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Do Not Feed The DJ original track: "Oogum"
Here at DNFDJ we travel the world (or within reason) to deliver top quality video from music festivals and Electronic Music happenings. I traveled to the exotic location of San Bernardino to capture the following video.

“Oogum” by DO NOT FEED THE DJ – shot at The Kandy Festival from Rhianne Paz on Vimeo.

Ok, ok, it’s just a local rave in the Inland Empire, but I’m allowed to be snarky about it because I actually hail from that hood. All kidding aside, I had a great deal of fun shooting these images, so I decided to cut the footage to my newest original track “Oogum” for your viewing pleasure. Thanks to a clever camera hack and lenses more expensive then I care the mention, I could shoot all night in virtual darkness where no other video camera dare dwell. For all you SLR video shooters out there, here’s the stats on how I shot that night.

Panasonic GH2
driftwood hack 100mbps
ISO range 800-1600
Lumix pancake 1.7f 20mm
Zeiss ZF 1.4f 50mm

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Dance Music and Shiny Trophies

Grammy nominations have given a clear indication that Electronic Music is creeping out of the basement and into the limelight. It’s no surprise to see artists like DeadMau5, David Guetta, and Swedish House Mafia confined to their own category (Best Dance Recording) but it’s the nominations outside of this category that are surprising.

Skrillex, famed dubstep DJ & producer has managed to grab a nomination for best new artist despite the fact that Dubstep is a genre that has never been recognized by the Grammy’s in the past.

Another interesting grab is Chris Brown’s nomination for his F.A.M.E. as an R&B album, altough it’s peppered with the EDM stylings of Benny Benassi and David Guetta. Another ‘out of genre’ nomination comes from Diplo’s production on Chris Brown/Lil’ Wayne/Busta Rhymes “Look at me Now.” Personally, I prefer the Polka version.

And where would we be without a nod to Daft Punk’s score to Disney’s Tron: Legacy.

So here we are with a bucket of nominations, but what does it all mean? Should we as an EDM community be celebrating, or feel suddenly validated? There’s always going to be a set of people who will want to keep Dance Music in the basement. But I’m afraid the age of underground is over in the internet age. The dirty Burning Man hippie in me wants to say “Hey man! We don’t need your shiny trophies to tell us we rule!” but the business man side of me says “Way to monetize an art form, let’s take that money and grow more producers!” On the upside, more producers will be brought to the forefront, and now more than ever we actually know the names of our music producers and don’t assume that the vocalists make up every word and bass loop in a song. Overall, I tip my hat to the Diplos and Skrillexes of the world. I only ask that you destroy any chances of “Moves like Jagger” coming home with the golden phonograph.

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Do Not Feed The DJ – Akihabara Winter Wonderland set highlights

And now, an audio visual guide to some of the tracks I played at Tune in Tokyo’s AKIHABARA WINTER WONDERLAND at Royal/T Cafe!

Aimo – Macross Frontier – Deculture remix by: DO NOT FEED THE DJ

First and foremost, let’s get my shameless plug out of the way, here are two of my own remixes ;)

VOICES – Macross Plus – Remix by: DO NOT FEED THE DJ

ZANKOKU NA TENSHI NO THESES (DJ AMAYA VS. GROOVEBOT REMIX)

A very special thanks to my buddy DJ Amaya for allowing me to use his remixes in my set. This man is the James Brown of Anime remixes, the hardest working man in Ableton no doubt… Virtually all of DJ Amaya’s remixes are available for download at his website www.DJamaya.com

K-ON! – DON’T SAY LAZY (DJ AMAYA VS. GROOVEBOT REMIX)

Zedd – The Legend Of Zelda (Original Mix)

If you dig Zedd’s ripping electro style, check out my favorite track by this producer “Shave It”

Final Fantasy VII ‘BadAzz’ [One-Winged Angel] by PrototypeRaptor

2NE1 – Far East Movement _ I’m the best Like a G6 (MASHUP) by: Punk3LY

During my set I also did some live electro mashups & remixes including the Final Fantasy Theme and “Head Cha La” from Dragonball Z. I’ll work on making these into MP3s and will post them for download. Thanks to everyone who worked on the event, it was a great way to go into Holiday Break!

