mist Of You
3. Mr Probz – Waves (Bootleg)
4. Nu:Logic – Morning Light
5. Phil Tangent And Penny Giles – Untitled
6. Logistics – Triangles
7. Nu:Logic – Brown Shoes
8. Makoto ft. MC Conrad – Golden Girl (Lenzman VIP Mix)
9. Capital Cities – Safe And Sound (Nu:Logic Remix)
10. Bondax – Gold (Technimatic Remix)
11. Kove – Still High
12. Metrik ft. Elizabeth Troy – Want My Love
13. Subwave – Deadhead
14. Grades – King (Culture Shock Remix)
15. Freeze – Guess Who
16. Lamb – Gabrielle (Bootleg)
17. DRS ft. LSB And Tyler Daley – The View
18. Nu:Logic ft. Lifford – Everlasting Days
19. Maduk – Believe (Logistics Remix)
20. Logistics – City Life
21. Nu:Logic – Memories (VIP Mix)
22. Logistics – Transcending
23. Unknown – Short Stay
24. Fred V And Grafix ft. Josie – Sick Of All Your Secrets (Logistics Remix)
25. Logistics ft. Hugh Hardie – As Sure As Sunrise (VIP Mix)
DnB & Kiki 