It’s 4:32 am. If you know me pretty well, you know I am a terrible sleeper. There’s no use griping about it so I’lI have a solo brock out instead.
This morning I woke up with this intro looping in my head and I must say, in my world, this probably means I’m going to have an awesome day. 😛
Is it normal that I like all my activities to have soundtracks? LOL. Yesterday’s laundry, cleaning and cooking adventures were scored by the one and only Hybrid Minds. Dude, this mix is dope. Listen to it.
I’ve seen a lot of vines where people show what it’s like cleaning and doing your chores without music and what it’s like with music and that was totally me yesterday. 🙂
Tracklist
Hybrid Minds – Our Turn Feat Charlie P
Hybrid Minds – Kismet Feat Riya
Dabs – Objection VIP
Ad-Apt – Broken Bones (BCee & Bladerunner Remix)
Nu:Tone – Balaclava
London Grammar – Sights (Monroe Bootleg) **** ❤ ❤ ❤
Anile – Custom Dancer
Cursa – Down
Audio & Mindscape – Jarhead
Mefjus – Suicide Bass
Dub Phizix & Skeptical – Marka
Hybrid Minds – Drama Feat Laurence Baker & MC Tempza (Neonlight Remix)
Netsky – Starlight
Eveson – Time Flows
Zoe Phillips – Road Signs (Hugh Hardie Remix)
Alix Perez Feat Spectrasoul – Forsaken (Calibre Remix)
Spectrasoul – Light In The Dark (Etherwood Remix)
Calibre – Even If
Marky & S.P.Y – Love Affair
Break – All That’s Left
Ben Howard – Conrad (Hybrid Minds Bootleg)
Xtrah & DLR – Direct Approach
Bachelors Of Science – Song For Lovers
S.P.Y & BCee – Stardust
BCee & LSB Feat Rocky NTI – River Runs Dry
Daughter – Youth (Hybrid Minds Bootleg)
Keeno – As One Feat Pat Fulgoni
Tokyo Prose – Sunsets Feat LSB & DRS
Scott Allen – Waiting For
Tokyo Prose – Waiting On Feat Riya
Intelligent Manners – Best Place Ever
Icicle & Noisia – Driftwood
Hybrid Minds – Lifted
I love the abundance of trees in my city. I just like the way they look. There are many forests and I always pretend I’m lost in them when I walk by. Instead of getting lost, I just sing this and keep walking. 😉
Sometimes I just want to listen to old DKay. The end.
After I posted that Logistics tune, I realised that I never said anything about the Polyphony album even though I’ve been listening to it non-stop for the past couple of months. September was a super busy month for me so I’ve been busy living in dnb lala land and just listening to tunes and doing work.
Anyways, I love it, the album I mean. Some really good tunes on there. I started out just buying a couple of tunes and ended up buying pretty much the whole thing.
When Now More Than Ever came out, I caned that thing to death and still listen to a lot of tunes off that album regularly. I get super obsessed with an artist and play them until I get sick of them. Some of them I don’t seem to get sick of (see Calibre, Lenzman etc … the artists that you are probably sick of me posting mixes of.) and others I have a minor falling out with and sometimes revisit.
I haven’t listened to Logistics for a super long time. Lemme rephrase that, I haven’t listened to new Logistics stuff in a super longtime. I’ll play Together or The Great Drum & Bass Swindle (Life is Beautiful) remix or anything from back in the day like it came out yesterday.
I don’t think I actually have a fave on the album cuz I seem to like most of the songs equally but here’s No Hurry Time anyway. 🙂
In a Logistics type of mood today. 🙂
Man, the school year is officially underway. I am uber busy, but enjoying it.
I’m sure most of you will be excited to see me post someone new! You know if I had my way I would just keep posting the same 5 artists I listen to all day every day. LOL. Fortunately for you, my good buddy Stunna turned me on to a different dude named Lurch and I’m totally digging his stuff.
If you are like me, and still crave those pretty melodic liquidy sounds, then this dude will be right up your alley too.
Enjoy this mix of his and also check out some of his tunes here — Lurch.
Tracklist
1. Dramatic – Getting Stronger
2. Payback – She’s god
3. Skeletone – Party time love
4. Joakuim – Miles away
5. Lenzman featuring Martyna Baker – Paper faces
6. Level 2 – Nothing to fear
7. Lurch – A sadness
8. Wyman – Quasi type
9. Pennygiles – Way I feel
10. Lenzman – Move & focus
11. Danbwoy – Blo ya whizzls
12. Lurch – Body language
13. Skeletone – Smiley
14. Phase 2 – Rhode Island
15. Marcela Mangabeira – Grilos (Level 2 remix)
16. Mayforms – Love hangover
17. Wyman – Grouch
18. Lurch – Meant to be
19. Skeletone – Coffee, the chocolate lady & jazz
20. Calibre – Jungle one
21. L.I.S – Window quay
22. Lurch featuring Alice Devine – Waves VIP
It’s kinda cloudy and dreary here today.
My school had their bunkasai this weekend and so I had to work on Saturday. We get today off as a make up for working the weekend.
I’m grading journals and lesson planning and am totally in a “I only want to hear Calibre tracks” mood.
