DJ Prince Charles
DJ Prince Charles live in Toronto. This video has brought a lot of joy to my morning.
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DJ Night
Wanna come to my DJ night?
The new DJ Mag top 100 is out and there’s not a single female DJ on the list, which seems improbable and really throws into question the already highly questionable annual list.
Delia Derbyshire was a reel-to-reel DJ. [via]
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Why do we tolerate DJs? I have no idea.
What is that guy doing up there anyway? Where are the records, I thought DJs had records. Is this Jock Jams Volume Two? How come he’s allowed to smoke up there? He’s really not sweating in that leather jacket? Larry David was wrong – there are three kinds of people who wear sunglasses indoors: blind people, assholes AND disc jockeys. Why does he get free drinks, waiters don’t get free drinks, isn’t this guy just a glorified member of the wait staff? I thought it was his job to get me laid, not the other way around. How the fuck do I dance to dubstep?
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Thom Yorke performs a live DJ set in LA. (My staunch hatred of all things Radiohead is waning… and I feel dirty.) [via]
Walking Without Rhythm 001 is my first DJ (continuous?) mix in over a year. I’m hoping to turn it into a series. It’s under 30 minutes and includes Cold War Kids, Portishead, Kanye, Eels, MEN and The Naked & Famous.
2011 might be a really interesting year to be a DJ, technologically speaking. [via]
Laptops and increasingly iPads are so damned easy for DJs – big screens, easy to scroll through and choose tunes, lots of functions to access. Therefore DJing off USBs while squinting at tiny LED readouts, or using CD players, or plugging iPods into devices that let you “miraculously” mix with them, will all fail to gain any ground.
Over three years ago I wrote something for Resident Advisor on my transition to digital. It’d be interesting to follow it up, but it’s been exactly a year since I gave up the DJ thing, so I doubt I’m the person to do it.
Personal note: I just gave the bulk of my record collection — nearly 3,000 pieces — to a 15-year-old kid. Less than a week later I bought a record player for my wife and then picked up a copy of She & Him’s Volume 2 at Urban Outfitters on a whim.
Panasonic is discontinuing Technics turntables. Which is like… wow.
Pauly D from Jersey Shore is on the shortlist (of 100) for America’s Best DJ. Actual DJs are less than impressed. [via]
