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March 12, 2025

There's a little place in Fairfax, Virginia under a bar. It hosts music every Wednesday night. It's been around since 2004. The bar is The Auld Shebeen. The venue is Transit.

I was invited to play Transit along with some old and some new friends: Bushmaster, my roomate in college and with whom I've DJ'd since my second time ever touching decks at SUBSYSTEM 20XX in 2019, played right before me at this event. Two other friends whom I've known for a bit over a year, mercury.lamp and suzubrah, played later in the night.

Equipment was 2x CDJ 3000s coupled with an A9 mixer. I'd never played on CDJ 3ks before and, briefly before going up, discovered my USB was non-compliant. Before the event I had made an ordered playlist in Rekordbox with tracks I was going to play for the night but for whatever reason the playlist, along with the cue points I had set, did not appear on the decks when I plugged in my USB. Luckily I was still able to browse the USB and select tracks by filename. Fuck it, we'll do it live. So I did.