Greetings....

[greatscott]

Re: Greetings....

The Evolution Control Committee is interested in playing the B&W ball if there is still time. Please let him know right away if this is an option. You can find out more at http://evolution-control.com and contact him through the site if you like- this is his ideal audience. He's also been a panelist at HOPE in the past, but did not do a full performance.
He's great live and it's much more DJ than band, but there is some interactivity.
Thanks!

Please email a DJ-mixed / full set demo recording to blackandwhitedjs@gmail.com. I checked out the site, but couldn't get a good feel for the music. Thanks!

-Scott

[d34dfish]

Re: Greetings....

The Evolution Control Committee is interested in playing the B&W ball if there is still time. Please let him know right away if this is an option. You can find out more at http://evolution-control.com and contact him through the site if you like- this is his ideal audience. He's also been a panelist at HOPE in the past, but did not do a full performance.
He's great live and it's much more DJ than band, but there is some interactivity.
Thanks!

[valen]

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I'll be attending my first one this year and am definitely looking forward to it. should be rad.

[neil]

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Hey!

I attended defcon last year and was blown away. It was a blast! The parties were awesome and the people I met were even cooler.

Im interested in playing. Where do I send my demo to?

You should look here: https://forum.defcon.org/showthread.php?t=10234#3

[Shox]

Re: Greetings....

Hey!

I attended defcon last year and was blown away. It was a blast! The parties were awesome and the people I met were even cooler.

Im interested in playing. Where do I send my demo to?

[Shem]

You're gonna need an adapter

Patchboard is a great idea... I am all about getting the audio out in real-time and through as many different media as possible. For both the B&W Balls and the daytime stuff...

All transmitting and/or recording devices (analog or digital) are strongly encouraged...

Anyone who wouldn't mind bringing, or would enjoy building, an apparatus that will split a simple stereo signal N times...talk to me...

I see a lot of potential in a transmitter and cheap FM headphones in bulk. :)

Thanks.

Shem

here would be one of my suggestions...

either have a bank of sound board feeds that people can patch into if they wish or allow/encourage the performers to record their sets so that we don't have to wait 89 years for the official recordings to be released.

[Deviant Ollam]

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Well, here are some photos but they're pretty old...

everything from Jeans & T-Shirts to dressier fare.


some people go the costume route.


renderman and i with some lovely ladies. goddamn, if it weren't for render's mustache we'd look about 15 in that photo. at least the women look to be of age, heh.

things seem to have become a bit more formal in recent years, but rarely will there be a "you are denied entry for what you're wearing" rule enforced super hard in my experience. often they just frown on people waltzing in with the exact same thing they were wearing for 10 hours of con earlier that day.

[RuckusKnight]

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How serious do people get for dressing for this?

I'm more of a sports jacket and jeans type of guy... don't even own a suit currently

[OverDose]

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Any rules on what sort of music, I know the general amount of folks will enjoy anything electronica... reason being is I have a band who I am good friends with. They have played multi national tours and very good when it comes to working with venues, staff, etc. The only thing is that the music is what I like to call "sludgecore" (see hatebreed + Sepultura) if this is kosher, Ill give them the go ahead (Ill need contact info for whom to put them in contact with) if the band thing works out. I wont ask either side to move unless everything is good.

[DJ Jackalope]

Re: Greetings....

*sad face here*

I'd be willing just to build a box with a monster HD and Soundforge and just sit it in the ballroom, connected to the main soundboard and record all audio that goes on on both nights. Then take it home and edit the sets apart (and maybe even do a little mastering, who knows) and hand them out (hopefully) within a month of DC being over.

*word*

*seriously*

yes I can confirm their are no official recordings of last years event... normally the recording gear that bink and myself have used in years past was not available as it was part of the full rig that we usually rented and brought in .

[sailorgloom]

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Hallo und Aloha! So sorry I couldn't spin last year due to a previous committment (Convergence 16 in Tampa). I look forward to seeing everyone again this year at DEFCON!

~DJ SailorGloom
Agents of Empire DJs
Stuttgart, Waikiki, San Diego

[zziks]

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yes I can confirm their are no official recordings of last years event... normally the recording gear that bink and myself have used in years past was not available as it was part of the full rig that we usually rented and brought in .

[goathead]

Re: Greetings....

Wow the requirements in order to throw a show there seem truly obnoxious. So I suppose that DIY soundsystem and lights might be seen as a scab move.

[The Dark Tangent]

Re: DC Recordings

I too would like live bands. I would also love not having unions with minimum $$$ commitments! :-)

If we are to do live bands we need a lot of them to make all the union requirements feasible. For example if there was one live act a night I would still end up paying for a lighting guy, sound guy, mixing board guy, set up / tear down, etc. All those activities and gear add up. It would be better to have 4 or 5 (Or however many makes sense) live bands one day, and have DJs the next to save on an additional day or rental and (more expensively) labor. DJs require a lot less infrastructure and no union dues.

I am totally bummed if all the music from last year was lost. This year it will be the responsibility of someone to record as much as possible so we can share it with everyone who couldn't attend.

When I was in S.K. for Codegate a year ago Avi mentioned that the music that gets played at DEFCON and during CTF they call 'defcon music' and it motivates them! As you know there have been very good South Korean teams playing in CTF over the years. They must have brought back a love of the different music styles.. or just gotten them interested in electronica and techno. Either way it is cool.

[DJ Jackalope]

DC Recordings

I would fully agree with this,
especially since DT asked me for the recordings yesterday,
and my message back to him was:
"As far as i know, there were no recordings from last year."


Zziks, please correct me if I am wrong - and DT is looking for them.

here would be one of my suggestions...

either have a bank of sound board feeds that people can patch into if they wish or allow/encourage the performers to record their sets so that we don't have to wait 89 years for the official recordings to be released.