January done. School started again. I forgot about how you get long ass holidays when you’re at university. I def enjoyed my month off.
Up late. Thinking about my dad. Listening to some Alix Perez while I do some homework.
Alix Perez has a monthly on Rinse FM. This mix made all my French dnb dreams come true. I’ve listened to it loads already. So many great tunes as well as a guest mix from Monty and Visages?! Inscrivez-moi!
2021 gone. The year seemed extremely long and not long at all.
I spent my dad’s 1 year memorial with my mum. I don’t want to get too eerie and weird, but I do feel like he came to hang out with me that day. I just felt his presence quite strongly. That’s all I’ll say about that. 😐
I get the feeling he is doing well and definitely resting in peace. He’s buried with my grandparents and all his siblings and I feel immense comfort knowing that.
Back in LA now. I got a new position at work and am busy all the time. I’m not complaining, it’s just vastly different from how I spent the majority of my 2021. 😂
Listening to Echo Brown.
Back in LA. Looks like I left London at the right time, as the temp started dropping and a new variant wanting some attention. I lived in the Midwest for over 20 years, and 4 years in LA has made me forget what life in negative temps is like. 😂 That damp wet cold that showed up in London when I was leaving had me acting a straight fool. You would think I never experienced walking to the train with prickly cold cheeks as the wind made me cry.
I do feel a little less anxious about my dad’s estate. There’s still a long road ahead, as there’s still a lot of unfinished business, but it’s nice to get a little more clarity and closure on the house sitch.
It’ll be 1 year since he died in a couple of weeks, and it’s been hard that it’s taken this long to sort some of these things out. I have an amazing support network and I just have to trust that everything will work out like it needs to.
Planning some lessons for my classes that I have to teach tonight, after not having taught in almost 6 weeks. 🙃
This Flowanastasia and Nymfo hitting a little too on the nose for me today. 😂
Also really vibin’ to this Break remix.
Still in London. Still got heaps to sort out with the house. I’ve kind of developed a routine, so the process of going through all my dad’s stuff, albeit repetitive, has become a little easier. I had to sort out his clothes the other day though and that broke me. I have also somewhat figured what I need to do to get the house emptied and ready to be sold, and I’m still doing all my school assignments. Basically, I’m hanging in there. 🙃
Me and Kathy are going to see the homie Submorphics this weekend. I’m very much looking forward to this show: a) It will be great to see Greg! b) We all know how much I love Lenzman. c) The whole lineup is actually great and d) I haven’t been to a show in almost 2 years!
Ideally I’d post a North Quarter tune, but I’ve been listening to this Tatora & Satl on repeat for the past couple of days, so I think I should share that instead. 🥰
So I made it here safe. Thankfully the COVID travel process for fully vaccinated was stress-free which really lifted a lot of the anxiety with coming here. When I was going to Sierra Leone for my dad’s funeral, the whole test process added to the grief and was a complete nightmare.
I had a huge assignment due for school, so I spent all week working on that and didn’t really see anyone. I only spent one day at the house going through Dad’s things. It was quite emotional going to the house and having him not be there. I did find some letters that he had saved from me and my siblings from when we first moved to America. They were very sweet and funny. I love that he saved them.
It’s rainy and I’m just lazing around listening to some DLR and reading this week’s chapters.
Enjoy your Sunday!
It’s my birthday today. I’m 45.
I’ve never been a person that cared about getting older, and I still don’t. But, 45 does sound old as hell. 😂
I’m missing my dad today. His birthday calls were always so sweet. 💜
I love those days when Spotify just gets you. I’ve been learning how to use Storyline to create learning objects, and you know how learning any program goes; I spent like 5 hours zoning out to dnb and trying my damndest to get all my triggers, layers, hotspots etc to work. The radio station based of my playlist was straight 🔥🔥🔥. Heard a bunch of “new to me” tunes.
I know nothing about Italian dnb. This is my first timing hearing these guys and I loved the whole EP.
I know who In:Most is, but didn’t really start listening to their stuff until last year. Found this old tune from 2017 and I’m loving it.
I also know of Athena. Hadn’t heard this track before though. It came out earlier this year. Such a pretty tune.
That emoji is my current mental state. I’m not sad, I’m just trying to make it through the day. I think since I booked my ticket and know that I’ll be headed to London soon, anxiety wants to kick it with me all damn day and I’m like “Okay, I guess you can come.”
