Pecha Kucha Volume 8

Tonight I’m presenting at volume 8 of the always entertaining Champaign PechaKucha series. If you have never heard of PK, it’s a series of presentations about really any subject someone wants to present about.

The only catch is everyone must use 20 slides, and each slide is only on the screen for 20 seconds. And trust, me, after practicing my presentation, that timeframe gets you really focused on what information is crucial, and what information should be cut.

Anyhow, if you couldn’t already guess, I’m presenting about my vinyl collection. And if you’re on this web page right now because you just listened to my presentation, then welcome to my web site! I hope I did alright tonight.

If you’re here for some other reason, I’ll try to get a copy of my presentation posted up so you can see what the PK attendees saw.

And if you’ve somehow stumbled onto my web site in the small window of time between this blog posting and my presentation, don’t spoil anything for people attending!

These are just some of the records that I’m talking about tonight. I figured while talking about records and looking them is all fine and good, eventually we need to hear the things! So here are YouTube links to just a few of the highlights including The Dick Cheney record, the first house record ever made, and the Barack Obama record. Enjoy!

Here is DJ Shadow’s remix of Radiohead’s “The Gloaming” aka the Dick Cheney Record

Here is Mach’s “On and On” remix. It is widely considered to the be the first house record.

Now it’s all good and fine to just listen to that record by itself, but if you want to see what that Mach record can do in the hand of a master house DJ, check out this party including when the power goes out. The Mach remix comes in at about 1:01: