things that have made you happy today

[dickman69]

got a track coming out on footmercs new comp

secret shit

[jrkhnds]

my professor was mighty impressed with my recent presentation and the first part of my assignment (6 pages to go); seems like I could get another job as tutor at uni next semester.

Andy Stott & Eli Verveine soon in town.

turns out I won't be warming up for Commodo & Kowton, but closing the night instead. this makes me somewhat happy, since the original programming seemed a bit odd - opening with dubstep for a techno act followed by more dubstep. now everything makes more sense imho. hold tight the 6am-7am stamina crew!
plus I've been booked for an early evening outdoor set in germany next month; pretty hyped for that as I'll have the opportunity to play some different stuff.


I wanted to post Brothers Johnson - Brother Man but it wouldn't let me so you get this instead.

[RKM]

had such a banging grime mix tonight

shelled down the bedroom

[jrkhnds]

^ pete was right, we should record every mix we're having.

[RKM]

haha, a good mix for me isn't that clean man, a lot of putting a tune in then adjusting on the platter and pitch while both are playing from the speakers, but good in managing to beatmatch pretty much all of them and get them blended eventually

particularly as grime i find can be a bit of a long ting with random snare placement and vocals are always much trickier

[nobody]

isn't grime/dubstep mostly the same tempo?

[RKM]

yeah, vast majority 140, but old grime can swing between like 130 and nearly 150

and i'm hardly beatmatching king

[Johoosh]

isn't grime/dubstep mostly the same tempo?

Grimes a bit like D&B/jungle with the varied 3/4 bpms around 140 i find

But yeah @RKM agreed its harder to mix in some ways, shorter intros, rougher mixdowns etc, more conducive to short blends + quick mixes espesh live

[RKM]

yeah innit, i prefer longer mixes, i'm not amazing at banging it in right first time then quickly chopping tune A, i like to hear i've got it in and blend it

[Johoosh]

Haha yeah this ones fun to mix but once its in on its own it sounds a bit guff

[RKM]

same for this one (i have the instrumental not vocal), not a listening tune at all, although it does sound quite madly far out and experimental to my ears

[hubb]

nice one 0H well deserved ..

is it a a cool label or something ?

anyway

[DiegoSapiens]

Footmerc is one of the best footwork producers

[hubb]

ok cool

gonna have a listen

[dansci]

I get me a new computer today... No more missing keyboard keys, broken screens, blown up batteries... 4x the ram of my previous laptop and 3x the drive space.

Going to have reinstall a shitload of software and I'm going to start my dubstep stuff from scratch this time.

[exfox]

finally ended writing/doing my dissertation includes 300 pages of text, 30 pages of appendixes, plus other stuff rounding it all at 385 pages, so I'm quite ecstatic to finally have this done now onto finding typos...

[jrkhnds]

big up mate

now come Strasbourg friday yeah? I forgot to hit reply when I actually replied to your message the other week, sorry about that.

[Liam92]

Soundcloud

Hardcore U Know the Score: Glasgow Mental

Jackmaster, Cloudo, Mayhem & Rustie all playing happy hardcore in Glasgow at the weekend

[RKM]

THANK U BASED BOILER ROOM NOW I HAVE THE CONFIDENCE TO LISTEN TO 'LESS OBVIOUSLY COOL' GENRES, I WILL SIT HERE AND WAIT FOR JACKMASTER TO PICK THEM

[hubb]

what where the reasons though?

tbf probably fair enough to say that some genres are more 'mocked' than just played?