It’s Dooga, your local Bronx DJ. I’m in the process of assembling a mobile party wagon that will be able to deploy anywhere in the immediate tri-state area come early summer. I will be preparing to throw events every month, sometimes multiple times a month. These will be friendly dance parties fueled by myself and excellent guest DJ’s. I’ll be providing 3000W of power, reserving over 2/3 of that for the bass with all signals passing through a proper audio rig for that well-balanced club “thump”.

This will be NYC based, Bronx grown and ready to sprout soon.

My Crew and I need safe, relatively clean, LARGE SPACES with decent bathrooms, ventilation, solid electrics and limited chance of getting shut down by the NYPD. It must hold at least 150-300 people and can be your choice of venue including;

Bars
Clubs
Lounges
Galleries
Lofts
Huge home basement

We are also assembling a roster of GUEST DJs, so if you are a clever & hip local party DJ with a talent for solid music selection, technicality and professionalism, then hit us up. Regardless of your other DJing or sampling talents, you must be exceptional at arranging cohesive mixes with proper phrasing. This isn’t a Top 40 pow-wow also. I’m looking for people who search for quality music through a broader scope than what they just hear on the radio.

Send over your:

DJ name
First Name (if you’d like)
Equipment list
Any online samples that you may have (stream, download, or email)
Website

I look forward to seeing what NYC has to offer.

Oh yeah, and the party needs a name. Any suggestions?

Send emails through:
Contact Page

Tweet suggestions to @djdooga

Keep your ears open.

Love,
Dooga

“The Clemente Effect” ESPN Films Official Trailer from Eric Talesnick on Vimeo.

Late last year, I worked for 6 weeks on a sports documentary for ESPN Deportes covering the life of Roberto Clemente. I originally saw this as a great opportunity to have a steady gig, explore the world a bit and have something like ESPN’s Spanish speaking network under my belt, however after seeing the doc just a few days ago, I have to say that I stand corrected.

Documentary film making I would imagine is slightly less manic than filming for a reality show, except for reality shows, there is generally a larger budget considering how popular “reality” is. Regardless of that, we busily ran around as a tight 4 man team occasionally paired up with locals from wherever we were staying to help out and get it all done. We had 6 six weeks devoted to production, spending almost every waking minute with either my brother Producer Eddie Martinez, Director Mario Diaz, and even more so as a pseudo assistant camera op with Director of Photography Eric Talesnick. Tempers, fray, feeling get damaged, then repaired… it all happened across NYC, Pittsburg, Ft. Meyers Florida, all over Puerto Rico for 3 weeks and eventually to Nicaragua, but we got through it.

Watching the documentary unfold while sitting front and center in my brother’s living room was quite surreal. I was waiting for audio anomalies or glaring audio mistakes, but it turned out well so I settled in and enjoyed the story that Mario Diaz carefully constructed. And ESPN liked it so much, they put it on their main network. Pretty ill.

Memories y’all.

Show love.

If you are a Traktor S4 user, this last month must have been a bit nerve racking with the release of the new MacBook Pro, preloaded with Mac OS 10.7, otherwise known as Mountain Lion. As with any new laptop, the main concern rests in the transferring of an entire iTunes Library, and loops and samples files to the new platform, however there are a few hitches during this process.

Using Traktor to it’s fullest comes with a few issues when interacting with OS X 10.7 on the new 2012 MacBook Pros/Air:

1st: When duplicating an iTunes Library (along with the appropriate .xml file that saves all the playlist info) on a new MBP 2012, iTunes might declare that it is missing a great deal of tracks even if they are all there. Simple find one of the marked tracks and locate the file. iTunes will appear to stall and reveal that it relocated many more tracks than you anticipated were “missing”. They will all appear in iTunes and you can go on using that as normal. Manual location may need to be performed one or two times.

2nd: After you load Traktor 2.5, many of your tracks including relocated ones will be in the playlist but will not load, forcing the software to inform you that they are “Missing or Corrupted.” This is a lie. Simply reinstall Traktor to remedy the error messages.

3rd: Some Traktor 2.5 users may be experiencing some alarming audible and visual glitches when using their S4 (not certain about other interfaces). The track stutters during playback and crackles when it is not. The system responds to commands, however when consulting the audio drivers in System Preferences, a “USB Errors” readout continues to increase with each passing glitch.
The issue is within the latest update of Mac OS X 10.7 and how that update has modified USB functions within the new MBP’s. The Native Instruments forum user “feedserotonin” has provided a temporary fix that cures the issue, albeit with a bit of a caveat:

As it’s my longest mix published, this one clocks in at about 2 1/2 hours.

LESS than GREAT (><)Volume 1 Part 1     |

LESS than GREAT (><)Volume 1 Part 2     |

LESS than GREAT (><)Volume 1 Part 3     |

Part 1
1. Cults – Go Outside
2. Rick Ross – Yacht Club (feat. Magazeen)
3. Real Ones – Outlaw (Beyond the Wizards Sleeve Re-Animation)
4. CurrenSy – The Day (Feat. Mos Def & Jay Electronica)
5. Esthero – Breath from Another
6. Janet Jackson – Curtains
7. Maroon 5 – Wake Up Call feat. David Banner (David Banner)
8. The Roots – You Got Me (Original Version) (Feat Jill Scott)
9. Hudson Mohawke – Ooops (OH MY)
10. Kanye West – Mercy (RL Grime ReMix)
11. Ski Beatz – Taxi (feat. Mos Def & Whosane)
12. Baauer – Harlem Shake (Original Mix)
13. DJ Shadow – Fixed Income
14. Jay-Z – People Talking
15. Missy Elliot – The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)
16. Obey City – Fuck Dat Wobble (Anti-Wobble Anthem)
17. Jay-Z – So Ambitious (feat. Pharrell)
18. Juju – The Moonlight
19. Ill Al Skratch – This Is for My Homiez
20. 213 – Another Summer (feat. Snoop Dogg & Nate Dogg)

