Disco Themed Video DJ Party at Maderas

This was like an explosion of color! This Annual corporate party selects a theme each year and the attendees go all out, dressing in costume and acting in character - it was a lot of fun.


I Video DJ'd all Disco for the first 4 hours (yes, I have that much Disco on DVD)and they were INTO IT. maybe it was the wigs but no matter they were having a great time. The last hour as the planning committee and I planned we started to break out of the disco theme and give them some 80s and top 40 which by that time of night they were ready for and only added to the excitement.
My team brought in an 8 foot screen for the videos, plenty of dance and stage lights, 8 hot pink uplights and a disco ball - because let's face it what's a disco party if there's no disco ball!

Sorry for the lack of Recent updates!

I'm sorry to report that my cool little video camera that allowed me to give you a quick glimpse of those parties is no longer with us. I don't know if i misplaced it or if someone decided they liked it more than I do.

For now I guess we'll have to settle for good old fashioned Text updates and blogposts...how boring. I'll try to link youtube clips to some of the bigger events if I can find them online.

Here are a couple to get you going


San Diego Block Party: Early January I Video DJ'd for 2500 people from the Special Event Industry. I find that more and more, when its time to impress those that are usually behind the scenes and in-the-know like this group was, I get the call quite often for Video DJ because it's just so amazing. My video library is over 18,000 now and it covers to name a few: Frank Sinatra, Temptations, James Brown, Bee Gees, Madonna, Michael Jackson and of course all of today hits. This event was incredible, 4 City blocks with Food, Audio and Video Throughout.





The guys from Innovative Presentations did a great job placing 12 video screens around the 4 block area including the 12 foot screen behind me and a 15 ft screen on a rooftop on 5th avenue. I played for about 90 minutes and had the place jumping until I passed it off for the main stage and Recording Group - Kool & the Gang took the main stage.

This video isn't of me but someone else caught a little of Kool & the Gang on stage

Wedding at Scripps Seaside Forum

Late fall 2011 I DJ'd a wedding and then the reception right afterward at the Seaside Forum. The wedding went perfectly, they were from Hawaii so the music choices for the wedding were mostly Hawaiian. The Bride is a Dance Music Recording Artist and normally when I have clients like that I try to avoid playing their music during the event, mainly just because its a little weird. But this one wasn't like that, she was perfectly fine with it. As a matter of fact, at first she gave me the track titles and didn't even tell me they were her tracks.

It was kind of a dance music crowd and pretty much the entire group recognized, got up, danced and sang along when I played the first 2 of her songs. By the time I played the 3rd song I honestly think I had worn them out. They danced solid for about 2 hours and were still dancing but I think they were pretty out of gas at that point.

December Wedding

I'll try to post more on this wedding later but I wanted to get this video posted ASAP. Joe Park is an awesome videographer, one of the things I like best is that you can have him create a teaser video for the wedding. Since the full Wedding Video takes weeks and weeks to edit in some cases, the teaser video just shows some of the highlights at a quick glimpse. As usual, he hit another homer with this one from Dec 3rd.

Nina & Andrew Highlight Teaser from Joe Park on Vimeo.

Corporate Party at Fox Sports Grill in San Diego at Hilton Bay Front

This group came in for a few days, one of their nights was a party at Fox Sports Grill. It didn't take them long to get out on the dancefloor. Fox Sports Grill is a great place for a Corporate Party, plenty of space, night near the bay, indoor and outdoor mixed seating and plenty of video screens for sports or Video DJ would be amazing...

Baby Bash & Frankie J Live at UCHS in San Diego

Today we provided sound for Baby Bash to play a concert for University City High School, the students there won the concert in a Z-90 contest. This is the 3rd show I've done with Bash and this time he brought Frankie J with him.


These guys are both pros, nothing like the egos and attitudes that I've encountered with some other big names. You can see that they are just happy to be there and doing what they love to do. Even though the show was only 29 minutes long, I think they actually played about 35. But then they both stayed and did meet & greet/Photo and Autographs for close to an hour.... C'mon who else does that? That's why Bash is one of my favorites to work with, Like I said, he's a pro.
Thank you to my team (Brad & Matt) that helped me pull off the show.

Dubstep Wedding

This is the one everyone is talking about. A DJ friend of mine was in the LA area on a gig and talking with another DJ there about music when the topic of Dubstep came up and how well it is (or is not) working in SoCal. As I understand it, part of that conversation they my friend bought up that a friend of his (me) had just done a wedding with mostly house and dubstep music and the response was something like oh yeah I heard about that.

That doesn't surprise me though, the bride and groom are part of a group of people I've gotten to know pretty well over the years. They all work together but what they really all have in common is we're all friends of DJ Miss Lisa. Miss Lisa is one of San Diego's original and Pioneering DJs and has been a friend for about 16 years (wow that's a long time now that I think about it), she plays all over the world with some of the very biggest and high profile events. So since this is really one big circle of DJs and DJs friends, it seems like everyone there is a DJ (including the Groom was a DJ too). I don't mean like everyone there has a mixer and turntables in their bedroom...I mean like some of these guests have DJ residencies in some of the Biggest and Hottest Clubs in New York, many of whom make their own music and tour the world doing gigs for groups of thousands of people. I'm talking about the RockStar Circuit of DJs. Yeah! No Pressure! I don't talk about it often but I spent 13 years doing on air mix Dj work and was syndicated on multiple stations around the country, San Diego, Las Vegas, New Orleans, Salt Lake City and more (as many as 48 stations through the 2005-2006 timeframe). So I feel like I can hold my own, but I still found myself mentally reviewing every move I made throughout the night.
There were a lot of DJs there, I don't want to leave anyone out so I won't list them by name except for DJ Slynkee, thanks for your help. The one thing I'll say is that most of them came over to say hello, and they were ALL super nice and easy going and genuinely just there to have a good time.

The wedding was great though, it started off with a perfect ceremony at the Island Club on the Navy Base in Coronado overlooking the beach. The Groom and groomsmen arrived on the back of a Fire Engine with full Lights & Sirens. I provided music and a wireless mic (done the right way). For anyone thinking about an outdoor ceremony on any of the Navy Bases, you have to spend the extra money to do the wireless microphones correctly. Cutting corners in that department opens you up to all kinds of potential interference problems with the frequencies that the Navy uses. You only get one chance to get the Ceremony right. The $100-$200 you could've spent to do it right will seem like small change if things go wrong with the wireless mics.

After the Ceremony it was inside for the Cocktail Reception and then Dinner. After the traditional dances and toasts, I hit them hard Right out of the gate when open dancing started. With some of the pop / top 40 stuff and slowly working into Sexy & I know it (that was about 3 weeks before it started to play on radio, but again...the DJs at this wedding had all been playing it in their clubs and gigs for weeks at that point.)

If you really want to see the music video for this song, be warned. It's graphic but hilarious and probably my favorite video of 2011 Click Here

The rest of the night was a high energy dance party. I did work in some more recognizable 80s for the family and guests that weren't as into the house and Dubstep.
Here's the clip.

The only bad thing was that the club staff turned the lights on 10 minutes before the end of their party, but it didn't even phase this crowd.