DJ Frontier
Official web
site, professional hub, and fan site coming in 2012. Until then, catch the fun
at his Frontier Pop site!
The DJ of
the future and the past. Past experience and future innovation make him a truly
trend setting DJ of the present.
02/12/12
- Attention:
On February 7, 2012, I bought a Nintendo 3DS portable console. Effective immediately,
whenever I am out in public, I will be wearing this 3DS, with StreetPass active
( As soon as I get around to it, the same will go with me also wearing a Sony
PS Vita with Near operating at the same time as the 3DS. This sort of transponder
feature will also be on my cybersuit, and the 3DS is just one of many 
electronics
that I wear and use, as my attire will be technologically augmented more and
more in the future. I've been wearing various components of the cybersuit daily,
for testing and utility, for the past five years. The cybersuit will be far
more obvious later in 2012, however). My profile is DJFrontier, and the tag
message points to my DJFrontier.Com web site, although the site has not yet
launched.
I am Chris Passinault, AKA C. A. Passinault, and I am DJ Frontier. If you found
this site because you were tagged, either through StreetPass or online, please
excuse the fact that this site has not launched yet, and feel free to check
out my other sites. I am a modeling and talent expert, a writer, a photographer,
a designer, and a lot of other professions. For the latest on my DJ work, please
check out my Tampa DJ Blog. You can
also check out my Tampa Designer
Blog, as well as my other blogs, which are connected to those.
If you are 18 and older (although all of my work
is family-friendly, with the exception of some of my DJ releases and other projects.
Please, though, I do not want to interact with anyone underage, as it is inappropriate
on a personal level), feel free to friend me on Facebook. You can also join
the official DJ Frontier Facebook group, and like the official DJ Frontier page
on Facebook. Please note that, due to privacy settings,
you will NOT be able to see posts unless you become my friend on Facebook, or
join my DJ Frontier group. Thank you!
Chris Passinault,
AKA C. A. Passinault, on Facebook
Official DJ Frontier Facebook page
Official
DJ Frontier Facebook Group
02/21/12 UPDATE -
The Tampa DJ Blog
is beginning to transition to organizing content, as there is a lot of content
on the blog, and more posts are coming frequently. When the DJ Blog upgrades
to a Celebrity Class web site, it will already be in the required format. Speaking
of Celebrity Class web sites, the official DJ Frontier and DJ Wiz Kid site development
is proceeding. The DJ Wiz Kid brand, too, is going to become more important,
as today it was decided to remake several classic programs with GEN 5 digital
production technology. These remakes will have FTR designations in their titles
(FTR meaning "Future" or "Frontier").
Current scheduled remakes under the RMX, or "Remix" designation, the
upcoming GEN 5 releases Party Zone 2 RMX, Party Zone 3 RMX, and Party Zone 4
RMX, will now be named Party Zone 2 FTR, Party Zone 3 FTR, and Party Zone 4
FTR; the rules defined in the preproduction of Party Zone 2 RMX (now FTR) will
be applied to all FTR line releases, meaning that we will produce the releases
as if they were produced in their original time frame, or period in history,
using music and samples from that time (which means no sources from the future
from that point in time; please reference past posts on the Tampa
DJ Blog for more about these rules), using GEN 5 technology, and
increasing the 90 minute program run time from 90 minutes to at least 140 minutes,
or even longer. Although monologues and dialogue segments will be new, the monologues
will be produced as if it were the original production time, historically (There
may be some clever twist programmed into the scripts with knowledge of the future
in mind. Also, the remakes will be changed to be more politically correct with
the future, which would have been possible back then if tact were used originally).
This means, of course, that there will be several new releases produced under
the DJ Wiz Kid name, including some releases that were in preproduction, or
the conceptual stages back then, but were never produced, such as the release
Tricky Mickey FTR. FTR releases which are remakes of classic programs will be
changed, too, with new content, remastered samples, high resolution digitally
sourced music ripped from CD's, professional execution made possible by the
new GEN 5 technology (which includes perfect beat and pitch transitions, samples
sequenced into the music, rearranged music tracks, extended or remixed music
tracks, and a professionally mixed program- production standards impossible
back in the analog production days of cassette tapes, tape players, CD players,
and DJ mixers), and other bonuses. Planned re-releases from the DJ Wiz Kid era
(GEN 1 and GEN 2) include Horizons, Horizons 2, Horizons 3, Horizons 4, Fire
In The Desert, Dance Floor Express, Waveform, Waveform 2, Smooth Love, Bitch,
Back To The Streets, and Party Zone. GEN 3 DJ Frontier programs which will be
remade include the already mentioned Party Zone's 2, 3, and 4, but also Futura,
Futura 2 (all of the news items, the rave segment, and future prediction sequences
will be deleted from the updated program and format, and a lot of new content
will be added to replace what was lost, as well as add a lot more to the program
itself), Generation, Waveform 3, Rebellion, and Aurora. Party Zone RMX and Horizons
RMX will not be remade, however, although they are considered to be classics
(redoing the original Party Zone's and Horizons are more than compensation for
this, especially with Horizons 2 to 4 lacking substance, with the programs being
mediocre at best and not worthy of the Horizons brand in their original form.
Horizons RMX was more of a "remake" of Horizons at the time that it
was created in 1995, but the new Horizons FTR will be more of the official remake,
now, and the theme and format will be compatible across all of the new Horizons
programs, being Horizons FTR, Horizons 2 FTR, Horizons 3 FTR, and Horizons 4
FTR. These releases deserve to be done right, and I will even include innovations
and music from Horizons RMX in them, infusing those fresh ideas, mixing in the
latest ideas, and using modern technology to set the standard. With the knowledge
that the first 45 minute half of the original Horizons release not only carried
the program, with the second half being mediocre and not continuous with the
theme and the format of the program - it was my 3rd release, after all, as well
as carrying the entire Horizons series until RMX came along several years later
and became the definitive Horizons, and the next generation Horizons being Neo
Horizons and being a completely new format for a new generation, those earlier
Horizons releases have to be redone. The spirit of the Horizons series, both
past and future, also is the core of the official Frontier Pop podcast, which
will be called "Horizons", so the brand is very important). Rebellion,
too, is a brilliant program which originally suffered from poor quality, muffled
samples and monologues, and that needs to be fixed, as well as improved.
