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DJ Audeos with headphones at the turntable setup during a corporate event on the waterfront deck behind Pike Place Market in Seattle

DJ Audeos at the turntables behind Pike Place Market

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2013 Untitled Battle of Beats Flyer

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Remembering MJ: The King Of Pop at Royal Room in Columbia City, Seattle flyer

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Come to Vittles Neighborhood Bistro & Bar in Seattle's Belltown Neighborhood for a new weekly night featuring DJ Audeos playing whatever the hell he feels like. 

DJ AUDEOS Open Format Fridays at Vittles flyer

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Panoramic view from the 41st floor of the South Insignia Tower in Downtown Seattle, WA

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Father of the bride getting the dance floor warmed up

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DJ Audeos with headphones and bride smiling together at the DJ booth during a wedding reception in Shelburne, Vermont

DJ Audeos and bride posing at Shelburne Vermont wedding

Yo voy, voy, voy!

Syreeta, Pang, and Benny

No Requests at Speckled & Drake 1355 E Olive Way with DJ Audeos

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Do U (Think About Us)

Wedding reception tent glowing with string lights at dusk surrounded by fall foliage with the Adirondack Mountains in the distance

Wedding tent with string lights at dusk in Shelburne Vermont

Rose Temple 2022 Halloween Party with DJ Audeos Flyer

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"You Shook Me All Night Long" into "Sweet Child of Mine"

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Hipster Lullabyes

Wildin' out at the Major W8 Fashion Show

Chike Agada - Lately (feat. Davido)

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Charmaine Glock looking bomb in The North West Super tank

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Blurry but cool photo of the crowd at Vittles in Belltown

Viradeth and Kewan at the Major W8 Fashion Show

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Wedding guests dancing with hands up on the dance floor under the tent at a Shelburne, Vermont wedding reception

Guests dancing with hands up at Shelburne Vermont wedding

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Rufio and a blonde woman wearing The North West Hoodie at The Maharaja Cuisine of India

Wedding guests dancing to music by DJ Audeos at the UW Botanic Garden venue

The BBQ dinner was BOMB!

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Dramatic orange sunset over the Adirondack Mountains and Lake Champlain viewed from the wedding venue in Shelburne, Vermont

Sunset over the Adirondacks and Lake Champlain from Shelburne Vermont

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DJ Audeos in a strange costume for the Halloween Party at The Sexton in Ballard

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LAOS poster design

View from the 41st floor of the South Insignia Tower in Downtown Seattle, WA

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The Six Social 4 Year Anniversary Flyer

Charmaine Glock wearing "The North West" grey tank-top by The North West Clothing.

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Flyer for BIAD party on January 14, 2012 presented by Theta Chi and Delta Tau Delta featuring DJ Audeos, OCNotes, The Physics, Brothers From Another, and Grynch & The Good Sin

BIAD party flyer — Theta Chi and Delta Tau Delta with DJ Audeos and OCNotes

DJ Audeos Droptop Hotbox Mix

Ricky Blue addressing the crowd

Bride dancing surrounded by friends on the dance floor, everyone going off at a wedding reception in Shelburne, Vermont

Bride surrounded by friends dancing at Shelburne Vermont wedding

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Logo for 206 Hop Radio, a 24/7 Seattle hip-hop streaming platform curated by OC Notes, DJ Audeos, and P.Supremo

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DJ Audeos in a Ghostbusters t-shirt and blonde wig posing with a guest at the Howl-O-Ween Halloween party at The Sexton Bar in Ballard, Seattle

DJ Audeos in Ghostbusters costume at Howl-O-Ween at The Sexton in Ballard

The crowd for DJ Audeos at Vittles in Belltown

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Pic from the DJ Booth at the 2017 Groupon Holiday Party at the Living Computer Museum in SoDo, Seattle

Checking out the view from the DJ booth for this event at The Space Needle

Major W8 Fashion Show Flyer

The North West Winners

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Ballard Is For Lovers design

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Myles Yachts - Walkthrough

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![Fake Love x Time After Time Mashup](//images.ctfassets.net/pvyz1kbxgmyk/01C6h8DX0Nmo4zAHGE4Lj5/c5f482f8ad48f0b9c684ff79bccf5900/fake-love-time-after-time-mashup.jpg)

Playing around with Serato's stem separation to isolate vocals and instrumentals on the fly. This one mashes up Drake's *Fake Love* with INOJ's *Time After Time* — swapping stems live on the decks.

