There was a reason I stopped DJ’ing, and I remembered what it was around 1 a.m. last night as I was trying to put together the iPod playlist for tonight’s Idolator birthday party. My embarrassingly OCD personality will already obsess over just about anything. If it’s related to playing music for a crowd, I will take it to staying-up-til-3-a.m. levels of endless sequencing tweaks and other control-freak nonsense. But eventually giving on up on trying to combine both of your Idolators’ personal playlists into something that “flowed” without so much as fading between tracks left it easier to concoct the spazzy mixtape you get when a freestyle fan from Long Island meets a turn-of-the-’90s R&B fanatic from Pennsylvania. (Which is also a rejected plot from when I was in film school.) Maura has suggested I post a few examples of the kind of songs that will be playing in a pre-arranged order later tonight, and you can talk shit in advance after the jump:
Preview: What Idolator Will Be Booming In Our <s>Jeep</s>Rock Bar Tonight
September 24th, 2007 // 14 Comments
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pre-planned DJ set lists are horrible. what happens if the crowd you get doesn’t respond positively to what you have set up? i always let the crowd have about 65% of the control as far as direction is concerned, because the event is primarily about them, not me.
@brainchild: I guess we won’t see you tonight!
i’m with brainchild on this one..
ipod playlist?
that’s not being a DJ.
that’s lazy.
i’ll allow it only if you are eating with both hands the entire time you are “DJ-ing”
something like nachos, or, several hot dogs.
i plan on double-fisting bourbons until i can no longer stand.
p.s. it’s not a dj set. in case the words “playlist” and “mixtape” are somehow unfamiliar.
i always find it ironical that the opinions DJs often have regarding “real” DJing sound kinda similar to the arguments rockist-types make about electronic/dance music not being “real” music because it wasn’t made by a band playing real instruments together… anyway, the way i see it if I’m playing music at my birthday party (or an Idolator is doing so at Idolator’s) then the event is primarily about me, not them, and if they don’t want to listen to what I want to play then they shouldnta come to my birthday.
Please relax, DJ purists. It’s their party, and they’ll play from their iPods if they want to.
i’ve been doing some dynamic stretching and light calisthenics all day in order to be warmed up for this.
If this thing was on a weekend, I’d be there.
However, I live in Boston. I’d rather not be rip-roaring drunk on the Fung-Wah bus at 3:00 a.m.
Here’s hoping you all have a wonderful time!
DIPPNKIND is right. It’s Idolator’s party and you can suck it if their love of Hanna Montana B-Sides is too much for you.
@Charlie Kerfelds Jetsons Tee: That is the ONLY way to be on the Fung Wah, my friend.
I am just bitter and angry that I was NOT allowed to come tonight! So I don’t care what the HELL you play! Okay, nevermind have fun! Love you!
@kaate: Truth be told, it’s not so much the ride…
…it’s the getting up for work AFTER the drunken bus ride.
@KittytheKat: Yeah, with Kitty on this one. Those who can go but don’t wanna should remember the Idolator commenters who are geographically prohibited from making it. Fuck, Maura and Jess could play a Pan Sonic sine wave for four hours and I’m sure it’d still be fun.
i told maura that the freakytrigger poptimism cru were available to come along and dj, i mean how much are a couple of london – new york tickets anyway? i’m sure they’d be tax deductable ;)