a few things
Wow.... I guess I'm graduating tomorrow then. Alright! Five years of university gone by... and I guess this is some sort of recognition for that. But for me, I already feel past it. The real accomplishment for me is the feeling of culmination of everything I learned coming together at once. It's hard to describe. But it's now become such an active thing that I don't even notice it anymore. I guess it's not even worth talking about anyway. The learning is me, and I am the learning. There is no difference what you call it.
All babble aside, with the money I got paid for playing DUB WAR two weekends ago, I ordered some stuff that I've been wanting to get my mitts on for a while: SOME UK GARAGE. yes thats right, some original style UK garridge. bass bumpin heart throbbin beats straight outta 2001.
here's what i got, most of them have arrived, but a few are still in the post.
DJ Zinc - 138 trek
Ghost - The Spooks
DJ Abstract - All My Tears
MJ Cole - Hold On To Me (Remixes)
Breakbeat Era - Bullitproof (Remixes)
Horsepower Productions - Electro Bass [Turn U On]
Benny Ill + Dinesh - New York / MRK1 - Rage [Vehicle]
Zed Bias - Neighbourhood [Locked On]
Darqwan - Pipe Dreams [Soulja]
MRK1 - Rain Dance [Soulja]
I am still really surprised I was able to find some of this stuff, but it's some early roots of dubstep shit that's going to make my sets BOUNCE like you wont believe! faaaack.
But I have to say the most exciting thing about this, wasnt just the fact that I'm getting some of this stuff on vinyl, but that they're like artifacts to me, and I haven't even heard some of them before buying. No clue what they sound like, they're just names and labels I've heard of. THAT is what makes it exciting. To have something so precious (and somewhat rare) in my posession, from nearly ten years ago, but STILL rocks it like it was made yesterday. proof that sometimes, they just don't make them like they used to.
I love u Discogs.com!
And finally,
I think I am connected to some good karma in some way. I don't know how else to explain it. But what's been happening to me lately is, dare I say, something I would call unbelievable, if it didn't strike me as being so damn right on. It's like what's happening now is just what's been waiting to happen, waiting for just the right moment. I don't want to say much about it because I'm afraid I'll jinx it or get ahead of myself. But I like where I am now, in every respect, but that's not to say I'm satisfied. I don't think I ever will be fully satisfied, and that's what's going to drive me.
But anyway, at Dubwar in NYC, I LOST my iphone. In the cab on the way back, it fell out of my pocket and stayed on the cab seat while we went on our merry way and I didn't realize it was gone until just before going to bed. We tried calling it and got no answer, then it called back the next morning, rang once, then stopped. we tried calling it back but it went straight to voice mail. the battery had died!
I thought it was completely lost and gone. But I kept trying to call it over the next week, tracking the minute usage, no one was using it or anything. So i called it and left a voicemail saying if anyone had found it to please contact me at my home number. two days later, someone named Steve calls my home number, saying he found my phone, and wants to send it back to me!! unbelievable.
when the hell does that happen? you FIND an IPHONE and then go out of your way to send it back? I really couldn't believe it at first, but somehow, I do believe it now. It somehow makes sense that that would happen. Ahhh i dont know.
But the overall message here is, I believe in karma. And I believe that I somehow was lucky enough to figure out how it works and manipulate it as such, subconsciously, or was blessed with a surge of good karma, good events, as of late.
but tick tock, tick tock... I must sleep....
All babble aside, with the money I got paid for playing DUB WAR two weekends ago, I ordered some stuff that I've been wanting to get my mitts on for a while: SOME UK GARAGE. yes thats right, some original style UK garridge. bass bumpin heart throbbin beats straight outta 2001.
here's what i got, most of them have arrived, but a few are still in the post.
DJ Zinc - 138 trek
Ghost - The Spooks
DJ Abstract - All My Tears
MJ Cole - Hold On To Me (Remixes)
Breakbeat Era - Bullitproof (Remixes)
Horsepower Productions - Electro Bass [Turn U On]
Benny Ill + Dinesh - New York / MRK1 - Rage [Vehicle]
Zed Bias - Neighbourhood [Locked On]
Darqwan - Pipe Dreams [Soulja]
MRK1 - Rain Dance [Soulja]
I am still really surprised I was able to find some of this stuff, but it's some early roots of dubstep shit that's going to make my sets BOUNCE like you wont believe! faaaack.
But I have to say the most exciting thing about this, wasnt just the fact that I'm getting some of this stuff on vinyl, but that they're like artifacts to me, and I haven't even heard some of them before buying. No clue what they sound like, they're just names and labels I've heard of. THAT is what makes it exciting. To have something so precious (and somewhat rare) in my posession, from nearly ten years ago, but STILL rocks it like it was made yesterday. proof that sometimes, they just don't make them like they used to.
I love u Discogs.com!
And finally,
I think I am connected to some good karma in some way. I don't know how else to explain it. But what's been happening to me lately is, dare I say, something I would call unbelievable, if it didn't strike me as being so damn right on. It's like what's happening now is just what's been waiting to happen, waiting for just the right moment. I don't want to say much about it because I'm afraid I'll jinx it or get ahead of myself. But I like where I am now, in every respect, but that's not to say I'm satisfied. I don't think I ever will be fully satisfied, and that's what's going to drive me.
But anyway, at Dubwar in NYC, I LOST my iphone. In the cab on the way back, it fell out of my pocket and stayed on the cab seat while we went on our merry way and I didn't realize it was gone until just before going to bed. We tried calling it and got no answer, then it called back the next morning, rang once, then stopped. we tried calling it back but it went straight to voice mail. the battery had died!
I thought it was completely lost and gone. But I kept trying to call it over the next week, tracking the minute usage, no one was using it or anything. So i called it and left a voicemail saying if anyone had found it to please contact me at my home number. two days later, someone named Steve calls my home number, saying he found my phone, and wants to send it back to me!! unbelievable.
when the hell does that happen? you FIND an IPHONE and then go out of your way to send it back? I really couldn't believe it at first, but somehow, I do believe it now. It somehow makes sense that that would happen. Ahhh i dont know.
But the overall message here is, I believe in karma. And I believe that I somehow was lucky enough to figure out how it works and manipulate it as such, subconsciously, or was blessed with a surge of good karma, good events, as of late.
but tick tock, tick tock... I must sleep....