SwingDJs

Have you ever encountered a situation were you were given an unreleased recording by an artist as DJ material? Like I've said on the Top 25 thread, I just received a few gigs' worth of live stuff from Jonathan Stout, Josh Collazo, The Dream Team (much of which ended up on the Live at the Lindy Bing...

Have you ever encountered a situation were you were given an unreleased recording by an artist as DJ material? Like I've said on the Top 25 thread, I just received a few gigs' worth of live stuff from Jonathan Stout, Josh Collazo, The Dream Team (much of which ended up on the Live at the Lindy Bing...

Greg Avakian wrote:Is there a ULHS "3 year favs" list in anyone's head?

and by that you mean...?

Ditto on the Shure mics. I think the ones the CSDS had were in the ballpark of $300, but I am not sure because I wasn't around when they were bought. Take good care of them and they will last a long time. be sure to have plenty of 9V batteries on hand. The Shure mics we used at CSDS sucked them dry ...

Campus Five wrote:Wow Drew, thanks for the double nod there. I didn't even know "Every Tub" is floating around out there. I'll have to get you some of our new album.

I received it from Marcelo as payment for renting my PowerBook to record at Showdown. Hence, unreleased.

I spun ORLX on a 1 gHz 12" PowerBook with a factory sound card and a 15GB iPod for cueing, previewing, and backup. DJ-1800 is the DJ app to use if you're on a Mac (and if not, well...that's another thread). Basically it's a Denon DN-1800F setup on your desktop: http://www.musiccitymotion.com/dr...

Last weekend in Orlando was the first National event I have spun since Midwest Lindyfest this past May, but I had a lot of new live material recorded by Marcelo Tesón that was given in exchange for the loan of my 12" PowerBook for the weekend. Anyway, some of this and that which I played this p...

Swing music, or 'Swing' as a noun I think of as the prevailing style of jazz music played from the late 1920s to the early to mid 1940s. It is usually but not always played by a big band ensemble. It is jazz music that is made for dancing. 'Swing' as a verb is the ratio of accented to unaccented not...

I don't really DJ all that much anymore but when I did I was fine with a comp and some travel expenses. But I am doing a lot of graphics/ad/promo/branding work for events like Showdown, MC2, and others. There are plenty of NFP organizations in the scene as well as there are plenty for-profit, but bo...

If it were under those pretenses that I agreed to the gig, then of course I would play it. If the person signing my check gave me a mix CD or a couple of other discs to spin and made an imperative, then I suppose I would fit them in somewhere. If not, I don't carry the stuff in my book, my Powerbook...

No Moon at All- Count Basie, Joe Williams vocal Breakfast Dance and Barbecue

I do think an exchange should reflect the city, or at least the image we would want to project. Currently, we're in the planning stages for KCLX 2005. One of our goals to showcase our city's jazz history and we would like the music to reflect that. That may change for late night venues, but that's ...

i have a friend who refuses to like any artist who did drugs, because they "cheated". needless to say this guy isn't really my friend. Sounds like why a lot of people I went to high school with only listened to Christian music. I take it this guy you know isn't a Swing DJ, because I don't...

My advice - use as many local DJs and bands as you possibly can. Exchanges are really about showing off your scene and providing for your dancers first. Happy locals make happy exchanges. I came in from Minneapolis last year to spin at KCLX because I play lots of Kansas City music and it seemed to ...

Heh. I guess that makes sense, because people in LA only dance to fast big band music.