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Forget that Deadmau5 head, let’s make an ANGLER FISH!

Ok, Ok, we get it, you made your own Deadmau5 head, but why stop there? We can make a light-up head out of just about anything, right? Take a peek at how I constructed a light-up Angler Fish head. It’s not gonna be pretty, but you will get mad originality points.

My initial idea sketched with a sharpie

It’s important to sketch things out to help visualize what kind of Angler you want to be. Most importantly I had to make sure I could fit my giant noggin inside the mouth of this fish.

Make a paper patern of your fish


Grab a big sheet of paper like newspaper or butcher paper and draw out the shape of your fish, make sure to leave the bottom flat, that’s where your head goes, so don’t make it too tight.

Try on your paper-creation


Remember, if it doesn’t fit on your noggin as paper, it’s not going to fit as cloth or felt. You can also feel out where the hood falls over your eyes, and how much you want to extend the jaw of the fish.

Gather your construction materials


I used black felt as a base for my pattern, and picked up some shiney scale-like material from the ‘cougar wardrobe department’ at Jo-Ann’s fabric. I picked up a red blinking toy that I was going to use for eyes, but they blinked, so I had to find another way to make it work.

Cutting the pattern


I cut the patter about 1/2 an inch larger than the patter because I knew I would have to sew it together and turn it inside out. The seam you want to sew is basically the round part on top of the fish, and the front side of the jaw. I then hot-glue gunned the scale parts onto the cloth. Don’t go too crazy on the hot glue because it will start to seep through the felt.

Office Supplies = fin time!


I needed something translucent for the fins, so I used a clear presentation folder form an office supply store to make the fins. It also helped make my fish a little more rigid and less floppy.

God bless battery powered Christmas Lights


This part is optional, but you can adorn your fins, and the ridge of your Angler with battery powered Christmas Lights. Just remember you will have to securely tape a nest of Christmas lights to the underside of your fish head.

Why? Why not.

Mute those lights


If you don’t ‘mute’ your unused lights they’ll show through the felt of your fish head, so take little baby pieces of tape and fold them over unused lights. To make the ‘dangle’ light I used some thick gauged wire from the jewelry section of the craft store and hung a white ‘finger light.’ you can also try to use some of the Christmas light, but think of all the weight of those lights on the already fragile wire.

Your Angler Fish has arrived!


Lastly, I couldn’t make those red beady eyes work, but I was able to use the plastic packaging they came in for the eyes. I stuffed them with white tool to diffuse the light, and directed two orange Christmas lights to the holes behind the eyes. and Voila! ANGLER TIME!

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MAD DECENT Block Party in Los Angeles – Sloooooow Mooooootion

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Hold it down, Tacos...

MAD DECENT Block Party 2011 Los Angeles – Slow Motion Panasonic GH2 from Rhianne Paz on Vimeo.

I’m a HUGE fan of the Philly-based “MAD DECENT” label, so when the block party rolled into town, I decided to make my first attempt at shooting 60FPS for slow motion.

MAD DECENT Block Party 2011 Los Angeles
Slow Motion Panasonic Lumix GH2
Lens: Lumix 1.7/20mm pancake
Color Grading: Mojo
Shot and Edited by: Rhianne Paz
Music: Calvin Harris – “Feel So Close” (Dillon Francis mix)

Shot at 60 FPS, 1280 X 720 and comformed to 24 FPS in Compressor, no additional ‘slow motion’ filters were applied

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Sakura Bomb Mixtape

By special request! I’ve made a new mixtape featuring songs from my last performance at Tune in Tokyo!

