Round up post.

We got 4 new songs done and ready for release in the next few weeks so that’s good, we’ve got 9 tunes out so far this year, and still 2 more to come. Tunes are getting done and videos are coming along and I’m getting a body I’m not just this crazy blathering head squeaking and moaning.

I am on tour in the south island in January for 4 dates. And Soul Science is taking up a residency at Carpark.

I’d only start a political movement if I definitely couldn’t do music and video, and even then I’d probably end up with a tank bristling with feds coming through the front door of my compound. I’m not trying to lay down any kind of manifesto or chisel commandments out of stone tablets. I’m just writing a blog about what I think and do and then think some more.

So it’s lucky I actually been doing some new songs and videos, and not assing about, blogging about blogging.

And so we just end up back on blogging again, I just wanted to mention I wrote over 3000 words the other night about my stupid renegade political movement and various things, I know it’s all kind of stream of consciousness but it might be worth remembering that if I was writing a novel or something then y’know? I could use 3000 words alot more usefully.

If that’s what I wanted to do. Last time I checked I think we agreed that music and video had a lot more reach and also was more challenging in a sense, but I’m organised to make the move to make the spare room the “engine room” and the front room more exclusively for my own leisurely loungings and perusals.

That’s practical because it’s picking stuff up and moving it around. Thinking isn’t really cool like that especially when there’s meaninglessness about. It sets in like rot. But I guess that’s why we have a blog like this because rather than worrying about money, I need to keep my creative stuff pushing forward in the same way.

MUSIC AND VIDEO STUFF TO DO:

- Finish Kings, Polyps, So Good for release, asap – did that.

- reconfigure and reformat Beyond Faith video. This was pretty awesome, I was so wrapped up in that century of self and gothic high tech stuff, and I was going out, I didn’t even really think about editing the “Beyond Faith” video, I just got to it, that’s how I am, muck around endlessly then suddenly spring to life and deliver. But I hit the wall when once again the youtube video was all the wrong shape and I’m unsure if I’m getting the best resolution – did that too.

- Filmings for bbc character, preacher mathias, last transmission, home alone and noob eats new beats. Mainly emptying the spare room completely and filming in it before moving stuff in there. That’s pretty easy. Then I can do other stuff in the front room once most of the gear has moved in the spare room.

three things, if I could do those 3 this weekend I would be happy. Oh wait

- Get to set up capturing so I can capture hamlet and maximizing explosions footage

- Look over footage for Low Key, Pure Juice, Juice of Life etc. I can start working on Polyps in advance, but kings will be the first video where I want film soul science, in a video.

Quite a bit of stuff to do which is good, lots of options to push forward with. I need to throw down the videos for maximizing explosions and hamlet. Need them out of the way, need to throw down for the funi and push it forward, let people know I intend to bring the funi.

We need the songs Animals and Weirdos away to their homes and look at what remixes we’re doing.

Next in video I have to go back to preacher mathias, last transmission, home alone and noob eats new beats. And then there’s the puppets. or Puppet. Man that’s a lot of video and not even a thought yet of RCTV1. I had no idea it would be such a big deal to make happen, we really must push on.

The only other video ideas we’re committed to are auckland’s most wanted, and the next kurb promotions ads introducing silly artists and clients or the power master concept. That could take us 6 months! But, once I get things cranking and it really starts to settle in that business is under control, then I’ll be rolling creatively.

Still, a lot of work.

SOME LINKS

This is the original of the animatrix clip “Beyond” which I used for the “Beyond Faith” Video

This is an awesome infographic on the history of western dance music

And a sweet new documentary on pyramids because you want to get all the flying pyramid knowledge you can to enter creative zones.

Available on Beatport:

http://www.beatport.com/release/definitions-of-the-deep/405649

I can’t keep up, I possibly shouldn’t have just watched all the videos of ribbon farm so quickly without taking time to go through some of the concepts, but we’ve since launched a political mobement against the zombie invasion while as ever we remain chasing our tail through this maze of blogged thoughts.

