29
July
2007
I suck. I know. It’s been way over due for a new mix to get posted. Apologies. Between a day job, getting bronchitis, and having actual paid gigs (!), I just hadn’t gotten around to finding some free time to spend to throw down a mix for you all.
Anyhow, here’s a nice hour long mix to start to make up to everyone. Enjoy!
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Musiq Soulchild - Buddy
Mario Winans - Don’t Want To Know
Nick Cannon - My Wife
Beyonce - Crazy In Love
Pras - Ghetto Superstar (X-Mix)
T Pain - I’m Sprung
Too $hort - Blow The Whistle
Jay-Z - I Just Wanna Love U (Remix Mafia Party Break)
Daddy Yankee - Impacto
DMX - Party Up
Cypress Hill - I Could Just Kill A Man
2Pac - All About You
DJ Felli Fell - Buck In Here
Tony Sunshine - Oh My God
Far-East Movement - Satisfaction
Down - Lean Like A Cholo
Ne-Yo - Because of You
Dexy’s Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen (2nd Nature Remix)
T Pain vs Hall & Oats - 80’s Bartender (Victor Menegaux)
Indeep vs Earth Wind and Fire - A Brazillian DJ Saved Me (DJ 2nd Nature)
DJ Khaled - We Takin’ Over
Ying Yang Twins ft Wyclef Jean - Dangerous (Blackline Mix)
Modjo vs Justin Timberlake - I Love A Sexy Lady’s Back (Architect Davey B)
Justin Timberlake - Sexy Back
Rihanna - Please Don’t Stop the Music
Afro-Rican - Give It All You Got
2 Live Crew - Hoochie Mama
Ann Lee - Two Times
Human League - Fascination
New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
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25
June
2007
Junior Mafia - Get Money
Lil Kim - Lighters Up
Ludacris - Runaway Love
Arrested Development - Everyday People
Busta Rhymes - Woo Hah!
Fugees - Take It Easy
Killer Mike - ADIDAS
Big Pun - Still Not A Player
Ne-Yo - Sexy Love
Janet Jackson - Enjoy
Method Man ft Mary J Blige - All I Need
Pharcyde - Runnin’
Shabba Ranks - Slow And Sexy
2 Pac ft Ashanti - Pac’s Life
Beyonce ft Shakira - Beautiful Life
Maroon 5 vs Young Gunz - Can’t Stop Nothing Lasts Forever
De La Soul - All Good
P Diddy ft Nicole Scherzinger - Come To Me
Jiggy - Stop 97
Big Tymers - Oh Yeah
Gwen Stefani - Now That You Got It
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Post my thoughts later… 
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This mix is pretty damn overdue, my apologies for that. I’d been ridiculously busy at work for awhile, and when my project finally got out the door, I thought I’d be jumping immediately on the decks. Instead I found myself just needing a week or two of doing absolutely nothing (it was everything I imagined it could be….) to decompress.
Had my chance to relax and now I’m back on the decks and hopefully back on schedule again to drop a mix a week again.
Hope you enjoy this… listening back through it again, it’s one of my favorite mixes I think I’ve *ever* recorded. Like all my mixes, it’s all just impromptu and a live set (i.e. press record and cross fingers), but for whatever reason I think it all just comes across pretty clean–and it’s pretty representative of me as a DJ now. The musical choices are all fairly upbeat, represent a decently broad range of genres and provide a nice spectrum of beats and melodies. Can’t quite place it fully, but to me the mix is just very…. me. Been at this now for 3 years approximately, and looking at this mix and comparing to stuff I have from way back when, I think I’ve come quite a long way.. 
Anyhow, enough self back patting. Enjoy, hope you like it as much as I enjoyed the time on the decks recording it.
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6
June
2007
Jay Dabhi - Bmore Nights
Bel Biv Devoe - Poison (Tittsworth Bmore Mix)
PM Dawn - Set Adrift On Memory’s Bliss (Titsworth Neutron Dance)
Beatles - Shhake It Up (Diplo Bmore Mix)
DJ Quixotic - Stand By Me (Nasty Bitch Remix)
Sean Kingston - Beautiful
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I’ve been a big fan of the Bmore sound (aka Baltimore Club, Doo Doo beats) ever since I was first exposed to it maybe 3, 4 years ago by the fairly influential series of LPs put out by a DJ duo named Hollertronix. Anyhow, I got a bit curious and apparently the BMore sound is mostly attributed and traced back as an offshoot of the Miami Bass sound and quite heavily influenced by Luke Skyywalker (and hence why some call the genre “Doo Doo”, i.e. after the track “Doo Doo Brown” by said 2 Live Crew producer).
