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Archive for May, 2007

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Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

Taken by Laura 4/27/07

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Backup Mixer: Vestax VMC-002XL

Friday, May 25th, 2007

Now that we are running our own night (Beyond, Wednesdays above Cafe Luna), and along with the outdoor party, and playing with French Stewart, it is becoming more and more necessary for me to keep a backup mixer on hand. I am worried that with all these out shows, something will happen, and I need […]

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New weekly party

Monday, May 21st, 2007

Ivan, Adrian and I are starting a new weekly happy house/early night party thing. It’s called Beyond and will feature interesting chillout music: downtempo, dubstep, dub reggae, soul, IDM, trip-hop, maybe some deep deep deeeeep house… We got really fantastic drink specials and a lot of DJs interested in guest spots. I […]

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DJ Furniture

Monday, May 14th, 2007

Oh man… When I buy my own place, this is totally the first piece of furniture I’m buying.
The new Pro Floating Coffin can accomodate two turntables, 2 CD players, a mixer and a laptop for use with Rane’s Serato or Stanton’s Final Scratch systems. The CD player slots fit Pioneer CDJ-1000, 800, 200 or 100 […]

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Prodigy!

Monday, May 7th, 2007

Liam Howlett/The Prodigy is one of my favorite electronic acts, for real. I’ve loved every album Prodigy released and nearly every remix.
Here is a great remix of “Girls”, found on Palms Out Sounds. This is an example of a song I can put on a mix to distribute, but could never play live. I don’t […]

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DJ Challenge is tonight

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

So my first DJ Challenge night is tonight. Let’s see how this goes. I’m going to try to throw more of these if this one is fun.
The deal is: five DJs, six tracks. Each DJ must pick five or six from the same list of tracks. The tracks are:
Noisia - Gutterpump
Secret Weapon - Dan […]

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