I'm DJ Frontier, and it is now 2010. I've been DJ'ing as DJ Frontier for 17 years. I own DJFrontier.Com and the rights to the name DJ Frontier. I used to be known as DJ Wiz Kid, but I grew up and changed my DJ name in 1993, and in total I've been a DJ for 20 years. This is my continuing adventure as I prepare for a new era as a pioneer DJ. I'm different. I'm not like the other DJ's of the world, as you shall soon see. I'm educated, experienced, and creative. I'm a trained performer with a music background. I have some different ideas on DJ'ing and the future of the business, and I am looking forward to what the future holds.
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Saturday, January 16, 2010 - 8:10 AM - Tampa DJ Blog log entry by DJ Frontier
Production Time Conversion, And My DJ Role.
Yawn... I'm tired. Spent the
night listening to my MP3 test releases while I worked on marketing (man,
Waveform 3 is cool). I'm feeling a bit under the weather, so I might stay
in most of the weekend; I'm entitled to a working vacation, and once this
modeling photography / resource site campaign begins next week, I am going
to be incredibly busy.
Anyway, on to the subject at hand.
Yesterday, I wrote about production times in days. I didn't define how
many hours were actually spent working a day. By default, that's eight
hours. Just wanted to clear that up. GEN 1 and 2 releases under DJ Wiz
Kid took less than eight hours to do. GEN 3 releases, on average, took
between sixteen and twenty-four hours to do a 90 minute program. On average,
I intend to invest twenty-four hours of production time into each GEN
5 release. Looks like I'm buying a brand new laptop with a huge hard drive
loaded with MP3's of my CD library, Photoshop, Ableton Live, an image
library, a sample library, and a microphone so I can work on the releases
at any time from the laptop. I'll be able to turn out several releases
and podcasts a month that way.
As many can tell, I'll be leaning more onto the production side of DJ'ing.
To be honest, I do not like DJ'ing weddings, or DJ'ing someone's party.
I do not like mobile DJ'ing at all; I do not like people feeling entitled
to tell me what do do after paying me. Most of those people, although
they mean well and really do want a cool party, don't know cool music
from their ass, and when I play what they want me to, I get blamed for
the sorry programming. Sure, I'll do mobile DJ'ing, and even wedding DJ'ing,
in an emergency, and I'll do a great job, but for most of the work, count
me out. A basic four hour DJ party from my company, Eventi Events, runs
roughly $750.00, and I have plenty of great mobile DJ's who can do those
gigs. If you want me to DJ your party specifically, and I am not filling
in an emergency, you will pay more. How much? For my time, expect to pay
at least $5,000.00 for a four hour set. If it's a wedding, expect to pay,
at least, $10,000.00 for me to DJ your reception. Yes, I dislike doing
those gigs that much, and no, I don't expect any sane person to pay that
no matter how famous I get (and, if you are insane, I won't work for you,
anyway). I had a horrible wedding reception gig back in 2002, and I had
an ex girlfriend go insane and dare to call me up to DJ her wedding (proving
that she was indeed a sociopath, and did not give a damn about me or my
feelings. I later found out that she and her new husband, a con artist
who pretty much bought her, scammed the DJ and photographer who did their
wedding, and the DJ and photographer did not get paid. Was that their
plan for me?). I'm also sick and tired of the drunk fathers of brides
telling me to play the same sorry songs ten times in a row (seriously,
this happened to me at least TWICE, and pissed me off both times). I did
not get into DJ'ing to kiss ass and cater to Bridezillas.
I have worked wedding as both a professional DJ and a professional photographer
for many years. With photography, I’m more in control of what’s
going on, so I don’t mind so much, but with DJ’ing, it’s
different. Not that I find weddings very romantic anymore. I tend to view
wedding as anti-romantic, and as an artist and a true romantic, I don’t
like them. Don’t agree with me? You work a billion weddings, and
see for yourself how cookie cutter and fake that they are. Weddings are
people who simply go through the same motions over and over again. There
is no creativity or sincerity with weddings anymore; it’s more pretense
and showing up your peers than anything else.
Convince me that you truly love each other in a monogamous, heterosexual
relationship, and be creative with your wedding, allowing me to do my
thing, and I’ll be more than happy to consider DJ’ing your
wedding for what my company normally charges- it would be my honor. Do
what everyone else does, and drag true love and romance through the mud
with your rites of hypocrisy, and that’ll be $10,000.00, please,
and don’t expect me to kiss ass or play the same song ten times
in a row. Thank you very much.
I know that it’s taboo for a DJ to complain about what they don’t
like in the business, but I don’t care anymore. I’m tired
of feeling limited, and like I’m selling out, every time I do one
of these tragedies. I’m DJ Frontier! I’m an artist! The money
was never the goal, and it shouldn’t be.
It doesn’t really matter, though. My senior DJ, Marlon Brown, is
pretty much the best wedding DJ in the Tampa Bay market (ditto for my
photographers in the Tampa Bay wedding photography market). I don’t
have to do it (Marlon is a better mobile DJ than I am, anyway, and he
loves doing that). I’d rather be an event planner when it comes
to weddings, and to events that the client books. I have great people
who are happy working those gigs.
Sigh..... weddings. I’ve had my wedding planned for fifteen years
now, and even have a special song picked out. It’s very romantic,
like nothing you’ve seen before, is real, is the ultimate gift to
my bride-to-be, and it’s not for sale at any price. Additionally,
I will not marry if it’s not love. I’ll live the rest of my
life alone, and die single, if I don’t find a woman who is worth
it (I’ve had a few contenders, but the love really never gelled.
