Painted Smile is an absolutely gorgeous deep Piano tune but this new one that’s just gone up “Cold Kiss” is also very very good and worth a spin.

http://soundcloud.com/metalheadz/commix-painted-smile-metalheadz

http://soundcloud.com/metalheadz/commix-cold-kiss-ft-logistics-dub

also for a jazzier sample driven early alix perez type thing check out the remix of Avalanches “Tonight” very very sweet all free downloads right now!

http://soundcloud.com/commix/avalanches-tonight-commix-remix

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.

Definitely time to get moving again on the drum’n bass business!

Been focused on building my business kurb promotions for a while now because let’s face it, the world is a better place when you’ve got money in the bank and you’re free to explore your passions and romantech notions at your leisure.

Maybe I’m getting older but I just don’t see the point in being a broke ass guy, it’s all good to have passion, but it’s also important to have wisdom in the game so you’re in it for the long run if you’re in it for real at all!

So what you need to know for now is that gigs coming up include Snapshot, our legendary free drum’n bass sunday, this labour weekend going doen at fu bar on Wolfe St, Auckland on Sunday 26th of October!

There you got Funkshun, Mash Up Mafia, Myself and Control plus Zpac, Jacey, Paul G and more guests, and like I said. Free!

On the following Thursday courtesy of the Mash Up Mafia, you got Danny Byrd – legend and devastatingly funky hard liquid assasin – teamed up with newcomers the Brookes Brothers which is set to be a mad night of futuristic funk and hard edged nu soul again, for free at the Carpark, Oct 30. I’m not on the bill but I won’t be missing a big night like this.
My new mixtape, “Gentleman Caller” is actually in the can, but I got no photo and presntation for it, and I’m also trying to pin down the best place to host it.

Meantimes you can still check out http://beatdungeonradio.blogspot.com for weekly shows from myself and NSU featuring heaps of new zealand beats and electronica, classic dance anthems, freaky business, looseness and tight ass liquid in the mix from myself.
So I’ve actually been killing it in the studio rocking out new Soul Science colabs with Control, that are pretty much exclusively under wraps as we level up to a bigger new sound.

We’re also working with guys at Touch Tone Drum and Bass who are going to be repping some of these new tunes, head a long to their site to check out some of the stuff they’ve got on release, look for Halflite on one of the more dubwise cuts for my pick.

But yeah – It’s just a little bit frustrating not being able to show off your new tunes, and pimp them out everywhere, but that’s part of getting more proffesional on it and issuing new goodies in a sensible way that decent tunage deserves.

Back soon!

Big tips on the tunes are definitely Donnie Dubson’s “Anti depressing . . .” EP and look for MC Tali back on the DJ SS Remix of “Blue Magic”, aswell as Submorphics + Lensman teaming up on “Way Back When”.

Trying to get into the habit of reviewing my weekly beatport purchases. Obviously didn’t buy all this this week just a general idea of artists I been picking up on this year.

- Earth officially moving -

Following “Her Song” Random Movement looks like he settling in at the top table.

Quiet drums not much fun to mix but!

Spectrasoul have a distinct sound, bass driven and dubby down under, but with rich soulful flourishes and accents. They have a new one “Alibi/Dark Hour”

Stunna has had a hand in “Together” “Degreez of Fortune” and “A life like this” which all had different but solid vibes on it. This guy could come up.

Zero T. Nuff said.

Thrashing Metrik still – liquid is back at 2am!!!