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Music Makes Me High

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Remember that song?

I’ve been music heaven. I’ve had a ton of shit to do and I’m just listening to mix after mix and knockin out my work. Awesome.

I’ve listened to some really good mixes. The Vandal Podcast below is awesome and I’m still listening to the Zetek and I really like the Atlantic Connection I posted the other day too.

Heard some new ones I heard.

Atlantic Connection – Wonderful Life

Break & Survival – Warnings

I gotta get back to work.

Toodles

Ney Faustini – Vandal Podcast 05

Tracklist

01. Prime8 – Sound Of Summer (Cybass Remix) [Aperture dub]
02. Marcus Intalex & St Files – Universe [Metalheadz]
03. Zero T – Reasonable Doubt [C.I.A]
04. Translate – She Is Mine [Promo Audio Liquid dub]
05. Cybass Feat. Miss Drop – Joy [dub]
06. Subwave & ESS – Universal Dimension [Syntax Audio]
07. DJ Glide & Danoo – Summer Breeze [Influenza Media dub]
08. Simplification – Out Of Time [Promo Audio Liquid dub]
09. C.A.B.L.E. – Significant Other [C.I.A. dub]
10. State Of Mind – Floor Fourteen [Syntax Audio]
11. Sabre – Riverside (Zero T Remix) [Lucky Devil]
12. Icicle – Spartan [Shogun Audio]
13. Spirit – Spellbound [Metalheadz]
14. Bungle – The Source [Critical dub]
15. Mathematics & Tactile – Memories [Social Studies]
16. Apex – The Yearning VIP [Horizons]
17. Ney Faustini – 4 All [Syntax Audio dub]
18. Bungle & Index – Left Behind [dub]
>> Ed Rush & Optical – Gro-Bag [Virus]
19. Calibre – Roundhouse [Signature]

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Frownstep :(

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I’ve gotten really emo as far as dnb is concerned. Lately my faves are the moody yet deep tracks like Survival or the pretty yet melancholy tracks that make you wanna lay around your house and think about your life. I was talking to Submorphics the other night and we were talking about one of his tracks, I had said I loved it but he said he didn’t really like it. So I was like “I love it cuz it’s all sulky and gloomy” and he was like “Yeah… frownstep.” LOL. Perfect name for that genre of liquid. Don’t get me wrong, I love the happy go lucky tunes too but I find myself gravitating towards the broody shit as of late.

Friday. I love you. I’m glad you’re here. I’m glad you exist. I’m grateful for you being you. I worship you. 🙂

Heard a lovely banger on Spinn’s show today. Metrik – Stranger. Woot Woot. (It’s in the player)

I love having the archives of Presha’s shows to post. He doesn’t disappoint. I love that there are all these great radio shows for me to listen to now. It’s nice to have easy access to my dnb. When I first moved to America, I used to have my cousin send me Kool FM tapes in the post. I would anxiously await their arrival and then cherish them so deeply because I knew it would be a while before I got another one. Thank goodness those days are gone. 😉

Dj Presha – Samurai on Bassdrive 08/05/08

Tracklist

01. Luca – Sunday In Space

02. ST Files – Eight Six

03. MIST – My Soul

04. Hiten – Nuisance

05. Phobia & Jubei – Guillotine

06. Soul Intent – Hysteria

07. Soul Intent – Jus Vibe (Survival Remix)

08. State of Mind – Lonely Planet VIP

09. Dose – Can U See

10. Marcus Intalex – Cabin Fever

11. Phobia & Jubei – Guillotine (Breakage Remix)

12. Data – H4CK

13. Hiten – The Grid

14. State of Mind – Dead Eye

15. Spirit – Fantasy

16. Saburuko – What I Dream

17. Oak – Nu Sunrise

18. Klute – Trust Me

19. Linden – Stealth

20. Survival & Chris Inperspective – The Right Way

21. Mindscape – Vulture (Dose & Menace Remix)

22. Sight Unseen – Get Mine

23. Linden – Captives

24. Polar – Almost & Beyond

25. Hiten – Blot Out

26. Phobia & Jubei – Overdub

27. Cern – For Manaia

28. Spektrum – Hotsteppa (Bulletproof Remix)

29. Method 1 & Stunna – Coda

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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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Freetown

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Freetown is the capital of Sierra Leone… just in case you wondering. 😉 That’s where my family is from.