What is cool about remaking the classic programs, too, is that a lot more content
can be added, such as special guests and new programming to enhance the original
theme of the program. Expect guests which, although they will indicate that
they are in the time period of the program, would, in reality, be much too young
in that time period to participate, (some of them would not even have been born
at that time, although it must be noted that the time period would be so integrated
into the program that the guests from the future would get a taste of what it
would have been like to participate back then). Generation FTR, also, will have
an expanded, updated script, new characters, and more actors added, as well
as the inclusion of archived content and emulated historical content mixed into
the backgrounds of the third person monologue/ dialogue description segments
(the third person descriptions will be retained, and we will not go into in-the-scene
scenario acting that the sequel will have, because the Subliminal VR machine
is an updated unit which works differently in the sequel). This will make Generation
FTR more compatible with the upcoming Generation 2.
Some of the classic programs will be redone to be more compatible with sequels
in development, the sequels which include Rebellion 2, Bitch 2, Bitch Slap,
Futura 3, Futura RMX, Mirage (Fire In The Desert 2), Party Zone 5, Waveform
4, Waveform RMX, Daytona, Sand Bar, and Lost Love (Smooth Love 2. Smooth Love
FTR will be remade with a new female DJ, replacing DJ Fox, but also portraying,
i.e. mocking, the original DJ Fox. An actress will be playing the role of DJ
Fox not only for Smooth Love FTR, but other programs which will call for appearances
of DJ Fox, which will include Bitch FTR, Bitch 2, Bitch Slap, and Futura 2 FTR).
All FTR remake releases will have different covers and supporting content than
the original classics which will be re-released as digital programs, also. Unlike
title designations such as RMX, FTR would also be small in size, with reduced
emphasis, in the titles of the remakes, so that more emphasis would be put on
the original title of the program (in the monologues and dialogues, there would
be little, if any, mention of FTR in the title, although there will be an FTR
designation in the official title segment, and in the disclaimers). This, however,
can change, and it is not yet set in stone, as it will be a long time before
we can do any FTR releases, especially with the first scheduled GEN 5 releases
taking up to 2 years to complete. This said, the FTR releases could be squeezed
into the existing schedule just before their sequels are produced, a sort of
warm up for the sequel.
On the flip side, new programs set in the past, as far as storylines or themes,
will not have the restriction on future content like the FTR remakes will, as
long as the “future” content supports the program theme and the
spirit of the program. One such program is Waveform 4, which is set in 1995,
but will use some music from the present; music and content which did not exist
in 1995. Such creative production licenses are approved because these new programs
are not remakes of an existing program, and the newer material can be retro
applied to the time and the theme of the program if the context fits, or if
it can be taken out of context to support the program.
New Gen 5 programs announced today include the aforementioned Bitch Slap, as
well as Operative (the new name for the original GEN 3 Spy Ring concept release,
now upgraded to a full GEN 5 release).
The
underground DJ who was responsible for a long line of underground program releases
in the early 90's and who sparked the underground subculture known as the Frontier
Society is back! Helming Tampa Bay event production company Eventi Events as
it is restored as the epicenter of the Passinault Entertainment Group, Tampa
Bay will never be the same!
Remember Party Zone,
Horizons, Waveform, and Club Zero? A reboot of everything is coming.....
Started DJ'ing on
October 6, 1990. Became DJ Frontier
on February 25, 1993. Formed the Frontier Society
on October 26, 1993.
Still
in effect, and still the original, and the real, DJ Frontier!
PLEASE NOTE:
DJ Frontier started his career as an underground DJ on October
6, 1990, as DJ Wiz Kid. He produced 19 underground
program releases under the DJ Wiz Kid name. On February 25, 1993,
he changed his name from DJ Wiz Kid to DJ Frontier,
and has been using this name since, although he retains the rights to
the DJ Wiz Kid name. Also, on October 26, 1993,
DJ Frontier and his friends formed an underground subculture, the Frontier
Society, which is still active, although, due to ongoing
issues with cybersquatters, the official Frontier Society
web site is marketed through Frontier
Pop (We owned the original domain name, lost it because of
a mistake in transferring it, it was taken by cybersquatters who first tried
to sell it back to us for $1,600.00, and then later used it, as well as every
version of the name that they could buy up, for promoting things which we do
not approve of, and then we made their attempt to exploit our brand useless,
and a large waste of money, by marketing the Frontier Society web site
through Frontier Pop, outsmarting them. The bottom line is
that they would not own a single Frontier Society domain name if they had not
seen us use it first). From June 1994 to late 1998, DJ Frontier produced 12
underground releases under his DJ Frontier name, before taking a break in December
2002 to concentrate on his career as a photographer. With new technology and
tools now available, mainly technology which has finally caught up with his
concepts, DJ Frontier is about to enter a new era as a DJ who will transcend
and redefine the definition of what being a DJ is. DJ Frontier is preparing
for a new generation of Gen 5 Digital Program Releases, Commercial Releases,
an online television series called Frontier View, and other projects. For more,
please check out his Tampa DJ Blog.
The
names DJ Frontier, VJ Frontier, DJ Wiz Kid, and Frontier Society are all currently
in use. Permission to use these names, in whole or part,
for any reason, IS DENIED! We retain the rights to all of these
trade names! Anyone planning on using these names or on capitalizing
on these brands will find them to be useless, as they will actually be promoting
the real DJ Frontier and his properties. We will aggressively
defend our rights to these properties, up to, and including, taking
legal action against violators and exploiters. We claim ownership of
these trade names, and will continue to use them, regardless of what
anyone else does. Using these names, for any reason, may be considered misrepresentation,
identity theft, and a deceptive trade practice.
Deceptive marketing is fraud, and it can be prosecuted!
