ask Dan Selzer!

also good luck with your move, i live on the woodside-astoria border but (i think?) you are really close to where my friend shannon just moved AND ALSO some awesome delicious food places.

People, Sunnyside is just cross the creek from Greenpoint. Move to Queens already. Brooklyn is over. Done. They're trying to rent my apt for 1750$!!!!

LEAVING BROOKLYN SALE

471 HUMBOLDT ST (BTWN FROST AND RICHARDSON)
SUNDAY JUNE 18TH @ NOON

CHEAP
DRESSERS
DESKS
SHELVES

VERY CHEAP (maybe even free…)
VHS COLLECTION
CD RACK
BOOKS
RECORDS
MAGAZINES
FEATHER BOAS
BELTS / ACCESSORIES

NEVER USED
CANDLES
STATIONARY
TOYS
OTHER GIFT ITEMS

xoL

Nicole lives on Humboldt. I'm over there plenty. And Rebecca lived around the corner, and Jen Blk, Gabe. Everyone lives over there.

DJing is stupid. But we do it. You know why? Because....

a) Sometimes the sound is good and you get to play your records at incredibly loud volumes

b) Sometimes everyone has the best time in their life and with a flick of the switch or the turn of a knob, 100s, dozens, or just a few people scream at the top of their lungs because they've never had such fun and you feel so powerful to cause this reaction even though all you did was turn up the volume.

c) Sometimes girls you've never seen before walk up to you and say nice things.

That about sums it up.

pizza parlor
record store backroom performance space
hipster bar
house party
yuppie booze cruise
loft that normally hosts noise dude performances

serious inquiry. thank you.

i could play 'white soul' (whatever that is) all night and get away with it on a yuppie booze cruise. plus, open water...mmmm.

noise dude loft spaces (i'm sure) and house parties are often the best places, but a yuppie booze cruise? that'd be totally fucking awesome! i guess that i think mainly of aging yuppies, though, and one could just play tons of soul and funk and disco and they'd dig it, especially if the bar was stacked.

OTM. hearing mike s. blast maximum joy's stretch is an entirely different experience than playing it at home. particularly the screams.

what use are they? i can see how radio DJs could have used them but it doesnt seem like collectors would go for them and i dont see how a live DJ could pass off someone elses mix as their own.

in your experience, will a crowd of indie kids who are, let's say, less educated in the ways of the dahnce musics be more forgiving of crap mixing? I figure if the tunes are good enough I miiiiight be able to get away with it on saturday night with no practice. am I deluding myself?

u feel me,

those songs are Common People by Pulp, Since You've Been Gone by Kelly Clarkson, and that's it.

though good mixing always makes it easier to keep people dancing.

in that ongoing and idiotic debate about beatmatching, people seem to forget that it just makes the transition less jarring. It's really not complicated. But it's not like you're gonna fool them into dancing to something they don't like. If you've got that crowd who only wants to hear what they know and love, it doesn't matter how smoothly you mix Blue Monday into soon as they realize it ain't Blue Monday, it's back to the seats for them.

But if you really trainwreck, you can ruin the party for anyone who wants a little more then a jukebox, I mean I've been dancing to my favorite song and it trainwrecks into another favorite song and been forced to stop dancing, because the beats are all fucked, you know?

If you can't beatmatch, DON'T play both songs at the same time, quickly fade from one to another. Or quickly fade the first one out then immediately start the next one. Or even better, have the second record cued up and spinning but held in place, at a good moment on the first record, just hit the stop button. Wait 1 second. Let go of second record.

hahaha oh shit. at least I have a few versions of 'blue monday'!

robble at Steve Shasta

Telling you the tempo and locking it in isn't relevant, just try DJing with songs that have live drummers that speed up and slow down during the song. Only Ableton Live I think can handle that.

Are you talking about something where Traktor has different outputs so you can use the real mixer, or mixing in the computer? I don't think I'd be a big fan of mixing in the computer. So much of djing involves too many things to have to move 1 mouse pointer around. With you're left hand your manual speeding up or slowing down a turntable while with your right hand you're fading one up and the other down, that's 3 functions at once, how do you do that in the computer?

I'm ready to switch to CDJs...they have the feel of vinyl, which I like, but CDs don't weigh as much as records.

-- jäxøñ (jaso...), Yesterday 10:28 PM. (jaxon)

dude, i first heard this 2 weeks ago! I am a pop-laggard.

I MEAN...

WHO WANTS A COUCH?

FREE COUCH.

Big. Brown. Corduroy. Totally vintage.

Someone has to come take it next week.