Well, January has escaped me. The 9 to 5 has been insane and motivation to really stay on the horse with the new mix and this blog has been, well, lacking.
The good news is that I’m in love with Tumblr. If you haven’t stopped over at “That’s What’s Up“, I’d suggest a quick look. That’s What’s Up is DjFREQ.com in sweatpants and a T-shirt. The posts are shorter, more casual, and might ask you to grab a beer for them while you’re up.
There’s a lot of music being posted there…tracks I think are worth a listen but that I don’t have the time to write a full review for.
Stay tuned here for some more content. I’m in the process of uploading another handful of mixes from the archives to the Mixes page.
Hope everyone is enjoying 2010 so far. I’ll post back here again soon!
So I’m attaching a Tumblr blog to the site very soon (Update: it’s here).
The domain name is already set, the Tumblr account is set up, and A-Record change is filed with my registrar. Woohoo!
So what does that mean? Tumbleblogging (or Microblogging) is kind of mash between Wordpress, Twitter, and Facebook. While I currently use and like all of those services, none of them meet all of my sharing and blabbering needs at once. Tumblr allows for very quick, very easy, and very accessable posting of all sorts of things, but it does media especially well. And it also happens to play very nice with Twitter, Facebook, and Wordpress.
If you want to see Tumblr in action check out my brother’s Tumblr @ ddp.kethcart.com He turned me onto Tumblr in the first place, so….Thanks, bro.
My justification for doing this is that I have a lot of stuff that I’d like to share with friends, family, and readers that doesn’t justify a full post on the main blog, or really fit in with the content and direction that I envision my main site having. So in my mind, the Tumblr site is mainly going to serve as an “et cetera” collection of movies, links, music, articles, etc…that don’t quite make “front page” material on DjFREQ.com, but that I feel should be retained in a place where I can share them with the other networks of people mentioned above.
The name came almost as a joke at first, but then instantly stuck. It comes from a recorded interview with Kimbo Slice, a now world famous MMA fighter. At the time, he was just entering into the world of professional mixed martial arts. At the end of one of his interviews, Mr. Slice very promptly and matter-of-factly ends his statement with “…that’s what’s up”.
Yep. That’s What’s Up. I like it.
Simple and concise, if not brutish and terse.
You can catch the delivery of this wonderful phrase here:
Christmas. It has come and gone without a peep from me on the site here. The new mix is coming along, but definitely not anywhere near as quickly as I had hoped. And definitely not quick enough to have been posted here before Christmas. So to be honest, it may be a while before it gets finished and posted. I think we can all agree the holidays are hectic, and I’ve had an especially, um, challenging one.
Stay tuned, there will be much more good stuff to come, but probably not until the Champagne’s been popped and the streamers and confetti have all settled.
No worries, 2010 is shaping up to the be a strong year for me.
UPDATE ::
Aw, shucks. Guilt got the best of me. I can’t let the year come to a close without giving you a little gift of some sort. I offer up a little mix created in June of 2008. It’s mostly electro-house, with some 80’s remixes to start, some Wolfgang Gartner thrown in the middle, and some of the popular club anthems of that moment to round out the finish.
Head on over to the Mixes page. It’s at the bottom.
It’s quick, it’s loud, it’s fun. Just like I hope the end of the year is for everyone!
