DJ Wüdi

Anything relating to my DJ Wüdi alter ego.

Temptation!

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Ooers…talk about a (potentially, at least) agonizing decision.

A while ago, a guy I was talking to online about dj’ing pointed me to a webpage advertising positions for DJ’ing aboard a Carnival Cruise Lines ‘Fun Ship’. I figured what the heck, and sent off an e-mail. Yesterday when I was checking my e-mail, I finally got a response, inviting me to call if I was still interested.

So, now comes the question. Seeing as how I just landed this position with Xerox/Andersen, and that I know they’d like me to commit to at least a year, do I stay with the safe bet with good future opportunities? Or do I chase a dream to see if I can get a spot on the cruise ships? Ergh…I’m at least going to call the number I was given to talk to the Carnival people to see exactly what the deal is — talking can’t hurt — but until I know more about it, I’m not sure.

It sure sounds like a great opportunity, though. Get a six-month contract to go tooling around on cruise ships to who knows where, and have a blast doing it. Here’s a blurb from the webpage linked above:

The Carnival Disc Jockey entertains in the Dance Club each evening and at private events. During the light of day, he can visit beautiful tropical ports, relax at any of the deck swimming pools, or exercise in the fully equipped health facilities.

Sounds rough, doesn’t it?

Well, there’s no way I can make a definite call until I talk to the people.

Been a busy weekend

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Been going pretty strong all weekend long, so this is my first update for the past few days. I’m sure that there are just multitudes of people anxiously awaiting the next episode in my babble here, though, so I figured I’d try to get something up.

Right.

Anyway.

I’m rapidly discovering just how amazingly long Fridays are going to be for me for the foreseeable future — in essence, I’ve got a gauranteed minimum of 22 hours up every Friday. As my shift at GCI starts at 8am and I am hardly a morning person, my alarm starts going off at 6am. I work my shift at GCI, get off work at 4, get home, get some food, change, and get myself to the club around 7/7:30pm. The club doesn’t close until 3am, so I’m not likely to get to bed until around 4am — 22 hours. Uff-da.

However, it’s not something I’m going to give up…been anxious to get back into DJ’ing, and a little sleeplessness is a relatively small price to pay in my book.

Friday night went pretty decently — Samurai showed up to guest again, so he and I traded off through the night. We brought attendance up a few more — I think it was somewhere between 130 and 150 people all told — hopefully that number will just keep growing as things go on. Looking good so far, though.

First night at Studio 99

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I had so much fun tonight! I’m up way, way too late (it’s 4:28 AM as I type this), and work is going to suck tomorrow (I open…10am…really shouldn’t be posting this right now), but it was worth it.

I was a little nervous going in to this — while I used to have a pretty decent fan base around town, it’s been a while since I’ve done anything — somewhere around a year and a half or so since the Eclipse closed down. Plus, in that time, most of my money has been going towards living, bills, and movies, so I haven’t been picking up a lot of new music lately. So, I wasn’t entirely sure how the night was going to go.

I really shouldn’t have worried.

I got there and got set up, and Samurai showed up not long afterwards to set up his turntables. We ended up switching off over the night — I took the first couple hours from 8-10, he took about an hour from 10-11, then I went from 11-12, he went on again from 12-1:30, and I took over again from 1:30-3.

While we don’t have a definite headcount for the night, we’re guestimating somewhere between 75-100 people…maybe a bit more. While that doesn’t sound like a whole lot, I’m actually quite impressed — considering our radio ads didn’t hit the air until Thursday, and most people just found out through word-of-mouth, it was a pretty good crowd. Besides, I’ve seen clubs who were happy to break into the double-digits on opening night, so this was really nice.

Everybody who was there seemed to be enjoying the night…I saw a few faces I hadn’t seen in a while, and apparently there was a lot of good word going around both about the place and about the DJ’ing — woohoo! We ran out of flyers, too — I’m hoping to have more printed up to distribute tomorrow (Saturday), but if that can’t happen I’ll definitely be getting them done early in the week.

Okay, that’s all the babble I can squeeze out of my overloaded little brain for tonight…time to see if I can get at least a few hours sleep before work tomorrow.

A steady gig!

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Yeah, yeah, so it’s been a few days since I’ve put anything up on here. So sue me. It’s not like anybody actually reads this tripe, anyway…. ;)

The most important event of the past few days — I just got back from a meeting with the owners of the new Studio 99, and I’m now officially their resident DJ for Friday nights! Now it’s just time to get the word out. DJ Wüdi every Friday night (starting next weekend) at Studio 99 — electronica, dance, club, house, techno, a little bit of everything — non-alcoholic, 16 and up before 1am, 18 and up afterwards.

