So long, and thanks for all the bits.

In case the fact that I’ve not updated this site since January is not telling enough, there have been some problems that I’ve been trying to address. After a few weeks (months?) of self-deliberation, I’ve drilled down the issues so I’ll pass them on to you here.

First, I won’t be doing a show on an Internet radio station anymore. When I left BassDrive and joined the folks at DnB Radio, I thought I had narrowed down the problem. The more I try to do a show, though, the more I realize that I’m constrained and I don’t want to be.

It’s difficult to get up and be motivated to do a show at 8am on a Wednesday, but I chose that time myself. I can’t blame that on anyone else. What I can say, though, is that audiences have expectations and those expectations can become more harmful than good. People have a certain sound that they expect from my shows, and that limits my ability to branch out as much as I’d like without losing listeners, ultimately damaging the station.

I also feel that, right now, there are exponentially fewer dnb tracks being produced that I’d actually want to play. It’s cyclic, and it will change, but that’s the fact of the matter as it stands today. The tracks that I want, I’m not able to get. Either they’re not being signed so I can’t buy them, or I don’t have a working relationship with the producer in order to get the track prior to release.

I’m going to be working harder on the latter of those two problems, re-establishing contacts that I once had and networking in order to be able to bring more incredible music to the forefront, where it deserves to be. To those of you who have been sending me music, thank you. I’m humbled and constantly impressed by the quality that hits my desktop.

So what’s next? Here’s my direction:

I’m still playing. I might stop when I’m dead, but I’m not even sure of that. So rest assured that I’m still dropping beats and experimenting with new directions for my own work. I just won’t be playing on a “radio” station anymore.

There are a lot of outlets, such as MixCloud, Dubset and the like, where I can upload sets and have them heard by people in a more convenient manner. I also think that the potential reach of these sites is considerably larger, which puts the music in front of more people. At the end of the day, that’s what DJ’ing is all about — helping people to hear amazing music where they otherwise might have not.

The Cycle will continue as a weekly show, but I won’t be doing it live (except perhaps on Ustream). I want to do more justice to the music than I’ve been able to do before. Doing a live show at 8am on a Wednesday just isn’t conducive to that.

I’m also going to start a new show, called Flow. It’s going to be genre-agnostic, simply filled with the best stuff that I’ve found in the previous week. Sometimes it will be old Breakbeat cuts, other times maybe it will be the best new House track I’ve heard. Regardless, it’s foolish to think that there’s no merit to anything other than a single genre of music, and I’m a fool for having thought so for so long.

Thank you to each and every one of you who have listened to me over the years. It’s not the end, it’s just a different version of a beginning. Stay tuned. There’s more to come soon.