I have so many drafts that haven’t been posted.
Sorry for being MIA. I got a new job and had some family things to take care of.
I really wanted to write a good catchup post but that will have to wait for another time.
I was so sad to hear about MC Conrad. What a sad day for dnb. We lost a legendary voice. RIP 🕊️.
Lots of busy work today. Not a fan.
Currently listening to:
Laundry is seriously my most hated chore. Did a mix chocka full of oldies and goodies and cleaned downstairs to pass the time. Still don’t have any way to record the mix, so it’s just a YouTube playlist again.
Tracklist
Calibre feat. Lariman – Overreaction
Q-Project – Nation 2 Nation
Dj Marky & XRS – LK
Blu Mar Ten – All Over Again (Kubiks Remix)
Dj Marky & S.P.Y. – The Dopplar Effect
A Sides – Lustrous
Survival – Forget Tomorrow
Logistics – Inside My Soul (Friction & Nu Balance Remix)
Optical – Slip Thru
Shimon & Moving Fusion – The Alias
Ed Rush & Optical – Punchbag
Q-Project – Ask Not
A Sides & Calibre – People of Tomorrow
Matrix & Fierce – Tightrope
Artificial Intelligence – Inside
Bad Company – Coma
Nemesis feat Dj Kane – System (Optical Remix)
Q-Project – Tears (Marky & Bungle Remix)
Satl did a mix for BBC Radio One which I enjoyed. I’m loving his collaborations with Brandy Haze. Anxiously awaiting the “On Site” release. 🥰
Tracklist
00:01:34 Steo – Untitled
00:03:20 Satl – Baby, Tell Me Why?
00:04:39 Satl & Brandy Haze – Unfortunate
00:07:59 Satl – Chinwag
00:09:48 Drake – Fair Trade (Satl Flip)
00:11:22 Venna – Avenue B (Halogenix Edit)
00:13:32 Primitive Instinct – Untitled
00:14:39 Satl – Full Moon
00:15:45 Satl, Ellis Esco & MilanSangar – Night Out
00:17:54 Satl & Styke – Untitled 808 Bubbler
00:18:42 Duskee, Satl, DRS & Verbz – So Fly
00:21:37 EIJER, Satl & Brandy Haze – On Site
00:22:58 Kublai – Time To Think
00:24:29 H.E.R. – Avenue [Zero T Flip]
00:25:50 Lenzman & Redeyes – Shine So Bright
00:28:10 Ivy Lab & Seyaa – Idols Fall
Daylight savings starts tomorrow? You got somewhere to be 2024?
Bruh. Super duper excited for this show!! We all know my love for Toulousian dnb knows no end. Geeked for Halogenix too. Seeing him at Station 1640 was one of my favourite sets ever.
Been listening to this Styke mix. I really enjoyed his set when I was in Amsterdam for the TNQ night. 🥰
Tracklist:
1. Styke – ID
2. dBridge – Since We’ve Been Apart
3. Satl & Eijer ft. Brandy Haze – Call Me
4. Tatora – FWM
5. Styke – Stride
6. Alix Perez – SWRV
7. Hiraeth – Rowdy
8. Anile – Juno’s Position
9. ID – ID
10. Styke – ID
11. Tatora – PR8LMZ
12. Channell – Peppermint
13. Alix Perez – Floating
14. Note – Cold Nights
15. SpectraSoul – How Strange
16. Calibre ft. DRS – City Life
17. Halogenix – Embold
18. Styke – Leaving
19. Javano – Love Too Much
20. Tatora & Perspective Shift – Retrospective Clarity
21. Styke – ID
22. Halogenix – Ivory
23. Zero T – This Condition
24. Roygreen & Protone – Handcracked
25. Anile – Riggers
26. Total Science – Killa
27. Tyrone – Untitled Matrix
28. Khruangbin – First Class (Halogenix Edit)
29. Styke – ID
30. Sub Focus – Close (Ivy Lab Remix)
31. Calibre & Zero T – One Word
32. Alix Perez, Rockwell & SpectraSoul ft. Anthony Moriah – Montpellier
33. Satl – Don’t Even Ask
34. Styke – Bad Times
35. Redeyes – Keith Sweat
36. Souls of Mischief – 93 ‘Til Infinity (switch/case Bootleg)
Currently digging. 🥰
I was geeked when Stunna told me he had a Naibu showcase coming up.
Thoroughly enjoyed it. 😍
TRACKLIST…….
