Archive for January, 2009
finally a blog.. sort of?
After many years of wanting to set one up, i’ve finally decided to set up a blog. It’s funny that the reason I decided to actually go through with it has to do with work. No, i didn’t set it up so work can spy on me, i mean so i can keep track of all the great work i do. The actual reason is because I was tasked with setting up wordpress for a client, and as much as I dreaded it, the procedure was stupidly simple. I was floored and thought, ok so now that I know this won’t take up an evening and a half of work, I can do this too!
And so behold, my blog.. long long long overdue, but hey.. i’ll just say I was waiting for the new year to start. Thank you 2009.
p.s. Oh, and i’m going to attempt to back-post all entries that I would have made if i had a blog all along (so if you posts from 1999, no wordpress wasn’t around yet, but i was 
learning to DJ..
I got pretty interested in mixing, ala dj-style a few weeks ago and purchased a mixer, well, sort of. It’s actually software based but has a usb controller (via midi). The one I went with is the M-Audio Xponent. I already found Torq beforehand, had to [k]rack it myself so i could get familiar with it but yah, having a dedicated controller is way more productive than trying to use mouse clicks in multiple places
reason i wanted to try my hand at this (yet another) hobby is because for a long time i wish i had more control about what songs go into a mix cd you make for people. plus dj’ing hip hop is a lot of fun but dj’ing trance is actually a lot harder than i ever imagined :-\
As for a DJ name, well everything i could think of was taken (esp. DJ cynikal).. so i decided to use DJ Loose Key, as my dj handle, since it’s basically how people mispronounce most of my last name