The Month That Was (SEPT-OCT): It's been a while since I first saw you...

ON THE DANCEFLOOR

Minilogue – Certain Things Part 1 (Freska Merged Mix)
El Mundo and Satori - Lubimaja 
Arjun Vagale – Kill The String
Rainer Weichhold – Reis (Carl Lio Remix)
Ryan Davis – The Wolve (Max Cooper remix)
Dominik Eulberg - Sansula (Max Cooper’s Lost In Sound Remix)
Gary Beck – Timeline
Cari Lekebusch – State of the Art
Tom Mangan – Chutney (Size 9 Reinterpretation)
Quivver – 2 Notes N A Beat

in the bedroom

Led Zeppelin – Since I’ve Been Loving You (How The West Was Won)

Led Zeppelin – Going to California (How The West Was Won)

Cannonball Adderly (and Miles Davis) – Autumn Leaves
Animal Collective - My Girls
The xx - Crystalised

LOVING

• Working with Flipkart. It’s honestly like a fat kid working in a cake shop. I can’t describe it any other way. The evening snacks, it’s all about the evening snacks. 
• The lovely missus bringing me a ton of goodies from London.
• The Nightshift boys featuring on FriskyRadio for the first Submerge Says Dance radio show w/ Shubs. Pretty sick, made a very cool deep house mix. 
• The Nightshift boys playing a warm up set at the Smirnoff Exchange party with Pearl, BREED, Nikhil Chinapa, Rohit Barker, Inferno. Best night all year without a doubt. Musically, it was crazy, pure quality. Got completely pasted as well… back on the sauce after 4 months (lol, snuck in a beer at Azhar’s birthday, that was total peer pressure). 
• Getting my hands on some new vinyl after two years! Chemical Brothers’ Further and Cannonball Adderly’s Somethin’ Else.
• Slowly but surely making the Submerge Sunday Matchbox a Nightshift monster.
• Getting my hands on the complete collection of Peter Bagge’s Hate comics. Has me in splits. Buddy changed the way I perceived life.
• Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Boardwalk Empire, Dexter, Mad Men – TV is back.
• Magnolia – watched it for the second time after nearly five years… it’s a masterpiece.
• Exit Through The Gift Shop – genius documentary on street art. Long live Banksy.

HATING

Not much really. It’s been a good couple of months. Err, take that back. Hating not blogging and DJing as much as I used to when I was unemployed. Lol. The bohemian lifestyle is overrated though. Call me a sell out a bitch, but I’m loving the 9 to 5 way. Oh yeah, fuck the DJ Mag Poll and all that it stands for. One more, people who know fuck all about music working the music industry. I look forward to the implosion.

The Month That Was (JULY): Things are coming together

ON THE DANCEFLOOR

Atnarko ft. Nica Brooke - Solid Ground (Fred Everything's Lazy Dub)

Maayan Nidam - Perplexday

Santos - Llania Inesperada (Paul Ritch Remix)

Sander Kleinenberg - M.A.N.I.A.C.

Vinayaka - Never Turn Your Back (Ben Coda Remix)

Carl Craig - At Les (Christian Smith's Tronic Treatment Remix)

Chemical Brothers - Escape Velocity

Louis Armstrong - Nobody Knows (Monkey Safari Remix)

Sharkslayer - Who is he?

Cubiq - BOR-DOM

in the bedroom

Mumford & Sons - The Cave

Erlend Oye's DJ Kicks Mix

Matthew Dear - Soil to Seed

Jose Gonzalez - Heart Beats

The Roots - Somebodys Gotta Do It

Paul Wall - Sittin' Sidewayz

Steve Miller Band - Abracadabra

The Clash - Magnificent 7


LOVING

• Christopher Nolan’s Inception (2010). Read my review HERE.
• Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) – a wonderful take on a fun Roald Dahl story.
• “The Rebel Who Would Be King” by Philip Auclair – the long awaited Eric Cantona biography that is simply spot on. It’s beautifully written, which can be a rarity in sports writing. Watch this goal and know why he is King Eric (click).
• TV is hot as fire! Mad Men (back with a vengeance), Sherlock Holmes (Guy Ritchie, you must feel like a twat),  Louie CK (quirky very non-PC comedy), True Blood (slow start to the season but shit is definitely hitting the fan) and Entourage (possibly the second last season?).
• Guilty pleasures on Star World - Masterchef Australia and Moment of Truth
• The new Rupee symbol and my friend Alok Shetty’s take on it – VIEW HERE!
• The Nightshift boys playing at Pebble for the first time; we’re also playing alongside Vachan, Jalebee Cartel and Ma Faiza at the iDANCE festival, August 14th – what what?! RSVP NOW! CLICK HERE!
• Clips of Spanish captain and goalkeeper Iker Casillas being interviewed by his very hot reporter girlfriend right after winning the World Cup – adorable.
• The Formula One season notching up a gear; the top five drivers are separated by a mere 20 points – the second half of the season is going to be exciting. Fingers crossed Vettel’s luck changes, Schumi keeps being Schumi and Ferrari rub team orders in everyone’s face. 
• Cricket 2010 on the PS 3 – four straight days of yorkers and sixers, unhealthy but definitely worth a buy if you’re a fan of the sport.
• Wearing sweaters in July, only in Bangalore (and maybe Australia).
• Chancery Pavilion's Midnight buffet (Lavelle Road, Bangalore) - shhhh! This is our secret, don't want the pigs to get a whiff. Rs. 350 all you can eat. Drunken-stoner nights will never be the same.
• Tuhin Mehta’s Back to School Mix – house like it used to be. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD!
• This is very cool - SUBMERGE & MTV have joined hands to launch a DJ Talent Hunt - click here for all the details...
• Dude, I’m employed – joined the editorial team of FlipKart, couldn’t be happier. Think of a book, any book, search and buy! :) Gwan, wish me success.

