SwingDJs

You can get a 500GB laptop hard drive for $100 (see here ). Why not just upgrade your laptop's storage and solve the problem entirely? I will preach until the end of time that having an external drive at a gig is a bad, bad, bad idea. I've seen them get unplugged mid-set, dropped, kicked, knocked of...

I think that varying tempo and style and not playing a boring set is a different issue from feeling like you have to play music you don't really enjoy to keep the dancers happy. (Unless, of course, you only like one style and tempo of music, which would be kind of sad since there's so much awesome m...

I often look forward to DJing so that I can play some exciting new music I've just found. When I do play it, the reaction is often disappointing. So I find myself reverting to playing music I'm not as enthusiastic about myself, but which goes down better. Is the style that you enjoy listening to re...

falty411 wrote:i dont think that keeping people dancing and only buying music you like have to be mutually exclusive ideas

The hell you say!

Well, it was a busy holiday season and I didn't get the chance to announce episode #5. If you haven't had a listen, sure, it's a little late for 2009, but there's nothing wrong with starting the year with a little reminiscing. Arriving just in time for the holiday, here’s December’s episode of Confe...

I think I got mine (Echo Indigo DJx) for around $200. Worth every penny.

Arriving a few days late (due to the holiday), November’s episode of Confessing The Blues is out. We try to do a “short” episode and instead spend quite a few minutes addressing audience feedback. We’ve also got some new tracks for you and a couple of fun novelty tracks that are blues influenced.

I can legally download equally great songs at less than $0.99/track... Again, I appreciate the work that Glenn is doing, and the samples are indeed awesome, but it's not like Swing DJing is paying my bills, let alone paying for itself. My guess is that the number of sales would double if the price c...

Episode #3 of Confessing The Blues is out! (Better Nate than lever, I say!) This month, we’ve got new music for you to check out, more events to go to, a feature on Austin record label Dialtone Records, a discussion about jump blues, full tracks from Jonno Zilber and Little Joe Washington, and all i...

Even $2 off $17.50 is still pretty steep for a single disc.

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In Austin, the Syndicate pays $15/hour of playtime at the weekly gig. The instructors teaching the intro classes also receive $15/hr. Door staff gets $10/hr.

Episode #2 is now available at http://www.confessingtheblues.com/ ! This month, we’ve got new music for you to check out, more events to go to, an interview with DJ Heather Adams, a track from Solomon Douglas, a feature on early female blues vocalists, discussion about the intersection of jazz and b...

Hey folks, [Please feel free to move this post into the correct forum. I couldn't figure out if it was more appropriate here or in the "Other Music" forum.] I just wanted to announce that DJ Jonathan Pechon (Dallas, TX) and I have started a monthly blues music podcast similar to Hey Mr. Je...

A lot of older tracks hard pan instruments to one side or the other. If you're working with a stereo PA, you can lose instruments as you move across the room. All of the PAs I set up run mono.