I AM KYNKY.
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This blog is just a collection of things that have shaped me, define me and make me who I am today.
If you stick around long enough you'll realise I'm a huge geek who thinks he's funny,whether I am or not is down to your interpretation.
I track the 'kynky' tag, so anything you want me to see or think might interest me, just add that tag. Cheers.
My better half makes cakes. lots of cakes.
MUSIC: Dubstep, DnB, Breaks, Fidget, Breakcore, Gabba, Filthstep, Old Skool Rave, Jungle, Happy Hardcore, PsyTrance, Jungle Tekno, Acid House and plenty of others before it all got rebranded by America as EDM.
FOOTBALL: Tottenham, England, Gloucester, Cheltenham, Real Madrid, Celtic & DC United. I hate calling it Soccer.
FILM: Aliens, Goonies, Terminator 2, Scott Pilgrim, Dark Knight, Oldboy... The List Goes On.
TV: Alan Partridge, Red Dwarf, Dr Who, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The X Files, True Blood, Breaking Bad, Dexter, Spaced, Mighty Boosh, IT Crowd and anything else witty & inventive.
I have Netflix, LOVEFiLM & a Cineworld card, so any good reccomendations are always appreciated
I'm a big fan of wrestling and this is a link to where I post all of that
I'm a big fan of art even though I don't class myself as an artist.
I'm also a former Porn Addict... I have rehabbed well, but everytime I'm on Tumblr I may relapse.
This Is My NSFWish nudes blog and This Is My NSFWish b&w blog.
I won't follow any blogs that are about Religion, One Direction, Taylor Swift, John Cena, YOLO, Hipsters & other things I wish didn't exist.
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Mix # 15, Tracks 19—21
Theme: Nyk’s Musical Journey
19). Kill The Noise (part 1) — Kill The Noise
This brings us up to right now and the music that’s in my DJ box at the moment. As well as still playing D&B and Dubstep, I’ve been incorporating other genres and especially more experimental producers. Electrohouse, Moombahton, Trap, Filthstep feature heavily as well as tracks like this that skip between a handful of genres. It seems that although dubstep may have peaked, it’s already evolving into something else.
20). We Can Make The World Stop — The Glitch Mob
With dubstep evolving it’s also good to see other sub genres thriving. Glitch Hop production has improved dramatically, and again with huge crossover appeal seems to be heading into the mainstream, The Glitch Mob surely will take it to the next level with the release of their long awaited album
21). Scabbler — Tipper
This track sums up where I think things are going, it reminds me of Aphex Twin, mixed in with dubstep production and glitch hop beats.
—Nyk
Mix # 15, Tracks 16—18
Theme: Nyk’s Musical Journey
16). Midnight Request Line — Skream
Although I’m still highly involved with the D&B scene, ( I compile this playlist series Strictly Drum And Bass… Part 29 )I also found myself drawn into the burgeoning dubstep scene in late 2005 and I think this track sums up everything about where the genre came from and where it was going.
17). Go Tell Them — Benga
Obviously dubstep seems to be everywhere right now, but the sounds of the originators seems to have been lost and instead replaced by DJs playing faster tracks with old skool rave samples (yet again), there are plenty of artists out their making decent dubstep, but it seems it’s younger more energetic brostep brother is winning over a bigger audience, I enjoy both and at the last festival I went to I found myself in the dubstep tents all weekend long, in fact I got so lost in the music that I didn’t even step foot in the D&B arena.
18). Digidesign — Joker
The speed of the music (140bpm) reminds me of the speed of the early rave tracks that I first got into, and with the lack of vocals I think this track mirrors a lot of the reasons why I started to enjoy electronic music in the first place. Joker and his ‘purple’ sound is probably my favourite style of dubstep, as it’s deep, bassy & musical, which a lot of producers seem to ignore nowadays.
—Nyk
Mix # 15, Tracks 13—15
Theme: Nyk’s Musical Journey
13). Trail of Sevens — Pendulum
After the early years of the millennium had passed and dance music had become mainstream, there were still a few sub genres that were keeping below the radar. Jungle had become Drum & Bass in the mid 90’s but had rarely gained much attention, until a certain act showed up on UK soil.
Pendulum played with the genre and brought in various influences and would eventually outgrow the genre that made them, but not before releasing D&B classics such as “Trail Of Sevens”, “Another Planet” and “Vault”.
14). Mass Hysteria (Hive Remix) — Bad Company UK
By this point the superclubs had all gone belly up and all night raves were back in, although club nights at Air in Birmingham or at the End in London were still highlights. Drum & Bass had been adopted by the world and was no longer just confined to the UK, the Internet and the ability to send music digitally across the world was about to end the concept of the Underground once and for all.
15). All The Things — Dillnja
The man who created the nastiest basslines and hardest drops, also was responsible for making the loudest sound system in the UK. His VLV sound system was phenomenal and crushed my ribcage on half a dozen occasions, it’s something I wish still did the rounds today as I’ve never experienced bass quite like it before or since
—Nyk
Mix # 15, Tracks 10—12
Theme: Nyk’s Musical Journey
10). Sandstorm — Darude
With his background in making Happy Hardcore it’s no wonder this track crossed over so well, getting multiple hardcore bootlegs until people weren’t sure if it was a trance track or hardcore track. It’s mainstream success during ‘99 was down to the influx of trance acts in the UK that continued the decline of the hardcore scene.
11). Gouryella (Short Extended) — Gouryella
By the time this track was released I’d not been to a rave in almost a year as the superclubs had taken over. The all night raves had been replaced with weekly club nights for a fraction of the cost and everyone was going mad for trance, commercial success came thick and fast as the UK and mainland Europes charts were dominated by acts like Paul Van Dyk, Ferry Corsten, ATB and many more.