• ANGELS + DEMONS ( BRAD IMPACT )
• GIVE YOU UP ( LSB )
• IMAGINE THE FUTURE (UNKNOWN): REMIX
• IN THE DARK (OUTRAGE)
• LET GO (JUST JUNGLE)
• CRASHBACK (RAINFOREST)
• EMISSARY (KLOKE)
• CHICAGO FLEX (UNKNOWN FACE)
• I TOLD YA (HALOGENIX)
• FORGIVE + FORGET (WINGZ + COLLETTE WARREN)
• ECHOES OF NOVEMBER (SUBMORPHICS + LENZMAN)
• 852 (LO!)
• SLIPPERY FELLA (WORKFORCE + BREAK)
• VERMIN (GREMLINZ + JESTA feat FLOWANASTASIA)
• B PARIS (NAIBU + TACTILE)
• CHROME N BLACK (DASH)
• GOODBYE (OUTRAGE)
• FOUR ( BLADE )
• CRACKLES (NAIBU)
• HANA (NAIBU feat TAMARA): BETA VERSION
• FIGHTING FOR ATTENTION (NAIBU): MICROFUNK CREW REMIX
• SEARCHING (NITRI feat SIMON JINADU): NAIBU REMIX
• FELLOWSHIP (NAIBU + MITEKISS)
• UNTITLED 2 (NAIBU)
NAIBU
‘SANS SOLEIL’ LP (MINATO MUSIC)
FEATURE + INTERVIEW
01. SANS SOLEIL
02. THE LONGER IT TAKES
03. LA SPIRALE DU TEMPS
04. PARTING
05. JUST A DREAM (INSTRUMENTAL)
06. SPRING
07. SUNLESS feat ROBERT MANOS (RADIO MIX)
08. MINATO
09. AT CROSSINGS
10. SANS SOLEIL (REPRISE)
(INTERVIEW ENDS)
• AFTER HOURS (DJ TRACE): NINE WINDOWS REMIX
• THE NAVIGATOR (JLM PRODUCTIONS)
• DIFFERENT VIBRATIONS (KLOKE)
• I NEED YOU (SUBJECTS)
• IMPRESSIONS (ASC)
• OCEAN DAWN (NINE WINDOWS)
• THE CONSTRUCT (ASC)
• CONCORDIA (AURAL IMBALANCE)
• ENDO’S STASH (ARTIFICIAL RED)
• AGAIN (NAIBU)
• IT TOOK A LONG TIME (NAIBU): KJELL REMIX
January is mad long. Hello February. We’ve been waiting for you.
Just got back from the gym.
I love running on the treadmill and listening to dnb. It’s so energizing.
Current selection:
Blog is under maintenance.
Please excuse the haphazardness of the menu and the overall look. 😩
DnB & Kiki is a WordPress blog. I have another domain on my account as well.
It’s just my name. My work portfolio is on Wix and I don’t want to pay to connect the domain there, so this morning I started rebuilding my work portfolio on WordPress.
We built our portfolios for an assignment during my master’s and I didn’t have the time to sort out how to do it on WordPress, so I just chose Wix. Wix is quick and easy.
I wasn’t paying attention and clicked DnB & Kiki when I was choosing my theme for the work portfolio, changing DnB & Kiki’s theme instead. 😭😭😭
I think the last time I changed the theme was when I lived in Japan,,, 10 years ago. I couldn’t remember the name of it to change it back.
The only way to get it is to ask WordPress, I talked to their customer care and they said they could revert the site back, but I don’t have a premium account, so technical support isn’t included? They wanted me to pay $149. Um what? I just said no thanks and closed the chat box.
The theme name randomly popped in my head a couple of hours later. But, now I have to go back and customize it and add all the widgets again. *sigh*
I know, I know, champagne problems,
I just don’t feel like doing it at the moment, so just tolerate it for now.
I’m listening to some Craggz & Parallel Forces and sulking.
Not feeling very chatty today. Just working and listening to some Ivy Lab.