I had a really cool weekend. Just hung out with my mum and went to a bunch of African parties.

Living in London, being an African child was so much a part of my everyday life just cuz all my family lives there. The British colonized so many countries in Africa that there is such an abundance of African people running around. Here in America I’m just seen as the black girl who grew up in London and is from Africa so whenever I go home and kick it all Africa to the max style it’s pretty fun cuz I don’t get to do it on a regular basis.

Madison, Wisconsin has a huge African community. Strange, I know. A lot of people came over for the University and then just kept bringing their relatives over. When my brother got married last year it was seriously an African extravaganza. (That’s what I call them anyways cuz they are always a huge todo) So many different African countries represented and just a huge party. My friends are always trying to get invited to the next soiree cuz they are super fun.

I know as a kid I definitely wasn’t that into being different. it’s not “cool” to be the kid who’s mum always wears African outfits and speaks another language that no one else understands when you’re thirteen. As an adult on the other hand, I totally enjoy it. I’m really into my family and our traditions and what not and I wouldn’t have it any other way. 🙂

Here’s my mum and my brother Martin at his wedding. He had one regular wedding and then an African extravaganza. We got all gussied up in African garb for the African extravaganza. I hate taking pictures and therefore don’t really have any of me at the event but my mum and my bro look pretty cute.

Hmmm. Didn’t mean to write that much about my fam but I guess the whole African thing was heavy on my mind after a weekend with my mum. 🙂

Back to the world of dnb.

I listened to a lot of dnb on the drive home to Wisconsin. There was this really awesome mix I listened to that I thoroughly enjoyed… but you could totally tell that it wasn’t mix by a person. I mean the person tried to play it off like it was. On the download page they wrote a whole paragraph about what brought them to do the mix blah blah blah but it was totally a computer mixing which kinda defeats the purpose doesn’t it? *shrugs*

Heard this High Contrast that I was digging. I feel like I’ve been hearing High Contrast tracks lately that don’t seem to come out. I’m sure I’m wrong in that statement. I should rephrase it as “I hear High Contrast songs and never seem to get a hold of them.” LOL I feel like current High Contrast stuff is ideal for listening but I couldn’t necessarily see myself including them in my set. I would maybe play this latest one but the other one I’ve been loving for a while was Eternal Optimist and I think it’s too slow to actually get my set going.

Adele – Hometown Glory (High Contrast Remix)

Survival & Chris Inperspective – The Source/Herb Minus

There’s also a pretty fresh Survival and Chris Inperspective. The Herb Minus sounds like some of Chris Inperspective’s other tracks but I still like it just the same.

BMK Podcast Vol. 2 – Special Guest Pete Rann July ’08

Tracklist

BMK

01. Embrace The Feeling – Pete Rann – Dub – World Exclusive
02. Don’t Sleep – Decem – Dub – Forthcoming BIOS Recs Album (Lovin’ this tune!)
03. One More Try – Stereotype – Dub
04. Bedford Avenue – Concept and Shnek – Westbay International
05. Can’t Resist Jungle – BMK – Dub – Forthcoming Knowledge n Wisdom
06. Spin – The Burbs – Dub
07. Today – BMK (Mixed by Pete Rann / BMK) – Dub – Forthcoming Liquid Soul
08. Never Give Up – Concept and Shnek – Dub
09. The Fact – Geetox and Fox Rox aka Double X – Dub
10. Module – Silent Witness and Bre – DNA Audio
11. Gin Tonic – Audio Habitat – Sidechain
12. Night Nails (PBK Remix) – Future Engineers – Camino Blue
13. Exodus – Dan Marshal –Dub – Forthcoming BIOS Recs Album
14. Burst The Bubble – KDC – Dub

Pete Rann

01. Unified – Pete Rann – Dub
02. Codian Moon – Modemellow – Camino Blue
03. Blind Suspence – Pete Rann ft PBK – Dub Forthcoming on Vibes
04. Passages – Kharm – Dub
05. Micro Burst – PBK – Camino Blue
06. In To Deep – Tidal – Dub

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Bangers & Mash

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Can we talk about how exciting today is?! Well okay not that exciting, I do love to exaggerate, but exciting enough when you’ve been inquiring about a track to no avail and you finally have a breakthrough. 😉