The sound has been gaining a lot of traction across the country lately, so I’ve started fiddling around w/ the idea of doing a longer set of just B’more tracks. Was just practicing around last night and threw together a few tracks completely off the cuff just to see what I might come up with. Going to go ahead and post this up for now as a bit of a teaser/preview of a longer mix when I have more time to sift through all my B’more records more carefully.
Enjoy..
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30
May
2007
Simply Red - Sunrise
Scissor Sisters - I Don’t Feel Like Dancing
Shaggy ft Will.I.Am - Shut Up and Dance
LAX - Forget You
Nelly Furtado ft Timbaland - Promiscuous Girl
Michael Jackson - Rock With You
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
Michael Jackson - Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough
Prince - 1999
P Diddy ft Keyshia Cole - Last Night
Chris Brown - Poppin
Ciara - Promise (Eric V Remix)
Sean Kingston - Beautiful
Akon - Don’t Matter (Funkymix)
Blaque - 808 (Remix)
PM Dawn - Set Adrift On Memory’s Bliss (Tittsworth Neutron Dance)
Hellogoodbye - Here (In Your Arms)
Justin Timberlake - My Love (Justin Loves Baltimore mix)
Nina Sky - Clothes Off
P Diddy ft Christina Aguilera - Tell Me (Mr. Mig Club Mix)
Depeche Mode - Just Can’t Get Enough (Deep South Mix)
Human League - Fascination (Kaskade Remix)
KoRn - Coming Undone
Coldplay - Talk
LCD Soundsystem - Tribulations
Depeche Mode - Suffer Well
OMD - Enola Gay (2007 David Guetta Mix)
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When I hop on the decks, I generally have one of two types of sessions. Sets when I know I’m recording I’ll tend to be more even keeled about my mixes. I focus on the cleanliness of my mixing techniques. I play mostly songs that I’m at least passively familiar with if not intimately with. Sets when I’m just practicing, my technique gets rougher, my range of material gets broader, and I generally just sort of meander wherever I feel like at that moment in time.
Sometimes the output is dreadful. Sometimes it’s pretty cool and I find myself really getting caught up in the moment and just keep spinning, sometimes for hours on end.
This mix is more the latter. I try to always record myself these days, even if I’m “just” practicing. This is what I ended up with last night while trying to burn off a bit of stress.
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11
May
2007
Dido - White Flag (Rock-It! Fuel Mix)
Jurassic 5 ft Dave Matthews Band - Work It Out
Headnodic ft Procussions - The Drive
All Natural - Writer’s Block
Del Tha FUnkee Homosapien - Thank Youse
DJ Format - Now You
Jurassic 5 - Jurass Finish First
Ugly Duckling - Turn It Up
Young Black Teenagers - Tap The Bottle
112 - Peaches and Cream
Wreckx N Effect - Rump Shaker
JD ft Snoop - We Just Wanna Party Wit You
Musiq - Musiqforthenight
Lumidee ft Tony Sunshine - She’s Like The Wind
Cassie - Long Way 2 Go
Mase - Feels So Good
Down - Leak Like A Cholo
Will Smith - Gettin Jiggy With It
Danity Kane - Touching My Body
Gwen Stefani - Holla Back Girl
Ne-Yo - Because of You (Kanye Remix)
Maroon 5 - Makes Me Wonder
Nelly Futardo - Say It Right
Beatles vs Missy Elliott - Obla Di Obla Da
Nirvana - Come As You Are
Bon Jovi - You Give Love A Bad Name
Kelly Clarkson vs Blur - Since Song #2 Been Gone (DJ Steve1der)
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I should make it a policy to stop mixing when I’m dead tired. This mix was nearly 4 hours of sheer comedy gold. Feeling bad for cutting my mix short last time, I decided to throw down an hour long mix for ya’ll. Too bad I didn’t find out until the very end that I’d plugged my recording gear into the headphone jack of my laptop and not the microphone input. Strike 1. Correct the wire and determined, I decided to try again. An hour later, guess what, I’d managed to hit the wrong button on my recording software and I have a nice hour long file of dead silence. Strike 2. At this point it’s 1:30 AM and I debate whether to give it another try. Figured what the hell… and the result is this mix… not quite an hour… was exhausted. Sue me.
So this mix is all about style and defining a signature sound as a DJ. I’m all over the map musically as a bit of an experiment. The mix runs from breakbeats to old school hip hop to mainstream R&B to rock to adult contemporary to funky jazz.
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I’d gotten into a conversation with someone recently about what defined a DJ’s “style”. We went back and forth a bit on what constitutes style and what distinguishes one DJ from another (beside just sheer technical ability which is difficult for the laymen to measure anyhow). It basically boiled down to what they played, the way they mix from song to song, and the overall energy they have behind the decks.
