How many songs can YOU name?

So I'm making this mix for an upcoming Free House music picnic hosted by the GETO DJz, Inc. and I'm making a playlist for the vendor table.  I get mostly through it and there is this song that I know but I've never known the title of the song or the artist.  I start to realize that it's like the for most of the songs that I play that are either mislabeled or a simple name has been placed on the file.  You see, the original DJ world was always steeped in mystery with most DJ's keeping their prized possessions, their music collection, private and secluded from prying eyes so that they would have the best collection.  Many times if you found a rare gem of a track you would black out the label so that other DJ's wouldn't know that name of the track.  In my case I had tons of music I inherited from other DJ's and another ton of music that was white labels.  (White Labels are promo copies of music that is soon to be released but had a preliminary promotional release with a simple white label and no cover art.)  I began to realize that the general public has this issue as well as I remembered one of my favorite songs in High School being The Who's "Baba O'Riley" which no one knew that was the title because we always called it "Teenaged Wasteland" over the years.  So the challenge is whether you can name all your favorite songs or not.  While you do that listen to my mix.

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Finding out New Old things...

Here's the thing:  Just when you think you know everything you find out you don't know squat.  I was talking to DJ Clent about his release on my label Halsted Street Entertainment and we were going over our marketing plan.  Now being the smartass that I am I figure that I know all the places to send information and that I have it handled.  Out of the blue Clent asks if I know about www.residentadvisor.net and I have to say I had never, ever heard of it.  The more I think I know the more I don't.

So I finally go to the site to check out this lead.  All of the DJ's I respect have listings there already so I decide to list my label.  Well to list a label you have to have a DJ that is known to have recorded for that label.  But then you need to list recordings by that DJ.  Then you need to tote that and lift this.  It was crazy and I spent 4 hours just trying to list HSE.  After I was done I had to list myself and another guy just to get to the page that allowed me to list the label.  Then when I found Clent's page for his DJ chart I see three of the songs on the album already listed.  WTF, Chuck!?! Man, this crap is crazy.

Here is a taste of two of the songs on that release.  I spliced in a short interview Clent did about how he got started between the two songs.

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