I've been meaning to do an electro mix for ages - years even - but for whatever reason I've never got around to doing it. So, when Jack posted his own electro mix last week I thought two things: 1. Damn! he's beaten me to it and 2. I could do a 'response' mix like Q-Bert and Mixmaster Mike's question and answer sessions or the back and forth of the Roxanne Wars - all very old school.
With the home studio soon to be repurposed as the nursery and the turntables set to be put into temporary storage I thought I'd throw a quick mix together while I still can.
Another edition of my occasional mixtape podcast series delivered in just over a month since the last one. Wow. You could almost start calling me prolific. If I'd figured out how to fix my laptop's recording issues sooner my back-catalogue of mixes would've been huge by now.
I've reached the point now where I have so much vinyl I don't know where anything is - I'm yet to find the perfect filing system no matter how many times I watch and re-watch High Fidelity. Everything is mixed together and it's impossible to just grab something off the shelves when I need it.
I went record shopping in Notting Hill for the first time in ages a few weekends ago along with fellow vinyl fanciers Jack and Jimmy. I came home with a mixed bag of tracks and thought I'd turn my purchases into a mix.
Since launching iamdanwalsh.com V2.0 back in October I've been meaning to experiment with some of the new HTML5 tags available to designers and developers. The <audio>, <video> and <canvas> elements have been getting all the attention and seeing as I already have some video on the site (okay the videos are in iFrames not <video> tags, be patient) I thought I'd have a play with the <audio> element.