News BLAST 11/25/11
- Bought VJFrontier.Com today,
and yesterday, locked down facebook.com/djfrontier with the help of friends.
Anyone thinking about using the DJ Frontier or the VJ Frontier names should
keep looking for another DJ name, as they would be promoting the real DJ Frontier,
and the DJ Frontier branding is useless to them. In related news, we should
have the new Celebrity Class DJ Frontier web site online in December
2011. Celebrity Class sites for other DJ Frontier sites, which include
the Tampa DJ Blog, VJ Frontier, and the DJ Wiz Kid sites, will launch soon;
the Tampa DJ Blog will be upgraded to the new site design, as it has been online
for years, having been launched in 2008. Also, although Frontier Pop will be
used to market our Frontier Society site, it will also market this DJ Frontier
site, too.
News BLAST 10/30/11
- That official DJ Frontier
web site? Take the news from below and add a year, because we have been very
busy (and so has he, with his career as a professional photographer taking up
a lot of his time lately; especially with 16 photography and design marketing
and support sites which have to be launched by the end of 2011. These other
careers will enhance his DJ career, too, in more ways than can be revealed here.
Ironically, DJ Frontier started out in these other careers because of his DJ
career, so expect things to come full circle next year!). The official DJ Frontier
web site, which will be one of at least six DJ Frontier web sites, four of which
are currently online in some sort of capacity (the only one officially up and
running is the Tampa DJ Blog), is now scheduled to be launched in late 2011,
as DJ Frontier is not expected to resume his dj and event planning careers until
late 2012. For historical and creative purposes, his DJ Wiz Kid site will launch
at the same time as his DJ Frontier site. There has, however, been an update,
with announcements, on his Frontier View placeholder site,
and there is a lot to read, of course, on his huge (and extremely interesting)
blog, the Tampa DJ Blog. It’s coming, but it will just
take time. Also, as reported earlier, the DJ Frontier web site, as well as the
DJ Wiz Kid web site, the Frontier View web site, and the Tampa DJ Blog web site,
will all be new Celebrity Class web sites from his web design company,
Aurora PhotoArts Tampa Photography and Design.
There are two other web sites planned which cannot be revealed at this time,
for security reasons, and these are not his event and stage production company
web sites, Frontier Event Planning and Frontier Stage Productions (formerly
Eventi Events, Eventi Stage, Dimension Stageforms, Horizons Entertainment, Advanced
Entertainment Systems, and Party Systems Inc). They are also not Frontier Pop,
which is well-known and very popular, or the web site for his Frontier Society.
News BLAST 08/19/10
- The official DJ Frontier
web site, a brand new Celebrity Class site, is coming in the fall of 2010, as
DJ Frontier returns to the limelight in 2011, and his event planning and stage
production companies become the core Passinault.Com companies in 2012. DJ Frontier's
main marketing web site and online magazine, Frontier Pop, is already online,
and one of the things that this exciting new site will do is directly market
both DJ Frontier and his Frontier Society underground subculture (and, it should
be noted, this will make all of those Frontier Society domain names that an
unethical cybersquatter bought up to market whatever he is selling with our
name essentially worthless, and we are now laughing at the cybernerd. No one
will slip up and accidentally go to his web site, and the Frontier Society web
site will be marketed only through Frontier Pop, and it will be directly accessible
from both the DJ Frontier web site, the DJ Wiz Kid web site, and other affiliated
web site. Cyberdorks plan has failed, and we hope that he has fun continuing
to pay for all of those domain names that have been cut out of the loop. For
extra measure, we will also be providing information leading to his competitors
on the Frontier Society web site, as well as alternative information to what's
available on his web site. you're so very welcome, weird cybe-Al.) DJ Frontier
has many projects in the works which will eclipse everything done before, and
it will make history. Technology has finally caught up with many of his concepts,
making them achievable and cost-effective now, and, still, no one else is doing
anything close to what was envisioned 20 years ago. The projects include a new
generation of underground digital program MP3 releases, with iPod-optimized
covers (as will all of his audio and video releases), commercial MP3 releases,
a DJ Frontier / Frontier Pop podcast series, an online television series, a
secret project, and many other things. Fulfilling plans originally conceived
in 1991, DJ Frontier will also be debuting an advanced modular cybersuit, as
well as cyberfashions. More will be announced, soon!
News BLAST 11/29/09
- Here is the official release
list of all of the releases, plus some clues on what I have coming up (I would
have posted this on the Tampa DJ Blog, but Dreamweaver is choking on it, and
I haven't figured out why it's so slow. Plus, this needs new content right now):
GEN 1 CPR's (Cassette
Program Releases)
Analog cassette programs. 90 minute programs.
CPR 1
DJ Wiz Kid: Fresh Mix
October 1990
CPR 2
DJ Wiz Kid: Nasty Mix
October 1990
CPR 3
DJ Wiz Kid: Horizons
November 1990
CPR 4
DJ Wiz Kid: Horizons 2
November 1990
CPR 5
DJ Wiz Kid: Horizons 3
December 1990
CPR 6
DJ Wiz Kid: Fire In The Desert
January 1991
CPR 7
DJ Wiz Kid: Slam
February 1991
CPR 8
DJ Wiz Kid: Dance Floor ExpressDJ Wiz Kid: Horizons 4
March 1991
CPR 9
DJ Wiz Kid: Legacy
March 1991
CPR 10
DJ Wiz Kid: Dance Floor Express
April 1991
CPR 11
DJ Wiz Kid: Bitch Mini Promo
April 1991
CPR 12
DJ Wiz Kid: Rebel With A Cause
June 1991
GEN 2 CPR's (Cassette Program Releases)
CPR 13
DJ Wiz Kid: Waveform
July 1991
CPR 14
DJ Wiz Kid: Back To The Streets
July 1991
CPR 15
DJ Wiz Kid: Vision
August 1991
CPR 16
DJ Wiz Kid: Party Zone
September 1991
CPR 17
DJ PJ: Dance Mix 1
September 1991
CPR 18
DJ Wiz Kid: Bitch: The Major Release
October 1991
CPR 19
DJ Wiz Kid: Eat Me, Bitch!
