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Pumpkin Kiki

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This weekend is gonna be fun. Beatchemist is in town, Zew is having a halloween party, I’m actually dressing up.  Woot.  Hope your halloween is just as fun peeps. 🙂

Command Strange – Fokuz Podcast #1

Command Strange – Day After Day (Fokuz)
Calibre – Don’t Want Your Love (Samurai Music)
Command Strange – The First, The Last, My Everything (Allsorts dub)
Command Strange & Intelligent Manners – Hangin On (Celsius)
Dave Owen – Loose Lips (dub)
Stunna + Tyler Straub – We Got Burlingame (dub)
Command Strange & Intelligent Manners – Talkin About Love (dub)
Stunna + Tyler Straub – So Weak (Westbay dub)
Motta & MsDos – Swing (Have-A-Break dub)
Dj Chap – Mr Destiny (dub)
Command Strange – Let’s Fall In Love (dub)
Andy Sim & BlueMotion – Breezin’ (Fokuz)
Donnie Dubson – Summer Breeze (dub)

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Au Revoir 2009

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I’m making an executive decision and doing my end of year top tracks today.  I’m going to Philly today and then I’m not taking my laptop with me to NY tomorrow so that really leaves me no time to write.

Here is my repeat of end of year disclaimers…

My list is always going to be kinda bogus.  LOL.  The tunes I blogged about towards the end of the year are still fresh in my mind and therefore get more attention than the ones I blogged about back in the beginning of the year cuz I’m not sick of hearing them yet.  The list is in no particular order.  I have been told that I have strange taste in some dnb track so my list means absolutely nothing.  It’s just a compilation of songs that I personally liked over 2009.  We also must take into account that the latter half of the year I wasn’t as diligent about writing tracks down due to the loss of my job so I’m not as up on new tunes as I used to be.  This list is just of tracks that I would have been happy to keep on my ipod for the past 365 days.

End of disclaimer. 😉

I mulled over my list for ages.  I started out with 70 tracks and could only cut it down to 30 this year.  LOL.  I really tried to narrow it to at least 20 but I really like all the tracks on the list, so 30 it is.  Eek.  This will be a long post. 🙂

Kiki’s Top 30

01. Utah Jazz – Survival of the Fittest

02. Atlantic Connection & Grimm – Better Man (track is in Grimm player)

03. Alix Perez feat. Spectrasoul & Peven Everett – Forsaken

04. Klute – 174bpm (track is in player)

05. Random Movement – Waterlogged

06. Total Science – Soul Patrol (Lenzman Remix)

07. Beatchemist – This Close (track is in player)

08. Stunna – Generation Gap (sorry no sample :()

09. Dave Owen – Sending My Love (sorry no sample :()

10. Bal – Red River Valley (track is in player)

11. DBridge – Wonder Where

12. Naibu – Tigresse (track is in Fokuz Recordings player)

13. Marcus Intalex – Airbourne

14. A.I. – Blind Eye

15. Quantrek & Heavy 1 – Independent (track is in Quantrek player)

16. BCee – Glitter Balls

17. Spectrasoul – In Profile

18. Logistics – Jungle Music

19. Calibre – Lazy Rock

20. Mikal – Just Disappears (track is in player)

21. Jubei – Outcast (track is in player)

22. Metrik – Time to Change (track is in player)

23. Calibre – Ringtone

24. Kjell – Lincoln Place (track is in player)

25. Calibre – Tru Beat

26. SPY – ASBO

27. dRamatic & dbAudio – Neyo Remix (track is in dbAudio player)

28. Mr. Sizef – Garmoniya Mirov

29. Stanza & Grimm – By My Side

30. Calibre – Love’s Too Tight to Mention

Happy New Year!

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Neglectful Kiki

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Hello.  Yes I’m rubbish.  I didn’t mean to neglect you.  I honestly didn’t realise that the main reason I was able to write in my blog everyday was because I spent all day sitting at the computer.  I’m seriously not home long enough to come up with the time to write posts these days.  I’m going to make an attempt to do them first thing when I wake up now.

My 4th was pretty cool.  Beatchemist and some of our Bassdrive buddies were here through the 4th so I kicked it with them at Juju’s and drank ate and watched the fireworks on Juju’s street… yes I did say street.  True Chicago style people just having firework wars from block to block.  Woot.

I’m still not to stressed out about not having a job.  I’m still optimistic that the situation will sort itself out.  I think that stressing about money is really annoying so I’ve just chosen not to do it.  The thing that is making me a wee bit depressed though is not having anything to do.  I’ve become quite adept at filling up my days with activities but when you wake up at the crack of dawn like I do, it makes for a pretty long day.  I guess it’s just nice to feel useful sometimes. *shrugs*

Anyways back to dnb land.  I’ve actually been listening to a lot of stuff but just haven’t written about it.  Lets get back on track Kiki!