There was no fire). Diana came close. She was one of the most beautiful
and intelligent women in the United States. What happened? A guy named
Kip. She tried to speed things up by introducing competition, I guess,
and she lost me. If that was her plan, it certainly backfired. I do not
like being forced, coerced, or pressured into anything. Remember the ex
who tried to get me to DJ her wedding? Just before that happened, a few
months prior, when I hung out with her and the guy that she would eventually
marry, who was “just her roommate”, I had had enough of her
games and B.S. I told the guy that he could have her, and I walked away.
His infamous line? He had the nerve to tell me “Sometimes, you just
have to F”. Her line? “He knows how to make money.”
I suppose that some can convince themselves that these shallow values
are true love. What a couple of idiots. It’s poetic, I suppose.
He bought her, he got her, and he was so insecure about her cheating on
him, like she did to so many others, that he anchored her down with a
couple of children. I suppose that having kids makes a divorce more difficult.
I just hope that her owner is good to her as she lives her life in captivity
as a white trash breeder. God. How can someone become so disillusioned
with their own lies that they sell themselves out completely? It’s
disgusting, really.
Poor kids. Daddy uses you to keep mommy under control.
I have an interesting fact to share, and it has nothing to do with me,
as I m quite pure because I am into quality over quantity, and actually
have a real relationship going on before I make love to a woman. Did you
know that 1 in 5 people have herpes or some other STD? That’s 20%
of everyone who you see around you! If you are a mentally screwed up woman
who has intercourse with, say, a couple of hundred random men, what do
you suppose that the odds are that you caught something? Just a thought.
Kind of kills the one night stand, now, doesn’t it? It’ll
eventually catch up with you!
Anyway, I became sidetracked there. There are obviously a lot of deepset
emotions there. Hey, it’s possible for men to become emotionally
involved, you know. I also don’t like it when you spend the night
with a woman and want to snuggle, and it only works until just after she
falls asleep, and becomes a teeth grinding, punching, kicking sleep-talking
maniac, with a smidge of snoring (I’ll have to make several films
about this dysfunctional relationship in the future, for sure). As my
ex-best friend once told me, though, you can’t turn a whore into
a housewife. Hell, I certainly did not do anything wrong. I feel comfortable
saying that she did it to herself. She was the one who was wrong. She’s
now paying for it, as I am no longer a part of her life. Amen. Hell, I
warned her that she was going to lose me. I warned her that there was
no one else like me, and that she would never find anyone like me again.
She kept pushing. Walking away from her was the best thing that I ever
did.
As far as my role as a DJ goes, I’d rather do my own thing and DJ
my own events, where I have complete creative control and people pay for
tickets. That’s my thing.
Oh, and one more interesting fact before I go. As of now, I have more
of an Internet presence than anyone in the Tampa Bay area, and possibly
even Florida. I’m also one of the most opinionated people in the
world. It’s true, and it’s the reason that I started getting
interviews with the media. When I landed my first interview, I was working
under cover at a television station, and tried to maintain my cover (I
was there to learn more about how the media works, as well as to do my
job). When they found one of my blogs online, and interviewed me afterwards,
my cover was blown. When I started getting interviewed as an authority
on several diverse subjects, my cover was really blown. It will be interesting
to see what becomes of my online presence, especially with what I have
planned as DJ Frontier.
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Friday, January 15, 2010 - 6:45 PM - Tampa DJ Blog log entry by DJ Frontier
Diminishing Returns: Achieving A Balance.
I’ve been wrestling with
some production protocol issues lately, mainly in formatting and the average
amount of time to allocate to the production of the GEN 5 programs.
Here are the issues, and my solutions.
1. GEN 5 DPR Covers
With the original concept to format the covers for large printed alternate
CD covers (for the fans who wished to convert DPR’s to CD’s),
the original templates were optimized for CYMK printing, and had to be
converted to RGB for the cover image files. With the abandonment of the
CD option (it is for the best, especially for the new 140 minute baseline
format and quality issues), the specs need to be adjusted, if not overhauled
outright. I will be redoing the GEN 5 cover format, and although it will
be roughly the same as the existing default layout and formatting, expect
a few improvements and adjustments. This means that covers for GEN 1,
2, and 3 cassette program releases which have not been created yet may
be a little different. I still intend to use the older covers, and may
have to, especially since I lost the original templates for many of them
in a recent computer crash (back up those files!). The irony is that the
computer crash was a result of playing an E.T. video game on my computer
via an Atari 2600 emulator (I actually like that game, although it is
regarded as one of the worst video games ever made, and has often been
made the scapegoat of the video game market crash of the early 1980's,
wherein the irony lays. I still like it, although I haven’t messed
with the emulator and that game since. I might just plug in my mint-condition
Atari 7800 and an E.T. cart from my library and play it proper, on the
home theater system). The emulator hung up, I hard-reset the computer,
and it corrupted my boot on my hard drive. As a result, I had to completely
redo my computer and reinstall all of the programs. I lost a lot of files.
I need to figure out how to recreate that cool Horizons cover font! Wah!
Anyway, the new GEN 5 templates will be done in RGB by default.
2. Program Format
and Production Time
This is tricky. One complaint that I had (and still have) about Horizons
3 is that I sat back and played music. That’s too easy, and turns
a program into a compilation, which is a mistake. I’d rather not
slap a title and a weak theme on a program and just play music. On the
other hand, it is possible to overdo it with production. With the new
software tools such as Ableton, I can micromanage music and samples, and
change things around. Spending too much time on any release, even the
upcoming commercial releases, is not cost effective (to be fair, however,
those commercial releases are copyright cleared, and are sold, so there
will be a lot more work done on them than I could ever justify doing with
a standard underground release, despite the software tools being the same
and the production standards being identical). If you spend a ton of time
adjusting every second of a release, regardless, I may as well spend that
time working on a feature film. Feature film? Well, there is hardly a
post-production difference when you are talking about time. The standard
running time on a release is 140 minutes, and often even longer. An average
feature indie film is 90 minutes. Editing is editing, timewise, regardless
of if it is an indie film or an audio program, and I’m not spending
the production time on an audio release that I can’t sell when I
can spend roughly the same amount of time editing an indie film that I
can sell.
