2010 Music review

Well it's been a long time since I was on here it seems... been busy with work and stuff. Stuff like thinking back over the past year about music, mostly about gabber/hardcore.

Favorite Producer – Paul Elstak

Yeah I know, I could, and probably would, call DJ Paul my favorite producer of the year for every year since I first heard Hardcore. I may be a bit biased towards a guy who was very influential in forming my musical identity but I know where I came from and I know he is to blame… fuck if it wasn’t for him I wouldn’t be wearing my Rotterdam Records shirt as I type this. Back to the topic, Paul came out with a CD album this year titled “The Evolution Of Hate “ it’s a solid release with lots of help from the rest of the Offensive crew. Now not every track on the album is one that’s going to make me run out and get the lyrics tattooed on me but 3 of my top 10 tracks of the year are on it and that sorta speaks for itself. Having talked about that there are also a few other things he did this year that I really liked, “Turbo” is a classic sounding bouncy tune with a hilarious video.. which is probably funnier if you can understand Dutch. His free tune that was put out a few days before Christmas called “Forever Young” takes an old school approach and couples it with new sounds making what I think real hardcore should sound like.

DJ Mix – Thrillogy Disc 3 by Nosferatu

I straight up loved this mix, the first tune “Poop” a colab between Ruffneck and Nosferatu is a solidly made track with hilarious Beavis & Butthead samples, sure to never be released to the public, it makes buying the CD worthwhile alone. That being said the rest of the mix is well programmed and perfectly mixed (as you would expect in 2010) full of up to the minute tunes and some older (4 months ago) stuff. Man shit sure moves quick now eh? I wasn’t into either of the other mixes in the compilation but that’s not relevant. I would suggest you buy the comp just to get the Nosferatu mix.

Up & coming producer - Furyan

I couldn’t tell you when Furyan started making tunes, but I can tell you that I started to really get into what he was putting out this year. One of my favorite tunes of the year is “Late” which has a super cheesy drop using a well know pop song… and I mean SUPER CHEESY, to the point of Justin Timberlake vocals. His work on the Nightmare Indoor 2010 sub-anthem “Maincore Overload” is solid, equal parts creepy and epic, just the way I like it. His stuff comes out on Rotterdam Records and that’s always a plus for me, it’s nice to see Hardcore’s oldest label still singing new talent with the ability to make solid music.

Best Tweeter – DJ Smurf

With his never perfect spelling and tweets that would seem pointless to even an OCD DJ Smurf-ologist he is the epitome of what the site should be, fun, silly, occasionally informative and always worth checking out. Follow him if you like drunk stories, North England and Scottish rave updates and pictures of drunk mishaps and bruises. Smurf's Twitter

Top 10 tunes of 2010

I'm not going to talk about what it was that made these my favorites this year, I will just give you the link to my 2010 YearMix that includes most of these and some of the other stuff I loved from the past year. Just click to download it HERE!

1. Paul Elstak feat. Maxime - I'm Not An Addict (Offensive Records)
2. Dyprax & Angerfist – The Pearly Gates (Masters Of Hardcore)
3. Beatstream & Radiate feat. Mike Redman - Mainstream Killah (Offensive Records)
4. Fuyan – Late (Unreleased)
5. Accelarator & Radiate – Open Your Mind (Offensive Records)
6. Nosferatu & Ruffneck – Poop (Unreleased)
7. Dave Dope – Industrial Violence (Gunpowder Records)
8. Ophidian - Lost In The Forrest *Prankster Remix* (Rotterdam Records)
9. Catscan & Predator - Repartition (Masters Of Hardcore)
10. Hellsystem - Another World (Hardcore Blasters)

Best Gabber Shirt – Wanna Play (Rige)

I won’t lie to you, I have ordered a lot of shirts from Holland this past year, more than any other year… I figure I have to prop up the record companies with funds that they once got from me buying records. Now that I buy MP3s I pay like 10% of the price for a tune compared to previous years, so I can afford the finer things in life. Like this shirt, it fucking rules and ordering it was a great way to end 2010, it’s also a great way to end this post. You can get one too here Rige Shop or here Midtown Records

New Gabber Mix!

These are the tracks, in order than I played at Embedded Entertainment's first Filth party this past Summer. There was no recording from the night so I just re-made it. It's a one shot, one hour mix with no post production at all, so essnetially live.

DJ FUZZBOY - FILTH <--- click to download it!

