GearWire interviews DJ Nicci C

Technics 1200s--Chatting With DJ Nicci C
September 06, 2007


Chicago-based DJ Nicci C hosts an online show Nic@Nine on Myspace every Wednesday and Friday nights at 9 p.m. Her focus is Latin music and the aim is to promote up and coming artists as well has have remixes from hot DJs from around the globe.

Nicci C started spinning in much the same way many DJs do--at friends' parties and houses.

"I love music--its huge in my family, and I was looking to make my way," she says. "One thing lead to another and since at the time there were only a couple females doing it , it helped me get gigs. My focus is old skool house music with latin beats."

She is also a proponent of turntables and says it is more than just sound--it is look and vibe.

"Some events want that look--you spinning you know?" says C "Personally I enjoy it-- I LOVE VINYL. As far as drawbacks of vinyl, the beats of both records need to be heard as one so its all in the technique and balance and if you don't master that the end product is going to be...well, not good..it takes skill...perhaps that's why not as many do it today as they did 20 years ago."

She is partial to Technics 1200 turntables.

These are, of course, the turntables (first released in 1972 and intended for the home stereo) that DJs everywhere revere. There have been numerous versions of 1200s including the SL-1200MK2. If you talk to DJs one thing you always hear about these tables is "they don't break."

You can also control the pitch and have a magnetic direct drive. You can scratch like a mother on these.

You can find out the whole history of the 1200 at SL-1200.com. [5].It is a comprehensive history. For more on where to find parts for the turntables go to 1200s.com [6].

When it comes to DJ software you cannot have much of a conversation with Nicci C--She doesn't use any.

"I prefer doing without," she says "To me if it ain't broke don't try to fix it."

Upcoming plans include working on a show for her sister, a fashion designer, and is in talks about having an big event with DJs, poets, designers and others.


Link to interview with GearWire.com

http://www.gearwire.com/djniccic-turntables.html

DJ Nicci C on Myspace.com/livewithnicci

THE BORINQUENEERS

PBS BROADCAST PREMIERE: JUNE 7 th, 2007 – 8-9:30 PM
ON WMFE – CHANNEL 24 IN ORLANDO , FLORIDA

"THE BORINQUENEERS " a documentary on the history of the all-Puerto Rican 65 th Infantry Regiment

TO BE BROADCAST ON MOST PBS STATIONS BEGINNING AUGUST, 2007

Written, produced and directed by NALIP Member Noemi Figueroa Soulet
Co-Producer/Director - NALIP Member Raquel Ortiz
Editor/Composer - NALIP Member Miguel Picker
Consulting Producer - Patricia Garcia-Rios

This compelling film chronicles the never-before-told story of the Puerto Rican 65th Infantry Regiment, the only all-Hispanic unit in U.S. Army history. Through the vivid testimony of the regiment's veterans and rare archival footage, the film traces the unique experience of the Borinqueneers, culminating with their impressive performance during the Korean War. In the fall of 1952, though, the fate of the regiment would take a dramatic turn when more than 100 of its soldiers were arrested.


Narrated by Hector Elizondo

We ARE a diverse group....

Hispanics (Or Latinos for those who prefer it ) are a diverse group, indeed we are, uniting people from numerous ethnicities and races all under a single language: Spanish. Ever since we first colonized the Americas during the Age of Discovery, the beauty of our culture has deluged nations everywhere. Our culture is a culture rooted deep in tradition but constantly open to new ideas. Hispanic heritage is important to everyone, regardless of whether or not a person is hispanic, because hispanics have made - -and will continue to make - -numerous contributions to our society.

One of the reasons why hispanics are so significant is because we increase ethnic diversity within the United States. Hispanics are the largest minority group in America, constituting 17.6% of the total US population (US CENSUS: 2000). From coast to coast, we add something special to neighborhoods everywhere with our music, food, and tongue. Without us, many communities would lack the richness that hispanics, we, have worked so hard to instill.

Historically, hispanics have contributed much to the world. Famous hispanics include Severo Ochoa, Nobel Prize winner in 1959 for medicine; Tito Puente, one of the most beloved musicians of all time; Pablo Picasso, talented sculptor and painter; María Irene Fornés, a Cuban American playwright; Salvador Dalí, pioneer painter; Puerto Rican baseball player, Roberto Clemente; Celia Cruz, renowned salsa singer; and many, many, many more famous Hispanics. Without hispanics, there would be less of the poets, scientists, explorers, thinkers, and politicians that humanity needs to function.

Hispanic heritage should be important to everyone because hispanics have enriched our country and contributed so much. Hispanic heritage is important to all of us because it has helped establish the beautiful country that we live in today.

I dare someone to disagree!

I get high on Life ... by DJ Nicci C

I get high on LIFE!

Why? ...its safer..last longer ...and no deadly side affects!...I love it!!!

Years ago as a young woman entering this world on her own I pondered on a lot of things..like, why did people drink themselves drunk to feel good , use other alternatives to get high.

Just don't get it, I thank God for looking out for me though, I too could have easily fallen into the abyss of "synthetic highs syndrome", I enjoy life...I enjoy feeling good about life, waking up knowing I have another day to accomplish my goals, see my friends and family, dance to Celia Cruz, look at a sunrise, smell the flowers...life is good!...Why would I want to alter that? Why would anyone?

Unfortunately a lot of that distructive lifestyle is still in the Latino communities as well as other minority communities.

You're probably wondering why I am talking on this. Well, just pondering ...with all the news and chaos in the world its easy to see why so many fall into that hole, not the best choice to follow that road of course, yet, is it really that chaotic that one cannot keep their heads on straight? Sure we have the war, crimes, drugs,etc. However,I decided long ago that whatever tries to penetrate my "happy world" I keep out, enough in to see whats going on , enough out to not absorb the damage, intiendes?

I'd rather get high on life than get high on anything else....I want that clarity to truly feel the good that life really does have to offer.

I also say this because it is our responsibility to look out for one another, to help rise our Latino sisters and brothers, oru communities.

We have been associated with drugs, violence, young parents having children, lack of enough college graduates for far too long. We need to start making strides to better prepare ourselves to reaching higher, start reacher higher, in education, health, success, and money.

...certainly there are many who do have the degrees and waited to have children, not enough though. We need to increase those successes, and this doesnt mean that those who had children young have no future, the future is still yours. This doesn't mean that those who left high school 5 or more years ago cannot change their life around and return to school and get a college degree.

If your in a gang, just know that your life will not reach its potential living that life of crime and disrespect to yourself and others. There are organizations and places you can seek out to get your life on track again, don't become another statistic or young grave. You too deserve a more positive life filled with joy and happiness, great accomplishments and lots of love. The love recieve from your fellow gang "family" may be love, however, the life that comes along with it is very negative.

We are making strides in this country, in this world. We need to continue on and make more strides. Go ahead, take one class at a college, get into that mental mode of learning and growing, you dont have to take huge steps, just make sure you are taking steps in the right direction, you are so worth it.

Make today the day you turn your life around.


For more on Latino issues check out my show Nic at Nine.

Nic at Nine, featuring radio personality DJ Nicci C , is an online radio show that airs right on myspace.com/livewithnicci every Wednesday and Friday nights at 9pm central. The show airs up and coming musical artist from all over the world, her Listen Up! segments are mostly dedicated to Latino issues that affects its communities. Get LIVE interviews and the latest info on local and national events. The sounds of Alternative music to Reggaeton. See why so many are tuning in every week to listen to DJ Nicci C.

Written by: DJ Nicci C