FTA EVENTS: AHHH JUNGLIST 05.18.2013 [Follow Up]

Ahhh Junglist. Presented by Defiance. 2 room cosplay show down between Jungle & Hardstyle. Virgina Beach May 18th 2013

I want to start out by thanking, Patrick Currier, Dinah Myte, Stacey Essene, RobOne, Will Miles, Sopheye, Anthony DiNino, Otis Lindsey, Kristy Cuffee, Eric Hartmann, Clayton Hughes & everyone else I met that night. Its not often that I get to venture far from home and then feel like I'm right back at home. You all are amazing, thank you so much for making it a weekend I won't forget for quite some time.

DJ Plateau rocking the head style. Photo Credit: Kristy Cuffee

Edward the Librarian bring that Drum & Bass Sound. Photo Credit: Kristy Cuffee

 Anthony Styles DiNino and Otis Godlike Lindsey. Photo Credit: Kristy Cuffee

Edward the Librarian getting ready to start his set. Photo Credit: Kristy Cuffee

Under the green lights of the Jungle Edward the Librarian bring the 10 LBS sound. Photo Credit: Kristy Cuffee

Edward the Libraian cuing up another banger. Photo Credit: Kristy Cuffee

Genki is one of the most impressive Hardcore DJ's I've seen since Slipmatt. Photo Credit: Kristy Cuffee

RobOne bring out the Jungle sound on wax. Photo Credit: Kristy Cuffee

Nuf Said? Photo Credit: Kristy Cuffee

Photo Credit: Kristy Cuffee

This guy was wicked nice to talk to and one hell of a glow thrower. Photo Credit: Kristy Cuffee

RobOne on the 1's & 2's. Photo Credit: Kristy Cuffee

Edward the Librarian making the sound system go boom. Photo Credit: Kristy Cuffee

Some times I wish life looked this awesome. ba ha. Photo Credit: Kristy Cuffee

RobOne destroying the wheels of steel. Call for the REWIND!!!! Photo Credit: Kristy Cuffee

RobOne keeping the dance on its toes. Photo Credit: Kristy Cuffee

Edward the Librarian tweeking the mix. Photo Credit: Kristy Cuffee

Red Ranger HOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Photo Credit: Kristy Cuffee

Edward the Librarian. Photo Credit: Kristy Cuffee

Will miles and Sopheye. Photo Credit: Kristy Cuffee

Representing the Hardstyle sound on wax. Much Respect. Photo Credit: Kristy Cuffee

Alice in Wonderland & the Amazing Hooping Panda. Photo Credit: Nikki Mary Lane

Yea now imagine a whole room of people like this dancing. BA HA. It was mental. Photo Credit: Nikki Mary Lane

DJ Plateau, Stacey Essene & someone else I'm forgetting...Fail. Sorry. Photo Credit: MissCreant

Patrick Currier playing the hottest tunes from Faction Digital Recording. Photo Credit: Ocean Eiler

RobOne cuing up the next track on wax. Photo Credit: Ocean Eiler

RobOne cuing up the next track on wax. Photo Credit: Ocean Eiler

Will miles and Sopheye at Ahh Junglist Va beach May 2013. This video can give you a sampling of the magic that was going on that night. What I'm waiting to surface is the video of my playing. [Smiling nervously]

Photo Credit: Dinah Myte

***Room 1 (the lightah room)



Will miles and Sopheye (dnb)

(Richmond)

12:45 - 2:00

Edward the Librarian (jungle) 

(D.C.)

http://soundcloud.com/edward-the-librarian

http://www.fromtheannex.com/

11:30-12:45



Rob One (dnb/jungle) 

(D.C.)

http://soundcloud.com/rob-one

http://dropdnb.com/

10:30-11:30

Patrick Currier (jungle)

(Newport News)

https://www.facebook.com/PatrickCurrierdnb

9-10:30



Stacy Essene (breaks) 

(VA Beach)

8-9:00

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***Room 2 


Genki (hardcore freeform)

(VA Beach)

http://www.twitter.com/djgenki

1-2:00

MissCreant (hardstyle) 

(Willyburg)

https://soundcloud.com/misscreant

12-1:00



Plateau (hard trance)

http://www.soundcloud.com/djplateau

11-12:00

Chatterbox (Hardstyle)

(Hampton)

https://www.facebook.com/djchatterbox

10-11:00



KASTastrophie (Hardhouse/UK Hardhouse) 

( VA Beach)

https://www.facebook.com/DjKASTastrophie

9-10:00

Thank you to The Lounge for having us out. Thank you to Defiance & Patrick Currier. Finally Thank you to the dancers who came out dressed in your finest duds and tore up the dance floor all night long. I hope one day to be invited back. Till then keep smiling & party on.

