This past weekend on Saturday, July 30, 2011 I performed a surprise live set at my good friend DJ ADD.’s birthday party. DJ ADD had been promoting the party through his private Facebook account and was hosting a “DJ Birthday Battle” open to all comers. He was quite surprised when I showed up with DJ SlipK and a vintage Dell Pentium 4 ready to rock. I’d recently purchased a Numark DJ2Go and had worked that over the proceeding week into an upgraded Atomix VirtualDJ 7.0.4 setup. Augmenting my existing M-Audio X-Session, Boss DR-202 Groove Station, and my Akai MPD16 touch pad; the DJ2Go rounded out my scratching capabilities. I performed two 45 minute sets, as well as, participated in the four way one hour long mix off. A good time was had by all (DJs and party guests). Everybody was moving and the feedback was that everybody enjoyed the wide variety of sets offered. I was honored to join DJ ADD (who spun two great euro dub mix sets), DJ Space Catastrophe (who did two crazy four turntable club sets), and Mervernator (who came with his throwback Technics turntables and CD players– total old school in effect grinding out some insane drum and bass) for the event. They are all absolute gentlemen, incredible professionals, and brilliant DJs. It was truly a great experience. I understand that DJ Space Catastrophe did record much of the event and I’m hoping that DJ ADD will be able to compile it into a streaming set I can put up here on DF.com. I played my first set with old school throw back club grade hip hop and my second set was underground goth club industrial. It was great to get back to mixing and I’m looking forward to getting active with music production again. You will see more from the site and yes– DF.com is in effect after an all too long hiatus once again. Let the chaos begin anew!
