Since people seem to always be asking me or around the boards generally for dance music, I thought I’d provide a little…
As some of you may or may not know, I do some DJ gigs on the side, mainly for fun, occassionally to pull in a few bucks. Lately I’ve actually been getting some decent gigs, so I’ve decided to start recording my sets. Both for my own record and to use as demo tapes for other gig offers. So I’ve put up the part of the gig I did last Friday (including a couple mistakes I made ogm!) on an FTP server for anyone here who wants to log in and grab the set. The run time is 73:50, just enough to fit onto a 74 minute CD if you like. I DJ mainly harder stuff…techno, minimal, electro…should be plenty of music in there you’ve never heard before. The quality is not perfect, as it was recorded straight from the preamp to my laptop…but it’s at least internet radio quality. If you want, go ahead and log into the FTP server at
I’ll leave it up a couple of days. The IP shouldn’t change, but if for some reason I get disconnected, I’ll update the IP addy here. After that, if you are still interested, just hit me up on AIM or ICQ or IRC or whatever. I’ll be recording future sets as well, so if you need a fix, feel free to ask if I’ve got anything new. In case you’re curious, here is the set listing…though you could just log into the FTP server to find it out…
I use the Denon DN-D6000 Decks with a Numark DXM-03 Digital Preamp/Mixer. I used to use just plain old SL1200s, which I bought back in high school…but I never really amassed a decent collection of vinyl. First of all, Chicago is not a great town to buy records in, surprisingly, especially for the kind of music I spin. Compared to this record shop I stopped in when I was in Cologne, Germany (amazing collection of techno), nothing here even comes close to comparing. That and I never had the motivation to go digging for records. So I finally just sold them when I got back from Paris and decided to go CD, and so far I’ve been very happy with it.
Here’s a few pics of the setup. For some reason, I only have a pic of all the crap thrown together in my extremely small room and not in action…but whatever.
While i’m not the biggest fan of electronic music, it’s always good to see someone being involved in it… whether it’s making it, performing it, or uhh DJing it? I don’t know the proper term.
no way, it has to be the envelopes. we all know that zeppelin is involved in an underground mail order pornography ring, and what else is he going to mail the profits in?
To say Chicago isn’t a good city to DJ because its not Cologne would be like saying San Francisco is not a good city for Japanese food because its not Tokyo. Truth be told, Chicago (birthplace of House) is one of the better cities for DJs in the country. Maybe not as good as NYC or LA or Seattle, but was better than Albuquerque, Phoenix, Houston, or Las Vegas…four cities where records are easilly available.
ADD: Just googling record store and Chicago, I found 100s of hits.
