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by jmatthew
Fri Mar 12, 2004 6:46 pm
Forum: DJ Skillz
Topic: Advice for DJ'ing a mixed dance venue?
Replies: 13
Views: 11702

Around here we generally toss West Coast, Hustle and Nightclub into the "club" category.
by jmatthew
Fri Mar 12, 2004 12:00 pm
Forum: DJ Skillz
Topic: Advice for DJ'ing a mixed dance venue?
Replies: 13
Views: 11702

Advice for DJ'ing a mixed dance venue?

I found out I'm "inheriting" a weekly dance at the end of summer, which is neat, but it's a general ballroom dance, with a mix of swing, club, latin and smooth dances. I've DJ'd this event twice before, once as a pure swing event (went really really well) and once as a mixed event (kind of...
by jmatthew
Mon Mar 01, 2004 3:32 pm
Forum: DJ Skillz
Topic: On Demand
Replies: 53
Views: 41706

i'm unclear on whether the bands mentioned are flowing _tempo_ or not.* i've never noticed a band going from slow to medium to fast to very fast and then back down, or repeating the cycle, but maybe that's just a matter of the bands that i tend to hear live. Duke Heitger's band played two slow drag...
by jmatthew
Tue Feb 03, 2004 5:03 am
Forum: Tech Talk
Topic: Your next computer: the quality of copied files
Replies: 14
Views: 11252

I think what he meant was that every time you go from a wave to an MP3 you get loss. So if you burn your CD to your hard driven, then make burn a CD, your 2nd CD sounds worse than your first. Then, if for some reason, you get rid of the file on your hard drive, and make an MP3 from the 2nd CD, which...
by jmatthew
Sat Jan 31, 2004 5:32 pm
Forum: DJ Skillz
Topic: Establishing yourself...or maybe "breaking in"?
Replies: 23
Views: 18925

Establishing yourself...or maybe "breaking in"?

So, my question is, any tips for establishing oneself as an actual DJ versus "random guy with music that's willing to try to keep the crowd happy"? I've done two events so far, both of which went really well, kept the floor pretty full except for a few songs that were specifically aimed at...