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seedarklyxero) wrote2009-12-26 04:31 pm
seedarklyxero) wrote2009-12-26 04:31 pm
Recap: Haven (12.22) & Hell (12.23)
HAVEN - Noel Noir; December 22
Fun party! An old friend I haven't seen since the beginning of the decade came out!
I spun with Black/Mail for the first time! I didn't dance but I got a lot of overdue socializing in. I also got invited to spin out west?! We'll see on that one... could be fun, but could be a while before I can consider something like that (esp. with my upcoming surgery and subsequent physical therapy I expect could take up most of 2010.) I missed having my lady GZ with me, but she assures me she'll make the next. At least I had Purple as company for the drive both ways. (That was a fun visit!)
As far as my sets, I'm maintaining strong song selection but only variant degrees of precision with mixing. Started the night without a monitor and it seems like as soon as that was hooked up I had more trouble mixing than I had without it. I also tried starting at a faster tempo than usual for a change during the first half of the opening of the night. It was indulgent to a degree, but they are great tracks. I wasn't as confident I could use in the later part of the night since they seem so unfamiliar, but they were good mood-setters.
And, of course, I played a few dark X-mas tracks, though again, mostly during the earlier set.
My second set was strong from start to finish and even managed to drop one less familiar track without losing the floor. I felt pretty good about that and got some great feedback afterward.
I'll be back to do it again for the last Haven of 2009 this Tuesday, December 29! I'll be joining Znuh in the booth... perhaps there's a third DJ? We'll see... :)
Here are my sets from Haven's Noel Noir:
9-10p set
Smooth E - Honika Electronica
Cruxshadows - Merry X-mas (War is Over)
Obscenity Trial - Seven Nation Army
Ashbury Heights - Spiders
Mortiis - Underdog (Zombie Girl remix)
Red Flag - Santa Claws
Porn Orchard feat. Curtiss Pernice as Tom Waits & Ted Hafer as Peter Murphy - This Holiday Season
Akira Yamaoka - Rain of Brass Petals (Three Voices Edit)(request)
Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground
Depeche Mode - Comatose
Tricky - She Makes Me Wanna Die (Stereo M.C.s mix)
Enigma - 7 Lives
Placebo - Running Up That Hill (Owen Tate mix)
12a:
Lonely Island - Dick In A Box
REPO - Zydrate Anatomy (request)
Ground To Dust - Digging My Way Out (request)
Rotersand - Exterminate Annihilate Destroy
Mindless Self Indulgence - Straight To Video
Rammstein - Du Hast (Gerayd remix) (request)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll (Dance 'til you're dead mix) (request)
Zeromancer - Send Me an Angel (request)
fin
HELL - Jingle Balls XXX-Mas; December 23
The Jingle Balls XXX-Mas Party @ Club Hell's Fetish Night was "a right hootenanny!"
I don't really know what that means either, but I had a good time. I managed to get a few of my friends out early in the night and they seemed to enjoy having the floor to themselves for the first hour. And the second hour floor filled nicely as well.
I mixed in the same dark X-mas music as at Haven... with the addition of a segue from Nightmare Before X-mas. On the whole it was a good set. I still have lots of technical stuff to work on and maybe I'll always feel like that. At least the feedback was just as enthusiastic as every other time I've been there!
I was a lot more social after my set than I usually am at Hell. I even made a new friend of someone who insisted on "molesting" me which resulted in a swapping of massages. Quite enjoyable!
From a promotional side of things, I may have to succumb to using Facebook. I don't really like its interface or functionality but far too many of the people I meet lately have that instead of LiveJournal or Myspace. I don't know.
It's likely I'll return to spin Club Hell's Fetish Night in January, but I don't have confirmation yet. I'll post when I do.
Here is my set from the Jingle Balls XXX-Mas Fetish Night at Club Hell:
9-11 set
Qntal - Ecce Gratum (mix)
Placebo - Meds
Porn Orchard feat. Curtiss Pernice as Tom Waits & Ted Hafer as Peter Murphy - This Holiday Season
Nine Inch Nails - Terrible Lie (request)
Enigma - 7 Lives
Royksopp - Vision One
Smiths - How Soon is Now
Cruxshadows - Merry X-mas (War is Over)
Blaqk Audio - Stiff Kittens
She Wants Revenge - All Wound Up
Rotersand - War On Error
Icon Of Coil - Shelter (request)
Muse vs. Blondie - Call Me Uprising (Muse request)
Red Flag - Santa Claws
Covenant - Dead Stars (request)
Zombie Girl - Creepy Crawler
Absynthesis - Masquerade
New Order - Blue Monday
A Perfect Circle - Counting Bodies Like Sheep
Spectra*Paris - Mad World (request)
Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch
Wolfsheim - Once In A Life Time
I AM X - Kiss & Swallow (manik)
My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult - Days of Swine & Roses
Lady GaGa vs Eurythmics - Dance Dreams (request)
Patrick Stewart - Nightmare Before Christmas Opening
Lonely Island - Dick In A Box
fin
Fun party! An old friend I haven't seen since the beginning of the decade came out!
