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For the past couple of months I’ve been playing with Mixxx, practising mixing music. Today I played in front of a crowd for the first time ever. It was a friends birthday, and I’d raided his Gatecrasher CD collection first, so it wasn’t nice, heavy industrial like I’d like, but still, most of the people there seemed to like it. Coincidentally, I’d included a few tracks that people knew, which helped.

It was a load of fun, so hopefully I’ll get the chance to do it more. Even better if it’s the sort of stuff I prefer, although it’s much harder to mix the heavier stuff. But, if I put in more practise I’ll get better at it.

I really need to get a cheap control system to use with the laptop, it’ll be much better than using the keyboard for everything. I’m looking at the Hercules DJ Control MP3, it’s supposed to be pretty crap (very laggy), but it’s cheap, small and portable. It also works with Mixxx properly. When I get into this more, I can look into buying a more expensive and good one and hack Mixxx to work with it. Unfortunately, they don’t ship this outside the US, so I’ll have to find someone there to ship it to and send it on.