An independent film is tedious editing-wise, with every single second
in need of being managed, and audio and video elements. With a DJ program,
the music carries it most of the time, with some creative elements blended
in.
I have a lot going on. Obtaining a balance to the production schedule,
and adhering to that balance, is critical. For the traditional underground
program releases, I’m not doing it for the money. I’m doing
it for promotional material, event support material, and the art. That’s
it. The commercial releases, on the other hand, are for sale, and more
work will be applied to them, but the above reasons still apply, too.
The commercial releases are still a long way off, and it is important
to realize that getting the underground releases going is necessary to
pave the way for commercial releases.
In the old days, with my GEN 1 and 2 DJ Wiz Kid cassette program releases,
I used to do most of them in a few hours, and the results were good. They
were very cost effective. The DJ Frontier GEN 3 releases took longer,
and were not nearly as cost effective, with an average production time
of three days. GEN 5 releases should take between two to four days to
do, depending upon the complexity of the program. Commercial releases,
which share the same GEN 5 production technology, will take a week, or
more.
It’s time to go. I’m
converting my 8th release from February 1991 under DJ Wiz Kid, Dance Floor
Express, to an MP3 test program. Not bad- and I have the perfect picture
for the cover (I took a dance floor-level picture of people dancing at
one of our events back in 2001 with a 35MM film camera, and almost was
trampled getting the shot. It's very cool). I’m converting more
releases this weekend.
Speaking of this weekend, I have some photography and modeling marketing
to do. I also have to get in touch with Tampa DJ Nicole 1111, who texted
me a Merry Christmas a few weeks ago. Sorry. I’ve been busy (and
I don’t do text). I do, however, want to talk to you. You’re
cool, as well as a talented DJ. I still listen to your CD.
Oh, and before I do go, I have some more news. As soon as my photography marketing and modeling agendas are underway, which will be within the next week, and my new contracts are done, which will be in the next two weeks, I will be working on my DJ Frontier and DJ Wiz Kid sites. This Tampa DJ Blog will be reformatted to match, and the content will be properly organized and references at that time. Expect it all online by spring 2010!
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Saturday, January 2, 2010 - 8:22 AM - Tampa DJ Blog log entry by DJ Frontier
Production Lines Revealed.
Ah, yes, and before I forget....
the main reason why I wanted to post on the Tampa DJ Blog.
Here is some information that some of you will find interesting. It is
a big reason that my future as DJ Frontier will eclipse everything that
I’ve done in the past.
I’ve stated before that I will become a new type of DJ, a DJ of
all media, and in some respects what I’ll be doing will invite controversy
regarding whether I am a “real” DJ or not. Well, I will certainly
be doing my own thing.
In the past, I was only know for a series of underground DJ programs.
That underground release line will continue, of course, but it won’t
be the only thing that I will be doing. Until now, I’ve only really
gone into one production project which I’ve been working on, those
GEN 1, 2, 3, and 5 releases.
There are five more production projects at the present time, for a total
of six. I have a massive strategy planned which will be far more sophisticated,
and effective, than any DJ in the world has ever done (as it should be,
as I am the DJ of the future). My DJ Frontier brand is going to become
huge!
Commercial Releases
(GEN 5)
Coming in 2011.
Released under the Dream Nine Studios label.
This was hinted on before. This is a separate line from the underground
releases, and it’s new. These releases will break new music, will
have full copyright clearance, and will be sold as downloadable MP3 programs.
Because the copyrights are clear, these will not be promotional items,
and will not be free. The commercial release line shares the same GEN
5 production standards that the ongoing underground releases benefit from.
Underground Program Releases
(GEN 5)
Ongoing since 1990.
Released under the Neo Studio Underground label.
My original DJ program line, underground releases which have limited copyright
clearance. These programs are not for sale, and are for promotional use
only. Party Zone, Waveform 3, Horizons, and many other of my famous programs
were produced under this production line.
Podcast Program Series (GEN
5)
Coming in 2010.
The people who have always complained about me talking too much on my
releases are going to love this. These will not be individual releases,
but rather episodes produced under a podcast program. In this yet-to-be
named podcast series (which may be named Horizons, or something like that),
I take the opposite approach from what I’ve done with my releases,
and I’ll be talking most of the time here, voicing my opinions and
breaking interesting information on a variety of topics. The podcasts
will be talk shows with little music, and in those shows, I’ll have
co-hosts, guests, and other interesting features (such as parodies, faux
commercials, gags, and skits, like a variety show. There will be elements
of comedy, and drama). I’ll be talking about life, entertainment
industry-relevant subjects, will interview people, and will be doing other
things. Unlike my underground DJ release line, the podcasts will be copyright
cleared, although the podcasts will be available for download free of
charge.
With my online modeling magazine Advanced Model also doing a podcast series,
I’ll be producing two podcast projects this year.
Online Video Program Releases
Coming in 2011.
This is something that I wanted to do since 1990, when it all began. With
this series, I’ll be doing VJ duty as I do music video program releases.
Expect these online programs to appear on my online film festivals, as
well as YouTube.
Frontier View online
television series
Coming in 2010/ 2011.