Anyway, I’m listening to a Bank mix and lesson planning and he played this amazing oldie.
I haven’t listened to this track in ages. Such a lovely tune. Hope you enjoy hearing it as much as I did.
SKG, Vektah – Humdrum
Zero T, Need For Mirrors – Liar Liar
Satl – Never Far
Krust – It’s A Lot (Calibre Rmx)
GEST – Shame
Dustkey – Over the Moon
Dunk – Electric Lady
Ink, Loxy – Skitzaphonic
Sustance, Visages – I’ll Be There
Lupo – Retrograde
Black Barrel – I Love You
GEST – Deja Vu
Artsea – Finding Solace
Black Barrel – Bad Trip
Conrad Subs – Tape Packs and Speaker Stacks
Benny Page, Skibadee – Ride
Finnadrift – Vibin At The Track
Dylan, Ink – Need You (Calibre Rmx)
Kojo, Pola & Bryson – Closer to Home
Low:r – Love Hearts
Makoto, Ruth Royall – New Love
Satl – Give Up
Zero T, Aaliyah Espirit – Something Got Me
Joliliffe – Between The Spaces
Operate, Duskee, Degs – Diamonds
Satl – Takeshi
Synkro – Gagaku (Frederic Robinson Rmx)
Echo Brown – Block Work (VIP)
Mystific – Morally Alive
Mystic, Confusious – Like This
Artsea – Path to Never
Tokyo Prose, Satl – Hazards
Drs, Satl – Beautiful Struggle
Fixate – Hold That Thought
Influx Datum – Dayz of Glory
Dub FX – Run (Random Movement Rmx)
dBridge – Inner Disbelief
Commix – Trojan
Bungle – Northern Dub
Break – Time After Time
Bachelors of Science – The Ice Dance (Lenzman Rmx)
Air.K, Cephei – Desire (Break Rmx)
Goldie – Truth (Zero T Rmx)
Mutt – The Motions
SpectraSoul – Silence (Feat. LSB)
Rowpieces – Sweetish
Phase 2 – Kiana
Monika – Freedom
Legion & Logam – When Stars Fall
Kredit – Coincidence
Krakota, Urbandawn – Laguna
Kasper – Scorsese
Halogenix – Shank
FD – Top 2 Bottom
Dustkey, Petroll – Blow Fire
dRamatic, Command Strange – Try To Understand (L-Side Rmx)
Carl Matthes, Tyler Straub – Avani
No words today. Just vibes.
You know when you have too much stuff going on so you just kind of mentally check out and hope it all goes ok… No? Just me? 😂
I’ve got a lot of stuff going on and I’m definitely all over the place. The only thing keeping me on track is that I’m one of those annoying “put everything in my calendar” people. Shout out to my Google Calendar for letting me know where to be and what to do.
I had been putting a lot of stuff on hold because I wasn’t able to physically do anything due to COVID restrictions. Now the restrictions that had been stopping me have been lifted and shit’s got to get done, which makes me sad, breaks my heart all over again and causes me great anxiety.
I know everything will be sorted. I’ve got a great family and friends around me who are helping me. In the meantime though, I’ll just keep trudging along and hope I don’t let too much shit slip through the cracks.
Currently up way too early and listening to Pola & Bryson.
Anxiety and sadness are a lot. Definitely in my feels this morning.
Enjoying this Aperio & Low:r. It makes me think about dancing in front of the speakers at raves. Man, that shit used to be fun.
It’s my dad’s birthday today. He would have been 91. Happy Birthday Daddy. 🥳
I’ve been busy this past week. I was feeling really down with my dad’s looming birthday and had been trying to keep myself active so I wouldn’t be crying every day. I don’t have any issues with crying, I just didn’t feel like being sad all week though, so I decided to do other shit instead.
I mean it’s not all bad, I have gotten a lot of stuff done which is good, since we know how much I love to procrastinate. The only problem is depression room (I love how I just keep pretending this is an actual phrase. I mean, I’m sure you know what I’m talking about so whatevs) has set in and I’m going to have to clean it today.
An upside to depression room is when its over I just zone out to dnb and end up with a spic and span room that satisfies all my OCD needs.
Lots of annoying brain activity this morning. Basically zoning out to Edlan and trying to be at peace .
I really like this EP.
DnB & Kiki 