Tha Playah - Why So Serious (Neophyte Records)
Placid K – Compagneros *Endymion remix* (Atlantis Records)
Negative A – 2 Much Hate (D.N.A.)
Mad Dog - Here Comes The Madness (Traxtorm Records)
Kasparov – Magic *Accelerator remix* (Megarave Records)
Hellsystem - Mad Pimp (Hardcore Blasters)
Headbanger – I Am A Nightmare Walking (Megarave Records)
Chrono – Murder (Megarave Records)
Accelerator – Back On The Scene (Offensive Records)
Ophidian & Ruffneck - So Many Sacrifices (Enzyme Records)
Tha Playah – Mastah Of Shock *Angerfist remix* (Neophyte Records)
T-Junction & Rudeboy - How Soon We Forget (Masters Of Hardcore)
Ophidian – Lost In The Forrest *Prankster remix* (Rotterdam Records)
Tha Playah & MC Alee - Always Right (Neophyte Records)
Tha Playah – Bounce Back (Neophyte Records)
Hellsystem vs. DJ D - Something To Fear (Hardcore Blasters)
Tha Playah – Walking The Line (Neophyte Records)
Alien-T – Bullets In Their Heads (Traxtorm Records)
Negative A & Counterfeit – Present Danger (D.N.A.)

Nice Horse

I once went to see horse races with my ex's dad and her little brother. I think she had gone to play slots with her mom, I don't really remember since I ended up getting really drunk. I pretty much just picked some horses to win based on their names and possibly some of the numbers listed beside them, but I really didn't care... there was beer and it was cheap.

At one point I turned to this guy who was with us (possibly a co-worker of my ex's dad) pointed to 2 hick guys and a girl and said “Watch this I am going to walk over there, take that fat guy's hat and put it on then put my arm around that girl and walk away with her after I tell the skinny dude to fuck off”. The guy I am with laughs at me and tells me that if I can do it he will buy me 3 more beers.

I have no idea exactly how I did it but I strolled over and started talking to them, eventually I grabbed fatties cowboy hat and put it on, told the other guy to fuck off and walked over to the bar with the girl and bought her a drink. There have been several times where I it's amazing that I didn't end up dead, this wasn't one of them but I sure as hell should have gotten beat up.

Buffalo Birthday Party!

Not dead

So I am still alive, but alive and looking for a job. My formerly structured life is now a mess of trying to get from place to place in a timely manner while seeing people and sending emails all the time. Looking for a job isn't that bad, but trying to re-start your carrer is pretty hard.

Regardless it seems that blogging was one of the first things I stopped doing, the second was having a healthy breakfast every weekday.

Writing on here (and the other places before this) has always been a way of escaping from what I have to do, with my newly forced freedom I have nothing to escape aside from the crap boredom that sets in daily.

Well that was unexpected

Life can throw some pretty odd shit at you, and in my case it certainly has a lot lately. I don't have a job right now, and I am doing what I can to fix that, I have pretty much worked since I was 12, not full time but seasonal stuff and what I could fit around my schedule.

I am trying to get used to sitting around and waiting for money from the Government, but it's not really what I am used to.

Guess I will go watch The First 48 on A&E and pretend it's just a holiday :)

Who decides this stuff?

I like baseball caps, I own far too many of them, I always want more and I am waste time looking at sites that sell them. Hatland.com is a GREAT site, no matter what team, colour or price range you are looking at. I get a lot of stuff from them and wish I had unlimited hat funds.

I just saw this hat today, now it's pretty cool since it's Toronto and has a picture of Toronto on it, however, the actual photo is pretty stupid. If you are going to show the skyline of the city there the Jays play and that skyline can include the Skydome (yeah Skydome 4 LIFE) why not have it on the hat as well?

It just seems wrong to have everything east of the C.N. Tower on there and no Skydome.

Cool and breezy

A few weeks ago I was cutting my hair/shaving my head and I accidentally shaved a little spot behind my one ear with the clippers with no guard on. It looked funny, but the length didn't look all that bad... when looking at it sidewards in a mirror and bending my ear over.

Since then I have been partially obsessed with doing all of my hair in that length, so last night I went ahead and did it.

It feels good in an awkward way, people at work are split on how it looks, but every one of them wants to rub their dirty hands on it.



Yeah I didn't have a picture of it, so you get Brittany instead... I dunno I think she's cute, but more so when she has hair.

