dbilas Posted January 31 Report Share Posted January 31 DJ Martin Boss to break the Guinness World Record® for the longest DJ Set.ORLANDO, FL, January 31, 2002 - On February 1-4, 2002, DJ Martin Boss of Orlando, FL will break the Guinness World Record® for the longest DJ set as he prepares to spin records for 72 hours. This event will be streamed live over the internet in both audio and video on the groovefactory.com website (www.groovefactory.com), which will be able to support up to 10,000 streams simultaneously. Already having drawn international attention, the event will take at the Vinyl Frontier Record Store located at 320 W. Colonial Drive in Orlando, FL USA.Promotion for this major event has been geared towards raising awareness about the voting process and encouraging young people to get involved politically with respect to the electronic music community. To that end, the event has been posted to the Supervisor of Elections website for the state of Florida and will feature voter registration for those in attendance.This event has already attracted the attention of local, national, and international media; some of whom will be covering the event as it happens. In addition to the media, sponsors from all over the world have jumped on board to be a part of this event. Sponsors for this event include:Groovefactory.com (www.groovefactory.com)180 Energy Drink (www.180.com)Met-Rx (www.metrx.com)Ambiguous Clothing (www.ambiguousclothing.com)Utopia Optics (www.utopiaoptics.com)Karmaloop (www.karmaloop.com)Amp Media (www.ampmediaonline.com)Only 4 DJ's (www.onlyfordj.fr)Astralwerks Records (www.astralwerks.com)Star 69 Records (www.star69records.com)Streetbeat Records (www.streetbeatrecords.com)Soul Phusion Records (www.soulphusionrecords.com)Lightning/Bonzai Records (www.bonzai.be)Seen Magazine (www.seen-magazine.com)Bombs Threads (www.bombsthreads.com)Kha Shot Me! Photography & PhotomarketingUpper Decks DJ Trading CardsThis is an event that is not to be missed. Vinyl Frontier will be open 24 hours for those locally in the Orlando area that wish to witness this feat and will feature giveaways from many of the sponsors. For those that are outside of Orlando, the live video and audio stream will provide the sights and sounds of the event for the entire weekend. This World Record attempt will require almost 1,000 records which will be played over the course of the three day event. Additionally, DJ Martin Boss will be taking a drug test before and after the event to show that no artificial means were used to stay awake. In the weeks preceding the event, Martin has been on a strict regiment of vitamins and protein supplements supplied by sponsor Met-Rx (www.metrx.com).Further information about the event and the link to the live internet stream can be found on DJ Martin Boss' website found at www.DJMartinBoss.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phuturephunk Posted January 31 Report Share Posted January 31 . .OMG . . I used to shop at that store . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Posted January 31 Report Share Posted January 31 some local jonk on wfmu did something similar by being on the air for some insane amount of time liek that.he went fucking crazy towards hte end.interesting to hear teh alst few hours of the set Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jennEfer Posted January 31 Report Share Posted January 31 That is some crazy shit... I hope he makes it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daadyrichie Posted January 31 Report Share Posted January 31 shit i was at sf last week from 5am till 11pm 18 ohurs that was enough for me,theres only one way this guy is going 72 hours(chrystal) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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