Tunes:
BCee – Cultural Shift (track is in Spearhead player)
I’ve actually been digging this one for a minute but as usual I didn’t know the name.

Spirit – Spark (track is in player)
Spirit is wicked.  ‘Nuff said.

Today’s Oldie:
Embee – Secrets – Fuze Records 1997
Dirty oldie bizness.  Woot.

Notion – Scribbler Podcast July 2009

Tracklist
01. NotioN – Hurtful Solace [Cylon]
02. Despot – Winteria [N/A]
03. Hobzee & Zyon Base – Marlowe [N/A]
04. ASC – Reform [N/A]
05. S13 – Earth Ulro [N/A]
06. Kodo – Lakoto [Broken Audio]
07. Triad – Spellbound [N/A]
08. Squash – Mr Peg Leg [N/A]
09. NotioN – Iota [Phunkfiction]
10. Sam KDC – The Iron Gate [Eternia]
11. Insight – Psyche[Broken Audio]
12. Empire – Atmospherix & Sem [N/A]
13. Bal – The Trendy Track [Infulence]
14. Sol.ID & Subz – From Dark 2 Grey [N/A]
15. Mindmapper – The Seeker [Broken Audio]
16. Linden – Pulsar [Central Beats]
17. NotioN – Illicit [N/A]
18. Mindmapper – Resurection Hub [Broken Audio]
19. Nusense – Tuning In [N/A]
20. Dave Owen & Sconeboy – Coming Apart [N/A]
21. Dave Owen – Bit o’ That [N/A]
22. Submorphics & Pipeline – High Card [N/A]
23. Glen E Ston – Can’t Say Goodbye [Influence]
24. NotioN – Woeful [N/A]
25. Specific – The Way It Goes [N/A]
26. Eveson – Late Night Special [Samurai Redseal]
27. NotioN – Searching For An Answer [Nu Directions]

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Shakedown Kiki

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CC has left the building, I repeat, CC has left the building.  Man, it was really awesome to have her here.  I definitely had a fun filled jam packed crazy 5 days.  Now back to my regular, boring, serious life where I have no job and have to get one ASAP.  Boo.

Shakedown is tonight with Tyler Straub.  Can you say woot?  Beatchemist is in town and Dave Owen is supposed to be coming too.  Can you say woot squared?  I have been missing in action from my drum and bass posse for almost a month.  I feel this is the perfect opportunity to make my comeback.  Woot cubed???  Ok…. definitely taking it too far.  😉

I’ve been listening to so much dnb so I’m excited to just go out and hear some good music.  Chi peoples, make your way to Lava this evening.  You won’t be disappointed.  Stunna and Lamebrane are playing too so your attendance is a must!

Tunes:
Modemellow – Feel Inside (track is in player)

Donnie Dubson – Super Marimba

Today’s Oldie:
Q Project – Soul Star – Liquid V 2005

Might as well continued the Shakedown mania.  Here’s Shakedown Mix #5.   I feel like I just wrote an extended radio ad for Shakedown.  Hee hee.  The kind that just goes on and on and on or better yet one of those One Nation ads you hear at the beginning of some mixes where Skibba does a bunch of rhyming and sneaks in a “woo ooo ha ha ha” and it rhymes with a string of sentences that were said at warp speed…  Hmmm you get the pic.  I’m just a wee bit too chatty this a.m., so lemme shut my trap now.

Laters

Raiden – Shakedown Mix #5

Tracklist

01. Electro SoulSystem Sunchase – Alluvion -???
02. Loxy & Isotone – Aciencts Cylon
03. Spirt – Smashed – Interactive
04. Raiden – M82 – OffKey
05. Ulterior Motive – Yogurt Brainwave – Subtitles
06. Digital – Blood Money (Amit & Outrage rmx) – Function
07. Rockwell – Drums – Digital Soundboy
08. Raiden – La Luna – Renegade Hardware
09. Ulterior Motive – Infrasonic – Subtitles
10.Raiden & Khanage – Amnesia Haze – 31 recs
11.Aspect & Gremlinz – Armshouse – Digital Soundboy
12.Meth & Raiden – Re-Up – OffKey
13.Ink – Mirage (Raiden & Khanage rmx) – Reneagde Hardware
14.Icicle – Frozen – Renegae Hardware
15.Rockwell – Snare Drum Awareness – Digital Soundboy
16.Raiden – Roentgen – Architechure
17.Raiden & Khanage – King Stays King – OffKey
18.Jubei – Trident – Interactive
19.Raiden – Hubble – OffKey
20.C4C – Scatter Brain – C4C

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Claritin Kiki

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I’m slightly better. Still stuffed up but I don’t feel like my head weighs 30 pounds so that’s awesome. Jeremy, Levi and Heath come today. Holla.

