SwingDJs

Thanks Surreal!

djstarr wrote:just say no. Probably one of the stranger things about being in Australia in 80 degree heat and hearing Jingle Bells in the supermarket!!!!

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=WAS63tWVu94]

I've discovered my favourite new christmas song:

http://www.last.fm/music/C.W.+Stoneking ... istmas+Day

I guess the question can be broken down into a few more to follow on from what others have said: Does New Testament Basie have a swung rhythm? Most of it does, though I feel it doesn't swing as much as Old Testament Basie. Is it good music to swing dance to? Again, most of it is ok to dance to but I...

yeah, let's hope those mad scientists don't create the first AI DJ computer that can pass the Turing test for dancer requests! haha <below is a dramatization> DJ Shuffle: Hello, my name is Dee Jay and I am a swing DJ. dancer: hey, can you play some 'real' swing music? DJ Shuffle: I am a swing DJ. d...

If shuffle could do as good or better job than we could then well...

There would be no swing djs.

Not for individual songs though if you were really nuts you could set up some crazy thing with different settings in a number of zones to achieve different pauses with different songs.

Hmmm, JRiver has a setting that lets you do this but I can't recall anything similar in Itunes.

Some people have made up some mp3 tracks of silence for this purpose which you can que up. There should be something like this floating around the interwebz somewhere.

Wow this thread's gotten complicated. I've been doing some workshops this weekend with some out of town teachers (well out of the county in fact) and it dawned on me: How do you tell when you're really playing the right stuff for classes? The same way when you're dj'ing an event - people come up to ...

I agree with Surreal and Mr.E You don't want anything too complex or "musical", nothing to fast or too slow (a window of 120-150BPM depending on what they're working on getting up to 170 if you want to "speed" things up). The music needs to be clear (so old scratchies are out) an...

I actually got these headphones before DJ'ing perked my interest. My opinion is, if you love your music you need a good pair of headphones. Headphones should be portable so they should be able to stand up to a little bit of roughish treatment but if you mistreat them, obviously they ain't going to l...

I use a pair of Sennheiser 515's. Expensive but they are durable as anything. I've had them for more than 4 years now and they still sound like a dream.

I mainly use earbuds when I do the DJ thing though - they're a little bit bulky when you take into account the rest of the gear I carry.

Never heard that one. But that would be really really hard. Not only would you need to "beat match" a swung rhythm but you'd also need to get the timing right. You know how that old joke goes. I ring up the jazz club and ask "How late's the band?" and the answer I get back is &qu...

Toon Town Dave wrote:
For every Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me, we need 10 of some less interesting tunes to get the same utility.

Yep. There's a reason why that's overplayed (though I guess I'm crossing back into the original thread now.

I'm not suprised you haven't heard of most of those songs. No swing DJ who has even half a brain would dare play most of them (apart from that damn shim sham song - which I have decided to boycott. I will now only shim sham to another of the shim sham songs). The people who play that sort of music f...