HATING

• Angelina Jolie’s Salt (2010) – horribly stale Cold War sentiments, what did Russia do to piss off Hollywood? And ffs, enough with the Jason Bourne comparisons, Bourne would ass rape Salt if he wanted to.
• Reports of the Commonwealth Games costing – this should be in 'LOVING,' purely for its comedic value.
• The Confluence Festival getting cancelled for various reasons (Sex, Drugs and Rock N Roll, it seems). Sign the petition: CLICK HERE It must be said though, considering the recent events of flash floods in Ladakh, this is all rather secondary.
• Had the misfortune of watching the first two episodes of 'Persons Unknown' - I could imagine two fat writers pitching this to networks, 'It's Saw meets Lost...' Please avoid.
• Not blogging enough for the month of July - job interviews kinda held me back. My bad homies.
• The Dutch performance in the World Cup final - this wasn't football, it was a bloody war.
• The DJ Mag Poll - fuck.off. with your trance propaganda vote for me bullshit. Having said that, my vote goes to: Danny Howells, John Digweed, Jalebee Cartel, Chloe Harris and Neil Quigley.

The Month That Was (JUNE): Too much sports for one's own good

ON THE DANCEFLOOR

Kaiserdisco & Flavio Diaz - Juane

Edit Select - Beneath (Mark Broom Remix)

Audiofly - Salioelsol (Kabuto and Koji Remix)

Matt Cooper - The Brazen Bull

Layo & Bushwacka! - Now Is The Time (Emerson Todd Remix)

Slam - Room 2 (Pan Pot Rave Tool Remix)

Jalebee Cartel - Dub Drop

M.in - The Beat

Neil Quigley - Aerica

Martinez - Passerby

in the bedroom

Le Tigre - Deceptacon (Original & DFA Remix)

Phoenix - If I Ever Feel Better

Peter Bjorn and John - Young Folks (Diplo Youngest Folks Remix)

French Kicks - When You Heard You

Bag Raiders - Shooting Stars

Jack White - Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground ('It Might Get Loud' Version)

Jaime Jones - Summertime (Extended Vocal Mix)

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Garden

Delphic - Halcyon (Michael Mayer Remix)

Aloe Blacc - I Need A Dollar

LOVING

• It Might Get Loud (2009) I suspect this documentary got lost during Michael Jackson's death, which was around the time it was released. A must watch for guitar/rock lovers. A deep study of three legendary guitarists and their relationship with the instrument. So many great moments in this. Basically, ask yourself, what happens when you put Jimmy Page, The Edge and Jack White in the same room? Need I say more?
• You Heard It First has just set up its SoundCloud page and who better to do a mix for us than the lovely Chloe Harris! CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE SET!
• The MADDECENT podcasts - a haven for Diplo sets, how can you not respect a DJ who can can blend Petter, Rihanna and Justice? Mashed up, remixed, fucked up. Genius. The Diplo Diesel Party China set recorded 5 years back and everything else are highlights.
• The PowerBook G4 - so I know the lot of you have the macbook and the macbook pro, but I'm sorry, the PowerBook G4 is classic, indestructible, machinery. A lot of you jumped on the Mac bandwagon a bit too late IMO. (haha, my upgrade should happen at the end of the year)
• Super comfy Lazy Boys, blankets and pillows, hot caramel popcorn, the missus and A-Team (2010). Gold Class in Fame, Value Mall (Bangalore) is the only way to watch a movie.
• Breaking Bad - Did a marathon. Amazing TV. Served with a heavy dose of irony. Brilliant acting, brilliant plot structure, brilliant cliff hangers... think Weeds without the weed and crystal meth instead. Shout out for How To Make It In America, also great TV... think Entourage minus Hollywood and Ari Gold.
• The sports on offer - World Cup, Wimbledon, Formula One, Asia Cup - who said it's boring to stay at home?
• Mark Webber surviving his horrific crash with Heikki Kovalainen in Valencia - thought he was a dead man.
• Germany thrashing Argentina 4-0 in the World Cup quarterfinals. The result? Not feeling so bad about England's shite performance. Good to see Ghana get as far as they did. Here's to the Dutch winning it? #youhearditherefirst
• Pajama bottoms and flip flops - they're so in, maaaan.
• We can all agree June was typical awesome Bangalore weather? Warm, sunny days; cool drizzling nights. 
• Kenko Fish Spa (Lavelle Road, Bangalore) - 100s of fishies that suck your feet. Total trip. Guaranteed laughs. Never thought I'd say it, but it's therapeutic. 

