Sunday March 20th 2020 – 16km run. Home, Greenwich Park, Limehouse Basin and back.

Sixteenth and 21st century timelines colliding. The Queen’s House. The ever-expanding Canary Wharf, wealth rising upwards towards the heavens.

It’s a world which seems faster, harder, more negative than ever with relentless 24 hour news cycles priming us to fight and flight and panic.

Running and raving helps me cope. First of all to 21 Years with Groove Armada Disc 1, celebrating the weekend, the sunshine, harness and project positive energy in a world full of painful contradictions.

And then the iconic, soul shredding house classic Junk Science by Deep Dish for the trip back home. This album circles back to zero point with its shuddering deep bass lines reaching deep into my brain and out into space.

Timeless, floating, endlessly resonating from its launch in 1998 to now:

‘Mohammed is Jesus is Buddha is love is the way I see it.’

‘Stranded in your American dream/ Of a Polaroid lie I have never seen/ I’m living…‘

Music, mirror, reality slide.

‘The future of the future will still contain the past. Time goes slow and time goes fast…’

The final kilometre home was my fatest – the hypnotic house beasts of Sushi giving new life to tired legs.

Beats dropped in the right place at the right time connecting and unlocking hidden energy.

Everything, everyone, connected at source.