Oh man, had a heavy night at Spectrasoul. I was a lit dude, I was gone.
I enjoyed it but you kind of expect that. I was a bit analytical and kept on sort of getting into my head about what I was hearing.
It was a search for knowledge, except maybe not so wanky.
I could definitely see what it was about for me and that was elements of soul that were super minimized and bite sized into a subtle little package.
It was a fun night and I was well on my pony, I thought the spectrasoul DJ veered between brilliance and some mixing that was pretty mediocre but he definitely held it together through a good few 4-5 song patches even with the more boring techier tunes, and there was some memorabledeeper dubs.
There was one big tune that sounded really bad and really stood out as not being on the spectrasoul tip because the snare was just muck.
There was more tech and less minimal than I expected but there was definitely 1 or 2 minimal tracks that excited the crowd. For me I felt the progressive and minimal soul inflectionsin the D’n B stuff, that side of spectrasoul.
I kept on asking him to play “shades of blue”. He kept saying it was “Old”. Hmmph. Haha. In the end he actually jumped back on after we made a racket and I just sort of thought . . .
Man any DJ over 25 would be heading back to the hotel at that point . . .
Dudes at the show didn’t know who was putting on the gig, I talked to the spectrasoul DJ afterwards because well as I mentioned I was feeling groovy. I think I told him several times that commix had a big clusterfuck waiting for them afterwards, why not him?
Too underground? Who were these promoters? *shrug*
I think I was trying to be positive. Haha yeah.
All I knew was D-Jade from Queenstown. As I said I didn’t get as much information as I should of but I was feeling pretty good. Probably way too friendly too a great many people, I think I was a bit obnoxious here and there but I was having fun, so hey.
Oh man so I had the cleaners around here today it was a bit of a shock, as I said on twitter, upward mobility is fraught with difficulty. Y’know it’s a drag, and y’know I don’t want it to be a big deal, i just want someone else to clean my house.
I’m sure the weirdness of it will wear off.
Business is still going well, I just wrote a silly blog post about sexting leaks because, y’know, whatever. It was directionless, but it was creative at least.
Wish I could flow a bit more. That post seemed funny and crazy, while everything here seems so depressing because it’s all real life, meaningful crap. Sheesh.
Still working on a Soul Science mixtape for summer, it’s coming along.
some of the less complex tunes are starting to shine with production, while I’m still trying not to get too distracted by minimal vibes. New directions sure; Fads, not so much.
So yeah. Downloaded ASC and Instra:mental mixes to check, maybe I’ll post reviews if I get a chance, prove I can blog about something else here than my melancholy struggles blub blub.
