LITTY TUNES - Episode: 163

Get ready to dive into the world of Fresno nightlife with Litty Tunes, the powerhouse party marketing team behind some of the city’s hottest events. In this episode, DJ Alex and Litty Mike share how they built their brand, what it takes to keep the party scene thriving, and their vision for the future of entertainment in the Central Valley. If you love music, vibes, and community, this one’s for you!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
This could give me for our podcast What Up? That
is John Magic and we are back.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
This is a special episode for me because I know
these guys, but I don't know them, so we're gonna
get to know them. Yeah, this is a good chance
to get to know them. And we've been doing this
thing these past couple episodes where we look for an
intro to intro the guests and all we do is
go on AI and lately every every guest has we

(00:32):
we've been blown away and what AI comes up with.
So this is the AI intro that when I put
Lyddy Tunes, is gonna be our guest give us an intro.
So you guys ready, here we go. You're ready to
see Today we're diving into the heartbeat of Fresno's nightlife
with a group that's redefining what it means to turn

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up in the Central Valley. They're young, creative, unapologetically, unapologetically bold,
bringing in a music and unforgettable vibes to every event
they touch, from pac clubs like the recent Halloween party,
Mike's huge sold out birthday bash by the way, how
I know that innovative party concepts like the is Love

(01:14):
R and B parties. They've built the name that resonates
with the city's party scene. Please welcome Fresno Zone, Rising
Stars and Promotion Lyddy Mike and DJ Alex Lyddy to.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
Fire as Wild.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
I didn't know what sold out, Yeah, so Leddy Mike
and DJ Alex. Well, first of all, before we get
started with the history and stuff, I know DJ Alex
is a DJ. I've seen him DJ. His name is
DJ Alex.

Speaker 4 (01:47):
Are you a DJ?

Speaker 5 (01:48):
To Mike, Yeah, yeah, I do DJ a little bit
on the side. I don't put DJ in my name
just because I like for Alex to kind of take
that shine for our brand and what we are, you know.
I like to like represent like so much other than djay.
So that's why DJ isn't in my name. But yeah,
I do DJ too.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Yeah, that's kind of like me where I I just
I used to be DJ John Magic and then I
took it out because of radio. I thought that should
be my radio name.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah, so yeah, it makes sense.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
So back when I, you know, I'm they called they
call me now I'm like generation back in the days
we were used to call party cruise. What do you
guys consider yourselves? Like, what are you guys a promotion crew,
Like what do you what do you guys have a
name for it?

Speaker 3 (02:32):
Yeah, I kind of hate being called.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Put the mic down a little bit. Yeah yeah, there.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
I hate being called party promoters. Now.

Speaker 6 (02:39):
At first, when we started party promoters, it's cool, but
really I think we're like event coordinators, like curators, you know,
like the professional aspect of it. Yeah, party promoters kind
of seems like an insult.

Speaker 7 (02:49):
Because we do a lot more than just bring the
people inside. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Also, I almost feel like that term promoters has always
got like a negative connotation promoters, just like how people
really like to be called influencers because there's kind of
like a negative connotation to that. So I could see
that it's all like with you guys renamed that, you know.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Jizo and I always have conversations about the future or
where the party scene is at right now from where
where we started years ago to now. And I always saw,
I said, there's this group of guys, these two guys
that are changing. They've taken what we have now in

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twenty twenty five with social media marketing, and they have
just they've taken this embraced it. And then I tell you,
I said, these guys are the ones doing it the
right way right now.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember that.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
So before we get to that, let's go to the beginning.
How did you to me? How do you guys know
each other? Did you guys grow up here?

Speaker 3 (03:49):
Yeah? Where are you from?

Speaker 5 (03:50):
I mean, how do we meet? We always forget how
we met. We just assumed that we met somewhere to
the club, yes, Switch yeah, Switch nightclub, shout out Kris,
you know, but there was always a story of how
we rebecame friends.

Speaker 7 (04:02):
So I think that's the best story.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
That we have, that story. Both of you guys originally
from here from.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
The from Oakland, oh okay, and I'm from Sacramento.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Oh okay. When'd you guys? When did you come down
to the five to five nine?

Speaker 5 (04:14):
I was back and forth, so I would like change
houses with my mom and dad all the time, and
then I officially like stayed here, I would say, probably
like seventh grade year, but then even in summers I
always went back to Oakland.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
Okay. That was literally Mike.

Speaker 6 (04:30):
I moved out here twenty fourteen. My mom, she was
Elvan and she worked in the state prison system, so
you know, state prison they can move you whenever. So
she ended up getting moved to corkorand and you know,
she wanted to live in the next biggest city and
that was Presno.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
So that's how we I ended up here.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
When did you guys start the DJing thing at what age?

Speaker 7 (04:51):
About three years?

Speaker 3 (04:52):
You're kind of old. I think when I was twenty
one or twenty two.

Speaker 5 (04:56):
I was crazy when I was twenty three, so almost
like late late and yeah, yeah later.

Speaker 6 (05:02):
Yeah, we didn't know each other in high school. We
met each other like twenty nineteen, twenty twenty.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
Yeah, that's damn right during the pandemic. Yeah, Okay, where'd
you go to school? Who'd you guys go to school?

Speaker 2 (05:13):
So?

Speaker 7 (05:13):
I went to a manual high school Readley.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Okay, And I went to Bullet Bullet right here too,
nights all day.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
You know when when before hours of DJ, I went
to a friend's party and saw two brothers doing music
on the turntables. And that's kind of like how I started.
What was your story on?

Speaker 3 (05:34):
Like I'm going to do I'm going to be what
was the inspiration?

Speaker 7 (05:37):
I mean, you can give your inspiration, okay, Alex.

Speaker 6 (05:42):
So story with that is high school was just always
that person on ox you know, you know, typical DJ
story playing music for people, and then Covid sad to
say we never stayed inside, especially me and him, Like me,
I like, I went, we went to parties. We're still parting. Covid,
we didn't. I don't know you went to Miami. We
went to Miami. You know, yeah, we did everything.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
So did you guys get COVID during that time? Yeah? Time,
I never caught Covid.

Speaker 6 (06:11):
But there was a friend who threw like a birthday
party maybe middle end of COVID or whatever, and he
asked me to just play music for it, and he
got like a hall and I'm like, well, I'm not
DJ's a man, just pluging your phone be cool or
I was like me, I was like all right, So
I got my phone and I'm literally like just playing
music off the phone like I'm a DJ. And then
a bunch of people are like, oh, like do you DJ.

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I'm like nah, like just like music and shout out
to my friend Echo. We were kind of really close
at the time. He's like, bro, you should be at DJs,
Like I hope you get started. So he had got
me like a little miniature board, had a laptop and
then that was it. I just went went on YouTube,
figured out the little controls and everything, and then DJ
and just took off from man.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
I always say YouTube university.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
Man.

Speaker 3 (06:53):
Yeah, literally, you learned anything anything anything from YouTube? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (06:56):
How about how about you mind?

Speaker 3 (06:57):
And me?

Speaker 7 (06:59):
I learned jaying from him.

