You decide I guess… there’s so much of this around it’s hilarious. Someone should make a website about it… err… hold on…

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3 months ago I was getting ready to live London after nearly ten years… and in ten years you got nuff time to accumulate a ridiculous amount of things. Including records in my case - I couldn’t just pack them all up and not put them to use so I decided to put together a mix using a lot of the tracks I would miss most (and I only got through a tiny portion of those in the end).

I’m a bit hit and miss when it comes to mixes - having rarely got the patience to see them through to a standard I’m happy with for everyone to listen to. But in this case I was motivated and had time against me.

The result is Packing Shit Up, over 2 hours of everything that’s been ticking my boxes in the last few years. The mix was done mainly on turntables and then arranged, finalised and tweaked in Ableton Live. I also used some tracks I only have on digital format cos they were too damn good to leave out.

The mix’s been online for a few months now and while I’m not one to boast the feedback from a lot of people has been really good, so I’m happy to leave it online and keep pushing it into more ears - hopefully you’ll like what you hear. If all goes well I’ll be doing a follow up one in the near future. That is as soon as I’ve found someone near me who’s got decks they don’t mind me using, he he.

The full tracklisting is below, and you can download the mix in two formats both of which are hi res 254kbps mp3 files (right click and save file as):

Full mix - 2h15mins (over 200mb)

Packing Shit Up

Split files (over 100mb each)

Packing Shit Up Part 1
Packing Shit Up Part 2

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Kin hell… been trying to sort out my main website, www.spinscience.org.uk, for the last two weeks - it uses the Mambo CMS (which is good but way too indepth for me to make full use of it) and kinda broke following a server move and my fairly inexistent knowledge of php or databases didn’t help in trying to fix things up… thankfully I have some friends who do know how to make this shit work and it should be fixed soon. It’s a bugger trying to learn about stuff like this when you’re stressing and just want to get it sorted out though, not really the state of mind where you’re most prone to learning things and taking them in!

Where as this site was fairly piss easy to migrate - a few changes here and there, click some buttons et voila! God bless Wordpress for being so easy to use and well thought out. Even a n00b like me could figure out how to migrate the databases and make it all work.

After a week or so of tweaking and getting plug ins and other bits it’s pretty much ready to roll - as you can see there’s a handy Flickr RSS plugin which displays photos from my Flickr account at the top of the homepage. It’s also got some other nice things like a related posts options which will show related posts (duh!) on all posts and pages and a Flash plugin which displays a player everytime I post an audio file. And there’s other things which you can’t really see but which I find incredibly cool. Oh and a supposedly dope archive plugin but I ain’t figured out how to make that one work yet.

So let’s keep it rolling, hope you enjoy the site - I’m going to be completing the online portfolio in the coming weeks, with pieces and reviews from the last few years. And of course I’ll keep writing about various things, mainly life on the other side of world and music etc… I gave up on blogging once but I ain’t got no intentions to quite this time!

Right time for some green tea me thinks…

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Goth Trad is a Japanese artist I first came across thanks to the Rarekwai boys who put me onto him after introducing me to his manager, Hiroki who runs POPGROUP records (and used to manage the Boom Boom Satellites).

Goth Trad’s been doing his thing on the Tokyo underground for a long time now, moving through various types of electronic music and settling on his own style in the last year which he’s entitled Mad Rave - an amalgamation of sounds and riddims from jungle, early rave, dubstep, grime and more. His first two albums were pretty experimental to say the least but his third album, Mad Raver’s Dance Floor, showcased a more unique and very listenable blend of electronic music that is fast earning him props worldwide, and rightly so.
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