They’re gone now but didn’t it just open my mind right up, we’re not done. I couldn’t really be bothered filming, but I was working on the Beyond Faith clip

It’s been basically punk rock philosopher intellectuals round here, gothic technicians fighting off zombies to live out our indulgent lives, blogging and calling out for the search party. Search Party is actually getting quite serious now, because we’re searching for a party, whatever research we can access in furthering the anti-cause, the indulgent middle class anti movement of nihilistic hedonism.

The devil will make work for idle hands.

A bit of blogging to clear out the pipes, I was running around for various halloween fixtures and managed to actually get out and get out there a bit, see some different music, some different people, catch some different vibes. In amongst it, I totally nailed that clip for Beyond Faith there wasn’t much else for it. I managed to do it in a day, and I was really stoked with that, but then had more encoding issues and gave up.

But good news – the video fro the Soul Science tune “Beyond Faith” which is a lush little minimal drum and bass tune out on the Rotation Deep compilation “Definitions of the Deep” is now up and ready to check out.

Available on Beatport:

http://www.beatport.com/release/definitions-of-the-deep/405649

Can I tell you a story about beyond faith? I need to have a little commentary about it and if I don’t do it now, then I probably never will.

Well I named it after a girl I saw. She never did anything wrong but does that ever matter?

It’s a flower growing on a rock face, does it ever matter beyond human eyes that hear it’s song, and feel it’s poetry and yet it is only another scrawl in the literacy of meaninglessness . . . beyond our wants, needs and desires, beyond our hopes, beyond faith, there simply is . . .

Beauty doesn’t exist without you to think it’s beautiful, beautiful has no meaning beyond our perception of it and so we hold and cherish it like somehow it must matter.

Then I draw on our recent investigations into psychology for to understand meaning we must understand ourselves, but we were drawn to the quote:

“Not only is it meaningless and empty, but it is also empty and meaningless that it is empty and meaningless.”

Meaninglessness at it’s deeper core, isn’t dramatic, it’s empty, it simply doesn’t matter, and a girl, and a flower and a thought and a great philosophy is not really more than what is in our heads in a moment while we are still alive and not returned to dust.

It’s a paradox that these moments are both meaningful in us and meaningless in time.

I didn’t want her to see me, I moved quickly. she was still there as she always was, in her way, me in mine, whatever judgements that bestowed on me . . . whatever made her beautiful made me whatever I was, it was only just another moment passed in the history of time, all in my head.

Beyond a pretty girl, beyond my own thoughts, none of it truly mattered, it was already done and gone. Beyond the comforting processes by which we perceive and construct the world in our minds, was a discomforting truth of more worlds, more possibilities, more lies and many truths.

I think it’s about a philosophical rebound, beyond faith there is nothing, and everything, because everything is faith, faith is meaning, because beyond faith is only meaninglessness.

Man, this got really confusing, but what I ended up trying to say was something along the lines of saying beyondthe subjective is nothing, because everything is subjective, beyond faith is only nothing, a truth that doesn’t exist, only serving to reinforce our faith and belief in the systems we have to understand the universe, or a girl or anything else.

IN TODAY’S AWESOME DEEP DRUM AND BASS ROUND UP – Just what kind of primary content is out there and floating around thus proving . . . grubbing promotion dollars and mournfully absurd blogging isn’t my only 2 settings, and I am actually in real life an undercover DJ superstar producer artiste.

OH LOOK AT THAT TIME FOR SOME ADS

First up – “Pure Juice” by Squeezer – The Remixes out on New Clear Music featuring the Soul Science Remix

The latest release on Newclear Music is also the first official release by Auckland’s Squeezer. On Monday 29th of August, we’re dropping a 5-track remix EP containing works by newcomer Will Marshall, Cartoon boy Haszari, AKL DNB duo Soul Science, and the label’s own nsu. In addition to those, we also have Squeezer’s new “TSV” rework of the original.

Full background info on the remix EP can be obtained in the press release.

On Facebook link

On itunes

Probably the bangsteringest tune we done yet, it’s hard work writing dancefloor devastators, but the uplifting vibe of the original squeezer track was too good, and this is pretty close to the kind of beats I’d like to write, big tunes that have uplifting future funk vibes but drop with ferocious tear outs.

