dj zak brown

My great friend Ali Lexa who happens to be the webmaster at LA's KPFK 90.7 invited me to fill in for another DJ named Kristi Lomax who has a show called Restless Soul. I'm a frequent listener of that station so I was very excited. I called up my good pal DJ Wolfie to join me. Can't play a radio gig without a posse can you?

The best thing about the gig was that the cool folks in the control room were dancing and laughing as we played. It's so much more fun to play when people are dancing. It's an obvious point, I know, but it makes a big difference.

It was fun to do the little interviews. It's no secret that I like the sound of my own voice, so it was fun to have the chance to put it out in the ether. We also had a chance to plug our upcoming Hipgenesis event. I'd love to see some people from KPFK's audience make it.

You can download the whole thing here. The levels are all over the place in the recording, the problem was that we were monitoring the signal going out over the air rather than a signal off of our mixer. So when the engineer would lower the level to compensate for a hot signal coming out of the DJ mixer the monitor would get quieter. Which would make us raise the level on the mixer without thinking about it. Which would make the engineer lower the level... repeat. There's a section where one of the channels has dropped out as well, an issue between the two boards again, but it was fixed pretty quick. It sounds alright overall though. Except for Wolfie's trainwrecks.