New Mix!

Yo people! I have a new mix up. Just something I tossed together. I finally figured out an easy way to record mixes so I wanted to test it out. Listen/download here:http://soundcloud.com/fresh-ben

I also plan on posting here more frequently due to how anti-facebook I've been lately.

let's go ahead and do an update.

Hey to all the 3 people that look at my blog. I had 2 awesome events happen within the past couple months. Both run by Jon Shaffer and Jason Lebel, called Cerebral. They were the best at bringing out a ton of extra sound equipment and lighting that totally made the night. To all the Cerebral I got the awesome chance to play during peak hour. It was one of the best times DJing I've ever had. Here's a video of the night:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vKGv0NjttI

It was incredible.

Also in other news, I'm turning 21 in a few days. The fellas who run Second Saturdays were gracious enough to let me play a few days after my birthday for my birthday. So thanks to Jon Conrad and Joe Christopher to adding me to this awesome event!


Thanks for checking up people!

Updates!

Some big things have been happing with my DJing lately. A local Indiana promoter, Turtle Matt is throwing a festival in Muncie. I don't have very many details at the moment but he wants me to play and I'm super excited.But if you want a presale ticket hit me up on FB or email me at Technics120037@yahoo.com. And for those of you know don't know, 3 rivers festival is going on right as I'm typing this. Which means it's time for Flow! A free all ages event going on @ CS3. 1915 Calhoun Street. Saturday july 17th starting at noon to 2 am. I play 3-4. So excited to be able to see some older more experienced DJs throw down hard. And finally the 23rd is coming up real quick. I have flyers and I've been putting them all around. You will not want to miss this! And I'm playing peak hour!

It's awesome having a job so I can buy sweet things further more helping my DJ skills. I just bought these bad boys:



Right now all I can basically say is wow! When I first started DJing I had a pair of Gemini cans, they had about zero isolation and just general overall poor quality. But now since I'm actually *mixing* tracks I figured it was a good time to sink some cash into a good pair of headphones. When I tell people that I spent the amount of money that I did they automatically think I'm crazy but when you're a DJ, it's a very worthy buy. If you can get over the hefty price tag, and snag a pair for yourself. It's totally worth it. And with Pioneer you know you're getting a quality piece of equipment. I read plenty of reviews and seen all the promo videos about these headphones and one feature that was expressed so strongly that doesn't really live up to how great they said it was is the removable XLR cable. Only in that it really doesn't remove as easily as expected. And I can see if wearing out over time, but it's no big cause I don't need to remove it every time I have a gig. but It would be nice. but what is good about the feature is that you can replace the cable it ever needed. I could go into a lengthy review but there are about a million other ones done by better DJs that have better technical know how. I just know I love these things. One last thing is at my work I can listen to headphones all day, 9 hours. So I'm wearing these just about 9 hours straight and they are comfortable the whole time: THE BEST.





I hope to see everyone at the upcoming events!!

CEREBRAL!

Flyers coming in tomorrow putting them everywhere!!

Big thangs poppin'.

Blog has totally be slackin' hard with me not having a computer, BUT I finally got a job and can afford computers and other various items.It's summer time, and that means people need things to do. If you came to Pulse Wave then you know that under 21 electronic events in Fort Wayne CAN be fun and CAN bring out a decent amount of people. Well we put together another all ages event, Cerebral. Here's the FB group: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=128893377133092&ref=ts We're getting a mass amount of flyers made and I'll be promoting this shit out of this event. I'm hoping to have lots of people to come out. Cause what else is better to do on a Friday night? I'm sure all of you are burnt out on the Steak N Shake/IHOP/Walmart runs cause there isn't anything else to do. Also it's cheaper than going to a movie. So why not?



Lets rave.

Pulse Wave!

FINALLY! Fort Wayne needs something like this that's all ages. As of right now I'm playing second. From 9-10. So everyone come out! There are 4 other awesome DJs playing so the night should be great.

Rant,Rant,Rant.

I know.I know, I know part of being a "DJ" is taking requests. But how do you expect me not to be a dick when I'm playing electronic dance music for 45 minutes, and you come up tell me to throw on some Gucci Mane. What makes you think I was going to play that? For one, I've never even listened to Gucci Mane, I'm sure it's terrible. For two, if I was spinning hip-hop/rap. I certainly wouldn't be spinning that shit.

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60 watts, brighter than my future,
an empty forty, fuller than my life,
there must be more, sometimes I don't think so,
maybe I'm right. maybe there's no such thing as a brighter side.

IPFW EDM Presents:

A dance party in the dorm commons from 8pm to 2am. Symmetric(If I remember correctly the dude throws down some heavy Techno),Veslemoy(Happy Hardcore),Landon Williams(Techno) and yours truly. Always serving up the freshest Fidget/Jackin'/Dirty house with some Indie remixes thrown in there.

I'll have more details and a flyer soon. Get excited.


Also in up coming events Josh(tumblr.com/joshridesfixed) and I are organizing an Alleycat on April 8th around 8pm. We're gonna do a balls out sprint for the first one of the year. Spread the word about both events.

