March
2007
dj bakasan - March 26, 2007
Indy with a jiggy twist at the end.
Brother Ali - Truth Is DJ Jazzy Jeff ft Rhymefest - Jeff n Fess LORD ft Recworm - Freshmen Del Tha Funkee Homosapien - Thank Youse Funkdoobiest - Hip Hop Music The Roots - Don’t Say Nuthin DJ Format - Separated At Birth (Fingathing Remix) EPMD - Crossover Fu-Schnickens - La Shmoove Ghostface Killah ft Amy Winehouse - You Know I’m Not Good Nas ft Various - Where Are They Now (90s Remix) Pussycat Dolls - Button Young Capone - Lights Camera Action Bel Biv DeVoe - Word To The Mutha
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Thoughts haha, the mix into DJ Jazzy Jeff is rough. As I was mixing it in, I sneezed. HARD. Managed to salvage the mix and get it back beat matched, but listening to it again I can’t help but both grimace and laugh. Ish happens when you’re on the deck, just gotta handle it.
Mix to Funkdoobiest got away from me a little bit while I dug in my records. Easily fixed but listening back to it, it annoys me. 
Need to focus on learning some of the lesser played songs in my crates better. Missed mix points twice in this set–once in brining in The Roots I have to fade Don’t Say Nuthin’ out and bring it back in again later. On EPMD to Fu-Schnickens you can hear the start of a new EPMD verse just as I cut over to La Shmoove. Knowing your wax is the biggest thing that one can use to distinguish him or herself from another DJ.
DJ Format tracks just BEG to get juggled. 
Lingo break: juggling is the act of the DJ playing two copies of the same record simultaneously, each at a different point in the song. By cutting back and forth between the two turntables, a DJ can effectively alter the flow of the song and ad-lib a remix of the song live. The simplest and most common application of the technique (and what I use on Separated at Birth) is to offset the two records slightly so that you can produce an echo kind of effect. You basically hear the drum sounds and verses from the emcee double up. LA radio DJs are known the world around for their juggling tricks while mixing live on the air.
Love the Ghostface track and originally the intent was to drop it and take the mix over into more of a funk and soul vibe, maybe use all instrumentals and start dropping down breakbeats. As I was in the mix though, I changed gears and decided I wanted to keep it in the realm of hip hop and decided to drop in the Nas instead. While fading out the GF though, I shouldn’t have been so damn antsy and playing around w/ the Nas record. It sounds pretty meh. And I wasn’t really doing anything, just moving the record around due to boredom. Idle hands and boredom are the biggest dangers to a DJ.. they never take you anywhere good. ;P –
As an aside, do non-DJs find these little analysis of mixes interesting? I intended to use this blog a bit to help demystify the dark arts of DJing a little bit and breaking down these mixes were meant to both allow me a chance for some self-critique to look back on, but to also allow the non DJ an insight into the way a DJ thinks, how they build out their sets, how they make their decisions, etc.
If I’m just talking to myself, then perhaps I’ll move the notes to somewhere off the blog.. Still feeling my way around w/ the direction I want to take this podcast.
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