I’m finally spinning again! :D

DJ Wudi @ Studio 99 tonight

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Figured I’d toss this up now, as I probably won’t get a chance later on in the day.

Tonight’s the Spring Break Party co-hosted by 92.9 KFAT, AL Productions, and the new Studio 99, featuring DJ Wudi (me) and DJ Manaiacal, with KFAT’s Kim Keane broadcasting live on the air! Studio 99 is located in the Northway Mall, above Ariel’s Hair Salon. This will run from 8pm-3am — all ages until 1am, then 18+ with ID afterwards!

DJ alert

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I realize it’s been a couple days since I’ve posted on here — things have been kind of busy getting settled in at the new job. On the plus side, the job looks to be going really well so far…enjoying it a lot.

The main purpose of this posting, however, is a quick alert that I’ve been confirmed to be DJ’ing this Sat. night at the new Studio 99, in the Northway Mall above Ariel’s Hair Salon. This is going to be a spring break party, I’ll be co-dj’ing with DJ Maniacal (from KFAT), and Kim Kanes (sp?) from KFAT will be broadcasting live for much of the night. Radio ads should start hitting KFAT 92.9 FM sometime around 2pm today and be going throughout the rest of the week, so listen for my name on the radio! Hopefully will be a blast…as before, this is an all-ages party until 1am, then 18 and up (with ID) thereafter.

Studio 99 last night

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Well…it was definitely interesting :|. Opening night with very little publicity — about the only people there were a bunch of kids there for a b-day party, and once 12:30 hit, the place emptied out due to curfew. Ah, well…so it goes sometimes. More advertising will be coming out soon, so things should look up pretty soon.

The owners are looking at aiming Friday nights more at the hip-hop/r&b/rap circuit, as Millenium is only open for that on Saturdays at the moment, and aiming Saturdays at the more dance/club/techno/electronica crowd. They’re in the process of interviewing and hiring DJ’s at the moment — I’d like to get a permanent spot doing Saturday nights there, but will just have to wait and see how things for for now. Keeping my fingers crossed…just hoping I can announce the return of DJ Wüdi to the Anchorage scene soon!

DJ’ing tonight!

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Will post more later, just throwing this up to say that I’m DJ’ing tonight at Studio 99, above Ariel’s Hair Salon in the Northway Mall. This is an all-ages dance club — 16 (?) and up before 1am, 18 and up until 3 am. Hopefully this will become a regular gig — check back later for more details, or stop by the club and see what’s going on.

Radio – and future gigs?

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Did the radio show last night, and it seemed to go over pretty well. I don’t know just how many people were listening, but at least a few were from the calls we got, and they generally seemed to have good things to say. My personal moment of triumph was when one person called to tell Nick (the show’s host) to quit playing a compilation CD, at which point Nick let him know that it was actually me mixing live. I guess my mixes were going pretty smoothly!

Also ended up with a couple possibilities for the future — I don’t know for sure if they’ll pan out or not, but I can hope. I got one call about some people working on getting another club going here in town, so will be trying to get a hold of the people in charge of that soon to get more info — big thanks to DJ Panda for recommending me for that. Also, Nick asked if I’d be interested in co-hosting his show…we filled out a KRUA volunteer application, and if everything goes well, I just may have a spot on the air every Tuesday night! Would be a lot of fun, and I think it’d be great to expand my DJ experience to include radio as well as club and for-hire dance work.

So, that’s the big excitement for the past couple days. As always, more babble later….

Back from UAA, possibly on the radio

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Just got back from the Dance Marathon at UAA that I DJ’d for today. Was a lot of fun — and really drove home how much I miss being able to spin on a regular basis. The event went off really well, and I seemed to do a pretty decent job of keeping most people happy over the course of the night…all in all, not bad in the least.

One of the niftiest bits of the evening, though, was hooking up with Nick. I’ve known him for a while now, and we’ve wanted to get me a spot guest DJ’ing for the electronica show he does on KRUA for a while now, but schedules have always intervened. However, he’s now doing the show on Tuesday nights, which works for me…so this Tuesday, I’ll be spinning on 88.1 FM KRUA sometime between 7pm and 10pm! Should be fun…looking forward to trying my hand at a radio gig. And, as an added bonus, if anyone feels like it, you can listen in over the web (as long as you have Real Player G2 installed) through KRUA’s website!