Bought a Technics 1200mkII !! Cost me $500 which was a pretty good price for a second hand turntable less than a year old and in perfect condition. The dude had put up the advertisement up on inthemix.com.au and he was nice enough to drop it off. Have to buy one more turntable but one will do for now. I think my parents are planning to buy me the second one for Christmas woohoo! Hmm better not get my hopes up :-/
I just found that I had installed my first software for DJying -- PCDJ Red Demo, on 9th Dec. 2001 and Mixmeister 2 weeks later, both on my laptop.
At this time I was, practically (although not officially) living with a bunch of guys (a.k.a. the "The Howse of Da Boyz"). All I did those days was come home after Uni., chat, get my compulsory two hours of advice for the day (I was going through a break-up) and have an in-house DJ Competition with housemates; DJ Enveen (a.k.a. Naveen R.) and DJ CJ (a.k.a. MCJ/Chandaka). Newtana (Nuwan M.) would be the judge and pick one of us as the champ for the night.
Come to think of it, I never actually won, so these guys would have been better DJs than me if they took DJing seriously!! They were doing all sorts of fancy tricks like loops and beat matching. Despite the lag on my 300 Mhz laptop, their mixes actually didn't sound too awful. Hmm I wonder if they're reading this post. Just to make sure they do, I'll repeat their names so Mr. Google indexes this post.
Here we go: Naveen Ruwanpura met Chandaka Fernando on Nuwan Malawara Arachchi, so Chandaka Fernando had to make sure that Naveen Ruwanpura doesn't drink too much water, or else Nuwan Malawara Arachchi would need to have a shower, since Naveen Ruwanpura would do the number one on Nuwan Malawara Arachchi. Chandaka Fernando would then have to be blamed on Naveen Ruwanpura's behalf, and to be even, Nuwan Malawara Arachchi would have to do the number two on Chandaka Fernando while Naveen Ruwanpura cleans himself up.
Played Vinyl for the second time! -- was funner ;-) The bar guy (and 1/3rd manager) said that was the best he's heard me mix! Not sure why though, probably had something to do with me playing Vinyl ;-) I'm actually starting to enjoy House music and would prefer playing house over RnB/Hip-hop, mainly because I'm not as experienced with RnB/Hip-Hop.
