Day 213

Aka Friday 1st September 2017

Today, after doing the crossword:

...I got these Big Beat CDs throught the post:

For you youngsters Big Beat was a combination of hip-hip, house, rock ‘n’ roll and a little reggae and was very popular in the mid to late nineties, when I was in my late teens and early twenties. I was feeling a little nostalgic and picked these albums up.

Athletico was a small label that released some great music and this compilation collects the labels highlights.  For me the highlight is Psychedelia Smith’s Fixy Joint, which sounds like a modern version of The Kings Men’s Louie Louie.

Big Beat Conspiracy is a BBC1 compilation for the US which I mainly got for Sniper’s Cross Fader Dominator, which I’ve heard in mixes, but haven’t had a decent copy of, and the Fatboy Slim remix of Psychedelia Smith’s Fixy Joint. There’s also plenty of tracks I haven’t heard and it’ll be interesting to listen to them fresh with 2017 ears, without any nostalgia and see if they stand up.

I also finished Bridget Christie’s book, A Book For Her, which is really good, both entertaining and informative and inspiring. Especially, the from near the end of the book:

“It’s important not to beat yourself up all the time about what you’re not doing. That’s what I think about campaigning. Just do whatever you have time to do…Don’t measure yourself against what other people are doing…We’re all doing our own little bit. And if we all do our own little bit, then together it’s a big bit.”

When reading about the latest tragedy, atrocity, racist incident, sexist incident, etc. it’s too easy to think that something should be done, but that you aren’t powerful/influential/clever enough to do it, when in reality we do have the power to speak up, to alert others and together to have an effect.