I’ve been busy lately with defective hard disks (yes, plural) in my new MacBook Pro, missed a few sets because I had no hardware to DJ on and didn’t recorded a few because I had no second computer to record it on. The plus side to all this is that the set I did yesterday has a lot (about 80%) of new drum and bass released in the past couple of weeks! Set number nineteen and twenty are also available online, check my DJ page if you want to download those as well.

Enjoy.

You know those moments when you’re in the flow, mixing track after track and everything just works out perfectly? I didn’t have that when I recorded this set. But it’s still okay, and three hours long, and much more pop-ish tracks (dunno how to describe it, the tracks with much melody and vocals) than the previous sets.

Twelve hours after I played live it was already radio time, which resulted in a set without the usual popular dancefloor tracks and fast-paced mixing. Really enjoyable, this one!

Keeping my music collection up to date is a lot of work, but since that part is fun to do it is only limited by the amount of money I want to spend on it. Keeping my VirtualDJ Database up to date, clean and properly tagged is a whole different story. I use the comments field for tags and filter folders filtering on those tags to categorize my music in different ways so I can always quickly find the kind of tracks I’m looking for. Adding newly purchased music is one thing (it’s required to actualy play it), tagging everything and worse: re-tagging a lot when I change my categorization is a whole different story.

Today’s set is messy and feels kind of random, because I decided to play about the same time I started the set, and I hadn’t even added much of my newly purchased music yet. It’s still worth listening tough, especially because there is so much new (not new per se, but new to me) music in it.

I don’t feel like typing a long story about how I did yet another set and how well it went. Just listen to it if you want.