MY LIFE IS COMPLETE!

Well, I did it. I played dubstep in San Pedro. In the four and a half years I have been living in this small, strange town on the lake, both my music taste and identity have been gradually evolving. Psy-trance has dominated parties and bars here. I used to think that all electronic music was psy-trance, and so I hated what I thought was electronic music. Then drum and bass and trip-hop started to alter my thinking.

Freedom is the name of a dance/live music venue; sort of the only danceclub in San Pedro. A handful of my friends have taken turns owing it/co-owning it over the years. The two owners are away at the moment (one lives in Canada, and one is from Denmark), and there is a chill local lady Rosa who is running it. I got set up to dj the day before new year's eve, and wrote down my information for a guy to make a flyer. I wrote:
DJ MAGENTA
dubstep
electro-house
newest music from california&burning man

The next day, I picked up the flyers (the way it works at a lot of places in San Pedro is that the artists do their own publicity for the show they are doing). I was both pleased and amused with the flyer.

From California
Burning Man:
DJ Magenta-
dubstep
electro-house
newest music

The flyer was done nicely... it was just funny that it said I was from “California Burning Man”. And the guy who did it used pink and teal! my favorite colors!

So, my friends accompianed me while I put up some signs and handed the stuff out. The computer I use at the moment cost $125 on craigslist, and I don't trust it to work the greatest for djing (it is circa 2003, the processor is way slow, etc.) so I burned what I could using my friend Jo's computer. My old friend Ric came to town with his girlfriend Leslie, whom I have heard great things about but have never gotten the chance to meet.

I played music. I used a mixer. I don't know how to use a mixer. But I did, and it worked. A few days before, there was a small bar-owning naysayer who said “They are not ready for dubstep here”. WRONG. At the point when the most people were dancing, I was playing dubstep. My life is complete.