When its chilly out and not much to do outside its time to have fun inside on the dance floor.
I love DJing Winter Socials.. so many ideas for decorations and everyone gets to take a break from shopping and enjoy dancing and having fun.
Here is a great playlist from Spotify that is pretty decent to get an idea
Let The Music Bring Your School Dance To Life
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I take DJing in Schools very seriously so everyone can enjoy dancing and letting the music move them. I just don’t want to move them into a dangerous situation.
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Let me help the kids have a great school dance. I remember the days I went to the dance and it was the janitor playing music with his home stereo system. Long gone are those days. I bring high quality, top rated professional DJ equipment.
Here are some of the most popular songs that are played at high schools across the country.
When searching for that perfect song that you two will dance for the first time together as a newly married couple can be difficult for some. Below are some song suggestions to help you find that perfect song.
Traditionally, after speeches are made, the couple gives their Reciprocation toast and then makes their way to the dancefloor. There are literally hundreds of different songs you can choose for this dance including slow songs, hip-hop, choreographed songs or even a fancy tango! Whichever style you choose, the two of you essentially “break open” the dancefloor to start the party.
Every mom wants the best for her son and the Mother Son Dance is a warm feeling to see how much love each have for each other. Below are some song ideas for that special moment.
Not surprisingly, most sons want to avoid this one, but it is really, very important to the moms! Now that I myself have two sons I will be highly encouraging this at their weddings! Grooms, go dance with that momma and make sure she knows she isn’t being replaced! Moms might {I say might because I’ve had some pretty emotional FOBs} be a little more sensitive to the meaning of this number than the dads are. Give her her time in the spotlight for raising up such an astounding gentleman.
Although not a licence to operate, it is good practice for DJs to have Public Liability Insurance (PLI) and regularly test their equipment – you’ll often see this referred to as Portable Appliance Testing (PAT).
Public Liability Insurance is there to protect you in the event of an accident or claim against your business. Several DJ associations offer PLI as part of their membership so it’s foolish not to have PLI in my view; as you can get some for under £50 a year it’s a small price to pay to protect you.
There are a lot of myths around PAT that this has to be done annually. The truth is there is no legal requirement specifying – see the official advice from the Health & Safety Executive:
“The Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 require that any electrical equipment that has the potential to cause injury is maintained in a safe condition. However, the Regulations do not specify what needs to be done, by whom or how frequently (ie they don’t make inspection or testing of electrical appliances a legal requirement, nor do they make it a legal requirement to undertake this annually).”
Source: http://www.hse.gov.uk/electricity/faq-portable-appliance-testing.htm
Now we all agree Mac’s simply are very powerful and very capable of running multiple programs on it’s linux based os x. I had the desire to share all this music I have with others and what better way to do that then use shoutcast to broadcast my internet radio station.
Requirements:
Intel based Mac running OS X
A free account on shoutcast
Download Shoutcast DNAS for Mac (version I’m using is 1-24-2011) and extract it to the root of your user folder (so for example from root it would be /Users/yourusername/sc_serv2
Download Nicecast
iTunes or MegaSeg or Traktor (all will send music to Nicecast)
Installation:
The most complicated part of this process is installing and getting your shoutcast DNAS up and running but I believe we can get this done here.
Open Finder and under PLACES click on your username. On the right you should see that folder sc_serv2 where you extracted the files from the .zip you downloaded.
Find the file labled sc_serv_basic.conf and open that with textedit to edit the configuration inside. (It looks overwhelming but it’s not as bad as it appears)
Once you save the file, Still in Finder, click on Applications – Utilities – Terminal
type the following
./sc_serv sc_serv_basic.conf
Now if you open safari or firefox or whatever other internet browser you are using, type http://localhost:8000/index.html and press enter and you should see a screen showing the server is waiting for a stream which is where Nicecast comes into play. Launch Nicecast and click the menu item Window and select Show Server and fill in the required information. If you did it correctly, when you click on Start Broadcast your iTunes will launch and you just start playing a playlist or a song and this is sent to your server you verified was up and now your server is sending it to shoutcast. Verify by going back to http://localhost:8000/index.html and you will now see Stream #1 which you can click on and you should see the artist and song information.
