Like my last mix, I did this on my little three inch camping speaker...which has been around the world with me, to more than twenty countries and three continents. Sadly, during this mix it died. After the first twenty minutes, we struggled together through the next twenty (while I slapped and spat at it), managing a further five or ten minutes, upside down. Then, it died. and I struggled through the rest of the mix, using literally my headphones alone (I challenge ANY DJ to do this...it is the ultimate test).
I feel it is my duty to my old travelling musical pal to post this last mix, despite instincts telling me to re-record it. For those who care to similarly assign emotional resonance to inanimate objects...my speaker died around the Crazy-P/Talking Heads mark. Special thanks to @aldovanucci for the inspiration (and a couple of the mixes). Mixed in tribute for @Tom Mullin, who loved 'We Don't Eat.'
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I actually tried to put a bit of emotion into this one and dare I even say politics? The tone was an attempt to capture my personal, turbulent journey of feeling over the past eighteen months, so it starts happy and chilled but with a dark undercurrent, then gets spikier as the new reality crashes in. Anxiety-induced giddiness creeps in to reflect that time when fear and quiet desperation was expressed as nervous excitement and coming-togetherness. This faux positivity then gives way to escalating tension and questioning, before bursting in a torrent of anger and disbelief, camaraderie replaced by mistrust and perceived betrayal.
Then comes the gradual dawn, the nostalgia of rediscovering old loves (and even finding joy in things you previously had no time for) through the new, warped lens of the 'new normal', before an uplifting, jagged climax of teased-release which settles into a nervous disquiet as we realise that many things we took for granted may have changed forever.
Along the way, if you listen to the lyrics, I tap into bass principles the #metoo movement, #blacklivesmatter, #lockdown, #self-discovery, #nostalgia and the socialist principles of society vs the individual and the masses vs elites of the day.
That is why this mix I think reflects more of myself and how I perceive the world around me and interpret it through music. It is also why it is somewhat moodier than my usual and I think the best set I've ever done....and all that l done on a broken, three-inch camping speaker.
Tomorrow I go to a friend's funeral, younger than me and taken heartbreakingly young. He lived for music (and as mentioned, loved one of the tracks towards the end of Control the Night, a lot - in fact he introduced me to it) so this is mix is my tribute to him also, in the best way I know how to express it...Enjoy the music. The man control's the day, but we will...control the night. Thanks. Nickyo
An 'Eclectic' romp through the history and styles of music.
Even my musically snobby foot was tapping to the DnB tracks, and when the Oasis track drops, well i was dumbfounded but as usual NickyO makes it all seem so natural.
Thanks mate, muchos appreciatos!!! 🤜🏻🤛🏻