November 1991
CPR 20
DJ Wiz Kid: Waveform 2
December 1991
CPR 21
DJ Foxx: Smooth Love
March 1992
GEN 3 CPR's (Cassette Program Releases)
Geomedia Production Era - CD sourced
CPR 22
DJ Frontier / DJ Cricket: Futura
June 1994
CPR 23
DJ Frontier: Party Zone 2
July 1994
CPR 24
DJ Frontier: Horizons RMX
June 1995
CPR 25
DJ Frontier: Waveform 3
July 1995
CPR 26
DJ Frontier: Rebellion
July 1995
CPR 27
DJ Frontier: Party Zone 3
October 1995
CPR 28
DJ Frontier: Generation
February 1996
CPR 29
DJ Frontier: Futura 2
April 1996
CPR 30
DJ Frontier: Urban Cowboy
February 1996
CPR 31
DJ Frontier: Aurora
December 1996
CPR 32
DJ Frontier: Party Zone 4
July 1996
CPR 33
DJ Frontier: Party Zone RMX
1997
GEN 4 CDR's (Compact Disc Releases)
2000-2001
Generation skipped.
GEN 5 DPR's (Digital Program Releases)
Average TRT 140 Minutes. MP3.
The following future schedule is tentative, and may change at any time.
34th Release
DJ Frontier: Revo
TRT 140 Minutes
To Be Produced Spring 2010
To Be Released October 6, 2010
_____________________________________
35th Release
DJ Frontier: Waveform RMX
TRT 140 Minutes
To Be Produced Summer 2010
To Be Released Fall 2010
_____________________________________
36th Release
DJ Frontier: Futura RMX
TRT 140 Minutes
To Be Produced Summer 2010
To Be Released Fall 2010
_____________________________________
37th Release
DJ Frontier: Futura RMX
TRT 140 Minutes
To Be Produced Summer 2010
To Be Released Fall 2010
_____________________________________
38th Release
DJ Frontier: Generation 2
TRT 140 Minutes
To Be Produced Summer 2010
To Be Released Fall 2010
_____________________________________
39th Release
DJ Frontier: Lost Love (Smooth Love Part 2)
TRT 140 Minutes
To Be Produced Summer 2010
To Be Released Fall 2010
_____________________________________
40th Release
DJ Frontier: Reverence (Sidekick Release)
TRT 140 Minutes
To Be Produced Summer 2010
To Be Released Fall 2010
_____________________________________
41st Release
DJ Frontier: Party Zone 5
TRT 140 Minutes
To Be Produced Fall 2010
To Be Released Winter 2010
_____________________________________
42nd Release
DJ Frontier: Neo Horizons (Horizons 5 has been cancelled, and this is a reboot)
TRT 140 Minutes
To Be Produced Fall 2010
To Be Released Winter 2010
_____________________________________
43rd Release
DJ Frontier: Neo Horizons (Horizons 5 has been cancelled, and this is a reboot)
TRT 140 Minutes
To Be Produced Fall 2010
To Be Released Winter 2010
_____________________________________
44th Release
DJ Frontier: Serenade
TRT 140 Minutes
To Be Produced Fall 2010
To Be Released Winter 2010
_____________________________________
45th Release
DJ Frontier: Noel
TRT 140 Minutes
To Be Produced Fall 2010
To Be Released Winter 2010
_____________________________________
46th Release
DJ Frontier: Resolution
TRT 140 Minutes
To Be Produced Fall 2010
To Be Released Winter 2010
_____________________________________
47th Release
DJ Frontier (and two other DJ's): Futura 3
TRT 140 Minutes
To Be Produced Winter 2010
To Be Released Winter 2011
_____________________________________
48th Release
Omega Team: Rush Hour
TRT 140 Minutes
To Be Produced Winter 2010
To Be Released Winter 2011
_____________________________________
49th Release
Omega Team: Daytona
TRT 140 Minutes
To Be Produced Winter 2010
To Be Released Winter 2011
_____________________________________
50th Release
DJ Frontier: (Classified- Title Holding)
TRT 140 Minutes
To Be Produced Winter 2010
To Be Released Winter 2011
_____________________________________
News BLAST 08/17/09
- A LOT is going on. While this site has not been updated in quite a while (or
even officially launched), all the recent developments have been covered on
DJ Frontier's Tampa DJ Blog. Since most of the GEN 1, 2, and
3 Cassette Program Releases are being re-released as digital MP3 programs, we
re-branded DJ Wiz Kid, and have launched a content file for what will become
the official DJ Wiz Kid site. DJ Frontier used to be known
as DJ Wiz Kid from 1990
to 1993, and officially became DJ Frontier on February 25, 1993 (take that,
pretenders!). Likewise, his underground subculture, the Frontier
Society, was formed on October 26, 1993 (we also own the rights
to that name, and will continue to use it). Two new Celebrity Class
web sites are in the works for both the official DJ Frontier web site and the
official DJ Wiz Kid web site, although DJ Frontier will only be branding under
the Frontier name from now on, and no new work will be done under the Wiz Kid
name.
A NOTICE TO THE PARTY
WHO IS PIGGYBACKING ON OUR FRONTIER SOCIETY NAME- IF YOU WISH TO MAKE THIS A
LEGAL MATTER, YOU MAY DO SO; WE'D RATHER UNDERMINE THE VALUE IN THAT BRANDING,
HOWEVER, BY ASSERTING IT AS OUR BRAND ONLINE, WHICH WE RIGHTFULLY OWN. AS OF
NOW, HOWEVER, GOOD LUCK USING THAT NAME FOR BRANDING WHATEVER SERVICE THAT YOU
ARE OFFERING. FRONTIER-SOCIETY.COM WILL REMAIN UP, AND WILL BE EXPANDED WITH
FREE ALTERNATIVES TO THE SERVICES THAT YOU ARE SELLING. ALSO, TO AVOID CONFUSION,
WE WILL NOT MARKET IT UNDER "FRONTIER-SOCIETY.COM". THE REAL FRONTIER
SOCIETY WEB SITE WILL BE DIRECTLY MARKETED, AND BRANDED, THROUGH THIS ONE, DJFRONTIER.COM.
