Jemily Hord Strikes Again!

Myself (Jonathan) and Emily deejay'd Bell, Boyd and Lloyd's holiday party last night and it was rockin! We've deejay'd their party the last couple years and the feedback we got from last year is that it got too clubby at the end. That motivated us to keep the music mixed up throughout dancing and created some pretty sweet mixes. We were going from 80's to disco to hip-hop to funk to rock. I think there were only two times when we only played two songs of the same genre in a row. One of my favorite mixes of the night (although technically not the best and some of the people left the dance floor) was going from Superstition my Stevie Wonder into Stayin' Alive by the Beegees. It was a new mix for me to try out. I was having trouble lining up the beats because the tempo of Superstition kept changing. The tempo of Stayin' Alive also changes a little at the beginning, but having worked frequently with this song, I'm used to where the changes are to either speed it up or slow it down. I haven't beat matched to Superstition before, so it was a little tricky to get it to sound good on the spot. My dance floors are often my laboratories where I try out new mixes. I could try to perfect it in a studio, but there's something about making something live that I've never done before that's cool and exciting. It's alive and breathing, creative and expressive. Here's what it looked and sounded like:

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Emily is really cool to work with. We always seem to have awesome gigs. Here is a video of her deejaying and a pretty good dancer in the midst:

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The party was a little weird because a third of the crowd left during dinner. The buffet seemed to be open FOREVER! It was open way too long. There was a good thing to the buffet being open for so long, because it weeded out all of the guests that didn't want to stay and party. Everyone that was left after dinner wanted to dance, created a pretty darn good dance floor given the size of the crowd. We got the crowd a little worked up towards the end of dinner; several people walked by and said we needed to save the music we were playing for dancing. We were teasing them a little bit, playing some MJ