HATING

• Claytopia Bistro Cafe (Indira Nagar, Bangalore) - Stay away from this piece of shit excuse for a 'bistro.' Burger fell apart, the chicken patty was half frozen and the missus and I felt nauseous for the rest of the day. When has a 'Rocky Road Milkshake' ever been a Nescafe instamix Cold Coffee? Stick to selling pottery and not duping your customers with shit food.
• The age old balancing act of watching a variety of sports through the night and at the same time giving the significant other some attention, haha got a bit messy this month. <3
• The possibility of the R-Fed era in tennis coming to an end? How many Grand Slams does Federer have left? 
• England putting me off football for the entire World Cup. Get your fucking act together you overpaid weapons.
• Beer+Laptop = NOT HAPPENING (unless it's a PowerBook G4 ;)) - watch your fucking drinks when you're around the DJ console peeps.
• Being sick for two weeks straight. Cold, fever, congestion.  Is it me, or was there a bug around town?
• Yet another cocktease about the 11:30PM deadline from the wanker politicians running Bangalore. 

Sorry this was a little late peeps... June wasn't such a bad month aye? Kinda slow though. - SG

The Month That Was (MAY): Summer Heat & Tons of Beats

ON THE DANCEFLOOR

Chromeo - Tenderoni (MSTRKRFT Remix)

Adam Beyer - Dactyl

Sam Paganini - Killer Queen (MiniCoolBoyz Remix)

Paul Ritch - Split the Line (Dubfire's Mega Remix)

Carl Lio - Seven Moods

Ramon Tapia - Start it Up

Noir - Gangstarr

Saalim - Snowfall Tribe Yin (Feeling Alright Master)

Booka Shade - Regenerate (Nomad in the Dark's Fasting Sinners Mix)

Solomun - Cloud Dancer (Manuel Tur's Instrumental Mix)

in the bedroom

The Pixies - Hey (Diplo's Devil Remix)

Major Lazer & La Roux - In 4 The Kill Pon De Skream

Minus The Bear - Into The Mirror

Minus The Bear - Animal Backwards

Deftones - Royal

Asher Roth - I Love College

Department of Eagles - No One Does It Like You

Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye (Jason Bentley Remix)

Passion Pit - Swimming in the Flood

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird

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LOVING

• Sasha, Neil Quigley and Paolo Mojo touring India in May
• Vachan Chinnappa making Sven Vath sound like Mary Poppins at the Sunburn Tour in Pebbles, Bangalore - many intl DJs touring India in May and yet the local boy takes the cake, oi oi!
• Rediscovering Diplo thanks to his and Switch's new Major Lazer w/ La Roux MixTape
• Crepe Connection's Banana&Chocolate Waffles+Subway Melt w/ South Western Sauce & Extra Jalapenos+Butterfly Prawns (Value Mall, Whitefield)
• The Lost Finale and all the hater fanboys wetting their pants
• 'Charles Logan' on 24
• How To Train A Dragon - Movie of the Month (May)
• Medici - Restaurant of the Month (May)
• The Red Bull F1 Team and redbullf1spy on Twitter
• Michael Hussey playing the innings of his life at the T20 World Cup semifinal against Pakistan... always nice seeing Mr. Cricket do well, as much as I hate the Australian Cricket Team
• Juhi Pande's Interview, Steve Abraham's Deftones Review and Key Low T-Shirts on YHIHF

HATING

• Bangalore's curfew and seeing my favourite DJs end their sets at unheard of times
• The tragic Mangalore Airport/Air India crash landing and the tactless media coverage that ensued
• REST IN PEACE - Gary Coleman (whatchutalkingboutwillis?) and Dennis Hopper (Mr. Easy Rider)
• Iron Man 2 and Shrek 4, a complete waste of time, tailor made for television
• The electricity situation in Bangalore city - nothing short of a fucking joke
• Vettel making contact with Webber, Hamilton winning and Ferrari lagging in Turkey
• Team India getting their asses handed to them at the T20 World Cup and then blaming the IPL
• Summer heat and the 'shoot yourself in the head' traffic when it starts pissing
• The Scott Pilgrim Series, RS India - you need to fire your graphic novel expert
• No more Simon Cowell on American Idol and no more Lost, who will fill this void in TV?
• Dickhead fanboy making a complete ass of himself on Twitter - you know who you is

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MAY POLL 
Question: Greatest rock band ever?

#1. Pink Floyd (12 votes, 37%)

#2. Led Zeppelin (11 votes, 34%)

#3. The Beatles (5 votes, 15%)

#4. The Rolling Stones (4 votes, 12%)

May zipped by and how.  Is it me or is 2010 galloping on real quick?  Guess that's a good thing.  A bit gutted to see Pink Floyd take YHIHF's Greatest Rock Band poll was gunning for Led Zep.  Floyd are a bit sissy in my opinion, which is why I've given The Zeppelin the gold stamp.  Make sure to vote for your favourite Lost character next! - SG