A hard nights work, well dancing

So Saturday night, well what can I say, I had a great night...a nice bit of dubstep is good, a truckload can always be healthy every now and again. Not always though, just in case you think that I could spend all my time listening to dubstep, as with every genre there is stuff out there I don't care for.

Anyone who saw me on Saturday, may well have thought that I looked fed up, instead I was just worn out and to be honest on my last legs by the time I got to The Other Rooms, running the couple of miles from the Tyne along the quayside and up to central will help kill you off trust me. Anyway I'm procrastinating.

I think I chose the most unusual method of framing my mind for dubstep on the metro ride into town, I chose to listen to a mix linked to by Rupture of an interesting, if mildly confusing, pitched down cumbias by Sonido Martines, it's downloadable here. It might just confuse my ears due to the fact that I have no relationship with the music, and therefore the frame of reference I come to is only picked upon when some sample from a Rod Stewart track creeps in.

So No Name offered a delicious line up topped by Benga and Appleblim, needless to say both did what they do so well I can't complain. Benga's sets always strike me as some of the most colourful dubstep sets, it gets to a point that Georgina Cook mentioned in the documentary I recorded, that it would be nice to see Dubstep at festivals, Benga is the sort of DJ I can see doing a daytime set in a green field. Meanwhile Dynamix played another great set, that to be honest really started off the dubstep affair nicely and got a few more bodies moving out on the dancefloor.

To the Other Rooms and the Heavyweight boys, I haven't been to enough Heavyweight nights lately, I think £27 taxi rides home reinforce the downside of living in South Shields. It might also highlight why I was so reluctant to leave early. Dynamix and Funk Ethics (check out The Blues is Now on his myspace page, somewhere between Prefuse73 and Benny Ill) both played heavy sets that got the night going, and that I thought were both up there. Gravious and Scuba to be honest seemed to find my body trying to shut me down, and to be honest Gravious I found the most enjoyable, Scuba, as much as I do like his sets usually, was just a little to dark for me with my body in meltdown, on a different night, I may well have been singing the praises of Paul Rose and not leaving early, sadly a long day just took its toll.

For future reference I will drink more energy drinks and water, and less beer, and maybe have a pizza midway to avoid this sort of burnout. Now to bed.

what to do on a saturday night?

So it appears Lower End Spasm is the hottest podcast series to subscribe to, getting plenty of attention, as is 4x4 check out Rupture's thoughts here. To be honest I'm loving 4x4 along with minimal just for the fact that it offers something different to dubstep, and trust me I'm not sick of it, just I firmly believe you need to get as much of a variety of music as you can, and well I happen to love DJ's who blend a variety of tunes together well, and forget genres.

I am currently happy to say that M.I.A's new album Kala has grown on me greatly, at first Jimmy was the only track that jumped out at me, on repeat listens though things seem to pick up and get a lot more interesting, and not as laid back as I first thought. Maybe the summer sun has made me love it more, but good god I wish I had Forward Motion on air now just so I could drop some of those tunes.

Another lady who's work I'm loving is my friend Laura, who's tune Nosey Nosey is quite frankly one very nice piece of techno....I should sell it more, but I feel very biased, go listen to it on her myspace and make up your own mind.

And in case you're wondering why I'm online on a Friday night it's because tomorrow night I have Benga, Scuba, Appleblim, Gravious, Dynamix, Funk Ethics and a few more to see, at the Tyne (No Name) and then at the Other Rooms (Heavyweight)

Mixes, Birthdays and a hectic nightlife

Ok so I don't have too much to write at the moment, I could head towards social commentary if the lack of new music keeps on coming, thank god for mixes to download and put on my phone. Next to be downloaded is the Faggatronix 4 x 4 birthday mix. I have to say that I have been feeling the mixes being spun out by Faggatronix and Zombie Disco Squad lately, maybe it's the different vibe that they offer, well a different vibe in comparison to the dubstep mixes that fill up my phone at the moment. On a different tip, I did pick up a nice mix courtesy of Timeblind the other day, which is minimal and very worth while.
This weekend I should hopefully be down at Backlash, on Friday night at the Red Rooms, with Heavyweight occupying downstairs, with Reso, Dynamix and Funk Ethics on duty.
Meanwhile further to the previous posting you can have more dubstep than you can shake a leg at on August 25th, not only do we have Benga and Dynamix down at the Tyne, we also have Scuba, Gravious, Funk Ethics and Dynamix again at the Other Rooms also, sounds like a good evening to me. If you wanna hear Paul Rose discuss dubstep (recorded last summer) check out the dubstep documentary.
In the meantime I'll say happy birthday to Lightbomb for Friday.