DI.FM – The Cycle Sessions 001

October 22, 2011 in Podcasts with 2 Comments

Man, what a long, strange trip it’s been.

After deciding (foolishly?) that I was done with Internet radio, I took a break for the past few months. In short, I had to really figure out what it was that I wanted to do with The Cycle, where it needed to go both from a production standpoint and from a hosting standpoint and I had to figure out exactly where my head was at with it.

Finally it became clear. Since 1999, Digitally Imported has been fighting the good fight when it comes to Internet radio and I knew that I wanted to be a part of that. The stations, which are curated by program directors who are truly passionate about the different styles of music which they represent, run the gamut from Gabber all the way through Synthpop and there are even a couple of Drum & Bass ones.

In short, I knew that DI.fm was going to be my new home.

So I spoke with my good friend Ben-XO and he put me in touch with the right people. After a bit of back and forth with Rom Heavven, the new Program Director for DI’s Drum & Bass channel, the first episode of The Cycle Sessions went live yesterday.

The Cycle Sessions represents, to me, a return to the roots of why I love Drum & Bass. It’s the ability to weave together something cohesive from a number of independent parts, some of which were never meant to meet each other. It’s a return to the style of DJ’ing that I love, where I worry less about what’s the newest and the hottest and I focus more on providing the best listening experience that I can muster.

So with that in mind, here’s 001 in the series. It’s a smaller mix, only timing in at 1 hour, but it’s meant to give a good overview of what you’ll be seeing as time moves on. I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed recording it.