It’s a hard thing to pull. You can definitely tell that the uplifting vibes are all about successful champions grasping for championship glory, in a split second the hope of victory catches light in the mind of a champion, that’s why I have to get some quarterbacks and some jet fighters on this. Not only do we want successful all american elvis dudes who date the head of the cheerleading squad but when after scoring the winning touchdown, soviet danger threatens, Troy is called on to fight for freedom in the sky.

You can tell when the bassline drops, Troy is in a heavy dogfight with a couple of dirty evil cossacks, and he has to rely on his football knowledge to outsmart the reds, and so he totally like “goes long” and shoots them down by targeting his laser beams onto them, mainly because he is striving to protect the american way of life that he loves for himself as a striving champion for victory and freedom to be frickin awesome.

There’s definitely war and peace, it’s yin and yang, all things in balance. But it’s also about glory, an my whole absurd realism trip. You can’t be a high school quarterback and a jet fighter. That’s just some absurd concept of what it is in 20th century american culture to be a real winner. A real winner is an ideal, an so an ideal is brought to life in rugged misappropriated cliches. We all want to be winners. We all want the pure juice, the pure goodness, the pure source of energy, but is it even real or some nonsense we saw on TV?

Heaps of artists have themes in their work and I like quarterbacks who fly into space and do karate chops and ninja stars on space zombies, and robot tigers with laser shooting turrets. Maybe the space zombie aliens are dinosaurs. Long story short is we’re just getting started on this so let’s move on, but it’s basically deep vibes in victory for winners, who have to have funky tearing battles and rampaging struggles.

DOWNLOAD LATEST BEAT DUNGEON NZ BEATS

My latest radio show on the Beat Dungeon is up here – lots of chilled vibes and all 100% NZ electronica – downbeat, dubstep, future bass, housey business a bit of drum and bass, and ding donging around, check it out here

Did I put up the link for Beyond Faith? That’s my Jam out on Rotation Deep check it out into your check out, add to cart each and every time come to deep up the party.

And of course the vid for power supply, gonna get some more vids runnin soon!

Man I am like a prolific artist and stuff, I’m probably going to have to get some cool sunglasses because of how I’m the man.

Seriously, Drum and Bass, it’s just a thing y’know, it’s no big deal, I’m a stonecold superstar like that, I’m like y’know, checking my portfolio, I shouldn’t have sold my Telecom shares so early, but I think I’ve made a strong pick in AirNZ.

I mean I do have some new music out and stuff, you can check it out, not like I care because I’m such an artiste and I’m poolside closing the next big deal.

In fact I really am too arty and creative to even be writing this blog now and I would rather feel that I just remain just at a creative peak in terms of my thought processes, in a kind of a more static, kind of um receptive posture. I need to seek guidance from my zumba instructor.

I need to consult my runes, okay, I’ve got an appointment to have my positive power centres healed later so I don’t have time for this bullshit.

My second ever music video for our first single release “Power Supply / Low Key” This ones for “Power Supply” and “Low Key” will be up next.

Also don’t forget definitions of the deep is out too, with our cool song “Beyond Faith” on it I will have to get a video for that done too I’m sure it will be all very dramatic.

Does this beatport player work?

Yeah so that’s the new deep drum and bass stuff for now, get back to the story? It’s the season finale, everyone was trying to work out the connection between the desert nomad, the detective and their connection to the therapist and his patients. Bet you didn’t guess they were all clones participating in a simulation, right?

This one guy says he talks to god.

Not complicated enough for you? The producer calls the writer and says he wants some more drum and bass guys in it to push the music. The writer doesn’t want to put drum and bass DJ’s in his story but he does it anyway, like they cross dimensions with a space captain probably entering the archival non place known as the morphospace.

DUN DUN DUN THE MORPHOSPACE (true fans are like OMG right now, like the DJ’s are totally like, in the morphospace)

The space captain is here in Auckland, but what if the writer is another clone? The where are the DJ’s?

No such thing as too many layers. This ain’t hollywood. Go on add some more stuff.

Add a dog that talks and has 3 legs.

