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palms

January 22, 2012

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2012 is here

January 18, 2012

This is 20 years old – can you believe it?

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the floor

November 7, 2011

I had a bit of a *moment* to this last night at the Theo Parrish gig…

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again with feeling

October 26, 2011

Jez Proctor – Diabaram by Innersounds on Mixcloud

This nearly got lost in time. Listening to a mix by Orsii reminded me of it and I found it on someone else’s blog downloaded it and put it up with the others on mixcloud.

This mix is like an old friend now. One of the first I did for ‘public’ consumption…commissioned by a friend for his site. On a really bad turntable set up with a rubbish mixer. I had no plan for it, just knew that it would be jazz, and it would have some kind of journey to it.

The only track I don’t really like is the Doris one. I cringe about that, like an actor who watches their own film.
They don’t just see the performance, but the motivation, the reaction and the acting.

And like them I know I dropped the Doris because it was rare, and not because I loved it as much as the rest.
It still sticks out to me years later. Even though a lot of people dig that track I never really did. Seems a little forced in to me, but nevermind.

There’s always the next mix to aim for perfection…

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first time

October 26, 2011

The one good thing about music is when it hits you feel no pain.

The other good thing is there is so much out there one day you can feel like you’ve heard everything, and you’re uninspired and you want to dump your records in the street. Then you hear something new, the air changes, the blood rises, the ears pin back, and half a day at work is sneaking listens to the “new” track (from 1976 in this case)…and you’re back in love again, back in the room.

I’ve already decided I’m not going to buy this straight away through discogs, I’m going to go back to looking for things in the real world. Shouldn’t be too hard to find if I look in the right places. Nice to have something to look for again. Not that I have “everything”, just that I am bad with remembering what I’m looking for – which is not a bad problem to have when it comes to records.

By the way, some fascinating ‘digging’ stories here and here.
Spent days reading them and enjoying the geeky level of detail and obvious passion these guys have for what they do.
I’m not into digging to that level (I like a tune, but I won’t drive 500 miles and spend a week’s holiday a year looking for one) nor am I into comics, but the stories are really innocent and talk about a different time that we probably won’t see again.
I just don’t think it is possible to be as passionate as those old-schoolers when you have instant access to everything.

We don’t have to wait on anything.

And that’s probably not good for the soul…

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