Speaker 5 (07:00):
Actually, So my first time was he used to always
have his board just laying out, and I'm just type
of friend. If you could leave something laying out, I'm
gonna touch it. So he would always leave his board
out and I was a big fan of music too,
and so one day he ended up accidentally double booking
himself and it was at the club. He couldn't get
there till eleven o'clock, and so I'm like, you know,

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we had the clubs jumping back then whatever. This when
he started DJing, and I would just kind of like
promote on the side. I tell people pull up, and
so he's like, oh, Mike, just DJ the first two hours.
I'm like, bro, I don't know how. He's like, nah, Bra,
You're good, Like trust you can do it. And so
went in there first two hours and I did good.
People were messing with it. I ended up he let

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me stay on till twelve nic and that was my
first time DJing, and then from then we just decided
to make like a little a little team and that's
been in since.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
All Right, before we get to the team thing, let's now,
let's go back to where you guys were talking about
where you guys first met.

Speaker 6 (07:57):
Yeah, I really cannot remember how first, man, it just
had to be mutuals. It was definitely like in the
club because I went I went to switch a lot,
and so did he, and I think we met.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
And this is what the eighteen and over when you
guys were saying, it.

Speaker 3 (08:09):
Was like f y r K.

Speaker 7 (08:12):
Crazy Thursdays Thursdays.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
Yeah, so you guys did not know each other.

Speaker 5 (08:19):
We weren't close. We were just cool, Like we were
just cool, and then we fell out. And then when
we fell out and came back, that's when we became
like best friends.

Speaker 7 (08:28):
Kind of makes sense, all.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
Right, And then I guess this. First of all, this
lidly Tunes.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
Name is such a great name.

Speaker 4 (08:37):
Who came up with this?

Speaker 2 (08:38):
How did that name come about?

Speaker 7 (08:40):
I came up with that name, Mike. My name was
Liddy Mike already.

Speaker 5 (08:44):
And uh, you know, I'm the lit one and I
was like, we need I thought of Looney Tunes, and
so I was like, broight, you're the tunes, but we.

Speaker 7 (08:51):
Do tunes to you, and yes, I'm the lit Ones.

Speaker 5 (08:54):
It was like tunes yeah, and uh we just yeah,
That's how I came up with it.

Speaker 3 (08:59):
I think our no logo was really the circles circle.

Speaker 7 (09:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
So you guys weren't promoting parties yet at this time
when you guys just started DJing, right, Oh, go ahead.

Speaker 6 (09:14):
Out, Alex, I would say, just like a little bit,
like I DJ a lot, like you promote your own event,
right event. I think I threw a couple with Echo,
but I mean to the magnitude of now nah.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
So when did you guys decide that that was the
move to team up together and create this lidty tunes Halloween?

Speaker 7 (09:31):
It was.

Speaker 5 (09:32):
It was Halloween and I was promoting. So what year
was this?

Speaker 3 (09:35):
This was one a year after covid okay, and.

Speaker 5 (09:40):
So I have promoted some years back with one of
my homie Cyrus. We had an event called two Tone
and I used to bring out here people for that
and then he started doing his thing and I went
out to Oakland seeing these dudes out in Oakland. It's
like a group of five of them. I'm like, oh,
they could do it, we could do it.

Speaker 3 (09:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (09:54):
Yeah, So he came up with the names all that Halloween.
I think it was October. What was it over seventeen
October seventeen. Everybody was saying that October seventeenth, and we
threw our first party. And story behind that is even crazier.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
Yeah, this is lidly ween is that.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
It is a Halloween. It is a Halloween party that
oh man, let's do it.

Speaker 5 (10:19):
Literally, we started off the party and uh, this is
when the Jeffrey Dahmer thing was going crazy on Netflix, right,
so everybody's talking about Jeffrey Jeffrey Dahmer. And I never
watched it movie. I never watched I never watched I've
never seen anything. I just you know the story of No,
I just knew.

Speaker 7 (10:37):
We eight people. I think that's kind of.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
What we all knew, right, We didn't really know the backstory.

Speaker 5 (10:44):
Yeah, and I didn't watch the Netflix special, but I
was just like Jeffrey Dahmer. So we did a Halloween party,
our first party ever, and we called it the Return
to Jeffrey Dahmer.

Speaker 3 (10:53):
Oh yeah, bro.

Speaker 5 (10:56):
At first everybody was like, oh, that's the hardest name ever.
Like we're definitely we were selling heck of tickets and
all that. And then he went on Facebook and I
have a friend that works at like the City Okay,
I don't know what it is. Is it like Paul
or something, but he hits me on Snapchat. He's like, hey, bro,
like is this your party? And I'm like yeah, he

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goes Bro, there's like hundreds of people calling down to
the city to get your party shut down. They don't
like as a person. So we was like, oh, shoot,
like this is our first party ever. I'm like, damn,
we gotta like change the name, like what we're gonna do.
And so it was just a big thing that was
going in on us on Facebook. Who are the promoters

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of this?

Speaker 3 (11:37):
What they was talking about it that's you know what
I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
Any publicity, good publicity, and.

Speaker 5 (11:45):
So, you know, literally, and it was people telling us like, yeah,
We're not going to buy the tickets because of the
name of your event, because named us.

Speaker 7 (11:52):
So we ended up changing the name, like Halloween.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
Possible was like half of Jeffrey In half of Michael
Michael Myers.

Speaker 5 (12:03):
But so we just changed it to full on Michael
Myers and everybody was happy, buy tickets now and we're good.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
Yeah, but that event did really good. I think we
had like eight hundred. Where was that at Okay, Yeah,
this venue on the West Side. Yeah, when you were.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
When when that heap was coming to you guys with
the name as Young Cats throwing a party for the
first time, what was the feeling was there? Fear was there?

Speaker 3 (12:29):
Like I was tweaking out.

Speaker 7 (12:31):
I was excited.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
He was excited.

Speaker 6 (12:33):
I'm tweaking. I'm like, Mike, we gotta change this, like
we put so much money in this, like get shut down.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
Mike is like, man, it's.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
Good publicity exactly like you got him talk.

Speaker 5 (12:43):
I mean I just told I was like, we'll changed
it the week before. Everybody would be cool, like yeah,
but we used it because this is our first party.
Nobody even knows who Liddy Tunes is. And it was
like I knew it created some buzz.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
That's for sure. For sure, That's for sure, for sure.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
I mean putting together a party, there's a lot of
a lot of things. Yeah, how did you guys know
what to do? Because you know, you know security for
the first timers, Well.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
You guys have people hopping you out or you just
kind of just went in there.

Speaker 7 (13:15):
Not the first one.

Speaker 6 (13:15):
So at first this was like a three way thing.
It was supposed to be me and him and Echo.
I used to do parties at Echo with the same venue.
I guess like kind of experience going to parties and
seeing it, we kind of took ideas that we had
seen from other people like Okay, let's do this like
our way.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
And I think that's kind of how.

Speaker 6 (13:34):
Like Lyddy Tunes really really solidified itself because of like
how I admired how he went about it, like the planning,
like it was more than just trying to just throw
a party and bring people. It was actually like, hey,
we need to have this many security guards. Let's look
at the venue, Let's see where there could be loopholes
for anything bad to happen. That's like like logistic wise,
you know, it didn't feel like a party, actually felt
like planning an event. And after that kind of seeing

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how we work together, that's when we're like, all right, yeah,
like we can really do this.

Speaker 3 (13:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
I think there's a lot more than people like realize,
even sometimes with you know, getting insurance and all that
type of stuff people think like, oh, I could just
invite some people and pull up and it's like, no,
it's way more than that. Your your cost starts to
go a little bit higher than you thought. So that's
dope that you guys were just like very organized from
the get Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
The next topic I want to get at is basically
the first time you guys started showing up on my
fee because you know how the algorithms now they show.

Speaker 3 (14:24):
People you see more people you don't follow.

