I hope I can do the event tomorrow.

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So I wasn't expecting them to look to pay a whole lot.
Of course, why would you?

I just told her $100. It got changed to 3 hours and since I already agreed to do it for one price I wouldn't change the price...
Of course not, why would you?

...to make me look like a jerk.
As if you would need any such affirmation.

I figured I would at least finally get to spend some time with her.
Must be difficult or, at the very least, uncomfortable to split that compensation with your "business" partner.

Just looking to get brownie points.
Seems like you'd should have already advanced to at least a Cadette Scout by now...sell more cookies bru!
 
Knowledge of music that people are willing to pay to hear I would guess.

With all of the skills and experience Mix claims he has, he should have no problem getting it all handled himself.

I’m starting to think that he is a Poser who just enjoys owning an assload of old beat-up equipment. I think he enjoys having it setup a few times of year to take pictures of it being used by other dj’s rocking out on it.
 
With all of the skills and experience Mix claims he has, he should have no problem getting it all handled himself.

I’m starting to think that he is a Poser who just enjoys owning an assload of old beat-up equipment. I think he enjoys having it setup a few times of year to take pictures of it being used by other dj’s rocking out on it.
No .. that park gig has got the wheels turning to make them into the standard bearers for 70s/80s House in NJ .. and maybe the world. He's going big time soon !!
 
Right now we have 2 events so far this summer. July 6th and the last Saturday in August. I certainly want to be more busy than that.

I’ve only had ONE event so far this year and I have only one more booked, but even if that’s all I do, I still bet I make more $$$ than you. Heck... I’ve probably made enough off the one event to make more than you. Busy is one thing, making money is another. I could be A LOT busier if I was only doing $100 kid’s birthday parties. I’m a bottom feeder, but I don’t even know what the description is for you???[emoji1] Oh... and I don’t have to split my money with a partner.[emoji1]


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I’ve only had ONE event so far this year and I have only one more booked, but even if that’s all I do, I still bet I make more $$$ than you. Heck... I’ve probably made enough off the one event to make more than you. Busy is one thing, making money is another. I could be A LOT busier if I was only doing $100 kid’s birthday parties. I’m a bottom feeder, but I don’t even know what the description is for you???[emoji1] Oh... and I don’t have to split my money with a partner.[emoji1]
Sure, that might all be true but how many brownie points with a White Castle waitress/Fry cook do you get?

Some of you businessmen are some consumed with financial health and profitability...C'mon, we don't dis to be a legit, successful business enterprises, we 'bout dat DJ groupie skank nookie?
 
No .. that park gig has got the wheels turning to make them into the standard bearers for 70s/80s House in NJ .. and maybe the world. He's going big time soon !!
Not 70's 80's house music. Deep underground music that a lot of DJs don't play.
 
Not 70's 80's house music. Deep underground music that a lot of DJs don't play.
So, is Deep Undergound House the only music you listen to or play? It seems that the partner plays everything but this and you cover that 15 minute set of DUH.....

I have always thought I have MADD (Music Attention Deficit Disorder) because I flip through so many genres in any given day. All depends on what I am doing and how I am feeling. Could be big band and swing to country to broadway show tunes to celtic punk to rap and then classical.

Can't say I know anything about deep underground house (or house for that matter), but tried to look into the genre and they don't have a listing for Deep Underground. They say Underground is stuff no one has heard and Deep is a slower (120bpm) with soul jazz and funk influences. Can you send some example songs for me to look up and listen to? I would be interested to learn about it.

 
Why pay a fee. Just deposit into you biz account.
I didn't know you could cash a check from a Biz? You must deposit the check , Not cash.
 
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So, is Deep Undergound House the only music you listen to or play? It seems that the partner plays everything but this and you cover that 15 minute set of DUH.....

I have always thought I have MADD (Music Attention Deficit Disorder) because I flip through so many genres in any given day. All depends on what I am doing and how I am feeling. Could be big band and swing to country to broadway show tunes to celtic punk to rap and then classical.

