Schonhose

Back in the days I loved to spin the records at the club. My style was mostly vocal trance or, depending on my mood, German based hardstyle. I haven’t mixed live in a long time and I was wondering if I could still do it. Today, being a day off, would be a nice day to try to find out just how much my skills have diminished.

Obviously I haven’t kept my music collection up to date, so I was stuck playing some old records. Those songs brought back a lot of memories and most of them where fun. However, there was one song which brought back some more ‘painful’ memories, although the event in question could have happened to anyone.

While mixing in a record during a set at the club one of the needles of my decks broke. Normally this wouldn’t be much of a problem, while playing vinyl I keep at least one compact-disc ready when this happens. Not this time. And to make things worst, Menthal Theo was taping his show “Menthal Theo on the road” for the musicstation TMF. At least he was quick to help fill the silence by using the audience. What did he do? Well, perhaps this clip on YouTube provides some insight. Needless to say I provided the beats as quickly as I could.

Afterwards Theo, who spend some time on the decks himself, told me not to worry about it. It could have happened to him as well. And to be honest, if I didn’t break it he probably would have. So I guess I saved him.

Today I finished two mixes of about 2 hours, one containing the more vocal trance and the other more hardstyle. At least I got something to fill my iPod with when I pick up running again.

Sometimes things just don’t work out the way you’ve planned them. Like most of you, these little things will frustrate me from time to time. When this happens I get all agitated and tend to look at the dark side of these things.

At these times I sometimes need a friendly reminder not to worry so much. Lately I’ve rediscovered a song that embodies the feeling I would like to have. Listening to this song is a subtle reminder not to “worry ’bout a thing, ‘Cause every little thing gonna be all right.”

Today was a day I played this song several times, just to remind me things have a tendency to work out just fine. Hopefully the little annoyances which I take way to heavy and have bothered me ever so slightly will go away soon.