Don’t be silly, don’t test me. Don’t try and be clever, we do drum and bass and philosophy here in a serious way, and because it’s the season finale the heroes are going to break into the secret archive and reveal new knowledge, the screenwriter will remember the significance of the twist that he forgot, the space captain will discover the clone lab, and layers peel off like an onion, the detective hunting the friday night killer, the desert warrior who pursues the fox, the mental patient who tries to unlock himself and then the drum and bass DJ’s at the centre who apparently crossed over to another dimension and enterest the morphospace?

I’m not sure about the drum and bass DJ’s to be honest. We need to iron that one out a little still, though it seems that the drum and bass dudes may be the only guys who are actually real, like a sin even I’m not real.

Well what would I be doing if I wasn’t real? Who is really real, are the drum and bass guys the only ones who could be real because while the clones are subjects of the choice matrix, they’re the only ones who don’t know what they’re doing? What is the meaning of the choice matrix experiment?

New promo for “”Beyond Faith” is up, I didn’t know it was coming out so soon, in a week or so!

This is cool because now some decent tunes that are worthwhile to hear are coming out finally and I guess . . . well, deepness is my forte. If you think you’re going to test me on deepness, you’re going to find a problem there. A situation.

Tune is sounding really well, damn it’s gotta be the best engineered tune I ever put out – big up rotation deep HQ – and not really picking up any tuning issues, god so so many nights spent trying to tune all these samples it was pretty demoralising. I think I got stuck in my head a little bit on that one.

Of course will do a full post on this tune when it drops.

SOUL SCIENCE – BEYOND FAITH – DEFINITIONS OF THE DEEP LP (RD004) 15/8/11 (BEATPORT EXCLUSIVE) by Rotation Deep UK

I am slogging away working on my website and my video for power supply, not that I’m actually doing any of the actual work, I’m just getting in with these outsourced cats and getting the job sorted out so I actually get what I want, this time . . .

I’m already thinking of what the site will look like in the end – 2 or 3 iterations later – and the amount of deliberation required to get the vibe pitch perfect.

I was browsing all kinds of winning designs and seeing how much vibes they were throwing down just with really big strong images, and clean, simple design.

Looking for deep intelligent drum and bass with an old school flavour?

Soul Science – Low Key / Power Supply – is out today through Ambra Recordings – get it on beatport! I couldn’t work out how to embed the tunes from beatport

Soulscience – Power Supply/Lowkey (AMBRA003) Release Date 28/07/2011 by Ambra Recordings

Soulscience – Lowkey (AMBRA003) by Ambra Recordings

On a sunday night you wouldn’t think much is happening.

She’s telling me she’s got this other guy going, well I didn’t think I’d care. Across town the gig is about to begin. Skinny slit windows peer out across the city, I sip my beer waiting for another night to begin.

I try to serve as a good example to not ever get involved with making drum and bass. You can ruin your life. There’s perfectly charming things you can do with your life other than make drum and bass music and play it some club. You could say it’s dangerous, but that’s because everything’s dangerous. Life’s dangerous. So try to keep it discreet. As I used to say on the road “Play discreetly, my lord.”

Don’t worry, it’s a private joke.

People make their paths through the night toward their destiny. It’s a big town, it’s a big city, you never quite know what’s going on, behind the walls and through the doors and I suppose it’s for the best. God knows what she’s doing tonight, what she’s doing right now. The crowd is drifting in from the streets slowly. It was just a sunday night but who needs an excuse?

People have got to do what they have to and unfortunately for me, that means making drum and bass and everything that comes along with it.

In Low Key, the instruments don’t really compete, they all take turns and it turns into a structured journey. A lot of the songs are going there into deep narratives.

“Low Key” I identify as a calibre tribute, I wasn’t trying to sound like calibre, otherwise the guitar wouldn’t be so prominent, but I brought a lot of musty, deep vibes over from the era where he was really starting to kick off, more organic grooving breaks, and I really recognised his bold use of sounds, often cold kind of alien techno sounds stabbing over the warm strings and bass vibes. I don’t really use sound boldly that way except for in “Kings” and “Polyps”, but this is a track that has a conscious Calibre influence, any way.

Haha I’m trolling my own music career. Yeah sorry, don’t worry I’ll tell you later.

