Hot damn.
I just got the DAT of my set from the beach party and as I write this I'm recording it onto computer. I haven't even really listened to it yet. I can't wait to hear how it comes out.
I think this is going to be a mostly music related blog today. First off. I've been trading emails with this very cool singer/songwriter by the name of Edie Carey. I mentioned her last week as I went to see her and a few other singers perform (See my post two days ago, the one about Live From New York). A day or two after the performance I saw I got an email from her mentioning a few upcoming gigs. This kind of email is fairly common in the folk music community. Most performers have mailing lists (both snail and email) that they use to keep people updated on upcoming performances. I emailed her back to say that I really enjoyed their show and to also say that I thought it was so cool how much interaction they had with people who liked them. Since then we've been emailing back and forth now and then and it's gotten me to thinking more about the similarities between that and the electronic music scene. Both groups tend to be more on the fringes of popular music. Every once in a while you'll get a track that may break out and get some mainstream play, but for the most part the scenes exist in their own worlds. Both groups also tend to have a fairly close interaction with their fans. While some DJs I know of have mailing lists, I don't think it is quite as common as what I've seen in the folk scene. Both groups release recordings of their works. DJs have mixtapes/CDs and almost every folk singer I've seen has CDs of their work.
I just think the whole thing is very cool. Because it is two very different types of music with very different communities of people who support them (You don't see masses of kids dancing all night long to folk music ;)).
I spun out twice this last weekend. The first time was Saturday night. I spun at a club called Vapor in Boston. They have this cool back lounge where they have guest DJs spin. I had a great time. The sound in the booth was amazing, even if it was hot as hell there. Big thanks to everyone who came out to see me and especially to Mario, Mike, and Bree for having me out there to spin. The only thing that sucked is that the club is so damn smokey. I really have to say that my clubbing days are probably going to dwindle down to nothing as I get closer to my transplant. The smoke really drives me nuts (though sometimes it feels like as much as I cough it can't make that much of a difference :)). Then on Sunday me and some of the other Changmian DJs spun at Hangover Easy. Hangover Easy is this weekly event that takes place at this local Howard Johnsons. Actually it's at the restaurant at one. It takes place every sunday from noon till like 7 or so and they have local Boston DJ crews come in and spin mellow tunes and serve brunch all day. It's quite nice. I spun mostly deep house and had quite a good time.
I'm now 30 minutes into my set and it is sounding quite good! Hopefully I should have this up and online this afternoon.