Frontier View, which is supposed to begin production in the spring of
2010 and the release of season one in the fall of 2010, will still see
production this year, but the debut may not happen this fall. I’m
not certain as to what the schedule is right now, and won’t be until
spring. If production is delayed until later this year, expect a debut
sometime in 2011.
In Frontier View, my DJ Frontier alter ego is a character in the series,
and I experience many adventures. That’s all I can say for now.
I still might make that series debut this fall if I can get production
started this spring.
Classified Series Project
Coming in 2012.
Title pending and details are a secret. This is a commercial video series
which I will host. It will have full copyright clearance, and will be
sold. It's a revolutionary idea, and it will sell like crazy; there is
demand for this product, and no one is doing it. That’s all that
I can say for now.
DJ Frontier forever!
I'm going to be everywhere....
And that’s it for now. I have to get some rest, and then rip some more test MP3 programs this weekend. Ciao for now!
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Saturday, January 2, 2010 - 8:00 AM - Tampa DJ Blog log entry by DJ Frontier
Tampa DJ Blog Updated. New Release Schedule.
The Tampa DJ Blog had been
having some issues with Dreamweaver, it seems, with an overload of content
corrupting the html file (the main site template tested fine). So, I took
some time and grafted the content to a new html file, attached to the
site template. To make sure that the corrupted content was not imported
to the fresh page, I hand adjusted all of the fonts and colors. The result:
No more Dreamweaver choking on the file. It’s fixed.
For now, at least. I have plans to reformat the Tampa DJ Blog to the new
Celebrity Class web site format which will be shared by my DJ Frontier
and DJ Wiz Kid sites (there is even talk about changing the Frontier Society
site to the new format). Expect these new DJ sites to launch by spring
in preparation for what’s coming later in 2010.
That done, a lot is going on here. I published a tentative list of the
upcoming GEN 5 Digital Program Releases on my DJ Frontier site while this
blog had issues, but that list has been changed. It’s still tentative,
but look here, and you will get an idea for what will be done later in
2010 and 2011.
Please note that all programs, unless otherwise noted, have a running
time of 140 minutes, which is longer than the old format of 90 minutes.
Running time, however, is tentative, too, although all programs would
have a minimum of a 140 minute run time. Some dance mixes and special
programs would run as much as 240 minutes, or even longer. I’m no
longer limited by a 90 minute cassette with this MP3 format. All programs
will use new commercial program technology and formats, being entirely
produced on computer workstations using 100% digital files and software
such as Ableton Live 8.
34th Release
DJ Frontier: Era
Will be produced the summer of 2010 (and maybe sooner), and will be released
on October 6, 2010. Much like the original Futura began a new era with
my GEN 3 releases in 1994, Era is going to herald the beginning of a new
era. This program, however, will be even more significant, celebrating
my Era as DJ Wiz Kid and DJ Frontier, as well as the Era of what is coming
with my career as DJ Frontier (there will be a production gap of over
12 years with this release, and Futura was released after a hiatus of
less than less than 3 years). Even more significant, this program, while
being done earlier in 2010, it will be released on the 20th anniversary
of my first release: October 6, 2010. Much like my other current production
projects, there will be lead time involved between production and release
of the programs. Many of the new GEN 5 releases will be produced and completed
months before they are officially released (although most would be withing
the frame of the same calendar year).
Era will not be a rip-off of Futura, however; although some themes may
be similar to the first Futura, this will be superior in every way, and
in many ways will be a lot different. It’s a celebration of my career
as an underground DJ, and an introduction of what I’m working on
now. The program will have several fans helping out, too, which I’ll
have, especially with the re-release of most of my older releases in the
spring of 2010.
I was going to premier the GEN 5 release line with the Revo dance mix
release, but there were too many questions which had to be answered. So,
Revo was pushed back to the 35th release, and Era was re-asserted.
I’m not certain what type of program release that I will have to
celebrate my 25 year anniversary on October 6, 2015, but a sequel to Era
is in consideration.
35th Release
DJ Frontier: Revo
This will be my next Party Zone series, and will utilize some ideas which
would have been introduced in the never-produced GEN 3 Club Zero Cassette
Program Release series. This is not to say that there won’t be another
Party Zone, however. Party Zone 5, at the very least, is on the schedule.
If Party Zone 5 is the last Party Zone (which Party Zone 4 was supposed
to be before the superior Party Zone RMX was released afterwards), I want
to close the series out on a high note. The Party Zone series is supposed
to be more mainstream dance music, and Revo is more about techno, trance,
and acid house dance music.
36th Release
DJ Frontier: Waveform RMX
With the original Waveform being converted to MP3 and re-released, the
flawed Waveform 2 being dumped, and the defining Waveform 3 seeing re-release
as an MP3 program, Waveform RMX, a remix program which was supposed to
be produced back in the GEN 3 days, will finally be produced. Waveform
RMX is based on Waveform 3 and the Waveform indie film property, and will
mainly focus on the music. It will also set the stage for the upcoming
GEN 5 sequel Waveform 4, which will occur after the events of the upcoming
GEN 5 release Daytona. Like cool beach-themed music? You’ll dig
Waveform RMX.
37th Release
DJ Frontier: Futura RMX
This is a music-centric remix of the Futura series, featuring some of
the best music of Futura and Futura 2. It will also have a lot of cool
new content, and will set the stage for the upcoming Futura 3.
38th Release
DJ Frontier: Generation 2
I have big plans for this one. It is a sequel with a much improved story
over the first Generation, which was a brilliant program which few have
heard before now. The story is completed, and it is much more ambitious
than the original. Generation 2 ties in with the original Generation,
as well as my upcoming indie film projects REM and Generations. In Generation
2, which occurs 11 years after the events of first story, DJ Frontier
and a female companion, assisted by Dr. Fabian, use an advanced, and improved,
MK3 REM VR machine to literally become a part of the memories of DJ Frontier.