Speaker 2 (14:27):
So either either they're paying for that algorithm for them
to go up or people are talking about it in
the city.

Speaker 3 (14:34):
It's like, yo, you need to see this.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
Yeah, So that's kind of like when I first saw
you guys was in my algorithm. Your videos were sort
of low key going viral, like a bunch of them,
And that's when I told I said, there's these guys
that they promote their clubs and their videos are going viral,
so they're doing it the right way. What who was
the start of that? Like we got to make these

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kinds of videos, the creativity, who was who was the
mastermind of that?

Speaker 7 (15:00):
Like the skits yah, the idea.

Speaker 2 (15:03):
The idea of we need we need to do this
to promote our.

Speaker 3 (15:07):
Closes instead of like just posting up a flyer or
you know.

Speaker 5 (15:09):
I would say it was my idea for like the skits,
Like I probably had the first idea for the first
kits because I always see like these other like Drew
Ski and.

Speaker 7 (15:18):
All those dudes.

Speaker 5 (15:19):
I'm like, oh, yeah, the heck of funny, like we
should do this to promote the party. And then it
was kind of like an influence from both of us
to just keep it going. Like you know, I'll drop
a skit and he'd be like, oh, let's do this skit,
and then we'll just tweak it up. I'm like, okay,
how can we adjust it to like go towards tickets.
And we never thought it would be this in the
beginning with the first skits that we did, but as

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time just kind of went along, we just kept building
it and building it to now it's like, Okay, now
we're doing like full blown kits and the promotions like producer, yeah,
oh yeah, full on camera crew, all that, like microphones.
We did the one we did for Halloween last year,
we literally hired like a whole movie crew production company
to film like our promo videos.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
How are you guys getting the money for because this
has to cost money to hire a squad higher team.

Speaker 6 (16:07):
I mean the money that they get from the events, Yeah,
I mean money from the events. I mean a lot
of bartering too, you know, like the point it's like, hey,
you do what's this solid? Would do this solid? So
I mean that played a big part, you know. And
then also just good relationships. We've got a lot of
connections in friendships with people who don't even mind doing
stuff for maybe like under their pay er, you know,
just even doing it for free at points.

Speaker 3 (16:28):
So really, really, you know, for sure.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
The business mindset is already wild at this age.

Speaker 3 (16:34):
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
Do you feel like it's you know, using social media?
You know, back in our days, it was just flyers
that we would print out at Kinko's, and then it
turned into paying image like uh, you know, designers to
design a nice one and then getting a glossy.

Speaker 3 (16:53):
Pass them out put them on the people's cars.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
Yeah, so in yours do you think it's just your generation?
That's why this is how you guys are promoting parties
in this day and age.

Speaker 5 (17:03):
For sure, But even then, I think we still go
back to the roots. If we have Hogger Halloween. We
did that event. We passed out over a thousand flyers
at cars at presidentens.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
That's that's the way to do it.

Speaker 6 (17:18):
Corners us starting the old school, we still had that
old school traditional marketing, like we're going to every passing
and flyers. We're going to events and talking to people
like when we first started, that was like the groundwork.
Now we still do it, but you know, social media
is now kind of maybe surpassed that groundwork level.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
That's where your guys' presence is at. Yeah, that's what
the President even.

Speaker 7 (17:38):
Still we passed out flyers like them.

Speaker 3 (17:40):
We even.

Speaker 6 (17:42):
Even our biggest thing too when it comes to like
selling tickets, like we're doing hard copies. We're driving up
to people's houses every hard copy, past every hard copy.
Still doing it like that still every event. Yeah, man,
we're door dash with tickets.

Speaker 7 (17:55):
We call it nice.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
You know what was I gonna talk about? I was
going to talk about. Oh, back in my days as
well too, there were other party crews that's what we
were called, like party cruise, So there was a lot
of battling against who in your scene. I kind of
feel like you guys are the only ones.

Speaker 3 (18:16):
Or at least maybe doing it to this level, that's
for sure.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
Yeah, I could just not be seeing it. So do
you feel like you guys have competition?

Speaker 3 (18:24):
No, I think not yet.

Speaker 6 (18:26):
I think we compete with clubs than promoters, and we're
in such like a perfect I don't want to say perfect,
but as far as like people promoting like parties for
our like demographic and even more, I think we're the
only ones and in that age range to see what
get younger people and you know, thirty plus. Yeah, I
don't think there's There are a few promoters, but I

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don't think there's anyone.

Speaker 3 (18:47):
Really to say like competition respectfully.

Speaker 5 (18:50):
And to be honest, we don't really look at what
other people do for real. We just at the place,
So like we need to focus on what we got
at home, you know what I mean, and just make
the best of what we can.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
You know, is there a strategy strategy right now? Because
I remember the thing that we used to do back
then is go to the colleges and get sororities, frats
to you know, invite.

Speaker 3 (19:12):
Or the girls. You know, I mean, like you want
to attack a certain demo or if.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
You guys would have to speak on a strategy, what's
the mindset of how do we get one hundred to
one thousand people in our venue at our party?

Speaker 7 (19:26):
And as a promoter, yeah yeah, like what's.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
The strategy mindset?

Speaker 5 (19:32):
I would say first would be a good person, Like
if you want to be a promoter, don't go into
promotion like be lickable. Yeah yeah, yeah, don't go into
it like I'm just going to make a whole bunch
of money. And you know what I mean, you asked
about our first party was charging five dollars, and even
from that party, it's now that we made it out heckeras.
You know what I mean, We made our cool money
and it was like, all right, we're gonna take this

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money and push it into the next one. So I
would say as far as strategy, first one thing is
like being a likable person. After that I would say
is like be in the party scene.

Speaker 3 (20:02):
First.

Speaker 2 (20:03):
I was just going to say that that you guys
do a good job with going to other people's events.

Speaker 5 (20:07):
Exactly exactly, like if you're just in like that's problem
with pronas. They want to just be at home and
just post and then people are going to show up.
But it's like people are more likely to come kick
it with you if you go kick it with them.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yeah, being the scene, go support other people. It's kind
of like what we talk about with the DJ thing.
How you said, you know, like you go watch other
people DJ or people come up to you and support
your gigs and.

Speaker 7 (20:27):
Like how many date nights we've been to?

Speaker 1 (20:29):
Yeah, but then that's how you build relationships and your
network is bigger, and you know that's why you guys
are here now and now we know you.

Speaker 3 (20:35):
Guys, so it's exactly we're just building on each other.

Speaker 2 (20:38):
Let's get back on the DJ thing real quick. You know,
we all had our people that you brought up Echo
Now do you still believe you guys are still on
the learning stages? Still? Are you guys still learning?

Speaker 7 (20:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (20:51):
Who are you guys looking up to these days of
like at the clubs, like, oh, they're doing it the
right way. This is DJ wise, like music wise.

Speaker 5 (21:00):
I wouldn't say we have anybody that we kind of
look up to, like the people in Oakland that I
told you we first looked up to. I think we
do it better than they do now, just my opinion.
And then we're just so like and this is what
I just told him the other day, which is crazy,
like we're so like original, Like I don't, I haven't
really seen it when we talk to other people in Fresnel,

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we haven't really seen a group that is on kind
of the same road that we are, you know what
I mean. One of our mentors for sure is like
a k Ridge, Like we always call him for extra help,
you know, just keep stuff professional. But as far as
like people were looking up to, I couldn't name anybody.

