Ever since I have been DJing and Producing, I have faced a strange dichotomy.

The struggle between being understood, and expressing oneself.

It is part of the DJs role to leave open a door, so others can come in and join you on your journey, but at the same time, the hallway seems to get longer and longer.

Add to that, my diverse love of music, and making a mix becomes more and more of a head-fuck – and I try and decide what to put into a mix, and where to take it.

It doesn’t help that what I would normally produce, and what I would DJ have always been vastly differnt things.

Each time I try to include my own tunes in a mix, in what I guess, is now the universally accepted practice of self-promotion,  I struggle to see where they would fit it. I suppose that is what the live show is for.

Yet as I deal with this love/hate relationship to DJing, I keep on coming back to a fundimental desire to share this phenomenal music with other people, and really, I just love the ‘process’ of mixing.

Although, mixing itself has changed a lot over the years.

I am tired of all the polite, safe mixes I hear. Modern technology has polished the DJ mix to the point, where you struggle to hear the human interaction with the music any-more. The ‘ideal’ of creating the seamless mix has been achieved - but I realise, what I really want to hear, IS the DJ. Now that music has become so much more accessible, within the domain of digital distribution – I want to hear the DJ working. I want to hear the musical and technical risks, the person working the music, the equipment.

So here it is. My first public mix in far too long. This is really just part 1 of 2, the second coming shortly – again split due the variety of my tastes – and realising that there was just too much music to fit into a CD friendly mix length.

Enjoy.I hope you can understand me.

- Kerry

We have been in a bit of a hermitage recently, as we figured out what the future held for The Proof.

Not to say we haven’t been busy – as we have been working on getting a pile of back catalog material out there for you to listen to.

http://www.junodownload.com/labels/Boom+Tish/releases/

There is also some new material on its way from Bromide Dub and The Filterbrats as well as a couple of other exciting projects on the horizon.

So, don’t think we have gone away yet.

Just mulling over it all…

The choir pads from the original got me, so I decided to do a remix from the downloaded stems.

Hit me up if you would like a MP3 to play out.

Spent the weekend letting the blister heel on the feet, and thought I would take the downtime to learn a little more about Ableton and After Effects. Here is the result. Started it on Saturday. ‘Mastered’ in the headphones.

So – new from Bromide Dub – ‘Berlin Calling’

Hit me up if you want a MP3 of it.

I am really enjoying the Dark Energy for abstract / wigged out synth work..

Change up the beats from the Machinedrum, and suddenly Techno becomes Dubstep!