Podrunner
Nonstop Music Mixes for Any Fast-Paced Workout
"Undertow" (144 BPM) - New Mix Online
Here's one that stands alone, workout mix or not. "Undertow" has a smooth, uplifting feel throughout, and it moves you right along without ever feeling frantic. This one has quickly become one of my favorites, which I can get away with saying cuz I don't make the music, yunnderstand, I just string it together and try not to let the stitches show.
Run Time Exclusive Download!
Podrunner - "Great Strides" (170 BPM)
170 Beats Per Minute x 64 minutes = 10,880 hand-crafted, 100% pure, Grade A, free-range beats, each meticulously inspected by highly trained experts at Podrunner Labs before earning the Boyett Seal of Approval, then painstakingly placed in perfect sequence for your workout pleasure. Enjoy them singly or as a group!
Beatport Playlist
The Original, High-Quality, Non-Mixed Tracks Featured in Podrunner
Atmospheric trance with an Indian influence (Quadran, "Electro Nile"), raggae-flavored house (Matt Flores, "Nice Day"), amazing PFunk-style work from Chris Grant ("The Jimmy Jam [Sound Republic's Government Cheese Mix"]), one of the hardest-hitting vocal tracks I've heard this year (Empulse, "American Idle [Richard Morel Pink Noise Vocal]"), and a beautiful ender from Podrunner & Groovelectric regular Joe T. Vanelli ("Voices in Harmony [Paul Van Dyk's Csilla in Wonderland Version]") — one heckuva lineup on this week's Podrunner playlist at Beatport.com. (And check out the amazing remixes of "Voices in Harmony" at Beatport while you're there. Really beautiful stuff.)
Groovelectric
Welcome to the New Old Funk
"Word Up" - New Mix Online
I like a lot of spoken-word stuff, and for a while now I've been meaning to put together something that emphasizes the power of the word. So here it is. It's got poetry, chants, acapellas — pretty much everything except recordings of our parrot Alexander (what, you think I don't have those? Heh.) Quite the relationship theme going in the first half, too. Hmm.
Wish Again
Raising the Bar!
About the time this goes out (Friday, October 12), I will be on my way to San Francisco and a much-anticipated gig at Flavasauce @ Wish Bar, 1539 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 6:00 - 10:00. The last time was huge fun. Great room, great people. Music ain't bad, neither. Can't wait!Between A Place and A Hard Rock
Don't Pass This Joint!
Blogworld Expo is throwing one helluva party at The Joint @ Hard Rock Hotel Las Vegas on Thursday, November 8, 7:00 pm, and Yrs. Truly is gonna DJ the thing. This is supposed to be an amazing venue, and I'm dying to see how the plaster holds up under a steady pounding of New Old Funk.Censorship Bleeps
#$*@? %&@}=!!
A very large percentage of electronic dance music is about sex, drugs, or saying bad words over and over. Often any combination of the three. None of this offends me (though sometimes, hearing it, I wince as if I've chewed tinfoil — not because I'm offended, but because it's so damn cheezy). My feeling about being offended is that it reveals as much about you as it does about the offender, because it illustrates a boundary you've set for yourself.
That said, I'm aware that Podrunner and Groovelectric have, to put it mildly, a broad demographic among their listenership. I don't go out of my way to offend; neither do I travel very far to avoid it. My duty as a DJ is strangely internal to the mix itself: Is the track I'm going to play next the track that ought to go next? Mostly this seems so self-evident to me that it should go without mentioning, but the occasional "I can't believe you played that" email does gnaw at what blistered shreds of cauterized conscience remain to me — enough to prompt me to write about it here, anyway. I'm also probably influenced by the powerful content of some of the spoken-word pieces in "Word Up," the latest Groovelectric mix.
It's not up to me to decide what an artist should or shouldn't say. It's up to me to decide whether to play it. As a listener, it's up to you to decide whether you want to hear it. To be able to make that decision you need some warning, and my solution has been to tag mixes that contain allegedly offensive language as "explicit" in iTunes. I've only recently realized that those tags are not adopted by all podcast downloaders and MP3 players, so I've started putting a small [explicit content] notice on such mixes. (I ain't doing this for drug references, though. For one thing, ya gotta draw the line somewhere, and people have to accept that other people do things they may not approve of. For another thing, I'd have about five minutes of music a week if I cut out the drug references.)
Considering what I could put on these mixes, for the most part I think I do a pretty decent job. "Decent" — get it? Yuck yuck. I kill me.
--Steve Boyett
