2 Weeks? Feels Like 2 months!
A lot can happen in a couple of weeks! I took some time off blogging just to give myself a little bit of breathing space and seems I just can't do "breaks" and switch off the noggin'! In that time:
I made an offer on a house that got accepted and I may well own my own place in the next few months which is not something I thought would ever happen! Going through all the legal stuff with that now but this is a big step!
I have started some evening and weekend learning to help get a footing on the Space Science course which is a good refresher on the skills needed to get back in to Uni again.
My mental health has definitely improved from being mostly offline and removing twitter, discord apps from my phone/PC and deleting my FB. Wow, such an energy drain those things are!
The crypto markets are in chaos with some serious FUD going on - I've not really missed the shitstorm that happens on Twitter and social media every day to be honest! I heard there were a few things going with Hive as well like the 3Speak network, power down times and things.
I even dared to open up my music software and started working on a new house/trance/old school track which will probably take a long time to complete but it was great to just fire up the music PC again and get things going!
Liquid Funk Cures The Soul
As always, I found some solace listening back to the tunes I first heard when I got to drum & bass and caught this pretty epic mix to just chill out to on Sunday. There are quite a few mixes that have tunes from 2004-2009, which is my favourite era of liquid funk and dnb, but the one I tuned in to yesterday was this one from Mickey B:
There are a lot of classics in there but he took the mix in a slightly heavier direction half way through which I wasn't too enamoured with but brings it back to the liquid soul vibes later in the mix. For me, I prefer to stick with the theme of liquid in my mixes and throw the odd one or two heavy ones in there if they fit but it was a nice nostalgic trip for sure!
Getting Back To DJing?
Speaking of mixes, DJ Pi contacted me last week and asked if I wanted to get back in to mixing again this month and go live on May 29th but my head isn't in the right place at the moment and I want to get settled in my new place first. Having said that, I'm starting to get the itch again with the mixes and as my creative juices aren't quite there with music creation, I am happy to just listen to other liquid dnb tunes and add them to my favourites library in preparation for when I get back in the mixing game later in the year.
I'm slowly getting back in to blogging but not fully back online - wanted to catch up with you and see how you're doing?! What else have I missed?? Let me know in the comments!
Nicky