Welcome to the Brownie Blog

OK, so this is my first day with a DJ Brownie website, and my first blog post on it. I’m not going to push this out, I don’t think, so much as I will let it live here to be happened upon. So if you are reading this you found the blog part of the website, I’m really excited for tour this week. Over the ten years of DJing, there hasn’t been anything like this yet There have been lots of late nights in Denver, a few early morning out at sea, and lots of Disco Biscuits afterparties. Off the top of my head we’ve done Boston, Syracuse, D.C., Asheville, Denver, Miami, and Brooklyn. I’m sure there are more that I’m not thinking of and I know there are many more to come.

This last few weeks has been transformative for this project. There have been countless hours of working on mixing and beat matching on CDJs, which culminated in the purchase of a pair that I will be using moving forward. The technology is insane and the amount of joy one can get out of DJing multiplies when you make a jump like this, as the gear is just that much more versatile. The show in Miami was my first on this gear as a lot of you know because I have been talking about it non-stop. That’s what I do when I get excited about something. It’s a part of what has made the biscuits into what it is.

So then after Miami I came home inspired by the show at Zey Zey, but even more so by a monumental 3 hour Claude Von Stroke set at Club Space after the Saturday Biscuits show. It was straight into the studio to completely revamp a tech house track that was sitting on my computer since late 2020. The thought was that being a DJ is great, but being a producer just adds a whole new creative element to the project. After about 50 hours in the lab, the track was shipped off to Cloudchord for mixing and mastering. More on that later.

So then how did we end up here on this Blog. Well, last night at about midnight, as things happen with people with ADHD, this random thought popped into my head, “I need a website so people can find the ticket links for all of these shows on tour!” This wasn’t the first time this thought had surfaced since we booked this tour two months ago, but last night when it reappeared, my kids were sleeping and the house was quiet. So out came the computer to start “building” this website. It’s 2023, there are templates, you don’t need to know how to code, but there were a lot of moments over the next 18 waking hours (I took a 6 hour nap from 5-11 AM) where I was staring at the screen thinking to myself, “how to fix this?” In the end there was a basic and functional website with credit card payment processing, Apple Pay, a tour-dates page, and a merch intergration. It took about 7 hours to get it all working and then another 10 or so to iron out all of the kinks, which I am taking a break from doing now to write this blog.

I just wanted to put it down in print so that I can remember this monumental moment when I decided to finally make it all official. A pair of CDJs, a website, with music, merch, tourdates, links and a blog… a long long blog for a guy that likes to talk about shit when he gets really excited.

Thanks for listening.

Brownie