At the very end of the conversation, my friend (lives and DJs in Washington DC) said I had a very “West Coast” sound. Probing what that meant, by his count the crux of the West Coast DJ sound was a set that pulls deep from the crates–nothing is really off limits. The mix goes from track to track very quickly, any given song is only playing for a bit more than a minute, probably not more than two. The technical skills are demonstrated throughout in each individual mix. And there’s a healthy, healthy love for the use of old school hip hop side by side with newer material.
After hearing this, I guess it fits my overall “sound”. As somewhat of a joke though, this mix is me trying to be as West Coast as possible. Whatever that means. It’s got its rough patches since I was purposely trying to go all over the place genre wise , but ah well. (Jeremy, tell me if I slipped and got a little too East Coast).
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By request I’m going to start making my posts in a slightly better bitrate than I’d been posting as.
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8
May
2007
Hahaha, since I’d been busy and neglected posting mixes for a couple weeks there, I had planned to make it up to you all by posting an extra long, hour long mix.. mid way through as I was about to go into a dance hall / reggae mini-set, my cat (Chip) managed to flip the switch to my powerstrip….and thus, ending the set early. 
Oh well, maybe next time. Enjoy!
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Swizz Beats - It’s Me Snitches
Baby - What Happened To That Boy
2Pac - Pac’s Life
Far*East Movement - Boomshake
NORE vs Punjabi MC - Punjabi Mi Canto (DJ Starski)
Busta Rhymes - I Love My Bitch
Diddy ft Nicole Scherzinger - Come To Me
Bubba Sparxxx vs Paperboy - The Ditty Butt (DJ Spryte)
Paper Boy - Ditty
Diddy - Can’t Nobody Hold Me Down
Black Sheep - The Choice Is Yours
Yo Yo ft Ice Cube - Bonnie & Clyde Theme
Next vs Color Me Badd - Color Me Too Close (Kevin Scott)
Souls of Mischief - 93 til Infinity
Biggie vs Amy Winehouse - Biggie Winehouse (DJ Riz)
Too $hort - Keep Bouncing
John Farruggio - Iko Iko Reggae
Beenie Man - King of the Dancehall
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1
May
2007
Bit over due, but work has been brutal. I’m averaging 80-90 hour work weeks right now and probably will be for several more weeks. Going to do the best that I can to keep mixing–both to keep this site fresh with updates and because without SOME kind of diversion, I’d probably go insane.
Got on the decks pretty damn late last night, so I ended up cutting this mix a bit short out of fatigue and due to my home studio being outrageously hot last night. Apologies on a late and relatively rushed mix. Exhaustion can be a bitch.
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2Pac - Old School
Warren G - This DJ
Lighter Shade of Brown - Sunday Afternoon
Pharcyde - Runnin’
Nas - If I ruled the world
Notorious BIG - Hypnotize
50 Cent vs DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince - Candy Shop vs Girls Ain’t Nothing But Trouble
Public Enemy - Give It Up
NWA - Express Yourself
Mack 10 - Nothing But the Cavi’ Hit
Mista Grimm - Indo Smoke
Ice Cube - You Can Do It
LL Cool J - Pink Cookies In A Plastic Bag
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EDIT Podbean seems to be screwing up my file somehow as part of the upload and my file is playing at double speed. Have an open ticket w/ them to fix this.
EDIT 2: Podbean hasn’t gotten back to me.. so screw it, I just uploaded another copy at a higher quality bitrate than I normally post at. Sorry for all the delays and that the mix itself was a bit rushed. Will try to get back on my regular schedule of posts ASAP.
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25
April
2007
Work has been absolutely brutal the past few days. Hell, the other night/morning, I got home from the office at 4AM to an apartment of very angry, hungry pets…
So I’ve not had a chance to hop on the decks for a few days–apologies for that, I swear I’ll have something over the weekend for you all though. I’m thinking a new wave or all Depeche Mode mix..
Till then, keep listening!
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14
April
2007
Robin Thicke vs Notorious BIG - Lost Without U (DJ JD Remix)
Lil Rob - Summer Nights (Mad Method Mix)
Rihanna ft Jay Z - Umbrella
Fort Minor - Where’d You Go
Game ft Kanye West - Wouldn’t Get Far
Ne-Yo - Sexy Love
Dru Hill - How Deep Is Your Love
Gwen Stefani - Don’t Get It Twisted
Lloyd Banks ft Lil Wayne - You
Deep Side - Let’s Make Love
Akon ft Sean Paul - I Wanna Love You (Sean Paul Remix)
Cassie - Me & U
Red 1 - No Fuss No Fight
T-Pain - I’m Sprung
Rihanna ft Elephant Man - Pon De Replay
Wayne Wonder - Gonna Love Me
Various Artists - Keep Bouncin Party Break
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Thoughts
Saturday night at home after a some what crazy Friday night out w/ co-workers. Got bored so I hopped on the decks to throw down a quick set. The sound quality is a little bit iffy at times, I think I might need to replace a cable in my set up. Before you even ask, the mix title is after a couple shows that were on the TV in the background–couldn’t think of anything else..
