Leftwing & Kody - You Were (Original Mix)

Heard this a few months back, there is a lot of quality deeper stuff which is coming mainstream in recent weeks and months - will be trying to get as much of that into my upcoming promo mix later this month.

As I alluded to on my Facebook page earlier this week, I intend to do three promo sets (of sorts) this month, one will be my usual monthly promo mix, consisting of the newest cuts as well as some classic stuff from the past few years and beyond.  Another mix will consist of some of my all-time favourite old skool garage and house (almost summery!) - and the last one will be a DnB mix as requested by quite a few of my friends and colleagues at work!!!

Looking forward to it massively!

Robosonic - The Edge

Believe it or not - I only found the name of this tune at my illfated birthday gig at the start of last month.  Suspect this could be in my next monthly promo mix later this month!

Reaky - Kata

This is fucking sick – proper techno in my eyes!!!

Where Are We Now?

First things first, an apology.

When starting this blog, the idea was to try and post not every day but certainly two or three times a week which I haven't been doing. Just been the case of being too busy with other stuff.

Last night, I started my new night, which we are calling 'Saturday Sessions'. The only reason why I called it that was purely because it was the first thing that came to mind!!! The thinking is to try and cater for the wide spectrum of people that we have, drinking and socialising at Rokanrolla and so to try and mix it up every week.

So last night we started the night with some charty commercial shite - followed by a good 45 minutes of 80s and Disco - followed by a good hour and a half of commercial house, dance and some old skool Garage - though I think next week, I'm gonna try and get some club mixes of stuff by Ne-Yo, Lady Gaga and Pitbull. I think you know where I'm going there! We then moved things on for a bit - going up and down the genres - playing some stuff that I wanted to like Daft Punk's new anthem 'Get Lucky' and ended the night with some classic trance.

The most important thing was to keep the crowd in - which on the whole we did - certainly more people in there on Saturday at any one period than I can remember for any single band before last night - though I could be wrong!!!

And I got £50 from last night, which has been duly spent on upgrading Traktor Pro to Scratch to compliment the Numark TTs and more importantly the Traktor A6 that I recently bought for that purpose and to plug into mixers in other clubs so I don't need to be lugging around my VMS4!

A good night all in all.

Traktor Audio Sorted. I Think!!!

After much pissing about these past few weeks we've finally got the A6 sorted in regards of removing any pops, crackles and drop outs.

The main issue is that the A6 is on a automatic latency setting of 256 samples - whereas the advice is for those running MacBooks is 512 samples - though if you're running time code you might want to go for a lower setting.

Now although I'm upgrading to Traktor Scratch - this is more of a case of wanting the option to use Turntables or if needs be the system down the Priz here in Folkestone as and when I'm needed to do any early sets down there in the coming months. Hopefully sooner than later!!

As for the general set up - we have two RCA outputs connected to the VMS4
so we can still use the XLR speakers to hear out. The sound is fabulous - very much noticeable in comparison to the American Audio ASIO sound card of the VMS4.

Gonna be testing this down RokanRolla tomorrow night from 8pm. Hoping that its noticeable there. Should be!!!

Social Life Issues

With having to devote so much time away from work - that's the day job - to preparing upcoming sets I am starting to worry that my social life is beginning to not look as good as it did previously.

Of course now I'm living on my own, my social life is as important than never before.

I wonder what other DJ's do with this issue. It's gotta be difficult.

Perhaps that's just one of the pitfalls of DJing.

The Mash!!!

I've been doing quite a few bootlegs or Mash-Ups to those of us in the game for the last few years - but its only been since I've started playing out live that I've started to explore this aspect a lot further. DJs are not getting gigs now purely for their technical ability to be able to mix two tracks together - but for what else they bring to the party!

Having just about got used to using Ableton for this purpose now - I am enjoying being able to mix two, three or in the case of one particular mash-up I'm doing for my forthcoming birthday set - five remixes of the same song - and it does open up a whole different aspect to the art of DJing and how to get the crowd going.