1:43 In Heaven

Winter truly is the season for baroque.

You may or may not be a classical music fan, but it won't matter. This song will, for just a few bind-blowing seconds, send you straight to heaven.

Bach - An Dir, Du Furbild Grosser Frauen.mp3

I can't stop listening to it.

(From Bach's Cantatas #106, 118B & 198.)

Jungle Bizness ('93 - '95)

Another jam from the miracle maker.

Actually, I'm no miracle maker. My dj days are far behind me, and it's been a good three years since somebody ripped off my turntables.

But about a year back I did throw together - cheating, via laptop - some absolutely timeless and flawless old school jungle clips for my now-defunct podcast. That now-defunct podcast has essentially turned into this music blog, and the link has long since died.

Jungle Bizness (93 - 95).mp3

Here it is again, in all of its squinty-eyed fabulousness. Light a blunt and enjoy. (Bonus points if you remember this shiz from the first time around.)

I'm toying around with the idea of a Bay B Kane megamix after finals, so stay stoned. Er, tuned.

Origin Of Breaks

I have drum & bass in my blood. I've loved it and followed it ever since its first incarnations in the early 90s. Since then my tastes have drifted away from dance music, but I always check back from time to time with the massive drum & bass mix database to make sure the kids are still holding it the fuck down. (They are.)

So a few years ago I decided to look up as many breakbeats as I possibly could, in their original contexts, at their original tempos, and throw them all together in one five minute long history lesson.

Jason Herrboldt - Origin Of Breaks.mp3

As with the last mix posted, I no longer have access to the artists and song titles. But if you're a true b-boy or girl, you shouldn't even need to ask. If you're not, then yeah. You've been schooled. Breakbeat started in the 60s, motherfuckers.

Rave Hysteria Mixtape

A friend and I just watched 24 Hour Party People tonight, and it made me think of all the old dance music I used to listen to in the early 90s. It also made me want to re-upload this mix I made last year, which I think is no longer accessible on iTunes.

While making this mix I combed my archives for every rave, trance, breakbeat, jungle, and techno song I could find that was made on or before 1993 that I didn't hate. I dropped them all in my laptop, pressed frappe, and out came this megamix of early 90s candy raver nostalgia.

Class Of '93 - Rave Hysteria Mixtape.mp3

I had a list somewhere of all the artists, titles and labels of the tracks used in the mix, but motherfuck if I can find it. I guess you bitches will all just have to savor the mystery.

That Is Racist!

I'm sorry, I couldn't resist.

Eric Cartman - My Water Park.mp3

There are just too many minorities...

... in my water park.

xoxo

With Apologies To Al Franken

So I'm taking a "How To Study" class this semester, which is really a "Get Off Academic Probation Free" class, but that's neither here nor there.

We're doing a section on pre-test anxiety, and our teacher asked me to read a script out loud to the rest of the class as a kind of brief, guided meditation to introduce the students to relaxation techniques. (Can you see where this is going?)

The teacher asked everyone to close there eyes, then turned to me and signaled for me to begin reading. Just before, I managed to sneak my iPhone out of my pocket and hit the audio record button, and I wove the resulting audio in with a Stuart Smalley tape from the 90s. Honestly, what I go through for you people.

Jason Herrboldt vs Stuart Smalley.mp3

The schmaltz factor was so high that I practically broke out laughing before I was halfway through. Anyway, if you like the Stuart Smalley bit, you can download the entire CD at audible.com.

Unfinished & Unreleased

I spent almost every free hour I had during the summer of 2003 archiving my back catalog. I had a few minor-label releases, but almost all of the songs I created never saw the light of day.

Here are two songs that almost made it. Recorded around 2002, each song was written for a vocalist, and Sabedoria Profunda is just screaming for a horn solo. At one point I even had a horn player and a vocalist lined up, but it never quite came together.

Unfinished & Unreleased.zip

Contains the following tracks:

• Caspian - Sabedoria Profunda
• Caspian - Stay

The A&R departments of the labels I was working with at the time seemed unimpressed and encouraged me to work on something else. These two songs are unfinished and unreleased, but hopefully not unloved.