Part 2
21. Cali Swag District – Teach Me How To Dougie
22. Big Boi – You Ain’t No DJ (feat. Yelawolf)
23. Boom Bip – Roads Must Roll
24. Miguel – Girl With The Tattoo (Enterlewd)
25. RJD2 – One Day
26. Common – So Far To Go (D’Angelo)
27. i Wayne – Can’t Satisfy Her
28. Beyoncé – Party (feat. Andre 3000)
29. 10illie – Secret Fibers
30. Arrested Development – People Everyday
31. Shaggy – It Wasn’t Me
32. Janet Jackson – If
33. Theophilus London – Why Even Try (feat. Sara Quin)
34. Dam Funk – One Less Day (feat. G-Shaft)
35. Jamie Woon – Lady Luck
36. Munchi – Hope
37. The Xx – Do You Mind?
38. XXYYXX – Overdone (Anneka ReMix)

Part 3
39. Dam Funk – Hood Pass Intact
40. Cypress Hill – Insane in the Brain
41. A Tribe Called Quest – Show Business
42. Digital Underground – The Humpty Dance
43. Dizzee Rascal – Holiday (feat. Chrome)
44. Timbaland – I Just Wanna Fuck (Frandomeda Moombahton Edit feat. DEV)
45. Alpines – Why? (feat. Maya Jane Coles)
46. M83 – Midnight City
47. Jon Kwest – Anything
48. Morcheeba – Let Me See (ReMix feat. Talib Kweli)
49. Stetasonic – Talkin’ All That Jazz
50. Fine Young Cannibals – She Drives Me Crazy (intro loop only)
51. Original Concept – Pump That Bass
52. Kill Paris – I Do Love You
53. Rustie – Surph
…and a couple of words from Rufus Thomas on behalf of yours truly.

Runtime – 36:30

It’s a freestyle so it ain’t perfect, but there are some pretty interesting mixes so I hope you enjoy.

Track Listing

1. Bad Rabbits – Can’t Back Down
2. Carte Blanche – Do! Do! Do! (feat. Kid Sister)
3. Chromeo – Destination Overdrive (DFA ReMix)
4. Cut Copy – Lights & Music (Moulinex ReMix)
5. Miike Snow – Paddling Out
6. Little Boots – Shake
7. Ruda Krishna – Tonight’s the Night
8. Blawan – Getting Me Down
9. Harry Belafonte – Jump in the Line (John Bourke’s Bmore ReMix)
10. Kurd Maverick – Warum Nisht! (Original Mix)
11. Wolfgang Gartner – The Grey Agenda (Original Mix)
11a. Azealia Banks – 212
11b. Missy Elliot – Gossip Folks (feat. Ludacris) (Acapella)

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By choosing a real world location, the movie industry connect the locals with the fantasy that exists on the celluloid. Regardless of it’s landmark, seeing an area that you are intimately aware of in a huge international film is a transcendental experience. You create an attachment to the work itself because of that familiar location. This emotional attachment only spawned with the advent of film, as no medium existed in early man that could trigger such a response. Imagine that through an invention made by man, not only do we conjure our own creations, but we inspire unknown emotions as well.

Think about the unique sensations created by everyday things that did not exist in the past. Here I’ve taken a particular route, however all of our modern amenities and often basic comforts aid in providing rich sensations and emotions. It kind of makes you think about the concept of “emotionally intelligent.”

Are you

Hey y’all.

I haven’t had a chance to finalize this mix, so in the meantime you can enjoy a little over an hour of finely mixed music. This one is pretty chill. It’s very uniform in that it occurs at a strict 77 bpm’s, however the amount of genre switching keeps it interesting. Stream it or download it with a right click, it’s up to you.

ENJOY!!!

Track Listing:

1. Asobi Seksu – Trails (Holy Other Remix)
2. Ella Fitzgerald (De-Phazz Remix) – Wait Till You See Him
3. Cee Lo Green – Bodies (Produced By Salaam Remi)
4. Massive Attack – Protection
5. DJ Shadow – Midnight In A Perfect World
6.  Hot As Sun – Come Come (KickDrums ReMix) (feat. Freddie Gibbs)
7. Araabmuzik – Let It Go
8. Ellie Goulding – Lights (Bassnectar Remix)
9. Xilent – Choose Me II (Original Mix)
10. Feed Me – Strange Behaviour
11. JCB – Embracing Solitude (Blackmill Remix)
12. Nicki Minaj – Save Me
13. The Weeknd – High For This
14. La Roux – In For The Kill (Skreams Let’s Get Ravey Mix)
15. U.N.K.L.E. – Bloodstain
16. Pretty Lights – Pretty Lights vs Radiohead vs Nirvana vs NIN
17. Miles Kane – Rearrange (Skreamix)
18. UNKLE – The Dog Is Black (feat. Liela Moss)
19. Morgan Page – The Longest Road (Downtempo Mix)
20. Dev – Dancing In The Dark (Proper Villains ReMix)
21. Lupe Fiasco – Go To Sleep
22. CEO – Halo (Beyoncé Cover)
23. Animal Collective – Daily Routine (Phaseone ReMix)
24. Massive Attack – Teardrop
25. Wiz Khalifa – Mezmorized
26. Big K.R.I.T. – Money On The Floor (feat. 2 Chainz, 8Ball & MJG)
27. Curren$y – Audio Dope II