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These are various DJ sets that I’ve recorded. Some are recorded at home, and some are recorded off the mixer when I’m out spinning live. These are provided both for your enjoyment and as some shameless self-promotion in case you decide you’d like to hire me to DJ.

Feedback is always appreciated, whether good or bad. Please get in touch with me and let me know what you think!

MIX CDs
Mix CDs are generally not recorded in real time; they’re deliberately programmed to be interesting to listen to in settings outside of a nightclub (i.e. in your car on a long drive), although a lot of the individual mixes between songs are those that have worked particularly well in a nightclub setting.

Time and Salt (MP3, 79:50, 100M)
"Time and Salt" is an eighties mix CD that I put together in June 2008, mainly to appeal to the crowd at the 80s club where I spin. It’s generally a touch darker and moodier than I typically like to spin, especially towards the end of the disc, but it’s still a good listen all the way through.

MP3 has cover art built in for a more exciting experience with your iPod (if you get excited about that sort of thing, anyway)

LIVE MIXES
Live mixes are recorded in one take, usually at a nightclub, but sometimes while spinning at home for listeners on the internet. As such, they’re sometimes a little more flawed than the mix CDs, but they can tend to have a more exciting, spontaneous energy, since they’re programmed on the fly.

Tilt – 7 Sept 2008 (MP3, 95:45, 110M)
Recorded at TILT, an on-again off-again electro club in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. This recording is mostly 80s dance music with some electropop mixed in for variety.

Live Electropop Mix – 30 Nov 2008 (MP3, 64:49, 89M)
Recorded while spinning online for a bunch of friends. This is me messing around with a whole grip of electropop songs I downloaded from various music blogs over the course of a week. There are a few ugly key clashes that snuck up on me, but I like this mix, considering that I’d never mixed most of these songs together before this recording.

Tilt – 27 December 2008 (MP3, 22:23, 34M)
What do you get when you cram a bunch of DJs into one night, everyone shows up late and demands to play the full hour they were allotted anyway, and the staff decides to close down the back room fifteen minutes before close? The last DJ to play gets to play short little sets like this one. Despite its length, I like this set; the only major flaw is a clumsy mix into "Feel The Silence," which I had just purchased that afternoon and should have become more familiar with before playing it at the club. Note that this set starts off with the tail end of the record that the previous DJ’s set ended with.

Tilt – 28 March 2009 (MP3, 40:19, 65M)
My first time playing at the Echoplex in Echo Park. I like this set, but it shows the big problem with much electropop: there’s so much emphasis on synthesizer-heavy production that it’s incredibly hard to mix songs together and avoid key clashes, since none of the songs have pure percussion breaks.

80s Club Addiction – 16 May 2009 (MP3, 118:58, 145M)
A good night at my regular weekly 80s gig. This one is two hours of awesomeness — I’ve been jamming out to it in the car. It’s not perfect, but no live set ever is. There’s a really cool surprise in the recording — during "Blue Monday," you can hear people screaming. There’s no microphone attached to the mixer; the screams are so loud that they’re being picked up by the record and stylus!
(Warning: this recording contains exactly one Morrissey song, which may or may not get stuck in your head and make you want to kill yourself)