inthemix.com.au was one of Australia’s premier dance music sites during the 2000s.

I wrote for itm from 2002 until 2010, mostly focusing on reviewing events based in Adelaide, and interviewing mostly triphop, drum and bass and breaks artists.

A selection of inthemix articles is found below.

NOTE: Some articles were used across the sites I wrote for, and are tagged appropriately, but apologies for any duplicates.

The full list of articles can be found here.

• Americas Army – SPR - America’s Army: Operations (PC) – published by US Army Sniper, Paratrooper and Ranger packs The Sniper, Paratrooper and Ranger Packs add new weapons and maps to the game, and fix the interface and some of the more annoying bugs, but it’s still more of the same. This game will keep you interested for a while, … Continue reading Americas Army – SPR →
• Ctrl Z & Screwface – Hardwired - Brazenly audacious, the Hardcore Beats crew go straight for the jugular with Ctrl Z & Screwface’s Hardwired compilation. Beginning with Stereo:Typical, this track starts with the voice from the Pendulum album (who I suspect is Jeremy Beedle), rallying against being pigeonholed by the media, going as far as to call them “chin-stroking media fuckwits”.As a … Continue reading Ctrl Z & Screwface – Hardwired →
• Lee Coombs @ Traffic, Adelaide - 13/06/2003After a little soiree for one of Ribbon’s drum and bass friends, where, incidentally DJ Khem played a cool dnb set, but people didn’t start dancing until Jayar dropped some funky breaks, we headed off to Traffic where the crowd was thin but the beats were Phat! Jaywalker was playing a tidy set of new … Continue reading Lee Coombs @ Traffic, Adelaide →
• Vietcong – Purple Haze - The Vietnam War has been the focus of countless movies, but until recently not many video games. Maybe it was the fact that it was still fresh in our memories, maybe it was the fact that the processing power of early PCs couldn’t accurately represent the strategy and locations that needed to be included, or … Continue reading Vietcong – Purple Haze →
• Gift of Gab – Escape 2 Mars - I’ve been sitting on this review of Gift Of Gab’s solo effort Escape To Mars for a while, much to itm’s chagrin. I’ve been umming and ahing about what to write about this release for over a month. I’ve listened to it many times, and I’m still completely at a loss to explain how I … Continue reading Gift of Gab – Escape 2 Mars →