Wednesday, May 25, 2005
Djing For The Pungent Bros, June 2 @ Stones Place
Physical State: achey
Mental State: crabby
Music: New Order - Blue Monday at the same time as Depeche Mode - Get The Balance Right (practicing my beatmatching again)
Fashion sense: white t-shirt, jeans
Yes it's no cover, nada, FREE! Come check out the Pungent Bros and The Slime Dogs and hear me spinning some tunes before, between and after. Stones Place is in Parkdale at 1255 Queen St. West. Let's hope that I can use some of these new skills I've been practicing, bound to be lots of great tunes.
Above I mentioned beatmatching with two different tracks. I am amazed at how hard a skill this really is when you're a dj. You pick two songs that have similar tempos and have to overlay one into another. You use the pitch control on a dj cd player or turntable (those buttons that go from minus 8 to plus 8) to keep them in sync as you crossfade. I'm practicing with a software called Disco that I downloaded from the net which basically emulates a Denon DND 4000. I have a lot of respect for how club djs can perform seamless transitions from one song to another, in sync. It's very hard to do believe me. I've also been reading this excellent book called How To DJ Right: The Art and Science of Playing Records by Frank Broughton and Bill Brewster which is like a guidebook to club djing. Very interesting.
