Archive for October 25, 2008
A new addition to the family
I’m a bit late in writing about this, but there’s a new addition to my family. Well, so to speak; no, I’m not a proud father of a bouncing baby, but rather, the proud owner of a shiny new Allen & Heath XONE:4D mixer/controller.
Last December, I acquired a XONE:3D, after lusting over the thing for most of 2007, and saving my pennies and nickels so I could afford to buy one. (It was a lot of pennies and nickels, so much saving was involved.)
Unfortunately, my ownership experience with the 3D wasn’t the best. Within the first month, I returned home from a gig to find most of the unit dead when I hooked it back up in my studio. Three weeks of being without it later (shipped off to get repaired), it was fine… For awhile, and then suddenly it started having a number of minor but annoying problems that slowly became more major over time.
Ordinarily, that might make me want to dump the thing and try something else. But most any digital DJ who’s tried a XONE:3D probably feels as I do: You’d have to pry this thing from my cold, dead fingers to get it away from me.
To make a long and sordid story a bit shorter, I actually did get rid of the XONE:3D, but not before using a replacement 3D for a few months, finding it perfectly reliable and robust, and making me even more confident that my original 3D was, simply, a lemon. It happens, even with the best of products I suppose.
I got rid of the 3D, yes. However, the day I did so was the day I got a new XONE:4D. The 4D addresses a number of the 3D’s technical shortcomings, and adds some great new capabilities, but otherwise retains everything I loved about the 3D. To get the 4D away from me, you’d not only have to pry off my cold, dead fingers, but figure out how to unchain it from my cold, dead body.
Honestly, I just can’t imagine DJ’ing any other way.
My full review of the XONE:4D and its improvements over the 3D is coming out in DJ Times in the November issue, which will hit newsstands and subscribers’ mailboxes in the next couple of weeks.
Mixshow playlist for 10/24/08
I just wrapped the second DJ Wesley Friday Night House Party mixshow for iDanceRadio.fm, and below is the playlist for the three hour program.
Next week, the show will be slightly different; while we simulcast each show inside of the Second Life virtual world, we normally do so at The Pavilion Nightclub. Next week, I ended-up with a scheduling snafu, so most (or all) of the show will be simulcast inside Second Life at the Fire Island, and we’ll start at 9 PM Eastern, 6 PM Pacific (an hour earlier than normal). I’ll be taking care of some business on-air which will be mindnumbingly dull to our non-Second Life listeners, but maybe it’s a good reason to stop by secondlife.com and sign-up for a free account! 
In any case, here’s the playlist:
Andrew Spencer & Lazard – Here Without You (2-4 Grooves Club Mix)
Cary August – Don’t You Forget About Me (Will Stuart Remix Extended Club Mix)
September – Cry for You (Extended Mix)
Raen – Honey (7th Heaven Club Mix)
Holmes Ives feat. Avalon Frost – 8 Letters (Starkillers Dirty Girl Remix)
Lucas Prata feat. Jeannie Ortega – A Girl Like That (Giuseppe D.’s Dance Mix)
Freemasons feat. Bailey Tzuke – Uninvited (Bailey And Rossko Remix)
Janice Grace – Wanna Be Beautiful (Dave Audé vs. Claude Le Gache Club Mix)
Alison Limerick – Where Love Lives ’08 (Buzz Junkies Club Mix)
Ruff Loaderz – Fever (Club Mix)
Favretto feat. Kate – Get Down (F&A Factor Club Mix)
Martijn ten Velden – I Wish U Would (Bermudez & Preve Club Mix)
Keri Hilson – Energy (Wideboys Club Mix)
Chris Lake feat. Laura V – Changes (Dirty South Remix)
Alex Party feat. Shanie – Don’t Give Me Your Life ’08 (Soul Seekerz Classic Club Mix)
Andrew Spencer & The Vamprockerz – Zombie (Dany Wild Club Remix)
Shaun Baker feat. Maloy – V.I.P. ’08 (2-4 Grooves Club Mix)
Britney Spears – Womanizer (Lenny B Mixshow Edit)
Sunblind – For A Second (Extended Club Mix)
Daytone feat. Amanda Wilson – Good 4 Me (Bassmonkeys Club Mix)
Kim Sozzi – Feel Your Love (Extended Mix)
Worldwide Groove Corporation – You Still Give Me Butterflies (DJ Wesley Chill House Mix)
Kristy Kay – I Will Wait (Klubjumpers Club Mix)
Playhard feat. Kayjay – When I (Think of U) (Original Mix)
Nicola Fasano vs. Yoshimoto – Been a Long Time (Nicola Fasano Mix)
Giorgio Sainz – Get Up On Your Feet (Club Mix)
Sunfreakz – Drive Out (Bellatrax Club Mix)
Stefanie – You Never Said You Loved Me (Rev-Players Extended Mix)
Cyndi Lauper – Into the Nightlife (Soul Seekerz Club Mix)
Sylvia Tosun – Underlying Feeling (Soulshaker Club Mix)
Carol Hahn – Reach Out (Twisted Dee Club Mix)
Lisa Law – Wicked Ways (Soul Seekerz Remix)
Robyn – Dream On (Moto Blanco Club Mix)
Diego Donati & Franco Amato feat. Kelly Malbasa – Turning Point (Original Mix)
Kim Leoni – Medicine (Extended Mix)
AnnaGrace – You Make Me Feel (Extended Mix)
Ronski Speed feat. Aruna – All the Way (Jonas Steur Remix)
Global Playboyz – Ain’t No Mountain High Enough (Club Mix)
The Young Punx – Fire (Solitaire Mix)
See you next Friday.
Wes
