“It’s Friday night in Melbourne, and at a corridor-sized club in the CBD the music is pumping but there are no turntables in sight. Two pint-sized iPods – those ubiquitous MP3 players with dangling white earphones – are running the show instead, churning out songs by Madonna, the Strokes and all musical points in between,” Darren Levin reports for The Age.
“Tonight, at what is believed to be Australia’s only iParty (or iPod dance party), punters are given the opportunity to DJ. Choosing two songs from a selection of nearly 10,000, they wait like shoppers at a deli counter, until their number is beamed onto a laptop screen,” Levin reports.
“Organiser Hugh Waters, 24, a Melbourne-based DJ and student, stumbled on the idea while visiting New York, where iParties are all the rage,” Levin reports. “He now runs the aptly titled ‘Are You Gonna Be My DJ?’ every second Friday at the hip Bourgie Bar in Little Lonsdale Street. ‘I just thought it sounded like fun – like a massive jukebox,’ he says. ‘It’s interactive. People dance way harder to songs they’ve picked.'”
Full article here.
Sounds like fun
Does MacBeth like to dance?
We need Airport built into the next iPod – Are you listening Steve. ?
We need Airport built into the next iPod – Are you listening Steve. ?
what?
what?
doPi,
Yeah, I hear ya. It’s coming, as soon as I can get the iPod battery up to 20 hours. Airport should drop it back to about 8.
See ya at the love-in…
doPi,
Yeah, I hear ya. It’s coming, as soon as I can get the iPod battery up to 20 hours. Airport should drop it back to about 8.
See ya at the love-in…
Another Australian who has nothing better to do than follow the Americans.. Sigh
Have to check it out when I’m next in Melbourne. There are so many cool little bars in side streets & down lanes from indie to ciger bars. If anyone is in Oz check out Melbourne its a great city, & I thought it was boring & conservative.
You keep telling yourself that trippah, ya wally.