Speaker 6 (21:37):
You got somebody when it comes to just straight DJing,
we're just on that DJ aspect. Yeah, no, I don't.
I don't want to see anyone from here. I mean
k Rich, I guess I'm not really just gonna say carriage.
You know, his crowd control, timing, his delivery is like

(21:58):
I think something I've always tried to pay a lot
of it, tended to and learned from. I mean, there's
a lot of DJs I admire, you know that really
really good but really looking up too. It's like, okay,
like when I'm at my next set, this is why
I'm gonna try to implement that I learned from.

Speaker 3 (22:09):
It's probably you know k Rich. Okay, So on the
flip side.

Speaker 1 (22:12):
Do you guys, do you see people younger than you
guys kind of like looking up to you and kind
of imitating kind of like what you guys are doing.

Speaker 3 (22:19):
I haven't seen that yet.

Speaker 7 (22:20):
It hasn't necessarily been like younger people.

Speaker 5 (22:22):
We see like a lot of clubs, Like a lot
of clubs will do stuff and then they'll just like
steal all our ideas, like.

Speaker 3 (22:28):
The skits and all that. Okay, I can see that,
like older promoters.

Speaker 7 (22:31):
Oh yeaheah.

Speaker 5 (22:32):
Like ticket giveaways, nobody in the city was well we
stole that from our guy house on. Shout out to John,
but nobody was doing ticket giveaways for events like for
real the way that we do it, like where you're
attacking people all that. Once we started doing the ticket
giveaways out of know where. Now they did a ticket
giveaway for the fres No Fair. I'm like, okay, so

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somebody seeing the skits, like we were the first people
to really do skits and then uh, shout out to
lou We seen Louis doing some skits for like yeah
and his stuff.

Speaker 7 (23:01):
You know.

Speaker 5 (23:02):
So I wouldn't say we really see like younger people,
but we kind of just see like we know you have.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
It's starting to pick up. The influence is definitely that
what you guys do, it's working for them.

Speaker 2 (23:12):
Let's try and see if we can do you guys
feel some sort of way when when you guys see that.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
Nay, I think it's one of those situations where it's
just like bound to happen, you know, like especially in
social media, like people see trends and everyone does the
same trend. You just do it in your own way
or whatever. You have your own people to follow you.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
For sure when they see it working especially.

Speaker 4 (23:29):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 (23:29):
You take the formula.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
Well, you guys have been doing a bunch of part
of like your own events, which I like that you
guys are not sticking to like oh we're only at
this club or this club. You guys are moving around different.
Who's coming up with these ideas? Who's the marketer for
this creativity of this is how we're gonna do?

Speaker 3 (23:52):
Like what's events?

Speaker 2 (23:53):
I like, like, let's talk about the is it iHeart
R and B or I love.

Speaker 3 (23:58):
Yeah, I'll let you tell that because because.

Speaker 2 (24:01):
This part these parties have been sold out. Yeah, this
has been.

Speaker 6 (24:05):
Like it was I love R and b Uh, Now
it is called the playlists. We've actually rebranded, but the
idea was actually Mike's and then we kind of bounced
the ideas off each other as far as like the planning.
But yeah, so it used to be allive R and
B and R and B curated event. We ended up
having like an issue with the venue that we're working with,

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so it got tricky.

Speaker 3 (24:30):
It got tricky.

Speaker 6 (24:31):
So now we've just kind of switched gears and yeah,
we move venues over the club Encore.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
Is the tricky part, like financial.

Speaker 5 (24:39):
No, we just I think at the end of the day,
we just had visions and things that we wanted for
the business, as any business man would, you know, and
we did a whole year and we me and him
we sat down with the idea. We had a whole
business plan for it before we did our first event,
and we said, okay, one year. Our one year plan
is to have a consistent once a month party and

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every first Saturday and just pack it out.

Speaker 7 (25:02):
That's our goal.

Speaker 5 (25:03):
And so once we accomplished that, you know, we went
to the venue owners and we told them like, hey,
we want to start doing this that the next you know,
and uh, they just weren't aligning with our goals and
what we've seen for the business to keep it growing,
and so, you know, we just decided to part ways,
and uh, we were going to move it to a
different venue, but then they just decided that they wanted

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to throw the same event on the same with the
same name, on the same day. So just to like
denounce any confusion, we were like, all right, let's just rebrand,
change the name.

Speaker 3 (25:36):
It's a good move.

Speaker 5 (25:37):
People aren't coming for the name of the event, They're
coming for the people that are behind it event exactly.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
So ohko, I was about to ask about that because
I saw people were I was confused when I saw
the isle of R and B. Then you then you
guys posted it's not us. Wait, wait, what's going on?

Speaker 5 (25:53):
Yeah, that's why we knew it would be confusing as
soon as they did it. And then even then, we
did two events a month at that venue, and so
we ran the I Love R and B page and
then he asked us to take over one of his pages.
So we did it to just kind of help him out,
because you know, we're really good on the social media
side of things. So we built that page up, got
it a whole bunch of followers from our team, and

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then he logged us out of that account and then
changed the name.

Speaker 7 (26:17):
To I Love R and B. Presdent.

Speaker 5 (26:18):
Oh yeah, we just spelled it different. Yeah, so many
ways of spell love and so. Like I said, we
just kind of just changed our thing, just rebranded and
just you know, wish them the best if they want
to keep I Love R and.

Speaker 7 (26:31):
B go ahead.

Speaker 2 (26:33):
Is that irritating though.

Speaker 7 (26:36):
It's a little disappointing.

Speaker 5 (26:37):
I would say that we wish that it could have
been on better terms.

Speaker 6 (26:41):
It's it's really disappointing for the simple fact is like, yeah,
we were throwing an event there, but we did a
lot more than a promoter with coming. Like we're there
hours early, setting up speakers, only had two speakers, We're
bringing in six, seven of our own speakers setting up,
we're setting up lights, like we're doing more than your average.

Speaker 5 (26:58):
Like her vote and higher bottom, helping them high bottle
girls business, help you.

Speaker 3 (27:02):
Know, help them logistics, like we just did so much.

Speaker 7 (27:04):
Helping them run their page.

Speaker 5 (27:05):
We got them hat, we got them their whole camera crew,
like yeah we did, we did.

Speaker 3 (27:09):
We did a lot, like a lot.

Speaker 6 (27:11):
So it is kind of like disappointing for the way
it kind of went after it. But you know, we
feel like God doesn't make mistakes. So is it difficult
working with like venue owners out here? Yeah, because I've
heard before from other promoters about how tough they can
be and how stingy they might be, And I'm just wondering,
are they just all kind of like that.

Speaker 5 (27:30):
It's just like the venue owners because like you said,
yank promoters, Yeah, come through the market and.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
So they're already putting up like a wall and judging you.
So you got to do everything you can. You almost
got to like impress them right here, show why you're different.

Speaker 6 (27:45):
Yeah, we will say the best one is Lewis by
far the Louis is good dude you've ever worked with.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
Yeah, I think I think he sees he sees your product.
That's way for sure.

Speaker 3 (27:58):
It's undeniable.

Speaker 2 (27:59):
I mean usually we save plugs for the end. But
since we're in this topic right now, I don't want
to like pass through it. Let's let's talk about playlists
tell us because it's gonna be out tomorrow, so if
they're listening to this before the actual date of the event,
let's speak on it.

Speaker 7 (28:14):
So the next event we have is December six. It's
called the list.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
I won't be here because that's my actual birthday out somewhere.

