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At The Chase 2018: Competition DJing Pt 3 (Champion’s Cup Qualifiers)
Published Sep 30th, 2018 by

At The Chase 2018: Competition DJing Pt 3 (Champion’s Cup Qualifiers)

Following on from At The Chase 2018: Competition DJing Pt 2 (Strictly Lindy) – this is the final part of my Chase competition DJing… and far and away the most challenging to find music for – for two reasons.

First – it’s probably the highest-level competition I’ve yet to play music for. Even though this is just a qualifying round for the cup (the final will be in 2019) – qualifying for the qualifiers is far from easy… Secondly – unlike the other Chase competitions, I was providing the music for the final. So… no pressure.

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At The Chase 2018: Competition DJing Pt 2 (Strictly Lindy)
Published Aug 18th, 2018 by

At The Chase 2018: Competition DJing Pt 2 (Strictly Lindy)

This post is a follow-on from At The Chase 2018: Competition DJing Pt 1 (Mix & Match) – where I started to chronicle my decisions behind choosing music for the Chase Festival competitions. The Strictly Lindy prelims had the same format as the Mix & Match – which is to say three heats, each with three songs, each song for 60 – 70 seconds, two medium and one fast. Nice and simple.

As before, my key criteria were to have songs that were fun, swung hard, and that maintained a good energy for the time I’d be playing them. If I were playing the whole song it’d be a different matter – but a one phrase section of quiet can eat a large chunk out of a sixty second running time, and I wanted people to really have a chance to go to town.

So here we go…

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Jazz Rhythm – a New Favourite Website / Resource
Published Jun 30th, 2018 by

Jazz Rhythm – a New Favourite Website / Resource

I was actually just looking for some recordings from the wonderfully named Club Hangover, and Google brought me here. Started in 1998, and run by the gentleman above – Dave Radlauer – there’s an incredible wealth of information to be found here about Jazz, Swing, and many of the great artists.

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