12). Meet Her At The Love Parade (Fergie Mix) — Da Hool
As well as trance their was also a small sub genre that emerged albeit briefly before burning out in the early part of the millenium. Hard House took elements of trance, along with old skool rave samples (Frank De Wulf and the Belgian sound in particular) and wrapped it all up in the structure of house music. It was a genre of music that I got into due to it’s old skool roots, but got bored with as the genre became stale and unimaginative like Happy Hardcore had done before it.
—Nyk
Mix # 15, Tracks 7—9
Theme: Nyk’s Musical Journey
7). Sample Mania — DJ Seduction
By the time I was studying for my final exams at school, the lighter side of rave music had morphed into hardcore or as it became known, Happy Hardcore. I attended my first rave at the age of 16 and spent the entire night dancing to the sounds of Seduction, Vibes, Hixxy, Dougal, Slipmatt amongst others and all totally drug free. Something that is a lot harder than I imagined as people on a chemical high can seem to dance forever. The music was on the verge of gaining commercial success, but with the lack of radio airplay and only a handful of successful mix compilations produced only one act touched upon the promised land.
8). Heart of Gold ‘98 — Force and Styles
Force & Styles were the biggest thing in Happy Hardcore, their live sets with MC Junior were also something to behold, but as I said earlier they only touched on mainstream success. This track, being their greatest and probably also the genres highpoint only peaked at No. 55 in the UK charts.
9). Shooting Star (Force and Styles Mix) — Bang!
The genre peaked in ‘98 sadly as another form of music began to take over, in fact Happy Hardcore began to steal elements from this other form to stay relevant, replacing piano breakdowns with euphoric trance breakdowns and ditching the chunky sounding kick drum along the way, hardcore had gone soft.
—Nyk
Mix # 15, Tracks 4—6
Theme: Nyk’s Musical Journey
4). Weather Experience (Top Buzz Remix) — Prodigy
If things had turned out differently both of these groups would be known worldwide. Top Buzz at the time were the big thing on the rave scene, playing at all the major raves, illegal or otherwise. The Prodigy became the first rave band however when they gained mainstream success with ‘Charly’. Although this isn’t the best example of Top Buzz (Living In Darkness would be their highlight) it is sadly the only track that is on Spotify thanks to being a b side to The Prodigy’s ‘Wind It Up’. The members of Top Buzz went on to DJ seperately, Mikee B became part of the Dreem Team that were big in the garage scene and Jason Kaye was also involved in the garage scene, they still play as Top Buzz but only at Old Skool events. The Ratpack were also pretty high up on the list, but never quite managed the success of The Prodigy.
5). Here Comes The Drumz — Doc Scott
Once the music went mainstream and everyone had heard ‘Charly’ and ‘Trip To Trumpton’ the media accused The Prodigy of killing rave by gaining too much success. It was more to do with the goverment cracking down on the illegal warehouse parties and forcing a lot of promoters out of business. During this time the country was in the midst of recession so the music took a decidedly dark turn. Dark or Jungle Tekno as it was also called was not euphoric, featured horror samples and was so far removed from the mainstream that the scene managed to lose media interest and go back to doing what it did best albeit at now legal raves. The rave scene split into two camps, happy and dark and DJ’s would only play one style, this eventually led to promoters only using certain DJ’s and Jungle was spawned.
6). Inner City Life — Goldie
During this time the media once again started showing an interest. Which was good for me as I still had to rely on people buying my music for me (only just into my early teens) which meant I could listen to Jungle on the radio, I could find Jungle compilations in the shops after being TV advertised and best of all Goldie released an artist album. He might have gone on to become an actor in James Bond films as well as being an author, composer and graffiti artist, but manipulating breaks, beats and basslines will always be what he’s best known for.
—Nyk
Mix # 15, Tracks 1 — 3
Theme: Nyk’s Musical Journey
1). Oxygene (Part IV) – Jean Michel Jarre
When I was a very small kid growing up in the 80’s, all I had for music was my parents playing old 60’s/70’s records and whatever was on the radio, it didn’t leave me with much choice and back then I really didn’t like music. I’ve never been impressed by guitars or vocals, to the point where a riff or certain vocal would normally get a reaction from someone I’d remain not impressed. It was when my Mum gave me a cassette that she had bought for her that she didn’t want that I finally ‘got’ music. It’s an album I don’t recall the name of, but it contained about 10-12 synthesizer tracks and Jean Michel Jarre was right there at the start. Considering it was a track made in the late 70’s it sounded futuristic at the time, despite being almost a decade old.
2). Acid Thunder – Fast Eddie
After deciding that music was in fact good, I started to get into electronic music. Sadly at the time, electronic music was a sub-genre that was mixed up with drug culture and therefore very hard for a kid to get hold of. I managed to use my powers of haggling at car boot sales to buy tapes that had cool looking often 3D rendered graphics on, that way I could pretty much guarantee that it was electronic music of some sort. It might not be what I wanted but early compilations such as Deep Heat provided me with enough decent electronic music until the commercial rave explosion which was right around the corner.
3). The Tape – Frank De Wulf
I had this track on about 20 different tapes and this provided the soundtrack to many after school adventures. My friends started getting into it to and thankfully the City I lived in was quite a hub for the growing rave scene, still too young to go to raves though I found a hobby that was cheap and also highly addictive. Flyer collecting. Notable mention also to Joey Beltram “Energy Flash.”
—Nyk
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