Erica Ying Chai (Taipei, Taiwan) has DJed at many events and clubs in Taiwan. She has been also happily attending lindy hop, blues, and balboa events since 2016. Her DJ style reflects her understanding of the music and the dance from the standpoints of both jazz lover and dancer. Erica's Favorite artists include Duke, Count, The Lionel Hampton, Ella, Lester and Young, Teddy Wilson. She will be sharing her collection primarily consists of traditional jazz from the late 1930 to late 1940's at Lindygroov
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Drew Fansler (Los Angeles) began Lindy Hopping in 1998 in his native Chicago and DJing in 2001 and has gone onto live and be involved in the Lindy Hop communities of Minneapolis and Nashville. Returning from a recent hiatus, he is excited to be venturing back into the DJ booth at LindyGroove. He has taken his DJing exploits from coast to coast to events such as DCLX, Cleveland Exchange, Music City Mini Camp, Midwest Lindyfest, Showdown, Windy City Lindy Exchange, Kansas City Lindy Exchange, Orlando Lindy Exchange, and the Binge in addition to being a fixture at University of Chicago's Java Jive, Chicago's Studio X and Fizz, and Late Night Swing at Tapestry in Minneapolis. As part of the Chicago Swing Dance Society, he art directed and helped co-produce the album Struttin' With Yoko by Yoko Noge and the Jazz Me Blues Band in 2001. Drew's foremost interest in jazz has long been the music of Kansas City. but he plays from a collection ranging from McKinney's Cotton Pickers to Oscar Peterson.
Hurley Francois (Orlando) enjoys listening to "hot jazz" music, and those old syncopated rhythms. He has been gradually building his collection of swing music, and likes to play whatever he thinks will keep people dancing- whether it's chunky, up-tempo, or even contemporary swing. Some of his favorite artists include the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, Chick Webb, Django Reinhardt, Mildred Bailey, Muggsy Spanier, Ella Fitzgerald, Bill Coleman, Count Basie, Fats Waller (of course), Bob Crosby, as well as Wingy Manone. His love for both the music and dance will make him an exciting DJ that dancers will appreciate.
Julius Yang is perceived to know a lot about jazz. We regret to inform you that it is all book learning. He does not listen to his miniscule jazz collection nearly enough. When he DJs you and he will undertake a voyage of discovery together because he doesn't know what the hell he's playing either.
One thing worth noting is that 1,000 albums -- unlike, say,1,000 vacation spots -- is something quite a few people can dowithout a lot of stress. It basically works out to 25 recordsper year for 40 years. I think if you have pretty varied tastesa reasonable collection is more like 2,000 titles -- somethingthat can easily be done without getting into arcana or merelygood product. My own tastes exclude classical music, which isthe reason why, for example, last time I checked John Rockwellhas twice as many records as Robert Christgau. Moon lists a lotof classical records, but I still have no interest in goingthere. You may feel the same about jazz or country or hip-hop,but they are all integral parts of my experience.
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