"HOW CAN WE BOOK SKYLAB2000 FOR OUR CLUB/PARTY/EVENT?"
Easy. You can contact one of our regional agents, or you can email or call Dennis directly. Click HERE for contact info.

"HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN DOING THIS?"
The first live show as skylab2000 was in February of 1994. We'd all been doing dance music before that point, and joined forces. I released my first dance record way back in December of 1992.

"WILL YOU REMIX OUR TRACK?"
Yes, if we like it and truly think we can do something good for you and the track. We prefer to do remixes for things that have an actual planned release, but terms are very easy and not expensive at all. If you have a good release planned, CONTACT us about a remix.

"WHERE DID YOU GET THE NAME SKYLAB2000?
The 'skylab' part of the name is easy to explain. Way back in 1973 the US government launched America's first space station. It was called skylab. Pretty amazing stuff for it's time, but it was plagued with problems. Communications broke down, a solar panel never deployed, and the stabilizers didn't stabilize. After a shaky start, the station was quite successful and three crews lived aboard over the next few years. After 5 years, the station was done being used, and a lot of good stuff had been learned. Here's the bad part! It was now about to fall out of it's orbit and the 78 tons space station was to crash to earth. There was worldwide panic as there was no predicting where it would fall. All over the world the was "skylab panic", and worry that it would crash onto a populated area or a major city. On Tuesday July 11th, 1979 it did crash to earth. Skylab broke apart and hit the ground in an un-populated area of western Australia. No one was hurt and the panic was unfounded.

HOW DO I BECOME A FAMOUS DJ? (revised!)
I have no idea.

I will say that it helps to be as good as you can be, so that everyone wants to see you more than anyone else. You should try and stand out like a sore thumb.

Throw some events in your city, get folks out to hear you, and become an integral part of the scene where you live.

Think about what is so special that people need to book *you*.

Selling yourself is a bit like peanut butter. When you go to the store do you buy Jiffy or Skippy brand or do you buy "MysteryPeanutButter". That brand of peanut butter may be super tasty, but what are the odds of YOU buying it?

To get you to buy it, you'd probably have to see some ads that say why it's better butter, and to convince you to try it. You may need a coupon to try it for free or cheap, or maybe all your friends to all tell you how amazing it is.

If it was called "BIG.SHOT.DJ.NAME.HEREpeanutbutter", MAYBE you'd try it cos now it jumps out at you a bit, cause maybe you recognize the BIGSHOTDJ name. Is *your* DJ name and reputation so well known cos you've WORKED to build a name and audience, and now people want to see you, *and* will pay money to do so?

That's what a DJ is at an event. You are brand name Peanut Butter. If your local store only sold brands you never heard of, you'd shop elsewhere, right? Make your brand the best known it can be, AND the best you can make it, and then try make sure many others agree.

Please get some 'SKYLAB2000 OLD FASHIONED ORGANIC PEANUT BUTTER'.

"WHAT GEAR DO YOU USE?"
For live sets, it's a few synths and a sampler stuff controlled by an old DOS sequencer. Most of the gear is hardware - no fancy audio programs - just a group of basic synths and samplers from Yamaha, Korg, Roland and Future Retro.

In the studio, synths, samplers and effects from Roland, Korg, Yamaha, Future Retro, Electrix, Midi Solutions, Waldorf, Mackie, Behringer and Alesis all get used as well.

For idea sketches, Sonic Foundry's Acid Pro and Ableton Live are very good. We like to make music with hardware synths, though these days soft synths and computer programs are very powerful, and can certainly be used for complete tracks. Ableton Live, Cubase, Logic and Tracktion are all great progams.

For mastering, I like Wavelab and Sound Forge.

I often get asked "what gear should I get?" There is no easy answer to that. If I asked you what kind of car should I buy, could you answer? Not so easy. I really feel that there's so much great gear out there that it's hard to go wrong. We started with very basic stuff, and not a lot has changed. Go to a store, or download a free program or two, and just see what feels right for you. The way I do things is a lot different from the next guy. We all have our own methods.

Good music can be made on any gear! The most important gear is talent. I like to say that anyone can buy a cookbook and a pot. That doesn't make you a chef. :)

I'd be happy to answer specific questions, if it will help you.