Speaker 5 (28:24):
It's every first Saturday, okay, next month okay, And basically
we're gonna be a Club Encore. You know, we're calling
this one to give back, So anybody that has our
Instagrams or knows who we are, hopefully we'll be able
to find us on this. But we're going to give
out round fifty to one hundred free tickets for people
just in the art of giving for Christmas, you know,

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and we don't keep our prices super low. We're gonna
have drink specials all that for the month only for
the month of December, so people, anybody that's free December six,
Club Encore.

Speaker 7 (28:54):
The playlist are R and B Event and wom That's
what it is.

Speaker 6 (28:58):
The playlist is super cool, just kind of based on
who we are. Like it's an event where like you're
gonna hear oldies. We're going through every era of R
and B where your eighties, your nineties, your two thousands,
your current and the greatest thing about that event it's
not just like it we're young, but it's not just
a young people crowd it's also older demographic too, so
everyone kind of gets the best of both worlds when
it comes to R and B. So I think that's
what really makes that event really really special, because I

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don't really think you see that too much in this
market when it comes to like an R and B event,
or like you have R and B events where they're
saying R and B but they're playing hip hop like
ten minutes after.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
You know, Okay, I'm glad you brought that up, because
we could get into this real quick. Sometimes the stigma
DJs fall into is it could be an R and
B night, but the crowd.

Speaker 3 (29:42):
Dictates where you play.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
It almost dictates what you have to do cuz you
stick with the R and B night. This is and
this is if it's not the right crowd, right. This
is if it's just people showed up at this event
and you're doing an R and B night and they're
just looking at you, like, come on, play the ratchet stuff. Yeah,
And sometimes the DJ kind of has to dictate his

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playlist to the crowd because you want to keep him
there and keep him happy.

Speaker 4 (30:09):
Of course, what what is it?

Speaker 2 (30:11):
Are you guys feeling the same thing at your parties?
Or are you sticking with your guns?

Speaker 6 (30:17):
We gotta, I think in the beginning because because of
who we were, we threw like parties like hip hop
thing in the beginning, like.

Speaker 3 (30:24):
People are like, oh, plase play some play.

Speaker 6 (30:26):
Some hip hop? Want to check my ass? Like what's
going on? So we never like were still stuck to
our guns. But we did hear we did hear that
quite a few times, but we never kind.

Speaker 5 (30:38):
Of think, really, it's all just part of the marketing
and it's not. I don't I don't blame the DJ
for if the crowd isn't lit and you have to
go into that bag to kind of get it to
where it needs to get. You know what, I think
I would blame more so the club or the social
media marketers because people are gonna believe what they see,
you know what I'm saying. So if you present this
as an all R and B event and that's what

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people pay and come to see, and I believe, you
stick to your guns. And you know that's up to
the club to work on their marketing for it. And
if you force your DJ to have to do that,
that's the club's fog, not the DJs.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
Let us stick with the music theme as DJs, You know,
you guys are curating these old school classic R and
B parties. How do you guys feel about today's music?
Is there any like new music that we need to
know about that? Because to me, sometimes I try to
play new music and the crowd is just not feeling
it at least not right now. Where is music getting listened? Like, well,

(31:39):
how are you guys consuming music? Because back in the
day's radio was the big thing. If they're playing it
on the radio, this is what's going to be played
at the clubs as well too in your generation. Well,
how are you guys consuming music? How do you guys
know what's the newest hottest tracks there?

Speaker 7 (31:56):
It is easier on TikTok.

Speaker 5 (32:00):
You on TikTok, you're gonna hear the hottest song. And
if you hear a song that you think sounds good,
just clicking to it and look at the analytics on
the song and that'll tell you if you should play
that song for a younger demographic.

Speaker 3 (32:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
But my thing with TikTok though, because as a DJ,
I do have to watch that as well too. But
when I do try to the clubs, only the hook works.
The part that they know at TikTok on TikTok works,
and then it's hard. I mean, you want to play
at least one verse a little bit of the song.
But that's what I've been seeing is they just wait

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for that part and then when it gets to the
actual song, they just stop. Like you guys are seeing
it took.

Speaker 6 (32:41):
I mean, that's even a little bit to our even
our DJing method, Like you know, we're only playing the
hook going to the next song, and that's just that's
just how they function, you know, Like, yeah, the tensive
span is super super.

Speaker 3 (32:56):
Crazy for sure.

Speaker 5 (32:58):
And then another thing for your earlier question about the
hip hop and the R and B. One thing that
we do do at our events, Like let's say we
really want to play like a hip hop song, right,
what we'll do is we'll drop the hip hop song
like just like a little bit, but then we'll a
cappella and then drop an R and B beat. Yeah yeah,
so it's like you still get your hip hop in there,

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but it's like it's R and B, so you're kind
of like cheating the system, you know what I mean.
It's like something that we like to do at R
and B events.

Speaker 2 (33:26):
As younger DJs. I'm curious to see if you guys
are going through the same things the veterans go through.
What what are some pet peeves you guys go through
at clubs? Like for us, it's the constant request, request,
Hey with the phone on the top of their heads.
That's new for like, you know, for a veteran DJ.

(33:50):
What are some pet peeves that you guys have in
this day and age.

Speaker 7 (33:55):
Definitely the request, the request, so far as that's number one.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
How do you guys handle it? Because because here's here's
my thing, I just say okay, but do I play?

Speaker 3 (34:05):
Maybe?

Speaker 4 (34:06):
I just say okay, So they leave.

Speaker 5 (34:09):
We try to keep a security guard by the at
all time so they don't even get request.

Speaker 7 (34:16):
But you know, how would you say?

Speaker 6 (34:21):
I mean, I mean, I don't I don't mind. I
don't mind it. Sometimes when it comes down to like
how you're asking me.

Speaker 1 (34:26):
Yeah, I think that's that's that's the best question. I
think request is always going to be a thing, like
just forever.

Speaker 6 (34:32):
But common courtesy isn't hard. Like you're saying, hey, like
could you play.

Speaker 3 (34:36):
This song for me?

Speaker 6 (34:36):
It's like okay, I'm gonna look it up, Like let
me see maybe I could work it in. If I can't,
I might be like, oh, i'll play it later and
never play.

Speaker 3 (34:43):
But then some people are.

Speaker 4 (34:44):
Like rude about it.

Speaker 6 (34:45):
You rude about it the next song, you know, Like
one of my biggest like pet pees is when like
they'll be like, if you play this song right now,
I promise you, the party is gonna go.

Speaker 3 (34:54):
Yeah, everyone's already dancing already.

Speaker 7 (35:00):
It's already already.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
I don't I don't know if you guys were at
this night that I did. M I A uh, someone
did that to me. They said you got to play
this song. And luckily it was towards the end of
the night, like one. It was already like one, one,
ten on the way, and so I played it and
the crowd kind of like stopped and I almost lost
the dance floor.

Speaker 4 (35:20):
So I stopped them. I said, look what you did.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
You could tell she felt, and there's like I'm sorry,
I said, you did this.

Speaker 4 (35:32):
Said okay with no music.

Speaker 3 (35:36):
Damn.

Speaker 6 (35:39):
A few months ago, this is like, uh, it was
like the Survive event so hip hop R and B.
It's about almost closing time, So closing time, I like
to keep it real. R and B doubt there's this
girl who just kept asking to like it's like Megan
is Stallion, but it was supposed to you know, bring
the love.

Speaker 3 (35:54):
Of the energy high. You know.

Speaker 6 (35:57):
She's like, I got a good song, and I'm like, okay,
I said, come to say come to Stays real quick,
and she's actually at this point, she's actually being rude.
So I was like over it, and I'm like, you
know what, I stopped. I stopped the music, gave her
the mic. I said, everyone, she wants to hear a
song that she feels right now.

