Monday 24 September 2007

Righto, here's a mix that I did the other day, its basically a deep house kinda thing, so quite relaxed and chilled out, you can download it here (scroll down the page a bit and it's the September 07 one).
Tracklist:
1. Gudrun Gut - In Pieces (Burger/Voigt Remix) [Monika]
2. Naughty - World of Woman [Mood Music]
3. Mountain People - Mountain People 04 [Mountain People]
4. Hardrive - Deep Inside [Strictly Rhythm]
5. Serafin - Dream Sequence [Mountain People]
6. Vince Watson - Renaissance [Planet E]
7. Dj Gregory - Elle (Ame Remix) [Defected]
8. Coldcut - Walk A Mile In My Shoes (Henrik Schwarz Remix) [Ninja Tunes]
9. Torrance & Hochstrate - Shrinkage [Four:Twenty]
10. Marcelino Galan - House & Art (Charles Webster Remix) [House Cafe]
11. Funk D'Void - Lovin' (Hipp-E Remix) [Soma]
12. Burger/Voigt - Man Lebt Nur Zweimal [Kompakt]
13. Will Saul & Lee Jone - Hug The Scary (Partial Arts Remix) [Aus]
14. Kenny Hawkes & David Parr - Gemini [Rekkids]
15. Studio - Life's A Beach (Todd Terje House Mix) [Information]
16. Thomas/Mayer - Uber Wisen [Kompakt]

Friday 14 September 2007

Fred's Wedding



It was my good friend Fred's wedding last Saturday down in Sussex so I made the long trip South and ended up having a cracking weekend. Went out with my sister to Fabric and then some random bar in Farringdon on Friday night and ended up having a fairly messy one, which wasn't great preparation for the following day...
I'm not sure there was any way that I was legally allowed to drive on Saturday morning but I somehow navigated my way through parts of South London I never knew existed and after getting stuck in a highly irritating traffic jam on the outskirts of East Grinstead I met up with all the Trants boys in the pub for lunch. The service itself was quite entertaining with a wise-cracking vicar and some good singing from the choir, because I'd been tasked with videoing the thing I got the privilege of sitting with the great and good in the front row. Reception was good fun as well, Jules lived up to his name by stumbling around clutching a bottle to his chest by about 8.30pm. Good luck Fred and Soph (who looked v.beautiful on the day) and hope India is fun.

Tuesday 4 September 2007

Hackers


Not much has been happening in the last few weeks since I got back from the Alps, certainly in the climbing sense. Been trying to write this report for my supervisor et al. Having a rather big crisis of confidence about the PHD at the mo, not really sure if I want to be doing it and whether I can actually do it... To make matters worse I've just got the thesis of French academic through the post, its on my topic, written last year and seems to be the last word on the matter. It's also in French, 1500 pages long and I've got to have read it by the end of the month. Bollocks.



On a lighter note, the weekend before last was Hackers. After monsoon like conditions all week, once the weekend arrived it brightened up. Played two rounds of golf on Friday with the senior Hackers, beat Tim Begg in the morning 4/2 and Dad and I beat Tim and Nigel G-D in the afternoon. Dad won overall with 26 points, not a vintage year by any means. Unfortunately we lost the cricket on sunday for the first time in 10 years. The village have decided to make the match 45 overs a side, a little ambitious after starting at midday. We ground out 165 quite slowly in 44.4 overs, Nigel GD scored 74, Mark GD and Tim Begg 30 each and not much from anyone else. I notched up my usual duck, but at least it wasn't a golden one eh Harry. I did manage to get one wicket when bowling with the best ball I've almost ecer bowled, pitched about 2-3 feet outside off and ripped back to clip middle. We were cruising when they were 60-6, but they had a good partnership to reach 100ish-7. Then things became slightly farcial as it got too dark to bowl our fast bowlers and we had to send down gimme spin in the last few overs. This made it pretty easy for Alkham to knock off the runs, esp as the fielders couldn't see the ball. Nigel got two wickets in two balls with Alkham needing only 5 win (I dropped a catch at this stage on the boundary that luckily wasn't crucial) but they managed to hold on for a win in 43rd over and pitch black. Still, the village were super chuffed and we had a good drink afterwards in the new look Marquis with its friendly landlord.
Fred's wedding on Sunday, which is bit scary. He also wants me to video it, God knows how that'll turn out?