Happy Mothers Day from John Roberts!

rabbitdowneyjr · 1 month

People have been asking me this. I think I'm going to hold on to it. I already have one of the cuts on a re-press so really the only reason I want to hold on to it is because of its value and I guess to impress people, but it's also a nice addition to a collection I've been building over time. Anyway, maybe I'll sell it off in a couple years, Idk.

rabbitdowneyjr · 1 month

Leomini, not the 2011 repress, the original 1979 Leomini (which I guess is still the second pressing?)

taa1987 · 1 month

I agree that getting a sub will be super important. If for no other reason than having it will ease the stress you put on the speakers themselves. What I find a lot of people doing is really cranking their speakers to unsafe levels to get louder bass frequencies out of them. With a sub you can alleviate this problem, have a more full sound, and rock a party... My honest advice, grab the 400W speakers, throw your first party, make sure you check your levels throughout the night (this means no turning it up past a certain point no matter how drunk you are and how much you want to hear that Boys II Men record blasting in your chest) and charge a cover. $5 gets you a cup for the night, do the math and grab enough beer to make a profit that will help you buy the sub. You can even tell people the money is for a better sound system. You should be able to afford something decent after the first party if it goes well.

And as an obligation (you are posting in r/DJs) just have an actual DJ who owns a soundsystem come out and play the party for you. You'll look cool for throwing a reasonable party and I guarantee you there are good DJs our there who will play for the cost of smoking/drinking them up and talking them up to the ladies (I still play house parties for free and I get paid GOOD money to play night clubs.)

rabbitdowneyjr · 1 month

I actually took the picture myself, so you can just congratulate me here.

ACTUAL ORIGINAL CONTENT!?!?!?

sjhill · 2 months

DOPE JAM!

chuck-e-cheese · 2 months

Also Chuck, I see you post a ton of disco mixes and tunes in this thread (seems like you're one of the leading contributors) Where are you based out of?? I'm always happy to have another record collecting friend, especially one who's interested in what I am!

chuck-e-cheese · 2 months

Just picked up the 45" of this one. KILLER TUNE!

climbingtyler · 2 months

I guess I understand what you're saying. In this case I think looking for vocals and samples that haven't been heard before is important. Especially if you can resurrect something that's great that most other people have passed over and turn it into something contemporary. All of the music I love right now and I think the most interesting music being made is stuff that isn't re-hashing ideas that have been shoved in my face for a while but things that are brand new to me. Something that can help that is digging for old records that never got interest but are incredible (there are many) As I said, I guess I understand the idea of Pandora (which in my opinion is kind of shit) or searching "Disco" if you'd like to have someone else's opinion, but if you can really educate yourself on music itself, wether it be disco soul blues RnB funk jazz, whatever was the birthplace of dance music, you'll have a better understanding of music entirely, you'll be able to pull back tunes that were beautiful that never got the chance to shine, and you'll be able to make new tunes that are inspired. Maybe you're just writing off "disco" starkilla but with any music of the past, if you're writing music, I think it's important to find out about it, regardless of genre. And espeically if you're producing dance floor oriented music, particularly french house, you should have a broad knowledge of authentic disco. Have you heard Daft Punk, have you heard Justice. These artists are HUGE and if you listen to them they obviously have a firm knowledge and deep understanding of 70's-80's disco music.

climbingtyler · 2 months

My digging has really got me into twelve inch singles but as some super preliminary records to get your feel wet... Everything chic put out is great. You can do their greatest hits and I'm sure you'll be happy. Roy ayers "everybody loves the sunshine" is an all time favorite. Labels like prelude and Sam are pretty great across the board for good boogie jams. Check the disco sub reddit. Listen to mixes (there's still a ton of disco being played and re examined). As I've said the good stuff is definitely out there. I'll give you a start but as with any music it's definitely something you should discover on your own.

climbingtyler · 2 months

do me a favor, if you find an accapella of Asha's "Space Talk" send it my way.

climbingtyler · 2 months

check out accapellas of classic Disco divas like Loleatta Halloway, Suzy Q, Asha Pathuli. The list goes on man, just dig deeper, the good stuff is out there.

climbingtyler · 2 months

Seriously though, get into Disco music. It is the foundation for house music as we know it and an amazing place get not only vocal samples but ideas for drum rhythms, song structure, bass lines, synth sounds, instrumentation, etc...

TheWaywardBus · 2 months

I hear you man, I play a lot of disco so my mixes tend to be relatively quick (if you've mixed or heard disco mixed before you'll know why this is) and I also just have a pretty quick style of mixing in general. For techno and some types of house long spread out mixing and isolation of certain parts of tracks can be really cool so I understand where you're coming from using the headphones a lot while mixing.

I honestly haven't used any type of professional earplug and actually rarely use the cheap ones at all either. I've been planning on it as my hearing has never been good and my grandfather has terrible hearing (after this I'll be posting in ask reddit to find out what percentage of hearing loss is genetic) but I've also been planning on quitting smoking so we'll see how it works out.

My other thought was that there may be some sort of external EQ that you could send the que signal into that would have an output for your headphones. I don't know if it would be a logical choice, but if you could find something like this for cheap it would eliminate that necessity of purchasing a mixer with que EQ and broaden your possibilites of what to buy. You could actually probably do it with your computer and an EQ VST using the input and output on your laptop or an external sound card but that might be a little bit of a cumbersome setup.

My friend has the MP2016S mixer with the EQ attachment. It's a vintage style rotary with big bulky volume knobs that emulates some of the classic 80's era rotary mixers. To be honest it's the best mixer I've ever used. The slope on the EQs and the volume is really smooth and it lends itself to Larry Levan style disco mixing as well as the type of long transition "when does one song end and the next begin" style that it seems like you're doing. You can't do any cutting or turn tablist type stuff on it but I gave all that up when I stopping spinning Drum & Bass.

Anyway, hope some of this can help you out. Good luck!

PokeSomeSmot · 2 months

Haha, fuckin hell man, yeah there were like 3 of us dudes there. I was using vinyl and serato that night, mostly I stick to vinyl but my collecting is all disco and house and I felt like I needed to keep it poppy that night. I haven't been to Dyke ball, though I hear it's great, and very drunken. Have a good time!

TheWaywardBus · 2 months

I agree with Wayword, my buddy who I play out with a lot uses one of the Rane rotary mixers and the queuing isn't effected by EQ adjustment at all. At first this was weird to me but the more I got used to it the more I realized, cueing really is only for finding where you want to be in an incoming track and initial beatmatching/small adjustment. For most of my best mixes I've only used the headphones for the first 3-5 seconds of the mix (sometimes less) and popped them off once I had the incoming record in using the monitors to beatmatch. The idea of an EQ on the cue channel is pretty interesting. Is this something that's pretty strictly used to save your ears. Something you might want to consider is actually just wearing earplugs when you DJ. They'll be far cheaper than a new mixer.

PokeSomeSmot · 2 months

Hah! that's pretty much how it went. Not to get overly emotional but we actually just broke up so you guys can start jocking for position now :)

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