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April 25, 2005
In The Future, Everyone Will DJ For 15 Minutes
I'm still gonna try to write my, um, "coming soon" After-Chill 2005 wrapup at some point in the next week or two, but last week was a little too action-packed and this week isn't looking any different. More about that in a minute. First, so that I can clear my blogging palate, here's a brief rundown of last week's "extracurricular activities that I will never get around to posting about in more detail":
- Out Hud at Local 506 (1 thumb down. And the !!! vocalist really needs to zip it.)
- Dizzee Rascal at Cat's Cradle (2 thumbs up, Dylan spits the fire. Totally nang, mayn!)
- UNC Habitat 5K run (later measured to only be about 4.5 K, no wonder 19:57 seemed way too good to be true)
- Sureshot at The Federal (probably my last or second-to-last Saturday night there, at least for a while)
I've often used this weblog as a means to promote various nights/parties at which I'm DJ-ing. And actually, I will briefly do it again right now....'cause I would love to see a big turnout at the combination dance party/Kerbloki show that's going down this Thursday April 28th at Wetlands Dancehall (formerly The Treehouse). Please come out and help me establish a new DJ-ing foothold in The Wetlands!
UPDATE: Here's a cool Kerbloki mp3 (2.75 MB) that I found on the Bifocal Media site. It's an instrumental and not at all similar to Kerbloki's hilariously awesome live show, but way worth listening to nonetheless...
But the rest of this post is not me blathering on and on in an attempt to get people to come out to one of my own DJ appearances, but rather the complete inverse: an open invitation to anyone in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill metro area to load up their MP3 player and come be an MP3J in front of a live audience. This Tuesday night at The Federal, we're doing the second local installment of noWax Night, a growing worldwide phenomenon in which the iPod-bearing masses are invited to take over selector duties in small bite-sized increments.
If you want to participate in this mass democratization of DJing, simply load up your iPod (or Jukebox/Zen/Shuffle/whatever) with enough choice cuts for a 15 minute set. Bring it to The Federal this Tuesday night. Sign-up begins at 9:30, and once you sign up for a time slot, you're good to go. The audience will help determine the best sets, and the winners will be getting some pretty choice prizes: Federal gift certificates, expensive iPod accessories from Digital Lifestyle Outfitters, good stuff like that.
Anyone who likes music and has an MP3 player can join in (and if you don't have an MP3 player, I heard you can get a free Shuffle pretty easily). Duke's infamously iPod-blessed Class of 2008 will be finishing up classes the very next day, so hopefully a few of them will come out and "spin" instead of sitting at home getting oh-so-psyched up to see Collective Soul play Duke's annual LDOC concert the next day (no, I'm not kidding, click the link!). If they don't, and if we somehow don't wind up with enough people to fill up all the slots, I'm going to have to break out my new Shuffle and just let it take over with some randomness. And trust me, I think The Federal could probably use a break from me and my tunes...
Posted by Tim at April 25, 2005 12:46 PM
Comments
Dang... I'll be out of town this tues. Please have more noWax events! I promise not to "spin" my "talk radio" sytle podcasst. Strickly the booty shakn' head bobbn' tunes from me.
Posted by: Brian R. at April 25, 2005 02:22 PM
There's another noWax Night tentatively scheduled for Tuesday, May 24th. And while talk-oriented podcasts might be a little out of place, any sort of music is fair game. As I told the staff of WXYC when emailing them about this event:
"Although it can be, the stuff you play certainly doesn't have to be the beat-centric music traditionally associated with club DJs (dance, hip-hop, electronic, dancehall, funk, etc.)....you can totally play Big Black, the Beach Boys, Billie Holliday, Tuvan throat singing, Steve Reich, whatever."
Last night people did seem to favor the hip-hop, though. Put people in a DJ booth in front of a mixer and I guess the beat tendencies just come out!
Posted by: Tim at April 27, 2005 08:28 PM
that sounded soo cool, tim. i wish i could have gone. i wondered how that would turn out, giving the audience so much power. did many 'XYCers drop phat tunes?
Posted by: yonni at April 28, 2005 01:13 AM
Actually, no XYCers dropped any tunes....I suspect that the chance to play a few tunes in bar is not as appealing to someone who already has their own 2-hour radio show.
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at April 28, 2005 12:48 PM
So what was the winning set? I liked your primer set with the Dino Jr tune. I also like the idea of straying from normal crowd pleasers, though I wonder how well Big Black's version of "He's a whore" would go over with the Federal crowd.
I need to drag Jenn to the Apple store this weekend!
Posted by: Paul at April 29, 2005 09:23 AM