Yes, I've fallen off again from posting, but this time it's not out of laziness... directly. I've been listening to less LPs in the last couple weeks ever since I started giving my full attention to playing with my new toy, the MIDI controller you see pictured above. While I actually bought it off my friend almost four weeks ago, any down time where I wasn't partying was consumed by working on my Deadmau5 head (which I should actually post a pic of, come to think of it). Now I worked on this for nearly two weeks, first in just creating it for the show on the 23rd, and later in modifying it for Halloween, so it wasn't until after Halloween weekend that I finally got to dig in to mixing.
And what fun it's been thus far. So far I've played on this every day since a week before last Monday. And it's not like I can't post on this because I'm busy mixing, because I never post at home anyway, only at work O:) But now that I've started getting into this, it's all I think about during the day and consequently the vast majority of music I've listened to lately has been electronic or at least music I could mix. Since this primarily focuses on singles, I haven't dug into too many new LPs to review. Shows are also quieting down. Since Deadmau5 the only show I saw was Bear in Heaven, who I've seen before this year and was unimpressive only in the way that they put on an almost identical show (same venue even). It's sad that I'm already falling out of keeping up with LPs, because it's getting near the end of the year and the lists will start coming out and I want to be as caught up as possible (which is impossible to a completist like myself, of course). I still have many older albums from this year that I could review, but like I said, I'm not even in the mindset. At work instead of reading about LPs on Pitchfork, Tiny Mix Tapes, Slant, etc. I'm on Beatport reading about and listening to samples of new producers/DJs.
So it's hard to say what direction this blog will take. Ideally, if I keep working hard at mixing, I'll be able to put together some mixes that I can post here. I'm sure these would be much more desirable than any words or links that I've put up here already. Anyway, one of my motivators is a party that I'm supposed to co-DJ for in a week-and-a-half, so I've got my work cut out for me. Truly though I'm having a blast doing this, and it's not going to be a tough crowd (unless I don't play any pop), so I need to just have fun with it. I'm opening for Spiderman, which is daunting enough. He didn't have his public debut until a few weeks ago at his own house, and he had been practicing for two years. I've got a lot of nerve playing out after two weeks, ha.
Well, that's all for now. Time to get some soup dumplings in Chinatown....
If you're curious about the technical details about the Hercules DJ Console Rmx that I have acquired, here is the official site.
Also as a bonus for reading this far, here is the recently published Top 100 DJs from DJ Mag. (Spoiler alert! Deadmau5 is #4 :D )
