Rainy season is upon us. Non-stop rain, non-stop mugginess. Meh.
Exams this week. No more classes to teach til after summer holiday. Going home to America next week. Woohoo.
A little Alex Reece and Lemon D to get the morning puddle jumping underway.
Category: Tracks
Things I Most Definitely Will Always Sleep On…
My best friend and his crew used to do this graffiti magazine called Life Sucks Die. They would have this section called “Things You Might Have Slept On” and they would tell you about a plethora of ridiculous things that you never noticed before and they felt you needed to pay attention to.
I was listening to this all Steo mix by SirReal and the Alix Perez remix of Zero T’s “Refusal” came on and I was like “This is dope!” I looked it up and saw that it came out last summer. No surprise there. I’m so out of the loop that I’m sure there’s a bajillion tracks that I probably won’t hear until I come across them in a mix like a decade from now. LOL.
Anyways, it’s a nice remix. The SirReal mix is dope too. I’m a big Steo fan and appreciate hearing someone mix all of his features instead of me having to make an Itunes playlist. 😛
Tracklist
Phil Tangent – Bedouin Soul
Zero T – Walk Away
Calibre – Wilderness
Lenzman – Empty Promise
A.I – You Can Dream
A.I – Forgotten Truths
Zero T – Refusal (Alix Perez Remix)
Lenzman – My Tears
Zero T & Icicle – Go 4 Yours
Beta 2 – 2nd Page
A.I – Let it Be
A.I – What You Had
Zero T – The Sea
Zero T & Survival – No More
Zero T & Mosus – Call Waiting
Lenzman
This rain won’t let up. I’m just sitting here kicking it with Kate, waiting to go home and listening to some Lenzman. 🙂
Stab Stab Die
I woke up at 4am today and watched The Following and then had my usual conversation with my homie Shannon about stabbing, clown-faced murderers, killing people with a blowtorch (all The Following storylines btw) and then went for a run.
Seeing as started my morning in such a sinister manner, and it was still dark outside, I figured some dirty, moody rollers would be the way to go for my morning run soundtrack.
I listened to a Spectrasoul mix that I downloaded last month. I don’t think I posted it. I download new mixes pretty much everyday and eventually get around to listening to them. This mix was kind of a showcase of all their tunes. The highlight was that they started out their set with “Dark Hour” which is always a win in my book. The mix wasn’t that long so I added a couple of tunes from my itunes library to make it an hour.
Some highlights.
Matrix Appreciation
There’s like 15 tracks that I listen to on the regular that are old as hell.
I ran to some Matrix jams this morning and I still vibe off how ridiculously good they are.
One could say I’m stuck in the olden days and I’m totally OK with that. I just have so many awesome memories of raving back then, so I cherish all those tracks from that time period.
I still listen to new stuff but that’s while I’m grading, lesson planning, and being a boring old lady, not hugging the speakers. 😉
This one’s not to shabby either. 🙂
Too Gangsta
Started my morning run completely wildin’ out. I definitely remember going nuts to this at raves. That long ass intro and those drums. Yasss!
BCee Promo Mix
Man, I used to stan so hard for BCee and Spearhead. I’m sure they still do a ton of stuff but since I’m rubbish at keeping up with the ins and outs of the dnb industry, I really have no clue what they’ve been up to. I’m happy to see this mix.
Here’s a good old Spearhead flashback. Not really a big Netsky fan but I’ve always liked this tune.
Currently listening to this gem as I try my best to avoid the urge to nap on the couch in my office. No classes to teach til April when the new school year starts. Must be productive!
I actually have a schedule that I made for myself today so I think there’s hope for me yet. 🙂
Memory Lane
I have no shame. I totally walk and dance in the street, all the time. There are many times that I’m listening to a mix and feel like I just “have to” (dramatic much?) bust a move. The people of Togane already think I’m weird so I figure I might as well just go full throttle. 😛
I was dancing to Origin Unknown’s “31 seconds” also known as “Long Dark Tunnel” but officially known as “Valley of the Shadows” the other day and was thinking fondly of my first record purchases.
My first foray into buying records I bought 3 tracks. “Valley of the Shadows” (a used copy that I was shocked and appalled that somebody was getting rid of. I was late to the party and didn’t start buying records til ’97, so I was convinced I wouldn’t be able to own it, so thank you whoever you are that let it go.) Roni Size’s “It’s Jazzy,” and Conquering Lion’s “Code Red.” I matched beats (badly) with those 3 records for ages until I could scrounge up enough money to go back to the record store and buy more.
I decided to have a little nostalgia party with these three tunes the other day. Good memories.
Ravin’ in the Kokusai Shitsu
School is prepping for round 2 of entrance exams, which means no classes to teach, which means I’m just sitting in my office ravin’. You know how I do.
Morning Mood
DRS feat. Marcus Intalex – Emergency
SirReal – So Addicted
DnB is my biggest companion when grading papers. I just zone out and correct away. 🙂
Tracklist:
Nu:Tone – Tides feat LeaLea
Spectrasoul – Alibi (Break remix)
Phil Tangent – Bedouin feat Steo
Lenzman – Collapse
Technimatic – Lost Along the Way feat D.Ablo
Nu:Tone – Change
Spectrasoul – Too Much Bootleg
Logistics – Sparks
Artificial Intelligence – Forgotten Truths feat Steo
Ulterior Motive – Sideways
Logistics – Seasons feat Lifford
Seba – Lose Control
Alix Perez – Forsaken (Calibre remix)
Phil Tangent – Pale into Significance
Hybrid Minds – Trauma (Lenzman remix)
Actraiser – Time Stands Still
Adam F – Circles (Velocity bootleg) – This bootleg tho… ❤ ❤ ❤
Total Science – So Addicted feat Grimm – ❤ ❤ ❤
Phil Tangent – Rinjani
Bondax – Gold (Technimatic remix)
R&B + DnB = <3
I’m forever making dnb remixes of r&b tracks in my head.
I’m having an r&b morning as I clean and I just felt like having a The Weeknd appreciation moment. My r&b morning playlist has in actuality just consisted of me listening to The Weeknd songs on repeat. I forgot how much I love love love “High For This.” I know it’s old but when has that ever stopped me? Everyone knows that I stay listening to the oldest songs ever like they came out yesterday. 🙂
And just for good measure lets have a flashback moment to remind oursleves how awesome this Qumulus rework was. ❤
DnB & Kiki 