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[ironphoenix]

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I recently acquired some discs from DJ Neuron. 7 3-CD compilations of exotic-flavored chill stuff from Bar de Lune:

• African Chill


• Arabic Beats


• Arabic Chillout


• Asian Lounge


• Bedouin Cafe


• Brazilica Lounge


• Punjabi Lounge

I usually spend about 2/3 of my time at Ravenswing spinning this kind of stuff... mellow, but not too soporific. About one in 4 tracks is really killer on these, and at $10 a set, I can't go too far wrong.

I did turn down a couple of offers though: Oriental Lounge was a bit too purely meditative, and Aboriginal Beats was, well... I don't want 3 hours of didgeridoo, thanks. Really. (Okay, it's not just didgeridoo, but there's one going in the background even when it isn't the lead instrument. In every single track.)

Comments

[m-danson.livejournal.com]

Are you Ravenswing's regular DJ now?

The Arabic and Punjabi ones look interesting. Some of your stuff is a bit too mellow for me... it's not that I don't like it. It's more that I instantly forget it. Which is not something I look for in music.

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

Yup, it seems so!

BdL isn't all that rigorous in classifying music for these collections, so some distinctly non-Arabic things end up on "Arabic" compilations. I'm not too anal about it though.

I'll try to pick some good tracks to play at the next music thing, which I should set a date and protocol for when I get back.

[m-danson.livejournal.com]

Sounds good. I think we discussed a who before... that sounded good. I didn't have many people to recommend. Demon would enjoy it I think but I don't think he'd have much to contribute music wise. Jaguar likes music but not so much our music as far as I can tell. Draco is interested.

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

Jaguar... trying to connect...

I suspect that we will want to do this on a weekend. Tentatively, Saturday the 22nd is a possible date.

[m-danson.livejournal.com]

Jaguar as in canadian_jaguar ... aka a certain latin electronics Ph.D. student you know.

Tentitively that sounds good. I need to clear up when Draco's proposal defence is first though. (Shouldn't be an issue but I want to be sure.)

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see. :adds canadian_jaguar to flist:

[m-danson.livejournal.com]

I propose creating a track list of the stuff we play: title, group, and who brought it. That way we can actually find the stuff we like again.

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

See new top-level post coming soon... all on flist will be welcome, as well as others as we've discussed.

[m-danson.livejournal.com]

Do you have an input such that I could take my ipod or laptop and hook it into your system?

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

Probably.

I can take XLR male, RCA male or female, 1/4" jack male, or mini jack male (3.5 mm) using various adapters. The ipod probably has a mini jack receptacle, so if you have a mini jack male-male cable, we're good to go.