{"id":557,"date":"2006-07-21T23:50:50","date_gmt":"2006-07-22T06:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/?p=557"},"modified":"2006-07-21T23:50:50","modified_gmt":"2006-07-22T06:50:50","slug":"mandala-071906","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/mandala-071906\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandala 07.19.06"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mandala\" title=\"Mandala\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/blog\/images\/0706\/mandala2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The night before, I&#8217;m up until 3:00 AM, spinning vinyl, tweaking mp3&#8217;s, setting the last details of my set in place. And at 8:00 A.M. I roll out of bed and drop the first track onto my turntable. Almost exactly an hour and a half later the last notes of the complete mix die away. Finally, I&#8217;m confident I&#8217;ve got the right collection of tunes for the set. Blearily, I stumble off to work, CDs and records tucked safely in my record bag.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m too tired to stress about the performance for most of the day. But as the time draws near I get a little apprehensive. The first half of the set is on vinyl. The second half is on CD. I&#8217;ve not spun anything on CD in a long time. What if the players don&#8217;t have pitch control? What if they&#8217;re too squirelly and I end up threading together train wreck after train wreck? What if the roof collapses?<\/p>\n<p>When it&#8217;s finally time for me to go on, my hand shakes a little as I set the needle on the record. But then the smooth tones of Blue Six pour like honey out of the speakers and within moments I&#8217;m settled in.<\/p>\n<p>The set is flawless. Too bad you weren&#8217;t there&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Amoeba Mandala\" alt=\"Amoeba Mandala\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/blog\/images\/0706\/mandala3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The night before, I&#8217;m up until 3:00 AM, spinning vinyl, tweaking mp3&#8217;s, setting the last details of my set in place. And at 8:00 A.M. I roll out of bed and drop the first track onto my turntable. Almost exactly an hour and a half later the last notes of the complete mix die away. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}