So this was supposed to be a straight gothic-industrial show tonight, two hours sandwiched between hip-hop and heavy metal. This is what came out:
This was a funny show for me... very active and very lazy at the same time. I took this one with the lights low and my hair down, played it by ear and I wound up doing long continuous mixes with few mic breaks. Played a lot of multiple tracks off the same CDs, and I didn't really play a huge amount of stuff out of KZSUs current file (which isn't to say I was playing all old stuff... some of it was new stuff that KZSU doesn't have yet). Near the beginning I conceived the idea of relying a lot on spoken word, either in the form of CDs with samples of lectures, or by mixing lectures in with other things... The Noam Chomsky CD that none of our CD players can play properly went perfectly...
I also used the obvious, dead easy effect (that for some reason I rarely hear other DJs use) of playing with the buttons on the front of the CD player while it was playing. I also resorted to my old trick of playing short little tracks on repeat, and I ressurected the excellent 7" collection of 100 locked grooves "RRR-100", which I'm sure drove many people in the audience crazy (20 minutes of the same loop in some places). And speaking of old tricks, I never seem to tire of playing that old Zoviet France vinyl in the background...
There were many random elements to this show. At one point I decided I needed to add something else, preferably on vinyl, and I did a blind draw out of the "12 inch reanimation" section, coming up with the "Sweet Emma" album which I proceeded to at many speeds but the correct one. (I wonder what it's supposed to sound like.)
And that Mary Lou Williams jazz CD turned out to be very nice. I'd never heard it before, it just came up when I did a keyword search for "Fungus" (only eleven of the CDs in KZSUs collection have tracks with the word "Fungus" in the title... can you believe it?). Fungus has been on my mind lately (not to mention my feet), and just this morning, the dangerbaby flashed a Zippy the Pinhead about fungus, and right after that I heard Rush Limbaugh talking about fungus, and it just seemed like the natural thing to let it grow.