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NOT SURE WHY, BUT THESE ARE COOL
- 10 years ago
- re-blogged from HERE
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ADVICE FROM AN OLD DJ: FUNDAMENTALS
- 10 years ago
- THE EQUIPMENT Know your craft. Every DJ on planet earth should be able to hook up mixers, turntables, laptops, controllers, monitors, FX boxes, etc. It ain't rocket science. It is simply a left and a right channel. A monkey can do it, and so can you. This way, when something goes wrong, and the entire room is booing you, you aren't relying on the club soundman who, 9 times outta 10, is nowhere [...]
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ADVICE FROM AN OLD DJ: WORKING A ROOM
- 10 years ago
- aka IT'S ABOUT THEM, NOT YOU. These are some basic suggestions for how to work a crowd. There are no absolute rules, but these have worked well for me over the years. Most will seem obvious, but every time you've heard a lousy DJ, chances are he wasn't paying attention to fundamental shit like this. PLAY FOR THE WOMEN As a rule, always play for the WOMEN in the crowd. If women are happy and[...]
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JEAN DE POMEREAU: LESS IS MORE SNOW
- 10 years ago
- Wonderfully minimal photography of Antarctica from Jean De Pomereau, who I came across on butdoesitfloat. "For me, Antarctica is an object of continued visual and intellectual fascination : A wilderness that, however much it is scrutinized and deconstructed, remains unmoved in its glacial quietude, its penetrating silence, and its ability to draw us, one degree at a time, toward the essential." [...]
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MORBID CONNECTIONS
- 10 years ago
- Conspiracy? Coincidence? When you’ve gone over something again and again and again and again, like I have, certain questions get answered. Others spring up! Your mind plays tricks on you. You play tricks back! It’s like you’re unraveling a big cable-knit sweater, that someone keeps knitting and knitting and knitting and knitting The following charts are 100% factual. It's science. N[...]
