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Chunky Monkey

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Went to Seminar last night. Greg had a really lovely set. Hung out with Ju Ju, chatted a lot with Stunna about dnb. I love our little chats. He really is my dnb encyclopedia. Discussed a lot about how much i’m digging Donnie Dubson’s stuff. His Anti Depressing Soul Music EP just came out on promo and it’s just dope. Goonies is definitely my favourite track on there but I really do love all four tracks. Here’s some gratuitous Chunk for no reason whatsoever. 😉

I’m having a pretty average day. Nothing too spectacular to report.

Shouts to Jamar for helping translate Maxtekk’s page. 🙂

Toodles

P.S.

On the page that had this Random Movement mix there was also Calibre and Marky’s b2b set from the same night. I would have posted it except for the fact that there is the most horrid emcee chatting throughout and I couldn’t take it, which is a bummer cuz it sounded like there were some decent tracks in the mix. Here’s the link if you feel like you can handle the dude’s voice. Don’t fret though this Random Movement mix doesn’t disappoint. I’ve been listening to it for the past couple of days. Mike is on fire lately, I swear, he’s got so many tracks floating around!

Random Movement – Live @ The End July 2008

  1. Random Movement – Kids In The Sea
  2. Mutt – Open Wide
  3. Lomax & Focus – 5 Weeks
  4. Lenzman & Clart – What We Had
  5. Lenzman ft Cliff – Lose You
  6. Brother – Junction
  7. Lenzman ft Jo-S – Emeralds
  8. ?
  9. Gulfway Cartel – Choose You
  10. ?
  11. Random Movement – Psychedelic Drainpipe
  12. Random Movement – Roulette Addiction
  13. 4 Hero – 9×9 (MIST Remix)
  14. Calibre – Cold Halo
  15. Random Movement & Mixmaster Doc & Focus – My Sentiments
  16. Klute – Now Always Forever (Calibre Remix)
  17. Random Movement – The Student
  18. ?
  19. Danny Byrd ft MC Foxy – Planet Music
  20. Marky & Random Movement – Pela Note
  21. Random Movement – Her Song
  22. Roni Size – Want Your Body (Calibre Remix) (so good, one of my Calibre faves!)
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Busy Body

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Is busy body one word or two? And… Does anyone use that term besides my mum and 75 year old ladies??

Ugh my throat hurts again. 😦

Lame.

It’s 2:20 p.m. The clock needs to move a wee bit faster in my opinion.

Listening to Stunna on Bassdrive, you should tune in.

Busy, busy, busy. I’m sure there’s a ton of stuff I could talk about but I’m a bit too preoccupied.

Tracks I’m loving…

Donnie Dubson – 6am (track is in the player)

Technicolour – Half A Chance (no sample. eek)

Random Movement – Reasoning With The Weeds (no sample again. boo.)

If I was a dnb superstar I could probably get these samples to share, but alas I am not and therefore am just a timewasting blogger who alerts you of tracks I think are cool. 😉

Can’t say I’m too excited about the Calibre Electric Soul EP. It’s good but I won’t die if I don’t own it.

Calibre Electric Soul EP

I’m all about this Neon mix though. Listened to it this morning. Am I the only one that didn’t know Russia was all about dnb?

Neon – Routine Dj Mix July 2008

01. Naibu – ktx
02. Zyon Base – troubled times
03. Dannie Dubson – Say Goodbye
04. Survival – inside vibes
05. ASC – alphane moons
06. Paperclip – anticipation
07. Neon – true mirror
08. Donnie Dubson&Andy Slim – day dreams
09. Mutt – trying measures
10. Anorganick – strange fruit
11. CLS&Wax – feeling good
12. Atlantic Connection – promise
13. Greeley&Camo&Tenchu – all 4 me
14. Donnie Dubson & Stunna – forever
15. Spectrasoul – shades of blue
16. Brother – reversal
17. BCee&Lomax – changing faces

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I Have Zero Tolerance… For This Weather

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I slept well last night and I’ve totally done everything I need to do so I’m feeling quite serene today. Also I’m excited at the prospect of 77 degrees on sunday and having three days off in a row.

Even though I post mixes everyday I don’t really get time to listen to all of them on that day and then we have the whole problem of me constantly listening to things on repeat so sometimes it takes a while to get through all of them. I’m currently stuck on that Dj Presha mix I posted last week. That’s a good one. 🙂

I’m also loving “Creatures of Habit” on the D-Bridge album. I’m not writing a review on the album. It’s good. Go get it. I didn’t really start this blog to review stuff, I’m not a music journalist. It’s just a soundboard to talk about my love of dnb. I think I was just so excited to finally receive my Calibre album that just I wanted to talk about it, so I wrote a review on it.

It’s grey outside and I’m over it. I’m in a pretty melody, cozy, lay on your couch and think about shit mood… Obviously since I’m at work, I’ll have to improvise. I’ve decided Zero Tolerance is just the guy to be the soundtrack to this setting. All of his collaborations are just so pretty. I don’t know what I’d do if someone told me I wasn’t allowed to use the word pretty to describe liquid funk! 😉

I’m a huge Zero T fan. One of my favourite tracks is Refusal. I also really really love Round Table. I found this mix and I’ve got no idea who it’s mixed by but it’s all Zero T tracks so it serves the purpose.