- The Librarian

FTA MUSIC: Edward the Librarian: Rusty Junglist: V022 [Ahhh Junglist preview]

The Video:

Edward the Librarian: Rusty Junglist: V022 [Ahhh Junglist preview] from Edward Librarian on Vimeo.
The Audio:

Edward the Librarian: Rusty Junglist: V022 [Ahhh Junglist preview] by Fromtheannex on Mixcloud

All the Information about this party can be found at the Ahhh Junglist facebook page.

I hope to see you all there. Keep smiling till then.

The Librarian

The Annex System: A Record Collections. A Data Bases. Making prep work easy

So your a DJ. Congratulations! Your a member of an ever growing club of Professional Musicians, Working Professionals, Hobbyist and Dreamers. All of us love music and if your anything like me you have a lot of it. Today's post is about that collection of Vinyl, CDs, MP3's, whatever your medium of choice is. In particular how Edward the Librarian attempts to wrap his brain around the ever growing girth of music he owns. *

(*1) Dum Dum Dum. Ok no more talking in the 3rd person.

A few years back, I got this monicker Edward the Librarian as a bit of a gag. As I had just watched the movie GO and thought the idea of having a sorted Annex of music would be clutch. ( I should note back then my collection was about 3 crates deep.) So I would experiment with organizing by labels, artist, genera, what have you. I later watched the documentary Scratch and saw how DJ Z-Trip labeled his records and sorted his crates. This was the start of my "AH HA" moments. Although labels, artist and genera were nice when looking for a track, beats per minute (BPM) is more helpful information when I'm digging in my crate at a gig.

A little later while watching DJ Shadow's - Live! In Tune and on Time, harmonic mixing became the next level of organization. Around this same time I bought my first Serato box (SL1), which allowed me to sort my music by iTunes. This is where I really start to geek out and get really meta* with my collection. Electronic DJing (Final Scratch, Serato & Traktor) introduced the idea of data base management of music. Wither you realized or not, users where now sorting non tangible meta data within databases. When sorting non tangible data you need attributes to distinguish one bit of data from another. Title, Artist, Label, Year, Genre, Sub-Genra BPM, Harmonic Key, and so forth, is all data base management 101.

(*2) meta- is used to mean about (its own category). For example, metadata are data about data (who has produced them, when, what format the data are in and so on).

Now for the first time I started to really wrap my brain around my music collection. I suddenly had access to my records 24/7 where ever I was. I could build a crate in a matter of hours and be ready for a gig that evening if need be... in till I had to find that record in the rats nest I called the Annex at the time.

So I did what any Librarian would do, I designed labels for my records. This way my physical collection and my digital collection would be one in the same. It took me a few months of asking DJ friends what information they would want, looking at the data Serato / iTunes provided & putting in the data that was important to me. What I came up with was the Annex System. This system had a hierarchy of information that worked like this:

1) BPM
2) Harmonic Key
3) Sub-Genre
4) Title
5) Artist
6) Date
7) Genre
8) Comments

My rational for this hierarchy was based on the need a performer & a collector.
1-2,4) When I'm in the mix and I "hear" the next song I want to play in my head I want to know. Is it fast enough? Will the harmonic clash? What the title of that song again? (I only know it by the label art)
3) Is how I organize my Annex
5-8) Is all data that helps me refine my mix. Say I want to do a set of tracks from 1997. I got that!

Now how to get the information on the record. I wanted something cheap, and easily available. So after some reviewing of office supplies I settled on generic shipping labels. Seeing that I had a staples right down the street I've been using there 5168 white shipping labels. They retail for around $22-38 for 100 sheets, 4 labels per sheet.

After that its a quick visit to Kinko's or Stapes copy center and presto we have labels!

