Bagcast #11 - found files -12/20/2012- Dj Baglady vintage mix - recorded in los angeles
a peak into my past - a better dj than me, me
If the filename is correct, this was recorded in december of 2012.
I write to you from december of 2025.
Perspective is a difficult thing for me without an archive like this.
Learning and skills are not developed along a linear path for me. For me a lot of being and progressing as an artists involves trusting myself more and committing to my ideas with less and less latency.
Back then i was much more confident and had very few peers in the world to look up to who weren’t personally encouraging me on my path.
It is wonderful now there are so many Dj’s and producers today playing dance music that is neither 4 to the floor nor dubstep/dnb.
Now that club music and even noise music has found its way into the paradigm of global mainstream electronic music I am trying to adjust my sensibilities and skills to accomplish the goal of touring and playing with this new vanguard. Its a difficult path but im finally learning midi!
My mixing style is bold in this mix; aimed mostly towards listening outside of a club environment.
During this period of time i think that i lived in Los Angeles in a warehouse with friends but i am not so sure, things are blurry.
I had a weekly gig at a brunch spot in culver city. Royal Tea was an intensely hip and cute Asian tea shop.
Many friends would join me in the back room that i played from. It ended up being very fun even though the pay was dogshit.
I would play for the five hour brunch. This mix has a recognizable subdued style to keep the westside Brunchers happy and not too riled.
It was an era when computers were king in music production, and many people were phasing out of hardware and out of their bulky rackmount hardware extremely cheap.
For like a hundred fifty buck i had a rack full of about five modules, a roland jv 1010 , a midiverb, a novation bass station, and an akai s-6000. I never figured out how to use the s6000 but it had a removable “remote”. Pretty sweet.
I paired all this with my yamaha rm1x, a sequencer and rompler i made most of the first few albums of the baglady project on.
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Above album “Bagtraxx” is an example of the yamaha rm1x and a kaos pad 3 in concert!
I am playing Live in the depths tommorow! A monthly portland hardware show at atlantis lounge.
I am excited but anxious as i will be playing new sequences and using my octatrack in a new way. Shall be fun!
Bye for now!