touch it baby (for real)
four minutes of funk, celebrating the art of the remix. how many songs have been broken apart here, and reassembled for your listening pleasure? touch it baby m4a file (to open in itunes) or click here for an MP3 file (play in browser)
divine time
What is perfect?
When is some thing perfect?
After getting past some technical hurdles, working through all of life’s hustles and those things that work their way higher on the ‘to do’ list, there is finally something new on the notradio blog.
The process of me finally getting this music up deals entirely with the act of letting go. I know now that I will never have enough records. I will never know if it’s mixed right or if anyone digs this stuff as much as I do. But I can say finally that it’s done and that’s all I can do. That’s all anyone can ever do. So I’ll be letting these go. Sometimes it will just be a really rare song from someone obscure or undiscovered; sometimes it will be a whole mix tape; sometimes just a remixed song. My goal is to drop at least one a week if not more.
What I grew up listening to and doing is not the norm. And with technology being what it is, the art of DJing as I remember it has become a lost art. People have told me on many occasions that they haven’t really heard anything like that or that they haven’t heard anything like that in a while. They would often ask where they can get a mix tape or when I was spinning next.
I don’t tend to keep regular gigs, so I would usually point them to my site but under the guise of wanting to put out a perfect product, i kept pushing back the deadline for getting my mixes up. I never felt that what I did was quite ‘perfect’ enough to share. Was there an audience for it? And shouldn’t I wait until I got “X” “Y” or “Z” record to do that one mix I’d been thinking about?
Then I stopped doing it for feed back and found a reason to do it for self.
So here it is: perfect. With its occasional glitches, scratchy records, worn needles, slight mess ups, and other things that you totally don’t care about.
I hope you enjoy. See you next week with something new.
:o)
