12 months on

I’ve just been looking back at the post I published almost exactly 12 months ago.  A whole lifetime ago.  Mrs D and I had been on holiday in Marrakech, on what would turn out to be our last holiday alone for the foreseeable future.  If I close my eyes I can still see the view from my bed in our room at Riad Cocoon, writing on my laptop with Dream 2 Science’s My Love Turns To Liquid in the background…

12 months on, we’re in a foreign country again – this time Spain, staying for a week at Mrs D’s parents holiday apartment on the Atlantic coast near Huelva.  Again, I’m sat in bed writing, but everything else is different.  It’s another world we live in now.  In Marrakech, the only sound I heard was the classic house coming from the speaker dock.  Now, the sound comes from every direction.  Mrs D is downstairs making coffee, Atomic is echoing tinnily around the kitchen, cars are passing in the street outside, a fan is whirring above me, the keys are clicking on my laptop.  And my baby boy, asleep next to me, is sighing, sniffing, breathing, being.  Another world.

So, it’s been quite a while since I last posted anything on the blog itself – I’ve been reposting links and things on the Facebook page but there’s been precious little time to sit down and write for months. (The Girl from Ipanema’s playing downstairs now – magic)  Little Walter’s nearly 2 months old now and his enthusiasm for all things new is infectious, so it won’t be long before I’ll be back on it I’m sure.  Thanks for sticking around, Hasta Luego

Ben, Becky and Walter

Previous posts:

• Welcome To The Club – Cynthia Cherry’s classic house compilation (interview)
• Frankie Knuckles 1955-2014 | Frankie Knuckles Productions
• Frankie from the Bronx
• Digging for records with Vinyl Exchange’s Russell Marland (part 1!)
• In conversation with the First Lady of New Jersey house: Abigail Adams!  (interview)
• Ruth Slinger’s documentary on the early 90s NYC rave scene
• Shock, horror: it’s an end of year list!
• Putting the jigsaw together piece by piece
• Ace Mungin and the roots of house music in New Jersey: part 2  (interview)
• Ace Mungin and the roots of house music in New Jersey: part 1  (interview)
• Youtube, glorious Youtube…
• Abigail Adams and Movin’ records – The Jersey Sound
• The Zanzibar: the “Jersey Sound”?
• After The Interview
• Interview with Dream 2 Science’s Gregg Fore (Streetwise, Warlock, Jump Street and Fore records)  (interview)
• New York House mix
• Dream 2 Science
• Wayne Gardiner
• Strictly Rhythm
• The Crazy Frenchman and Kool Groove records
• Pal Joey – Hot Music compilation on BBE
• Gene “Bluejean” Hughes
• Tommy Musto and Northcott Productions
• AfterTheGarage Mixtape Vol.1
• Midtown 120 Blues
• The Burrell Brothers and Nu Groove records
• NYC Dub mixes
• AfterTheGarage Mixtape Vol.1
• Wild Pitch
• The Choice Revoice collections
• Richard Vasquez and The Choice
• Greg Wilson on the UK House scene
• Where do we go from here?
• Classic Bobby Konders tracks
• After The Paradise Garage – The Lost Era in NYC