Debutante--Ranga Sexy DJ Girl

The last couple of weeks, I’ve been getting myself acquainted with my new toy, the Traktor Kontrol S2. After one last podcast using my Numark Total Control/IO soundcard, I retired the equipment, as well as the old laptop. One girl doing it DIY is so far bringing moderate success. Tonight I’m going to go full-out, working on the buttons and doo-dads. Have to get my ass in gear as Rae from Guitar Center West Palm Beach said he was going to call to check up on me next week. Busy girl is busy…

Next on the agenda is a cheap laptop stand…hopefully grilling some of the DJ boys out there will get me a good recommendation.

From 1984, Gina X covering The Beatles’ “Drive My Car”. Very little known in the States—even a friend who spins obscure 80s new wave didn’t know about this one.

I first heard this on a college radio station and loved it so hard I set off on obtaining a copy. My search was successful when I found her album Yinglish in a Boston used record shop a year later. Yes, it’s dated (unfortunately much harder than I would like), but it was an avant-garde mix of European new wave, Italian disco, and industrial at the time.

The 2 1/2 minute video really doesn’t do the track justice. There’s also the original 6 minute track floating around YouTube, as well as available at Amazon. There were two remixes, Dance The Car and Drive On Film. The former was a dub; the latter didn’t make it to the 2007 CD re-release. Not much of a loss, as it was just a piano track with a bit of synth in the background.

I recommend Yinglish; besides Drive My Car, Gina also does a killer cover of Harley Davidson.

Debutante Presents Episode 10--Goodbye Total Control →

And by that, I mean this was the last podcast I recorded on my setup of a Numark Total Control mixer and IO soundcard. I’ll be ditching both of these for my brand new toy, a Traktor Kontrol S2. Boo-yah! Turn this one up LOUD!!

Special thanks to DJ Gene Santiago, DJ Jini Cowan, and Rae Brown from Guitar Center West Palm Beach.

Shoutout to DJ Victrola just because he wanted one.

Recorded in studio August 26, 2012.

The Confusion—Dark Highway (Original Mix) 
Florence & The Machine—Spectrum (Calvin Harris Extended Mix) 
Tim Cullen & DJames—Pushin’ (So Called Scumbags Takin’ It Back Mix) 
Ahmet Sendil—I Still Have a Dream (Louie Cut Remix) 
Adele—Rolling In The Deep (Strobe Deep Strings Mashup) 
Tough Love—Taking Over (Jini Cowan Remix) 
Greg Stainer feat. Roland Clark—Can’t Take That Away (Original Mix) 
Magnetic Brothers feat. Anton Golubev—From This World (Rich Curtis Remix) 
Project 46 & Gemellini feat. Corinne Lee—Crazy (Original Mix) 
Todd Terry & J. Paul Getto—Go Bitch (School of Todd Mix) 
Bastian Harper vs. Kevin Iszard—Hands Up (Original Mix) 
AVH—You Don’t Know Me (Strobe Edit) 
Z.E.T.A.—Keep On (Original Mix)

Bice, Palm Beach, FL, 8-10-2012. Photos by Neil London.

Starting this Friday! Debutante in Palm Beach spinning disco and house. Come by and enjoy dinner and cocktails. See you there.

FetCon in Tampa, FL, 8-4-2012. Bottom photo taken by The Quiet Master.

Birthday party for owner Franklyn DeMarco and Janet Gaston at Ta-Boo in Palm Beach, FL, 7-28-2012. The DJ is Brett from Sandala Sound. 

David K. with DJ Ilya Tartarov at The Backyard Bar, West Palm Beach, 7-12-2012.  David K. is the owner of The David K. Space and does music on the side.

Debutante is back on Party Radio USA, this time as part of the 2nd Annual DJ Mini-thon. It goes down July 1 at 6pm EST, 2300 GMT. My set starts at 6:40pm/23:40. Tune in at PartyRadioUSA.net.

Art Noveau Star Trek art show at Respectable St., West Palm Beach, 6-20-2012. Photos by Sandy Pallot Klein.

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