Best music software for parties

• Author: Kim
• Filed under: Events, Music, Playlists, Radio, Society
• Date: Jun 23,2008

Just last week, was the Bloggers Party at Casa Leticia and I volunteered to come up with the music for the night.  Yes, I still have those pangs from good ol’ memories of disk jockeying days, so every opportunity to decide a playlist is such a BIG deal for me.  Now, part of the BIG deal of it all is to make sure that the music fit the crowd but at the same time, you wouldn’t want something that distracted them from socializing with each other.  Aside from the obvious factor of making sure that each song didn’t segue to each other awkwardly, I wanted to use a Music software that’d employ a really smooth crossfade between each song.  Then Ria texted and told me to just burn a couple of CDs, heh, I ended up doing that, yes.  But it doesn’t mean I haven’t thought about the more software-oriented approach of playing your party tunes.

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I’m joining the Mindanao Bloggers Summit

• Author: Kim
• Filed under: 'Ze Think Tank, Events, Mindanao, Music, Radio
• Date: Sep 4,2007

God the apologies are really getting tired so let’s head right on to a quick update.

The DJ Thing
I’ve recently found a new home in a new radio station. Migrated from U.R. to Killerbee - things are so different, you know. I’m technically still a trainee, as it is, I’m not getting paid for it. But hey, I’m getting my 4-hours already so that’s all that matters to me right now and I guess I don’t mind doing it pro-bono till further notice. I don’t want to seem like I’m taking advantage of the fact that one of the most prominent DJ’s of the station just left and that supposedly the station misses one jock, but you know, the way Killerbee runs their thing, I feel like that I have so much more to learn.
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