One of the focal points of my life right now, especially as far as music is concerned, is DJing. I've already done a couple house parties since I've moved here, and I'm scheduled to do more in the upcoming months. So, I've been spending a lot of time lately listening to my dance music in an attempt to determine what I should take with me to my gigs. See, when a DJ uses vinyl, he could only bring so many LPs with him (in a single crate) due to weight and size restrictions. Granted, I only use CDs, which are significantly more portable, but I still like to make sure I only bring my very best stuff to my gigs, leaving out MANY albums in my collection for the sake of quality.
At this point, I'm actually refining my collection even further by going through all the CDs that made it into my gigging case and sorting through and identifying the tracks that I consider to be my very best...in other words, the kind of tracks I would pretty much play every time I spin. Now, you could ask me why I don't just burn these top tracks onto a few CDs and just take those...well, I typically pick tracks live, based on the vibe at any given moment, so it's just much more practical to take a look in my case, seeing only one or two tracks per CD that I would consider spinning, not a whole disc of great tracks where it would be very hard to remember the arbitrary order in which I burned them.
Overall, this process is really fun for me and makes me value my collection that much more.
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