October 12, 2005

Charity music event in SLC today, hosted by UW DJ Club

My MIDI controller keyboard

The UW DJ club is hosting a charity party in the Student Life Centre (SLC) on campus at UW. I will be playing a live breaks/DnB set from 2:30PM-4:00PM. I am quite excited. I have never played on campus before, nor with the UW DJ club. It should be quite fun. I will probably be hanging out in the SLC with my gear in case anyone wants to play, learn, or teach. Just look for a guy with a small midi controller keyboard.

I am guessing most of the other DJs will be playing some popular records with the tables, but I am just going to freestyle it with my laptop and midi controller for an hour and a half. As long as I can keep some beats and breaks going down the without overloading my computer with crazy effect chains I should be good. This will be my second live performance. At an hour and a half long, I just hope I can find enough cool material to draw from to play it out smoothly.

Here is the DJ lineup for today’s FSA Charity Event:

11:30am -1:00pm DJ Tin Lok (Andrew)
1:00pm - 2:30pm DJ Colin Bell (Colin)
2:30pm - 4:00pm The Inner Space Cowboy (Jason)
4:00pm - 5:30pm DJ Laika (Hunter)
5:30pm - 7:00pm DJ soulpepper (Jen)
7:00pm - 8:30pm DJ Adrian (Adrian)
8:30pm - 10:00pm MixMasterAlan (Alan)
10:00pm - 11:30pm DJ Karts (Kartik)

Why I blog this? It is a charity event, so if you are around the Waterloo area today please come out and show your support. As well, please spread the word of this charity event to your friends. All proceeds from this charity goes toward the Hurricane Katrina victims. Oh, and do not forget to go to the Bomber afterwards! And remember, I am playing a live set from 2:30PM to 4:00PM! Come dance!

April 27, 2005

Indy: Simple Free Music Discovery

Indy is an extremely simple yet very cool app created by peer-to-peer software pioneer Ian Clarke. Ian is the creator of the Freenet open source peer-to-peer platform, as well as Dijjer, a free peer-to-peer app designed to reduce the bandwidth needs of sharing large files.

Indy

Indy uses a collaborative filtering system to learn about your musical preferences in relation to other Indy users.

If you are an artist and want to get heard, consider submitting your music to Indy.

Why I blog this? The software is small, easy, and simple. And, it appears to work fairly well. I have had it running for a few minutes and have already heard some interesting new tracks. It is only at build 5, so I am looking forward to future releases.

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