http://marcreck.com/wordpress2 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:15:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Finally after almost a year, i decided to finish a breaks mix i worked on last year, which was showcased at our last big Project X Presents event in November, and which was based on the Joseph Campbell's The Hero's Journey.  It was also a set that i reopened the ... http://marcreck.com/wordpress2/mixes/journey-to-the-edge-of-somewhere We've had to keep a bit quiet about the venue while it gets it's license confirmed, but we can now reveal (for the second time!) that its going to be breaking in a new venue called BUSK (which is on Gough Street, opposite the Alexandra Theatre) This beautiful flyer is ... http://marcreck.com/wordpress2/events/project-x-presents-busk-13th-september-2008 Something i mentioned previously, which is (a) an extension of the Mr Elephant Workshop of the World idea, and (b) something i'm hugely excited about, is a website /idea that is currently in development called Share to Create. com. Here's the tip of the iceberg, beautifully written by Dubber as ... http://marcreck.com/wordpress2/bloglife/share-to-create After a great week celebrating Pyn's birthday and our anniversary, it was full steam ahead this week, starting with 2 very productive meetings with 3 of Birmingham’s favourite promoters. Aside from being an opportunity to spend some very pleasant time with some ... http://marcreck.com/wordpress2/events/promoters Here's a list of pretty much all my gigs (that i can remember) to date taken from my cv   Sat 20th Sep 2008 - Mr Elephants Promoter Beach Party @ The Rainbow Beach Sat 13th Sep 2008 - Project X Presents 4 @ B.u.s.c Fri 15th Aug 2008 - Surfs Up ... http://marcreck.com/wordpress2/gigs/my-dj-cv I finally had a meeting with leftfoot resident Sam Redmore yesterday to discuss and show how we do what we do, with the view to starting a dj partership. It was nice to see a deeper level of geekery with the organisation of music, (and thankfully one that is imperative if ... http://marcreck.com/wordpress2/events/djing-is-not-always-totally-cool After another inspiring meeting, this time with Ant from Open Advantage, and with the website very much laying itself out and looking exceedingly promising, we headed to the hare and hounds to catch the last two sets at the generally excellent Bohemian Jukebox night run by Ben Calvert  Above was my ... http://marcreck.com/wordpress2/bloglife/bohemiam-jukebox After a sleepless night from the heat and noise, i was suitably refreshed by a great meeting with Dubber as part of the AHRC Knowledge Transfer Partnership Fellowship. We discussed the forthcoming website idea, and after a while of getting all the ideas down, (or out in my case!), we ... http://marcreck.com/wordpress2/events/custom-made I relooked at the business plan this week, and thanks to a brief chat with John Mostyn, and Pyn, have been looking into funding applications, through the arts council and lottery big fund, and am noticing that there seems to be quite a lot of support for developing creative practises, ... http://marcreck.com/wordpress2/bloglife/djing-gigs Last week, our Finished with the War piece seemed to go down real well at New Vibes 2008, and since then i've been continuing on my crusade to get all my open loops, ideas and projects into thinking rock... (for which there seem to be literally hundreds!) Its a good feeling ... http://marcreck.com/wordpress2/bloglife/push-things-forward