T-Dance Edition 2010 v2 | Take 1 - a podcast by Keith a.k.a. K j A M

When I started combing through the songs that would be used in this next edition, the Disco Fairy paid me a visit and hit me with her disco stick.  Shortly after, I had the overwhelming urge to get down, shake, shake, shake my booty and boogie oogie oogie.  Even though I had a strong group of tunes for this set, I was in a state of trance and found myself over at Juno combing through their NuDisco section and adding things to my cart like I had just won the lottery.  I was feverishly consumed with boogie fever.  Soon, I had a bill that had swelled to $50.  Regardless, like a first timer in a club full of hot men,  I just couldn’t put on the brakes; I literally had to have it ALL!

After downloading all of my newly purchased tracks, I went right to work on this mix.  A lot of these songs are not really suited for mixing or beat matching in the true sense of the word.  Back in the day, I taught myself to create these amazing mixes by splicing together songs at various intervals using two Nakamichi decks.  By the early 90s, I was doing it on a single minidisc player.  Relying on that same method, that’s pretty much how most of this set was put together.  While there is some beatmatching going on, most of this set was sliced and diced, giving the perception of a masterful mix.  The beats were anywhere from 112 to 128 BPM.  In order to keep a solid flow without speeding up and slowing things down, I averaged all the beats to 124 BPM which provides for a much smoother ride.

I’m not going to say this is for everyone, because it’s not.  I do believe that the true believers amongst us will eat this up; while others will be asking yourselves “where’s the beef?”  No need to worry, I’ll be starting on the companion sets later today and you can expect those to drop later this week.  In the meantime, I’m serving up a disco lovers dream fantasy come true.  If anyone has an opinion on this mix, good or bad, let me know.  I’d really like to hear what you think.  I’ll be back by the middle part of next week with the alternate takes, which will be more in the vein of what you would normally expect.  Until then, enjoy!







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I also want to talk about some new improvements to the site, I just implemented.  Obviously, there has been some confusion as how to download the podcasts and even more about using iTunes.  Because, I can’t assume that everyone is going to understand how I set everything up, I took that as positive feedback.  Being the little Miss Perfection that I am, I went ahead and updated the iTunes tutorial which will answer all of your questions about setting it up for download through their service.  There was a problem I had been troubleshooting with the all of the podcasts not showing up in iTunes.  I finally figured out the problem in the feed and have since corrected it.  The feed addresses HAVE changed, so if you are an iTunes user, your best bet to get those questions answered is here.

As for downloading from the site, I’ve rewritten the portion erroneously referring to the “mp3 icon” in my FAQ.  Since moving over from Podbean, I created my own icons that don’t mention mp3.  I also took it upon myself to create an entirely new link at the top of the page entitled “Download 101.”  Much like the iTunes tutorial, I provide step by step instructions along with pictures which should ensure a user’s complete understanding of how downloading works.  I know that if you have iTunes installed, QuickTime will try to play the podcast as opposed to allowing you to download it.  Circumventing that is also explained.

So why did I go through all of this trouble?  Not because of all the emails and Cbox questions, but rather because I don’t want to leave anyone out.  Those that have followed for some time, know that I’m a pretty amiable guy and don’t mind a...

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