I haven't done much in the way of recording mixes lately, but I did have a chance to have a play about on the decks last week while I was setting up Lux for Orange Fridays. It's a bit/very (delete as applicable) rough round the edges 'cos I was trying to rush around doing other things at the same time, so if I was grading myself I'd probably rate it somewhere around "could do better".

Hope you enjoy it ;o)

How to listen

If you can see the player below, then all you have to do is click "play":

... or you can right-click and "save as" to download it.

Tracklisting 

• Soldiers of Twilight - drive on
• Mei Lwun ft. Gine Rene - too late
• Bent - magic love
• Unity - I love you
• Amma - was it real?
• Deep Area - mad love for ya
• Inaya Day - keep pushin'
• Gabro & Libe - I can be this
• Spektrum - kinda new
• Felix da Housecat - shiny disco balls
• Despina Vandi - gia (Scotty K's Tribal Middle Eastern Mix)
• The Egg - walking away
• Nightcrawlers - push the feeling on 2005
• Sucker DJs - lotta lovin'
• Plump DJs - electric disco (Brad Carter remix)
• Dave Spoon - at night
• Fedde le Grande - put your hands up for Detroit
• Bug Kann and The Plastic Jam - made in two minutes (original)
• Justice vs. Simian - we are your friends (original mix)
• Artificial Funk - never alone
• Freeform Five - no more conversations (Mylo remix)
• Underworld - two months off

Disclaimer

Mixes aren't hosted by or the property of UPSU. Copyright remains with the owner of all tracks listed and this mix is provided solely for the purposes of shameless self-promotion. Got a complaint? Contact me :o)

/al

(Sorry about the gash title! ;o) )

I made it onto the decks for a couple of days last week and recorded some of my latest and favourite tunes on my favourite (and totally underused) toy - Final Scratch.

There's about 7 hours of music to wade through, and it's split up into a chilled mix of laid back house, three commercial/chunkier mixes, and a threesome of dirty house to finish off with. There are some random suprises in there, and I'll sort out a track listing shortly, but for now you're more than welcome to download the demos (but remember there's a bit of small print below about copyright and usage, etc - please read it before you download).

Oh, and I'm ashamed to admit my DJ name at the moment is "Chopper Harries". Honestly, it's the best I could think up...

Download...

• 1: chillification (159Mb)
  
• 2: semichunkification 1 of 3 (159Mb)
  
• 3: semichunkification 2 of 3 (137Mb)
  
• 4: semichunkification 3 of 3 (80Mb)
  
• 5: chunkification 1 of 3 (159Mb)
  
• 6: chunkification 2 of 3 (159Mb)
  
• 7: chunkification 3 of 3 (133Mb)
  

(Everything's recorded at 320Kbit/s).

Small print...

Downloads are offered as-is and are provided solely for the attemped whoring of my DJing abilities (or lack of). Copyright remains with the owners of the tracks where appropriate. Files are not endorsed or hosted by UPSU - for comments, complaints, enquiries, etc, please see www.DJstalker.com.

Oh, and I didn't go swimming today - Fraggy dragged me down to Route last night and I am still, as I type, working from home thanks to having spent most of the night trying not to drive the big white porcelain bus. While Fraggy reckons it's down to my impending old age, my inability to handle my drink is entirely down to genetics. And being a wuss... ;o)

So tomorrow night is the Grad Ball. Adrian and myself have about 26 hours to pick out some tuneage to entertain the crowds with after the Scratch Perverts play their set, 'cos apparently we're playing *after* the Perverts in CO2, and Pure:FM have the pleasure of doing the warm-up.

But, there's a problem - I'm being a bit of a worrier: frankly, this is scary - there could be 200 people in CO2. What if I don't play tunes people like? What if I suddenly can't mix (i.e. "mix worse than usual")? What happens if my laptop crashes during my set? What if my first tune blows so badly, I'm forcibly removed from the premises via a trap-door?

Ahh well, at least it can't make me pregnant, and I reckon it'll turn out fine - after all, most people are graduating, so I won't have to hide any shame from them next year (and years to come...) from making an ass of myself.

So, while I'm feeling the fear about how tomorrow night's going to turn out, I really hope that, if you're going to the ball, you have a great time. And if you're not, have fun whatever else you're doing :o) /al - pixel munki by day, popular music abuser by night... Maybe.

This year's been a record-breaker for the Grad Ball - apparently (and I'm happy to be proven wrong on this...), the Grad Ball has never sold out before. Not ever.

So, for tickets to sell out in under two days isn't bad going by anybody's standards. Which just makes my next bit of non-news all the more likely to turn my hair entirely grey; this afternoon while playing on the decks, Boss ('Angry Ginge' - a term of endearment believe it or not...) saunters up and announces that I'm allowed to warm up for the Scratch Perverts at the Grad Ball "if I want to".

Honestly, I considered my reply for all of half a second... ;o)

So there's going to be a threesome of scruffy, unshaven chaps scrambling around behind the decks before the threesome of Scratch Perverts come on stage at your Grad Ball this year - Ben "Gonzo/Rane" West (I wish he'd make his mind up what he wants to call himself), Adrian "Professa" Testa, and myself (I'm still trying to come up with a better name than Exhale - suggestions on a £20 note as usual please...).

Along with Pure:FM dealing with the after-Pervert deck duties, this Grad Ball is looking better and better as we approach the day.

The only downside is that, unless I can get myself sacked between now and then, I'll have to work all day in the run up to the ball before I can go on the decks - exciting stuff, but being of a naturally lazy persuasion, I'm less than keen on doing anything even vaguely resembling effort. Still, you've got to take the lows with the highs... Or words to that effect.

As for UPSU.net, I'm trialling a basic mailer script as an extension to our news system which lets us add a basic form to any news article or web page asking for things like e-mail address, age, name, comment/suggesion, etc - fill it out, hit "send" and it (should) fire off an e-mail to us with the information you tell us. This is interesting for two reasons - it means we can quickly and easily ask for your feedback on a range of subjects - great for those of you who reckon we could do things better, or just differently - and it also means we can also tie some survey functionality into the site without sending you off to a massively complex survey tool when we only need to ask you a couple of questions.

I've also listed the various projects and work I've lined up for myself over the summer; finishing the blogs, the RSS system, updates to the galleries, "Ask UPSU a question", making page URLs more logical, tidying up the design of the forums, rebuilding the JobShop system, rewriting the search engine, and extending the NUS Registration system to handle the new NUS Extra and NUS Democracy cards, should see my workload pretty constant until... About 9pm on September 24th.

If anybody'd be so good as to send me a card for my birthday on September 5th, that would be lovely... :o)

Enough rambling for one day. I would have gone back and added a load of links but, to be honest, I'm sure you wouldn't be bothered about clicking them any more than I am about creating them in the first place - feel free to disagree, but it would just prove you're really bored, aren't you?