Davin Greenwell

well, what did i not do this weekend? heh. aww yeah. what a weekend indeed. friday was davinday. july 2nd of every year from now on will be davin day, which is not my birthday, but rather a day i will save up time for and take the day off from work just so i can do exactly what it is that i want to do. mind you, work is close to being that already! however, this was a super healthy weekend for me and i enjoyed it immensely. canaday, music making, radio, picture taking, coffeeing, tennising, partying, plotting, driving, fundraising, etc etc.
it is a bit too breezy to hit up the sooke potholes action today so i’ll save it for next weekend. instead, i will post a zillion pictures!

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i have 50+ of their records, i have all their cd’s, i have many of their mix sets, i have interviewed them a few times for the radio, and i just plain love these guys. on september 5th, 2004…

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Featured Track:

• 21st Century Fux – Sunspirit [Unlreased remix] (CDr)

Featured mix: Colin Sick vs. DJ Wrinkles

• DJ Love – Contact [Scissorkicks remix] (Stellar Music)
• Horace – Stay In The Light (Horace Music)
• Backdraft – Manic [Soto remix] (Botchit Breaks)
• Clone – Dreambreaks [Coded Motion remix] (Resin Records)
• Stabilizer – Low Slung (Plastic Raygun)
• Silencer – Believing (Critical Mass)
• Prodigy – Outta Space [Booty Space mix] (White Label)
• Descent – Addicted (White Label)
• Stereo 8 – Can’t Stop (Finger Lickin’)
• Brothers Bud vs. Z2 – The Herbgrinder [Drummatic Twins remix] (Finger Lickin’)
• Soul of Man – Outback (Finger Lickin’)
• Aquasky vs. Masterblaster – Take it to the Floor (Shadow Cryptic)
• Plump DJ’s – The Funk Hits The Fan (Eboville Music)
• World Of Crime – Uh! (Ultimatum Breaks)
• Stanton Warriors – Da Virus (Mob)
• Stanton Warriors – Slanty (679)
• Plump DJ’s – Creepshow [Soul of Man remix] (Finger Lickin’)
• Plump DJ’s – Electric Disco (Finger Lickin’)
• Alchemy – Bruiser (Bedrock)
• Christopher Lawrence – October’s Child (Moonshine)
• Velvet Girl – Velvet [Flight Attendant’s Mix] (Additive)
• Alaska – Manhattan High [Original Mix] (POD)
• Dimension D – The Dream (Casa Nostra)
• Adam Dived – Deep Inside [King Of Spin Mix] (Additive)
• Authentic Individuals – Stormer (BIT)
• Blue Amazon – Coming Home [Transa Mix] (Subersive)

here are some images from the lil drive I went on last night:


pretty nice night for a drive, but i am getting tired of driving in the same places all the time. yeah, i am antsy on the island. i’d like to drive far.. far away. like down the coast of the pacific, to LA or something. that would be very expensive and time consuming, but i think i’d really like it. that’s what i need. but anyway.. i digress. time to celebrate.
ps: happy birthday canada!

well, i went to the doc yesterday, and he went through the same thing as me. he says cooling the neck, and general movement will help. that means less time on the computer [yep] and more time walking and such. oh, and he said to go for a massage.
i have never gone for a massage before. i always figured they were mostly useless, my muscles are great and perfect and who needs a massage!? well, this time i needed a massage. so, as paul commented two entries ago, sandra works on wednesdays at Vitality in oak bay. i hooked up an appointment this morning for the afternoon and went.
that woman has strong hands. sandra spent a little extra time and gave me a great massage and, though i don’t feel perfect again [i wouldn’t expect that with a pain coming from INSIDE my neck], i do feel a lot better, and more relaxed. and she also gave me a few excercises to do, as she has encountered what i was going through many times before. so, thank you sandra! i know that you don’t read this blog much but i do know your husband paul does, so please pass on that sandra made my week. sandra is the awesome.

