This week I got the chance to dig into some newer tracks, but revisited some old favorites too. It’s more along the lines of what I envision to be the eventual sound of The Cycle Sessions, but it’s still not quite right just yet. It’s somehow missing that “live” feeling, and I want to fix that. I’ll figure that out over the coming weeks, I’m sure.

At any rate, I hope you enjoy listening to it. If you have tunes that you want to send for consideration, make sure to hit up CycleDubs on AIM, or you can send them to me via SoundCloud as well.

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.

Have a track for me? You can find me a number of ways, but the best ones are via AIM at CycleDubs or you can toss something in my SoundCloud Dropbox. For now, here’s this week’s show. Make sure to subscribe to the podcast to get the episodes as soon as they happen.

Cheers!

• 7/19
• 7/26
• 8/9
• 8/16
• 8/23

And not to be left out, here is last night’s show.

Sorry for the delay!

So, this week I bring you new tunes from Bexxie, Donnie Dubson and quite a few more as well.  I can’t say that I had any highlights to the show, but overall it was a good time.

Producers: please remember that you can find me on AIM at CycleDubs, or SoundCloud.com/spinn if you have tracks that you’d like for me to play.

Oh!  Keep your ears open, by the way.  Saejma and I are going to be doing a show together again soon.  Nothing is finalized yet, but it was a blast to have her here the last time, so I’m really looking forward to it.

• I get frustrated at the neighbors because they live too close.
• We get some great new music.
• I use the term “where my dogs at”.

Clearly, this is high quality family entertainment, at its finest.

As such, I got to run through a bunch of new tracks, including stuff from Scro, Logistics and Mage.  The Scro track is good, but needs some work.  Regardless, I think he’s got a lot of potential and I look forward to seeing him more in the future.

So here’s this week’s show.  Download, listen, enjoy.

Don’t forget to update your RSS reader.  I’ve heard that some people have had issues with my transition over to Feedburner, so you might check to make sure that you’re still connected.

After an incredibly long day of listening to Steve Jobs talk about the iPhone 4, I was relieved to be able to hop on and play some great new music.  I finally got permission to play some tracks from B-Complex that I had been sitting on for a while.

So give a listen, or give a download.  Either way you’ll finally get to hear the VIP of B-Complex’s Beautiful Lies, plus a collaboration with Diane Charlemagne.

We’ll do it again next week, 9pm to 11pm Central so make sure to tune in!

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Yeah, so I’ve fallen behind, once again.  Shame on me, eh?

But, I’m not one to leave you hanging once I finally have time to catch up, so here goes.  First off, here’s the set from this past Monday’s show.  Now, as for the rest?  Here’s some links for you:

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2010-05-17

2010-05-10

Moving forward, I promise to keep a better track of things.  Now that I’m working from home again, writing for The Next Web, I have considerably more time to handle this blog as well.

Cheers, and I hope you enjoy the archives!

My thanks to all of you who tune in.  I honestly do appreciate it more than you’ll ever know.  I’m just a guy, playing drum & bass from his living room.  I’m glad to know that other people enjoy it.