Here is where the fun bit comes in. While I'm encoding my vinyl with Roxio: CD Spin Doctor, I used Discogs to gather the meta data about that record. Once the track has been encoded and the meta data added to the file, its then exported to iTunes. From here use XONE Mixed in Key to extract the BPM and the Harmonic Key. Then I'm done. I have 2 copies of my track sitting in 2 mirrored libraries.

So when I started gearing up for my next show Ahhh Junglist, I open my laptop on my back porch, cracked a beer and started sorting tracks I thought would work well. I then tossed them on my phone so I could review them while commuting to & from work. This gave me a week to start editing. After I thought I had a solid "crate" gathered, I built the physical crate. I organize my crate the by harmonic key, and BPM. Once this is completed I start practicing, adding, subtracting and what have you until I know that crate inside and out.

 That's my system for better or for worse. What do you all think? Am I bloody crazy or a proper genius? Leave your thoughts in the comments.

Keep Smiling

The Librarian

The Lion finally made it to the Hospital

London Elektricity got his Red Lion Junglist shirt!

In celebration of London Elektricity's 200th podcast for Hospital Records, I sent him a Red Lion Junglist shirt. I just found his instagram message about the shirt,  and this totally made my afternoon.
- The Librarian

FTA: Rough Draft Stickers

So I got back on the sticker design bandwagon in preparation for Ahhhh Junglist in VA Beach. Some will be for sale at the merch table along with the Red Lion Junglist shirts. But here is a chance for you all to weigh in and tell me what you think I should produce.
DESIGN 001:

Stars & Bars DC Junglist Massive

DESIGN 002:

Lighter Crew: Call for the Rewind

DESIGN 003:

Keep Calm and Buy Records

Which two of the three should I produce?

Oh and as a quick sneak peek... here is my new sticker.

The Librarian Logo: From the Annex

In the mean time keep smiling and I will catch you all on the flip.
-The Librarian

FOLLOW UP: Red Lion Junglist exclusivly at Turnstyle

As always visiting Richmond is a hoot especially when you get to visit Turnstyle. This weekend was a virtual who's who in south easteren VA junglist scene. Or maybe it just felt like that as I got to touch base with my friends down south. Big ups to Joanna O & Jessie first and foremost. Konztant Junglist, Indica Jo, Patrick Currier, Dinah Myte, Ill Omen, Chris Grow, & the unforgettable Kristy Cuffee.

Turnstyle Richmond,Virginia

So there is a little bit of a proud father moment as I watched people roll through the Turnstyle shop and pick up the Red Lion Junglist shirt. Needless to say I owe Turnstyle some huge props for believing in my work. As soon as I they are available online I will update you all.

The Red Lion Junglist shirt on display at Turnstyle in Richmond Virginia

The Art Walk was kicked off by Joanna O, the First Lady of Drum & Bass in Richmond braved the chilly temperatures to warm up the wheels of steel.

Joanna O making the selection to kick off Turnstyle's March Art Walk

The thing I enjoy most about watching Joanna O is the fierce focus she brings to her decks. At no point in the mix do you think that she is not in control of the sounds she is playing. Every time I've seen her play she bring the sharp shooter precision to the mix.

Joanna O bring the sound to Turnstyle's March Art Walk

Shuffling into the mix between a Joanna O's jazzy funk set & RobOne's old school review I had my hands full but I enjoyed the challenge to make the evening flow smoothly. Wheeling out with some funky jazz hip-hop to help warm up the crowd.

Edward the Librarian playing the ragga jungle sounds for Turnstyle March Art Walk... man it was cold at first. Photo credit: Addison Helmke

About 3 records in I could see if I was going to get anyone excited to come hang out on this cold ass night I had to start rocking the island sound. So I removed my coat, pulled the ragga tracks and started warming up the street.

Edward the Librarian playing the ragga jungle sounds for Turnstyle March Art Walk. Photo credit: Addison Helmke

RobOne at Turnstyle's march Art Walk

DUM DUM DUMMMMMMM! Insert the rolling sounds of the old school vibe. RobOne took us back through memory D&B lane. Drawing out the old school heads to hear what he was going to be bring next. Photo credit: Addison Helmke

RobOne playing the old school tunes at Turnstyle's march Art Walk

Much respect to RobOne. Photo credit: Addison Helmke

Dub Pistols - Mucky Weekend (Librarian Remix) photo credit: Addison Helmke

Side note to all that are in the know. The Mucky Weekend (Librarian Remix) was a bass monster!