DJ Wüdi

Anything relating to my DJ Wüdi alter ego.

You're an ex-DJ?

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DRAMATIS PERSONÆ:

OGRE: A doorman.
MICHAEL, a.k.a. WOODY or DJWUDI: A clubgoer.
JOHN: Another clubgoer.
DAN: Another clubgoer (Actually, I have no idea what his name was…just go with it.)

SCENE: Outside of THE VOGUE, a goth/industrial dance club, during a Sunday night “Fetish night“. OGRE and MICHAEL are talking outside the front door of the club. Pounding industrial music can be heard in the background.

Enter JOHN, stage left.

OGRE: Oh, hey John. John, this is Woody.

MICHAEL and JOHN shake hands.

JOHN: Good to meet you.

MICHAEL: You too.

OGRE: He’s ‘DJ Wooooodi…’

MICHAEL (laughing): Ex-DJ.

OGRE laughs.

OGRE: I meant ‘djwudi’ on LiveJournal, but yeah. Ex.

JOHN (bemused): Ex?

MICHAEL: Yup.

Enter DAN through the front door of THE VOGUE.

JOHN: I don’t think I’ve ever met an ex-DJ. They’re always just “between clubs” or something.

ALL laugh.

MICHAEL: Well, glad to be the first!

DAN: Hey, I’m an ex-DJ! I used to be one of the top three DJs in Cincinatti. Now I’m working coat check at the Mercury. How sad is that? I started out doing coat check twelve years ago.

MICHAEL: I could say I used to be one of the top DJs in Anchorage, but I’m not quite sure how much that really means…

ALL laugh.

OGRE: No kidding — ‘Dude, I’m the top DJ in Albequerque!’

JOHN: I’m the top DJ in my apartment!

OGRE: Yeah, boy — ‘party over here!’

JOHN: I rock the house. Hell, I rock the passenger seat!

DAN: As long as the passenger isn’t there —

JOHN: No shit — ‘Hey, get your hands off my stereo!’

ALL laugh.

EXIT all through the front door of THE VOGUE.

END SCENE.

Oh, go ahead and point, it's okay

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Much as I enjoy the Vogue, it does have one definite downside — there is very little ventilation in the club, so it gets incredibly hot on summer nights. Thankfully, the Vogue has a fairly relaxed dress code, so it’s not at all uncommon for people to lose articles of clothing as the night goes on (so maybe it’s not that much of a downside after all…). When this happens, it’s not at all uncommon to get some odd looks from the “straights” (non-regulars) that are at the club, as in many normal clubs, you’d get kicked out for doffing your shirt midway through the night, so getting the occasional surprised look or getting pointed at is something that I’m fairly used to.

Tonight, I’d taken my shirt off during one of the songs, and once the song was done went outside to get a breath of air. As I walked out, I noticed a couple girls out of the corner of my eye, one of whom was doing a fairly obvious “oh-there-he-is-look-wait-don’t-make-it-obvious” motion to her friend. Being used to this, and rather amused that I’d caught her, I turned around with a grin and told them, “Oh, go ahead and point, it’s okay.”

What I wasn’t expecting was to have the girl laugh, then say, “No, no, wait — you’re from Alaska, right?”

“Um…yeah…”

“You’re DJ Woody, aren’t you? From Gig’s? And that little place up above Chuck-E-Cheese?”

“Holy shit! Yes!”

“I knew it! I told you it was him! We used to go see you spin at Gig’s when we were 14 and 15!”

Just incredible. Shannon and (oh, lord, I hate being brainless…Jen?) had been club kids back in Anchorage when I was working at Gig’s, and then later at the Eclipse. They’d seen me dancing and thought they recognized me, but since I’ve shaved my head since they’d seen me last, they weren’t sure. It wasn’t until I went outside without my shirt and they saw my tattoo that they were fairly sure, and Jen tried to point me out to Shannon. Apparently they’re both fairly recent escapees (Jen’s been here for about five months, Shannon for about one), and are living down in Tacoma.

Too freaking cool. We spent a good amount of time talking outside the club and catching up, I met their friends Kate and (again…Beth?), and then once the club closed, they headed off for breakfast and I came home. They said they should be back at the Vogue at some point, though, so I should get a chance to run into them again. All sorts of cool.

