Chubby Racer

week goes by were I haven't posted a mix.  My weeknight time is pretty limited.  Which is why you see my spitting out ~20 minutes mixes.  That's I'll I've got.  This week, each night I stood at the decks, I wasted the whole 20 minutes trying to figure out just how the fuck rekordbox works.  Yea, it's  that much of a pain in the dick. Pioneer advertises it does all these things, and it does, but half of them are fucking OFF by default.  "Map hotcues for each track and save them to a thumbdrive."  Oh, awesome!  Wait...why aren't they loading when I select a track.  You mean to tell me there's an option to autoload hotcues, and it's fucking OFF by default!? Anyway, I think I've figured it out, and now it's back to traktor. Cuz traktor works.  I spent the time figuring out rekordbox so if I DO get a club gig, I'm g2g to rock up with a thumbdrive.  So this week it's back to business as usual: 20 minute mixes. AND...I've got lot...

for something way out of left field. I DJ'ed a wedding. Not in my wheelhouse at all.  Not my first wedding, though.  About 6 years ago in Oklahoma I DJ'ed a wedding as Barney Groove with my friend as Fred Funk. The marriage lasted 3 months.  I was a little apprehensive I was going to bring that stigma into this affair, and I was also apprehensive about flying solo.  Turns out,  I SHOULD have been apprehensive about flying solo, but not for the reasons you might think. GOOD GOD is there a lot of gear to lug to do this properly.  Prior to purchasing some of my speakers, I rad a lot of reviews along the lines of "don't buy it's too heavy."  In my smug arrogance I figured, hey, I'm a meatball. Most DJ's are skin and bones.  I should have listened. Keg-carrying 3 50+ lb speakers, plus kettle bell carrying 3 20+ flight cases will wear your ass out...and that's just to get the gear into and out of the venue, you still gotta set it all up! ...

No new music.  I did actually play a few times over the last two weeks, but haven't really bought any new tracks that weren't specifically for the wedding...and there's no way in hell I'm posting my wedding practice. I hauled most of my "mobile" rig to Oklahoma with me (save the PA) to test the setup.  The table I bought will be adequate if a little flimsy.  There's definitely plenty of room until: I went and bought 2 CDJ2000 nexuses (nexi?) and a djm900 nexus.  And cases.  Why?  Because potato.  Now everything is going to be a tight fit on the table,  In fact, I'm not even sure HOW tight a fit just yet because I don't have the second CDJ or the cases in my hands yet.  I guess if I can't get it all figured out by friday...wedding day...I'll jsut run with the MC6000 and one CDJ (in case someone decides to show up and pull a "play this song off my phone/cd.").  Either way, new mixes should be forthcoming, even a straight house m...