Of course, they get more than they bargained for when the memories of
the first session mix with their experience, and other weird things happen.
DJ Frontier and his friend are stuck in the REM world of his mind, and
have to face his darkest demons, together.
39th Release
DJ Frontier: Lost Love (Smooth
Love Part 2)
This is my take on DJ Foxx’s long lost GEN 2 release, Smooth Love
(she was such a selfish little bitch, mind you. She stole the master tape,
as well as any respect that I ever had for her, for other reasons. I’m
glad that she is gone and out of my life). In the original Smooth Love,
DJ Foxx spewed out all of this true love forever B.S., B.S. which time
proved wrong. Where is her true love now? Does it have a price tag on
it, and what is her price? Did she allow someone to buy her hand in marriage?
Regardless, although I still believe in true love, Lost Love is about
love gone wrong. It’s about lost love, and the regret that comes
with it. It’s about selfishness, deceit, and destructive behavior.
It’s about one-side love, and people taking advantage of others.
It’s love gone wrong, and true love missing. It’s about a
screwed up, confused girl who made a mockery of true love as she used
people to satisfy her own self-serving needs.
It’s also about my memory of a girl who I truly loved, love for
a girl who allowed life to change who she was, a girl who ceased to exist
so many years ago. The girl who I loved died long ago.
40th Release
DJ Frontier: Reverence
(Sidekick Release)
This will be a sidekick release for my short indie film, Reverence, which
may or may not be done this year, so this is very tentative right now.
The scoop is that, for 2010 at least, the priorities are my photography,
modeling sites, and my DJ career. The films and film festivals will have
to wait until I have time for them, and that may not happen until next
year (always next year, of course, but I will not put my financial portfolio
in jeopardy by overextending myself and my businesses. If you are waiting
for my indie films and film festivals, you can simply wait a while longer.
They will happen, eventually. This delay is a big part of the reasons
why the Tampa Bay Film sites will not be updated much in 2010, too. I
have lots to do this year, and won’t have much time for that).
41st Release
DJ Frontier: Party Zone 5
This will be the best Party Zone. Since it will probably be the last in
a series that spans all the way back to 1991, I’m putting a lot
into this with the concept that it is the Swan Song. Party Zone 4 was
supposed to be the last Party Zone, but it was the worst of the series,
and I didn’t want it to go out like that. Party Zone RMX was done
after Party Zone 4, and it was easily one of the best. Party Zone 5 will
feature mostly new music in a really cool dance mix which will enhance
the spirit of the Party Zone series while not repeating what’s been
done before.
So, which are the best Party Zone releases? From best, to worst.
Party Zone 3
Party Zone RMX
Party Zone 2
Party Zone
Party Zone 4
.... What’s that? A mistake? Party Zone 2 moved up the list? Actually,
I’ve been listening to Party Zone 2 lately-
a lot. It has a strong hook to it, and cool, jamming music!
Out of all of the Party Zones, I keep listening to that one the most.
It’s really good, and captures the energy and attitude of 1994 extremely
well. It also has a ton of video game references and samples, which don’t
make the program, really, but are cool. In my opinion, it’s more
fun than Party Zone 3, but Party Zone 3 edges it out on a technical level,
being a better program overall.
All the Party Zones are great. Party Zone 4, however, wasn’t that
good.
When Party Zone 5 is released, however, expect it to be at the top of
that list.
... Let the beat control your body.... “Ladies and gentlemen”.....
“Those who dare to enter the zone”........ Eternal life........
Everybody’s free- to feel good........ What is love.... Mr. Vain......
Love House....... “We are GO for launch!”...... “Relax,
pretend it’s a game. Maybe it’ll even be fun!”.......
“So? We’re in this huge house, with all your friends.... P-p-p-p-party-
Music!”.
Ah, Party Zone 2 had moxy. It was a fun release, and I love it. One of
the coolest releases that I’ve done, for sure. You’ll understand
when you finally hear it.
42nd Release
DJ Frontier: Neo Horizons
(Horizons 5 has been
cancelled, and this is a reboot)
I decided to do a complete reboot of the Horzions brand. Although I might..
might use a few songs from the originals, most of it will be completely
new. Those old samples, and that diamix, will be replaced with something
entirely new, and better.
43rd Release
DJ Frontier: Bitch 2
How do I follow up the most controversial release that I’ve ever
done? Well, this will be just as controversial, if not more-so to some
people. I’ll also be using tact this time, with 19 years of experience
to draw from. I’ve grown up, and am a much more sophisticated individual
now. I now know who I am, too. I no longer need to use profanity, or low-rent
humor, to be entertaining, or to make a point. There were some elements
with the original Bitch: The Major Release which I am certain broke some
obscenity laws, and keep in mind that the re-release will be edited for
content.
Bitch 2 is about lost people who don’t know who they are, who are
insecure, and who use and betray others. A lot of this will have to do
with a group of my ex so-called friends from so long ago, and that infamous
event riot of November 2, 1991. It will also be about a certain girl who
brought much misery unto my life (and arguably the cause of that riot).
Ironically, one of the reasons for the dropped re-release of Waveform
2 is because I spend most of the program whining about that crashed party.
Whining is not wit, and I was out of form. I won’t be whining with
this one.. I’ll address the issue with lots of humor and wit, because,
my friends, those people are jokes. I have a lot to make fun of.
