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Is It Summer Yet?
Heating Up! It’s in the air: summer is coming! And with it, summer parties, the wedding “season”, the beach, and a lot more action in the clubs, and on the radio. And the music is starting to get...
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Spring Hits
Spring hits! Maroon 5 “Makes Me Wonder” – The long-awaited follow-up to their breakthrough 2002 set “Songs About Jane” album is coming soon. Wow, was it really that long ago? It doesn’t seem like five...
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Summer Wrap and Summer RAP
While I haven’t managed to churn out columns as regularly as I intended, I stand by my predictions. Back in May, I predicted hits for both Sean Kingston and Kat DeLuna. My anecdotal reports say these...
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SCOOP – B-52 Prodigy FX: All in One Is One for All
The ProdigyFX from B-52: a seamless blend of players and mixer Technology keeps pushing forward in multiple directions, sometimes all at once, it seems. B-52 Professional, known primarily for a wide...
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New Music You Might Also Love
Just this morning I read a post at Start.ProDJ.com bemoaning the quality of music so far in 2007. While there is a seasonality to “blockbuster” releases (summer and Christmas holidays), I truly believe...
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Spice Up Dinner
Spice Up Your Dinner MusicIt’s my belief that almost all really great ideas are revolutionary because of their simplicity. An idea that I’ve used over the years has recently come back to forefront of...
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Save Money, Learn More
Last week, we went through some “pick hit” new releases, and this week for fun, here are some opposites: Hits and misses – the misses The following are examples of “what were they thinking” and (in my...
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Remix, Part 2 (But Not The Remix)
This week, I’ll highlight more of the best of the current group of American remix labels – remixes made by DJs for DJs: a great way to perform better beat mixes, and enhance your performance! Full Tilt...
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Remix It!
He can claim it all he wants, but Puff Daddy, P. Diddy, or (just) Diddy can claim he invented the remix all he wants, but he didn’t. I believe that remixing first began when stereo was introduced in...
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Music In The Corporate Mix
With limited song choices, more creative energy is needed to propel company partiesThe focus of my writings for Mobile Beat is the very foundation upon which most events are built, as I see it: the...
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The Records Keep Spinnin’
The records keep spinnin’ In no particular order, let’s sift through the files on the desktop, and see what’s going to be burning ‘em up this summer. Our first two are both reggae-fueled: Sean Kingston...
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How to buy a laptop for DJing
How to buy a laptop for DJing: This is a topic that comes up regularly on forums and Facebook groups, and the conversations sometimes turn heated, as there is a lot of information (and misinformation)...
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The Singing Thing
I had no intention of becoming a karaoke host. I’ve been in the D.J. business since before anyone really even thought of it as a business, and have done a lot of different things, along the way. In...
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What Do I Do with These Screens?
As if DJs didn’t have enough to keep them busy, there’s always more: music videos! Music video can be: the “edge” that puts you above and beyond your competition; or some other dumb thing everyone...
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What to Do with Those Screens
I find it sad that the heyday of music video (creatively and in popularity) happened LONG before it was relatively easy and practical to manipulate or even simply MIX music videos, as DJs do with...
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