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Sakura Bomb Mix: International Electro

Tracklist:
“Raise Your Weapon” – Dead Mau5 (Madeon Extended Remix)
“Push & Rise” – Wolfgang Gartner
“Drips” – SE7EN
“Bounce” – Calvin Harris Featuring Kelis
“Jyounetsuno Daisyou” – Shinichi Osawa
“Call Your Girlfriend” – Robyn (Sultan & Ned Remix)
“Killer” – Jean Elan
“I Just Wanna XXX you” – Capsule
“Pick Up the Phone” Dragonette (Arithmatix Remix)
“High School of the Dead” – Kishida Kyodan & The Akebosi Rockets (DJ Amaya VS. Groovebox Remix)
“Appears” – Ayumi Hamasaki (Shinichi Osawa Remix)
“Devil Inside” – Uteda Hikaru (Scum Frog Vocal Mix)
“Laser Beam” – Perfume (DJ Amaya VS Groovebot Remix)
“Easy Please Me” – Katy B (Claude Von Stroke Grizzl-fiyah Mix)

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Comic-Con with a twist of Daft Punk

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Comic-Con with a Daft Punk soundtrack? Yes, please!

Hey Kids! I had a super-rad time at Comic-Con, I actually DJ’d a Comic Con event this year for the launch of “Todd & The Book of Pure Evil” and “Psychoville” on FEARnet

Aside from that I hit the floor with my handy Panasonic GH2 and got some shots of Preview night.  I threw these all in my Final Cut Pro blender and made a little video for you all to the tunes of Daft Punk’s “Da Funk,” enjoy!

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Nerdiest Remixes EVER.

Nerdy Remixes can be anything from a favorite movie theme, to an epic Sci-Fi Score.  Con Season is off to a hot start with E3 and monsters like Anime Expo and Comic Con are still lurking over the hill.  Wave upon wave of beautiful mouth-breathing nerds will ebb and flow through convention centers across America.  But what is the soundtrack of their lives?  What songs clog the gigabytes of their iPhones and music clouds?  Nerdy remixes, that’s what.  This art form has been taken to a whole new level with the advent of Chiptune artists (Musicians who make music with modded gameboys and NES systems) and the Over Clocked Remix community.  But let’s break this down and look at how the geek-anthem has evolved over the years.

“Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk” by: Meco

Call it funky, call it disco-rape, call it genius, it exists.  The Disco version of Star Wars is probably the first mass pop-culture ‘re-imagining’ of a Sci Fi theme song in the earth’s history.  The 70′s were an era where everyone was willing to make a quick buck by creating a disco arrangement of a popular song.  It was pretty common for a pop song to be on the charts three times by three different artists.  But I think we all know that Bill Murray’s SNL version was the best…

“Nightmare on My Street” by: DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince

So this may be a little loose as a “remix” but it’s definitely a sample from the Nightmare on Elm Street score rapped over by a young Will Smith (AKA The Fresh Prince before he was in Bel Air) It’s hard to tell if this pop tune was a marketing partnership, or a serious fanboy ode to the horror film. Oh, and try really hard NOT to rap the lyrics to the Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme song over this beat. I know it’s hard, but try.

“Go Speed Go!” by: DJ Keoki

While Superstar DJ Keoki got his start at the Danceteria in NYC, he’s more famous for being the boyfriend of infamous Club Kid promoter and “Party Monster” Michael Alig.  This insane Ritalin-induced remix of the song was at the crest of the Trance and Techno wave that was hitting in the early 90′s.  It has all the great elements of the classic remix, heavy bass, a vintage breakdown for the chorus, and of course, sound bytes of Speed Racer and Trixie edited into a dirty montage of suggestive noises.

“Clock Strikes” – Timbaland & Magoo

This song may have signified the beginning of the end when it comes to Hip Hop Samples. Unlike the Fresh Prince tribute to Freddy Krueger, the content of this song has nothing to do with the original Knight Rider TV show. But this did become a calling card for Timbaland beats to come. Luckily this YouTube Clip does a good job of summing up what we love about The Hoff and Kit’s adventures before leading into the Timbaland & Magoo track.

