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. ❤
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. 😉
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. 🙂
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
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.
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.
** 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.
DnB & Kiki 