Tough Break (Breaks mix) by Dj Fuzzboy

I made my newest mix this past Monday morning, I hope you like it.
DJ Fuzzboy - Tough Break <--- click here to download

Chunk N Attack - Rocka Revolution (Jon Maniac remix)
GBX & MKM - Xtra Xtrahttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif
Kid Digital - Up & Down
Krafty Kuts - Beer Chucker
Koma & Bones - Hit Me
Freestylers and Krafty Kuts feat. Dynamite M - Dynamite Love
Baymont Bross - Rock & Roll Mix Mash Potatos (Kid Digital remix)
Dopamine, Diverted - First To The Floor
Elroy & Estaw - Dinosaur
Stereo Type feat. Foreign Beggars - Bangers & Mash
Koma & Bones - Guns, Guts & Glory
Stereo Type - Balls To The Wall (Stereo-Typical Part 2 Instrumental mix)
Dilemn - Daylight (BBB remix)
Jon Maniac - Persuasion (GME remix)
Underworld - Cowgirl

Brrrrrrrrr

After this past weekend I’m not in the best of moods. I’m sure this will wear off shortly, but it sucks when you work on something and it doesn’t work out. It sucks even more when it’s more than just one specific “thing” you have worked on and it all goes sideways in a matter of days.

There is a public pool near my house, in Stanley Park (on King St. West) that I went to yesterday, since it was a holiday and it was hot out. It was FREEZING in there, I didn’t stay in very long since it made my fingers ache. I had gone there with Nikki and she wouldn’t even get in ‘cause it was so cold. Of course as soon as I got out and changed I was overly hot again… I may just have to go back there and see if it’s that cold all the time.

I think after work tonight I will go to Hogtown and look at some bikes, maybe I can spend a pile of money I don’t have and that will make me feel better for a few minutes. Then the guilt of having used my credit card will kick in and I will be more depressed, but depressed on a fucking sweet bike!

Rager 2 @Nocturne timeslots

Main Room
10 – Mizz Lee & Lucy Ford
11 – Bliz
12 – Unabomber
1 – Mike Conradi
2 – DJ Fuzzboy

Front Room
10 - Saiyan
11 – D-minus
12 – Nme
1 – B7
2 – Dubcomm

Doors open at 10pm, get in for HALF PRICE before 11pm!!!

Jingle Bells

I have been thinking about getting a new tattoo, and based on something that my friend Nikki mentioned to me a few weeks ago, I think I have decided that I want to get a Christmas themed half-sleeve.

I thought I would go with the tree as the focal point (of course) and then fill in the space around it with various things like presents, a cooked turkey, some snowflakes, a stocking or two, other stuff and maybe even a cute little elf.

I will of course need to find someone to help with drawing out the design and stuff, but I think it would be pretty awesome and original.

Shit gets stolen, time to buy better shit!

My bike was stolen last Friday night, it was a sweet red BMX from the 1980s, like a REAL BMX from the BMX company. I had it "locked" up behind my house with some other parts of bikes (from then I used to build decent bikes out of crappy ones) and I guess some drunken punk came by and took it so they could save 3 dollars cab fare.

Now it's my own fault since my lock was busted and I never did anything to replace or fix it, but it still sucks and I will totally Nigel de Jong chest kick whoever I see riding it.

I saw some bikes last night I wouldn't mind having, one was awesome but would need work, and I don't really have the time or will to fix it up, so I may just buy a brand new bike for the first time in years. Hogtown had some nice ones the last time I was in there...

In a perfect world I would have this bike right here!

“Take Us Away” in Detroit was amazing! I haven’t been to a party that was that much fun and had that many people in a long time. The venue was pretty sweet as well, it was in the basement of an old bank, apparently the area where it’s located is considered so bad that if you call 911 they will just hang up on you.

I met some new people, which I guess isn’t really a surprise since I don’t know anyone from around there, but really I was more social on Saturday than I have been at the last 4 parties I have been to locally combined.

My set was pretty fun, aside from some frustrating parts, I hope to be able to go back and play gabber, some people dropped a few real hardcore tunes and the crowd loved it. Not to take anything away from the type of Hardstyle I played, but I’m a gabber DJ and want to keep it that way :)

The RAGER weekend

This coming long weekend (July 30 - August 2) the Canadian Hardcore Collective & Throw Down Sound Krew bring you 2 parties, one on Friday in Toronto and another on Sunday (so you have a day to recover) in Hamilton.

Cheap early entry for both events, and even after 10:30 you are still getting a deal! Come out and see a bunch of talented DJs from across South Eastern Ontario and have some drinks to celebrate the Civic Holiday, whatever the fuck that is.

And so it begins

I have started this blog since I happen to like writing stuff, about my day, things I have seen, stuff I ate, things I want to buy etc... I also like keeping them somewhere that's not going to take up any room, and the internet is great for that. I can't guarantee that I will update this religiously or that it's going to be any fun for anyone but me but I miss using my purerave journal and I am not going to go back to using it.

It may take a while for me to get used to this, and it might even get blocked by my work, but for now this is the way of the future.