Archive for Music

Creating the impossible…

For whatever reason, my reading of all things has gone up lately. Mainly in what most would term “self-help” books or something of that ilk. However rather than reading a book and stroking one’s imaginary beard and nodding with the “that was very insightful” thought doing the rounds in your head, I’ve just put each book down and read another one.

And another, and another. Then the Olympics happened. Or rather, I was working within it for 16 solid days. And within those 16 days I’ve seen various aspects of generosity and selfishness that’s made me wonder what it’s all really for. I mean really?

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These 5 Tracks: On the Floor in ’94 (Old Skool Jungle)

So, this has been a bit of a blow out due to preparing for a gig or two (I DJ, oh yes, been doing so for 8 years now). I did a teaser mix for one event and was busy buying vinyl and sourcing some old school jungle business. Not your normal run of the mill jungle either. Something that’s typically labelled as “Darkside” Jungle/Drum and Bass. Sub-genres….you could split them down to individual elements and still not be at the bottom of that mess.

Sub-genre’s aside, I present the (6) tracks that made it to my Junglebish mix:

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These 5 tracks: That’ll destroy your headphones (Dubstep)

Something new I’m going to do every Monday (yes I know it’s Tuesday, shush!). A selection of tracks under a specific genre or feeling or whatever. (*psst* sign up for the long mix at the bottom of the post!)

This week’s theme was inspired by a friend at the local Crossfit box asking me to recommend some dubstep tracks that would literally destroy his headphones. Clearly, it was a “max effort” day, so he wanted to go in HARD!

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