THE SHAKEDOWN

I’ve been workin with The Scratch Academy LA/Rehab Projects for the last few months.  High Lounge is our new spot for the summer.  It’s on the roof of Hotel Erwin in Venice.  We’ll have someone there Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.  I got to open this up for all of us last Saturday, and I get the honor of being the first one to come back and rock it again. Its an amazing view of LA!!  Venice beach behind the DJ, and  on a clear day, you can see all the way into downtown. Come hang out with me!!  I promise you some good music, a variety of music, your favorite tracks, some classics, some new stuff, some stuff you haven’t heard in a while, some stuff you’ve never heard at all, some stuff you can sing along to, pretty much music across the whole board.  Hope to see you there!!!

May 14, 2010 from 7pm to 11pm
High Lounge on the roof of Hotel Erwin
1697 Pacific Avenue
Venice Beach, CA 90291

If you didn’t get to make it out the other weekend for my birthday parties, I’ve got you covered.  I pulled up the history on my laptop, pushed record, and re-did what I did on two of the nights.  Its definitely not exactly the same, but I did these recordings in one take, so I could at least get the vibe of it being live.  I skipped over the commercial club sets, from the first Friday (I may go back and record those anyway), and just decided to record my sets from Sugarfoot @ Verdugo, and The Bridge @ Rehab.  Click on the images below to download them!!  (there’s 2 mixes, be sure to get them both)

For Sugarfoot, I decided to go with a lot stuff that I’ve never really played out live.  Sorry if I don’t know the music that well, but I had fun giving it a shot.  Threw in some stuff that I do know well too.  If you know me, you’ll know which is which.

For The Bridge, I really didn’t have anything planned.  Cygnet drove while I put stuff into a create.  Literally on the drive over.  I went on first that night, so it didn’t really matter what I played.  Just decided to have fun with it.  So if you notice a handful of the same songs on both sets, its  because I had fun with it the night before.  This one has a little more Hiphop to it.

Another one of my old partners from the original Livitup crew is DJ View.  He’s not really DJing much anymore, other than just for fun.  His new passion is photography.  He has a web page, VuShots.com and blog set up.  He came over the other day, took a few pictures, and asked me a few questions.  You can check that all out here.  Just click on the picture below.

This Friday, March 12th…. Its another stop on this birthday tour that halfway put itself together.  This week get to ignore the crappy radio music.  I was so caught up in that radio contest last week, that I had the radio on way more than usual.  (Again… I’ll get more into that later).  So this Friday and Saturday, I promise nothing but good music.

I’ve rocked at Verdugo before, with my boy Hey Mesa.  Scroll through the blog and pull up my Footnotes mix.  I’ll be putting together something cool and different for this week.  Hope to see you there!!

The homie DJ Shredone gave me the title teacher, cause she would come over, practice and session once in a while… She’s been around a lot of other DJs too.. .  But… I’m not mad at the title, kinda flattered to be honest.  I’ll take it cause she’s a dope DJ.  Not a good female DJ, but just good DJ in general.  ShredOne, along with her girl Roza, came out with this mix a few months back. Not sure why I’m just putting it up on here now.  I’m laggin on this whole blog thing as a whole…. anyways… its  good music for the discofunk/boogie lovers. Download it now!!
LOVESPACE

My original plan for my birthday was to do nothing, but then a lot of things came up, and I ended up with several events planned.  I got a little too busy to post up on the blog, but last Friday, I had two events.  I competed in the semi finals of this KIIS FM DJ contest.  which I will get into another time.  Then right after that, we all walked upstairs from Level3 to The Highlands, and I did a set with the Usual Suspects.  Saturday, I had a BBQ at the fam’s house.  Pictures up soon.

OK… here’s whats comin up!!!!  This Friday, I’ll be rockin with the homie Hey Mesa at his party SugarFoot at The Verdugo Bar.  Flyer up soon.  And on Saturday, its the return of The Bridge.  Brought to you by DJ Hapa and Mr. Choc.  We’ll be celebrating my birthday, along with Mr. Choc and DJ Dynamix.  DJ Babu will be in the mix.  Hope to see you there!!!

If you don’t know about The Bridge…. watch this!! Anything can happen, but whatever happens, the music will be GOOD!!!

My current day job is at American Latino TV, we did a feature on my boy Ronnie Jr. I edited it. Here it is.

sorry… had to take out the embeded video cause it was set to auto play. I don’t know how to change that on my end. But go ahead and click on the picture and it’ll take you to where you can watch it!!

I was listening to a friend’s mix (no names)… not one of my regular DJ partners, but we have played together a few times.  So I understand that if you do a live mix, there’s gonna be an occasional slip up, maybe something here or there that could’ve been more clean.  But…. if it just full out sucks, do I tell him?  Crappy music and a lot of bad mixes.  I’m not talking a few slips of being off beat, but full out vocals overlapping.  I can live with hearing you push the record once in a while, I can let the crappy music slide if thats what you had to play, but if you know you had a bad night and messed up a lot, why would you post it up online for people to download?  Again… no names cause that is one of the homies.  Hopefully he never asks what I thought of the mix.

Im hopin to go this weekend. My brother is there right now. Man… I cant wait to get to this new stuff!!