THURSDAY
A good week musically. A good week for http://www.jazzsyndicate.co.uk, a good week for our MySpace account. I'm not going into details but watch this space.
I just want to comment on a thread on the Soul Music Radio Forum - a widely respected and well known DJ and Producer was roundly attacked by a fellow member of the forum - now banned by the moderators. Clearly the individual who did the attacking is known within the general DJ/soul music community, although I do not know him personally. His wife has a radio show on a station and is clearly widely respected. Personally speaking, whatever you think of an individual, you should keep your opinions to yourself & certainly not air them on a forum (unless they are a politician). Comparing this man to a Wedding DJ (as what was said) is like calling Michael Jackson a Barmitzvah singer.
Anyway - this week's show features two House tracks - it is a preview of what I will playing on 30th December - my 1 years anniversary on JSR - House music - featuring Disco breaks. So for one night only RetroRuss becomes Modern (or whatever Russ) - looking forward to it!! A BIG thanks to PapaG for loaning me the vinyl. We spent hours sorting through stuff and his show on Wednesday on UnknownFM was outrageously brilliant!
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Thursday, December 07, 2006
THURSDAY BLOG
First time I've done one on the new PC...the wireless keyboard is different & the big screen means I can sit elsewhere. Anyway, hello again!
Just recorded a show for Saturday - it sounded like a dog's dinner to me but I'm no judge! I'd planned ot two nights ago, dug out the vinyl and just couldn't get it together...when all else fails - go to the party boxes, which is exactly what I did, so no Shaft or Meco instead, Trussell, POstive Force and Disco Extravaganza I did get some interesting funk in there.
I'm getting back into my groove again all over the place so that's a positive step. I am planning a few 'interesting shows, in the coming weeks and months. One I'm particularly excited about is a House music show...so it won't be RetroRuss!! Basically I'll take House music with a well known Disco riff and mix them all together....music to be supplied by my good friend PapaG, London's No1 Deep House DJ & the best mixer I know!
JSR's MySPace site is coming along nicely and a big thanks to Beth for help on this. The response has been great and I really cannot believe who has requested to be 'our friend'...do check this out! JSR did not win Internet Station of the Year. Oh well, never mind there's always next year! It's nearly a year since I started with JSR. 31st December was my first show and I've done about 48. I'm running out of 'new' material - having been through most of my good records - I could always do a 'bad' Disco show, but I'm not sure that anyone would listen!! WHat do you think? Peace & Love. RR
First time I've done one on the new PC...the wireless keyboard is different & the big screen means I can sit elsewhere. Anyway, hello again!
Just recorded a show for Saturday - it sounded like a dog's dinner to me but I'm no judge! I'd planned ot two nights ago, dug out the vinyl and just couldn't get it together...when all else fails - go to the party boxes, which is exactly what I did, so no Shaft or Meco instead, Trussell, POstive Force and Disco Extravaganza I did get some interesting funk in there.
I'm getting back into my groove again all over the place so that's a positive step. I am planning a few 'interesting shows, in the coming weeks and months. One I'm particularly excited about is a House music show...so it won't be RetroRuss!! Basically I'll take House music with a well known Disco riff and mix them all together....music to be supplied by my good friend PapaG, London's No1 Deep House DJ & the best mixer I know!
JSR's MySPace site is coming along nicely and a big thanks to Beth for help on this. The response has been great and I really cannot believe who has requested to be 'our friend'...do check this out! JSR did not win Internet Station of the Year. Oh well, never mind there's always next year! It's nearly a year since I started with JSR. 31st December was my first show and I've done about 48. I'm running out of 'new' material - having been through most of my good records - I could always do a 'bad' Disco show, but I'm not sure that anyone would listen!! WHat do you think? Peace & Love. RR
Friday, December 01, 2006
BACK ON BLOGGER
It's been a long time coming but I'm back doing a blog here for the site! Not really helped by Blogger's change and me not remebering my 'exclusive' GMail email address!! I managed to crack the system so got back control of it!! I've got so many email addresses it's becoming a bit of anightmare to manage them all! Some date back to 1994 so whenever I change PC's there are about 10 passwords I have to remember - of course none are written down, so as I can't remember what I was doing yesterday there is not much hope remembering the codes...oh well.
I got a new PC (second hand actually), hardly used to replace the one that was stolen. It's working but now I have about fours hours worth of loading the back-up on to the PC, setting up the printer, MS Office, email accounts and shed loads of other stuff!!
JSR has set up a MySpace page, which I have the honour of managing! It can be found here . I also do the Blog . We started it on Tuesday & already have 35 friends....not bad going in the world of cyberspace.
Two weeks ago I met up with Marky Mark, at Soul In the City. I had a great night and also met Ginger Tony, Abbo, Soulmaster T and a fair few other folk involved with JSR. Great music, very convivial company and will do my damnest to get to the next one!
This week's show is real eclectic mix of Disco, Jazz Funk and a bit of Soul, tried a different style! Just heard it back and to say it didn't sound too shabby - you'll just have to lock on and hear for yourself!!
It's been a long time coming but I'm back doing a blog here for the site! Not really helped by Blogger's change and me not remebering my 'exclusive' GMail email address!! I managed to crack the system so got back control of it!! I've got so many email addresses it's becoming a bit of anightmare to manage them all! Some date back to 1994 so whenever I change PC's there are about 10 passwords I have to remember - of course none are written down, so as I can't remember what I was doing yesterday there is not much hope remembering the codes...oh well.
I got a new PC (second hand actually), hardly used to replace the one that was stolen. It's working but now I have about fours hours worth of loading the back-up on to the PC, setting up the printer, MS Office, email accounts and shed loads of other stuff!!
JSR has set up a MySpace page, which I have the honour of managing! It can be found here . I also do the Blog . We started it on Tuesday & already have 35 friends....not bad going in the world of cyberspace.
Two weeks ago I met up with Marky Mark, at Soul In the City. I had a great night and also met Ginger Tony, Abbo, Soulmaster T and a fair few other folk involved with JSR. Great music, very convivial company and will do my damnest to get to the next one!
This week's show is real eclectic mix of Disco, Jazz Funk and a bit of Soul, tried a different style! Just heard it back and to say it didn't sound too shabby - you'll just have to lock on and hear for yourself!!
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