Of course, I really won’t be personally attacking these people,
but will rather be turning the type of people that they were into a hard-core,
running gag. We all know people like this, and I’m sure many fans
of a new generation will be able to relate.
44th Release
DJ Frontier: Serenade
This could have been Smooth Love 2, too, but....... this is about genuine
true love. The bitterness of Lost Love won’t be sound here, for
sure. This will be a romantic program celebrating trust, consideration,
romance, dating, interest, and commitment. Don’t miss it.
45th Release
DJ Frontier: Noel
At long last, my Christmas program! This is a Christmas-themed release
with holiday cheer and music. I’ve been waiting to do this one for
years, too.
46th Release
DJ Frontier: Resolution
This is the premier of an annual series celebrating the new year. It is
an intense dance mix about experience, resolutions, and renewal, and having
the courage to explore something new. Expect a dance mix closer to Party
Zone than Revo, but I expect Resolution to be on many playlists at the
end of each year (note that each Resolution program, although release
toward the end of each year, may not be tied to that year, although this
could change).
47th Release
DJ Frontier (and
two other DJ's): Futura 3
The long-awaited third Futura release. This will be a new direction for
the Futura series, although it will compliment the others, and I will
have two DJ’s co-host it with me.
48th Release
Omega Team: Rush Hour
I already have most of the dialogue recorded for this, but will have to
add more to it. I’ll bring in more actors, will convert the existing
material to digital audio files, and will finally release it. Rush Hour
is a parody of a radio program designed to sound like it’s a radio
broadcast. It’s about a disaster which strikes the Tampa Bay area.
The script is awesome, too, and it is funny stuff.
Rush Hour sounds a lot like those faux radio programs in the Grand Theft
Auto video games, which is one reason that I adore GTA soundtracks so
much. Note that I did not rip off that concept, either. The same goes
for the crappy movie Rush Hour, which came out after I wrote
this script.
49th Release
Omega Team: Daytona
Daytona was originally a GEN 3 release which is a sequel to Waveform 3,
where wanna-be surfer Washout and his friend Tobey go to Daytona Beach
on spring break to party and scam on girls. The script has been done forever,
but it will be updated, with a lot of new material, much like what will
be done with Rush Hour. It will be upgraded and produced as a GEN 5 release.
Daytona will lead into the official sequel to Waveform 3, Waveform 4.
Well, that’s it for now.
There are a lot more on my schedule, too, but that’s all that I
will reveal for now.
Oh, and happy belated New Year, too. I’m not really in the mood
right now to be partying. I’m busy.
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Friday, November 20, 2009 - 8:30 AM - Tampa DJ Blog log entry by DJ Frontier
Time For Some Criticism
I know that I’ve been
touting how “revolutionary” and how “awesome”
my old releases were, but I’ve been listening to
a lot of them lately with the objective, and sometimes biased, mindset
of the target audience, and I have some issues. Keep what I am about to
write in mind when you listen to those GEN 1, 2, and 3 releases next year.
If you have an issue with some of the programs, be aware that I am aware
of it (and I promise that I will do my best to not redo those mistakes
in the future), and if you think that I am not aware of it, I’d
like to hear from you. I like criticism. If you have a point, and I realize
that something is a mistake, I learn from it. It’s how we improve.
I may be a polymath, and one of the gifted ones, but I’m hardly
perfect.
Alrighty. It’s time to do some criticizing.
1. Repeats Suck
I must have had a small collection of music back in the day, because many
of my first releases played the same music over, and over, and over again.
Reminds me of the current Tampa radio scene, where lame DJ’s kill
cool songs by wearing them out (I’m looking at you, 93.3. You used
to be cool back in the Power Pig days, but these days, you’re almost
as annoying as a country music station. This said, a few DJ’s doing
cool mixes on the weekends are a breath of fresh air... and I’m
not talking about the obnoxious DJ’s who talk and talk and talk
and think that they are witty when they are not.). To add insult to injury
(ah, rub that salt into my wounds), I often played the same songs in the
release after, and sometimes for several releases in a row! I’m
telling you, I USED to LOVE Pajama Party’s “Yo No Se”,
but not after I did over five lame mixes of it in at least as many releases.
If I ever hear that song again, I’ll throw up.
I’m thinking that the early releases were made in a way where each
release had a particular target audience, and it wasn’t thought
that people would listen to every release that I did. While this is certainly
a logical explanation for repeating song selections, it definitely is
no excuse.
Repeating music wasn’t the only issue. I also repeated content.
There was no excuse for that, and I was guilty of being lazy.
I think that the main reason for repeats, regardless how you spin it,
was by producing a ton of releases in a short period of time with no way
to keep up by buying music. In a one year period, from 1990 to 1991, I
did 19 releases. That’s a lot.
The complaint about repeats goes way beyond music selection, too. I used
to stutter samples a lot. Some times, there were cool results. Most of
the time, however, that was not the case.
GEN 5 releases will get away from repeats of both types, unless it is
needed for artistic reasons.
2. Sloppy Seconds
Some of my releases just sucked. I was in the studio the other night converting
the more obscure releases to digital audio files, editing client pictures,
and some of those programs were testing my patience. I will say that Horizons
3 sucks so badly that I am seriously considering not re-releasing it at
all. I found it to be sloppy, lazy, and generally annoying. With Horizons
3, I seemed to simply sit back and play music. That’s not DJ’ing.
That’s playing a music compilation with no creative input. Horizons
3 was so bad, in my opinion, that it dragged the Horizons brand, which
I hold a create deal of reverence for, through the mud.
