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About the most editing I usually do is to edit long intros or monologues out of a live track. I have chopped a couple of medleys into managable pieces if it seemd that there was a good place to divide something, but I'd have to agree that if you're cutting and pasting and re-shuffling too much then ...

LindyChef wrote:... it was funny at the beginning of the night because a bunch of DJs and instructors got in early and front-loaded the juke box with some really good music.

Guilty. We deployed a small 'taskforce' with about $20 in quarters. It worked well, by in large.

I had a nice long listen to a lot of these recordings. Very interesting. Especially some of the recordings of minstrel routines, you can practically hear the blackface.

I also usually start with fairly "boring" material (to me), but material that I know the majority of dancers will like and find easy to dance to. Take any of the "mega hit" classics from the last 5 years and play them during the beginning of your sets. LCO's C-jam blues will pro...

That's a really good point. I find that sometimes it's easy to focus too much on playing for other djs or dance cognoscenti and forget to play for beginners and regular dancers. Sometimes it is just amazing how much those two groups can be so diametrically opposed in taste. By way of anecdote: I re...

Whether you think swapping tunes is good or bad, clearly ripping your stuff w/o your consent is low. Yeah, this same scenario has happened to me a couple of times with some local college-aged DJ's . . . kind of heinous, especially because one of the CD's that got copied was a local hot jazz ensembl...

Unfortunately OGG is not supported by the iPod, which is why I won't be using it any time soon. AAC, on the other hand, is. As I said earlier, there is no DRM issue at all with using AAC unless you are buying from ITMS anyway... Yes . . I use nothing apple-related so it's not an issue for me, but f...

I recently switched over to OGG and am very happy with the decision. The quality and storage space is absolutely as good as AAC (which I used for a while but got turned off to because of compatibility and DRM issues). OGG is still not as universally readable as MP3, but many major players do recogni...

You know I always have issues with how to advertize myself, too. Mostly because I tend towards self-deprication and am weary of writing anything that makes me sound too much like the shit for fear that people will expect to have some sort of transformative experience. I also hate giving references t...

There is a really great 1957 blue version by Sidney Bechet off the Jazz at Storyville album. Even if you never DJ it, listen to it.

--Kelly

i can believe that recording session would be the atomic unit since that was a hurdle i encountered on this round of re-ripping my collection. I didn't use recording session numbers per se, but recording dates because that was the easiest approach to resolving duplicates. That's how I'm resolving t...

Nice thread! I'm actually going to be DJ'ing a tribute to Sidney Bechet this upcoming Tuesday in Detroit.

I would add "Blue Horizon" to the list-- (available on Sidney Bechet 1941-1944 [1996-Chronological Classics])

So this is my first actual post to Swing DJ's . . I've been a lurker forever. This is the one dance/music related forum that I could possibly get hopelessly addicted to, so I've stayed away thus far to avert the inevitable. Anyway . . I am coming to you because I have started the massive project of ...