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.
Category: Tracks
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. 🙂
April Showers
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.
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)
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. 🙂
Tough At The Top
Moving a bit slow this a.m.
E-Z Rollers and Origin Unknown is my morning medicine. Nothing like some funky/jazzy dnb to stop you from being so fucking lazy.
That breakdown in the Origin Unknown remix gets me every time. ❤ ❤ ❤
Ivy Lab All Day
I consistently have so much love for Ivy Lab. Hearts, hearts and more hearts.
I can’t get over how good their remix of Lenzman’s Paper Faces is.
I’m currently having a little Ivy Lab appreciation session here at the crib, so I figured why not post some tunes. 🙂
Ill Logic & Raf
I was listening to a mix the other day and the dj threw in an old Ill Logic & Raf tune, which of course meant I had to dust off some of the Ill Logic & Raf faves, and spend the whole day listening to them on repeat.
So so good.
Treadmill Soundtracks
Had a fantastic holiday at home. Good lovable fam time, amazing friend hangs and an absolutely gorgeous wedding. Couldn’t really ask for much more. Back in the crazy Japanese heat and making myself get used to unavoidable pools of sweat just sitting in my bra whenever I even dare to step outside. Glad to be back. Ready to take this last year by storm.
Currently running to this on repeat. ❤ ❤ ❤
DnB & Kiki 