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Tag team with Jukata at Beyond.
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Originally uploaded by Rachel Ariel
Tag team with Jukata at Beyond.
So last night, after Beyond, I went to Five, and then around midnight I got an MP3 CDs to mix for an anti-war protest this Friday. I spent about 10 minutes reviewing the tracks, and then I pressed record. This is now the “official soundtrack” which is kind of weird. I think if I had more time (to learn the tracks and to find higher-bitrate samples) I could do a lot better. Anyway, the mix is only on sendspace for now.
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Funk The War 2
Tracks selected by Maurine, mixed by Dan Amitai
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This is a practice mix in preparation for next week’s show.
This is 37 tracks in 64 minutes. This is called ADDD - the extra D is for Downtempo!
Track list:

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Check out some pictures from last night. I made only a quick cameo while Alter-Ego went for a smoke break. Also featured: DJ Gauge and David Bloom.
We were also mentioned in this week’s Washington City Paper. Online version here.
Featuring:
Ryptide - Ableton / synths
Ivan - Guitar
Retrospect - MPC
Dan - turntable
A bunch of hip-hop classics… Mixing is somewhat shaky but too lazy to re-record. Download!
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As you know, a couple of friends and I have been throwing a weekly happy hour / DJ event in DC. Earlier this week, we were mentioned in The Washingtonian:
…one of the best happy hours you’ve never heard of. Held every Wednesday from 6 to 11 in the upstairs lounge of Skewers and Cafe Luna restaurants, it showcases excellent local DJs and insanely cheap drink specials…
So yeah, we’re doing pretty well.
Cheers!
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As some of you know, I’ve been a regular guest at Club Five’s Arcadia — a weekly “alternative” night that features “industrial, gothic, synthpop, ebm, indie, electro, 80’s, britpop”. I don’t tend to fit in too well there. There are a few reasons why. For one, even though I used to listen to industrial music all the time in high school, nowadays I go months without even looking at my KFMDM CDs. Secondly, I have no goth friends anymore, other than the ones I hang out with at the goth nights. And third, my mixing style is very unorthodox, especially when it comes to the goth scene. The way it was explained to me was: goth people are very particular about their music, so when a song comes on that they like, they want to hear it through. And, as you all know, I get tired of tracks after a minute and just switch to the next one. Last time I played one guy was so angry at me for not letting tracks play out that he called me an asshole and bla bla bla. It was intense!
Anyway, I still do it because I love music and I love DJing and I get more compliments than insults, so I’m coming out on top.
Here is a mix I made in preparation for my gig there this Thursday. I think I’ve done a good job at playing classics that everyone knows, playing out the entire track (well sometimes, but notice that I’m playing 18 tracks in an hour instead of in 30 minutes), and still having fun with a little scratching and looping. I don’t get too crazy with the mixing and there’s a lot of just straight cutting-through to the next track. This is how they like it!
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Photos from the first meeting of our electronic music project (to be named). Featuring Retrospect, Axios, Ryptide, and myself. Future sessions will also include Immanent Voiceless.