So, if you haven’t heard through the various channels I’ve been promoting (spamming), I was lucky enough to get a show on LSU’s radio station KLSU. I’m going to be broadcasting the Baton Rouge airwaves every Saturday evening from 9 to 11pm CST on my electronic show Laser Camp. There definitely is an internet stream available here and I’m going to look into the possibility of getting a video stream up as well…I think it’d be a neat little addition for those of you who don’t get to see me that often!
Awesomely enough, I had my first show last night and I think it went extremely well. First off, thank YOU so much for listening in. I had so many people calling in to the studio, requesting music, thanking me for playing electronic music, appreciating the music that I had played etc that it just made my night that much better. I never though that playing music for other people would be so satisfying, but knowing that there was confidence in my choices and that it was approved by the community was that much better. I know I had friends from all over listening in on the internet stream, plenty of people in Los Angeles and even a fellow DJ-on-a-sweet-internship in New York tuned in (WHILE PLAYING SC2)! Totally rad.
Here is a link to the playlist of my first show; it includes everything I played, including the songs requested by the listeners. I also included a link to buy every song I could find through a legitimate source: Beatport, Amazon, iTunes, etc as we’re playing these songs to help y’all find new music.
Of course, as with the first run of anything, there were a few hitches. There were two songs I played that would have had me fired in an instant — named, SebastiAn’s remix of “Killing in the Name Of” by Rage Against the Machine and AC Slaters remix of “Cooler Couleur” by Crookers and Yelle. And they were right after each other. I started playing both of them, realized there was an expletive coming up, faded down the music and went to the next song. My apologies if you were annoyed/startled/disappointed, but I was not down for getting fired on my first night in the studio.
Secondly, there were couple of times where I had a few seconds of dead air. Nothing major, and it’s not like that doesn’t happen to even experienced DJs, but trying to keep the sound going constantly is a pretty important milestone.
Finally, I need to figure out how to mute the Mac error “ping” sound when you try to do something but the OS won’t allow you. Was definitely playing a song, trying to remove a track from my playlist in iTunes and had it make a tiny ping (and it occurred a few other times too). Maybe no one else noticed, but it’s so easy for me to notice something in the songs that shouldn’t be there.
All in all it was an exhilarating experience and I cannot wait for next weeks show. I definitely will be doing more requests next time as I realized it’s not super important to keep the flow — people want to hear what they want to hear and I’ll try to fit in every single song I possible can.
If you ever find yourself on a Saturday night and you’re in the mood to listen to some awesome music, or perhaps you’re at a party and the sound system is primed for electro goodness, tune in to my show and share the bass!
(or feel free to laugh at all of the mistakes that I make, how terrible my voice sounds, the cheesy music I play etc. I welcome all criticisms and critiques!)
