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22 Days to Dragon*Con: Band Profile, Little Jen

Posted in Dragon*Con, Dragon*Con Countdown, Music, Nerds with tags , , , , , , , on August 8, 2012 by The Dilettantista

We’re skipping Lips Down on Dixie because you should already know who they are and what they do, and if you don’t then I don’t want to know you.

…….That long pause that just occurred in my blogging was me researching the Raleigh Rocky Shadowcast WHICH I HAVE NEVER ATTENDED and figuring out when I should go and remedy that.  Okay.

Little Jen is a DJ Y’ALL.  I wanted to keep ALL THE DJS on one spot, this is messing up my organization and giving me some serious bad OCD juju y’all!

Little Jen’s background is SUPER INTERESTING and this is not at all an exaggeration.  She has a Master’s in music composition from Georgia State and has received composition commissions from all sorts of fancy people, including the principle trombonist from the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.  She’s a member of the Society of Composers, Inc. (SCI), the American Music Center (AMC) and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP).  Her DJ career began in 1994, and since then she’s performed up and down the East coast, maintained a busy club schedule, and even performed some multi-media pieces (which sound awesome).  She also does electronica remixes of classical composers (even more awesome!)  Her Dragon*Con profile also says that she’ll even play Donna Summer, which is amazing because I really think that Dragon*Con is lacking a disco component (seriously).

Whyyyy are there no clips of her DJing on Youtube?  She sounds fun!

Talking points:

–Lady DJ

–CLASSICAL IMPRESARIO

–Electronica remixes of classical composers and DONNA SUMMERS.

Two thumbs up because she sounds fun!  I don’t know what her music sounds like though, so if anyone has any clips please post them in the comments!

38 Days to Dragon*Con: Band Profiles, DJ Nemesis and DJ Spider

Posted in Dragon*Con, Dragon*Con Countdown, Music, Nerds with tags , , , , , , , on July 23, 2012 by The Dilettantista

 

Okay so I’m lumping the DJs together because I’m guessing they’re going to be playing the raves and I AM OLD (old = 27 apparently) and have never managed to make it to a rave at Dragon*Con.  I like to get up and do the day things and also the night things but that means my night ends around 2:00 or 3:00 am so I can get some sleep for the day things and the raves don’t usually start until 3:00 am-ish depending on how late the band performances run.  Someone please tell me I am not alone in this!  Also, if I am wrong about the DJs playing the raves please let me know as well, I’m just working on assumption here.

DJ Nemesis  is an Atlanta boy who moved to Boston.   DJ Nemesis plays industrial electro, electro house, EBM (which stands for Electronic Body Music and I totally don’t know what that is), mash ups, 80s, and other stuff.  He’s super involved at Dragon*Con and also, according to his Dragon*Con profile, is CON-Tourage.com‘s official DJ?  So that’s fun!  Um, I’m not sure what else to say about a DJ, so here are some clips:

DJ Spider is a LADY, which will help y’all tell her apart.  She’s based in Charlotte.  She’s been voted Charlotte’s Best Party DJ for awhile.  I’m going to guess she’s also playing one of Dragon*Con’s late-night raves.  Here’s her Dragon*Con bio–I like the part where she talks about having a Drama Free zone.  I RESPECT THAT DJ SPIDER.  She plays primarily goth/industrial music with some 80s and electro thrown in.  I’m having trouble finding music clips of her because there is a dude DJ Spider who is more hip hop and he seems to be dominating the DJ Spider youtube search which, lame.

So, we have a male DJ and a female DJ, they’ll probably be playing the raves, they might be playing some other things but I don’t think we’ll know until it is closer to Dragon*Con.  If anyone wants to chime in on the raves and what they are like and if they are fun please do–like I said, they’re past my bedtime, and the only report I have to go on is my boyfriend’s.  He went to a rave his first year of Dragon*Con (before I’d met him) after he and his friends had some drinks with a guy whose name he won’t tell me and he says it was basically dark drunky dance times with glow sticks and he refuses to tell me anything else about it so I guess he had a good time?  Regardless, I totally want to go to a rave this year.  Maybe.  Mostly just to check it off the Dragon*Con bucket list.

So, I’m going to give the DJs one thumb up–splitting the difference between no thumbs (because odds are if I couldn’t see who was DJing I couldn’t tell you who was DJing) and two thumbs because I’d totally like to go to a rave buuuuuuuut tired, guys.  Tired.

Seriously, give me some help on this one!

 

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