THE DJ FRONTIER PROPERTY JUST BECAME A LOT MORE VALUABLE.
News BLAST 10/03/08
- The official DJ Frontier web site
is really coming... I promise. I'm caught up with my photography business right
now and am working on event support web sites such as the Tampa Bay Film Online
Film Festival. I've been working on a long project for the last year and a half
and just now adjusted my schedule for maximum web site updates. For my Tampa
event planning company, Eventi Events, I will have my senior DJ, Marlon Brown
(DJ Shy) do our events for the rest of 2008 while I focus on my top Tampa photography
business, sales, and marketing (I may help Marlon with the execution of parties
and events as my schedule allows). With Eventi Events kicking of its binary
sister company Eventi Stage, with the Tampa film festival Tampa Film showcase,
an Eventi Stage production, 2009 is shaping up to be a transition year for me.
My Tampa photography
company, Aurora PhotoArts, will continue to expand business as it assumes a
support function, and over half of my efforts will return to the Eventi Events
/ Eventi Stage companies and my mostly dormant DJ career. I took a break from
DJ'ing in december of 2002 after a run of weddings. My last underground release
program was eleven years ago, 1997, and since then production technology has
changed a lot (I was ready to springboard from Cassette media to CD programs,
and now everything is beyond CD with MP3's and digital online distribution.
The analog days had a lot of challenges and limitations. I am now experimenting
with digital workstations, sound editing programs, music authoring programs,
and other toys). A new generation of releases are coming, and I may even reboot
the entire line. My new creative efforts will make what I've done in the past
look like trivial projects. I am even planning on writing, producing, and performing
my own original music! What genre? Well, mostly dance music and techno, but
I will hit on just about every genre but country, which I still can't tolerate.
With developments like that, the road is paved toward selling releases instead
of doing the underground mix thing. So many ideas.... so many possibilities.
Recapping, my DJ career and event planning efforts are very important to me
and the Passinault Entertainment Group, AND Eventi Events / Eventi Stage will
once again become the core Passinault Entertainment Group service companies.
Even after my Tampa advertising agency becomes fully operational, the event
planning and stage productions companies will be our core companies. Ah, yes,
and you know what that means... event planning and stage productions will automatically
kick off my first official Tampa indie film productions with my Tampa film production
company Dream Nine Studios. We need out indie film production company to support
our event planning and stage production services, and vice-versa (the Tampa
film festival is intended to be a platform to promote our indie films as well
as Tampa indie film- I would never have anyone use, book, or invest in one of
my services if it was not something that was good enough for me to utilize-
one reason that our production and services quality is always the best). See
a pattern here? See how everything
fits together and supports the other components?
Sure, it takes more time to do, but once it is done, it is a production and
services support powerhouse that our competitors will have a difficult time
countering and keeping up with (My God.. I have a LOT of web sites!).
Oh, and I have to
get my official Tampa DJ Blog up and running. The other blogs, especially my
Tampa Film Blog, have been taking up a lot of my time lately, but the launch
and the updates are coming! And this official DJ Frontier site is going to be
awesome once it is up and running... wait until you see my new cybersuit and
other gadgets!
Yes, I've worked hard
and have acquired a well-earned reputation for being the top Tampa photographer.
I spend a lot of time photographing tampa headshots for actors and talent, and
shooting modeling portfolios. Through all this, it is easy to think that I'd
rather service entertainers than be an entertainer. I can, and will, however,
do both. What most forget is that I was trained to be an entertainer, and I
am very good at my talent professions. I am also a good event planner (I can't
wait to finally unleash our interactive theme event technology) and DJ, and
was making money at that long before I made money as a professional photographer.
Never forget that. I haven't.
- DJ Frontier
Tampa DJ
Horizons - Where We
have been. Where we are going.
Monday, May 12, 2008 - 1:44 AM -
C. A. Passinault Official Blog Entry
Blasts From The Past
It's funny how things have a way
to loop around on you and come full circle over the course of years. I may be
experiencing new adventures shortly which are in many way what I set up to do
when all of this started.
Back in the ages of many years ago, it all began. You all know about my ability
to read on a college level back in elementary school when I was eight or so.
I began to write stories and such about that time, too. When I was fourteen,
I finished my first novel, which is scheduled for a rewrite soon.
In 1988, fresh out of high school and exploring adult society for the first
time, I began to throw parties. I threw some of the most creative, and the best,
parties, that the Tampa Bay area had ever seen. This was the beginning of my
career as an event planner, and led to my career as an underground DJ.
As a professional writer and a music fanatic who had a music background, DJ'ing
came naturally. The first time that I tinkered with this form of art was in
the early eighties, playing around with recording equipment and tape decks.
In 1984, I was a member of a church quiz team, and we traveled to Jacksonville
for a competition. I was a bit bored in the hotel, so I borrowed my friend Daniel's
boom box, bought some blank cassette tapes from radio shack, and proceeded to
make a tape of our adventure utilizing whatever music that I could record from
the local radio stations. The resulting program turned out to be very creative
and entertaining. I entertained myself and my friends throughout the eighties
by doing these projects.
The 1980's was a fun time for me. We never had much money, so I would engineer
equipment from junk. I once took an old walkman apart, soldered an AC to DC
power supply to the circuit board, and hooked it up to large speakers, and used
this as a crude radio so I could stay up all night listening to Q-105. Great
music and radio DJ's, and I am so happy that the radio station returned to old
form and it is like listening it in the 80's all over again! Good times......
After I began throwing those wild parties (funny... in retrospect, the parties
weren't that wild) in the late eighties, my passion returned to having a voice
and sharing my love to music. I decided to begin DJ'ing on an underground level.
