Played from
records.
A whole set played from records, for any kind of event. Miles, Brandon and Lee were all vinyl DJs first, and they still have the records and the hands for them.
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A still record of light.
Vinyl first.
All three of them.
Nobody picked this up for the website. Miles, Brandon and Lee all learned on records before anything else, and you can still hear it in how they play.
Miles grew up with a dad who kept crates of records and a house full of music. Trumpet and guitar first, then turntables, then Buffalo’s club scene, then Los Angeles.
Brandon grew up around his father’s record collection. His father, a Bronx native and one of the early disco DJs of 1979, passed down both the skills and the spirit of it.
What it changes in the room
- The records are chosen for the night
- The crate is packed for your room, your hours and your guests, before the day.
- The crate is finite
- A request on the night is answered from what is in the box. Anything outside it has to wait for a different kind of set.
- You can hear it
- Records mixed by hand, one at a time, picked for whoever is on the floor.
- The booth is part of the picture
- Two turntables and a mixer are visible in the room. Some rooms want exactly that; some would rather the booth disappeared.
What it asks
of the room.
Nothing unusual, but it is not nothing either. Say the venue early and we will work it out with whoever is already holding the room.
What a vinyl set needs
- Space for two turntables and a mixer
- A wider booth than a controller asks for.
- A stable surface
- A solid table that stays put when the floor starts jumping. The needle feels every wobble.
- Sound for the room
- A system sized to the space and the headcount, the same as any other booking.
Where it tends to suit
- Cocktail hours
- The arrival and the first hour, before anything is announced.
- Dinners
- Music that sits under the conversation, never on top of it.
- Lounges
- A long, slow build in a room people move through.
- Brand rooms
- A booth that looks like something, and records chosen for the brand.
- The first hour of a wedding
- Records through the ceremony and the cocktail hour, with the rest of the night played the usual way.
The three who play it
- Miles DiPaolaFounder, DJ, MC and producer. Open format: vinyl, house, funk and soul.
- Brandon Cruz · DJ FLiPZDJ and MC. Vinyl leads his signature style too: deep house, funk, soul and nu-disco.
- Lee Dyson · Hey Mister DJDJ, MC and host. Nu-disco, soul, house and hip-hop, and the voice of the room when it needs one.
Ask for it
on vinyl.
The date, the venue and the hours is enough to start. The form opens with the kind of event already marked as a vinyl-only set.