Project Steev

Anarcho-Love Dance Party

Last night at the Dry River space we had a dance party and I DJed. It was pretty fun. I've never really actually DJed at a party before - I've been a radio DJ, and obviously I've manned the stereo at parties, but its never been DJing in the sense of like mixing and beat-matching and stuff. I used a cool piece of software called Traktor, by Native Instruments, which auto-calculates BPMs and lets you sync 2 tracks by adjusting BPM of one or both, and you can loop, skip around, scratch, filter. I didn't do too much fancy stuff, just tried to keep the beat going and stick to a few conceptual themes, not paying much attention to genre. The latter made for a pretty weird set, lots of stylistic variety. It was fun. So below is the playlist, roughly, but at some point during the set I hit the button that sorts the list by beats per minute, so this isn't chronological, its roughly in order of fastest to slowest.

Awe by League of Infinite Justice
Vamos Con San Pedro (Son Times) by Los Sampler's
Rockstar by Z-Trip
Virus by Deltron
Life In The Greenhouse Effect by Steroid Maximus
Skelechairs (Venetian Snares Remix) by Doormouse
Evil by Paris
DJ Peron by Tango Crash
Give The Anarchist A Cigarette by Chumbawamba
Electrolatino by Señor Coconut
Mambo Brillante (HD Mambo) by Los Sampler's
Reanimator by Amon Tobin
AA XXX by Peaches
Rat Race by The Specials
Bullet by Wig
You and Me and the Moon by The Magnetic Fields
Mi Corazon by Campo (from Bajo Fundo Tango Club)
Nothing Better by The Postal Service
Love Me by Chumbawamba
push it by soulwax (Iggy vs Salt n Peppa)
Can't Get Blue Monday Outta My Head (DJ Krys X Extended Club M by Kylie Minogue Vs New Order
The ABCs Of Anarchism by Negativland-Chumbawamba
a16 by Ultra-red
my best friends girlfriend by the cars
Opportunities (Let's make lots of money) by Pet Shop Boys
Dont You Want Me Baby by Human League
New Order - The Day Would Never Come by New Order
New Kicks by Le Tigre
Sordid by Amon Tobin
Darn (Dawn of Lidell Mix) by Super_Collider
Long-Forgotten Fairytale by The Magnetic Fields
I Got A New Girl Now by Honeymoon Suite
You Sexy Thing (I Believe in Miracles) by Hot Chocolate
Special Delivery by MC Frontalot
Tainted Love by Soft Cell
This Is A Collective by consolidated

The only thing I really feel was bad about was playing "Evil" by Paris. Paris really rocks, he's such an amazing political MC. With that track, from his Sonic Jihad album, if you listen carefully to the lyrics it's easy to tell that it's ironic, that he's rapping about all the things he would do IF he were evil. Basically a critique of the power system and ruling classes. But the problem is that if you're not paying attention to that context and you just hear the verse where he's talking about the mistreatment of women and he says the words "bitches and hoes", it's easy to misunderstand. So people objected to that and for good reason and I felt bad about playing it, and segued out of it ASAP. Stupid. Sorry, Dry River dancers! I learned a lesson.

Anyway, other than that it was a good time and I'd like to do more "spinning" sometime.

Posted by steev at Abril 8, 2006 09:07 AM