Even the supposedly “professional” GEN 3 releases had issues
which were nothing more than half-assing. Party Zone 4 has audio cues
for the samples bleeding through every time a sample is dropped. In some
of those releases, the samples and the monologues are distorted, or not
mixed properly. I also see technical issues such as recording levels whish
could have been easily resolved, but were allowed to happen because I
was neglectful.
Another issue that I have with some releases were the obvious lack of
planning and preparation, and it undermined the execution. I winged some
of those releases, and that’s why they sucked.
3. Don’t Drink And Spin
In some of the GEN 1 releases, there was a slur in my voice. Why? Because
I was partying while I was DJ’ing. Yes, I drank while I worked on
some of those releases, and it hurt them. Horizons 4 had to be redone,
in fact, because I was so drunk when I made the first one that I didn’t
remember making it. When I did stumble upon the first tape, it was so
bad that I had to redo the entire program. Even after the remake, I still
don’t think that it came out well (at the time of this writing,
I haven’t listened to it in a few years. I don’t think, however,
that Horizons 4 was as bad as Horizons 3 was.)
Oh, and I don’t really drink anymore, and especially not when I
am working. I drank two wine coolers the other day, which is rare.
4. Split Programming
As I’ve already bitched about, some of the early releases had schizophrenic
programming. I’d get the momentum built up on one side, only to
discard it on part two. In many cases, my programming was flawed, and
I’d drop in samples and other elements that didn’t quite fit.
Oh, and I really loved the good releases that had content suitable for
general audiences, only to ruin it by the inclusion of a “Nasty
Mix”. Some of those early releases will see EC-21 ratings because
of this stupidity.
This was largely a thing of the past by the time I began my GEN 3 releases,
as they all had strong themes and a ton of planning.
5. Does It Sound Like I Have
A 200 IQ?
I’m telling you, sometimes I think that I talk just to hear myself
talk. In the old days, when I was in my early 20's, I talked before I
thought things out.
In some of my first releases as DJ Wiz Kid, I talked a lot of crap. I
came off like a little punk who talked crap. Maybe it’s because,
in some ways, I was. In Horizons 2, my friends and I sat around talking
about a wild night out (November 9, 1990), where we were involved in a
high speed chase through the streets of Brandon. I’m telling you,
it was straight out of a movie, and I’m surprised that none of us
were arrested, or killed. What happened was that I had this cool little
red truck, a Toyota, which was modified as a ghetto-rigged (no budget)
“concept” truck. I had it hacked with all these modifications.
It had a television and a lot of weird electronics. I also had a billy
club stashed in the truck, since that’s what all lame wanna-be gangster
had in those days. That night, the truck was full. I was wearing spandex
shorts (why, I don’t recall..... tacky, tacky) and a T-shirt. I
didn’t have my wallet on me, because the shorts did not have pockets.
Shelia (DJ Sabastion), who was my age, was in my passenger seat. In the
open bed of the truck was my brother, who was 18, and our friend Mark,
who was also 18. Anyway, we drove through Brandon, getting a case of beer,
and decided to go to an apartment complex to look for my friend Kerri.
Kerri wasn’t home. When we were getting back in the truck, we noticed
a small Chevette with two people in it drive around a corner, stop, and
then quickly drive away. I though that it was weird, and so did the others,
so we all decided to leave. The apartment complex had one main entrance,
and we had to exit that way. As we rounded the corner to exit (going the
same way that the car had gone), we noticed that four people were rushing
to get into the Chevette, and two others jumped into a new pickup truck.
As we left the complex, both vehicles were right up on us, and the occupants
were screaming obscenities at us.
I’m telling you that driving a tricked truck that had the bold word
“Coolin” displayed over the windshield seemed to draw trouble
to me.
With the maniacs behind us, and my truck not being exactly stock (it was
actually quite fast due to some modifications that my brother had made
when he owned it), I tore out onto the main road. Both vehicles were in
pursuit.
I bolted right on Highway 60, and took my truck up to 90 MPH (the speed
limit was 45). The crowded Chevette started to fall behind, but the newer
truck didn’t have the same issue keeping up with me. It tried to
come along beside me in order to work its way in front of me, an effort
to block me and stop me. I hit 100. The truck struggled to get beside
me. The Chevette continued to fall behind.
I braked hard and took a right on Lakewood, heading north (I should have,
in retrospect, taken a left U-turn and headed for the police station a
few blocks away). The truck was right on my rear bumper, and the Chevette
caught up to us. I dark road with lots of bumps and crests lay before
us.
A railroad crossing approached. I white car in front of us slowed for
the crossing, and then proceeded. I came up right on the bumper of the
white car, with the other two cars on my bumper. My friend Mark yelled
that it was an undercover police car, and he insisted that he saw lights
in the window. The tag was a normal white tag, however, and I didn’t
think that it was. The stoplight ahead of us turned red. I decided that
I wasn’t going to risk stopping and getting killed if the car was
not a police car.
The road was single lane. At the stop light, the white car stopped. I
kept going. I jerked my truck onto the right shoulder of the road. The
other truck followed, and the Chevette hung back. I passed the white car
by a foot. I hit the intersection sideways, my wide rear tires biting
into the soil as they spun rocks and dirt all over the white car, and
all over the truck behind us.
Police lights.
Mark and my brother started tossing beer out of the truck (we should have
done this as soon as the chase started, in retrospect, because getting
pulled over was one of the ways that it could have ended).
The white car really WAS a police car! The police car pulled over my truck,
and the truck on my bumper. The Chevette kept going straight.
The police officer jumped out of his car. “You guys are F-ing crazy!”
he screamed.
“Officer, these people are chasing us!” We yelled back.