So here. 🙂
Summer is coming to an end. School has started. I’m sitting in the office grading summer vacation journals. The weather is gorge today. The window is open and there is a lovely breeze coming through the window. I’m listening to this sick Sinistarr remix of Random Movement’s “Dancing Feat” and reading the students’ hilarious journals.
Dude. This track is everything today. LOL. I love when you are in the mood for a song and you just feel like pressing repeat a bunch of times cuz you are vibin’ so hard.
Hearts to the max.
I just got internet at my apartment this weekend. I have it at school but dang, a month without internet in your home is rough yo.
That was me every night.
Anyways, school officially starts tomorrow. Gotta get introduced to the school as the new ALT and all that jazz. In the meantime I’m not actually listening to anything new, just cleaning, making worksheets and listening to old faves. It’s not hard to be productive when you’ve got Matrix playing in the background. 🙂
Being a raver/dj is a time in my life that I will never forget. I made so many amazing friends and enjoyed every moment of it. One of the best things that came out of that period of time is my record collection. About 19 years of dope tracks that are all my favourites.
Telling me to pick one as my fave is pure cruelty so I always preface it with “for today.” I do that with my students too, I tell them they can tell me what their fave thing in whatever the category is, just for today and it’s okay if it changes tomorrow, so no one feels left out. LOL.
My set up is in the basement at my mum’s house and as I wait to leave for Japan I have impromptu bedroom dance/mix parties probably about 4 times a week. It always makes me happy. I have so many good records. I could mix for days and be in constant bliss.
As I tell you frequently, I am no way remotely up to date with what goes on in dnb land today. I tune in every once in a while and get updates from my friends that are still a part of the scene and I’m content with that. My friend Judi (one of my amazing raving buddies I have been fortunate to make of the past 2 decades) posted this link to a Dara article from DAD on 20 years of drum n bass and it brought back so many memories.
I have so many crazy/hilarious/classic/monumental/epic stories from my raving/djing/promoting days, I would love to sit down with the younguns today and hear what their stories are like. Mainly just because I’m nosy and I don’t really live that life anymore so I instead like to live vicariously through others. 😉
Anyways, check out the article. Peep the tracks. Good read.
20 Years of Drum and Bass History in 20 Tracks
** EZ Rollers – Tough At The Top is one of the tracks Dara chose. There are some records that I don’t own and they are the ones that haunt you every time you hear them. I own the original and it’s extremely wonderful but I also really love the Origin Unknown Remix and never got it. I always think that I will spend one day trolling for the copious amounts of tunes I don’t own but then I go back to living my regular life and forget about it. I am going to Discogs to buy this tune the second I finish this post though. LOL. **
The 2nd drop is ridiculous. I know for a fact I hugged many a speaker brocking out to that drop. It’s really what this remix is all about cuz the part before that is pretty tame. Loves it.
I didn’t disappear. I’ve been tucked away studying Japanese. I’ve actually been quite disciplined. I wake up, work out and then put myself in school for about 5 hours. I was never a good student and still am not, but one thing I definitely know is the benefit of understanding the structure of the language of the students I’m teaching. It helps immensely in the classroom because you can predict their errors, so I’m grinning and bearing it.
Summer is coming along nicely, it’s going by so fast though! 3 more weeks and then I’m off to Japan. I’m beside myself trying to figure out how one packs to go away for one year. I feel like I had become quite good at the short stays. 6 months is nothing. You know you’ll be back soon enough so you just make sure you have enough clothes and little trinkets that will help you create a home away from home. 1 year though, you try and make sure you bring your home with you. They recommend that I don’t bring too much stuff with me and buy stuff there and then get my family to ship stuff to me… um that won’t work for me. I’m not rich. It’s so expensive to ship stuff to other countries. I sent a small box of clothes to my cousin in London which had like 5 things I got for her kiddos at Target and it cost $50. I’d rather pay for the extra suitcase now instead.
Anyways, enough whinging. I was just letting you know what I’ve been up to. I haven’t really been finding any mixes that I felt like I would die if I didn’t share with you, hence the lack of posts. I’ve just been listening to old stuff. I love the feeling of reintroducing old tunes to the rotation. So many fond memories.
I’m going to Chicago today to visit the homies. Came across this Soultec mix. I haven’t listened to it yet but the tracklist looks decent and I usually like Soultec mixes so hopefully this adds some joy to my roadtrip. 🙂
Soultec – Sheer Velocity Recordings Mix Vol. 4
Tracklist
Bank – An Empty Dream – SVr Dub
Lenzman – Just Cant Take feat. Drs – Metal Headz
Alix Perez – Crooklyn – Soul:r
Glen E Ston & Flaco – Journey – Dub
Subsid – Single Hand – SVr Dub
Lenzman – Through My Eyes – Metal Headz
Soligen & Type 2 – Can’t Go – Celsius
Broken Drum – Smile (Random Movement Remix_ – SVR Dub
Calibre – Chances – SIgnature
Strengthen Your Mind (Level 2 D&B Remix) -Free
Spective – Warmth of Sunshine – Soul Deep Dub
LSB – Leave – soul:r
Atlantic Connection & Redeyes – Can’t Hide – Westbay International
Soul Intent – Far Out Funk – Dub
MJT – Fuego – SVr Dub
Jaybee – Mixed Company – SVr Dub
DnB & Kiki 