It's a Mosh Pit!

Trading Technologies had their holiday party at Architectural Artifacts and Brent and I were the dj's. The party started off with Brent and I playing some vocal jazz. Learning from my last gig, I walked around the space a LOT while Brent took over on the decks. The space is really cool. The party was mainly on the first and second floors, but the whole space was open. In the center is an atrium with catwalks crisscrossing it. We went into classic jazz and then hit some holiday tunes before building into dance music. One technique I was using to transition into dancing was playing songs that everyone knew and could sing along to. Brown Eyed Girl and Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch are a couple examples. People started moving their hips and singing along, and then I went into some disco, a little 80's, and then hit it hard with current hip-hop and r&b. We were getting a LOT of requests and I handled the decks while Brent handled requests and public relations. The lower floor turned into a mosh pit. About 400-450 guests attended and about half were dancing downstairs. People lined the catwalks to watch. At one point I hit some house with "Can't Get You Out of My Head," "Hung Up," and even played "Satisfaction" by Benny Benassi. They were LOVING it. The party had to end at 11:30 because everyone needed to be out by midnight. Had that not been the case, we would have gone until 4am. These cats wanted to groove, baby.

--Jonathan Hood, resident dj