So while we were in Barcelona, my friend Kane had and idea to put together mixes for this blog. Each would be known as a SPECTRACIDE mix– a fresh exercise for him to sharpen his DJ skills and to bring sick music to your next party or marathon run. I agreed that the idea was awesome and told him I’d handle the cover art duties as well as I could.

Well here we are, a few months later and have his first mix of the best electro and progressive house out right now. Preview at your leisure and below or via the artwork. If you dig the mix, comment here or on soundcloud to give him some props. Tracklist is after the break, enjoy!

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I’ve spent some time and finished my work history page– take a look. Eventually I’ll have dedicated pages for each project.

The point of the page is, I think, an exercise in reminding myself of the hundreds of long forgotten, logged hours. I need to remember past successes, failures, and progress. Recently I’ve began to think that keeping a verbose log like this is one of the best ways for me to become more motivated during my time off.

I’m currently working on Elan’s website for his music, and the task is getting more exciting as the trivial tasks start to go away. He’ll be touring with Modeselektor this fall in Europe. Geez. I cannot think of someone who “made it” with music as Elan has, and it’s well deserved! He’s been making beats the age of 16 and I can relate because I’ve been programming since the age of 16. I guess if you put in the time, good things do come.

Don’t you hate it when your asshole friends tell you the truth about shit like your misdirected attempts designing a website? Well after fielding some biz with the Syntheshredder Project, I got feedback from j.chorng about my previous design… it was too clean, too corporate… looked like a template. He was right.

Now I’m not saying this one right here is complete or amazing or anything, but I think it’s a step in the right direction. I’m calling it a night well spent. There’s a shitload of personality in that bouncing orb, oh yes there is.

I got around to giving Watch the Throne enough honest plays through (I think its like 7 now) and I definitely love the album. Kanye is really getting good at making cross-genre influenced beats… he’s no longer somewhat “stealing inspiration” from the EDM overload of the past few years. I’ll definitely have this record on repeat for a while and pick up a physical copy.

It’s nice to be able to switch back to rap & hip-hop  until Tycho drops his massive new album Dive this November and we get our ambient summer groove on. Check out the first track below.

Goodnight, internet.

Tycho – Hours [Dive LP - Nov. 2011] by Tycho

Well, it had to happen at some point. I can no longer hide behind the comforting blanket of minimalism and greyscale design for my blog because, well, I knew it would take hours and hours to make anything reasonable that used color. Gaze your eyes on the new monospectra (version 0.8-something-someshit)!

I’m planning on adding dedicated static sections for particular content, similar to what j.chorng has set up instead of only having a blog here. I’ve also change the way I format my blog posts to be more concise at a glance so that I can show more posts per page, and have retrofitted a lot of my previous posts. If you ever want to read the full text, it’s dynamically rendered in front of you like magic.

Alas, there’s still a lot of work to be done.