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A crowd of dancers move to the rhythms of DJ Chairman Mao in the downstairs of the Eighth Street Taproom in Lawrence. The Taproom, particularly on Saturday nights, has become a popular venue among many DJs wanting to showcase their craft.
DJ Nick Rivera will be spinning the 'Fat Tuesday Throwdown' party tonight at The Granada. Doors will open at 9 p.m. Rivera, a senior from Wichita, said he plans to continue is DJ career after college.
Contributed photo by Chris Moll
Rivera, a senior from Wichita, said.
Travis Read, a senior from Hutchinson and a resident DJ at Wilde's Chateau 24. 2412 Iowa St., also prefers to spin house music during his sets. Read defined house music as "really intense electronic music with a lot of up-tempo and bass and fewer lyrics than typical radio songs."
"The message isn't verbal," Read said. "It's emotion through the beats."
Both Read and Rivera agreed that house music, with its beats and constant rhythm, created a steady level of dancing and energy in their clubs.
THE PAYCHECK
With their passions for house music luring hundreds of people to their gigs, the potential to earn money is vast.
Read earns $100 a night at The Chateau, where he spins three to four nights a week. He said he aims to play a house music track and mix a Top 40 hit on top of it — when both tracks play at the same time in sync with one another — consistently. Read said The Chateau recently brought in DJ AleoSHA to spin house, tribal and progressive trance music on Thursday nights, in addition to himself.
Rivera said that he wants to continue to DJ after he finishes college and that one of his goals was to be a resident house music DJ in Chicago. He hopes to eventually earn $1,000 per night, four times more than the $250 he typically earns spinning one of his "Blackout" parties at The Granada. Rivera markets his shows to KU students on Facebook, through fliers, chalking on campus and word of mouth.
Sneak's house music originated in Chicago, where 10 years ago, he was making $1,500 for two hours of play time. He has been spinning house music for more than 20 years. In the beginning, he would play for 45 minutes in exchange for $50 and a dine bag of weed.
Now, Sneak said, big-name DJs who spin house or electronic music, such as David Guetta, can charge $30,000 to $50,000 per night. Acts such as Daft Punk, a French house music duo, can make $300,000 to $400,000 a night.
"It can be a very lucrative business, and you can make a lot of money if you want to," Sneak said via telephone from Canada.
Sneak hasn't worked a "regular job" since 1994, when he started supporting himself solely through his DJ and music production work. He credits his hard work and early career training for his success. He compared his beginning years to a book he had recently read called "Outliers: The Story of Success" by Malcolm Gladwell.
THE COMMITMENT
"It talks about the 10,000 hours that you have to put into your craft before you see some sort of benefit," he said, adding that he had put in many more hours than that.
DJ TRAVIS READ'S PICKS
1) Missing You - David Guetta
2) Feel It - Three 6 Mafia f.
Tiesto, Flo Rida, and Sean
Kinston
3) Street Justice - Mstrkft
4) Phantom - Justice
5) I'll House You - Kid Sister
DJ NICK RIVERA'S
PICKS
1) BEBA - PANTyRAID
2) Save Me (Diplo Dub) - Aretha Franklin
3) Move That Body (Destroy Disco Remix) - Kid Kinobi
4) Murderer (Kids Mix) - The Partysquad
5) London to Paris - Mowgli
5) London to Paris - Mowgli
Sneak stressed the importance of training and working toward being a DJ and/or producer with a sense of individuality - spinning house music, or having anything to do with it, meant being underground and not being commercial. As difficult as a successful music career can be to attain, making a career as a DJ spinning a less-mainstream type of music can be even more difficult.
"Some people get lucky, and some people have to work very hard at it," Sneak said.
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Allen St. Pierre, executive director for the National Organization for the Reformation of Marijuana Laws, said this type of legislation typically becomes less controversial after the facts have been debated openly.
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"This is the first one out, which means it's probably not going to go too far!" he said. "The second time out it probably should pass but won't because the body politic will really dig their heels in and commit a lot of time and energy to oppose the truth. And by the third time it comes out the opponents really don't have much of an argument anymore."
Gina Burrows, president of the Young Democrats of KU, said she has been to meetings with the Kansas Progressive Caucus and found wide hesitance among the group to support such an initiative.
He said although Kansas was historically a very socially conservative and anti-drug state, college towns such as Lawrence have always been breeding grounds for social change.
"Lawrence is by far the hotbed of progressivity, and from my point of view, real rational thought, but it has to run up against the rest of the state," St. Pierre said.
"We were definitely having a
While support among the legislatures for the bill is low, Finney said "quite a few" members have told her they support the initiative, but aren't able to publicly endorse it for various reasons.
problem getting any members of the legislature to introduce their support for such a bill, which unfortunately I think has more to do with their re-election chances than necessarily how they always feel," she said.
Burrows said that often the problem was not having a unified citizen voice to encourage legislators to support controversial initiatives.
"Most of the progressive community in Kansas feels like such a minority that they don't tend to be vocal," she said. "I really think they'd find that they are less of a minority if willing to ban together and assert to their legislators that there is a larger than expected population that would be on board."
"It could create jobs, it could create business, it could create an industry for Kansas," she said.
If the bill were to pass, it would allow "compassion centers" to dispense Kansas-grown cannabis to qualifying patients.
Finney said there was an opportunity for state revenue from the centers' licensing and fees and the possibility of taxing the product.
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PENDING MEDICAL MARIJUANA STATES
1. Alabama
2. Delaware
3. Illinois
4. Iowa
5. Kansas
6. Maryland
7. Massachusetts
8. Missouri
9. New York
10. North Carolina
11. Pennsylvania
12. Tennessee
13. Wisconsin
CURRENT MEDICAL
MARIJUANA STATES
1. Alaska
2. California
3. Colorado
4. Hawaii
5. Maine
6. Michigan
7. Montana
8. Nevada
9. New Jersey
10. New Mexico
11. Oregon
12. Rhode Island
13. Vermont
14. Washington
Source: medicalmarijuana.org
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