Their Radio 1 mix from this month is so good. 🥰
Tracklist
00:00:00 Satl – Anxious (feat. Brandy Haze)
00:02:38 Ivy Lab – Live On Your Smile
00:04:50 Satl & Artificial Intelligence – Surreal
00:06:41 TeeBee – Saviour
00:08:31 Wingz – Parting 😍
00:10:21 DLR – Money For Nothing
00:12:14 Satl – I Got U
00:13:40 PARTICLE – Fooling
00:15:30 Two Swords – Pushback
00:16:53 Trail – Njs
00:19:11 VELLE – Forest Forgotten
00:20:28 Ivy Lab & Seyaa – Idols Fall
00:22:07 Untrue – One More Tune
00:22:38 Ivy Lab – Snap 101 😍
00:26:33 Anile & Satl – Nothing Makes Sense (Satl’s Everything Makes Sense Mix)
00:28:24 Cleo Sol – Know That You Are Loved (Envy Remix)
Got to hang out with Stunna and Calculon yesterday. Stunna was in town to play Respect. It was so nice to hang with some of my o.g. dnb people.
My dnb crew in LA consists of me, me, and me. If I do go to shows, I just go by myself. It was nice when Pipleline still lived here, cuz he was always down to venture out.
I don’t mind too much. I’m okay with my own company. I like mixing at home by myself and living in my own dnb world. But, I do also love the opportunity to just hang with others and chat about tunes I love or just sit around and listen to tracks. I miss my peoples big time whenever I’m in the mood to do just that.
Hey, I know I am at fault in this scenario. I don’t get that excited about going out and making new friends. I like my dnb people. I have 20+ years of history with my Minneapolis and Chicago crews. I’m an old lady raver. I don’t have the energy to put in the effort I used to at 20.
That being said, I did see Amy out. We were both at Locus in Tulum. She’s quite lovely, has nice friends and also lives in my neighbourhood. We’re supposed to hang. 🥰
Listening to some SirReal. I love me some SirReal. His mixes were the soundtrack to so much of my noughties. Always good vibes.
Tracklist
LSB – Too Late feat. DRS & Tyler Daley
Workforce – Forever (LSB remix)
DJ Marky – Colours of My Mind feat. Pola & Bryson
Calibre – No Stopping
Tokyo Prose & LSB – Three Colour Portrait
BCee – Steam Clean
Motiv – Person I Knew
Unknown Artist – Do 4 Love
Lenzman & Redeyes – Midnight Fantasy
GLXY – Fear Ego
Tokyo Prose – Delicate Steps
Anile – Ceremonial
ST Files & Calibre – Astral Plane
Motiv – All I Want
Zero T – JazzTone VIP feat Steo & [K S R]
GLXY & Halogenix – Unconditional
Sustance – Magnetic
The North Quarter All Starts – Everything Nice
Calibre & ST Files – Grow feat Carmelle Cox
Note – Vespertnie feat Aya Dia
Satl X Artificial Intelligence – Stronger feat Gigi Daai
Satl – Meal Deal
Hugh Hardie – RWTS feat in:Most & Kojo
Surreal & Motiv – Deleted
Satl – Sundress feat Ellis Esco & Milansangar
Calibre – Stunted
Technimatic – Risk Everything feat DRS
London Elektricity – Fast Soul Music feat Liane Carroll (Dogger & Mindstate remix)
Sustance – Sweet Relief feat Pola & Bryson, Duskee & Zara Kershaw
My turntables are next to the washer and dryer, so sometimes, if I’m in the mood, I’ll mix records while I do laundry.
I love all my old records. I have so many good tracks.
I don’t have any way to record my mixes any more, so the best I could do was write down the tracklist as I mixed and create a YouTube playlist of the mix, if you want to listen.
Of course it would be way better mixed instead of stand alone videos, but the selection was still dope, even if I do say so myself. 😂
My solo rave was a vibe I tell you. Enjoy the trip down memory lane. I sure did. 🥰
Tracklist
Dj SS – England
Dom & Roland – Homicide
Roni Size – It’s Jazzy (Felix Road Mix)
MAW feat. India – To Be in Love (Carlito & Addiction Full Vocal Mix)
Total Science – Badger Eyes
Laroque – Bad Girls
Q Project – Tears
Submorphics - Make it Happen
DKay – Black Magic
Brooklyn – Someone (Naibu Remix)
Ror-Shak – A Forest (Disturbulence Remix)
Commix – Hung Up
Total Science – 3 Sugars
Shy FX & T Power feat. Di and Skibadee – Don’t Wanna Know
2024. 🥰
2023 was … I don’t really have the words. It wasn’t good. It wasn’t bad. It was just there.
I had a lovely holiday season. I spent a lot of time with my family and I really enjoyed it. I’m ready to start my new year with purpose and excited for whatever is to come.
Having a chill morning.
I really enjoyed this mix with Emma G going b2b with Satl from November.
Hope you guys have a great start to the year too.
DnB & Kiki 