SwingDJs

npr always plays great song snippets between news stories. i 1st heard of the band 'morphine' when i was listening to npr in the mid 90s. they reviewed their 1st album 'good' and played a track or 2. based on the review i saw the band for the 1st time in a small room at amherst college with about 60...

Hi Rayned, Did the Hooked On Swing Society in Northampton, Mass ever get a hold of you? I know they were trying to confirm with you whether or not you'd be able to come up for a Saturday dance for djing & possibly workshops. I do West Coast Swing in the D.C. area on occasion so they asked me to ...

Bob, I know I can't make everyone happy, jeez, I have to play wcs, ecs, & lindy and keep everyone dancing. I usually succeed at that. I've come up with a good rotation that seems to keep most people on the floor. Fortunately there are enough crossover wcs/lindy tunes or crossover ecs/lindy tunes...

Hi, I haven't posted in a while. I dj a crossover WCS/ECS/Lindy dance in Massachusetts. We have a lot of colleges in the area so on occasion we have open houses to try to get new blood into the scene. Inevitably the new kids in their mid-late teens will ask for 'Zoot Suit Riot' or 'Sing, Sing, Sing'...

thanks for the suggestions. i'll check those programs out. do you know if they let you normalize by either peak levels or average levels? you're suppposed to normalize by average levels because a song might have a quick section with a very high peak and if you normalize the songs based on that one h...

does anyone know of a decent website that explains normalizing music? at the dances i dj, i play lindy, west coast, east coast, hustle, cha-cha, 2-step, etc. i make a lot of the cds i use for djing. the varied music has quite a range of dynamic levels so i trying to make my cds at a reasonably close...

Here are a few waltz's that I play when I get a request for one. The Bjork song is a waltz & lindy hop/foxtrot. She goes back and forth between 3/4 time and 4/4 time. Its a fun song. Natural Woman: Aretha Franklin Cold: Annie Lenox Kiss From A Rose: Seal Body & Soul: Anita Baker If You Don't...

At the beginning of this topic someone was looking for some recommended Monk albums. Here's a few of my favorites. I dj'ed a jazz show when I was in college on the school's radio station. My love of jazz & blues is what got me into swing dancing in all of it's various forms, west coast, east coa...

here's a decent mix of older and contemporary music that i play for hustle. the dance scene in my area does a mix of west coast, east coast, lindy, & hustle. Best of My Love, The Emotions Vogue, Madonna Brick House, Commodores Jungle Boogie, Kool & the Gang Bust a Move, Young MC Play that Fu...