SwingDJs

Posted in the other thread - several people mentioned Blossom Dearie, but nobody mentioned the specific French language numbers from her CD: Blossom Dearie's French tunes: Comment Allez Vous (kind of on the slow side) Tout Doucemont ("groove" medium tempo) Also - there was mention about th...

Blossom Dearie's French tunes:

Comment Allez Vous (kind of on the slow side)
Tout Doucemont ("groove" medium tempo)

Hang ... If you must go with a "non-traditional/rock or hip-hop oriented sound", check out Outkast's new Idlewild album (you can download it or any cuts you like on it from iTunes). Outkast has largely succeeded at what most of the neo-swing bands from the 1990's tried to accomplish - but ...

Cyrano - what you were using in that 1996 sound board was what you get if you set the board to "FM Synthesis" ... basically the same thing that the old Moog synthesizer did. Every FM synthesis voice is "built" using sine waves, triangle waves and square waves. What you get never ...

put this in the wrong thread ... forget I was here

Jake wrote:Lavey Smith is the hot.

Some years back Lavay Smith played a gig in Madison and posed with my son and I for a photo - her in low cut gown, so the photo shows my son, me, Lavay ... and the eighth and ninth wonders of the world!

Trivia (while we are on the subject of mechanical reproduction). The ULTIMATE piano reproducing technology, the Welte-Mignon Reproducing Piano. Actually "Welte-Mignon" is short for some VERY long German word that roughly means "stands in front of a piano and plays it". The device...

Cyrano .. Single cable jack from audio out to jack into audio in connection for capture? That simple? Can these boards play MIDI and capture at the same time? (In other words, have you tried this at home?) It would be great if it's that simple. I've never asked my soundboard if it's into the autoero...

Thanks, Eyeball! Keep this up and you will be right up there with Jesse Miner in my list of "favorite other DJs ot plagarize playlists from"! :) I got most of my existing GM stuff off CDs that were laying around the UW-Swing/Jumptown library for years and haven't really started doing my ow...

Because I've long had a fascination with reproducing pianos, band organs and other mechanical instruments, I am a fan of MIDI ... as a concept and technology. But, DAMN! I have to go along with the observation that 99% of the MIDI stuff out there on the web is TOTAL CRAP. You need a license to drive...

tornredcarpet: For Chick Webb, I've had very good luck with the stuff on this compilation CD: Strictly Jive (HEP records - CD 1063, made in UK 1999). I think I got it through Amazon. As to getting other stuff - have you tried iTunes? They have a great search feature. I've found all kinds of stuff th...

You can narrow down the pack of wannabe DJs by giving preference to: * people who want regular slots with the understanding the this is a committment, not a "do it when it's convenient" thing. * people who don't want/get regular slots but agree to be "on call" and available with ...

A lot depends on the type of crowd you have. Here in Madison we just had to change venues and our Wednesday "bar venue" night immediately follows a West Coast Swing dance, requiring a gradual transition to higher tempos. After about a half your of low to mid-tempo numbers the fast stuff st...

Some common things done occasionally here in Madison: Snowball (Start with once couple on the floor. DJ calls "Snowball" periodically and each dancer on the floor has to pull someone onto the dance floor, doubling the number of dancers until you get everyone dancing). This a good way to ge...

I haven't seen the movie in a few years but I recall Bojangles on a stage with a train doing about half a song or so, then the camera zooms (pans?) back revealing Cab's Orchestra in front of the stage with a bunch of tap/jazz dancers. The Cab Calloway scene is the finale/highlight of the movie (occ...