Two Mondays ago, I dropped the BSB show for February. I went digging for one of my favorites for L.O.V. from the French label Pro-Zak Trax.
There are lots of other goodies inside as well. Check it out!
BSB0039 — Brand Spanking Bought
House Of Spice :: One
Butter
BSB0038 — Brand Spanking Bought
I dropped my latest #BSB show. It was definitely a fun way to start the new year. However, I realize was talking a bit much in the last few episodes of 2017.
I kicked off the show with my Layers of Vinyl selection from Tim Deluxe, Less Talk More Action. It’s going to be my motto for 2018 for sure.
Kinda went crazy with the DJ Eclyps selections in this show. And also I purposely cooled off the mix before heating it up again from the stuff into the Throwback Section including one of my originals, Life and Fiction.
Of course the download is available from my record label website. mGrooves Music.
A detail list of the tracks is available only through subscribing to the 4Groovers there as well.
BSB0037 — Brand Spanking Bought
My latest #BSB show is now available.
I was having a bit of equipment trouble in my home studio, so I reached for Alexander Robotnick‘s Problems D’amour on the LP, The Dark Side of Disco, to begin the show. This is the L.O.V.[e] selection of this BSB podcast.
Funny, my love life, or more accurately stated my lack of love life, could probably be described through that song too. Ha!
I have been definitely barking up the wrong proverbial trees. Maybe I just need to find a different forest, eh?
In addition, I dropped a track from the middle of show entirely. I’ll likely re-introduce it in another show soon. It just didn’t fit as well as I initially thought it would. So I ditched it.
Free Download of BSB0037 Podcast/Mix
All-in-all, I think you will like the group of music put together for the December show.
If you want the complete track listing, send me a note using the form below. I love feedback of any type.
[contact-form-7 id=”497″ title=”Music | Beats | Prose”]Give. Thanks.
Yes, today on a day too far back that I really wish not to talk about, I was born.
As many of you know, I have rarely made this day about me, it’s not in my upbringing.
As I have gotten older, I have found some fun and sometimes creative ways to make it about all who might be around me on this day and about others in general.
This has taken such forms in previous years as the #Scoprio Tryst dance parties that I did with at first with fellow Scorpios, then solo as well as other charity in other years.
In that last vain, I ask each of you who wish me well on this day to be my hero and give to one of the following causes below.
St Francis Neighborhood Center
Anne Arundel County CASA
Cupid’s Undie Run
Your generosity and empathy are greatly appreciated!
Preview DC at Flash
Flash is one of my favorite places in DC these days.
There are a lot of places that have electronic music in the DC area and frankly most of them are junk. Yeah this is rather judgmental, but hear me out.
Yes a lot of electronic music has become more mainstream and this in of itself is not a bad thing. More mainstream means more ears will hear it right?
True, more people will hear ‘something’, but this does not mean it is the right somethings. As anything that becomes overtly popular, other forces start to have an impact.
We forget to keep being curious about the ‘why’ behind something and turn into the dumb, blind, non-thinking, zombies that consumerism is really all about.
Money, instead of quality, becomes the driver. With the focus on the bottom dollar, the often difficult and or accidental paths that delivered uniqueness to us is replaced with just trying to rubber stamp the results in.
More mainstream means more ears will hear it right?
Okay, I’ll stop ranting about the negatives.
Top Pick Rated by DC House Grooves
Why do I like Flash? Because they seem to keep looking for the forward and edgy while not forgetting those paths I mentioned that have described what some would call a tradition. Yes, they do look for what is popular but with an eye to what might be next. This is not without much risk, which is just the opposite one gets with pop (read= that EDM term).
However, there isn’t any adventure without some risk.
I have 2 or 3 more places in the DC area that are on my short list of where to get good curated electronic music from the popular to the emerging. Send me a note to get the list of those places in your inbox via the Contact Me page.
Tonight, I am joining the Preview DC gang again on the roof top of Flash for Happy Hour. Don’t worry it’s free and we start at 6PM.
Preview DC feat. Stylo
BSB0036 — Brand Spanking Bought
Yesterday, I posted my latest BSB show to Mixcloud.
I have to say that this show came together quite easily. Many times it is a lot more work than many people probably imagine.
Free Download of BSB0036 Podcast/Mix
Soon, I will talk a bit more expansively about my process in future postings, but for now let’s just say it’s not so simple. So I relish in the times when things seem to jell pretty quickly.
It’s a good feeling.
If you want the complete track listing, send me a note using the form below. I love feedback of any type.
[contact-form-7 id=”497″ title=”Music | Beats | Prose”]Coming Together
I have been swapping living spaces in recent weeks, expanding into a new studio space.
As with most changes there are upsides and downsides. The downside is that there is less natural light. The upside there is more space to deploy my producing equipment. And for my cat, Milla, to spread her legs a lot more.
Yeah, it’s all for the pets, right?
Oh. My latest #BSB podcast and mixshow is available for immediate download. You will want to take this with you on your weekend excursions especially if you are going somewhere in nature, away from the internet.
Download BSB0036
Of course, it will be available for streaming this coming Monday. Get connected with me on Mixcloud to get the mix in this way.
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Therapy
Making music, writing prose, making mixes, etc has been just this for me for a long long time. So long, I don’t remember when it became so.
To me it has always been since before the first piece of prose I wrote or some random tune I plucked on the piano.
What is your therapy?
Therapy
Do you wonder why
Why fire drives me so
Dispensing poetic
Rhythm from my soul
It’s the only way
I know to remain sane
To gather in the flood
To control the flame
A struggle versus the forces of nature
An epoch fight on a singular journey
To defy the test of time
To delay expiring on a gurney
The success I may have
Is all relative my dear
I could be fine for now
And still be gone next year