Truculence

Solid Steel in association with Serato present:

Solid Steel Radio 1-1-2010 (click through to download)

Hexstatic rings in the New Year with a cracking mix to take Solid Steel into 2010. Hudson Mohawk, Bassnectar, and a Busy P remix of Kraftwerk all feature, along with hot new music from the Hexstatic hard drive.

It’s the start of a new decade and hour 2 takes a timely look back at the last 10 years of hip hop beats from the leftside. 2tall, DJ Clockwork and Kper give us their ‘A Boom Bap Continuum’ mix, with over 200 tracks from 1999 to 2009, featuring tracks from Premo, Pete Rock and Madlib, through Dilla and on to Bullion, Floating Points, Harmonic 313 and everyone in between. The track list is too long for us to include, so check out their website for all the info.

This one is right mental.  The Solid Steel crew always deliver, and they certainly don’t disappoint with their first mix of the year.  Stamped with the Xofer seal of approval.

AC Slater recently smashed 2010 wide open as the first guest of the year on Annie Nightingale’s legendary show on Radio 1.  Packed with his usual onslaught of basslines and sliding seamlessly between fidgety bassline badness and thick dirty dubstep, this mix has me excited for where this guy is headed in 2010.

Party Like Us Records on myspace

AC Slater mix for Annie Nightingale (direct link)
1. Udachi – “P-Funk Skank” [Party Like Us Records]
2. AC Slater – “Take You” feat Ninjasonik [Trouble & Bass]
3. Tonka – “Jack Track” (Black Noise VIP) [Southern Fried]
4. Kill the Noise – “Jokes on You” [Slow Roast]
5. Acid Girls – “Numbers Song” (Jokers of the Scene Remix) [iheartcomix]
6. Drop the Lime – “Thwomp Stomp” [Trouble & Bass]
7. Ladybox – “Hit My Ride” (AC Slater Remix) [Party Like Us Records]
8. Heavyfeet – “I Spy” (AC Slater Remix) [Stamp! Music]
9. AC Slater – “Calm Down Part 2″ [Trouble & Bass]
10. P-Money – “Left the Room”
11. Zinc – “Killa Sound” feat No Lay (Skream Remix) [Bingo]
12. AC Slater & Mumdance feat Badness & 77Klash – “Transatlantic Riddim” [Trouble & Bass]
13. Drop the Lime – “Set Me Free” (AC Slater Remix) [Trouble & Bass]
14. MJ Cole – “Sincere” (Mumdance & High Rankin Remix)
15. Starkey – “OK Luv” feat Badness [Planet Mu]
16. Jinder – “Youth Blood” (12th Planet Remix) [Trouble & Bass]

Then along came Philly’s KASTLE (aka. Barrett “B. Rich” Richards) with his january 2010 promo, a bassy trip to Sexytown.  This is bass your whole family will love.  There are plenty of remixes to which one could easily get their swerve on.  From slow dubby beats to sped up amens, it’s all slathered in deep, sexy bass and mixed with precision.  Packed with swagger, this mix is sure to be in heavy rotation for some time to come.

KASTLE on myspace

KASTLE january 2010 promo (direct link)
01. DJ Madd – I Know It’s You
02. Tek-One – Wax Poetic
03. Wedge – Running Away (Guido Remix)
04. NastyNasty – Damn Girl
05. Zero 7 – Everything Up (Joker & Ginz Remix)
06. SDUK – Clunge
07. Julissa Veloz – Take Control (HavocNdeeD Remix)
08. Joker – City Hopper
09. Example – Won’t Go Quietly (Kastle Remix)
10. Kano – Rock N Roller (Starkey Remix)
11. NastyNasty – No Names
12. Robin Thicke – Sex Therapy (12th Planet Remix)
13. Ellie Goulding – Under The Sheets (Pariah Remix)
14. Kastle – Fitter Happier (Radiohead Cover)
15. Alix Perez – 1984
16. Instra:Mental – Watching You
17. D:Bridge – Wonder Where
18. Subwave – First Time
19. Well Being – Without A Doubt
- Robert Manos – Silver -
20. Mutt – Conversations ft. Kevin King
21. Burnkane – You Will Forget ft James J K Hughes
22. ill.gates & Filastine – Waiting For Initiation
23. Wax Tailor – We Be ft Ursula Rucker
24. Sade – Soldier Of Love (Kastle Remix)
25. Izaak Stern – DF Tripper
26. Jogger – Nice Tights (Nosaj Thing Remix)
27. Uffie ft. Mr Oizo – MCs Can Kiss (Starkey Remix)
28. Geeneus – Yellowtail VIP
29. VV Brown – Unity (Cooly G Remix)
30. Shavana – Feeling Shy (1QY & F@Z Remix)
31. Mosca – Square One (Greena Remix)

I’m a big fan of reading, but I’m not always great at picking new books to read.  This site totally fixes that.

Type in the name of a book or author you like and the site will generate you a list of suggestions based on their users’ favourites.  Awesome.

http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com

Re-joined the gym yesterday.  It’s been over two months, and I missed it a lot.  It’s going to be good to be back at Get Spun a few times a week.

I start school next Tuesday.   I’m quite excited.  My Theory of Food instructor is Chef Robert Rainford from License to Grill on Food Network.  Hopefully there will be slo-mo sequences.

The new year is off to a great start.

Last night, I packed my new skates and headed down to the Natrel Rink at Harbourfront. I laced them up and took to the ice.

It was only after a few seconds of wobbling and then some very tentative steps that I started to put things together.

I haven’t skated since before my crash. I thought I had, but I most certainly have not. As such, it’s almost like learning to skate again. I had to re-learn walking 6 years ago, so this isn’t all that surprising. Everything to do with my left leg is very dodgy. It’s something to work on, for sure.

I forgot what it’s like to skate outside where the ice is much colder than in arenas. The surface is a lot harder and less forgiving.

My butt is sore today, but I think I’m gonna spend a lot of time on the ice this winter.