Everyone Loves a DJ
Dearly, beloved reader,
Yesterday I took a break from Moving Hell to do one of my corporate DJ gigs. It was only after I was nearly done setting up my table at Hudson Yards that I realized the control vinyl was missing from my company-supplied DJ kit. With all of these gigs, I am really only pretending to DJ with vinyl (the vinyl is connected to the commands I’m making, but there’s no actual music on each disk). With the control vinyl missing, I now had to pretend to DJ with vinyl but without any vinyl present.
I laughed and I laughed, both because I was nervous and because I thought what was happening was very funny. I came up with a Plan B — go internal. But when I opened up my laptop, the unshaded high temperature shut it down. Plan C was to queue up songs via Spotify on my phone, with a crossfade of course. When the sound guy insisted that the Serato system was too specific to work with an auxiliary cord (wrong), we went to plan D, which was to play songs off of his iPad, which he had connected to the network. For whatever reason, this disabled the crossfade feature, and so each song played front to back.
To the people of Hudson Yards, none of this seemed to matter. They still danced with heart to my picks from Grace Ives, Water From Your Eyes, Frost Children, etc. As always, I was approached multiple times by tourists for a picture. Everybody loves a New York City DJ!
Tonight we’ll be hosting a listening party for the fresh French Bath vinyl at Billy’s (new) Record Salon. There will be *free* martinis and Diet Coke, and possibly Diet Coke martinis. After the album runs Billy Jones will be spinning real, not fake, rare & cool vinyl. Come hang before you go to that show, or wherever you’re going after. Take home some wax :*
ION ~*~*~*
☆ Pat Latham put out his incredible piano EP today. Will make you cry
☆ 8/1 - Playing with Grapetooth on the rooftop at Elsewhere. Get your tix here (low ticket alert!!)
☆ I moved :( …….. :D
☆ Big Dumb Baby DJing at Old Flings tomorrow night <3
☆ 8/9 - Precious Human & Eliza Niemi at Babies All Right ~ Yours truly on the dex
☆ 8/11 - grbge_grl & Like a Doll at littlefield
☆ Barbie movie was awesome
Deliver the beats, May