Moving to Chicago to follow my dreams! Looking for more Chicagoans!

[guiltyblade]

awesome. I normally mix house, prog house, trance, and electro. Depends on the spot I play what is needed. If its by choice its a mix of house, prog, and trance or Trouse.

[diezdiazgiant]

Chicago summer is for being shitty drunk. Youre going to dig it here.

[Louie_V]

So... its been a while. Ive followed a few of your gigs on fb even attended one... so any regrets?

[OhNoNolan]

Not a single one! I've met tons of great people and have gotten a steady thursday and now saturdays as well. For having no connections in the city and then just coming here and getting going. It's all been fantastic. I owe a lot of it to meeting a guy on here after posting this thread. (GuiltySounds aka GuiltyBlade on DJTT)

Crazy story. The night before I moved here my roommate to be was at a bar and listening to a DJ bang it out after having a hard day at work. She was sitting at the bar alone and after his set he came up and talked to her. They ended up going to after hours and partying all night. She gave him a ride home later and they got to talking. She mentioned her new roommate moves in tomorrow and he's moving to be a DJ. He looks at her in shock. He was one of the people I was planning on mixing with when I moved. (GuiltySounds) They flipped out. The universe works in mysterious ways. So now I play with him all the time and we're all friends. DJTT ftw!

So what gig did you happen to pop in for? I hope it wasn't one of the slower nights. I'm still building a name so those happen sometimes. They're just part of the experience though.

[Louie_V]

It was one of the ones at lokal a little while back. i was there for maybe 20-25 min (on my way from xippo to spybar).

[DJ ATX]

Awesome dude, sounds like you are settling in nicely. I kinda have a similar story.

I moved from SoCal to Dallas without knowing a soul. Got a job opportunity and jumped on it. I had 2 residencies that I left in CA. After getting here and not knowing anyone, I kinda put DJ'ing on hold. Matter of fact I sold all my gear except from about 150 80's vinyl. After a few years, I got the itch so I bought gear again and started doing mobile stuff. After a year of that I got tire of it and started hitting the clubs, sending out demos. Got a few guest spots with the demos. Then a quasi residency at a sushi bar. A few months later a 2 nights a month at club.

Slowly building a fan base. The club I am at actually wants me to do Fridays. Fridays are slow, but the owner thinks I can build it. They have had a few DJ's that have a following here in Dallas do Fridays to try and build it. No success. They want me to give it shot, guess I've had good feed back since I am more of an open format DJ, even though I lean more to the House genre side. We might be giving that a shot in the New Year. I've also been signed to do their NYE Ball. I am also their designated back up DJ if anyone cancels or gets sick.

So starting over is not so bad if you hustle. Also not getting comfortable and continue to hustle.

[guiltyblade]

The world works in mysterious ways. Good thing you I'm not a total douche bag and was able to help out a little. For both of us being completely unknowns to playing all the time, its going quite well! Now we both gig at Ultra lounge near congress, I still play at Lokal, and i'm starting to play other places. Building your name always has its ups and down, you get a ton of people (like last week at lokal I had it packed) to other times when it empty. But I spread the love for sure. Wooo connections! When I have to move to SF i hope someone from hear can give me a little karma!

[OhNoNolan]

@bigboi glad you could stop by! Thats cool that you showed some DJTT love. Do you play around at all? If so give me some info so I can stalk one of your gigs!

@ATX glad that it all came around for you. Good luck with NYE! Kill it!

@Guilty YOU+ME= DAMAGED THURSDAY TONIGHT @ ULTRA! I really hope I can get that live feed going on mixlr!

[photojojo]

Then a quasi residency at a sushi bar.

Which one? My wife recently discovered she likes sushi.

[Louie_V]

@bigboi glad you could stop by! Thats cool that you showed some DJTT love. Do you play around at all? If so give me some info so I can stalk one of your gigs!

im a dj ninja...lol. usually a unannounced guest. Did the residency thing but really didnt like it much. doin afters mostly and some frat gigs at niu and champaign/urbana

Stuff coming up:
gonna be chilling with dj sneak nxt thursday, possibly hit an after, then planning on playing an after with a buddy and dubfire next friday (ill fb u details). then flying out to new york to play an after with dubfire and chill with carlo lio after their set at district 36 (might play there too, not confirmed yet), gonna hit an after that sat aswell, currently trying to finalize some plans out there for sunday, dont wanna say much right now because im still not 100% sure it'll be done in time.

ill hit u up on facebook with more info if u interested