Flyer Printing at 13c Per Print?

Compared to how much we've payed in the past to get flyers printed, 13 cents per print is a bargain. The idea is to get the flyer to be of the ratio 1:1.5 so that they can be fitted into a 4" x 6" (i.e. 10cm x 15cm) photo. Basically, you then get the flyers printed as photos, from the cheapest photo printing place. The cheapest I've found so far for photo printing is 13 cents per photo, from GetDigital.

Sending something off to print via GetDigital is very easy; log in to GetDigital, upload the picture, resize or crop or do any of the basic effects, and then choose a quantity and send it off to print! They usually print it on the same day, and you can collect it from the nearest pharmacy registered with them (my closest pharmacy registered with them was a 10 min walk) within two working days.

I used GetDigital to print 310 flyers for Laidback @ Lustre Lounge and it worked great. There was a small problem though; the small sample they showed online was not exactly what the end product looked like -- about two millimeters were cropped off from the top of the flyer. No big dramas though, I know what to do next time to prevent this from happening again.

I'm confused why printing photos are cheaper than printing the same image on cheaper quality paper from a normal shop. Or maybe there's cheaper printing shops and I just haven't found them!

Friday Nights @ Lustre Lounge

DJ Pound and I will be taking on early Friday nights at Lustre Lounge -- 7pm - 10pm from this Friday onwards. From 10pm DJ Temba will take over until closing time.

Friday has currently got some great promotion happening, where you get one round of free drinks on presenting a "corporate card". The offer is applicable for groups of 5 or more people, before 7pm. What better way to start the night! If 7pm is too early, they've also got drink specials on until 9pm, and will start serving complimentary finger food if it gets busy enough.

If anyone's interested in a corporate card, let me know and I'll send it to you. Or you can come over on a Thursday to our "Laidback" night and get a card off me.

Miles Maeda Madness!!

What a night!! I had planned to leave early but couldn't -- he just kept me going. There was some awesome variety in his set (deep, techy, jazzy, 'summery', 'hip-hoppy', 'jackin'...) and he even somehow managed to keep the dancefloor going with "Greenskeepers -- On The Line (Farina Remix)", which until last night I had thought would only do well as a chill-out track!

It was good to hear some of the popular stuff too (e.g. the Hodges track with Collette vocals). He even threw in some good remixes that I enjoyed ('Funky Rhythm', 'Pump up the jam'). Most importantly, it was good to see that Miles is such a down-to-earth and friendly guy -- he was walking around chatting to random people in the crowd!

The event was not overcrowded and there was a big fan that helped us keep going and going and going on the dancefloor. The venue (Tramp off Highlander Lane in the city -- very hidden and very "underground") and the sound system were fantastic. The crowd was friendly and just there to have a good time.

I've attached a 5 min video below, but you can only see Miles mixing (the crowd was recorded but it's too dark in the video).

Laidback @ Lustre Lounge has taken off!!

We wanted people to come chill out at our new night at Lustre Lounge, and that's exactly what they did. There were people there from start to finish, and the bar tender said it was busy for a Thursday night. Not bad for our opening night!

But I must admit, the people who came were there either there for the good music, or out of coincidence, because we hadn't had the time to do enough promotion to make it a much busier Thursday night than usual. There were 6 people I knew though (including 3 from ITM).

So, overall it was a very good start to our Laidback @ Lustre! With bit more promotion and time, we should be able to make it a full house on Thursdays.

Miles Maeda in Melbourne!

Yup, the man compared to Derrick Carter at the moment will be playing at Tramp in the CBD on the labour day eve weekend. This event is a first for HoolaHoop -- check out the flyer for venue details and ticket prices!! Hoolahoop promises to bring down Jason Hodges sometime soon, which I'll try my best to make it to. This Miles Maeda gig looks a go-er too.

Laidback @ Lustre Lounge ready for take off...