Underwater water.

This is a Brine Pool. It's a hyper saline water(very salty) that's about 5x denser than normal water so you get puddles of water underwater. SO whenever you're watching Spongebob and you think think to yourself "How is he taking a bath underwater?" Well that's how dammit, do you ever hate on Spongebob again. These are common in the Gulf Of Mexico, and well in Bikini Bottom.

You can't tell me.

This ain't tyte.

You didn't know.

This existed.

Dear Hot Topic,

Please start putting your vinyl in something more consumer friendly. No more warped records please.

Cross one off the sniff list.

Moonraker/Don Martin 3/Hope Srpings Eternal three was split. When I first learned about this 7" I never thought that one day that I would own it. Then one I was just looking up information about this beautiful piece of wax and bam there it was. Selling for 3 dollars. You might think thats expensive, nope. I would of paid anything for it. All because of the song White Christmas by Moonraker. It's the only song they ever released on a hard copy. And it's an incredible song, to me it's 100% perfect because I relate to it so much.



After lurking blogs, googling hard. I did find one picture of Moonraker:


I stole a couple scans off another blog cause I'm to lazy to scan my inserts but I am going to frame them.







Unfortunately these aren't the lyrics of the song. Which are impossible to find.

This record isn't going to leave my turntable for awhile.

You didn't know.

This excisted.

Ninja got him an iBook.

Mightyfools.

Rule really hard.

Bicycle dreamin.'

You may have seen me zippin' around The Fort on the giant bike we call Purple Rain. At the beginning of the summer I realized that my 40 lb. girls Huffy beach crusier just wasn't cutting it. So after talking to people and building a deck. I had a wheelset ordered and Jared was giving me a frame, and from then on it was problems. I'm not going to go though all of them cause I'm not going to write a book. But long story short, I hate Purple Rain. My big gay purple bike has caused so many problems. And I want a new bike, a bike that I can ride like a man and not worry about this fucking up. I want a bike I can ride like this:

Massan from MACAFRAMA on Vimeo.

Shit is so expensive. I need a job.

B-by girl.B-by girl.B-by girl.B-by girl.B-by girl.B-by girl.

mmmm mmm mmmmmmmmm.

No sound.

Sorry for the no/slow updates. There isn't any sound on my computer and I can't figure out why. But why does that prevent me from posting? Who knows.

But here are some things that you didn't know existed.

Fuck yeah.

Hip-hop.




The production on this is incredible.

Record dig.

I didn't come home with much. But I really never have money due to still being unemployed.

Kelly Rowland: Stole.


I'd have to say my favorite track on this is Bear Who? Nu DnB Mix. But it's not even drum and bass. It has an nice punchy 4/4 house beat. And they just looped Kelly doing the "Note Serch." Hella dope. It's all remixes, AND it came with 2 copies.I'm gonna have to show them some love and clean them up a bit. I bought this record fully know that all the remixes could abosoutely suck. But I didn't care, Kelly is my BOO. I've had a mad crush ever since Freddy vs. Jason came out, and she had red streaks in her hair.

The B52's


Rock Lobster seems to go on forever, and I love it. I also have an aweome remix of Funplex, extremely dancy. But that's on mp3. Mehhhhhhhhh soooooooo not cool.


Frankie Goes To Hollywood: Welcome To The Pleasure Dome.


This just rules, trust me.

So.

Since Christmas I've been recording tapes of the jams I mix. And it sucks, seriously. I made so many stupid mistakes ONLY when the tape is recording. Weather I'm just spinning in my room or playing out I never make those mistakes. So if you're one of the lucky/unlucky people receiving a tape, and you hear mixing on the down beat or where I completely fuck up and stop the wrong turntable AKA the one you're hearing. I apologize.

You didn't know.

This excisted.

Makes me laugh.

Alex Davis.

Dude rules.

What the...

I got a really good laugh out of this.

East Coast.

I just love East Coast skateboarding. Philly,Boston,D.C.,Jersey and NYC. The spots look grimey and hard to skate. The skating seems to be more street oriented.




I really like Bobby Puleo, to me he represents East Coast skateboarding pretty well. I post on the Slap Forum, which either you love or you hate. But people gave him a lot of shit for being not doing extremely difficult. But to me it's just good looking street skating. I really enjoy watching it.

This photo is awesome to me.

Brian Lotti.

This is one of my favorite video parts of all time.

Slackin.'

There's probably only like 3 of you that come to this "blog" frequently. But I am slackin.' Party friday, ladies drink free. Guys it's 5 dollar cups, but dancing is FREE! I'll be spinning up the FRESHEST fidget/electro/jackin/dirty house around. I'm getting a bit more comfortable with Serato so the set should be pretty ok.

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#/event.php?eid=252443912616&ref=ts

Anyone's invited. Bring eveyone.

Okay.

Someone told me I don't write enough on here. I still probably won't.

Dominator.

New Years pictures.

Knob twistin'. I got to use the effects on my mixer and that made it really fun.


My bestest friend.

I wish.

Hip hop was still like this.