Anyway power supply. Definitely suspected of a sad lonesome cowboy involved there but it’s also pretty hazy. There are political overtones to the power supply but they’re not just overt. Mainly it’s about the kinds of things you can’t do without power, without energy, without fuel, so it’s about burning out, cold, empty, wrecked and decaying shells that disintegrate and fade.

That’s where Power supply kind of gets lost in a hazy, dreamy space – where the power can’t flow to make things function properly so you get this lurid wheezing fuzz where you’re drifting into abstraction.

As I said it’s not about a struggle over power, because without the power supply you can’t access data or perform functions.

AMBRA RECORDINGS 003

Continuing the global search for soul-hugging drumnbass, Ambra takes you on a trip to New Zealand, presenting the mystic tribal flavours of rising production duo Soulscience. There’s no mistaking the influence of the pacific ocean in the background of these blissful rollers, so open your mind and shut your eyes…

Paradox Vol.9 Radioshow – July 2011 by PARADOX

Let’s get juiced up shall we?

Available now in digital format frrom:

• Bandcamp
• Apple iTunes
• JunoDownload.com
• AmazonMP3

It’s “Juice of Life” NSU ft. Squeezer (soul Science Remix): Behind the Music!

The official Juice of life press release with all the buy links and what not is right there if you follow the link.

The first Soul Science release for 2011, my first tune for 2011 is “Juice of Life” by NSU ft Squeezer, (Soul Science Remix)

It maybe the first Soul Science release for all I know because it’s not like there’s any other Soul Science tunes available online is there? I mean like Itunes and stuff, to buy? Maybe it’s a big deal but I’m not really keeping score, that’s what happens when you’ve been trying to do this for 11 years. What’s a release? What’s a first release? I just make some beats and stuff.

Ain’t seen no milestones. It’s just another mile, it’s just another ode to the odometer.

So let us test out the time machine space pyramid one more time and return to the era only a short few months ago when this new track was completed:

So okay, I’m trying to negotiate for this new camera, it’s actually a good camera but it’s a huge beast, it’s actually an entry level pro ting – good for weddings and what not – as I said my whole issue is with convenience and if it’s a huge thing I have to grab around it doesn’t really lend it’s self to a few hours shooting random crap and editing it into a few minutes to go with a beat.

[I actually ended up buying this camera]

And then what did I say? Well phone rang a few times and I made all this cash, but that was helped by the fact I dealt with my printer issues. Which is smart, because BMW’s cost heaps of money, but printers make heaps of money. Both of the damn things never seem to be fine.

[hmm. All those issues earlier in the year that were making my life a complete misery. Fixed those. Awesome]

And the phone rings and we close some deals, and suddenly just throwing cash at the lawn and these stupid cars doesn’t seem quite as stupid as it did when I realised I had got my first parking ticket since the bailiff came.

Sales always power up my life force juice, which is a guess a tentative link to me talking about the first tune of 2011, which is the Soul Science remix of NSU’s “Juice of Life”

JUICE OF LIFE:  SOUL SCIENCE – BEHIND THE MUSIC

I have completed my first tune for the year, it’s the remix of the NSU track “Juice of Life” which features Squeezer, and that is pretty much way more naked warrior king retreat than any amount of trust falls.

I think basically what you have there is a bunch of surfer hippie bros playing hacky on the beach and it’s all like “dude!” pretty much like some ad for some kind of ice block, they’re probably surfing and playing frisbee and they’re probably having a barbeque later on but they are pretty much oblivious to the deeper knowledge that as night falls and the stars come out, creatures are on epicly deep journeys through the night.

The owl flies through the night, running on instinct, it’s some deep primal vibes, because the owl is on an epic journey through the jungle and it’s surreal because owls don’t journey through the amazon, and then it’s all on this heart of darkness, apocalypse now, snail crawling along the razors edge, owls are not what they seem trip.

Shit is dense!

The owl is closer to god. The owl understands the sacrifice of the son. The owl bears witness as Martin Sheen does to Colonel Kurtz.

I have ideas for the video but I really don’t want to get carried away with an idea I just want to do quickly in a few days. Just spend one day or 2 going round in my suit getting people to act filming me talking to them making inquiries as to the whereabouts of NSU.

