Drum n Bass · Mixes

Guess Who?

Hi! I’m alive. I graduated! 🥳🥳🥳
It was definitely touch and go there for a minute. That last month was brutal, but I’m officially a member of the 2 masters club.

I missed my blog anniversary.

I was having a conversation with my students the other day about how weird it is to have a digital log of your life for extended periods of time. I started blogging in 2001. My first blog makes me cringe! I wrote in it every day and it was verbal diarrhea of an early 20s raver who was obsessed with jungle and couldn’t shut up. It’s still floating around in the internet ether. 😂 I am going to delete it, I am just downloading each entry first and making a mini book.

As cringy as it is, it’s still kinda cool to have my musings from back then. That’s why I don’t delete this one. In 2008, I was over my nonstop blabbing in my first blog, so I decided to start a new one. I vowed to only speak about dnb and keep the oversharing word vomit to a minimum. No more page long entries. Just a few sentences here and there and some good tunes. I have pretty much stuck to that. After my dad passed, I wanted to discuss grief and allowed myself to write a few longer posts.

For years, each blog anniversary arrived and I contemplated deleting. And then some lovely soul sends me a nice message about how much they appreciate my blog. 🥰🥰🥰

Anyway, I’m still here. I still listening to loads of dnb and I’m still rubbish at posting.

Current playlist:
I love listening to Sam Bank’s Bankbeats. He never disappoints. It’s always a great showcase of old and new. 💕

Tracklist
Drone, Nah Eeto – Ski Mask
Deft, Hyroglifics – Two For Two
Zero T, Minor Forms – Second Guess
Break, Fox – Code Red
Break – Bury A Sound
Covert Garden – Say Anything
Calibre – Thrubbin
DuoScience – Perennial
TZ, Tatora – Circles
Cybin – Back to the Streets
Armando, Roy Green & Protone – Borrowed Chords
Break – Don’t You Ever Stop
Calibre – I Don’t Care Wot U Say
Doktor, Sudley, Qyor – Love
Kind Fiction – Elmswood
Break, Liam Bailey – Gotta Believe
Bop, Diagram, Abstract Elements – Stickjaw
Break, sp:mc – Box Clever
Cybin – Rotate
Calibre – I Can’t Change You
Calibre – Breather
Roygreen, Protone – Wiggle
Zero T – On The Mic
Calibre – Chantilly
Minor Forms, Kublai – Lift Music
Sp:mc – Flow State
Tone Walsh – About Time
Friction, A Little Sound – Weed & Wine
Archangel – Call To Prayer
Decon – Silly Billy
Lynx, Jamm:n – Drone 5
Cybin – Dollars
Saikon – Something New
Tatora – Booty Call
DJ Marky, Solah – Poetry
Unknown Artist – Take Me As I Am (bootleg)
Archangel – Ipanema
Tatora – It’s Over
Tatora – Oko Łąkę
Bop, Diagram, Abstract Elements – 667
Kind Fiction – Your Descent
Trail, Visages – Misty Blue
Archangel – Heartstrings
Faction – Souls Held Close
MC Fats, L-Side – High Times (Break rmx)
Monika, Askel, Critical Event – U & Me
Nu:Tone – Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop
Random Movement – The Student
Tokyo Prose – Everybody’s Fool
Uncreate – You Can’t
Visages, Laville – About You (Alix Perez rex)
Waeys – Mist
Impish – Changing Colors
Halogenix – Don’t You Know
Gerra & Stone – Sprung
Esc & Askel – Time
Echo Brown – Deep Thinker
Bou – Cat Women
Benny Page – Turn Down The Lights
Big Bud – Rice N Beans
Bachelors of Science – Song For Lovers (Lynx Rmx)
Monika, Askel, Critical Event – Heaven
Sci-Clone – Time for a Change

Drum n Bass · Tracks

Kiki & 4am Chronicles

I’m awake, writing my literature review, listening to this remix on repeat. How’s your morning?

I can’t get enough of this remix. I already loved the original. Now I love the remix just as much.

There’s definitely a mini rave going on at my desk right now. 😂

Drum n Bass · Mixes

Kiki’s Drafts

Someone upstairs must know that I’ve got loads of drafts and rewrites in my future, cuz the barrage of nonstop mixes is the only thing keep me afloat. I can zone out and write as long as I have dnb to keep me company.

I still have my list of tracks I’m digging to share. No time to write a long post tho.

Listen to some Alix with me instead.

Halogenix – Let Me Explain

Trail – Lucid

Halogenix – No More

Trail & Visages – Untitled

Visages & Monty – Ace Of Spades

Brent Faiyaz – Loose Change (Alix Perez Bootleg)

Alix Perez – Untitled Dub

Visages – Yalda VIP

Trail – NJS

Venna – Avenue B (Halogenix Edit)

Azifm – Say Enough (feat. Tusekah)

Drum n Bass · Tracks

100m-Dash Kiki

I’m 45 and still constantly surprised by how fast time flies. You would think I’d be used to it by now.

August starts on Monday. My dad’s birthday is on the 8th. It’s already been a year and 8 months since he passed. I think about him daily. There are still so many annoyances affecting the closure of his estate, which sucks, but I’ve unlocked a new level of processing those feelings with the help of therapy, so that’s good. Having him buried in another country is difficult for me. I would like to be able to visit him whenever I want, so I’m very much looking forward to going to Sierra Leone this December and getting to do that.

This summer has just been busy. Loads of work ish and summer semester of grad school. I’m finishing up my 3rd semester of a 5 semester program. I’m enjoying it. It’s definitely a different experience when it’s your 2nd master’s.

So much good dnb this summer! 🥰🥰🥰 Here’s some tunes I’ve been loving:

Submorphics. He’s not only my friend, but I’m also a massive fan. We’ve been friends for about 18 years now and I still listen to his tunes on the regular.

More North Quarter selections. What can I say, their catalogue is just my vibe. 😊 Love this FD EP.

I’ve also been listening to a lot of Tyrone. I’m late to the Tyrone party. Totally wasn’t familiar with him. His tunes just always show up in my Spotify daily mix. I stan. Good stuff. 😍