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Smooth B was no slouch either: says it all

3 bob? 3 quid? Put me down for a ha'penny

yes that's correct Steve. I'm a professional musician, which means I live at or below the poverty line. I'm allowing all you guys with jobs where you make money to subsidize my DV exploits. I could just leave though if you want.

A couple of years ago a band I'm in got a check for almost $200 from SOCAN because of radio play we were getting in Bolivia. For real

I was gonna join in this thread but it's one of those times where you guys are all talking about real events in the real world, as you all apparently live in a 3-block radius, and you seem to have it covered anyways. Maybe I will anyways. Does anyone have some insight for a dj who lives in a pretty small town (10 000 people, basically 2 clubs) who wants to break into a larger market (such as Vancouver)? I mean I can't go and take a walk in Vancouver every weekend, it's 8 hours away. It's hard to get chatty with anyone there, even if I were the chatty type.

yeah that looks legit. I'm in

there are 7 things Steve doesn't know.

I think that limitations are not in the equipment, rather the practitioner #pithywayofsummingupwhatStevealreadysaidkinda

a recent score that I'm really pleased to finally own is Tell Me Something Good by Rufus. On a 45. Man I love that track

it looks like maybe you already addressed this but I just didn't understand: can't Serato etc do this exact thing? Say something into the mic, and then it's loaded ready to cut up immediately?

I feel like your logic here MAY be on thin ice a bit. More grooves means more little edges digging into your fingers. Less grooves means less of those. As far as I know, between grooves on a record it's not like a flat plateau of shiny vinyl... it just rises from the groove, and there's a hump which is more or less steep depending on how near the next groove is, and then it descends into the next groove. It's like a road, which when you look close is very bumpy with little pebbles etc. That's so there's more friction between the tire & the road. That's why roads are not made out of glass, or flat vinyl. This is basically a guess though, just carry on

totally, people who wear sunglasses in the bright sun are a bunch of PRIX

I always notice, first episode of a new season of any show pretty much, the women's faces are all botox'd up, or they got nose jobs or what have you. Never notice it with the men, but then I'm not checking for it as much. I find it pretty gross & distracting. Skyler definitely had that going on each season. Also the chick from Weeds, big time. She was super hot first season, and just got weirder and weirder-looking.

I guess you could charge your iPod/PC battery with the same electricity that would be running your turntables/mixer/amp/speakers? and please, speak no ill of hash. Tis wonderous stuff

I do to, but I've just discovered iTunes doesn't do FLAC, which is a surprise I have a Mac, should have mentioned it at the top. But it's hella old. anyways, thanks y'all. Looks like Switch is working

hey, all I want is a free bit of software to convert among mp3, wav, flac, et cetera. I already know there's websites that you can upload your thing to, but I don't want to do that anymore. I just want to download some free-ass software that does it right here on my laptop. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

I love the mum's purse. He probably has little bits of fudge in wax paper in there

http://www.waxpoetics.com/features/articles/on-golden-throat

I have a Fisher Price tape player that I still rock

right. I guess it depends on your own personal standard, and also whether the tracks are hard to find, whether or not you already have them. thinking it over, I guess if one were asked to do an artist mixtape, it might be likely that one were a known connoisseur of that artist, which would mean that one is likely to already have most/all of the requisite tracks and already know them really well. In that case, maybe 48 hours isn't such a stretch

48 hours seems awfully short to me...

1 thing (maybe the only thing) about being a vinyl-only dj is that a lot of the stuff (well, some of the stuff) I play isn't easily found in digital format. You'd have to scour blogs. Not available in Beatport or itunes. I feel a bit weird when someone's staring at the label all night, turning their head awkwardly to read it. A while ago I was djing and someone stopped the record so he could read it! I reached up and slapped him in the face, and then I noticed that he was FUCKING HUGE and ornery-looking. I then completely bluffed being really ornery & scrappy myself and kind of dazzled him (he was drunk). Later that night he took someone else outside and beat the shit out of him. Glad it wasn't me. Found out later he is a "fighter", as in he gets paid to fight other guys or whatever. Will be reining in future slaps.

nice mix Steve.

dope.

that and a mellotron