my neck has been hurting real bad for the last 24 hours. some have suggested seeing the doctor, some have suggested seeing a chiropractor, but i want to try out acupuncture. it took 15 minutes to put my seatbelt on yesterday. i almost pulled over 4 times on the way home from work out of sheer pain. i made it into my haus and sat down on the couch for 4 hours and i couldn’t move. icing it helped, and sleeping relaxed the muscles. i think it is a pinched nerve, or something. if i turn my head the wrong way, it is very very painful, and so my neck tenses up as i don’t want to move the wrong way, and then the tenseness puts extra pressure on my neck and it gets worse. so sleep was good because i got to relax. i’ve had pain in my neck after sleeping the wrong way before but this is in a completely different league…

there’s so much to say about SPEC that i feel like i could write a book on it. there would be different chapters with titles that read like “the underground was shaken upside down and look what came out,” “why didn’t he book me?” “this is an awesome place for photography,” “woah he booked me,” “creating a culture,” “understanding the groove,” and many more.
jimi fritz put together over 20 parties in a day and age when such things were considered to be impossible. how did he do it? there would be a chapter on that as well.. the logistics are not that interesting. it is the subtleties that made it work — from the special cards, to the email list, sparklers, SPEC interpretation, word of mouth, rave at a church, and not getting busted!
so this was it. 2.5 years and the secret society was to breath its last breaths on saturday.
this party was amazing. i don’t know how many people were there. i think about 500 would be accurate. a lot of happy people, enjoying the moment and celebrating what has been. 10 hours, 10 DJ’s, each playing an hour. somehow i predicted i would arrive during yoseff’s set during the ch00n “fixation,” which i did. 3:20 AM ish.
it was extra special being the last spec DJ. i played from 6 – 8 AM, double of what i was expecting to play.. an hour set would’ve been too short. i think probably my fav. part of that was playing the Junkie XL produced mashup of Underworld’s “Cowgirl” and Sasha’s “Xpander” .. there’s something about yelling out “I’M INVISIBLE!!” and then dancing like the mad nutter that you are with a bunch of your good friends.
well then, here are some pictures of the show. this may take a while to load.. there’s about 30 pictures in here. i will be posting a gallery of all the SPEC shots together in the future called retroSPECt or something silly like that. enjoy the shots! what a fabulous night.

Continue reading “so long SPEC”

featured tracks:

• Formulate – Voice of Qi [Original Mix] (Pacific Front)
• Formulate – Rising Edge [AFK remix] (Pacific Front)

featured mix: Yoseff – Eyedentify Set

• Arrakis – Acidstuck (Tracid Traxxx)
• Overtone – Soulstatic [Part One] (Camouflage)
• Andy Ling – Fixation (Fluid)
• Moogwai – A Night Out (Platipus)
• Marc Rembrandt – Mind [Ravebase mix] (Logic Records)
• Mauro Picotto – Lizard [Picotto mix] (Nukleuz)
• Re-Move – Justify [Club mix] (Time Unlimited)
• Mass In Orbit – Fear [T.B.A. mix] (MASSIVE)
• Nick Base – You [Nick Base by Marc O’Tool mix] (Poison Records)
• Arrakis – Aira Force [Main mix] (Fluid)
• Agnelli & Nelson – El Nino [Matt Darey remix] (Xtravaganza)

featured mix: Joshua

• Chris Salt feat. Katie – Distorted Reality (Silver Planet)
• Casa Flava – Eterna (Plastic Fantastic)
• Kingkade – Virgin Maize [Rhythm Code remix] (Minimal Records)
• The Greek feat. Stephanie Vezina – Alive [G-Pal Funky Dub] (Shinichi)
• Aquaculture – Planic Stations (Forensic Records)
• PJ Davy & Danny Graham – Blind Exit (EQ Grey LTD)
• Dan Morris and Shylock – Bahdatu [Chris Fortier and Kolo edit] (Fade)
• Shiloh – Latex (Method)
• Kingkade – Virgin Maize [Original remix] (Minimal Records)
• Andy Ling – Calling Angels [Hamel and Lacy 97 mix] (Fluid Sessions)
• Tocharian – Nova Scotia (Intrinsic)
• Stel and Good Newz – Particle (Audiotherapy)
• Kolo – Fortune (Scuba Records)

i shot this in the same place as the pink flower .. about 3 minutes before. in a small forest, on a sunny day.. the shadows from branches and leaves framed this.
probably of interest to a few people.. tonight on resonance (friday nights, midnight – 3 AM on 101.9 FM).. yoseff and freya. the tracklisting will appear on its surrogate home [this space here] once again.