Speaker 3 (36:14):
Everyone. I wanted to tell everyone what song she's gonna play,
and then I'm gonna play it. Gave the mic. She
froze up. Don't even know what to say.

Speaker 7 (36:22):
So, yeah, did he played the song? You played it?

Speaker 4 (36:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (36:26):
You played?

Speaker 2 (36:27):
What?

Speaker 3 (36:30):
Did it work?

Speaker 5 (36:32):
Everybody up there was just awkward. So I got to
go up there and calm him down.

Speaker 3 (36:36):
Come on, He's like, Bro, she's being so mean.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
Bro, I'm glad. I'm glad that the youngsters are going
through that. We go through as well too. How about
strategies of So when I was growing up learning the
DJ scene, there was a formula of how you open
how because I know It's kind of different these days
where some times where the there's only one DJ gets

(37:02):
hired so you can kind of control the night. But
if there's multiple, there's multiple DJs. Do you guys go
through where the opener burns?

Speaker 3 (37:10):
You guys?

Speaker 2 (37:10):
Do you guys know about the term burner?

Speaker 3 (37:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (37:12):
Where you get burned? Do you guys have a formula
as well? Too? Of mentally knowing it's still early in
the party, I'm not gonna play.

Speaker 3 (37:22):
Like the hits?

Speaker 2 (37:23):
How do you how do you guys go about the
formula of nightclubs?

Speaker 5 (37:26):
We call it like the roller coaster method. Yes, it's
just like think of it like a roller coaster. You're
gonna go up and go up and go up, and
then you're gonna hit your peak. Around twelve thirty, twelve
forty five, one o'clock is you're you're dead.

Speaker 7 (37:38):
You start bringing it home. One fifteen should be all
R and B.

Speaker 3 (37:41):
You gotta take them on a ride.

Speaker 7 (37:42):
Yeah, take them on a ride. That's literally what we say.

Speaker 5 (37:45):
And so we always like we actually do events with
four or five DJs in it set like before like
the playlist, Well, we'll tell them is like all right,
if you're nine to ten. This you shouldn't your BPM
shouldn't be hitting above. Oh you tell them yea, yeah,
we tell you.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
Maybe that maybe that's the way to go.

Speaker 6 (38:01):
I mean, we we with them, so okay, you know,
if you want to be here, we're not going to
force you. But this is how we would like you know,
like it because we understand how we want our event
to go.

Speaker 2 (38:11):
And if you have a problem, I think that you know,
we went through where you don't know who's opening for you,
and then sometimes you get the feeling of they're just
showing off. And I mean, I I don't have it
in the bigger picture. I've learned not to. It doesn't

(38:31):
bother me anymore. It used to when I was younger,
but it doesn't bother me anymore because I'll just play
it and I'll play the same songs he played my way,
you know, So it doesn't bother me too much. But
I guess I want to know if it bothered you
guys for us like throwing the event. Yeah, especially if
we've told you. But now you know, some DJs get
that little ego. You know, people's going crazy, say they
want to do too much. It's like all right, as

(38:52):
that's throwing the event. I was like, man, why are
you Why are you doing it like this? You're gonna
mess up our flow. But personally DJing.

Speaker 3 (38:59):
It doesn't really than me too much.

Speaker 6 (39:00):
Like if I'm at like a different club and there's openers,
even if they do I'm pretty big. I'm like, all right,
whatever you did, I can fix it or do it
my own.

Speaker 5 (39:08):
Order events if we have like songs that we need,
will literally print out do not playlist on the board
or the DJ to see and we text them before
they've been like hey you can't play.

Speaker 3 (39:19):
We won't.

Speaker 7 (39:20):
We won't have like fifteen songs.

Speaker 3 (39:21):
It would be like few three, few songs you want
to save. Yeah, email thread.

Speaker 2 (39:26):
Yeah, I just want to hear the thought, the thought
behind that. How come how come you pick these like
don't play?

Speaker 6 (39:32):
Men want to save them time, even on the DJ level,
even on a business level, like you don't want to
tire out your crowd too early.

Speaker 3 (39:42):
Drinks.

Speaker 6 (39:42):
You know, our success is on people being there having
a good time, but also the venues being able to
produce bar sales.

Speaker 3 (39:48):
So it's like, yeah, just off you know how they
want them to work? Yeah, they got a drink. You
don't want they can be you know, one hundred the
whole time exactly.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
You know what I've been enjoying about this this podcast
episode is the terms, the words they use to describe
certain things roller coaster, What do you think I'm gonna say?
It's the things that we always talking about that like
how I grew up learning and they're actually saying the same.

Speaker 3 (40:14):
Term, same terminology. Well, clearly they're successful.

Speaker 2 (40:17):
So so let's let's wrap it up with a couple
of things like, for example, the crew Little Tunes or
is it just YouTube? Do you guys have a team?
Can people join?

Speaker 3 (40:28):
Listen to good questions?

Speaker 2 (40:30):
Good questions because back in my days, we promoted people
to join our crew, and at one point we had
an office we were called twenty one Excel Events Company.
We had an office where we had month weekly meetings
where where there was like fifty sixty of us and
we would talk about the month's events. How are you?

(40:54):
How is Litty Tunes? Is Are you guys becoming a
full grown team now? Or is it just YouTube?

Speaker 3 (40:59):
Still? For the main part is just us.

Speaker 6 (41:04):
We've had a lot of people ask to be Liddy Tunes,
but I don't think we've came across anyone who matches
our like worth, ethic and drive. But as far as
like our team, shout out to our girl. Victoria is
on social media manager, she handles well, honestly, she she's
all the above.

Speaker 3 (41:20):
Man.

Speaker 6 (41:21):
She has social media, she does a lot. She's like
hr personnel.

Speaker 7 (41:25):
Got out to our dog Neil.

Speaker 3 (41:26):
Yeah we have Neil.

Speaker 4 (41:27):
We have like people on our team.

Speaker 6 (41:28):
But you know Victoria's all plays a big part in
our success too as well.

Speaker 3 (41:33):
Yeah, she's great.

Speaker 5 (41:34):
We got we got her, we got Neil. We got
my brother Jody. Yeah, he's like our main security. We
got I would say Dre but he hated on this
on Saturday. But you know we have we do. As
far as like on the realm of like where we are,
are we looking for more promoters and like EJS, probably not.

(41:55):
You could always hit u stuff if anybody want to
be Team Liddy, like, we're gonna check you out, see
what you do. Sat out our dog too easy. He
just moved back. He moved to Virginia. But he was
almost like, uh litty too easy, you know, And we
brought him open arms because he was a good DJ.
So we're always open to like different DJs promoters joining
us and all that, But as far as that, we're

(42:16):
not really looking for that. It's more so like the
people under us to help us to social media marketing, videography,
videographer's cameraman, and people who are good at like being
behind the camera. I think we look for those type
of people to join the team.

Speaker 2 (42:29):
You're surrounding yourself with the right people that fit your
stuff exactly. But I think basically Victoria runs runs the whole.

Speaker 7 (42:38):
Yeah, yeah, that's that's the money right there.

Speaker 3 (42:41):
Now do you guys?

Speaker 1 (42:42):
Do you guys eventually want to get into throwing your
own shows and concerts?

Speaker 3 (42:46):
Is that kind of the next move?

