I like to explain what having a DJ International PROMO record label that has never been thermo-adhered to a record means to me, but unless you were part of the acid house era you would never understand. It is one of my prized possessions. In the right circles I could get a fair bit of coin for it. But it will never ever leave me. It would be one ( Read more... )

i think the latest handpicked dub set Eric Esposito did, which I drove up to greenville SC to record, could be some of the sickest dub biscuits I have ever heard. seriously minimal with love, but dark edges and synthetic in all the right places. Will post it soon, and if you sleep on it, shame on you.

you know those ads that you see on web pages that are sort of auto-populated with keywords from your search history or whatever? i found it kind of funny that one on my myspace was advertising to "Learn Minimal Tech" so I clicked it and holy crap they are actually teaching a course in how to program minimal techno. They namedrop hawtin and ( Read more... )

don't even have time to think at work...sooooo busy. thats a good thing i guess.
nostalgia sort of hurts sometimes, because you can't go back, you can only wish.

i miss my records
all of them

if I could change anything, I would have never sold a single piece of vinyl from my collection

Every once in a while someone will go out of their way to get in touch with me about a mix I made in 1996. I sold a few of the tapes packaged up with covers that said "ambient jungle" but on the tapes themselves I wrote "digitalistic", which is always what folks ask for. The thing about this tape is..it has some of the most dodgy mixing I have ever ( Read more... )

If I had to do the whole djing thing over again, I probably would have went with the good ol boring first and last name as a "dj name". Its a very practical way to get it done.

Some folks make a high freakin art out of dj names though.
My favorite ones ever are:
Muppetfucker
Panties The Clown
Duran Duran Duran
John Break It Down

records

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Heres is how NOT to get things done:

1. make to do list the evening before first of four days off work
2. misplace list until last few hours of said four days

No worries though...I still got things done...just not the things on the list.

Today I found a flier for the first gig I ever dj'ed. My name is not on the flier.

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I'm thinking about getting the Torq software and one the little hardware controllers. This one is only like 130dolleros and you can download a stripped down version of the dj software for free. Any of you guys have experience with Torq?

i used
to mix

( crazy kids and their techno thuimping ecstacy parties )

( making the last night on the road count )