“Gimme Some More” by Busta Rhymes

Alfred Hitchcock has never been so thuggish. Again Hip-Hop takes a front seat at sampling themes of old. The string sample of the Psycho theme is probably less famous than the classic violin strikes in the shower scene, but are looped masterfully by DJ Scratch. This sample is less-recognizable then the Knight Rider theme, and most Busta Rhymes fans probably didn’t notice the rich tapestry of Bernard Herrmann being woven in the background.

“He’s a Pirate” by Tiesto

And then, uh… this happened. I’m going to be so bold as to say that this may be some of the worst production ever half-assedly spackled together as a remix. I’m a huge Tiesto fan, and I’m pretty sure that he knows that this one doesn’t sparkle. But still we have to marvel at the fact that a Disney movie about Pirates attempted to mate with the most famous DJ in the world. I mean 8 million Facebook followers is nothing to scoff at.

“Alice” – by Pogo

And finally, Disney redeemed! Insanely talented You Tube sensation ‘Pogo’ hit the scene with a mixture of heavily chopped samples and genius chord progressions. This strange hybrid of video and sound art caught the eye of the Mouse himself. Pixar went on to commission him to create an original South American flavored piece for the film Up.

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“Urban Decay” – DNFDJ Mixtape

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Urban Decay Mixtape: Electro House

Tracklisting:
Jigga Bite – Carte Blanche
Animal Rights – Deadmau5 & Wolfgang Gartner
Dancin’ – Delta Disco
Hustler – Simian Mobile Disco
Rock It – Richard Dinsdale
Dataloss – Darth Vader Remix
Yo – Speaker Junk’s Brazilian Rave Remix
Sweet Light – Boris Dluogosch Remix
Satistfaction Remixed – Afrojack Remix
Paradise Poltergeist – Steve Aoki
Mugwanti – R3hab Remix
Party Like We Do – David Rush feat. Afrojack (Lee Swagger Remix)
Apes From Space – Dirtyloud Remix
Rombo – Congorock
Woo Boost – Rusko (Subskrpt Edit)

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KRUNK FIGHTER: Dance Party & Drunken Street Fighter Tournament

DO NOT FEED THE DJ presents:
KRUNK FIGHTER: World Warrior

Saturday March 5th 2011
9:00PM – 2AM
at The Good Hurt
12249 Venice Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90066
(310) 390-1076

Party all night with World Class DJs spinning a mix of Elektro, Trance, and Hardcore! Take part in the first *EVER*
DRUNKEN STREET FIGHTER CHALLENGE!

8 Challengers will step up to Battle in the most epic Street Fighter IV tournament of all time! Lose a round? Take a shot, until one player remains victorious!  Winner gets a prize package of a Do Not Feed The DJ t-shirt, Street Fighter mini mates toys and a Sony PS3 Street Fighter IV edition Fight Stick arcade controller.

To sign up for the Tournament e-mail: DoNotFeedTheDJ@gmail.com, make sure to include a short bio of what you do for a day job, a pic, and an example of of why you are the greatest Street Fighter (or complete drunk) of all time!!!

All this AND–

DJ AMAYA will take you around the world with an original mixes of house, trance and electro
www.djamaya.com


DJ KITSCH will bring the party to a new level with a mix of happy glittercore sound!
facebook,com/djkitsch


DO NOT FEED THE DJ
will make you throw your panties in the air with live Electro/Oldskool mash ups
facebook.com/donotfeedthedj


5FATHOMS will make your face fall off with an eclectic mix of house, indie and elektro goodness
facebook.com/5fathoms

And don’t for get to bring your appetite! The @TastyMeat gourmet food truck will be parked out front to put their meat in your mouth! (no really, that’s their slogan!)

RSVP at www.facebook.com/donotfeedtheDJ to get on the $5 guestlist before 10:30pm

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