Speaker 5 (42:47):
Yes, we just I don't know if you heard of
Hot Girl Halloween. Yeah, that's DJ k Rich's event, but
swly but surely we're going to start getting more involved
into that one and then with our the Playlist event.
I do want to throw a big R and B festival.
I don't know what month we're going to do it
in or how we're going to do it, and we're
still kind of fine tuning it, and I want to

(43:10):
have a little backing behind mental health involved with it too,
But yeah, we want to throw one R and B
event and one Halloween event a year, and you know,
and then you're all your clubs in between and all
the clubs in between.

Speaker 2 (43:23):
All Right, I'm gonna this is gonna be my last
question as the younger DJs, what advice or what do
you see the older DJs do that kind of like
they shouldn't be doing that or or they should start
doing this if they're still in the game. So if

(43:44):
you would like give me advice for example, okay, like
what should either I should start doing or stop doing?

Speaker 6 (43:55):
I would say taking advantage of TikTok, you know, learning
making your algorithm be purely based on what you know
the crowd. Like I say, if I'm just stortly talking
to your DJing at m I A. Yeah, literally going
on TikTok and seeing other DJs and similar clubs and
what they're playing and what's actually really hitting. I think
getting into that mashup era is like one of the

(44:15):
biggest things to also like be like, oh my.

Speaker 4 (44:17):
Gosh, who's this DJ?

Speaker 6 (44:18):
He just played it also too, I mean it's kind
of hardt tax, but also still getting into that party
scene and you know, going to other clubs just experience
people and even got to do much, but you know,
also still being able to relate to the youth. Once
you relate to the youth, then they'll also see you
and notice you.

Speaker 5 (44:35):
And then I would say my advice will be being
more in front of the camera like that big one.
And it's okay, like with the with the realm and
the age of social media and where it's at now,
like people need something to relate to. And so for
a lot of the current DJs that are out there now,
they just they're used to just putting up a flyer
with your face on it.

Speaker 7 (44:53):
Anythink that's gonna get to notice.

Speaker 5 (44:55):
But it's not like Jainly, it's the the like literally
we just make a talk video, just get a camera
and just talk about what you already see on the flyer,
you know. And it seems so simple, but it gives
the people something to relate to and like okay, like
oh he's put up another post and another post, and
you know, just do more stuff to where people see
your face instead of it is just like oh, it's

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just a flyer.

Speaker 7 (45:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (45:20):
I mean I recently, because I don't usually do this,
but I recently posted the tripod m I a facing
me and then I cut off just little pieces of
my set and it's like at thirteenth thout like, wa,
why are people commenting liking all these what it is?
So I'm like, oh man, this but I'm on the

(45:43):
by the way, I'm on my retirement state. I think
that's great for the people that are still kind of
like in their thirties that are are still are still going,
and those are some that I think.

Speaker 3 (45:53):
That's great advice for sure.

Speaker 2 (45:55):
For sure. All right, let's wrap it up with some plugs.

Speaker 3 (45:57):
Plugs social media media.

Speaker 2 (46:00):
Parties coming up.

Speaker 7 (46:02):
Ask you a question.

Speaker 5 (46:02):
Yeah, I want to ask both of you guys a question. Okay,
what was your guys's what do you feel like your
guys biggest reasoning was for like thinking of bringing us
on to the show?

Speaker 7 (46:12):
Now, what did you guys say it was?

Speaker 1 (46:15):
I think for us is we like to highlight people
in the town that are doing things. That's kind of
like the people that like do we'd like to bring in.
And that's from all aspects because we've had restaurant owners
of other radio DJSU and now promoters. So I think
that's kind of like like Magic kind of told me
about you guys, and what you guys are doing and
all the noise that you're making, and I had to
like watch you guys and follow you guys.

Speaker 3 (46:36):
And I was like, oh, yeah, we need we need
these dudes in here.

Speaker 2 (46:39):
Mine would be an ongoing conversation with DJ Cruse, with
with Jizo here at the radio station. We always talk
about who's who's doing it right. Yeah, because even DJing
to promoting clubs, when I saw how you guys were working,
I told him, I said, these guys are doing your right.

(47:00):
So I wanted to get you guys on to kind
of get some insight of the strategies the mindset which
we got today. So I wanted to highlight people that
were actually doing it the right way DJing promoting clubs.

Speaker 6 (47:14):
So yeah, and my last question, Yeah, I can take
too much time, but as DJs and veterans, what advice
would you give to younger DJs as far as wanting
to get better and you know, kind of like thrive
in that realm of just DJing.

Speaker 2 (47:27):
I mean, so, I guess I'm I'm going to answer
this because so for me was it's if you guys
are already already doing it by going to the parties
and stuff, but also listening to what works. So if
you see something that works, kind of why did that work?
Understand like why certain music is played at certain times,

(47:50):
which I think you guys got ahold of. But that
would be my thing is have someone to kind of
listen to and because it will teach you both ways.
Sometimes will be like I'm not doing that because.

Speaker 3 (48:01):
That what not to do or what to do.

Speaker 2 (48:04):
Yeah, so that would be my advice. It's just you
guys are kind of doing it already by going to parties.
We're kind of paying attention to the DJ what they're
doing right, And uh yeah, that would be my advice.

Speaker 6 (48:15):
Last one, last one, Yeah, just keep it going. What
record what's your best record pool? Because I am going
through record pools right now. I found one I kind
of liked, But what would be your like go to
record pool?

Speaker 2 (48:26):
So I'm biased on this one because I'm I'm I
work with these guys called my m P three pool
dot com, So my m P three pool those are
those are my guys. But there's so many good ones
right now. Shouts out to the Headliner Music Club. I
think that's a good one too. But then there's the
classic DJ City and all that stuff. But the two
that that are on top of my list is the

(48:48):
my MP three Pool and Headliner Music Club.

Speaker 3 (48:52):
Those those follow them on YouTube. I think they got
like a podcast.

Speaker 2 (48:55):
Yeah right, yeah, they're they're not like to consider. I'm
actually because those are my former co We always used
to work at the radio station in La Oh, So
that's how I know. The Headliner Music Club.

Speaker 3 (49:06):
Guys, who is that Eric Deluxe.

Speaker 2 (49:09):
Scratchy used to be in party crew and stuff, so
shouts out to them. Yeah, those are probably the two
top ones. Are you on any right now?

Speaker 3 (49:18):
I was supreme. I was like all three of them,
you know.

Speaker 6 (49:20):
But I think right now that I found that I
really liked is it's called DJ Pool Record. Yeah, and
it has a huge, huge catalog and a lot of
edits too. I think now kind of where like music
is going. A lot of edits is really really good.
So that's where I grabbed a lot from.

Speaker 2 (49:34):
Yeah, I mean, I think go with the ones that
you kind of enjoy. But sometimes I'll hear, like the
thing that I was just talking about, I'll go to
a party and hear a DJ play a certain mix
a remix, and then oh I got it at this
three another pool and so man, I might have to go.

Speaker 4 (49:55):
Literally by the way.

Speaker 2 (49:57):
Just on the side note, did I see you post
that you got a new controller? Yeah, I think we
have the same one. I just got that one. How
are you enjoying that?

Speaker 6 (50:08):
I had an SR huge old thing and it was cool,
but it was a dinosaur so the like way smoother
and it's portable, light weight, but packs of punch.

