Enter the 2009..

God, doesn’t everybody seem to be in a rush?

The christmas and new year went by so quickly that although we’ve only been back into the swing of things a couple of weeks, it seems we never really had a break at all. Likewise, things are megabusy here too so this entry will have to be brief I’m afraid – another entry when I have a bit more time!

Firstly, raves since my last blog post. Christ where do we begin? Firstly, BANG FACE. As mentioned in my last blog entry, it was a great night. Everyone was in a festive mood and it was good to meet even more new faces both at the event and also at the afterparty too

I promised that I’d post the mix from the event and although a bit late, here it is!

DAVE SKYWALKER LIVE AT BANGFACE 62, 9PM-11PM 12/12/2008
01. Hereleduke – Hereleduke vs The Snowman
02. X-Zero – Tyler
03. Dumbsteppaz – Terrorist Dub VIP
04. TC – Where’s My Money (Caspa Remix)
05. Tes La Rok – Santa Claus Is Lost
06. DJ Mika – Silver Bullet
07. Goncalo M – Main Evolution
08. Ganez & Marco Woods – Dance Lovers
09. Monocore – Sudden Drop
10. Ganez – Sunshine Moo
11. Ryuji Takeuchi & DJ Mika – Pump Up
12. Julian Liberator – Funkytown (Alex Calver Remix)
13. Dave Skywalker – Asmodeus
14. Dave Skywalker vs Blackout Crew vs Fullfilment vs Slade featuring MC Normski and The Bang Face Hard Crew – Put a Bangface Weekender Christmas Donk On It
15. Bad Company – The Nine (DJ Entropy Remix)
16. Dave Skywalker – >R_U_RED.Y?
17. SL2 – Way In My Brain (SL2 & Al Storm Remix)
18. Danny Byrd – Shock Out
19. RCola, Murda & Liondub – Kingston 11 Riddim
20. Capital J & Bigg Triggs – Noizecheck (16AJ Remix)
21. Cris E Manic – One More
22. AC Slater – Crowd Control
23. Elation – Christmas PA
24. Rotterdam Termination Source – Merry X-Mess
25. Random Attack (aka Dave Skywalker) – Groove Is In My Fart
26. Random Attack – Robbie Williams Fucked My Angel While His Sister Frigged Herself Off In The Corner
27. Faces of Humanity – Santa Is On His Way
28. The Stunned Stylzz – Sleigh Ride
29. Bitch Crosby – Christmas Is Here
30. DJ Primo – Merry Christmas
31. DJ Floorclearer – Strangling The Giant Elephant
32. Random Attack feat MC Shazzaspannered – Fuckin’ Gabber
33. Random Attack – Without Eminem
34. Dina Carroll – The Perfect Year
35. Random Attack – This Isn’t A Song It’s Just Five Minutes And Twelve Seconds Of Noise But I Suppose If It Was A Song It Would Be Called I’m Your Terror (Terror Mix)

And the link? http://www.megaupload.com/?d=R3U9QCIV

Anyway, hope you like it! On a personal note I reckon it was one of the best sets I’ve ever played at Bang Face, and with it now being only 99 days to the weekender it’s fair to say I’m pretty bloody excited!

Next, shouts to everyone I met who was at Lean 2 Mean at Northampton (cheers to Sid for the booking on that one), and also Cruze In in Birmingham just after christmas. Apologies for getting a little too pissed too!!

Right.. onto bookings and things. Next Saturday the 24th January I’ll be playing at History of Hardcore, at Jacks in London Bridge. HoH have built up a great following and I’ve been looking forward to playing at one for a while now, so I’ll be playing a ‘95-’96 happy hardcore set in room 2. Keep your energy up though, because I’ll be rounding off the night from 5am-6am!

On the 7th February I’m down to play a night called Chemical Haven, at Intake in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. As far as I know the night is still going ahead, but it’s best to keep your eyes on DSI etc for this.

Looking ahead, I’m back at Kompound Frakture on the 18th April. KF have moved to Guildford for this event, but if it’s anything like the last one (see an earlier blog post) it’ll be wicked and I’m looking forward to playing again for the KF guys (and gal!).

Onto tuneage – and this will be the reason some of you have come to the blog for the first time! Firstly, R_U_RED.Y? will be coming out soon on Hardcore Energy volume 4. I hear it’s now in the mastering stages and then will be at the pressers so keep your eyes peeled!

A quick thanks too to Luna-C for playing my Blackout Crew vs Slade mashup (see earlier blog post for the download link!) on his podcast over christmas – respect due! I definately recommend checking out Kniteforce Revolution when you get time, it’s become an absolutely immense site – just needs a forum now!

And finally, a free tune! Recently I’ve been hearing the track Day N Nite by Kid Cudi all over the place, and it was released as a single here in the UK at the start of the week. Thanks to “xTheWiddler” on the dubstepforum site for the tip, I was able to get an acapella of the track and I’ve created my own remix. It’s on an oldskool jungle (think early LTJ Bukem) meets dubstep tip, and it’s available for you to download in full 320kpbs loveliness. Please send me feedback if you have time, and you can download it by clicking on the picture below. Enjoy!

So that’s about it for now. I’m also working on a couple of hardcore bits at the moment and for the first time am working with a vocalist, so this is something new and exciting, stay tuned!

Until next time…
Dave