In 1990, I obtained a cheap microphone, mountains of blank, high-quality cassette
tapes, a library of music cassette albums, and a nice boom box with two tape
decks. This was my first so-called "DJ system", and although it would
be a few years before I invested in a professional DJ system, what I did with
that primitive setup continues to amaze me. I was crazy, creative, and often
put together my programs on the fly so quickly that it might as well have been
a live program. Since I looked like a teenager despite being 20 years old, I
came up with the stage name "DJ Wiz Kid".
On October 6, 1990, it began. I put together my first 90 minute cassette program
release (CPR), generically title "Fresh Mix". This was quickly followed
by a hip hop / gangsta rap release titled "Nasty Mix", where I got
to go crazy, see how many swear words I could fit in my monologues, and see
how outrageous I could be. Obviously, I went too far with that one (although
my 18th release "Bitch" in 1991 was crazier and led to one of my beach
parties being rioted). This woman I knew quit talking to me after she heard
"Nasty Mix". She thought that I had issues. Although I have grown
out of that phase and am much more mature about my creative efforts these days
(not to mention professional, since I now know what I'm doing), no one could
touch the explicit nature of my programs in those days. Those who think that
Tampa shock jock Bubba The Love Sponge (Who I met for the first time a few days
ago- surprisingly cool guy who is nothing like his on-air persona) is bad would
have a heart attack if they heard those early releases (and, no, none of you
will ever hear the explicit ones if I have I have anything to do with it. I
have all of the master tapes, and they are stored in a safe under lock and key.
I am guessing that all of the boot-leg copies that were out there have long
been worn out and lost to time; the would damage my professional career now
if they got out). Those early crazy releases were much, much worse than anything
that anyone that I know have has ever done. They make Howard Stern look like
a church choir.
Anyway, I began to hit my stride by my third cassette program release, "Horizons",
on November 2, 1990, one of my first releases where I didn't go crazy with the
profanity, X-rated music, and crude humor (I'll give myself this much- I've
always been funny with some of the stuff that I came up with).. On October 31,
1990, I went to a Price Waterhouse party and recorded interviews with everyone
there. I edited the interviews and turned it into a music mix. The resulting
release, Horizons, finished and released two days later, was way, way ahead
of its time. I didn't know it at the time, but I was on to something. Horizons
became my first hit, and after the first few copies got out, thousands of copies
were made, and spread all over Tampa Bay.
I am still trying to get to grips with what happened in those early days. As
an example, I was talking to a big-time headlining night club DJ recently, and
they not only knew who I was as a DJ but were familiar with some of my earliest
work. I suppose what they lacked in professional polish and quality was more
than made up by my creative passion and the entertainment value. I've had other
DJ's tell me that my work had inspired them and that the reason that they were
DJ's today was because of my releases. I've even heard of radio DJ's trading
my tapes. Which reminds me- When I talked to Bubba, he perked up like he recognized
my voice from somewhere. Now, this is purely speculation on my part and could
be my imagination, but I do know that past 93.3 (The Power Pig!) WFLZ DJ Tom
Steel (early 90's Tim and Tom show) has listened to my programs, and it is possible
that Bubba, who was a radio DJ there back then, had come across at least one
of programs in his career. Again, speculation on my part, as none of his radio
exploits shows even a hint of being influenced by my work (although I am far
from a Bubba fan and have only started to tune in to laugh at him making fun
of MJ over the lawsuit, which I find to be highly entertaining at MJ's expense).
It's just that it seemed that he recognized my voice, and that's all. I never
talked to him about it, so I don't know for sure.
Going back to DJ history, I got better starting with the release of Horizons.
"Back to the streets", which I released in 1991, was one of the few
explicit releases, and I either went crazy or sat back and entertained my fanbase.
With the release of the 13th CPR, Waveform, my production standards went higher,
and the so-called second generation, or GEN 2, began. Each release had a strong
script, samples from various sources, guests, art direction, and a theme which
the music program, sound effects, and samples were blended in a context which
supported the script and the theme. I also started to make my own covers for
the cassettes using scissors, glue, assorted print sources and catalogs for
the pictures (I barely knew what a camera was back then, and had done little
photography. I was always a designer, however, although you couldn't tell at
that time by looking at my work.) Those first cassette covers were done by hand,
with graphics and layouts often drawn by hand. They were very crude, and the
copies were black and white done by photocopy machines and cut out by hand for
each cassette!
For those who are wondering by now, all of the music and photographs used were
the property of the publishers, and I had no rights to use them. I didn't care
at the time, however. I was having fun DJ'ing my cassette program releases much
like people who were making mix tapes, but on a more ambitious level. I had
no right to sell the programs, and didn't. It didn't take long for the photographs
to become mine, however, and soon I will own the music used, too, or will have
permission to use and sell it.
Late 1991 and the duration of 1992 was a dark time. I got into a lot of trouble
due to the event riot of November 2, 1991, and soon my life was undergoing a
depressing transition. My life was destroyed and I found myself fighting to
survive. A girl destroyed my equipment and some of my tapes with toothpaste
(!), and it took most of 1992 and 1993 to get my life back and invest in professional
DJ gear. I moved to Tampa and worked hard to rebuild my life. I bought a Peavey
7032 DJ Mixer, which is still in mint condition and in use today, CD players,
a professional microphone, amps, speakers, and all sorts of advanced technology.
It took a while to replace my tape library with CD's. I bought some experimental
technology, too, experimenting with things like 3D audio and technology which
would be needed for a new generation of parties and interactive theme events.
I decided that I was older and wiser, and changed my name from DJ Wiz Kid to
DJ Frontier in 1993. I also came up with brand new third generation production
standards, or GEN 3, which would go on to last for four years. Starting with
my 22nd cassette program release, which was had music entirely sourced from
CD's, all of the GEN 3 releases were encoded in SRS 3D sound which was provided
by an SRS Labs AK-100 which I obtained from Hughes Aircraft in California (and
also begun by legendary track record of finding and securing great electronics
deals). My new home studio, which I christened "Geomedia One", was
state of the art, and had a lot of technology which was secret, and is still
secret, today. This started a new era where I began to work out ideas which
were years, and decades, ahead of their time. In 1994, after two demos learning
the technology, I emerged as DJ Frontier, the name which I still use today.