I spun with Black/Mail for the first time! I didn't dance but I got a lot of overdue socializing in. I also got invited to spin out west?! We'll see on that one... could be fun, but could be a while before I can consider something like that (esp. with my upcoming surgery and subsequent physical therapy I expect could take up most of 2010.) I missed having my lady GZ with me, but she assures me she'll make the next. At least I had Purple as company for the drive both ways. (That was a fun visit!)
As far as my sets, I'm maintaining strong song selection but only variant degrees of precision with mixing. Started the night without a monitor and it seems like as soon as that was hooked up I had more trouble mixing than I had without it. I also tried starting at a faster tempo than usual for a change during the first half of the opening of the night. It was indulgent to a degree, but they are great tracks. I wasn't as confident I could use in the later part of the night since they seem so unfamiliar, but they were good mood-setters.
And, of course, I played a few dark X-mas tracks, though again, mostly during the earlier set.
My second set was strong from start to finish and even managed to drop one less familiar track without losing the floor. I felt pretty good about that and got some great feedback afterward.
I'll be back to do it again for the last Haven of 2009 this Tuesday, December 29! I'll be joining Znuh in the booth... perhaps there's a third DJ? We'll see... :)
Here are my sets from Haven's Noel Noir:
9-10p set
Smooth E - Honika Electronica
Cruxshadows - Merry X-mas (War is Over)
Obscenity Trial - Seven Nation Army
Ashbury Heights - Spiders
Mortiis - Underdog (Zombie Girl remix)
Red Flag - Santa Claws
Porn Orchard feat. Curtiss Pernice as Tom Waits & Ted Hafer as Peter Murphy - This Holiday Season
Akira Yamaoka - Rain of Brass Petals (Three Voices Edit)(request)
Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground
Depeche Mode - Comatose
Tricky - She Makes Me Wanna Die (Stereo M.C.s mix)
Enigma - 7 Lives
Placebo - Running Up That Hill (Owen Tate mix)
12a:
Lonely Island - Dick In A Box
REPO - Zydrate Anatomy (request)
Ground To Dust - Digging My Way Out (request)
Rotersand - Exterminate Annihilate Destroy
Mindless Self Indulgence - Straight To Video
Rammstein - Du Hast (Gerayd remix) (request)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll (Dance 'til you're dead mix) (request)
Zeromancer - Send Me an Angel (request)
fin
HELL - Jingle Balls XXX-Mas; December 23
The Jingle Balls XXX-Mas Party @ Club Hell's Fetish Night was "a right hootenanny!"
I don't really know what that means either, but I had a good time. I managed to get a few of my friends out early in the night and they seemed to enjoy having the floor to themselves for the first hour. And the second hour floor filled nicely as well.
I mixed in the same dark X-mas music as at Haven... with the addition of a segue from Nightmare Before X-mas. On the whole it was a good set. I still have lots of technical stuff to work on and maybe I'll always feel like that. At least the feedback was just as enthusiastic as every other time I've been there!
I was a lot more social after my set than I usually am at Hell. I even made a new friend of someone who insisted on "molesting" me which resulted in a swapping of massages. Quite enjoyable!
From a promotional side of things, I may have to succumb to using Facebook. I don't really like its interface or functionality but far too many of the people I meet lately have that instead of LiveJournal or Myspace. I don't know.
It's likely I'll return to spin Club Hell's Fetish Night in January, but I don't have confirmation yet. I'll post when I do.
Here is my set from the Jingle Balls XXX-Mas Fetish Night at Club Hell:
9-11 set
Qntal - Ecce Gratum (mix)
Placebo - Meds
Porn Orchard feat. Curtiss Pernice as Tom Waits & Ted Hafer as Peter Murphy - This Holiday Season
Nine Inch Nails - Terrible Lie (request)
Enigma - 7 Lives
Royksopp - Vision One
Smiths - How Soon is Now
Cruxshadows - Merry X-mas (War is Over)
Blaqk Audio - Stiff Kittens
She Wants Revenge - All Wound Up
Rotersand - War On Error
Icon Of Coil - Shelter (request)
Muse vs. Blondie - Call Me Uprising (Muse request)
Red Flag - Santa Claws
Covenant - Dead Stars (request)
Zombie Girl - Creepy Crawler
Absynthesis - Masquerade
New Order - Blue Monday
A Perfect Circle - Counting Bodies Like Sheep
Spectra*Paris - Mad World (request)
Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch
Wolfsheim - Once In A Life Time
I AM X - Kiss & Swallow (manik)
My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult - Days of Swine & Roses
Lady GaGa vs Eurythmics - Dance Dreams (request)
Patrick Stewart - Nightmare Before Christmas Opening
Lonely Island - Dick In A Box
fin