Speaker 2 (50:19):
Speaking of that, I mean, we're not there's no time
living on this. But I know when I first met
you you were using a different program, nothing better. I
was actually, well, no, because the reason why I bring
it up is DJ should use what they're comfortable with.
But at the same time, oh, I guess this is

(50:40):
another good advice because another DJ from another DJ at
a party I wanted to put his own controller because
they didn't know how to use the controller that was there, right,
But I put the guy aside and I said, we'll
switch it out for yours. But you really need to
learn everything because you never know what you're gonna get

(51:04):
put in front of. And if you can't put your
own stuff, will you still be able to perform? So
learn every everything that's out there. Even me too with
the CDJs, I had to like relearn all these new
things so that that would be advice. But I bring
up the program because again same thing be use what

(51:24):
you're used to and what you're good at. But what
if it gets to the point where like we don't
run this program?

Speaker 3 (51:31):
They want to Yeah, and they're.

Speaker 2 (51:32):
Sort of like I call it club standards. Clubs sort
of have like, oh, this is our equipment. Did you
ever are you in Serado? Now a ski line?

Speaker 6 (51:42):
You were there for that reburse So when I first
started djaying and I want to, I just looked up
a DJ software. Now, virtual DJ was the first thing
I seen, and I used it and I got familiar
with it and it was really really compatible. I've seen
Serato Miani looks so complicated, and virtual DJ was working
and everyone was telling me like it's Rotto's industry standard.

Speaker 3 (52:01):
You gotta you can't use it.

Speaker 6 (52:02):
It's like it's not gonna work with club controllers, and
I'm like okay, But then it was, and I think
as technology involved, that's when stuff started becoming more compatible.

Speaker 3 (52:11):
So virtual DJ working.

Speaker 2 (52:12):
And working with at that am I even trying.

Speaker 6 (52:15):
It out so that day, that day, that is how
I actually finally was like, you know what, I'm done
with virtual DJs. When I tried to connect to the
CDJs am I and it was just tweaking, and I
felt so embarrassed, and I said, I'm never going to
be embarrassed again.

Speaker 3 (52:27):
Tried.

Speaker 6 (52:27):
After that, I went on YouTube and I taught myself
how to fully use Serrado, the shortcuts and everything.

Speaker 2 (52:32):
So since then I've.

Speaker 6 (52:33):
Been using Serato and I actually like it way more
better than it's it's yeah, it ten times better.

Speaker 7 (52:37):
It is better than virtual.

Speaker 4 (52:38):
Wait, wait, you've moved on.

Speaker 7 (52:42):
Because he taught me out of DJ so we was
both on virtue.

Speaker 3 (52:45):
Yeah, yeah, you know.

Speaker 2 (52:46):
So right now with me, I'm trying to learn record
box just because everyone's using the sticks where you don't
bring a laptop anymore. You just want to us. So
I want to learn that just in case I'm not
gonna moved fully to it, but I just in case,
so I'm still even learning how to do that. Yeah,
the whole record boxes.

Speaker 7 (53:06):
Somebody to do record box.

Speaker 5 (53:07):
I didn't like it though, because finding your song is
like it feels extra.

Speaker 6 (53:12):
It's a little bit it's a little bit more of
like a prepared type of thing.

Speaker 3 (53:17):
Folders and and everything.

Speaker 2 (53:18):
Yeah, I think if it's a set set show, this
is what I'm gonna play from beginning to end.

Speaker 6 (53:22):
It's fine, fine ship. But being on the fly, and
you know, it's I.

Speaker 2 (53:27):
Forgot to bring this up. There's just so many.

Speaker 4 (53:28):
Things going for you guys.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
There was a viral video that kept showing up on
my feed of a house party and someone was playing
Miley Cyrus at this mansion party?

Speaker 3 (53:44):
Was that you guys?

Speaker 4 (53:47):
It was this video was going viral.

Speaker 2 (53:49):
H but people were saying that bad things happened.

Speaker 4 (53:52):
Well, can you gus a little bit about.

Speaker 3 (53:54):
That little bit? I mean, bro, it was so random.

Speaker 6 (53:56):
I was just chilling at home and I got a
cause like, hey, bro, can you DJ my man?

Speaker 3 (54:00):
And I'm like, well, you're gonna have security? Yeah, man,
of course, I'm like okay.

Speaker 6 (54:05):
So he booked me hugest house, not the hugest house,
but it was a super fat house here.

Speaker 3 (54:12):
Yeah, it's over there by.

Speaker 6 (54:13):
Like what ninety nine off of Herndon and super big house.

Speaker 3 (54:20):
Bro. When I tell you it was like six seven
hundred kids. Yeah, it was crazy.

Speaker 6 (54:25):
So I was like when I was there, I was like,
oh yeah, like this is going to be like a
crazy party. So I mean, I'm playing songs, is going crazy.
It lasted like two three hours, maybe like two and
a half and then it got back down.

Speaker 3 (54:34):
Not bad, but yeah, it was.

Speaker 7 (54:35):
It was insane, comment comments, comment.

Speaker 3 (54:41):
It looked like it was. But the house was huge.

Speaker 6 (54:44):
It was just happened to be where I was, you know,
So that.

Speaker 2 (54:47):
Was a cool I mean, like I said, I saw
the video people commenting about it, I was like, again,
these guys are doing.

Speaker 4 (54:53):
The right exactly. I think we forgot to plug.

Speaker 2 (54:56):
The any more parties or in your social media.

Speaker 5 (55:00):
My social media, I go by Lyddy, l I, t
t y Underscore, Mike m I k E, Next Parties
and now and that's my social media across the board everywhere,
TikTok everything, next parties we have coming up.

Speaker 7 (55:14):
We got the oh say your Name and Oh.

Speaker 6 (55:16):
I Am dj Alex on all platforms as well. We
have Liddy underscore tunes and.

Speaker 7 (55:20):
Lyddi Underscore tunes.

Speaker 5 (55:21):
And then obviously we got the playlist five five to
nine parties we got coming up. Obviously we got the
playlist five five to nine coming up. That's gonna be
First Saturday, every first Saturday. That's what we're focused on.
That's what we're pushing. We're always going to have some
lady tunes random pop ups for so for any pop
up events where we're doing the hip hop, follow lyddy
underscore tunes. But as far as right now, all we

(55:44):
got is the playlist five five nine and we're gonna
run that up for the next week.

Speaker 3 (55:47):
We are working on bringing out an artist.

Speaker 6 (55:49):
Oh shit, I don't want to say don't want to
see it, don't want to say too soon.

Speaker 3 (55:53):
But it's gonna be big on if everything works out
the way. It coming real soon, possibly a.

Speaker 5 (55:59):
Couple of months. You gotta let the rain because you
want to get rained out right, you know. We're gonna
uh definitely have a big as soon as that rain
lets up.

Speaker 3 (56:08):
So you're thinking of like an outside event.

Speaker 7 (56:10):
We thought we.

Speaker 3 (56:11):
Literally about it.

Speaker 5 (56:12):
Yeah, try to bring out like a thousand, but we're
still thinking logistically.

Speaker 6 (56:17):
It need to make sense and see what works. You
never been out here before, so that's why we're like
super excited about it.

Speaker 2 (56:24):
Okay, Well, as for me, you guys can always come
to me hit me up any time for any advice
or any questions you guys might have about parties. I
don't know if I'm gonna have the right answers. And
I appreciate you guys just stopping by and sharing some
of your knowledge to the masses. Continued success, Happy belated

(56:44):
bir Is your birthday past already?

Speaker 7 (56:46):
Tomorrow?

Speaker 4 (56:46):
Tomorrow, there you go.

Speaker 2 (56:49):
So I will just on the podcast, and yeah, thank
you guys for being here.

Speaker 7 (56:57):
It's a blessing. Thank you guys for having us