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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!

Drum n Bass · Mixes · Tracks

End of Year Kiki

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My buddy AbedNego just reminded me today that it’s time to start compiling my top tunes of the year.  This is serious bizness folks.  Last year I compiled pages of post it notes and made an excel chart… no joke (I should also tell you though that I had a job and was finding ways to do anything except what I was supposed to be doing while at work, hence the elaborate unnecessary methods LOL).  This year might be a little easier but prolly not as focused as last years as I was no longer sitting at a desk for 8 plus hours listening to mixes for hours on end and making lists of tunes I liked for the latter half of the year.  Still, even I’m curious to see what I end up with. 😉

Tunes:
dRamatic & dbAudio – Neyo Remix (track is in dbAudio player)
Pretty pretty. ❤

Today’s Oldie:
Future Forces Inc – Who’s Da Man – Renegade Hardware 1996

London Elekrticity – Hospital Podcast #102

Tracklist

01. Bop – Space Abyss (Electrosoul System Remix) [KOS MOS MUSIC]
02. London Elektricity – Bare Religion (Subwave Remix) [HOSPITAL]
03. Fracture & Neptune – Tape Fog [ASTRAPHONICA]
04. Electrosoul System – To My Galaxy (Makoto Remix) [KOS MOS MUSIC]
05. Culture Shock – Gears [RAM]
06. Synkro – Departure [MED SCHOOL]
07. Mutated Forms – Centuries [GRID]
08. D-Bridge – 5th Floor [EXIT]
09. Enei – Z Grab [MED SCHOOL]
10. Distorted Minds – Thief [STEREOTYPE]
11. Sub Focus – Could This Be Real (DNB Mix) [RAM]
12. Bop – Nothing Makes Any Sense (Blu Mar Ten Remix) [MED SCHOOL]
13. Daft Punk – One More Time (Cyantific Remix) [BOOTLEG]
14. Sonic – Piano Anthem
15. Liquid – Sweet Harmony (Danny Byrd Remix) [HOSPITAL]
16. MANDY vs Booka Shade – Donut (Logistics Remix)

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Scout’s Honour

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My stomach hurts. I ate too many girl scout cookies. 😦

I don’t have anything of great interest to write about today. I’ve been racking my brain to come up with a cool topic and I feel like my mind is pretty empty, which is just crazy cuz there’s always mindless chatter circulating up there.

*shrugs*

I think I’m just tired.

Some good news though. That Survival track I was coveting is out on promo. Woot.

Survival & Chris Inperspective – The Right Way

Here’s the dbAudio mix that I was talking about the other day. Thanks to Spinn for getting the ok to post it for those of us that are likely to Listen to it on repeat… oh that’s just me. 😉

dbAudio – July ’08 Studio Mix

Command Strange – See The Sun – Unsigned DUB
Klute – Halloween – Commercial Suicide
dRamatic – Moving Close – Peer Pressure DUB
Lenzman & Submorphics – Way Back When – Phunkfiction Promo
DJ Clart – Hangin’ – Liquid Brilliants
Redeyes – Hold Tight – W10 Promo
Atlantic Connection – It’s Your Jazz – Fokuz
Alex Perez – Crooklyn – Soul:R
dbAudio – Big Love – Unsigned DUB
Brother – Do The Right Thing – Fokuz
Redeyes – Soul Brother – W10 Promo
Lenzman & Submorphics – Respiration – Phunkfiction Promo
Ill Logic & Raf – Be Free – DZR
Zero T & Stello – Walk Away – CIA Promo
Commix – Be True – Metalheadz
dRamatic – Pressure – Peer Pressure DUB

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Mixology

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I’ve had a pretty good morning. I had a lot of work to get done and nothing makes work go by faster than having really awesome music to listen to. 🙂 I was tuned in to Spinn’s show on Bassdrive and not only did he have an awesome guest mix from dbAudio but his show was just really enjoyable to listen to.

It’s so corny when you say this out loud but it’s totally true, when you mix for an audience it is your responsibility to take them on a “journey.” You kinda have to know your audience and make sure you stay afloat. When you’re mixing at a club you kinda cater your set to the time you’re playing. Opening a show at 9pm and playing all angry white boy dnb probably isn’t the best thing.

In actuality you can play whatever the fuck you want but I’m just talking from a listener’s point of view. I am always in awe of people that can play for multiple hours like that. Spinn’s show is 3 hours long. Dang. (My friend Jessica says dang all the time and it’s just funny to use that word cuz it’s definitely filed in the nerdy word folder along with yowza) If i’m in the mood I can mix for 3 hours but I couldn’t see myself doing it every week. Props to all the superstars that have perfected that art.

Spinn has been playing so many hot tracks and unfortunately I’ve been running round the office and haven’t been able to jot them down in my ultimate nerd notebook. Go to his website and catch the archive if you wanna hear three hours of goodness.

I managed to write this one down though. Good stuff. Bassface Sascha & Franksen – Promised Land.

I can’t believe I manage to post mixes everyday. Thanks to Breaksblog and DnB Share for assisting me with that task. I try my hardest to post mixes that don’t suck. I actually listen to way more random mixes than I post but I wanna make sure they aren’t crap before I post them so it’s usually a lot easier to go with mixes by the usual suspects than just post some random ish and have you go “what the hell is she doing?” I check tracklists a lot. I’m enough of a dnb fan that most of the time if the tracks are good I can ignore the trainwrecking. But… I’m human like everyone else so I’d rather not hear clangalanging in my ear.

All this is leading up to me posting a mix that I haven’t already listened to. 🙂 I hope it’s good. I’ve got no clue who this dude is but I like the tracklist and all this summer jam talk over the past week has made me wanna hear poolside cocktail anthems.

Going home to see my mum. Have a good weekend.

Laters

Dj Lixx – Summer Music Lunch 001

01. Soulproof – Whisper In My Ear (Fokuz, 2006)
02. D.Kay – Baleric Dreams (Soul:R, 2002)
03. M.I.S.T. – Jam Hot (Soul:R, 2003)
04. High Contrast – St. Ives (Hospital, 2004)
05. Sonic – Right Now (Soul:R, 2002)
06. M.I.S.T. & Dj Marky (feat. XRS) – Sunshine (Touch Me) (Soul:R, 2002)
07. Dj Marky & XRS – LK (Instrumental Mix) (V Recordings, 2002)
08. Sonic & Silver – Under The Sun (Soul:R, 2002)
09. M.I.S.T. (feat. Jenna G) – Lover (Soul:R, 2002)
10. The Funktastics – Lies In Paradise (Spin, 2007)
11. Lynx – Distance Zero (Deep Soul Music, 2007)
12. Bcee & Lomax – One Year On (Innerground, 2007)
13. Drumagick – Night In Tunisia (Vinyl Vibes, 2006)
14. Bungle – 25th Floor (Dj Marky & Bungle VIP Mix) (Innerground, 2007)
15. Makoto – Eastern Dub (Part 2) (Good Looking, 2007)
16. Ghostface Killah & Neyo – Back Like That (Dj Marky & Bungle Remix) (Bootleg, 2007)
17. The Funktastics – Girls Say Haaaa! (Spin, 2007)

P.S.

Happy Birthday Ju Ju

aka Judith!