Monthly Archives: February 2008

All posts from February 2008

Music

Listening

I’ve finally got round to uploading a couple of mixes that a few people on the disception forum have been asking for: january05 January05 seems to be alot of people’s favorite mix of mine. It’s a long one – 3 hours, but goes all the way from Mos Def and Q-Tip to Shake and Juan…

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Music, Nonsense

Uncompromised

I picked up New Amerykah: Part One (4th World War),the new album by Erykah Badu, the other day and I am really feeling it. I’ve had the 12″ for “Honey” for a while now, and while I love it (especially the video, it’s like she made it just for vinyl heads!) it was definitely more…

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Mixes, Music

Deep Soulful Mix

The idea for this mix has been floating around inside my head for a good long while now. I wanted to have something more akin to a mixtape than a deejay mix for bedroom purposes, both sleeping and otherwise. Don’t expect much in the way of mixing, I mostly just segued between jams in the…

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General, Mixes, Music

platinum gold

Pauly Martin (anagram), Platinumray is one of Dublin’s most underrated DJs. His party style DJing is one of playfulness, mixing different flavours of dance and electronic sounds. Although never afraid to get abstract and wonky (and he is definitely wonky – but in a good way, wonkiness is closer to goodliness) with his selections, it…

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General

Dick Measuring Contest

I know everyone has heard about it by now, but the auction for the stock from Record Rama (a Pittsburgh area record shop/personal collection) just ended today. I love records, but to be honest, I don’t love them that much. I take great pride in knowing basically every single record I own, to have that…

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General, Music, Nonsense

Am I Coming, or Going?

Man, life has been crazy the past month or so. School has been killing me, Pittsburgh has had some fantastically awesome bad weather (which I would actually like if I could miss school ever and have that be alright), and the record store I work at just moved locations which meant much heavy lifting and…

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