Thursday, March 8, 2018

browser dj set 3.04.18

browser djing is the technique invented by me and soon-to-be-former art teacher Bill Simos in which the dj must only use their browser opened to mostly non-streaming sites (no spotify web player / grooveshark / bandcamp, soundcloud is fine for some reason) to engineer a creative, cohesive, and engaging dj set. its blurs the line between musique-concrete, middle-schooler girl talk, & post-internet hyper-referentiality. its really serious.
here's my set, with overlays / fade-ins noted for your feeble attempts at recreating the swift elegance and mastery with which i led the empty art room (+ sporadic appearances of mr simos) through the waves of sound:

  1. start things off w/ a chopped-and-screwed version of Teardrop w a lurching beat to provide a stable ground
  2. at 0:52 add goat sounds as some scintillating rhythmic interplay
  3. at about 1:20 into teardrop some tonal tension and atmosphere w/ police sirens
  4. ride it out, let it play, and then SMASH IN this driving filter tune
  5. NOTE: keep this pretty racist website open to drop troubling and brash soundbites on the downbeats every so often.
  6. as that amps up, bring in the opening guitar twang of Can You Get To That by funkadelic, which i've cordially looped for you:
  7. let that play on its own for a little. ride it out. occasionally, threaten to bring in... the second verse of NIN's Perfect Drug, but don't ever fully integrate. just dangle it there.
  8. eventually, bring in this video of a news report in a florida bridge collapsing
  9. and when the man begins to choke back tears, add both fireworks and Wandering Star. at this point you are set. let all 3 videos play & admire your set.
  10. when wandering star ends you'll have 9 hours and 56 minutes left of fireworks, which is the perfect comedown for a set of such intensity.
picture me in my element going rogue, from this very set (NOTE: the edm drop is for advanced browser djs only!!! there is a reason it has been omitted from the above instructions!!!!)

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