{"id":726,"date":"2009-08-18T13:56:48","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T17:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=726"},"modified":"2009-08-18T13:56:48","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T17:56:48","slug":"back-to-the-whole-dj-thing-will-i-ever-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=726","title":{"rendered":"Back to the whole DJ thing – will I ever learn?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ah the mix-tape.\u00a0 Am I still in high school?\u00a0 College?\u00a0 Trying desperately to get the attention of a lovely young lady who barely knows I exist?\u00a0 I know!\u00a0 A mixtape!\u00a0 My unaprralleled knowledge of music will instantly win her over and we’ll live happily ever after.\u00a0 All my fears of rejection will be extinguished even before the auto-reverse mechanism clicks over to the second 45 minutes of aural bliss.<\/p>\n

Actually, my ‘mixtape’ fantasy worked once.\u00a0 A tape I made caused two people to fall madly in love and get married.\u00a0 The only problem was that I was not one of them.\u00a0 That’s a story for another time.\u00a0 But a recent release of crazy cool Brazilian music made me rethink the whole DJ thing<\/a>, but this time in a slightly different light.\u00a0 The record is Gilles Peterson – Brazilika<\/a>, and I guess if I had grown up in the UK, I might have a better of who Gilles Peterson is and why i should care about his music.\u00a0 It’s amazing to me that there’s a DJ in the UK, over 40 years old, who can release a relevant compilation of music.\u00a0 Would that happen in this country?\u00a0 Anyway, the record is great, introduced me to Azymuth<\/a>, whose early stuff seems vey much ‘up my alley’, and is a nice listen straight through.<\/p>\n

But, of course, I got to thinking – ‘I could do that.\u00a0 Better.’\u00a0 Of course.\u00a0 So, the thinkg before was starting with an abstract idea of making everything happen all at once – past-present-future all mixed on to one glorious track.\u00a0 Looking back on that post from the past, it’s little wonder I didn’t follow-through on the project.\u00a0 So now, after delighting to the treasures in Mr. Peterson’s vault, I’m thinking of going back to my virtual decks, looking into some of the more obscure corners of my record collection and – mixtape.\u00a0 Something of a glossy sampler to be released through Blogerantz<\/a>.\u00a0 Maybe some post-production and a fancy bit of art, but still really just a mixtape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ah the mix-tape.\u00a0 Am I still in high school?\u00a0 College?\u00a0 Trying desperately to get the attention of a lovely young lady who barely knows I exist?\u00a0 I know!\u00a0 A mixtape!\u00a0 My unaprralleled knowledge of music will instantly win her over … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[676,677,193,675,164,678],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":728,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}