I am running a Mystic BBS at myhouse.spinvinyl.us, port 2014. You can connect from your retro or modern computer using an ANSI capable terminal.
There is not much on here game wise, however, there are a bunch of Protracker tunes in the downloads area.
If you want to say hi to everyone, add a one-liner to the board, or if you want to send me a message directly you can use the (C)omment to Sysop function. Node chat is there, but I am not always present in the chat room.
What is DJing?
The art?
The business?
The history?
To me it is all of the above. The true craft of DJing to me lies in hip hop. Hip hop teaches us that its core fundamentals are DJ, MC, break dance, graffiti, and Knowledge.
Hip hop was rooted in social movement. A necessary social movement, one in which music was and still is a key piece of life style and communication in a modern (and marginalized) society.
I have DJ’d for many years in many capacities. In clubs, bars, house parties, weddings, you name it. Even some contests.
To me, DJ’ing “defined” is this: The art of sharing music in a curated and pleasing fashion, to enrich the environment, or audiences experience of the environment. In hip hop it goes further to expanding knowledge, consciousness, spreading the music which you as a DJ feel “needs to be heard.”
There are lots of big words there. And lots of subjective ideals. But none the less, in a nutshell, that’s what DJing is to me; sharing music.
I found the best DJ’s do have a true knowledge of music theory. Some, simply have thousands of hours of practice resulting in the former.
So how does a vinyl DJ handle 2018?
The answer is with buying singles, and burning them to CDs. The last few years have been interesting. The resurgence in repressing and popular vinyl has had a weird effect. In the late 2000’s or early 2010’s it was “easy” to get relatively new dance singles on vinyl. I noticed that later in this current decade, the independent labels (or many of them) seemed to fall behind on pressings or could not get music out as quickly or efficiently.
I am not one to hate on modern DJ equipment; as a matter of fact, I love it. Anyone who has seen Terrence Parker ( http://www.terrenceparkermusic.com/ ) on a set of CDJ’s knows that equipment is a means to an end.
In no particular order, I have made mixes using any of the following;
Vinyl
CDJs
Serato with timecode vinyl
Virtual DJ
countless other programs with MIDI controllers
At the end of the day, what sounds good to the end user is what you should use (in my humble, but war battered, opinion).
But what makes a good DJ?
A good DJ knows the following:
The business: how to get paid fairly, how to work with bar owners, how to be professional
The music: You have to know the music you play, and the music your audience likes. You can always find a middle ground.
The art: Play songs from new artists, push limits, make people learn new stuff. That’s your job in between the top40
The culture: Know your leaders, mentors, and pay for your music. Have a license for dem dubz.
In summation, DJing to me is the art of sharing music; it is an act we all love.
Until next time,
AK-DJ
Sorry I missed you. See you soon.
With love
AK.
1st generation iMacs can technically run OSX 10.4, but getting it installed is not easy.
There are several challenges preventing install on a 1st gen “fruit” iMac.
First, there is no DVD drive. I have a retail 10.4 DVD, but the CD installer discs are hens teeth (apparently Apple ran an exchange for a short time, where you could exchange the DVD for CDs).
Second, I can’t boot this model from USB. Even in developer console the USB dvd drive I have (which works fine on os9) is not bootable.
Third, the preferred method for older imacs with no DVD is to use another mac connected via firewire in target disk mode, but the fruit imac has no firewire.
This leaves 2 painful options; setting up a netboot server (not going there) or imaging the install DVD to the 1st partition of the hard disk drive. I decided of course on the latter.
Ultimately I was able to get this going with the help of a couple other guides. The overall process is as such;
You will need:
A newer 10.4+ mac with DVD drive
A USB to IDE adapter, or other way to attach the drive to the above computer
OS 9.2 retail cd
and your osx 10.4 dvd
1. Install a 120GB IDE drive into the CRT iMac (128G hard limit on this model, you can use a 200 but only 128 is usable)
Boot from an os 9.2 installer disc (you can find it; google an iso). Fire up Drive Setup. You need to partition the drive as such:
1st partition, 2900 MB (2.9G)
2nd partition 4900 MB (4.9G)
3rd partition: “remainder” (~100g)
This is because of (at least) the 4th big pain in the ass for these iMacs; osx wants to be on the 1st 8gb of the drive. The partitioning above is quite important for this reason.
2. Close drive setup, and Install OS9 to the “remainder” (3rd) partition. Once this is successful, you can reboot/test etc.
3. Power down the CRT iMac and remove your HDD to prepare OSX.
4. Head over to a newer mac with at least osx 10.4 and a DVD drive. Follow this guide to rip your 10.4 DVD to the new mac. See http://ppcarchive.dyniform.net/cd-less-os-install.html
5. Hook up the CRT iMac’s hard drive to your new mac using a USB to IDE adapter.
6. use disk utility to Restore the 1st partition, using the file you ripped as the image of your OSX 10.4 DVD. I learned about this method from the link in step 4 as well.
7. Once the DVD is imaged to partition #1 of the drive, mount the partition on your new mac. You need to modify one file in a 10.4 installer package so that your older machine isn’t flagged as unsupported. That info is here, so keep this handy:
8. At this point you should be ready to reinstall the drive in your iMac. It should search for and eventually use the 1st partition (mac os install DVD) to install OSX 10.4 to partition #2. If not, use an installer cd to set the startup disk to the install DVD which is now on the hard drive.
9. During the install, skip some printer drivers and languages to save space as needed.
10. Enjoy your dual boot os9 and Tiger Mac!
Eventually, there will be a blog here. Until then, I recommend you go shop for records at your local record store. If you don’t have a local record store, might I suggest Discogs
