Why do I care?

Why do I care about the way it looks? Well when I’ve DJ’d at some places before I’ve used CDJs and people come up and say that it doesn’t look right, where’s the decks and vinyl? So that’s why I now think about how it looks to a crowd/audience/my friends/me. If you said I’m a [...]

Fatboy has been looping for years…hasn’t he?!

Oh yeah that’s what I was gonna say… for years producers who DJ – I think primarily of Fatboy Slim coz I’ve just been listening to him – have made their beats with a specific view of playing them on vinyl in a club environment. The stuff many pro DJs play on vinyl, and I’m [...]

bored and thinking about Ableton setup

After using Ableton for about 3 months now I can safely say that it’s a fantastic tool for DJs and producers alike, probably more so for the former. The reason I say that is because it’s more of a user friendly effects driven kind of programme that you can load loops or songs into and [...]

Note to self

Playing Windowlicker by Aphex Twin doesn’t make you eclectic
Playing Billie Jean by Michael Jackson does not make you a DJ
Playing Back to Black by ACDC does not make you rock
Playing a theme tune from popular 80s or 90s TV has been done but it’s still fun
Pop bands can’t DJ - it’s marketing
Calvin Harris did not invent disco [...]

Seb Ingrosso and the Pacemaker

You should check out the Pacemaker Sebastian Ingrosso video on the Pacemaker website, it’s well funny. The way those two dance is brilliant. The Pacemaker is an mp3 player with built in DJing and effects capabilities really cool I reckon but only for people that can afford to just splash out the cash. Not much [...]

Dead as a DJ

For a while now I’ve looked at DJs, especially those playing in most bars and clubs around town, and asked myself the question, “Why are you bothering????” For the most part they aren’t doing anything new or remotely responsive to the industry today. There are audio-visual technologies around that have the ability to blow audiences [...]

HEY Erol! Where’d you get that name from!?!

Me and GT went to Fabric in London for the first time on Friday night and much fun was had. Watched some electro band called Kill em all, they were ok. They were on just before Erol Alkan and I spent most of their set watching Erol set up and organise his stuff.
At one point [...]