The difference between playing a set and playing songs

[evil homer]

I have a serious beef with most "dj's" out there. You have an opportunity to arrange songs together in some new inventive way and thus make cool art, a musical collage or pastiche if you will.

But most of you don't. Most of you just want to make ppl jump up at every breakdown. I understand that promoters tend to give pretty short sets and you want to make ppl move in all of that short time. But I think that even in 90 mins it is possible to switch things up a bit and display the wide variety of DnB produced at the moment. I have friends (not serious junglists by any means, but partiers who make it out on a regular basis) who were unaware that DnB has started to expand out of the darkside again. You can still play the latest white labels if thats your thing, just move around a bit. Please?

I know there are dj's out there that follow this, big ups and as the producers keep producing i'm assuming i'm not the only one picking up a wide variety of tunes so why has this not trickled down to most sets?

 

[rentboy]

nice one Evan.

This has been a pet peeve of mine for a long time and a reason why i stopped going to Turbo...every DJ sounds the same...

also, DJs should play older tunes, not just a full set of current tunes...how about playing tunes from 96, 97 or 98???

Playing a wide range of sounds is the only way the barriers can be broken down...how can people get into the atmospheric side if no one plays it??

peace
Chris

 

[shylock_one]

Isn't that what separates the good DJ's from the great DJ's?
Aside from the technical skill of course.

 

[smile]

Originally posted by rentboy
nice one Evan.

This has been a pet peeve of mine for a long time and a reason why i stopped going to Turbo...every DJ sounds the same...

also, DJs should play older tunes, not just a full set of current tunes...how about playing tunes from 96, 97 or 98???

Playing a wide range of sounds is the only way the barriers can be broken down...how can people get into the atmospheric side if no one plays it??

peace
Chris

you can thank vinyl syndicate and all their asslicking followers for that.

i've been saying that for years. just because a tune is NEW does not automatically make it the shit.

 

[AVE]

DLO, you still want that Doc Scott mix?

 

[rentboy]

Originally posted by smile


you can thank vinyl syndicate and all their asslicking followers for that.

i've been saying that for years. just because a tune is NEW does not automatically make it the shit.

word.

I think Turbo should have had a themed night every now and again. e.g. A 1996 night where the DJs only play tunes from '96...then a '97 night and so on.

i hate when classics are forgotten.

 

[evil homer]

check this set out, its about 1 1/2 hrs. Unfortunately i did not record it, but i'm now keeping these records in this order

Calibre - U Make it hot
J Majik - Love is Not a Game
Delat and Format - Can't Explain
High Contrast - Suddenly
Juju - Summer
Total Science - Juicy Fruit (calibre rmx)
Total Science - Juicy Fruit
Beta II - (either kinetix or changes, i don't know which is which)
Invaderz - Mirage
Zero Tolerance - (The track off Anything and Everything vol 1)
Alpha Omega - Promised Land
Manix - Hardcore junglism (Total Science rmx)
Dj Rap - Waveform
Klute - Galaxian
Polar - Skydiver
Sonic & Silver - Hard Times
Polar - Reversed Psychology (or futile dreams? the harder one)
Klute - Song Seller
tgm - Infinity 2.0
Total Science - (From Plastic Surgery 2 LP)
Pleasure - Illusion
Klute - Phone Call (Matrix rmx)
Morgan Packer - Air
Primary Motive - (From Creative Source LP)

In my opinion this covers every current style of DnB although Tek-Step and Jump-Tek type tunes are given short shrift I'm confident this would still rock a dancefloor. Besides, i just let other dj's do that cuz in my opinion those type tunes are so disposable they're hardly ever worth picking up and with many of these i'm still happily dropping them a year later.

Incidentally, if any of you were considering coming up to kingston to check astral projection i'll be playing that afternoon like the above but with all sorts of 1/2 speed downtempo, dub and hip hop mixed throughout

 

[D-Cypher]

*ahem*

^^^shameless self-promo! =P

I totally agree with ya bro, but just on a side not, almost all those records were released within the last year, no?

 

[evil homer]

they're all between a year and a month old, but they cover a lot of DnB ground...if it'd make you feel better i'll add 'circles' and 'demons theme' at the end