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A family member has set up his turntables on the lawn with a couple of laptops and a lot of Murcof. There’s been sporadic activity of the costumed variety, three or four witches (and one witch mom), a space guy, a magician, and six young ladies with gowns and at least one tiara. Two highschoolers were out collecting cans for charity, and got candy as well.

Quite a bit of time has passed since the article linked was written, and since then Numark has created a product specifically built to allow DJing with a single IPod. It’s a bit like having two CD turntables and a mixer all on one board, with a socket to place the IPod in.

Everyone’s a DJ now. Well, of course your music has to be good, as in crowd-pleasing.

And what drives a crowd to delirium might surprise you.

felt like streaming and mixing some of the new records i’d picked up over the last month. i can never find a good track to mix out of the mataya one, so i bailed and started over.

mix 1 starts with some laid-back electro, moves into microhouse and light tech-house territory, then goes into some heavier, glitchier stuff. the mix of the last 3 tracks was shamelessly lifted from mr. c’s classic 2002 essential mix.

mix 2 is tech-house of the darker, deeper variety, with some basic channel stuff and aril brikha thrown in for good measure. ends on a floatier, housey note.

mix 1:

mesak - tufnu (klakson)
johan skugge - kyrkogaard (mitek)
subsound - electrobot (affected)
zvukbroda - kse zo (listen to reason)
omni a.m. & casey hogan - in my time of flying (euphoria)
le dust sucker - keine bewegung berlin (styles kickin’)
steve bug & richie hawtin - low blow (minus)
mataya - new game (listen to reason)

mix 2:

blue mar ten - numbers (deep structure)
second hand satellites - orbit 1.4 (hallucination)
maurizio - m5 (maurizio)
round four - find a way (vocal mix) (main street)
sanasol vs. ozzy - seveneleven (ozzymix) (thule)
aril brikha - on and on (transmat)
david alvarado - klugh (ovum)
juju christian - feel good (zeppelin)