Marathon time again, six months exactly after a first taste in Venezia, for my second official attempt at the distance outside of an ironman. As much as I enjoyed many aspects of the race towards la Serenissima, it had left me somewhat frustrated by the result (read race report here) and so really wanting for […]
Author: Cedric
London Marathon 2024
2023 – A Year In Review (Part II – Albums & Reissues)
Following on to the singles in part I, here’s my round up of the best albums and reissues which I had the pleasure to listen to in 2023. As always there’s a good mix of familiar artists and labels who constantly deliver the goods alongside some new names amongst the movers and shakers in our niche […]
2023 – A Year in Review (Part I: 12″s, 10″s, 7″s, album cuts)
“War, huh (God y’all)What is it good for? You tell me (nothing)Say it, say it, say it, say it” As good as any in terms of musical highlights and dance-floor epiphanies, 2023 was a year that will forever be marked by new scales of horror in the Israel/Palestine war. Darker times have fallen upon us […]
Venice Marathon 2023
Running a marathon on “fresh” legs (as opposed to the shuffle that takes place at the end of an ironman) has always been on my mind, even more so since I stopped racing triathlons. Always thought it’d be nice to have a reference time over the distance, and even extra nice for that reference to […]
Tropical Cosmic Dance with Cedric Woo
At the start of the summer I had the pleasure to be invited for a guest mix on the ever excellent My Analog Journal YT channel. This first time around Zag came to my flat to film and record a strictly gwoka mix, but now was my turn to blend in with the plants and […]
2022 – A Year in Music, part 2 (Albums & Reissues)
Here is the second part of my 2022 review, this time focusing on albums and reissues. Lots of familiar artists and labels in there, as well as a fair share of discoveries. I didn’t do a top 10 or top 15, but if I had to choose one I’d most likely go for the new […]
2022 – A Year in Music, part 1 (Singles)
2022 was the year when parties started to be regular again, with no more lockdowns or pandemics in the way. We were able to plan ahead and host monthly Beauty & the Beat, bi-monthly All Our Friends, go to festivals and even to carnival, which hadn’t happened since 2019. So many highlights to recall, from […]
XTERRA Super Besse XL
The last race report I wrote dates back to nearly four years, November 2018 to be precise, for a rather simple reason: I haven’t pinned a race number since. What with being well settled in the (wrong) side of my forties, I admittedly didn’t expect to ever do this again, but yet here I come […]
Lèspri ka a la Gwadloup, printemps 2022
In late March ’22, following two cancelled trips in the past two years due to the pandemic, we were finally back in Guadeloupe. Once we’d navigated all the bureaucratic nonsense involved in being able to travel (mainland France’s frontiers were fully opened but not Guadeloupe’s), it was as always a special feeling to set foot […]
Excursions in Gwoka Vol. 1 (BATB 005)
Two years in the making, the fifth release on our Beauty & the Beat label has finally landed. This project turned out to be quite a labour of love, requiring no less than two sets of test pressings (!), and it is such a great feeling to finally see this out in the flesh (on […]