Experimenting with Serato stems to mash up Drake's Fake Love with INOJ's Time After Time — live turntablist edit.

Messin' with Serato Stems: Drake x INOJ Mashup

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Theta Chi and Delta Tau Delta present BIAD. DJing with OCNotes, plus special guests [The Physics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Physics_(group)), Brothers From Another, and Grynch & The Good Sin in the building after their show at the Belltower. Party is at Delts. Coordinated by Jake Zottoli, brought to you by Theta Chi, Delta Tau Delta, The Physics, 206-Hop, and [Crisis NW](https://nwclothing.com).

DJing BIAD with OCNotes at a Theta Chi and Delta Tau Delta party featuring The Physics, Brothers From Another, and Grynch.

BIAD — Theta Chi & Delta Tau Delta Party with DJ Audeos & OCNotes

Got a mention in [The Stranger](https://www.thestranger.com/music/my-philosophy-14332971/) — Larry Mizell Jr. gave a shoutout to 206hopradio.com in his My Philosophy column.

> Lastly, shouts to 206hopradio.com, where Seattle rap is streamed 24/7, 365; initial intelligence tells me that it's curated by OC Notes, DJ Audeos, and P.Supremo. Pure edutainment, as classic sounds from the late-’90s compilation era (e.g., Do the Math, 14 Fathoms Deep), all the new Town-approved favorites, and local instrumentalists are all represented. This shit is way more Seattle than the latest T-shirt with a Space Needle/Kingdome/SEA graphic on it, and you can keep your money. — Larry Mizell Jr., The Stranger

206 Hop Radio gets a shoutout from Larry Mizell Jr. in The Stranger's My Philosophy column.

Shoutout in The Stranger — 206 Hop Radio

- Birthday Celebration for Monk Wordsmith of The Physics
- Complimentary Appetizers
- Drink Specials
- Bottle Service
- DJ Audeos plus special guest DJ Vitamin D
- Hosted by Rita Cash & Walter Thurmond III of the Seattle Seahawks
- RSVP for VIP TM.JACK007@gmail.com
- Mestizo Ultra Lounge 2313 1st Ave, Seattle

![Sunday Night Social Flyer](//images.ctfassets.net/pvyz1kbxgmyk/vmK3Fkl8Z2i7QRogCFaur/a19fe4853c949145654c644cc679e413/audeos_410953_3401890617386_983595747_o.jpg)

DJ Audeos mixing at Mestizo Tequila Lounge in Belltown, Seattle with Rane mixer, Akai controller, and North West Clothing gear

DJ Audeos at the booth at Mestizo Ultra Lounge in Belltown

DJ Audeos posing with friends at the DJ booth in front of the Mestizo sign at Mestizo Tequila Lounge in Belltown, Seattle

DJ Audeos with friends at Mestizo Ultra Lounge in Belltown

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Sunday Night Social at Mestizo Ultra Lounge in Belltown, Seattle

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- Presented by [3 Howls Distillery](https://www.3howls.com/)
- Music provided by DJ Audeos
- Costume Contest
- Custom Cocktails Crafted with [3 Howls Spirits](https://www.3howls.com/spirits)
- Hosted by [The Sexton](https://www.theinfatuation.com/seattle/reviews/the-sexton) (5327 Ballard Ave NW, Seattle, WA)
- Winning Costume Prize provided by [Crisis NW / The North West Clothing](https://nwclothing.com/)

*update: what a night :)*

3 Howls Distillery and The Sexton Bar in Ballard are throwing a Halloween party on Thursday October 31st, 2013 from 6pm - close, with music provided by DJ Audeos.

