Podrunner
Nonstop Music Mixes for Any Fast-Paced Workout
"Resolver" (154 BPM) - New Mix Online
We start off kinda trancy, but it's me mixing, remember, so it kinda evolves as it goes, becoming progressive house and then straight-up funky house that kinda bops from side to side while it tries to keep you moving forward. It gets all trancy again around the end, though. Those funky tracks are great for dancing, but when it's time to say goodbye, those trance tracks just own the market.
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Podrunner - "Skylands" (140 BPM)
A musical archipelago (I've always wanted to say that) of pretty angel harps, electro-calypso, African tribal, nifty retro remixes, and terrific tribal progressive house. I coulda called it "Smorgasbord," but "Skylands" is ev-ah so much prettier, don'tcha think?
Beatport Playlist
The Original, High-Quality, Non-Mixed Tracks Featured in Podrunner
From trance to house and back to trance, this week's Podrunner playlist at Beatport.com will keep you going just so you can hear what comes up next! Check out the native tracks at their original BPM and you'll like 'em even better. (And keep an eye out for Ellis D's absolutely insane remix of the party classic "Shout.").
A Goodbye to Joe Riley
I met Joe Riley at DNA Studios when I was writing interstitials for The Ant Bully. Joe was a huge (and hugely talented) guy with an easy laugh and an unbridled imagination. When I was looking for an artist to do a full rendering of the Podrunner logo I'd designed, my friend Ken Mitchroney suggested Joe. I sent Joe some ideas and he sent back some amazing sketches. The full illustration, which you see here every week, just blew me away.Recently Joe achieved a lifelong dream when Ken helped him become an official "Roth-Approved" artist for the Ed "Big Daddy" Roth estate. If you want to see the workings of a talented mind without a brake pedal, check out Joe's blog.
Joe died of a heart attack on Thursday, Sept. 27. In a space this small all I can say is that my heart goes out to Joe's friends and family. I'm glad I got to work with him, and I like the thought that one of the products of that fevered imagination lives on in the Blue Robot logo on screens and T-shirts around the world. We miss you, Joe.
Groovelectric
Welcome to the New Old Funk
Clear-headed and refreshed after defeating IBM's latest chess-playing mega- computer in a series of lightning rounds in a hyperbaric chamber, Groovelectric is now locked in a basement in Magic Castle, Hollywood, where Lance Burton is repeatedly demonstrating how to produce a business card from thin air. This one will come in handy, because Groovelectric is about to hit really big and those cards will be in heavy demand. Any day now. We can feel it.
Rockin' tha Joint
Vegas, Baby, Vegas!
I'll be DJing the Blogworld Expo party at The Joint @ Hard Rock Hotel Las Vegas on Thursday, November 8 (time TBA). This is gonna be one extremely cool gig at one big moby cool venue. I will also be speaking on a podcasting panel at Blogworld on Thursday.Wish Redux
Back to the Bay!
The extremely cool D-Mak has asked me to play again at Flavasauce @ Wish in San Francisco on Friday, October 12! Last May Flavasauce was my first SF gig, and I had so much fun I should be twins. Definitely looking forward to a return visit!Flavasauce @ Wish Bar, 1539 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 6:00 - 10:00.
Be Careful What You Wish For
You Might Just Get It
There's an old joke about the two ways to make a musician complain: (1) Don't give him work. (2) Give him work. Apparently it applies to DJs, too, because all I had to do to get more gigs than I could handle was to kvetch about it on my newsletter. I just had to turn down two gigs, one in conjunction with the San Francisco Burning Man decompression party, and another for the Los Angeles Burning Man decompression party. Those hurt.
But I'm still kvetching, of course, because the recent gigs and conventions have made me realize just how much Podrunner and Groovelectric have taken over my life — doing the podcasts and the cons & gigs has pretty much meant cutting out sleep for a while. And there's a lot going on with Podrunner (not to mention my life; you guys only hear about the DJ part) that I haven't even talked about. One hint, though: If there are any mixes you've been meaning to download, I'd get to it fairly soon.
Meanwhile I'm excited about appearing again at Wish in SF, and about the Hard Rock gig in November (probably the biggest venue I've played).
The parties at the New Media Expo were a raging success. The second one got shut down after only two hours; people were taking their clothes off in front of the booth and tying each other up. What more could a DJ ask for? (I'm just glad it wasn't a Shriner convention.) There may be a fine line between "catalyst" and "instigator," but I doubt it's invisible. Not that I'd pay much attention as I sped past it anyhow.
--Steve Boyett