I think I might have some of me stumbling around so it’s a real McNulty vibe – investigatin’, boozing, sleeping in your car and investigatin’ some more, but as with all our (wait for it bout to mint a new term!) – “modesthaus” videos less is more, it’ll just be me going around and cutting back and forth with footage of NSU gigs ripped from youtube, so it’s got a grainy, non permissive vibe, almost as if it represents reviewing security footage etc as well as a dual narrative that of course is never resolved.

[wow historiical documentation of the conception of the "modesthaus" term]

At the moment, my “modesthaus” vibe is to modest for any kind of resolution of anything set up, so no it has no structure the narrative is basically “Me, in a suit is looking for a another guy who is possibly a guy shown in footage performing that is either video existing within the storyline or happening simultaneously as I make my enquiries. Sometimes I am pictured dishevelled or stumbling about possibly due to tiredness, drunkenness, or maybe even in an induced stupor but it is not linear or explained.

Then I got on Twitter. It’s the Juice of Life remix, yo!

Just described my @nsuonline remix as “way more naked warrior king retreat than any amount of trust falls”.

It’s more about an owl who comes to know god in the depths of the amazon. It’s some heart of darkness shit, pretty much

“I go deep. It’s an amazonian apocalypse now reenacted with a bicurious owl as sheen and brando potrayed as a christ like frog or toad.” #itsart

I’m not sure we got to the part where the young owl is dealing with his sexuality but I think it underpins the main narrative with these psychosexual themes.

Just the press release for yall! More insider behind the scenes info for “Juice of Life” Soul Science Remix coming up!

Available now in digital format frrom:

• Bandcamp

• Apple iTunes

• JunoDownload.com

• AmazonMP3

CDs available in early May.

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The first release for 2011 by nsu is a downbeat/ambient remix concept album, showcasing the work of a select group of producers from all around New Zealand. The album is titled “Rescapé” (French for “survivor”), a play on the title of the 2009 EP “Escape”, and its release signals a game-changer:

“Having released a couple of remix singles last year, primarily focusing around styles such as dubstep, breakbeat, house, electro and techno, I wanted to flip the coin and move away from the dance floor in order put the spotlight on the more laid-back genres, while staying true to the remix art form. The intention is to have something that, regardless of the environment, encourages people to listen and allow inside their headspace, rather than have an hour full of slamming rhythms and pulverising basslines.” – Ivan Vuković (IV), nsu

Collaborations are the key strength of the album, as the compilation features new versions of previously released nsu tracks put together by handpicked producers:

“I love the concept of a remix and hearing how other musicians construct their own interpretations of my work. As a result I was keen to put together a full-length album project that involved artists from around the country whose work I have admired over the years – the bonus here is, I can refer to most of these guys as my friends. I love working together with other people and I’m very proud of the outcome on this album – it plays very nicely from start to end.” – IV

The album features sublime new work from respected New Zealand artists such as Auckland’s Dub Asylum and Soul Science, 762 (one half of Sick Cycle from Christchurch), Raglan’s Felix Deluxe and Jason Lurman (from Hamilton instrumental rock band Sora Shima), as well as chill-out specialists from the South Island – Invader Tron (CHCH), Sharkweek (Dunedin) and Stray Theories (Timaru). nsu also delivers two of his own fresh new reworks, including a collaboration with Haszari of the Cartoon Beats fame.

The album is available now in digital (MP3) format from Bandcamp, Apple iTunes, JunoDownload.com, AmazonMP3 and other online retailers.

