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Guess Who?

Hi! I’m alive. I graduated! 🥳🥳🥳
It was definitely touch and go there for a minute. That last month was brutal, but I’m officially a member of the 2 masters club.

I missed my blog anniversary.

I was having a conversation with my students the other day about how weird it is to have a digital log of your life for extended periods of time. I started blogging in 2001. My first blog makes me cringe! I wrote in it every day and it was verbal diarrhea of an early 20s raver who was obsessed with jungle and couldn’t shut up. It’s still floating around in the internet ether. 😂 I am going to delete it, I am just downloading each entry first and making a mini book.

As cringy as it is, it’s still kinda cool to have my musings from back then. That’s why I don’t delete this one. In 2008, I was over my nonstop blabbing in my first blog, so I decided to start a new one. I vowed to only speak about dnb and keep the oversharing word vomit to a minimum. No more page long entries. Just a few sentences here and there and some good tunes. I have pretty much stuck to that. After my dad passed, I wanted to discuss grief and allowed myself to write a few longer posts.

For years, each blog anniversary arrived and I contemplated deleting. And then some lovely soul sends me a nice message about how much they appreciate my blog. 🥰🥰🥰

Anyway, I’m still here. I still listening to loads of dnb and I’m still rubbish at posting.

Current playlist:
I love listening to Sam Bank’s Bankbeats. He never disappoints. It’s always a great showcase of old and new. 💕

Tracklist
Drone, Nah Eeto – Ski Mask
Deft, Hyroglifics – Two For Two
Zero T, Minor Forms – Second Guess
Break, Fox – Code Red
Break – Bury A Sound
Covert Garden – Say Anything
Calibre – Thrubbin
DuoScience – Perennial
TZ, Tatora – Circles
Cybin – Back to the Streets
Armando, Roy Green & Protone – Borrowed Chords
Break – Don’t You Ever Stop
Calibre – I Don’t Care Wot U Say
Doktor, Sudley, Qyor – Love
Kind Fiction – Elmswood
Break, Liam Bailey – Gotta Believe
Bop, Diagram, Abstract Elements – Stickjaw
Break, sp:mc – Box Clever
Cybin – Rotate
Calibre – I Can’t Change You
Calibre – Breather
Roygreen, Protone – Wiggle
Zero T – On The Mic
Calibre – Chantilly
Minor Forms, Kublai – Lift Music
Sp:mc – Flow State
Tone Walsh – About Time
Friction, A Little Sound – Weed & Wine
Archangel – Call To Prayer
Decon – Silly Billy
Lynx, Jamm:n – Drone 5
Cybin – Dollars
Saikon – Something New
Tatora – Booty Call
DJ Marky, Solah – Poetry
Unknown Artist – Take Me As I Am (bootleg)
Archangel – Ipanema
Tatora – It’s Over
Tatora – Oko Łąkę
Bop, Diagram, Abstract Elements – 667
Kind Fiction – Your Descent
Trail, Visages – Misty Blue
Archangel – Heartstrings
Faction – Souls Held Close
MC Fats, L-Side – High Times (Break rmx)
Monika, Askel, Critical Event – U & Me
Nu:Tone – Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop
Random Movement – The Student
Tokyo Prose – Everybody’s Fool
Uncreate – You Can’t
Visages, Laville – About You (Alix Perez rex)
Waeys – Mist
Impish – Changing Colors
Halogenix – Don’t You Know
Gerra & Stone – Sprung
Esc & Askel – Time
Echo Brown – Deep Thinker
Bou – Cat Women
Benny Page – Turn Down The Lights
Big Bud – Rice N Beans
Bachelors of Science – Song For Lovers (Lynx Rmx)
Monika, Askel, Critical Event – Heaven
Sci-Clone – Time for a Change

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Spring Break Kiki

I teach at two different schools and their spring breaks are on different weeks. 😭 At least there’s a little reprieve during the two week span. This week I don’t have to teach in the evening, so that’s a plus.

Working on my lesson plan for my LACC students and Listening to The North Quarter on Echobox. Greg did a nice little Fats tribute collection.

RIP Fats. 💜

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Covid & Kiki

Hi! I got Covid in Tulum. I’m still recovering hence the absence and lack of Locus update.

In the meantime I took some time out to listen to the homie Stunna’s Bassdrive show. He gave me a heads up to let me know he had done a mini Martyn highlight, and we all know how much I love Martyn.

I’ll write my updates soon. The lethargy from Covid recovery is just wiping me out!

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Kiki’s Drafts

Someone upstairs must know that I’ve got loads of drafts and rewrites in my future, cuz the barrage of nonstop mixes is the only thing keep me afloat. I can zone out and write as long as I have dnb to keep me company.

I still have my list of tracks I’m digging to share. No time to write a long post tho.

Listen to some Alix with me instead.

Halogenix – Let Me Explain

Trail – Lucid

Halogenix – No More

Trail & Visages – Untitled

Visages & Monty – Ace Of Spades

Brent Faiyaz – Loose Change (Alix Perez Bootleg)

Alix Perez – Untitled Dub

Visages – Yalda VIP

Trail – NJS

Venna – Avenue B (Halogenix Edit)

Azifm – Say Enough (feat. Tusekah)

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Hols Kiki 🦃

Yikes! Everything is coming up so quickly!

Finally got a much needed reprieve from all the grad school work. Going to my bro’s in New Jersey for Thanksgiving.

Looking forward to just stuffing my face and spending time with the fam.

Have a great Thanksgiving! 🍗🍗🍗

This Artificial Intelligence mix is so good.

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Thesis & Kiki

Dang! This semester is kicking my behind.

I’m hanging in there…. barely. Very much looking forward to Thanksgiving so I can have a break.

Received some bad news about my father’s estate. Can’t believe we’re coming up on 2 years and this person is still causing all this trouble. I can’t even imagine what it will be like when I get to grieve my dad properly.

I am happy I am going to Sierra Leone for Christmas. I know we say our loved ones are always with us, and I do believe he is, to some extent. I just feel like his energy will be stronger in his resting place. That’s his home. I have a hard time with him not being buried in a place I can go visit regularly.

It’s crazy that there’s only 6 more until the end of the year. 😐

Lenzman and Submorphics played this Calibre on the most recent Echobox Radio show and I forgot how much I love this tune. Gonna have to put it in rotation for a bit. 🥰

Currently listening to some Redeyes and reading research articles.

Toodles for now.

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Momiji Kiki

I’m not too bothered by there being no seasons in SoCal. I am so grateful that I don’t deal with snow anymore that I’m ok with that trade. I do love fall though. It would be nice if I could just go on a “Momijigari” like they do in Japan. Momijigari is going on an autumnal jaunt to see the fall leaves.

Doing homework. Listening to some Smote. I used to be OBSESSED with this one tune of his on Innerground from back in the day. More than happy to jump back on the Smote train. 😊

I also listened to this mix while I was at the gym this morning. Not only do I love Zero T’s tunes, but I also really love him as a dj. His sets are just so good. 🥰

He plays Break’s Squash remix towards the end. That remix really is amazing. Still got it on repeat!

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Fall into Kiki

Boo. Summer is over. Fall semester starts tomorrow. Not having a proper summer holiday made these past 3 months just speed by!

Fall is my favourite season. I didn’t get a summer holiday, but I do have 2 weddings coming up. I will be travelling for them and they are the weddings of 2 of my favourite people, so that should be fun.

Listening to this Disrupta mix from a couple of months ago and trying to get myself organized for the new semester.

Toodles.