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Flyer for Howl-O-Ween Party at the Sexton in Ballard

[2014] Flyer for Howl-O-Ween Party

"Howl-O-Ween" Halloween Party at the Sexton Bar in Ballard

Playing the holiday party at Vittles Neighborhood Bistro tonight — 2nd and Battery in Belltown. 10pm to 2am. Come through and close out the year right.

DJing the 2015 holiday party at Vittles Neighborhood Bistro on 2nd and Battery in Belltown, Seattle.

Flyer for DJ Audeos 2015 Holiday Party at Vittles Neighborhood Bistro on 2nd and Battery in Belltown, Seattle — Saturday Dec 19th 10pm-2am

DJ Audeos 2015 Holiday Party flyer at Vittles in Belltown Seattle

Holiday Party at Vittles in Belltown

Played the Saturday Spin at [MOHAI](https://mohai.org) — spinning vinyl in the Walker Gallery from 1 to 4 as part of their [Legacy of Seattle Hip-Hop](https://seattleglobalist.com/2015/09/25/mohai-seattle-hip-hop/41610) exhibit. Every second Saturday during the exhibit run, a local DJ played for museum visitors while they walked through the gallery.

> Check out The Legacy of Seattle Hip Hop Exhibit @MOHAI, and stay for the Saturday Spin with DJ Audeos, 1-4 pm — [@4Culture](https://twitter.com/4Culture/status/685607049384845313)

The exhibit itself was curated by Jazmyn Scott and Aaron Walker-Loud — graffiti art, hand-painted denim jackets, interactive beat-making stations, old Coolout Network interviews from public access, and a full timeline of Seattle hip-hop going all the way back to the Emerald Street Boys in 1979. DJing right next to all of that history was a trip. Boom Squad jerseys on the wall, spinning tracks that came out of this same city.

[MOHAI exhibit celebrates Seattle hip-hop](https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/music/mohai-exhibit-celebrates-seattle-hip-hop/) — Seattle Times

DJing the Saturday Spin at MOHAI during the Legacy of Seattle Hip-Hop exhibit in January 2016.

DJ Audeos turntable setup with MOHAI Saturday Spin sign reading 'The Saturday Spin with DJ Audeos 1:00-4:00' next to the Legacy of Seattle Hip-Hop exhibit

DJ Audeos Saturday Spin setup at MOHAI with Legacy of Seattle Hip-Hop exhibit

Hand-painted graffiti denim jackets and Boom Squad jersey on display at the Legacy of Seattle Hip-Hop exhibit at MOHAI

Graffiti denim jackets and Boom Squad jersey at MOHAI Legacy of Seattle Hip-Hop exhibit

Saturday Spin at MOHAI — The Legacy of Seattle Hip-Hop

Played the [NWAC](https://nwac.us) SnowBash 2016 at [evo](https://www.evo.com) on Stone Way in Seattle. Annual pre-season fundraiser for the Northwest Avalanche Center — Halloween costumes, food trucks, beer, raffles, and a packed house. The whole event was in the skatepark behind the shop.

![DJ booth view of the SnowBash 2016 crowd at evo Seattle](//images.ctfassets.net/pvyz1kbxgmyk/4uEmvCMex0CzlJKy7LVe7C/4dc84367f272fb72748763292afb88de/snowbash-2016-dj-booth-crowd.jpg)

We set up the DJ table on one of the skateboard ramps — elevated above the floor looking out over the whole crowd. Costumes everywhere. They had a costume contest, cool sponsors, the whole deal. Ran the set on Serato with vinyl — dropped Janet Jackson "Nasty" and the whole place went off. Hands up, people dancing.