There’s this Survival tune that I’ve been loving since I heard it on Sabre’s Pyro Radio Mix. It’s the ultimate banger. Sabre said he had forgotten the name of it and then it seemed like other’s kept playing it and wouldn’t say what it was called. Fortunately I now I have the name of it and I can add it to my scroll of tracks that I’m waiting for. It’s called The Right Way and it’s on his Audiotactics page and I obviously didn’t look that hard for the name of the track cuz I’m pretty sure that tune has been up there the whole time. *sigh* Gimme a break, I have a short attention span. I never look for stuff for too long because I space out and forget and start doing something else.

I’m going to Seminar tonight. Sable Gray/Memory Trace is playing.

Sorry this is just a quick post. The work pile doesn’t seem to be letting up yet. Breaksblog hasn’t been posting mixes as often as they usually do. I’ll check out this Wilsh one though.

Wilsh Jungle Train

Tracklist:
Chris Inperspective – It’s Been Fine {Dub}
Macc – Boomer {Immerse Dub}
Buzz – Subsonic {Dub}
Saburuko – Latency (Insight remix) {Horizons Dub}
June Miller – Malkovich {Dub}
Wilsh – Deep Set {Dub}
Madcap – Red October {Fokuz Dub}
Wilsh & Physikal – Outsource {Dub}
Seba & Krazy – Inkasso {Secret Operations)
Soul Delay – Ustad {Subtle Audio}
Shogun – Nautilus {Renegade Recordings 1996}
Phuture T – Singularity {Dub}
Instra:mental – Rogue {Darkestral}
Amplicon – My Nerves {Dub}
Nympho & Proxima – Headless Housefly {Frequency}
Dance Conspiracy – Dub War (A bootleg remix!!)

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Tracks Galore

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I still haven’t gotten a new ipod dock. The apple store is downtown and I just Mr. Belvedere haven’t had time to get there yet. It’s my loss. My ipod died two days ago since it hasn’t been charged. It’s a bonus that I get to listen to music on the way to work but I also use my ipod to deter people from talking to me. Of course the second I don’t have my ipod, yesterday 2 homeless people hit on me and today a white man who looked like Mr. Belvedere and was at least 68 asked me out for coffee. Go figure. I guess it’s nice to know that I attract all kinds. 😉

I was listening to Overfiend’s show on Bassdrive yesterday and there were sooooo many good cuts. I was feeling quite ill (and still am but am at work cuz I’m a trooper) but at least I got to listen to good music. I’m such a nerd I wrote down the key songs I was digging. I totally have a notebook where I keep songs that I hear and would like to get when they come out. Geeky? Yes indeed.

Dan Marshall – Word’s Can’t Explain: I’ve heard this song a lot lately. The vocal is awesome.

Submorphics – Desperate Times: I’m biased. Greg is friend of mine but I actually was a fan of his music before we became friends. I played Make It Happen (the mp3’s are switched so if you wanna hear Make It Happen click on the Young Ax tune) so much that I need a new copy.

Paul SG – Bright Soul: Am I horrible for not knowing who he is? Well I know him now. He has some awesome stuff. There was another track that he has with Calculon that I loved as well, Part of Me, which was pretty dope too.

Bachelors of Science – Beautiful Life: Not really much to say here. BOS always have great stuff. I’m a big fan of theirs.

I just picked up that Makoto and Marky Rush Hour EP. Loving Get 2 This.

The workload has subsided a little so I’m just enjoying listening to music and focusing on revisions. Bailey opens his set up with our favourite dreadlocked wonder Will Miles and also has some serious action with my newest dnb obsession, Survival (yeh yeh yeh, I’m late jumping on the bandwagon) I’m twenty minutes in and already lovin it.  I guess I can tolerate Bailey’s love of the clown for a DNAudio set. 🙂

Toodles

Bailey & DNAudio Crew – 1xtra DnB Show 06/04/08

Tracklist

Will Miles – Private Account
Eveson – Good Times
Calibre – Sokitome (Signature)
Heist & Lomax – Shes Cold
Drumsound & Bassline Smith – Special
Splash – Babylon (Intanatty RMX)
Dillinja – So Special (Valve Dub)
Andy C & Randall – Sound Control (Wots Up Cuz 2 RMX)
Jubei & Tyrone – Tremor (Invaderz/Transmissions)

