I finally made my first demo! I’ve wikipediaed the living shit out of Drum and Bass subgenres and I believe it is mainly Jump-up in this demo.  I could of course still be wrong ’cause music genre classification not an exact science, but it’s a fine name nonetheless.

I’ve spend most of the time in compiling the tracklisting. There are some minor mixing flaws (if you look for them), but I decided not to do several re-runs in order to get everything just right because it’s boring work and not meant as a studio album mix. Better to show I have good mixing skills than fake perfect mixing skills.

In order to get more gigs I decided I needed to focus on one particular music style, because being an all-round DnB DJ is cool but useless because I won’t be playing entire evenings. There are more than enough good DJs out there so booking a handful for an evening is commonplace. But because it was hard to pick one style to focus on I picked two. This is the first, and the second is more pop-music oriented: think dominant melodies, think vocals, think Hospital Records. This next demo is my current DJ project and will probably take a few weeks like the first did, because I need time to compile a good tracklisting and because I have a lot of other things to do in life.

Anyhow, enjoy an hour and a half of tightly packed bass-pumping beats!

Enjoy.

You know those moments when you’re in the flow, mixing track after track and everything just works out perfectly? I didn’t have that when I recorded this set. But it’s still okay, and three hours long, and much more pop-ish tracks (dunno how to describe it, the tracks with much melody and vocals) than the previous sets.

A quick one hour set containing mostly releases from the past few months.

Woops, I recorded this set almost a month ago.

Twelve hours after I played live it was already radio time, which resulted in a set without the usual popular dancefloor tracks and fast-paced mixing. Really enjoyable, this one!

First time I actually remembered to record a live set (as in, at a party, not live on the radio). Useful, because I can evaluate my live-performance and I have something to post here! It’s one hour played at a USCKI/FUF/Drift66 party last Tuesday. No big deal, much fun.

Keeping my music collection up to date is a lot of work, but since that part is fun to do it is only limited by the amount of money I want to spend on it. Keeping my VirtualDJ Database up to date, clean and properly tagged is a whole different story. I use the comments field for tags and filter folders filtering on those tags to categorize my music in different ways so I can always quickly find the kind of tracks I’m looking for. Adding newly purchased music is one thing (it’s required to actualy play it), tagging everything and worse: re-tagging a lot when I change my categorization is a whole different story.

Today’s set is messy and feels kind of random, because I decided to play about the same time I started the set, and I hadn’t even added much of my newly purchased music yet. It’s still worth listening tough, especially because there is so much new (not new per se, but new to me) music in it.

I don’t feel like typing a long story about how I did yet another set and how well it went. Just listen to it if you want.

Busy busy week, so no time to prepare a set. Fortunately improvising it on the fly works too, I even booked an extra third hour during the set because I had so much fun and it was still available. Apologies for the terrible mix-in of Netsky at the end, two friends were in my room talking to me and stealing all my concentration.

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