An interview with Goa's top DJ Navin

The Ace DJ from Goa talks to PartySoulz about DJ-ing and more. Here’s DJ Navin Rodrigues

Antonio: Why did you choose DJ-ing as your career?

Navin: I can’t say that I ‘chose’ DJ-ing as a career. It came about just unexpectedly. I Got really inspired watching DJ’s play and entertain people. So when I went to nightclubs instead of dancing, I used to stand behind the DJ console and watch DJ’s do their thing and with tips from a few DJ-ing friends I picked up the skill. I really love my job and every night is a new challenge. Now I can’t think of anything else other den my music n DJ-ing!!

Antonio: Enlighten us about some of your best performances or which you think are your best and why?

Navin: I have been really lucky to play at some of the best nightclubs in Goa, Bombay, Bangalore and Manipal. My favourite gigs have always been in Goa because people really understand music here. My favourite night clubs where I can play my sound are Mambos n Butter Lounge!

Antonio: What is your advice to young and upcoming jockeys?

Navin: My advice to young and upcoming jockeys is if you think you got in you go for it. Don’t ever stop, let nothing pull you down. A lot of young kids think DJ-ing is fast money and fame. It’s a long struggle before you actually get there. Take part in DJ-ing competitions. That’s how u get spotted and a very important part of DJ-ing is to market yourself. You need to really stand out from the rest!

Antonio: What are your ultimate goals as a professional DJ?

Navin: My ultimate aim as professional DJ is to get into production and have other DJ’s play my records. And that shall happen very soon  as of now I am happy just DJ-ing.

Antonio: What are your comments about PartySoulz’s new venture eGoa?

Navin: First of all a big thank you for choosing me as the Goan of the week. Definitely a must visit for everyone. It has a lot of information about our beautiful Goa.

Interview by Antonio Furtado

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eGoa and PartySoulz cross-branding is enabled

Since my team is now focused on E-Goa, I can understand the concern from people who have been using PartySoulz.com blog to promote their events, we had anticipated this concern and already have the features of PartySoulz.com on eGoa, infact eGoa extends PartySoulz functions by miles.

Earlier users had to request an admin to get their events listed and promoted via PartySoulz.com, on eGoa a user can directly "create an event", when an event is created, the content is relayed as a blog post onto partysoulz.com and across it's social media network automatically, this is done using the concept of APIs, this automatic tech-driven integration between eGoa and PartySoulz allows both to function as independent brands and provides more exposure for event promoters.

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An interview with Aniket Warty

Egoa: Sir, please do tell us something about your Goan connections?.
Mr. Warty: Firstly there is a connection of descendant. My father was a Goan, although I was born in Maharashtra, I was closely in touch with the Goan culture at all times. Few months back I had a heart surgery. I was told not the fly (by air) for at least 3 months. So it meant boredom. Rather I thought why not set up a unit in Goa? It gave me a chance to come back to my roots and also there is a lot of hidden talent here. I just want to explore it.

Egoa: Who is your target audience?
Mr. Warty: Well, we have establishments all around the Globe right from Costa Rica to China. At present what we are doing is B2B marketing (i.e. Business to Business). Herein we actually lease our software and other products to other companies on revenue basis. It helps us earn a decent profit. Also, very soon we will be launching B2C (i.e. Business to Customer) approach very soon. Wherein, we will directly supply to the customers.

Egoa: What is the biggest threat to your business?
Mr. Warty: the worst is the cultural inhibitions of various countries. And as an added disadvantage are the unreal government policies. That is the biggest threat because we have no control on the government. In some countries online gaming is illegal but offline is legal and is some other countries it is vice versa.

Egoa: China is one of the biggest hubs for you. Is it true?
Mr. Warty: China has great human resource but the Government policies are stringent. There is a trade-off here. It is the leading manufacturing Country. So it is very much affordable in monetary terms. But, the Government policies are a hitch.

Egoa: Tell us a little about your products?..
Mr. Warty:
When the motive is to entertain, everything else takes a backseat. We build our software backwards. Sort of reverse engineering. When a group of professionals are pitted together, creativity has no limit. So our programmers, graphic designers and marketing geeks get together and spend a lot of time dreaming. And re-creating those dreams. It works for us, and will for our clients as well.
We won't say that our gaming software is the best on this planet, it will be. We constantly endeavor to better a previous effort. And our actions really speak louder. We'll let you be the judge.

Our products:
? Poker
? Omaha
? Stud Poker
? Casino
? Badugi
? Speed Hold'em
? Tournaments
? Flash game
? Fantasy sports
? Sports book
? Dominoes

Egoa: What is your USP?
Mr. Warty: Complete gaming platforms
Internationalization Support
Multiple skins
Scalability, Robustness, Fault Tolerance
Regression and game rule test suite
Advance Fraud and collusion detection algorithms

Courtesy: a talk by Mr. Warty at Adarsh Institute of Management
The excerpts have been picked up by: Nisha Bhatia

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