I mean. In a manner of speaking. I made token effort at having the songs flow together a bit, but I couldn’t get the headphones to play the deck that wasn’t playing through the speakers so I couldn’t even try to beatmatch, as if I even know how. And as for, like, judging the mood of the crowd and playing what they wanted, fuch that, it’s my turn to DJ, not theirs. Not that there was much of a crowd. One or two people actually told me they liked my set, which probably works out at around twenty percent of the crowd, and that’s probably as good as I can expect.
Anyway. This is what I played (it would have involved a bit more hip-hop and a bit less indie rock, but I left my blank CDs in my girlfriend’s house and had to stick to what I had actually bought/a couple of my parents’ CDs):
- Salt n Pepa: Push It
- Neutral Milk hotel: Holland, 1945
- Sleater-Kinney: Entertain
- Fight Like Apes: Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues
- You’re Only Massive: Booty
- Ratatat: Mirando (which, it turned out, wasn’t the name of the Ratatat song I wanted to play)
- Tom Waits: God’s Away On Business
- Chewing On Tinfoil: Shaving
- Sex Bob-Omb: Threshold
- BATS: Gamma Ray Burst: Second Date
- Los Campesinos!: My Year In Lists
Bomb The Music Industry!: Big Plans Of Sleeping In I don’t know what this was, it was a CD-R I got from Jeff Rosenstock in 2008 and I thought I’d listened to it but I got two of them and I guess I must have only listened to the other. Anway he must have put the wrong CD in the case he gave me, because whatever it was, it wasn’t Bomb The Music Industry.- Public Enemy: Bring The Noise
- Dead Kennedys: California Uber Alles
- Chuck Berry: Brown-Eyed Handsome Man
- The Thermals: No Culture Icons
- Nana Grizol: Circles ‘Round The Moon
- Pixies: I’ve Been Tired
- Sultans Of Ping - Where’s Me Jumper?
At this point I was running out of things to play, so it became Me vs Holly, who brought some CDs but seemed a bit intimidated by the decks, so I was helping, and then Michael and his friend vs Holly Mediated By Me, which was probably a bit unfair and involved me a bit too much. Anyway, I also ended up playing:
- Adebisi Shank: International Dreambeat
- Liars: Mister You’re On Fire Mister
- Big Black: Kerosine
- Metric: Black Sheep
I had fun, but I would make a terrible DJ.