I love it when stuff like this happens.

Streaming update

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Just a quick note that I’ve updated my ‘About DJ Wüdi’ page to replace the download links for my mixes with streaming audio links instead. Everything’s still there, just less chance of running afoul of rabid copyright lawyers (on the exceedingly rare chance that they should decide to pay any attention to my little corner of the ‘net).

Reminder – DJ Wüdi mixes

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Just a quick reminder for those of you who may be new to my site, and might not have bounced around some of the rest of what I have up here. Over on my DJ Wüdi propaganda page, I have eleven mix sessions available for download as .mp3 files.

I recorded each of the mixes myself, by running my Pioneer CMX-5000 into my mixboard, and then directly into my computer, allowing me to record directly to .mp3 format. All of the music in each mix comes from the original source CD’s, and these are presented for promotional purposes only, so hopefully I’m not running afoul of copyright here. Tracklistings for each mix can be seen by hovering over the title of the mix (though at present, this will only work in IE or Safari).

None of the mixes are entirely perfect, but I think they’re at least worth posting, and “Where Time Becomes a Loop” and “Eclecticism” are my personal favorites of what I have up. They range from 22 minutes to an hour and seventeen minutes in length, and from 26 Mb to 88 Mb in file size, so you’ll probably want to have a broadband connection (or a lot of patience) to download them.

If anyone does take a gander at them, I’d love to get some feedback! I’m currently debating with myself whether to keep playing with DJ’ing from time to time if opportunities come up (which, to be honest, is looking exceedingly unlikely at the moment), or whether it might be time to sell off my equipment and stick with the fond memories of the eight years I spent doing it — knowing if people like (or don’t like) what I’ve come up with might help influence the decision. Ya never know…

Faster than a speeding bullet

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Major benefit to having my own DSL connection: because it’s up 24/7, I can run this website out of my own house, off of an iMac I have here.

Major downside to my DSL connection: at the level I can afford to pay for, while my incoming speed is great (1.5Mbps, equivalent to a T1 line), my outgoing speed bites (128kb/s, about twice the maximum theoretical speed of a 56k dialup modem).

This has been bugging me for a while — while my outgoing speed is great for the majority of my site (text and graphics are small enough to transfer quickly), the .mp3 mixes I have available for download on my dj propaganda page take forever to download whenever someone decides to grab one. I was whining to Casey about this yesterday, and he pointed me over to a friend of his.

So, at this point, I’d like to give major thanks to Karim, who graciously let me use some space on dragonshed.org to host my .mp3 files. As dragonshed sits on top of an OC3 connection (155.52 Mbps — insanely huge pipe), anyone who wants my .mp3s will now be able to download them at the maximum possible speed of what ever line they are using to connect to the ‘net with.

So, I’m in the process of uploading all my mixes to dragonshed now. I should have them all transfered over to the new server by the end of the weekend. Thanks again, Karim!

(Update @ 12:48 am Saturday — they’re all transfered over now — woohoo!)

New mixes online

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It took a while, but I finally got two new mixes encoded and available from download. I actually made these a few months ago, before I moved out of my old apartment, but just now found them and got around to posting them. I’m pretty happy with they way they came out, too. Both of them can be found on my dj propaganda page in my DJing category archives — here’s the track listings:

Eclecticism Where Time Becomes a Loop
Dario G Carnival de Paris Goodmen Give it Up Chemical Brothers It Doesn’t Matter Fatboy Slim Song for Shelter Lionrock Are You Ready to Testify? A3 Woke Up This Morning Psykosonik Unlearn Everything But the Girl Wrong Annie Lennox Little Bird Clivilles & Cole A Deeper Love Sagat Fuk Dat Lemon Interrupt Big Mouth Technoclassix In the Hall of the Techno King

Orbital Time Becomes DJ Geek Travelling Erasure Run to the Sun BT Remember Blue Amazon The Javelin ReleveleR Sourpuss Sarah McLachlan I Love You ATB Don’t Stop Aqua Dr. Jones Orbital Time Becomes

Download and enjoy!