I printed about 30 good quality flyers (10x15cm) for Lustre Lounge to hand out to their patrons, gave Lustre Lounge an A3 flyer to display at their entrance on Centre Place (off Flinders Lane), checked out the DJ equipment, and so now we're all set to start this Thursday! To add to the excitement, they've got a new mixer and new speakers, so can't wait to get my hands and ears on those.

By the looks of it, 5pm seems to be a good time to start -- right in time to tempt some of the corporate crowd to come to Lustre, instead of making their way home. Centre Place is very busy at 5pm with people rushing to get to Flinders Station.

Can't wait...

New Mark Farina Video

Here's a recent Mark Farina video of him playing "Dream Machine" at a club in Brazil, which seems to have been a request (via a big sign held up) by some people in the crowd. I've never seen him (live or on video) dancing as much as he does in this video!

RMIT Orientation (Bourke St. Campus)

The Bourke St. Orientation was held on the fourth floor of the Bourke St. building, so the location in itself was a unique experience for me! The fourth floor had a 'courtyard', which was like a rooftop area surrounded by buildings, and the food stalls and information stalls were all somehow nicely arranged around the courtyard so that people had enough space to move around. Not a lot of people turned up, but there were enough people for an enjoyable set.

The DJ equipment and the PA system was provided by Tim Nixon, a Future DJ 2003 Victorian finalist from Swinburne Uni, who now runs his own mobile DJing/equipment hiring business. The speakers were Opera Live, and I think they had 300W RMS of power. The rest of the equipment were 2 x Technics turntables, 2 x CDJ200s, and a DJM 500 mixer. The speakers were too powerful for that enclosed space though, so we couldn't put it to full use!

Unfortunately, I didn't get to play at the City Orientation, which I was really looking forward to, because Tim and myself had been double booked to play at the same time by mistake. Anyway, at least I got to play at the Brunswick and Bourke St. Orientations -- the latter being the one I enjoyed most.

And here's the video I promised. I'm the first DJ and the guy you'll see coming up and chatting with me wanted RnB, which I (kindly) rejected. The second DJ is Jeromy, who works with Tim Nixon.

Laidback @ Lustre Lounge

Myself and DJ Pound will be spinning some laid back House at the posh and intimate venue Lustre Lounge, on Flinders Lane, every Thursday 5pm - 9pm. Lustre Lounge is a nice little bar, with a nice little balcony overlooking Flinders Lane, and they're renowned for their cocktails, and great selection of cigars! The timing of the event will be perfect for the office crowd wanting to cut back and relax after a long day at work.

What better way to sip on quality cocktails on the balcony than by listening to some quality house music!

New Purchases!

I purchased some tunes with a bit of variety this time. A few chilled-out stuff, a few of the usual funky/jazzy stuff, and even a bit of techy (Derrick Carter style) House! All from Waxonline.com at the average cost of $10 per record for the following 11 records (including shipment)!

( Blue ) GIRTH - CHAINED TO THE BED
( AJ Recordings ) SWIRL PEOPLE - FAMOUS HIT RECORDINGS ARTIST
( Reverberations ) SEAN DIMITRIE - DR DOO YOO
( Tango ) SWIRL PEOPLE - MADOU
( Bombay ) VERNELL DE LONG / HEBEGEBE - I GO NOW - LAWNCHAIR GENERALSREMIX
( Uniform Black ) JAKE CHILDS WITH JACOB LONDON RMX - INVISIBLE IN
( Doubledown ) SANTIAGO / BUSHIDO - CHICAGO MF
( Greenskeepers Music ) GREENSKEEPERS MUSIC - ENUFFS ENUFF/ DERRICKCARTER REMIXES
( Mommas Home Cookin ) DJ TYE / BOBBY BOUNCE
( Vista ) DJ Rasoul - Break Loose
( Utensil ) CPEN - HOUSE OF THOUGHTS/ JT DONALDSON RMX