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It is Tuesday 26 July 2011, the 1st day of a new 260 Tzolkin count in the Mayan Calendar. Come audibly celebrate with some Arroz Con Leche and your digi-hosts, Big Love Archives, DJM, and our new exclusive mix series Loose Joints  

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DJM is David Marwick, Bay Area native and code engineer darling whose don dada dj selection is characterized as much by its sophisticated musicality as it is by daring soulfulness and foot-loving rhythms. Listening to the precision, finely engineered aesthetic, and near brutal sense of technicality of this selection, it’s almost impossible not to make comparisons to techno’s very own DJ Surgeon. & you have to admit, the physical resemblance is slightly uncanny..!

As a human, Dave M specializes in unique freak beats and fine crusted mustard. If you’re lucky, you’ll get to witness him standing on his head and speaking in non-native Sanskrit, though not all at once and you might never guess it from his trademark stoicism and baseline bone-dry humour. As a DJ, M’s performance is punctuated by scrupulous selection and a listener’s ear for the synthesis of rhythm and sound.

“Djing for me is a craft and the inspiration is always more process-driven than anything else. My interest lies in showcase mixing so I put time and selection into sequencing. Then I am a bit of a purist as far as always recording a mix “live” so I use Technics, vinyl & Serato rather than resorting to Ableton or any shortcuts like that.”

Though relatively obscure and never one to directly seek the spotlight, Dave is a heralded native of the Bay Area jungle music scene; serving as founder/co-founder of SOMA Sessions, The Tenderloft, Faultline D&B, Freebeats Collective, and the legendary Bay Area Drum N Bass Love Parade float. He is former co-host of the infamous Future Breaks FM! on KUSF 90.3 FM and resident of Still Doin’ It. On his journey through Jungle, as well as the kind of education he sees for people just now getting into the faster tempos of electronic music:

“By the time I really got into D&B in 1998, it was already a mature genre, and I guess one in decline after the advent of techstep and neurofunk. Since then it’s gone through so many interesting changes, absorbing influences from “it” subgenres like electro-house, 2-step, minimal techno, broken beat, dubstep, etc as well pieces of its own past. Somehow I always found a thread that kept me interested. Nowadays coming out of the minimalism thing that Instra:mental and dBridge kicked off there, seems to be a nice little techstep revival going on, but without the angry testosterone of the late 90s… there’s a bit of everything out there. D&B today is experimental, detail-oriented, and emotive, so that’s basically what I was going for with this mix. In particular, I have a deep appreciation for certain artists like Lynx, Lenzman and System… I think it’s safe to say dubstep (now a dirty word to some) gradually splintered off from 140 halfstep into the 120-135 range, drawing more heavily from house, techno, electro, and juke. All of that has fed back into D&B to a degree, especially via artists who are writing at multiple tempos, one of those being Ramadanman (Pearson Sound). As a listener, I am quite happy with the cross-pollination.”

Big Love to the synthesis, the listeners, DJM, the SF Bay, Time, & looose joints

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http://www.deejaym.com/music/DJM-X-BIG-LOVE-320.mp3

http://www.deejaym.com/music/DJM-X-BIG-LOVE-192.mp3

Tracklist

Pearson Sound - Higher (Darkestral Galaxicos)

Phaeleh - Afterglow [dBridge’s Faded Light Remix] (Afterglo)

System - Observation Point (Exit Records)

Enei - Danger Dance (Critical Recordings)

Noisia and Spor - Falling Through (Vision Recordings)

Subwave - Rain Dance (Metalheadz)

FD feat. Script - Sent Down (Modulations)

Total Science, S.P.Y and Lenzman - Narrow Margin (Subtitles)

BCee and S.P.Y - Nothing To Declare (Spearhead Records)

Octane, DLR and Ant TC1 - The Jazz Club (Dispatch Recordings)

Lynx feat. Sense MC - For The Rebels [Instrumental Mix] (Detail Recordings)

System - The Diver’s Dream (Warm Communications)

Lynx - The Foundry (Detail Recordings)

Lenzman - Take It Back (SGN:LTD)

System - Go Again (Warm Communications)

Lynx and Hellrazor - Dirty Red (Detail Recordings)

Enei - Outfield (Opposide Records)

Rockwell feat. Untold - Rekohu Sunrise (Critical Recordings)

Marcus Intalex feat. S.P.Y - Triband (Soul:r)

Origin Unknown - Lunar Bass [Commix Remix] (RAM Records)

Lenzman - Masquerade [Die, Interface and Will Cartwright Remix] (Metalheadz Platinum)

System - Quadrophonic (Vampire Records)

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