I also started a photography and design company, Aurora PhotoArts, to photograph
the cover of my comeback Cassette Program Release, or CPR, and this time the
covers were more-professionally designed and were photograph-quality and in
color Although I still had to do all my layouts by hand)! I also came out with
a rating system, which was printed on the covers, so people could see how explicit
the content was before they listened to it (EC-13, EC-18, and EC-21). It was
a time to start over, and this time, the work was (more) professional as well
as creative. A lot more planning, writing, work, and time went into all of the
GEN 3 CPR's.
Some of those GEN 3 CPR's are legendary, and they were all a quantum leap over
anything that I had done before. I did some experiments over the years, and
rumor has it that some of them have subliminals encoded into them which I had
engineered. Those legends are still great, and they stand the test of time.
Futura, Futura 2, Generation, Party Zone 3, Party Zone RMX, Aurora, and Waveform
3 were all massive hits with tens of thousands of copies circulating around
Tampa Bay.
In 1998, with the new Geomedia 3 production facility nearing completion and
the GEN 3 CPR's outdated with cassettes and analogue recording technology obsolete,
production stopped.
There were plans for GEN 4 releases. They were going to be CD's, produced using
computers and digital production technology. I became sidetracked, however.
I began to DJ a lot of events as DJ Frontier, and took a break from DJ'ing altogether
in 2002 to focus on my career as one of Florida's top modeling and talent photographers.
Aurora PhotoArts became the top photography and design services company in the
Tampa Bay market, and my event planning company, now known as Eventi Events,
plugged along, with all of the DJ and event work farmed out to my DJ's.
Now, in 2008, all is about to change.
I return to DJ'ing as DJ Frontier later this year. My event planning company
is ready for a new era. Many of my ideas and technology, which are still ahead
of their time today, can now be done cost-effectively. Technology has finally
caught up so the more ambitious efforts are possible. I will be doing a lot
of things which were created back in 1993, and since no one has seen any of
them and no one has even approached anything better, these ideas might as well
be newly-conceived.
I am very pleased with myself that technology developed back in the early 1990's
is still ahead of anything out there today. It is time for a new era.
My cyber suits can now be done. My stage designs are now possible. Theories
have been proven. New ways of doing things are going to be done. Well, that's
material for other posts. Back to DJ'ing.
GEN 4 production standards, drafted and completed ten years ago, are now obsolete.
In this age of MP3's and digital download distribution, GEN 5 is now here, and
it's going to be the best yet.
As I prepare for the new age of Digital Program Releases, or DPR's, I will cut
my teeth on the new technology by going back to my archives and raiding some
of my best CPR's of GEN 3 (1994 to 1997). Because I had really high production
values for GEN 3 and pushed analog technology to its limits, all of the GEN
3 CPR's are prime candidates for digital conversion. I will be remastering Futura,
Futura 2, Party Zone 3, Waveform 3, Aurora, Generation, Horizons RMX, and a
few others. The programs will be converted to digital files, and I will be doing
brand new covers for the digital editions of these programs. Each program will
have two cover image formats, one optimized for IPOD display and one which can
be printed out for those who want to rip the digital files into CD's- The print
file will be formatted for CD cases. There will also be a text file and a print
version of the text files with dedications and credits, replacing the Z card
inserts of the old Cassette Program Releases (CPR covers were known as "J
cards").
Thinking about analog limits, this was one of the main reasons that the CPR
line was discontinued. New programs that were in the works, such as Rush Hour,
had technical requirements beyond that of the GEN 3 technology. I was having
all kinds of problems with Rush Hour, and barely got it half way done before
putting away my recorded material and terminating the production line. Rush
Hour, which has no relation to that crappy Chris Tucker movie and had its name
before the movie was even announced, was supposed to emulate a radio broadcast.
The way that the program was supposed to work was that the owner of the program
would play it on their stereo and anyone around would think that it was really
the radio. The actors who were involved did a really great job, and the recordings
are excellent, but the analog mix had some technical issues which I could not
get around. The illusion of the radio could not be done with what I was working
with. I am toying with the idea of converting the recordings to digital files
and completely redoing Rush Hour as a GEN 5 release. I would have extra incentive
to do this if I decide to do Midnight and Radio City, too, which would compete
the radio trilogy series. Midnight, which ties into my Club Zero interactive
theme event, is about a New Years eve radio dance show which experiences what
was supposed to have happened with Y2K at the end of 1999. Radio City is about
a radio show in the 1980's, and is based on Q105 of that era.
Rush Hour (Read the Rush Hour script here) was ahead of its time. So was Daytona
(Read the script for Daytona here). Daytona was the sequel to Waveform 3, and
followed the adventures of Washout and his fraternity friend Tobey as they went
to Daytona for spring break.
Ah, Waveform 3. Waveform 3 was about a character named Washout and his beach
party adventures. It had a surf and beach theme, and was really popular, and,
no, Washout is not gay. He just sounds like it. He's just misunderstood. Ironically,
the original GEN 2 CPR Waveform was about new wave music, and the late GEN 2
Waveform 2 was just a little bit of everything, and really wasn't that good
of a program. Waveform 3 had a strong story, great writing, and a solid theme,
and it was a hit in 1995, Bra ha ha (I was inspired by the film "Under
the boardwalk"). Toward the end of the GEN 3 era, there were plans to do
Waveform RMX. I even had it programmed and had some of it running in the studio.
Actually, let's make that a GEN 5 Digital Program Release, shall we?
