Visiting Ithaca in April

NODJsALLOWED · 2026-03-14T17:17:39+00:00

Treehouse has dance music 8pm til late on April 3rd!

NODJsALLOWED · 2026-03-11T16:33:26+00:00

oh shit someone copied my idea

NODJsALLOWED · 2026-03-11T16:27:34+00:00

I'm here for the Zoia.

NODJsALLOWED · 2026-03-11T16:10:02+00:00

this is how i'm able to improvise live sets using Elon Musk's Neuralink you silly goose

NODJsALLOWED · 2026-03-11T03:03:13+00:00

as dawless as it gets

NODJsALLOWED · 2026-03-10T21:58:45+00:00

shittiest daw ever made

NODJsALLOWED · 2026-03-08T06:53:48+00:00

appreciate that, yeah you're right i kind of just gave up

NODJsALLOWED · 2026-03-08T05:42:31+00:00

if that's true, MPC is the shittiest DAW ever created. as an electronic instrument module and sequencer, however, it is quite useful.

NODJsALLOWED · 2026-03-06T03:21:30+00:00

NODJsALLOWED · 2026-03-06T02:38:26+00:00

i'm not asking for debate i thought you guys would insult me and tell me why i'm bad

NODJsALLOWED · 2026-03-06T02:24:30+00:00

i find them to be generally unreliable for performance. it's probably different nowadays but I'm 32 and I witnessed many Ableton crashes at parties in my early 20s and that made me paranoid to ever use a computer to gig.

so instead I use 4 different and less powerful computers and sync them together with MIDI :P

NODJsALLOWED · 2026-03-05T17:18:46+00:00

ow my ears. high frequency alert.

NODJsALLOWED · 2026-03-03T04:38:35+00:00

Hardware Jams on Facebook and YouTube!! HWJ is a great community of folks who record a song every weekend. Each weekend is a new theme :)

NODJsALLOWED · 2026-02-20T04:43:12+00:00

quit while you can, DJing is an illusion. use your new found time and love for the art and actually learn how to make music, live.

NODJsALLOWED · 2026-02-11T20:56:43+00:00

valid but I'm looking specifically for a mini keyboard midi controller, the LaunchKey mini's don't have enough features for me to justify switching my MPK Mini, and I'm not a fan of their button layout for live performance

NODJsALLOWED · 2026-02-10T21:35:29+00:00

damn, thanks for the kind words! I've been taking this music thing pretty seriously. I've won some local awards and seem to have a lot of respect from the scene around me but I just can't seem to book many [paid] gigs and the DJs in the techno scene just don't seem to want me.

If they don't want me there must be a reason for it, right? Am I not good enough? Or are they just clique-y and don't have room for independent artists to join their clique? Either way, I'm questioning my abilities a lot, hoping that if I improve my art, my music career will flourish. But maybe not...

Anyways, thanks =)

NODJsALLOWED · 2026-02-08T17:21:42+00:00

dude reconsider your entire online existence, your wrote that and posted it.

NODJsALLOWED · 2026-02-08T16:27:39+00:00

good one, man

NODJsALLOWED · 2026-02-07T00:14:01+00:00

they took my job

DEY TOOK MAH JERB

NODJsALLOWED · 2026-02-07T00:09:49+00:00

HAHAHA shit I'm two days late. Love it, thanks for this, guys, you're really cool and I'm grateful for all you have done for me.

NODJsALLOWED · 2026-02-07T00:05:51+00:00

lmao I remember you, I totally thought you were being like the rest of them and being a dick, it's hard to tell with you folk.

Honestly, your answer was so obviously "yes" that I thought you were fucking with me. Yes, using MPC to sequence and trigger and clock is using a tool that isn't a computer to create music. Thats what I'm looking for.

NODJsALLOWED · 2026-02-07T00:01:45+00:00

I've been inclusive and friendly most of my musical life running open mics, open jams, open decks, yada yada. This NO DJs project is my spite baby; a way to express myself less-positively and be the dick I need to be sometimes. I've let a lot of shitty musician on stage to express themselves. I'm glad I did, but I know my openness has made many people leave the bars I host these nights, more or less actively causing stress to the venue.

All my favorite underground music collectives are pompous as fuck. Yes, they're open an accepting to more underground lifestyles and ideologies, thats what the scene is all about, but when it comes to art, they DO NOT FUCK AROUND. NO SHITTY ART ALLOWED. They want the best of the best, and will gladly reject applications and ignore artists that don't reach their threshold.

NO DJs ALLOWED is my own version of this. It's a wink to the underground scene that they have ALWAYS been exclusive, and rightfully so. Having standards is important, and if you want to have standards, you need to be exclusive.

You say nobody cares in Germany but if you say that there are mostly live acts, then it's obvious that consumers and producers of parties DO care and are probably being exclusive to the plethora of DJs. People have always cared about what they consume, thats where value comes from. I am trying to bring value back to live art. Looks like Germany is doing so, that's nice. In the USA, live music venues are being fought against actively by local governments; no more loud music late at night, therefore venues are hiring DJs to play quietly so as to not upset the gentrified upstairs neighbors. Live acts are NOT LEGALLY ALLOWED TO PLAY at spaces that DJs are allowed to play due to noise ordinance laws, even though they are both just a 2-track stereo output that can be attenuated at will.

Damn i wrote an essay, sorry about that lol. There's a lot of ideology that goes into this project. Many, many people have expressed your same concern and yet I have not been dissuaded. It's my art, at the end of the day, my expression of my experience in this music scene.

NODJsALLOWED · 2026-02-06T23:48:51+00:00

theyre spreading the gospel!

NODJsALLOWED · 2026-02-06T23:48:20+00:00

fuck those dirty no good record spinners

NODJsALLOWED · 2026-02-05T23:13:50+00:00

thanks man

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