Wednesday 2nd of July 2014 – My extremely brief foray into DJ land
Back in 2007, when Serious Business nights were running, I thought it would be a good idea to have a go at being a DJ for one night.
At around 10pm and with mostly only my friends in the room upstairs at Archway 269 I set out to ‘try everything once’ just this once.
I really didn’t enjoy it much. I was CD mixing and at one point it just stopped working and I had no idea what to do. I think I actually screamed… A friend (Roz) had to come to the rescue but that brought home to me this really wasn’t my thing. I never felt a burning desire to do it again and that was that.
Anyway, here’s pretty much the best of the repertoire of CDs I had at my disposal. I put them all together and uploaded them to Mixcloud last year, before the trip to Brazil. I was listening to it again today and decided to blog it for posterity.
[mixcloud https://www.mixcloud.com/lelelondon/brasil-mix/ width=100% height=60 hide_cover=1 mini=1]
In case embedded player doesn’t work, here’s the link to the mix https://www.mixcloud.com/lelelondon/brasil-mix/
This was mixed on Adobe Premiere. I used it mainly to overlay the tracks so there would be no gaps between them, then exported the audio only. Surprisingly effective and simple.
Tracklist
1 Drumagik – Amor de verão remix
2 Malena – Para Ti (Crancas Mix)
3 Wando – Nega de Obaluaê
4 Timbalada – Latinha
5 Farofa Carioca – Moro No Brasil
6 Seu Jorge – Carolina
7 Marcelinho da Lua & Seu Jorge – Cotidiano (Buzzino remix)
8 Felix, Gil vs. Infrared – Capoeira
9 Mestre Marcal – A Incrivel Bateria
10 Ney De Castro – Ba-tu-ca-da
11 Barbappatuques – Barbappapa’s Groove
12 Otto – Bob
13 Fatboy Slim – Follow Me Follow Me (Quem Que Coguetou) Full Length Remix
14 Clube do Balanço – Kriola
15 Candeia – Sãudáçao A Toco Preto
16 Guem – Riacho
17 Maria (One Rascal Mix) – Bazeado
18 Heavy Joker – Leaving for Cala Bassa
19 Trio Mocotó – Não Adianta
20 Juca Chaves – Take Me Back to Piaui
21 Riva (Gringo Jo Casa de Samba mix) – Arakatuba
22 Fernanda Porto(DK Marky & XRS Mainline mix) – Eu Não Vou Fugir
23 Chico Science – Coco Dub
24 Som Tres – Take it easy my brother Charles
25 Rosinha de Valencia – Summertime
26 Tim Maia – Gostava Tanto De Você
27 Caetano Veloso – O Leãozinho
28 Elis Regina – Yê Melê
29 Mamelo Sound System – Inudub
I couldn’t help but go through all the PRoD/Offline photos in that collection… We had some amazingly silly and fun times back then!!!!