So I was given a link today on the int0rweb that had some old drum and bass mixes on them so I'm all like "Hey, I'll just download those so I can listen to them while I work today. (It's a proven fact that music makes me more productive.)

Anyhoo, I'm happy like a bug in a rug reminiscing over all of the old mixes I hadn't heard in like a bazillion years and then I find the root file they were all in...

What's this? No way?!

I find "01_Phantom45_-_dusted_fader_(side_a).mp3"

And I'm not expecting most, if any, of you guys to know but Phantom 45 is probably one of my most favourite DJ's to have ever come along in the dance/d&b world. I first heard him while I was in college at Maryland and got a mixtape from a fellow raver buddy and I was hooked ever since. A year later I bought the mixtape that I just found. Good ole double sided 90 minute tape. I think I played it so many times it snapped the tape =)

Fast forward a few years later when my ex was managing Buzz (massive nightclub in DC) and I finally met Mistah 45. We hit it off, exchanged numbers and emails and got to be really good buddies ever since.

So here I am, blasting his mixes in my headphones, writing him an email to catch up, all with a smile on my face.