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• The Best Songs of 2025 – DJ Mix

  High Tempo. Ravey. Tribal. Euphoric. These are all words that sprang to mind as I compiled the best of 2025 mix. 55 tracks from faces old and new: the wild collaborations of Fred again.., to the prolific output of Hugel, more future classics from Sonny Fodera, and warehouse anthems from KI/KI. There might even be a little bit of your…

• The Best Songs of 2024 – DJ Mix

  This was one of the hardest year-end mixes to make so far, simply because there were too many great tracks to choose from in 2024. Fitting them all into one hour was an impossible task. 58 tracks *was* possible though, and this year continued the huge diversity of tempos that now make up the modern dancefloor, from slow disco to…

• Reading for Tomorrow

  “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time” I was a voracious reader when I was little. In the absence of an always-on screen to suck my attention, a book in my hands was the best portal to somewhere fantastical; a journey I couldn’t experience except in…

• The Effective Executive

  A little while ago, I was recommended the book The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker (thanks Scott 👋), with the warning that it might be a little dry but that it contained a few gems for anyone leading an organisation. Although the “dry” part was a bit of an understatement, and the book’s writing style certainly hasn’t survived the…

• The Best Songs of 2023 – DJ Mix

  It’s always incredibly fun looking back over the whole year in music and piecing together the best parts like a jigsaw. This is the sixth instalment in my year end “Best Songs of 20XX” DJ mixes and it was incredibly hard to pick the songs that would fit into just one hour. That’s why there’s 52 of them, and it…

• Organising your digital camera photos into directories by date

  This post is mostly for my own remembrance, but someone on the Internet might find it useful as well … After downloading photos from my digital camera I like to organise them into folders/directories named by the date they were taken. There is a spectacularly useful command-line tool called exiftool that you can use on the command line in order…

• The Best Songs of 2022 – DJ Mix

  People. Events. Dancing. It all came back in 2022, and supplied the soundtrack of our lives with a fresh burst of dancefloor inspiration. Some fantastic albums came out this year and seemed to revive the long player as a serious artform, supplying us with hits from Fred Again, a reunited Swedish House Mafia, and Kendrick Lamar. This made it both…

• The Best Songs of 2021 – DJ Mix

  Who knew that 2021 could be even more tumultuous than the year that preceded it? Although we gained some freedoms all around the world, there was also a baseline of chaos at every turn that kept us in a constant of uncertainty. However, it seemed like music artists were ready to retake the stage and used their pent up creative…

• 33 Minutes of Drum & Bass 2020 – Live DJ Mix

  What do you do when you have 2 weeks of quarantine on a farm? You play some beautiful music in beautiful surrounds. 2020 saw the return of some Drum & Bass legends like Peshay, as well as stalwarts like Sub Focus, Wilkinson and Netsky. I took my decks out into the beautiful nature of The Glade and put together this…

• The Best Songs of 2020 – DJ Mix

  2020 has been a rollercoaster of a year, and it looks like for many of us there’s still a sting in its tail. But I think that has made the music that we’ve heard throughout our isolation even more powerful. Duke Dumont, Disclosure, Diplo, Franky Wah and Alison Wonderland all put out amazing albums, and there were plenty of individual…