As summer madness draws to a close, and the well-treaded (or is that trod?) annual rituals of holiday, festival or carnival fade into memory for another year, the feeling of back to school hangs heavily in the damp, sodden air. Sodding air. I have been holding back on the blog front for a few weeks, mainly because I hadn’t even had time to read Ben’s terrific additions, so it was doubtful any of the two or three of you that read this will have either. Also, I am putting myself through a rigorous mental training exercise at the moment. My negative over positive thoughts are running wild at the moment, in the main part due to the things listed above, and a severe feeling of being stonking, stinking and stoning broke. This mind state makes me hate everyone and everything, and have been known to say some things I later regret or didn’t really mean. So the less I had blurted out on here the better.

     I am going to include a couple of treats in this one though, in the vain hope that the net nerdy among you will spread it around the message boards and forums I know nothing about these days, and generate some new traffic onto the site. Some of you may remember the old Dom-unique site from which I gave free monthly mixes, many years ago, pre dating many DJs, clubs and fan web sites giving out podcasts. They were popular mixes, often being downloaded in there thousands, which led to the start of Treble O. Myself and Shifty thought thus: if 4000 people look at these pages a month to get a free mix, would a quarter of them pay for it? Or would all those that had received free mixes every month for two or three years feel obliged to start buying music from the people that had provided that service? The answer was of course no, but it was a reasonably painless experiment. In any case Treble O is still here, and after a stressful year and with more big changes to come, I thought I would give all those that have stayed in to support us some free mixes. One of the files is big and I did it on sendspace so you may have to try a few times to get it. So here is a two and a half hour live set from Osaka, Japan, recorded at Freedom Time with Yoshihiro Okino from Kyoto Jazz Massive, and a recent radio mix I did for Kev Beadle on Solar Radio. Also included separately is another radio mix, this time for the Future Boogie crew, which aired on Kiss (for the West of England only) last Sunday, the 24^th of August 2008.

   I mentioned my good friend Shifty in that last paragraph and feel I should formerly announce his retirement from the site and the label. There is no bad blood between us, he simply felt he had done enough, and I completely understood why. This is my full time job from which I scrape a living from, and every other day I feel like giving up, so I can imagine for someone doing it for the love, as they feel less and less love for it, the time to stop becomes unavoidable. There literally wouldn’t be any of this without the magic of Dave Farlam, and I salute your work and friendship sir. From the heart of my bottom, thanks mate.

    So the links are below, please spread the word. Next month I will be releasing the latest Bakura release on the shop, with exclusive UK mixes not on the Especial 12”. I will have more info on that to come in the next weeks. Also I think it is worth mentioning to those of you who remember my idea for a horror film called “Zombies On A Plane” has already been done. I saw it in Woolworth’s for some strange reason, and it is called “Flight Of The Living Dead”, which is miles better than my title. So another crap idea thrown onto the slag pile, making room for yet more puerile non-sense for me to relay to a slightly unbothered public. Until the next time we meet, take care, and as Lyn Collins and Aretha Franklin both sang, you better think. Enjoy! 

http://www.sendspace.com/file/xfkomj

http://www.sendspace.com/file/bkrgoe