DJing the NWAC SnowBash 2016 Halloween fundraiser at evo on Stone Way in Seattle.

Emcee in a white suit addressing the crowd from the stage during NWAC SnowBash 2016 at evo Seattle

Emcee on stage at SnowBash 2016 at evo Seattle

Short video clip from the DJ set at NWAC SnowBash 2016 at evo on Stone Way in Seattle

DJ set clip from NWAC SnowBash 2016 at evo Seattle

View from behind the Serato turntable with green vinyl spinning Janet Jackson while the costumed crowd dances with hands up at NWAC SnowBash 2016 at evo Seattle

Serato turntable and crowd going off at SnowBash 2016

DJing NWAC SnowBash 2016 at evo Seattle

Flew out to Shelburne, Vermont to DJ a wedding at All Souls Interfaith Gathering — an outdoor venue overlooking Lake Champlain and the Adirondack Mountains. Peak fall foliage, October in Vermont. The ceremony was outside on the grass with the mountains and lake behind it.

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Reception was under a tent with string lights, wooden dance floor, local Vermont microbrews and craft cocktails. Ran the whole night on Technics turntables. The first dance got everybody's attention, and from there the dance floor stayed packed. Every generation was out there — grandparents dancing, friends going off, the whole family in it together.

The sunset over the Adirondacks that night was unreal. One of the most beautiful venues I've ever played.

DJing an outdoor wedding at All Souls Interfaith Gathering in Shelburne, Vermont overlooking Lake Champlain and the Adirondacks.

Brides spinning during their first dance on the wooden dance floor under a tent with string lights at their Shelburne, Vermont wedding

First dance under the tent at Shelburne Vermont wedding

DJ Audeos dancing with the bride at the reception, headphones around his neck, both hands up at a wedding in Shelburne, Vermont

DJ Audeos dancing with bride at Shelburne Vermont wedding

Wedding guests dancing and laughing on a packed dance floor under string lights at a reception in Shelburne, Vermont

Guests dancing under string lights at Shelburne Vermont wedding

Bride being spun on the dance floor by guests under string lights at a Shelburne, Vermont wedding reception

Bride spinning with guests on dance floor at Shelburne wedding

Couple slow dancing together under warm lighting at a wedding reception in Shelburne, Vermont

Couple slow dancing at Shelburne Vermont wedding

Guests laughing and dancing together on a packed dance floor under string lights at a wedding reception in Shelburne, Vermont

Packed dance floor at Shelburne Vermont wedding reception

Black and white photo of the brides dancing together near the DJ booth at their wedding reception in Shelburne, Vermont

Brides dancing in black and white at Shelburne Vermont wedding

DJing a Wedding in Shelburne, Vermont

Might be the first DJ to play the new event space behind [Pike Place Market](https://www.pikeplacemarket.org). The gig was for the [Laird Norton Wealth Management](https://www.lairdnorton.com) 50th anniversary celebration — a corporate event on the waterfront deck overlooking Puget Sound and the Seattle skyline.

![DJ Audeos at the turntables behind Pike Place Market](//images.ctfassets.net/pvyz1kbxgmyk/10GwnL7pRrmGUYh6CjN02u/418473640043c3ba71ee0a3baf81efd3/pike-place-dj-setup-2.jpg)

The setup was outdoor under tents with a full turntable rig — [Rane](https://www.rane.com) TTM 57SL mixer, technics, [QSC](https://www.qsc.com) speakers. Beautiful day for it. Sun was out, crowd was vibing, and the view from the booth was unreal. Not a bad office for the afternoon.

Corporate gigs are a different energy — you're not there to get people on the dance floor, you're reading a room full of people having conversations. Keep it moving without overpowering. That's where the professional skills come into play.

DJing the Laird Norton Wealth Management 50th anniversary celebration at the new event space behind Pike Place Market in Seattle.

