The Woman in B
It occurred to me last night how lonely it is being a dj. I mean, I'm there at a party but it's not like I get to talk to anybody. No conversation that lasts longer than a few minutes anyway. Though I am getting better at talking and bs'ing while selecting, cueing and beat matching. Multitasking. I could hook a broom on my ass and sweep too.
It was fun chatting with Andre last night, since, being a musician he knew what was going on and not to take it personal when I was distracted. Other people have not been so forgiving. I remember one time trying to tell Dave a story as I was trying to cue the next song. He got really frustrated when I had to pause. Part of being a dj is not letting people fluster you when you're doing your thing.
I realized last night that it's time to go back to having oodles of music on hand. I learned this at burningman too when I came prepared just for beatmatching a downtempo/acid jazz type thing but then ended up on the radio instead. I got room on the hard drive. I can go back to making it kind of a swiss army knife.
The past several gigs all the music I use is prepared ahead of time [as if I was a professional dj]. The beats are counted and the position of the first beat is noted. Rather than marking this information on the label of the record it's stored in the id3 tag of the mp3. It takes a lot of time to get all this squared up before a party. I have about 400 tracks prepared in this way. Not much of it was suitable for last night's party though. If I had more music available I would have played something totally different.
It's cool that I am starting to get a handle on the beat matching thing. But last night I was the only person that noticed. Which I guess is good. Kind of like user interface design--you know you're doing a good job when nobody notices it.
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