it's been ages coming, and there is still much work to be done (including more mixes to upload including a new one from me (once i finish it) and mixes from k2 and medicine muffin that i have sitting on my hard drive.

check out the link here at www.tempaural.com

the official CHASE BIRTHDAY JAM is here

yeah it's that time again. i turned 32 on monday april 30th. that's a lot of years i guess. it's been a while since i was the little kid in the picture. but at least you can see where i got the fro from.

best thing about birthdays is that it's the best time to get your friends together and have fun with good people. we did it up for my dirty 30 (remember CHASING 30?), so we're doing it again.

the official party is this friday may 4th @ SOMA. me and my friend keith aka k2 play records there on the first friday of each month, first one was in april and it was a huge success, and our second one just happens to be the perfect chance to have my bday party.

i posted about it here last month, here's the deets again:

COOKIN (working title)
first friday of every month starts April 7

K2 (oscillate, somedrumfunk, strictly lampin)
CHASE (tempaural, rinseout show ckln 88.1 fm)

music policy: none

venue:
SOMA (newly renovated)
Queen & Broadview
(s side of queen, 2 doors west of broadview, right across the street from jilly's)
no cover, kitchen open late

come join us, we have fun.

if you don't come, these guys are gonna come round your house.



ryan

worlds are colliding

if you'd like a little peek into my day job, you can go check out the new website we just went live with at planetdb2.com . you won't see my face there yet, but just wait, it's bound to happen sooner or later.

for now, just add it to your reader and give me some hits.

ryan

Chase is still a dj

a new monthly event (as yet unnamed)
first friday of every month starts April 7

K2 (oscillate, somedrumfunk, strictly lampin)
CHASE (tempaural, rinseout show ckln 88.1 fm)

music policy: none

venue:
SOMA (newly renovated)
Queen & Broadview
(s side of queen, 2 doors west of broadview, right across the street from jilly's)
no cover, kitchen open late

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since the start of the Chase studio lock-in and the end of the 6 year run at insomnia thursdays last year, me and my good friend K2 have been laying low as far as djing goes, but when our friend finished the reno on his new bar, we had to dust off the dj crates again.

our SOMA montly will be on a similar vibe as the Insomnia thursdays. it's a nice loungy comfortable place, some tables/couches/etc and a small dancefloor, kitchen, etc.

musically we're going to be giving you a mashup of all we love just as we were at insomnia, we will probably throw some drum'n'bass in the mix if we feel like it but this is not a drum'n'bass event, we do not have a musical policy beyond whatever is good. for the past few years, between K2 and I, that usually means lots of funk, soul, reggae, house, broken beat, and soulful drum'n'bass

come join us for the start of something.

Chase

i miss the labyrinth lounge

don't get me wrong. i'm happy being locked in the studio. i almost have something that sounds like a song. i don't regret giving up all the gigs, it was necessary to get shit done. plus, there's always another party.

that being said, i miss the labyrinth lounge. my good friend frankie gunns has been doing wednesdays there for i dunno, 4 years? 5 years? 3 years? when he asked me to come join him a year or two or three back, i gave up 3 of my 4 wednesdays at the blue moon to do it. that's a really big deal.

even though i gave it up, some friends of mine are less lazy. look, they even make flyers.

screw you cruel world

it's important to wake up and seize each day with both hands and kiss it square on the month, embrance the wonder of our existence and oh screw that shit. i woke up on the wrong side of the bed and/or world today. my final automated testing run failed miserably while i was sleeping. i ran out of milk and had to make my scrambled eggs with soy milk. my cats breath smells like cat food. and so on.

luckily, today, the music listed below is currently getting me by and keeping me productive.

artists are feist, lily allen, and 1 more that i don't know. these are my own made up song titles.

1 - rescue me
2 - love is a losing game
3 - one evening
4 - leisure suite
5 - secret heart
6 - when i was a young girl
7 - i said no, no, no
8 - you know that i'm no good
9 - i will stand beside you
10 - is that they piano line from karma police
11 - love is a losing game (aka afterglow/smoke break)
12 - rescue me (aka denouement)

linklinklinklink. link. and also, link.

i got all this music from keith, there's a link to his blog in my links, just to your right.

watch your bassbins

? (so bad ep) - z-one feat mark xtc (aka marcus intalex) - new vibe
--> santiago - photek - virgin
freeway - photek - metalheadz
otto's way - fresh & vegas - metro
? - breakage & jubei - emcee
eleventh hour - mist:i:cal feat mc drs - soul:r
ancestral - alaska - artic
never - dillinja - dodgy 1 sided white label bootleg
? - spirit - innactive
want your body - roni size (calibre rmx) - v
plastic soul - shy fx - bingo

get it here

this is a kinda interesting one. the mixing is sloppy as fuck in points, but the ideas and the tunes are good. the interesting thing is that these are some of my favorite tunes from 98 - today, i'm surprised i ended pulling them all out during what was just another random mix session. and i like the way they fit together.

first tune is from 2000 or so, one of the first records i ever ordered online, and although i didn't know it then i recently discovered that it's actually quite rare, and it's marcus intalex under an alias. it's on an ep called the so bad ep, and the whole ep is, well, so bad. one of my favorite hidden gems.

santiago ir another one of my favorite photek tunes, it's so clean, simple, and funky. it's one of those "is this drum'n'bass?" tunes. i love those ones, and very useful in the mix for moving between genres/bpms/etc

freeway is another one of my favorite photek things, photek at his production and engineering best, it's cold, but it's still got the funk

otto's way is another old record, late 90s i think, this is 2 of the 4 members of bad company, but it's pure soul and funk. you can still hear some early touches of the bc sound in there though. imo, this and all strung out are the two best tunes fresh has ever touched

next thing is something from breakage, came out around the same time last year as the "this too shall pass" lp on bassbin which is one of my top lps of the year along with the amit "never ending" lp and the mist:i:cal "eleventh hour" lp. it's different than the usual dubwise breakage style, but it's deep as fuck, and i love that. even though the style is a little different, the exceptional breakage mastering is still there.

ah, eleventh hour. this is the title cut off the mist:i:cal "eleventh hour", this cut features mc drs, and who am i kidding, this is my lp of the year, along with drs, there are also cuts with robert owens and diane charlemagne (the stature and love of these two vocalists in the realm of electronic music borders on reverence). i love this tune.

coming in next with ancestral by alaska. this tune gives me shivers. 2006 release. shivers i tell you.

never is one of my favorite dillinja tunes ever, and that's saying something. never came out on a proper release, this is a dodgy pressing, 1 sided bootleg, but at least it's in my crate now.

mixing gets a little dodgy from here, but move your body (2nd last tune) and plastic soul (last tune) did come together very nicely for a little bit