Mix ranges from an opening, more laid back vibe and eventually shifts over to prime time and dance hall beats.
Once again if you want a higher quality version of any mix on the site, hit me up and I’ll get ya hooked up–assuming I don’t think you’re the spawn of satan or similar.
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6
April
2007
Redman - Put It Down
Too $hort - Blow The Whistle
Christina Millian - Say I
Digital Underground - Humpty Dance (Ultimix)
Shaggy - Shut Up And Dance
Baby Bash - Na Na
Ne-Yo - Because of You
Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
Maroon Five - Makes Me Wonder
Nelly - Say It Right
Jay-Z ft Beyonce Knowles - Hollywood
Chris Brown - Poppin’
Ciara - Promise
Kelis - Lil Star
Jessica Simpson - Public Affair
Akon - Don’t Matter
Diddy ft Christina Aguilera - Tell Me (DFA Club Mix)
Herve - See Me
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Thoughts
I originally wasn’t going to do a mix last night but I ended up having a ridiculously stressful end to my workday, so after a nap and a bite to eat I decided to hop onto the decks to release some stress. If I’m on the decks I might as well turn on the recorder and see if something post-able came out of my session. The mix is solidly executed in general but my song selection was a bit more haphazard than I would normally like. I started off just grabbing records and tracks and seeing where I ended up–by mid way I figured out the next topic I could bring up for an accompanying blog post.
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If DJing were a sport, in many ways it’d be like running. Depending on the individual or the venue, a DJ may be the only “competitor”, the soul source of music to keep a crowd dancing for an entire night–maybe even 5, 6 hours straight. Other times however, the DJ is but one of several that will be performing that night. The DJs will each take their turn to throw down a set and add their own touch on the night. Excluding situations where multiple DJs are djing simultaneously, you’re generally talking about one dj at a time for a single dance floor–the DJ is no longer running as an individual but he or she is now in a relay race and control of the turntables and mixer is effectively the baton.
I used to do a little bit of track back in high school, including trying my hand at the 4×100. I never excelled at the event and eventually decided I was a cross country runner anyhow. Even in my short stint as a relayer though, I quickly learned that the passing of the baton between runners was critical in the success of the team. Handling a dance floor amongst several DJs isn’t much different–there’s actually a lot that goes on during a DJ switch.
Do the DJs play the same kind of music? Do the two types of music that they play mesh at all? If I’m playing 1970s Swedish disco hits and the guy after me wants to throw down his collection of rare 1990s German death metal we might have a slight problem as cultures collide. Do the DJs intend to share needles (turntable needles, not hypodermic )? Assuming we sort out gear issues and we sort out that we have musical tastes that can work somehow… we still now have to actually reach our hand out and pass that baton over to the next dj.
Good form amongst djs is to discuss how the handoff is going to work. “Hey, I’m going to play 4, 5 more songs.” “What kind of music and tempos are you going to play in your set?” “My last song of my set is going to be X, it’s a super long song w/ a long instrumental portion toward the end to work with” Communication about the hand off is critical to make it seamless to the audience out dancing and having a good time. Just putting on a random record that lasts 45 seconds and going to the next guy “yo, here, go, I’m done now” would be the equivalent of a relay racer getting 30 feet away from the next racer and just throwing the baton as hard as he can at the guy’s head.
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In my set, around the time I played the Jay-Z and Beyonce track the set up to that point had been a straight mainstream hip hop and R&B set. To illustrate how a handoff between djs might work, I decided to put myself into a hypothetical that the next DJ just came up into the booth and told me he or she wanted to do a house set and asks me if I could set them up for their set. I then use the next several songs to accomplish a couple things. I need to transition the overall tempo of the music I’m playing to match the tempo that house music carries. Secondly, I need to start playing some songs that can start to bridge between the two genres of music. The set basically goes hip hop -> r&b -> mainstream pop -> disco-y remixes of mainstream songs -> straight up house. In my hypothetical hand off, the next DJ has officially taken over once the Diddy DFA track ends.
So the next time you’re in a club and there’s just some crazy shift in music that you’re hearing there’s a real possibility you just witnessed a dj transition that just didn’t go too well or you’re seeing a DJ starting to prep the baton so they can make an orderly transition.
I’ve prattled on long enough. Hope you enjoy the mix and are digging these little sneak beaks into the mystery of the dj booth.
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