odd... why would you say the 2nd half hour was dragging? i would have expected the opposite--you want to die first, then you start to feel comfortable. when i started you played for just 4 hours...

i don't remember my first time out in a CLUB, but i do remember being COMPLETELY freaked out my first time flying solo in public (i did radio first.)

Oh God my "first Time"....last month.

Well I was playing a a club's weekly (subbing for a resident), so i was asked to spin the day before. eek! So i prepared my shit and realized I had left my cds' @ my friends house the previous night. And i couldn't get a hold of my friend, So i had to completely redo my "crate" of cds. All 102 of them. burning CDs like a madman, THANK GOD VINYL is ready to go!, and i get there late. And through my own nervousness, i try to play out of my genre, and (imo) my mixing suffers for it. But everyone else says it sounded great. BUt my hour was up in what i felt like 10 minutes.

I have another coming up so i guess I'm not a bedroom DJ anymore. But I still feel I am especially when in the months i son't get called out for a gig.

My first real gig is tomorrow! This is nuts that this topic came up. Should be fun. I've a couple of house parties already, so nerves shouldn't be an issue. Just will interesting to see how strangers react to the wax.
Hey, if you live in the Phoenix area, come out to the Paper Heart. It's a listening party for the new Mark Farina and Bassnectar albums, plus a band, a MC, me and another dj.

oh! on that online thought, I've found that www.plurrecords.com and www.addictech.com have had some tasty selections.
peace,
marc

MMmmm...mammaries...uhh...Memories! Yeah I remember my first time playing out... Back in 94' I went to a house party with a friend of mine who used to own Factory 55 Record shop.. I think there had to have been at least 15 or 20 other aspiring dj's of various skill levels there. My friend finagled me a half hour time slot right after a jungle / d&b dj.... which was great except that I was into trance, techno and house at the time... and I was still learning how to beatmatch.. very interesting segue.. I don't think i even looked up till the 4th or 5th mix.....right into the piercing gaze of of a bunch of trainspotters ( see aforementioned gaggle of fellow djs ). nervous as hell but so worth the rush..

Unfortunately, I haven't made or taken the time to even so much as look at my tables, let alone play with them in almost a year now.... f'n work !! I really need to find some inspiration to get back at it . I miss getting people to dance their asses off....

i played out of the house for the first time last week, man it was nerve racking. after a few margaritas i chilled out and things seemed to flow more smoothly. We're doing a weekly at this sweet little outdoor/indoor jamaican themed place and last week was our first week.

Yesterday i got to play again and i was still just as nervous but after the tequila kicked in I was able to stop over thinking and feel the groove.

It is interesting to be able to set the vibe of a place through musical flow. It's nice to look up and see people dancing and digging my records. Playing to my living room is definitely more relaxed but playing out under the sun and sky to smiling appreciative people gives a different feeling of goodness.

If were going by the very very first time ever out of the studio mine was when some friends through a house party on NYE in 04. I had only had records for about 4 months at this point and I was spinning UK NRG, I was scheduled to play or anything but I had house mates that were so they told me to bring my records, I was so new to everything, I had about 10 records and I only spun about 6, I got one mix right and the rest of it was was a wreck. Crazy thing is though, about 2 months after this experiance I realized that you're supposed to get the pitchs lined up before trying to bring in the record, so when I played new years I was throwing the record then adjusting it.

The 2nd time I ever played a party was at Return Of Zod towards the end of summer 2005, during the day at noon, I understood the cueing process and to set them up prior to throwing um but I didnt know how to adjust it after I threw it if it started to go off so once again, it was train wreck central. Thing about this though is that I had had no tables to practice on since May of 2005 when my house mates and I went our seperate ways.

Then in late winter of 2005 my wonderful girlfriend gave me the money to go buy some off brand, belt drive turntables from a music shop that was going out of business, my first real set of tables :) After that I was on the tables day and night, I almost lost my job a couple times because of it.
And it all ended up paying off when I got booked by Jeff Z to play at MAGE III by Des Moines, IA, in April of 2006. I consider this my fist real gig. I had an 10 oclock slot and everything went perfect, all the mixing was right on and the mixs were bad ass, and totally tunnelistic (I play trance/techno/nrg now a days) but even this time, like all the other times I was soooooo nervious that I felt sick, even puked a little behind the tent (it was an out door)

And now adays I can just do it, I've played out maybe 10 times since MAGE and although I'm by no means perfect at what I do I'm much much much better, and if you wanna see how much better you can listen to my mix here waxdj.com/djs/4323/ I would put up an old one I did when I first started mixing but you'd probably turn it off after the first two train wrecks, I know that I do :)
Thanks for taking the time to read this,
Peace and love to all,
stevo