“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.'”
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