There were a lot more releases in the pipeline, and I had scripts and ideas
for over two dozen more. I will post about them soon. Here is the CPR list:
U.L.P. ERA (1990-1992)
UNDERGROUND LABEL PRODUCTION NETWORK
RELEASES
GEN 1
CPR # ARTIST : TITLE GENRE RELEASE DATE
001 DJ WIZ KID: FRESH MIX TOP 40
OCT 1990
002 DJ WIZ KID: NASTY MIX RAP OCT
1990
003 DJ WIZ KID: HORIZONS TOP 40 NOV
1990
004 DJ WIZ KID: HORIZONS II TOP 40
NOV 1990
005 DJ WIZ KID: HORIZONS III TOP
40 DEC 1990
006 DJ WIZ KID: FIRE IN THE DESERT
MIDDLE EAST JAN 1991
007 DJ WIZ KID: SLAM RIP RELEASE
FEB 1991
008 DJ WIZ KID: HORIZONS IV TOP 40
MAR 1991
009 DJ WIZ KID: LEGACY RANT MAR 1991
010 DJ WIZ KID: DANCE FLOOR EXPRESS
DANCE MIX APR 1991
011 DJ WIZ KID: B**CH MINI PROMO
RAP APR 1991
012 DJ WIZ KID: REBEL WITH A CAUSE
RAP/ RANT JUN 1991
GEN 2
CPR# ARTIST: TITLE GENRE RELEASE DATE
013 DJ WIZ KID: WAVEFORM NEW WAVE
JUL 1991
014 DJ WIZ KID: BACK TO THE STREETS
RAP JUL 1991
015 DJ WIZ KID: VISION COMMERCIAL
AUG 1991
016 DJ WIZ KID: PARTY ZONE DANCE
MIX SEPT 1991
017 DJ P. J. : DANCE MIX I DANCE
MIX SEPT 1991
018 DJ WIZ KID: B: THE MAJOR REALEASE
RAP/ RIP OCT 1991
019 DJ WIZ KID/ FOXX: EAT ME, B**CH
RAP NOV 1991
020 DJ WIZ KID: WAVEFORM 2 TOP 40/
RIP DEC 1991
021 DJ FOXX: SMOOTH LOVE LOVE MAR
1992
GEOMEDIA PRODUCTION ERA (1994-1999)
GEN 3
CPR# ARTIST: TITLE THEME PRODUCTION
022 DJ FRONTIER/ CRICKET: FUTURA
FUTURIST JUN 1994
023 DJ FRONTIER: PARTY ZONE 2 DANCE
MIX JUL 1994
024 DJ FRONTIER: HORIZONS RMX PAST/
FUTURE JUN 1995
025 DJ FRONTIER: WAVEFORM 3 BEACH
JUL 1995
026 DJ FRONTIER: REBELLION HEAVY
METAL JUL 1995
027 DJ FRONTIER: PARTY ZONE 3 DANCE
MIX OCT 1995
028 DJ FRONTIER: GENERATION SCI-FI
FEB 1996
029 DJ FRONTIER: FUTURA 2 FUTURIST
APR 1996
030 DJ FRONTIER: URBAN COWBOY COUNTRY
FEB 1996
031 DJ FRONTIER: AURORA NEW AGE DEC
1996
032 DJ FRONTIER: PARTY ZONE 4 DANCE
MIX JUL 1996
033 DJ FRONTIER: PARTY ZONE RMX DANCE
REMIX 1997/ 1998
END OF LINE
PLANNED (May be done as GEN 5 DPR's):
034 OMEGA TEAM: DAYTONA SPRING BREAK 1998
035 OMEGA TEAM: RUSH HOUR RADIO PARODY
1998
036 DJ FRONTIER: SILVERTREE (SK)
ESPIONAGE 1998
037 DJ FRONTIER: CLUB ZERO RED (SK)
FUTURE CLUB 1998
038 DJ FRONTIER: CLUB ZERO GREEN
(SK) FUTURE CLUB 1998
039 DJ FRONTIER: CLUB ZERO BLUE (SK)
FUTURE CLUB 1998
040 DJ SIREN/ FRONTIER: OZONE MEDITATION
1998
041 DJ FRONTIER: MAKO DATING 1998
042 DJ FRONTIER: WAVEFORM RMX BEACH
JAM 1998
043 DJ FRONTIER: REGENCY CRUISERS
98' CRUISING 1998
045 DJ FRONTIER: RESOLUTION NEW YEARS
DANCE MIX 1998
046 OMEGA TEAM: B2 RIOT PARODY 1999
047 OMEGA TEAM: RADIO CITY RADIO
PARODY 1999
048 OMEGA TEAM: MIDNIGHT RADIO PARODY
1999
049 DJ FRONTIER: FUTURA RMX FUTURIST
MIX 1999
050 DJ FRONTIER/ SHY/ SIREN: FUTURA
3 FUTURIST 1999
With the GEN 5 Digital Program Releases, I was going to reboot the entire program
line, making new programs with old titles possible. I just decided not to do
that. I have new properties in the works, and if I want to make a new addition
to an old property, I will give it a proper name. For example, the last Party
Zone was Party Zone 4 (not counting Party Zone RMX, which came out later toward
the end of GEN 3, and was a remix of the first and the second Party Zone). The
next in the line would be Party Zone 5. Other possibilities, recognizing the
older programs, would be Waveform 4, Futura 3, Generation 2, Aurora 2, etc (keep
in mind that I am giving examples here and none of these, with the possible
exceptions of Party Zone 5 and Generation 2, are confirmed with being in the
works. I am not even sure about the other two at this time, although I would
love to see a Party Zone 5. A Generation 2 would be interesting, too, and I
could think of some cool things that I could do with Futura 3.
All that I know is that digital distribution and my event planning company dominating
the event market could drive a fanbase thousands of times greater that anything
seen before, and this is why I am looking into moving forward with the production
line.
My new film series, Frontier View (which will be found at FrontierView.Com)
will be another factor driving the fanbase of the upcoming DPR's. Ah, yes, there
will be a video program series, too, but it is too early to talk about it.
DJ Frontier is back. My DJ web site, DjFrontier.Com, which will tie into Frontier
Vision, will be up this fall.
With this said, I have thousands of CD's to convert to MP3's. Converting my
library will take several months, and I will have to build a new computer for
the music files.
This takes time. Progress is being made.
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