DNAudio in the studio

Silent Witness – Relay (DNAudio)
Break & Survival – Dawn (DNAudio)
Survival – Panorama (DNAudio)

Bailey B2B Survival B2B Break B2B Squire B2B Silent Witness

Physics – Dreamworld (D-Bridge remix) (Blindside)
Silent Witness – untitled (Dub)
Phobia & Jubei – Guillotine (Coded)
Break – Hooked Up (Symmetry)
Survival & Silent Witness – Closer (Audio Tactics)
Silent Witness & Break – Visions of the Future (DNAudio)
Silent Witness & Break – untitled (DNAudio)
Break – Meridian (DNAudio)
Mindscape, Chris SU & Rymetyme – Planet X (Vicious Circle remix) (Citrus)
Survival – untitled (dub)
Portishead – Machine Gun (remix) (dub)
Silent Witness & Break – Dark Soldier (DNAudio
Zero Tolorenace – Long Distance

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Windex Used To Be My Best Friend…

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I’ve been really enjoying these days off. I have the apartment to myself as my roomate is out of town and I’m actually just loving the alone time.

My place reached a point where even after you straighten up it still seems dirty so I’ve been doing a thorough cleaning. I went to the supermarket and got really into buying all these great supplies. I used to just use windex to clean everything in my apartment when I was like 19. Now I’m super into the results of new cleaning supplies. Mildew remover, lysol bathroom cleaner, clorox disinfectant wipes, vanish, the list is endless but the end result is a shiny, happy clean place. It’s so clean I almost don’t want to touch anything. Hee hee.

The best part about cleaning was that I got to listen to mix after mix after mix. I think I’m all caught up now. Side note, that Marcus Intalex mix is a great mix to clean your place to!! So is that Sabre Pyro mix. There’s a Survival tune on the Sabre mix that I’m really digging but Sabre doesn’t say the name of it so I guess I’ll just have to hope I hear it again some time soon.

I was cleaning for so long I started running out of mixes that I wanted listen to so I started go back looking for old gems that I had downloaded but never listened to. I found the Bcee Spearhead podcast from March and it’s lovely. It has some bits from Redeyes’ upcoming album. I was quite in love with his track “I Live” on Creative Source. There’s also some stuff from the Moodswings LP on there. I really do like Spearhead Records. They have some really good releases.

I also saw that Zero T was on Bailey’s show on 1xtra, so I’ll definitely be checking that one out.

Hopefully it’s nice and sunny wherever you are and you can enjoy the holiday.

Toodles

Spearhead March Podcast 3/18/08

Bailey Feat. Zero T @ 1xtra Intabeats 5/21/08

Influx UK – Take My – Formation
Utah Jazz – Back In Time – Liquid V
Matt Doubt – Stop On By (NexGen)
The Invaderz – All The People (Liquid V)
It’s Jazzy – Roni Size (Nu Tone Rmx) (V)
Iron Hands – Cripple Fight (Muzik Hertz)
DJ Vapour – Shut Up (White)

***Zero T In The Mix***
Zero T -Why Would You (CIA)
Zero T Ft Beta 2 & Steo – Inside Man (CIA)
Zero T Ft Icicle & Steo – Go For Yours (CIA) *Exclusive*
Zero T – Angel Heart (CIA)
Zero T Ft Mosus – Headspace – DUB *Exclusive*
Zero T F Steo – Refusal (Calibre Rmx) –(Integral) *Exclusive*
Zero T Ft Alix Perez – Thrgads (CIA)
J Rawls Ft Middlechild – Music Over Madness (Zero T Rmx)
Lemon D – I Can’t Stop (Zero T Rmx) (V)
Zero T Ft Conrad – Morning Sex (CIA) *Exclusive*

*** End Of Zero T Set**

Zero T Ft Bailey – Robots (CIA)
Jubei & Tyrone – Tremor (Invaderz Transmissions)
Goldie Ft Jenna G – Lettin Go (Metalheadz)
Selector Moldy – Assassin (Counter Intelligence)
Drumsound & Bassline Smith – Special (White)
Shy FX Ft Bailey – Lion Sound (White)