Laters

Zero T Tribute

Tracklist

01 – Beta 2 & Zero Tolerance – Minder [Reinforced]
02 – Naphta – One Time (Zero Tolerance Remix) [Bassbin]
03 – Zero Tolerance – Rift [Skunkrock]
04 – Zero Tolerance – Pace Maker [Advanced]
05 – Zero Tolerance – Natural Selection [Subtitles]
06 – Beta 2 & Zero Tolerance – Give It Up [Commercial Suicide]
07 – Calibre, Zero Tolerance & Beta 2 – Riverside [Industry]
08 – Zero Tolerance – Taken Over [Bassbin]
09 – Zero Tolerance – Goes Around [Shogun Audio]
10 – Beta 2 – Kinetix [Skunkrock]
11 – Calibre & Zero Tolerance – One Word [Liquid V]
12 – Zero Tolerance feat. Steo – Refusal [Integral]
13 – Mos Def – Panties (Zero Tolerance Remix)
14 – Zero Tolerance & Beta 2 – Round Table [Advanced]
15 – Zero Tolerance & Survival – Back East [Revolution]
16 – Zero Tolerance – Serpico [Skunkrock]
17 – Zero Tolerance & Mosus – Run Time [Liquid V]
18 – Zero Tolerance & Beta 2 – Saturate State [Bassbin]
19 – Calibre & Zero Tolerance – Waterfall [Signature]
20 – Zero Tolerance – Brace [Subtitles]
21 – Zero Tolerance & Mentality – Last Resort [Breakin]
22 – Dillinja – Sky (Zero Tolerance Remix) [V]
23 – Zero Tolerance & Beta 2 – Bizzy Time [Advanced]
24 – Calibre & Zero Tolerance – Lion Dub [Liquid V]
25 – Beta 2 – Kinetix (Calibre Remix) [Skunkrock]
26 – Zero Tolerance & Alix Perez – Anyone But You [Liquid V]
27 – Zero Tolerance & Mosus feat. Steo – Call Waiting [Liquid V]
28 – Beta 2 – Changes [Skunkrock]
29 – Beta 2 & Zero Tolerance – Secada [Advanced]
30 – Beta 2 & Zero Tolerance – The Beaten Track [Progress]
31 – Beta 2 & Zero Tolerance – Lip Service [Reinforced]

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Calibre – Overflow

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Calibre, I heart thee.

I got my Calibre Overflow album in the post a couple of days ago. I’m so stingy about buying records that I think I wanted to love more songs on it than I do. The songs I do like, I really really like, and I know I’d be mad if I didn’t own them but at the same time is it too much to ask that I love every song before I fork over my money? I guess it is, because it never happens. 😉

I think this is an age old argument with buying vinyl. It sucks to pay for a record when you only like one side but at the same time, the alternative is not owning the record at all. *shrugs*

I’m kind of obsessed with Chemical Records. Chicago has the worst post ever, no seriously they do, but somehow I still manage to get my records in like 4 days from the U.K, yet it takes a week to get an invitation that my friend sent me from down the street! Do they have some magic I’m unaware of? I am not complaining in the least. I love it!

Back to Calibre. I was quite a fan of Second Sun. Not so much with Shelflife, I only really liked one song on there. I think I long for the Armageddon days where I was completely overwhelmed at how I was gonna fit all fourteen tracks into my set without coming off as completely boring and a bit cuckoo at the same time.

The thing I love the most about Calibre is that his tracks always seem so effortless. I have no qualms about admitting that I’m the dorkiest of the dorks since I do believe that dnb is the soundtrack to my life. When I was in my late teens I was noisy and energetic and impulsive, so “angry white boy dnb” a la RAM and Renegade Hardware were my personal faves. Now at the ripe ‘ol age of 31, I am quite mellow and peaceful and prefer the liquid funk rollers and pretty vocals… enter Calibre. I’m an all round dnb fan at heart therefore I really do still like it all but I tend to listen more to liquid funk than all the other subgenres.

For some reason most Calibre tracks remind me of Summer. Overeaction makes me wanna lay around and drink colourful cocktails in the sun or drive around in my convertible, that I don’t own, blasting music. Savannah Heat makes me feel like I should be sailing on a yacht waiting to arrive at an island that I own… I don’t own an island. You get the picture. With Calibre it’s about the subtleties in the track that make them so lovely. Slums… man that track is sick. It kinda reminds me of Graphic’s I Am Metal on Offshore and I love DRS. I love those tracks where you can’t help but move. It’s like your body just has this involuntary reaction to the beats. I love how Alone In A Crowd rolls. It’s very much like Thoughtless. It’s definitely one of those tracks you can ride out in the mix quite easily. Suddenly, I could kinda do without. It’s a bit tame compared to the other tracks. Not bad by any means, just ok. Same thing goes for Into The Groove. I wouldn’t mind hearing it on someone else’s mix but I couldn’t see myself playing it. Leave Me, I like this one. I don’t have anything profound to say about it. I like the arrangement a lot. It leaves me with this strange sense of anticipation for some reason, so I guess if I was going to play it, I would have to drop a banger after it for sure. Lo Note, hmmm, meh. It’s a bit boring actually. It’s not dirty enough, it’s doesn’t roll enough, it’s not unique enough etc. I’m not that into it. Beat Goes On, exactly the opposite of Lo Note. I had heard this one a while ago and loved it. I like that it’s kind of grimy, without being too noisy. A lot of Calibre tracks are perfect for riding out your mix. This is another one that I would totally play til the end of the record. TV On, nice one. Very mesmerizing. I imagine having these late night dinner parties and having this song playing in the background. It’s funny how I imagine all these situations that never actually happen to me but whatever.

All in all I think it was $46 well spent. 🙂