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Does anyone know what kind of lights the circular lights are? Is there anything economical that can do patterns like this, maybe in different colors? Red: View: https://youtu.be/Qmi1DYqIzQg?t=14 White: View: https://youtu.be/89uOBVndddM?t=127

After some time off, I'm getting back into the swing of things with some teen/school dances coming up. My current light setup is four LED PAR lights, two Chauvet Swarm 5 multi-effects, and an LED Bar (I got rid of the weak laser thing in the pic). Also a fog machine. All controlled off a PC...

If they ever fail, I'll update this thread. I'm not gigging that much anymore (about 10x a year), so it won't see heavy use.

Sam's Club in Los Angeles had this hand cart yesterday. I picked one up and it seems extremely solid. Might be worth checking out if you're looking for a cart and have a Sam's Club nearby. Rated for 1000lbs as a cart, 800lbs as a dolly...

Tomorrow (5/25) I've got an outdoor wedding in the hills above Los Angeles. The forecast is for .5" of rain, and there was snow earlier this week. Temperatures will go from cold to colder (well, SoCal "cold"). They're bringing in a big tent to try and salvage the day, but I'm wondering how...

This is a good podcast about the science behind the "Song of Summer"... Manufacturing The Song Of The Summer

There's an internet person who recently covered it, so this might have gotten the song back into the spotlight... https://headlineplanet.com/home/2019/03/09/indianas-i-think-were-alone-now-cover-scores-airplay-in-rio-grande-valley-milwaukee/ View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feP6OVdcgVk

Hope your event went well. For future reference, there's always this deep Star Wars cut for the true fans... View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vuqa5U8ZL-o

I live life dangerously. I'll even hit "Update now" 30 minutes before show starts.

So I finally had a potential client ask about adding Karaoke for an event. I've never done it before, but I guess it would be nice to offer. So what am I looking at? Now that you can subscribe to online services, I'm assuming song selection is less of a problem. So it would just be...

Over on Reddit, people are sharing their stories of wedding disasters. Here are all the comments that involve DJs:

As steve pointed out, I just highlighted alternate sections of popularity to try and make it a little easier to read. The songs are sorted alphabetically by artist within each group.

I must have watched a different video than you did. I'm hearing a lot of crowd reaction.

Northern LA (near Magic Mountain).

Interestingly, I had a wedding last Saturday and it's been 100°+ here in CA, and the food was a taco buffet out in the courtyard. So I managed the tables being released (no singing), and no one complained about sitting inside instead of standing in line. I think they appreciated it, even if...

I'm not looking for a market rate; it's dances that my kids and their friends go to. Unsurprisingly, they had a terrible DJ, so I offered to do the dances and that was their budget. It's closer to charity. And honestly, if they came to me and said they were cancelling future dances because...

Sorry if I wasn't clear. I'm not arguing that the capital investment is comparable. I'm saying that if the group doesn't have the money, then they don't have the money, regardless of the capitalization of the vendors. But in this case, they did have the money. It would be like giving a...

I'm strictly in the hobbyist category, and I'm not focused on getting a lot of gigs (I do it because I love the equipment, the music, and having fun). But I gave a good price to a friend-of-a-friend for a wedding on Saturday, and when I showed up, I started thinking about how much they spent on...

Well, there are another 2500+ songs on the list, so I'm sure you could find something you like... ;)

Slow day at work, and curiosity got the best of me, so here it is. The Ultimate Spotify Wedding Party Playlist (2018). I surveyed several dozen "Wedding Party" and "Wedding Dance" playlists and came up with a list of 5021 songs (2585 unique songs). I sorted by frequency, and have included...

No, I don't want to make it too easy. FYI, this is the "Pefect/ Can't Help Falling in Love" mashup that I use: View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsngmpEY7-o

Here's an updated list, with BPM, Year and Genre included. PDF and the excel file in a zip.

I'm looking for ideas for activities to manage excusing people to the buffet line. Years ago (in phase 1 of my DJ career - 1990s), I would sometimes excuse the head table, and then have trivia questions or challenges for the other tables. Things like: - First table that can have at least...

The mix from Select Mix is pretty good... Select Mix :: DJ Remixes and Edits :: Extended Intro Remixes For DJ's or this one from 9inch remix (lofi'd for demo purposes): Dropbox - Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd - PARTYUP-1.0 - (LOFI).mp3

Just to be clear, the playlists aren't "auto-playlists". They're created by different users. This is a meta-sample of the most frequently used songs in the different playlists. It's as if each user voted for which songs they would want played during their wedding cocktail hour, and these are...