Panoramic shot of the outdoor waterfront deck behind Pike Place Market during the Laird Norton Wealth Management 50th anniversary celebration, with the Seattle skyline and Puget Sound in the background

Panoramic view of the waterfront event space behind Pike Place Market in Seattle

View from the DJ booth showing Rane turntables, QSC speakers, and the crowd at the Laird Norton Wealth Management 50th anniversary event behind Pike Place Market

DJ booth view with Rane turntables and QSC speakers at Pike Place Market event

DJing the New Event Space Behind Pike Place Market

We needed a website for Northwest Local Cannabis — our i502 licensed producer/processor out of Washington State. Not a Wix template with a logo slapped on. Something that could showcase our strains, pull in retail partners, and keep content fresh without a full redeploy every time we drop a new harvest.

Landed on [Astro 6](https://astro.build), [Sanity CMS](https://www.sanity.io), [GitHub Pages](https://pages.github.com), and [Claude Code](https://claude.ai/code) for AI-powered content management. Free hosting, fast pages, new strains go live in under two minutes.

Here's the breakdown.

![Northwest Local Cannabis homepage](//images.ctfassets.net/pvyz1kbxgmyk/6pM1dPXobOmVkvfemzwZg3/4e60e9702eba8c7ca3df50b3e4c8ce8f/nw-local-cannabis-homepage-screenshot.png)

## Why Astro + Sanity

Astro gives us static HTML. Every page is pre-built, served from a CDN, zero JavaScript unless we explicitly opt in. GitHub Pages hosts it for free.

Content lives in Sanity. Strains, products, blog posts, retailer info — all in the CMS. Astro pulls it at build time with [GROQ](https://www.sanity.io/docs/how-queries-work) queries and generates the pages. When we publish something new, a Sanity webhook triggers a [GitHub Actions](https://github.com/features/actions) rebuild. Site's live in under two minutes.

Static performance, full CMS flexibility, nothing running at runtime.

## The Design

Dark theme with electric green accents. Cannabis culture without being corny — no leaf graphics, no rasta colors. Charcoal background with neon green for anything interactive. The whole theme lives in CSS custom properties in one file.

Headings use Arial Black with a scale transform to match the brand identity from my clothing company [The North West Clothing](https://nwclothing.com). Glow effects on hover states, scroll-triggered fade-ins, subtle pulse on accent elements. All respecting `prefers-reduced-motion`. Responsive grid with cards that reflow naturally. System font stack for body text — no layout shift from font loading.

## Content Modeling in Sanity

Strains are the core document — name, type, effects, terpenes, THC/CBD ranges, hero image, gallery. Products reference a parent strain with a category and weight. Terpenes are their own documents with aroma profiles and effects.

Everything connects. One strain entry powers its detail page, its card on the listing, its products section, and its OG image. Update it once, everything downstream reflects it on the next build.

## Strain Page UX

The strains page is fully client-side — all the data is pre-rendered at build time, filtering and sorting happen in JavaScript with no server round-trips. Search runs across name, type, effects, and terpenes with a 200ms debounce. Filter by indica, sativa, or hybrid. Filter by terpene. Sort by name. Pagination at 12 per page.

Each strain detail page has a hero image, description, effects and terpene badges, and a gallery with a full-screen lightbox. Terpene badges link out to their own resource pages. Products linked to that strain show up below. OG images are generated per strain for social sharing.

## The Image Pipeline

Product photography adds up fast. Every strain has a hero image and a gallery, and we're constantly adding new ones. We built a `prep-images` script to handle the whole workflow.

It takes a folder of photos, converts HEIC/PNG/WebP to JPG, and renames them with SEO-friendly slugs — `IMG_3559.HEIC` becomes `gastro-pop-bud-closeup.jpg`. Then it deduplicates at two levels. First, SHA-1 hashing against a local `_processed` directory to catch files we've already converted. Then it hits the Sanity API to check if that hash already exists in the media library. No duplicate uploads, no bloated CDN.

