This afternoon, Eric and I got together to move his barbell and 260 pounds of rubber bumpers to my garage. They were stored in the garage of a relative, among a bunch of other stored items. He wasn’t able to use them sequestered in there. My garage is newly empty and freshly cleaned out by [...]
Jay Def works up another lip-curling tech house mix, full of filthy basslines and tough beats. This three-hour mix has that underground warehouse party feel, when a new DJ takes over at 2 and inches us closer to dawn. Hell yes, Jay. Nicely done! Digeum Mix Sessions – Volume 04, Session Pap — Blip Beat [...]
Today felt like an opportunity to make a friend smile. So, I pulled together some of my favorite vocal house tracks, filled out with artists like Dubtribe Sound System, Jay Tripwire, Lisa Shaw, and Samantha James. This one’s for Amanda, my smiling friend who is always excited about everything. Keep dancing, Amanda. I hope you [...]
Jay Def takes no prisoners in this fist-pumping set of tech house gems. For just over two hours, he delivers twerky synths, gritty basses, and beats that makes you go “UNH.” Each track is carefully chosen. Some of them are stomping, and some of them are goofy and hilarious. One of them spins into an [...]
It was Jay‘s turn to drop a Digeum Mix. He pinged me by email to let me know he was throwing it down. This time, he wandered, for the first time in Volume 04, into house territory. He calls it “Lazy Saturday Afternoon”, but it’s anything but that. This mix stomps hard, a street-hardened set [...]
My friend, Eric, came over today to work on homemade CrossFit tools. The original plan was to build a few medicine balls, which we would build out of rubber basketballs, playground balls, sand, and duct tape. We also decided to build a pair of parallettes each, per Greg Glassman’s instructions. After a visit to Orchard [...]
Today’s Jay Def‘s birthday. So, I decided to warm up the old VCI-100 with a marathon mix as a gift to my best friend. I picked out a bunch of electro tracks, ranging from minimal techno to chunky beats. I decided to deliver one track for each candle on his birthday cake. At 39 tracks [...]
Jay Def delivers a third straight drum & bass mix — this time with a take-no-prisoners attitude, full of punchy percussion, throbbing bass lines, and threatening danger. If you like your breaks heavy and aggressive, but not hyper-active, with a little menace, this is your mix. At just over 71 minutes, it’s just long enough [...]
Jay Def, in addition to being my best friend, is one person whose DJ mixes I always look forward to with nearly breathless anticipation. He’s been really going gangbusters on the drum & bass lately. His new mix is nearly two hours of funky and atmospheric drum & bass. There are vocal tracks here, full [...]
Jay Def inaugurated the next chapter in the Digeum Mix Session saga today, by opening Volume 04 in peak form. Jay’s new mix is two hours of lush, ambient jungle and spaced out drum & bass grooves. The music here melts into the background if you want it to, but still keeps a good thump [...]
What a treat. Jay Def volunteered to snag today’s mix, so I eagerly awaited his newest Digeum mix. I posted it after I got home from hanging out with a friend of mine. Are you ready? This one is just over two hours of seriously thumping electro house grooves in a very interesting mix. Jay [...]
Last week, I got a new right fan for my MacBook Pro, which has been having crash problems for most of 18 months, possibly because the right fan hasn’t worked at all for a long time. I’m pretty used to seeing temperatures, according to smcFanControl, of 165 – 185°F. So, after some frustration, I found [...]
Yesterday, in a stunning redwood grove near Ben Lomond, California, my friend, Steve, married Nan, a gorgeous brunette with a quick laugh, bright smile, and upbeat personality. I was honored to be asked to be one of the groomsmen. The ceremony was touching. I don’t have the words to express how thrilled I am for [...]
Today, I played music in front of a crowd for the first time in a very long time. In addition to my duties as a groomsman and usher, I closed the evening after a bluegrass band finished their live music. The Front Porch Band played a selection of bluegrass songs. The lead singer led a [...]
So, over the last week or so, I’ve been shoring up the playlist for my buddy’s wedding. I have a big bin of wedding staples, including a ridiculous amount of disco, funk, pop, and soul. According to iTunes, I could play continuously for 18 hours without playing the same track twice. That should suffice. Early [...]
Jay Def treated us to another set of aggressive electro house thumps. His track selection is superb and the groove just keeps kicking. I’m totally going to raid his iTunes library the next time I’m in his presence. Don’t mess with Jay Def. He’s bringing it tough and relentless. Damn, brother. Nice job. Digeum Mix [...]
Jay Def has been practicing mixing dubstep. Today, he mixed up Digeum’s first non-house mix. For nearly 90 minutes, he throws down an aggressive, take-no-prisoners dubstep mix. It’s enough to make you say “Damn.” Go listen now. Digeum Mix Sessions – Volume 02, Session Kilo — Sickday Dubs. Mixed by Jay Def in Boise, Idaho, [...]
This weekend, my best friend, Jay Def, flew down here to rainy, windy Northern California for a weekend of fun and hijinks. This afternoon, I took him to the airport. Jay lives in Idaho, but the only reasonably priced plane tickets we could find him required him to change planes in Phoenix. The weather in [...]
Today is Jay Def‘s birthday. Happy birthday, brother! I am so happy to know you. I don’t even like to think about who I’d be without you in my life. I hope you get crazy amounts of presents and I’m looking forward to you flying in to hang out for the weekend next week. It’s [...]
Jay Def and I got together on my last day on my Spring Break Road Trip to hang out, eat some grub, and throw down our first tag team mix since December. It’s always really fun to hang out with Jay and mixing beats with him is a real pleasure. Jay takes risks with his [...]
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