Listening to a very old DJ mix of mine right now. It was my third ever, and my first I did using Vinyl.
I recorded it using my turntables, which I’d bought using my first ever credit card. This was my freshman year in college. I went to New York that summer, and I spent a day shopping at a place called Satellite Records where you could play the records before buying them. I shopped in the progressive house section, and damn…
I picked up some good shit that day. Tracks I love to this day. Tracks that would still bang.
I then took the recorded waveforms and plugged them into a program called Acid Pro, and I mixed a double CD just like my heroes. Digweed. Paul Oakenfold. I called it “Footsteps” because I was borrowed so heavily from tracks appearing on their mixed albums…except for the first disc, which was 90% a result of that Satellite Records shopping trip.
It’s still my favorite disc of the two.
I wonder if Satellite Records is still around. Probably not. Music changed so much in the years that followed that trip in 2002.
I loved making that CD. Lord. Loved it. And I’d learned the basics by then. My first two mixed efforts had been a disappointment. This one, I really figured some stuff out. I’m glad I still have it.
Lazy day. Even took a nap. It was just what I needed.
Is this you? https://www.last.fm/music/Ira+Heinichen
I release that it’s possible I’ve got the wrong Ira Heinichen. But here goes anyway.
I was just going through my old CD case and rediscovered a CD I think you sent me in 2005 or perhaps 2006. Actually you sent me 3 CD’s of your music – Winter Promo ’04-’05 session one and two and Elemental Underground Show Sampler. I can’t remember how I even talked to you about it or why you sent them to me but they have my name on them in your handwriting too. Social media on the internet was so different back then. Anyways, I suddenly thought I would Google you to see if you were still making music. I’m enjoying the Winter Promo right now, rediscovering progressive house music that I put to the wayside about 8 years ago. I remember now why I loved progressive house music so much. Thanks for the music and the memories. If I have the wrong guy I’m sorry about that. But I’m not sorry about asking. It really was a wonderful time for progressive house music in the early 2000s and I loved having this music for many years to come. And way back when and now I still enjoy this music you sent me. Thanks.
Omg! Yes, that’s definitely me. Thanks for the kind words 🙂 I don’t make music or DJ anymore, sadly. I got sucked into other things, but I still miss it. For sure. Thanks so so much for reaching out! What a blast from the past 😛