Can't say I know anything about deep underground house (or house for that matter), but tried to look into the genre and they don't have a listing for Deep Underground. They say Underground is stuff no one has heard and Deep is a slower (120bpm) with soul jazz and funk influences. Can you send some example songs for me to look up and listen to? I would be interested to learn about it.

This is a certain style of music that certain crowds enjoy. Those crowds are more open. They are not stuck on the same old stuff you hear time and time again. That stuff that is boring to me but everybody wants to hear. What we call standard stuff. My thing is disco music, house music and oldies but goodies. Stuff that is safe. Crowds not looking for trouble.
 
This is a certain style of music that certain crowds enjoy. Those crowds are more open. They are not stuck on the same old stuff you hear time and time again. That stuff that is boring to me but everybody wants to hear. What we call standard stuff. My thing is disco music, house music and oldies but goodies. Stuff that is safe. Crowds not looking for trouble.
So, no YouTube links or SoundCloud or anything to hear what you are talking about? I asked for some examples and you say that I listen to standard stuff. And, I am sorry my stuff is boring to you...can I please hear what you like? Maybe 4 songs from the deep house, 2 disco and 2 oldies but goodies...... It can be just the title and artist and I will find it. Don't want you to waste time on the interwebs.
 
So, no YouTube links or SoundCloud or anything to hear what you are talking about? I asked for some examples and you say that I listen to standard stuff. And, I am sorry my stuff is boring to you...can I please hear what you like? Maybe 4 songs from the deep house, 2 disco and 2 oldies but goodies...... It can be just the title and artist and I will find it. Don't want you to waste time on the interwebs.
First I didn't say what you listen is boring. What I said was I have certain songs that I'm tired of playing. I've played them enough times I don't care if I never play them again. One song is Follow Me by Alyus. When I get a request for that song for that song I want to say don't you already have that song on 10 CDs? I don't say anything. I just play it. When I get a request like that I say to myself this is going to be boring for me and it usually is. My job is to see to it that the people at the event are happy because I'm getting paid to do a job.

Let me give a little history. In the clubs back in the day that a DJ playing in a club was in a record pool that gave them access to certain songs and certain versions of a song that only they could get because they were a DJ playing in a club. Not a regular bar but a club. My favorite song of all times is Colonel Abrams Release The Tension. At the time that song came out only DJs playing in a club had access to that song.. A group called Circuit put out a garbage version. It was super corny but I had to buy because the song was that popular. I used to go to Club Zanzibar just to hear that song.

I can't think of a song off hand that is deep underground house music. I have to look on my HD to find a few songs. One oldies but goodies song that comes to mind that my friend turned me onto that I love is Joe Turner Flip Flop Fly.
 
Its funny that the song you always quote as the song thats mainstream and you are tired of playing is a song that ive played maybe twice in my entire 30 year career. This is what people are trying to explain to you...you are so far deep into one single niche that the songs you think are these mainstream overplayed borefests are obscure to the populous... our clients havent had our musical experience... they werent 30 years old at club "zanzibar" and get all sentimental over old house and disco...

You were almost booked for a young childs birthday party... were you really expecting that child and his/her family to go on a trip with you back to club zanzibar?

Genres have their place... and if another old man or woman want you to take them back to the old days of house and disco for a particular occasion... then sure...have at it... but dont believe for one second that you can run a mainstream dj service without stepping out of your comfort bubble and actually putting in the work to become a supplier of popular music...

Do u really think the rest of us dont have our own favorite sentimentally driven genres... i personally had my hay day in the clubs in the 90s and early 2000's and there are so many obscure songs that only existed in that moment...but no longer resinate with a crowd in 2019... sure some songs made it through...and its fun to drop a couple interesting tracks to see how they play... but it is highly unfair to hire out services and have a client expecting a musically educated dj...and instead they get you

its like sitting down to watch the stooges and getting a Shemp

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