i found out a little while ago that there is an open table night at a local club where i live and decided that i need to play my music on a big system again. so i grew me some balls and went down last night. i don’t know why i was so nervous, but there was something about it that made me a little bit apprehensive about going down there.
anyway… i got down there and got my time, which was 11:55-12:40 (45 min). cool. i got a little time to kill, so i get some drinks and hang out.
my friend started playing just as we got there, so that killed some time, but then more and more dj‘s showed up and they were friends of the people who were in charge of this little thing and so they got put on the list and everybody got bumped down to 30 min. pretty lame, but whatever. so i’m now supposed to play from 11:50-12:20. then some other guy started getting ready at around 11:45 and i was like, wtf? so one of the guys in charge told me that i would be after him at 12:20. not too bad, so i finally get my turn, and up till then, not many people were dancing so i figured i would just play some music and have everybody just sit there and watch me while i spun.
i get myself one last shot to calm the nerves and head on up and start getting ready.
i throw down my first record and it doesn’t match with the record that’s playing (the guys who was before me), so i pull a quick fade mix and start my set, not the smoothest, but it was my first song, so…
the first song i threw down has a super phatty bass line and dope energy and everybody in the place went crazy !
it was so awesome, it got me totally psyched for my set. i threw down the next song with a pretty clean mix, and it all went uphill from there. i think i was the only dj that night to have that many people dancing. it felt so awesome, and i was on a high from it for the rest of the night. the only bad thing about it was when i tried to mix into a cd the cd player they had was super touchy and very sensitive, so i couldn’t get the beats matched up very good and train wrecked into AND out of the cd, although the song i played was dope as hell.
i found out after my set that the sensitivity of the cd player could have been adjusted, but i’d never played on one before, so i had no idea. =/ oh, well.
anywho, just wanted to let everybody know that. =)