Podrunner
Nonstop Music Mixes for Any Fast-Paced Workout
"Step Sequencer" (164 BPM) - New Mix Online
Here's one that varies in mood and intensity almost as much as it does in style. We start out with drum & bass and quickly move to breakbeat, progressive house, trance, and a burning tech-house track ("Sputnik Flew") from DJ Beatsmith, Podrunner's only guest host to date ("Hotfoot").
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Podrunner - "Relentless" (150 BPM)
Sixty minutes and fifty-five seconds of intensity-buildin', downhill-racin' digital nitro truck with no brake pedal. If it gets to be too much, just say the title in an Elmer Fudd voice. Not only does it help, it makes people move out of your way.
Beatport Playlist
The Original, High-Quality, Non-Mixed Tracks Featured in Podrunner
From drum & bass (Simon V - "Across the Universe"), to a breakbeat remix of a classic Fatboy Slim track ("The Rockafeller Skank [Mulder's Urban Takeover Mix]"), to a tribal island mover from DJ Chus ("That Feeling [D-Formation Make Over Vocal Mix]"), to a great retro remix by Tomcraft & Republica ("Ready to Go"), this week's Podrunner playlist at Beatport.com has got ya covered while you cover some ground.
Groovelectric
Welcome to the New Old Funk
After being dosed at a Dreadful Great show, Groovelectric wandered the autumnal city wearing one leather sandal and completely unable to remember its own name until the sight of a child in distress on railroad tracks reawakened a core self that can never be lost, whereupon with one mightly leap Groovelectric whisked the child from harm, declined all offers of honor and reward (the train was half an hour late, anyhow), and returned to its small but happy life of obsessive creation so that it could set about putting together next week's mix.
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Hard Rock Vegas for Blogworld Expo
On Thursday, November 8, I'll be spinning the opening party for Blogworld Expo at The Joint @ Hard Rock Hotel Las Vegas. This is gonna be fun.Reserving Time
Yours, Mine, & Hours
The Flavasauce gig at Wish was great fun, and many thanks to D-Mak for asking me up again. I'm usually hard to classify, playing sorta housey retrofunk stuff with a progressive house influence — but the entire night at Wish was like that! Every DJ was laying down stuff I wanted to steal. It was one of the few times I wished I was out there in the crowd instead of spinning. If you're in the Bay Area, check out Flavasauce one Friday night (the second Friday of the month, 6-10pm). It's jammin.
After the gig my wife & I stayed at my friend Ken Mitchroney's house in Martinez for a few days, had a hilarious dinner in Point Richmond (where I had worked at Pixar some years before) with listeners Jonathan, Kim, & Rochelle, and then spent two days at a B&B in Santa Cruz doing as little as possible. It was the first vacation/road trip we'd had together in nearly two years, and certainly the first since I started Podrunner and Groovelectric. I'm not usually good at vacations. I keep thinking there's some project I need to be working on. This time I thoroughly enjoyed not working on a damned thing. I don't think it'll ever get to be a habit, but, man, it was nice while it lasted.
With mini-vacation over, I've jumped into the deep end and am busier than ever. Projects we've been working on for well over a year are finally about to bear fruit. You'll be seeing the effects soon, and I'm excited to be right at the cusp of it all. The coming year will see a lot of growth and evolution, especially for Podrunner. We will grow, and grow more sophisticated, acquire sponsors and develop websites, diversify and become more visible. But throughout all of this I hold on to the sanctity of the mix. That place the music helps you go to while you're working hard will not be invaded or diluted. That hour is sacrosanct. That hour is yours.
--Steve Boyett