Run it through a Make target, get a summary of what's new and what's already uploaded, then push the new ones to Sanity with alt text and metadata attached.

## Age Gate

Washington State requires age verification for cannabis sites. Ours is a full-screen overlay — dark background, confirm you're 21 or older, stored in `localStorage` so it only shows once. Click the deny link and you get redirected out. Simple, compliant, doesn't get in the way after the first visit.

## Deploy Pipeline

Push to main and GitHub Actions builds the site with Astro and deploys to GitHub Pages. But we're not pushing to main every time we add a strain or publish a blog post — that's what the Sanity webhook handles. Any content publish in Sanity fires a `repository_dispatch` event to GitHub Actions, triggering a full rebuild. Content goes from CMS to live site in under two minutes with no manual steps.

## AI Content Management

This is where it gets interesting. We built Claude Code skills that turn strain creation from a manual process into a conversation.

The `/new-strain` skill kicks off a research phase — it pulls info from multiple sources, verifies lineage and breeder data, extracts effects, terpenes, and THC ranges. Then it synthesizes everything into an original description. No copy-pasting from Leafly.

For images, Claude analyzes the gallery photos and generates descriptive filenames — `bud-closeup`, `trichome-detail`, `dense-frosty-nug`. Triggers the prep-images pipeline, uploads to Sanity with alt text. If a strain introduces a terpene we don't have yet, it auto-creates the terpene document with aroma, effects, natural sources, and even generates a hero image for it.

The whole thing — research, writing, image processing, document creation — runs through a single conversation. What used to take 30 minutes of jumping between tabs and terminals is now a 5-minute chat.

## Wrap-up

The site is live at [nw-local.com](https://nw-local.com). Astro and Sanity turned out to be the right call — fast pages, flexible content, zero hosting costs. The image pipeline keeps our media library clean as the strain catalog grows. And the Claude Code skills mean we spend less time on content entry and more time on what actually matters.

How we built nw-local.com — Astro 6, Sanity CMS, GitHub Pages, and Claude Code skills for AI-powered content management.

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Building a Cannabis Brand Website with Astro and Sanity

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The tall homey Vita rocking "The North West Native" crewneck sweatshirt from Crisis NW.

Tall homey vita is passing you the blunt

Music produced by the tall homey DJ Vitamin D

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Had a blast at Gan Bei's Halloween party in Seattle's Chinatown. Shoutout to Yen for having me back — always a good time at that spot!

Came dressed as Christopher Moltisanti from The Sopranos and played a pretty wild mix all night — Jersey Club, reggaeton, dembow, hip-hop, R&B, house, and some old school classics sprinkled in. The karaoke sing-alongs got the whole room going.

Thanks everybody for coming through!

Halloween DJ set at Gan Bei, a karaoke bar in Seattle's Chinatown — dressed as Christopher Moltisanti from The Sopranos.

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DJ Audeos as Christopher Moltisanti at Gan Bei Seattle's Halloween Party

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DJ Audeos in his Christopher Moltisanti costume Halloween 2025 at Gan Bei Bar in Seattle

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Gan Bei - 7th And Weller

Halloween Party at Gan Bei Seattle

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Dumped a DVD worth of beats from an old computer into a folder in serato. Went down the list and recorded this mix live at the CrisisNW clothing store in Pioneer Square Seattle, WA. These are all original beats I created from 1999-2006 using "Impulse Tracker" (a DOS music sequencing/sampling program) and turntables. I also used a Juno 106 Keyboard, Wurlitzer 200a electric piano, Roland 307, BOSS sampler.

A live mix of original beats from 1999-2006, recorded at CrisisNW in Pioneer Square Seattle using Impulse Tracker, turntables, and analog gear.

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Audeostrumentals 1

Eddypocalypse - Apocalypse Now Album