The police officer called backup, and a patrol car joined him. They had
to run my name in the computer because I didn’t have my license
on me. Another officer dealt with the occupants of the other truck after
looking around for what we threw out. He didn’t find the beer. The
four people in the Chevette parked down the road and walked by. One of
the police officers told them to keep walking. After what seemed like
forever, the police officer in the unmarked car told us to go ahead and
leave, and that he would take care of the two people in the other truck.
As we left, we watched the two people in the other truck get arrested.
We never did find out why they decided to chase us. We later heard rumors
that they were a gang, and that they would have killed us had they caught
us.
We were lucky. Really lucky. We didn’t get so much as a ticket.
I’m just glad that we didn’t get arrested, hurt, killed, or
didn’t get someone else hurt or killed.
In many ways, I was a young punk who tended to get in a lot of trouble.
You do stupid things when you’re young. This said, I was never bored,
that’s for sure.
There are a lot more anecdotes like that from my DJ Wiz Kid days. So many,
in fact, that I’m turning it into a animated series of short films
titled “The Adventures Of DJ Wiz Kid”, all based on my real-life
adventures.
Oh, and in another my GEN 1 DJ Wiz Kid releases, Fire In The Desert, which
was about the first Gulf war, some friends and I were making fun of Iraqi’s,
when we should have been commenting on the Iraqi regime, instead. Some
of the remarks came off as racist, which is something that I am not. I’m
not sure if that one will be re-released, either, as it doesn’t
make us look intelligent at all. It’s quite insulting, really, to
all of us that made it.
So, I was young. I said, and did, some stupid things. I didn’t do
justice to my IQ. I grew up, however, and all of that is now in the past.
6. My Delivery SUCKED
Some of my monologues were awful. Really awful. So was my acting. There
was a time that I was actually a worse actor than Tampa actor Joe Davison,
if you can believe that!
My word choice was often poor, too, because I often had to wing it. I’d
repeat phrases like “and all that” after sentences, which
is annoying to listen to.
Practice makes perfect, I suppose. I did get much better over the years,
although even my performance in the last release, 1997's Party Zone RMX,
was lacking, and forced. My acting got a lot better after I started acting
on television in the mid 1990's.
Think before I speak. Play with the material. Improv. The new stuff will
be good.
7. I Was Too Personal
Man, some of what I said on those releases made me shake my head. It was
embarrassing. I’d be talking about “special girls out there”
and making dedications to girls who I was interested in. In one release,
Nasty Mix, it became even more ridiculous. I was assuming that this girl
who I was interested in dating would obtain a copy of an explicit hip
hop program, listen all the way through the first side without being offended
(and shutting it off), and then hear my plea for her on the tamer second
side. In some ways, it was ludicrous, and a little bit sad (if any girl
was cool with Nasty Mix, dating her probably wouldn’t have been
a good idea, anyway. No girl who was worth going out with would have been
a fan of that program, and the pathetic part about it was that, at the
time, I didn’t even realize that). Ah, such was the life of someone
who was young, and in some way, wet behind the ears. In many ways, I was
awfully naive. I’m still not perfect, but I’ve come a long
way in almost twenty years. I grew up. I now know who I am, and what I’m
doing.
I came off like a schmuck when I did those “Aw, shucks, there is
this girl out there who I want to go out with, and she knows who she is,
and I jus’ wanna walk along a desolate beach with you holding your
hand, and we can talk” monologues. Some of them just make me cringe.
It’s cool if you are in a relationship with a girl, and you want
to tell the whole world that you love her. It’s just that this is
not what I was doing in those releases. What I was doing was pitiful.
Not that it stopped me from getting the girls, however. I dated a lot
of beautiful girls. Once, in that infamous tricked truck of mine (the
one from the car chase), this girl named Kim and I spent the night at
an isolated dead end road, watching a program called “Friday Night
Videos” on the dash TV, listening to music, talking, and doing a
lot of kissing. It was freezing cold outside, but it was nice in the truck.
We stayed the entire night there, and it was a very cool night with a
very cool girl (and, no, she didn’t ever hear Nasty Mix. I suspect
that she would have broke up with me if she had).
Well, I was a romantic at heart. I still am, but I now have experience,
and tact, to temper my romantic notions.
Oh, and the women of the future were even better. In the last ten years
alone, I’ve dated some of the most beautiful, intelligent, interesting
women in the world, without being a popular underground DJ (although,
to be fair, I am a top photographer, and I don’t know any women
who are not models. I’m very busy, and models and talent are the
only friends that I have, and the only people who I come into contact
with. I’m not in business for the models, however, so you can get
that tacky image out of your head. I’m a professional). I wouldn’t
have had it any other way. In the next ten years, it will be even better.
I’m certainly going to make up for the lost time that I’ve
spent working on business support infrastructure. I’ve worked too
much to be able to play, and that it about to change.
Well, anyway, none of my releases
were perfect, even the ones that were hits. GEN 1 and GEN 2 releases,
while mostly cool, were amateur. GEN 3 releases were Pro-Am, and were
much better overall. With GEN 5, however, it’s pro all the way,
and now that I realize the mistakes that were made, I can avoid them in
all the upcoming releases. Every single GEN 5 release should, at least
technically and creatively, blow away all the releases from the past.
I have some really cool things coming up.
A lot of my old stuff is entertaining, however. I’m listening to
the 1995 GEN 3 release Horizons RMX right now, the 24th release, and it’s
really good. It’s the best Horizons ever made, and does the brand
justice. The upcoming GEN 5 Neo Horizons (formerly Horizons 5, but I’ve
decided to make an all-new Horizons release which will re-invent the line)
will be better in every way, and longer, too, at 140 minutes (VS 90 minutes
for Horizons RMX); over a third longer than the others.
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