nsu – Rescapé – NCMR006LP

1. Broken Mirror (Felix Deluxe Remix) 3:49

2. Panic Bells feat. Siknik (762 Remix) 3:32

3. Discordia (Invader Tron Remix) 5:51

4. Juice of Life feat. Squeezer (Soul Science Remix) 6:15

5. West Coast Dub feat. Squeezer (Dub Asylum Remix) 5:14

6. Slow Motion Stellar Collapse feat. Haszari 7:00

7. Far From Comfort (Sharkweek Remix) 6:55

8. The Mystical Tree (Whakapapa Dub) 4:32

9. Sixteen 786 feat. Lost in Japan (Stray Theories Remix) 5:34

10. Upside Down feat. JR Trap (Sora Shima Remix) 8:06

Click Here for full Press Release

nsu – Rescapé

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So it’s another night, another gig, I’m okay, I was really sailing into the wind but I pulled it out. I wasn’t well placed to start with and I really didn’t start well, but the fact I did manage to get the dancefloor back, well I was happy. I didn’t have the best of circumstances, I get a bit pissy because everyone thinks they can get all on my shit, an MC jostling me is just what happens, but all other DJ’s rocking on up and tweaking levels and mic level, and then you got the mic cord dangling across the cdj wheel which can be a deadly silent killer. The mixer was ratty also I had no clue where the cues were but I could hear both tunes so I just winged it.

The approach was a bit lackadaisical but I don’t know what else to do, I gotst to get my money, and do my songs and say hullo to the girls and I don’t have it all together to make sure every detail of the gig is going to plan. It’s quite frustrating because I believe I can deliver as a DJ but I simply can’t make it a priority.

I was bagging off with some blonde, I didn’t know what was going on but does it really matter? I don’t know. I wasn’t necessarily proud of my behaviour, let’s just say I’m left wondering if there’s anything to be ashamed about. I’m not going to go into what happened with the girl, she was nothing to write home about and batshit crazy to boot but that’s another story. It’s more the light from the triangle cuts a stream through the darkness.

Oh the bar staff weren’t happy I was creeping round the back with some girl. Oh I was having vacant distracted conversations with all kinds of young guys who were all excited about being excited. Whatever – at the end of the day, I played my set and brought it back from the edge and then I met some girl and took her home. Look, that’s how it’s supposed to be.

Do you understand me? Rock the crowd, get your money, go home with the girl, that’s all you can ask for. Obviously the whole affair was quite much more complex and convoluted than that but on the face of the daily news, that’s what’s to be said. Then you can rot in your grave while our friendly maggot friends can eat your brain, and also active protozoa and bacteria breaking you down.

A light appears from the triangular metastructure.

I’m not going to lie, what’s the point of even having a blog about breakbeat lifestyles and philosophy if you’re just going to spout garbage?

It’s not easy to step up and claim that vibe. To say, okay, I’m sorry but I am going to rock this sound system, then I’m going to get all the money, and then I’m going to get all the girls.

Y’know why? because I’m worried about some thing with some thing to do with it. Some nonsense going on. I don’t want to sound like a dick, but if you become a bigshot, it’s hard to keep everybody happy because there’ll be all kinds of issues arising, and little things and people which you can’t afford to worry about because it takes a lot of concentration and effort to be able to destroy a dancefloor, get all your money happening and then run around chasing girls. There’s just not much more room in your head. Maybe that’s why you do have to be humble.

You see a lot of top dogs coming unstuck thinking they can do and say anything, but the little people don’t like to feel little and they hold the big people up.

But yes, life is hard, and winning is harder. I’m not sure if it makes you any smarter if you analyze it but I think what I’m getting at is to ascend and move on, to transcend, you must learn to not give a shit about little things. Sure if the DJ’s, myself included, were more organised, we could have rocked that crowd, but we weren’t and we didn’t, not really. Oh well. Better luck next time.

When you’re programmed to struggle, it’s hard to let go. It’s like your running along the runway and suddenly you’re flying but your legs are still frantically kicking, when all you really need do is soar on the wings of your mind. Deep concept, huh?

It’s like a scene out of lost, trying to bust open the hatch to the triangle, I tried to have brain transplant, and we’ve been archiving and travelling through time and all research personnel are pulling out all the stops so we can master the interdimensional brain functioning computator techniques.

This is think club on the next level, this is the sequel where all the think club activists bust loose and just start thinking everywhere and all over your face until your face starts thinking about higher abstract concepts.

We’re not building this pyramid fast enough.

We just need to do that, get some sweet pyraminds happening so no dickheads or neanderthals come lurking about, and we need to get some aliens to come down in their ufo’s, sort my brain transplant out for me, and get our pyramid together so all the think club family don’t have to concern themselves with neanderthals.