Have a good weekend peeps.

Tunes:
Electrosoul System – Attention (track is in player)

Phat Playaz – City Street (track is in player)
Overfiend is a fan of this dude.  I hear a lot of his stuff on Bassdrive. Nice chill bizness.

Beatchemist – This Close (track is in player)
I spend all day chatting to Beatchemist in the Bassdrive chat and I honestly didn’t know he produced and now that I hear his tracks I like his style a lot. I loved that These Days (also in player) that I posted back in January and this one is dope too. Really pretty.

Today’s Oldie:
Origin Unknown – Valley Of The Shadows – Ram Records 1993
Lately I’ve been picking oldies by great duos. Andy C & Ant Miles are no exception. I remember when I got my copy of this record. It was just sitting in the bin at Bassment Records in Minneapolis and I was shocked that no one wanted it. I was clueless back then and didnt know that no one cared about jungle/dnb in Minneapolis at that time. I started listening to jungle in ’92/’93 but didnt start buying records til ’96 and was kicking myself once I started cuz I was bummed that I wasn’t going to be able to find all those tracks that I loved from back then on vinyl. Fortunately for me, no one in Minneapolis was coveting the tracks I wanted then so I managed to get a pretty decent back catalogue. It’s great that they did a refix in ’98 or whenever because this original is one of the slowest record known to man. Good luck trying to mix it with a Jonny L record. 😉 All in all this tune is a great memory from my jungle rave days. I love it.

Druid – The D.R.U. Show Episode #1 02/23/09

Tracklist

Soulproof – Shelter
Qumulus – Better Than Before [dub]
Atmospherix – Jacked
Lenzman ft. Jo S – Emeralds
Brother – Ever After
Trap – Under My Skin [dub]
Soulproof – One In A Million
Zero Frequency – Missing Blue [dub]
Greg Packer – Meltdown
Syncopix – Happy Happy Joy Joy
Nu:Tone – Can We
Random Movement – Her Song
Carl Matthes & Bionic1 – Let It Go
Druid – Burning [dub]
Logistics – Summer Sun
Commix – Talk To Frank (Break Remix)
Isotone – Trip
Druid – Out Of The Woodwork [dub]
Trippcore – Move Your Body
Bionic1 – No Return
Undersound – Informer [dub]
Beastie Boys – Open Letter To NYC (Undersound Bootleg Remix) [dub]
D Kay & Lee – Extazzy
Universal Project – Comin’ Through
Kid Cudi vs. Crookers – Day N Nite (TC Remix)
Shock One – Way You Move
>>> DJ Hazard – Killers Don’t Die
Dirty Harry – Everyone’s Dead
2DB – Go Girl
DJ Die – Clear Skyz
DJ Die – Flashpoint
June Miller – Keepups
Ed Rush & Optical – Kerbcrawler
Brookes Brothers – Tear You Down
Quadrant & Cease – Rage & Rapture
Task Horizon – Lost And Found [dub]

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Cozy Kiki

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It’s friday, again.  I think I spent so much time thinking about the weather that this week just escaped me.  LOL.  I’m looking forward to many cups of tea and blankets for the next couple of days.

Tunes:
Beatchemist – These Days (track is in player)  Nice use of the Ashanti sample.  🙂

Today’s Oldie:
Roni Size feat. Bahamadia – New Forms – Talking Loud 1997
Talk about great album.  So many awesome tunes on it.  This one was one of my faves.

Sinistarr – BBS Bookings Podcast Jan 09

Tracklist

01. Skitty – Icebox (Vandal)
02. Survival & Chris Inperspective – The Right Way (Audio Tactics)
03. Ed Oberon – Texan (RTD Limited)
04. Jubei & Sato – Resistance (Dub)
05. Nu:Tone & Logistics – Trademark (Hospital)
06. Sinistarr – Native (Dub)
07. Switch & Henree – Piece Of History (Lucky Devil Dub)
08. Sinistarr – Nothing But You (Integral Dub)
09. Chris Inperspective – Biffy’s Not Here (INPigital)
10. Chris Inperspective & DiamondEye – Bulla Smash (Dub)
12. Zero T feat. Steo – Refusal [Calibre Remix] (Integral Dub)
13. Conscious State – Cymatics (Peer Pressure Recordings Dub)
14. Luca – Red Sky (Samurai Music Dub)
15. Random Movement & Switch – When You Reach (Dub)
16. Bachelors Of Science – The Beautiful Life (Dub)
17. Peyo & Sks – Without U (Influenza Media)
18. Ink & Gremlinz – Blackstar (Sudden Def)
19. Control Remote – Haze (Dub)
20. Graphic & Slide – Crash Kit (Offshore Recordings)
21. Unknown Track (Dub)
22. Ken Ishii – Creation In the State of Art (Rez/Sega)