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Plagtown Radio 28

Saudade Vem Correndo - Stan Getz
Stomping Gamay - Karriem Riggins, Madlib, Jahari Massamba Unit
Come Around and Love Me - Jalen Ngonda
It's a Shame (My Sister) - Monie Love, True Image
Lights Out - Nubiyan Twist
So many Days - SculpturedMusic
I Heard the Voice of Music Say - Sunbear
LA 14 - Breakfast Band
Think Twice - Detroit Experiment
Sottopassaggio - Axel Boman, Miljon
Love Shy (Subjoi's Tuff Jam Rework) - Subjoi
Central Line Jazz - Shaolin Cowboy
Teebee03 - Rioleval
Riddle - Dimmish
Shoreditch - Vrdnyn
How True Is Your Love - Hush Hush

shame i'm not in Bristol as this sounds great.

Does anyone have any experience of DJing with Yamaha HS7's?

I like the idea of them and would like to move into production at some point. Possibly. I know they are very flat sounding.

Not with DJ’ing, but do have the HS5s (their smaller brother) as part of a home studio set up. I find them (for me) frustratingly flat in that I always feel they’re missing some body. As a reference monitor I’m sure they’re great and they certainly sound detailed but I felt there was a massive increase in quality and depth to any music with the additional HS8 sub, which I do rate for a home/small studio set up.

I’ve used the KRK5s and similar for work as foldback/control room monitors and much prefer the Yamahas, but if I was looking for something in a similar price bracket with a bit more ooph out the box I’d try and get a listen to some of the Mackie studio monitors. Just avoid the “pro-sumer” ones as they’re a bit naff IMHO, but easy enough to do by filtering out those with Bluetooth or only rca/speaker cable inputs vs XLR

But the important thing to remember for production is that most people will listen via headphones so whilst a nice set up at home is nice, it’s always worth mastering to make sure it sounds good on the basic Apple/Google wired headphones as well and not just on a higher end set up

Ok thanks. I'm still very much undecided though. I'll take a look at the Mackies.

Cheers, it was fun. Not that busy, but then it was mid-week. Think they want me in on a Friday next time.

Pioneer do rotary

https://youtu.be/Q5yABhSkGiY?si=cUQ-Wv2nQrEZ3fyGhttps://youtu.be/Q5yABhSkGiY?si=cUQ-Wv2nQrEZ3fyG

East Bristol mengers:
I'm doing another bit of Djing tomorrow. Same place - The All Inn, Fishponds, Bristol.

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I'm on daytrip to Bristol but on family stuff so unlikely to be able to swing by. Hope it goes well.

Away for the weekend but hope to make it to one of these.

Well this ones cancelled now anyway 😭
My youngest has come out in a rash all over and my dog just bust his paw open, which all feels a bit unfair to leave for the babysitter (wife currently away on work).

I’ll be playing some 45s at home and drinking wine on my own…

Damn, hope they are both ok.

Enjoy your wine and vinyl sesh!

Other than being be-rashed, my daughter is completely fine, which is slightly annoying! I’d just feel really shitty if she developed a temp while I was out or something like that. Dog fine too - other than being an idiot.

I played a 30 min set of 7's in a very quiet pub in central mcr tonight, it was low pressure & fun.

Sounds fun! What kind of stuff did you play? I've got another night coming up - 4th may. I was thinking of only taking 7s. I end up playing about 90% 7s anyway.

Here's
-h-GOOH a few of the tracks, it didn't flow great but was for folks to play chess under so I wanted fairly mellow mostly. The z7 to JO switch is quite early, I don't play both versions fully...

Edit. Fuck knows why it hates this embed link possibly the hyphens? The click link works I think?

7's defo better for travel light. I need more though.

I might go heavy box of 12's next time though & play an hour of Mo-Wax / Ninja Tune if they'll have me back.

Excellent, listening now.

And I'd listen the heck out of a ninja tune/Mo-Wax mix.

Ah hope you didn't think I'd posted mix link there, just the tracks from YT in a playlist. I'm so rusty there'd be very little mixing just letting tracks run mostly. Maybe if I get more time & headspace in the future I could revisit.

Yeah, I got it :-)

I don’t really do any technical mixing - I’m overlapping at best. I did play out the other week and did a grand total of 3 very quick beat matched blends, but that was just opportunistic, noticing they were almost the same bpms.

Bristol headz: I'm playing records a week tomorrow.
disclaimer - I'm not responsible for poster!
The stock photo of a controller made my vinyl-only toes curl a little :-D

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The few times I tried to properly mix when out I'd end up shaking so much I couldn't put the needle on. Even using timings to cue and run it an intro / fade has me shaking. Fuck anxiety.

Hope it goes well. I might be playing tunes at a private party weekender... Sunday chill slot hopefully, just depends on if I can get there for various reasons.

I might have shared this before but refound it today. It is a rough and raw mix I was making back in 2007 and never finished, it's a bit off in places but mostly ok to my ears. I've chucked it onto Mixcloud now.

https://www.mixcloud.com/tmwtmc/it-will-not-fly/

I think I got so bored of listening to it over and over back then trying to develop it that I have needed this long to start to enjoy it once more.

Plagtown Radio Number 30

https://soundcloud.com/lordnoiz/plagtown-radio-30

Tracklist:
Sunset Sound - Pachyman
Conversation Piece - Surprise Chef
Groovin' - Willie Mitchell
Bait-Leo - Ben Hauke
City Limits - Pinty
Back On The Line - Noise Ark
Underground Lingo E.P-1 (Old Skool) - Matos, Mateo
Happy Music - SuperShy
Just A Place (Gerd Janson Remix) - Underground System
House Is Home - Sweely
Solitaire Deepness - Washerman
On The Run - Saib
Welcome Theremin - MEZERG
Love Rescue - Danny Russell
Biggie Was A Jazz Fan (Dub) - Mark Blair
Faraó Divindade do Egito - Joutro Mundo