eclecticism

01/06/2004 |

Some of my long-time readers (and family and friends) will already know that prior to moving down to Seattle, I spent around eight years of my time in Anchorage DJ’ing for a number of dance clubs. From City Lights, to The Lost Abbey, to Gig’s Music Theater, to The Eclipse, and finally to Studio 99, I spun practically every possible genre — alternative, industrial, punk, goth, 80’s retro, new wave, disco, swing, techno, house, trance, and even (though I grumbled a lot) the occasional top-40 and R&B — and had an absolute blast doing it.

I finally got tired of letting my old domain sit inactive after moving my weblog to TypePad, and have resurrected djwudi.com as a monument (however small) to my years as a club DJ. In addition to some oddly third-person ramblings about my career, there are no less than (though no more than) eleven different mix sessons posted and available for either download or streaming audio listening. Ten of them are even worth listening to — the eleventh (Difficult Listening Hour 03) has some truly horrendous trainwrecking going on, and I only leave it posted out of my anal-retentive need for a complete set.

Anyway, feel free to stop by, download or stream the mixes that are there, and (hopefully) enjoy! Who knows — I may not have a club gig anymore, but since I’ve still got my equipment and a ton of music, there’s always a slim chance that there may be more in the future…

As an added bonus, I’ve resurrected the last archived version of the Gig’s Music Theater website that I maintained for the club. This archive dates from March 30, 1998, and serves both as a nostalgic remembrance of one of the best all-ages clubs in Anchorage’s history, and as a monument to my web design and coding skills at the time. Hopefully some of Gig’s old patrons might get a kick out of this (especially the pictures in the ‘Scene’ section)! I also have an archive of old flyers for Gig’s that I made, though I’ve mentioned those before.

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4 Responses to “I used to be a DJ / Gig’s Music Theater”

Fran Says:
January 6th, 2004 at 4:49 pm

Thanks for sharing your “mixes” for free! I’m listening to one of them right now.

Dez Says:
January 6th, 2004 at 6:13 pm

AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH Holy crap!!! I can still smell gigs in my mind if I think really hard about it however I try not to think really hard about it. but it’s sweet to see pictures of such a sweet young chad

CPS Says:
January 6th, 2004 at 7:54 pm

Thank goodness it’s not pictures of the World Famous Dez & Casey show. That’d make you queesy…

Kory Roth / aka Dj H. Geek Says:
May 23rd, 2004 at 7:23 pm

Ah! Thanks to the wonderful Wudi Master for bringing the Gig’s site back up! Mighty cool of you to do that for us weirdos… Also, I have something to add to the Gig’s ‘archive’… heh… although it’s somewhat one sided… I recently found my live show recording from Aug 7th, 1997 at Gig’s… performing just before Black Irish. I know I also have some other recordings of shows sitting around somewhere… Nervis Rex, 36 Crazyfists… I just have to find them… all on old 4-track tapes. If you’re interested in these sets, let me know, and I’ll put them together as I find them… my live show just completed ‘heading toward the light’ yesterday, and is now available in mp3 format. Give me an email if you’re interested!