Offline 17, Thurs 30th June, Dogstar, Brixton FREE

[editor]

Can't make the 28th July (will be at WOMAD ) but if there's an Offline on the last Thursday of August (25th) then that will be my birthday!!!

Yep. It's the last Thursday of every month!

 

[clandestino]

that sounds like a very bad combination.

it's for the best

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

it's for the best

I don't understand...?

Otherwise, thankfully there were no pictures of me making the usual air guitar-playing fuckard of myself on the dancefloor in the Pistols and Jam strand...




*Cringes at the awful, gradual recollection*

 

[Maggot]

........... to a virtually empty room:-
. . . .

as there werent loads of ppl around for my early set . .

To be honest, I don't see the point of having anything on in the back room before about 9.00 as there's never anyone there.[/Constructive criticism]

 

[editor]

To be honest, I don't see the point of having anything on in the back room before about 9.00 as there's never anyone there.

It's not always empty in the back, and some DJs seem to enjoy playing tunes there regardless of how many peeps are there, so I can't see the harm.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

...and it's not as loud as the main room which is a bonus.

 

[William of Walworth]

Birthday Offline!!!

Yep. It's the last Thursday of every month!

Yer all invited

<wonders whether to take the Friday off >

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Blind Lemon does a great version of 'Happy Birthday'

 

[pk]

To be honest, I don't see the point of having anything on in the back room before about 9.00 as there's never anyone there.[/Constructive criticism]

I was chilling to Orang Utan's set in there for a while, it was sweet!

 

[pennimania]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

I wanted to come but I was too tired after Glasto (past it an' all)

I will really try to make WOW's birthday - will be in London then

 

[DJWrongspeed]

it has to be Tshirt of the week>

Live8 comedown

 

[William of Walworth]

Blind Lemon does a great version of 'Happy Birthday'

 

[Xanadu]

If you guys are using a built in package like iTunes, you might find problems. Burn the disc in a proper program like Nero or cdrecord. Use Disc-At-Once mode, and write it at under 4x. Turn off burnproof, and do a test burn instead. If you have burnproof on, and it interupts the CD, you'll get a little click on the audio.

 

[oddworld]

I went to bed too early , now I'm wide awake 2.33 in the morning , most helpful

Cheers Urban for totally upsetting the balance of oddworlds body clock

 

[Xanadu]

Well, do it the xanadu way. Stay up 24 hours, and make an effort to get to sleep when you should be.

At about 9:30pm, I'd start meditating.

 

[Dubversion]

have the vaguest memories of my back room set - some slower oldies, some bessie smith and louis jordan, some rock n roll, 'Who Put The Benzedrine In The Ovaltine', stuff like that.. some gospel too - Dirty Dozen Brass Band.

in the front room, in no order:

The Skatalites - Collie Dub
Charlie Organaire - Royal Charlie
Baba Brooks - Baby Elephant Walk
Lord Creator - Big Bamboo
The Trojans - Lumpi
The Skatalites - Christine Keeler
Black Grass - Nice Up
Butch Cassidy Sound Syatem - Rudi
The Specials - Do Nothing
Manasseh - Skanga
2 Bad Card - Mentally Ska'ed
Mungo Hi Fi & Ishu (yes, that Ishu) - Belly Ska
J.S.T.A.R.S. - Loose Nuke Threat..

 

[the B]

Oh yes there is.

iPods are not welcome! (unless they're there as an emergency back up for CDs)

Vinyl - YES!
CDs - YES!
Box with ten zillion compressed songs - NO!

What about using an iPod to play uncompressed songs...?

Or a laptop.

 

[editor]

What about using an iPod to play uncompressed songs...?

Call me old fashioned if you like, but I like to see DJs who have had to put some thought into their set and carefully selected the tunes for the evening rather than just carting along ten zillion tunes.

And - let's be honest - they're almost going to be compressed if they're on an iPod.

If I was putting the event on in, say, New York, where the DJs had to travel miles it would be a different story, but seeing as the sets are only ever 30-60 mins long, it's not too much to ask that some effort go into the preparation, no?

 

[Blagsta]

It could be argued though that carrying lots of music gives greater creative freedom to a DJ, enabling them to develop the set in many differing directions, depending on the mood of the night.

 

[editor]

It could be argued though that carrying lots of music gives greater creative freedom to a DJ, enabling them to develop the set in many differing directions, depending on the mood of the night.

Zillions of DJs in the past seem to have managed to do all that without having ten billion records on hand.

I mean, most Offline sets are around 40 minutes - even the weakest DJ should have no problem carrying enough records/CDs to cover every conceivable mood for that short length of time!

For me, part of the fun - and the challenge - of DJing is working out what records to bring along beforehand.