DJ Chitlenz There Is No Cool

I’ll post some of the session excerpts when I can get a chance to edit it, but we were at it for 8 hours =0 so I’ll need to cut out some of the stuff, but there was some music made tonight, truly great mash-ups, I just hope audacity caught it all ok.

It was nice, I had to re-index the servers anyway, so the time was already gone, and it just worked out. The session was Me for maybe 3 hours, Jason for 2-3 hours, and Mike ‘Brownie’ Brown for a few hours, probably 2ish, so lots of music played, and it all sounded pretty damn good together. Jason pulled off some trance mixes with Tilt – Moving and some random House record that stopped all of us for a bit, really really smooth. It’s that kind of thing you get when good mixers get together and play for the hell of it. You take more chances, and the results can be really really cool. More later.

–chitlenz

Well, as you may have noticed from the top of my page, this is ALSO a blog about electronic music and the so-called ‘rave’ scene, a community of people of which I consider myself a member.  Since the early 1990s, when rave music came to prominence and then fell to its children as Drum and Bass, Goa, Breaks, House, etc., I have collected rare dance music on vinyl (specifically on vinyl! mp3s suck!).  For the last 10 years, my trusty Numark Matrix3 mixer served me well, but I never quite warmed up to it and its sticky crossfader =)

Thus last week, when the damn thing finally gave out on the left channel once and for all, I bought a replacement.  Guitar Center had a deal, 329$ + shipping for a little known product from a famous brand.  After quickly researching online (particularly youtube) I bought myself a new Korg Kaoss 402 4-channel digital mixer (with effects!).  It’s a paradigm leap for me as a hobbyist dj, and it is much needed since I have been recently out on the rave scene again, making friends with the local djs and warming up to playing undergraound parties again.  You are NEVER too old to be a good dj =) Not even at 38.

Anyway, Juli hates my music, but if I can still collect records through 13 years of (mostly blissful!!) marriage to a person who HATES (I mean it, she really HATES dance music, preferring …say.. Pat Benetar =[…) my music, and I still have persisted, I submit that I am indeed a die-hard vinyl fan, and a true old-school rave kid =p

Anyway, here’s my setup, expect mixset posts soon (hence the audio tests last year) !!

Peace – chitlenz