― 0r4l R0b3rt5 (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)
― 0r4l R0b3rt5 (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 14:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― peepee (peepee), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)
― peepee (peepee), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)
― 0r4l R0b3rt5 (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)
― Graeme (Graeme), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)
not looking like they're having any fun
not making people's hearts beat fasterwhen they're paid to do exactly that if nothing else
not pushing things forward
not utilising newer/newest technology
thinking they are stil in 1996
not being thin
not being female at least half the time
scratching and such *endlesly* and wanking away asif anybody cares
being bored
playing like they are playing to a roomful of other djs
not being eclectic
playing too much of the same old fcking thing in perpetuity
generally treating dj-ing as if it were a sport
wearing bape and carrhatt and such
and khaki
and not dressing up enough
― piscesboy, Wednesday, 16 June 2004 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)
wtf?!?!?!???
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)
― briania (briania), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)
― Apostrophe Catastrophe (kate), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 14:28 (twenty-two years ago)
― 0r4l R0b3rt5 (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)
― peepee (peepee), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)
― peepee (peepee), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)
― 0r4l R0b3rt5 (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 14:36 (twenty-two years ago)
― peepee (peepee), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 14:37 (twenty-two years ago)
this is why Out Hud and !!! suck, too.
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 14:39 (twenty-two years ago)
― 0r4l R0b3rt5 (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)
When I saw Outhud, they didn't do this at all, maybe because most everyone was dancing from the getgo. I'll reserve the judgement about !!! until next week.
― peepee (peepee), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)
― peepee (peepee), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)
― Apostrophe Catastrophe (kate), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)
at about 4am, mixed with alcohol, it sure makes sense!
― peepee (peepee), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)
― 0r4l R0b3rt5 (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)
― Apostrophe Catastrophe (kate), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)
― DJ GOD, Wednesday, 16 June 2004 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)
Therefore:another one....not knowing that a frewentch beat is generally the dullest beat of all!
― peepee (peepee), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)
― peepee (peepee), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)
Do music selectors actually play "IceIceBaby" and "UnderPressure" and expect people to dance? Are clubdrugs that potent these days!
― peepee (peepee), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)
ten total dc floorfillers (in no particular order)
1) highway to hell2) touch too much3) the jack4) tnt 5) hells bells*6) you shook me all night long*7) high voltage8) jailbreak9) for those about to rock*10) girls got rhythm
* - brian johnson's is usually best avoided but i'll make exceptions for these as they ROCK!
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 16 June 2004 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)
How about not knowing that people have been making this same ill-informed assertion since the days of disco and despite all the bitching, the boompty boomp still keeps dancefloors moving all night long.
― jeffery (jeffery), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)
― peepee (peepee), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)
55) Taking off the wrong record
56) Turning off the currently cued turntable by accident
57) Turning up the volume so loudly that the Limiter cuts the PA
58) Spilling beer in the mixer
― Graeme (Graeme), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)
Where I come from, "keeping a floor moving" means "keeping the people dancing and having a good time".
In a previous post, you claimed that the one beat pattern that serves as the foundation of techno, house and all subsequent variants is the "dullest beat of all" and then you follow it up with this? C'mon.
― jeffery (jeffery), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)
While this is horrible, it is not as horrible as arriving at said bar only to find some "scenester" posing as a DJ (and yes, in LA white belts and trucker hats are STILL the uniform, especially for DJs) playing the same predictable, terrible set.
So I've pretty much stopped going to bars in LA.
So let me say to all you DJs out there who think playing predictable AC/DC songs (xpost) in your set is clever and/or enjoyable- FUCK OFF!!!!
And I like AC/DC, especially Bon Scott AC/DC, but really, drop in "Fight For Your Right To Party" while you're at it you fucking LOSER!
― jsoulja (jsoulja), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)
― jsoulja (jsoulja), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)
stirmonster: its not an AC/DC hate point; its a pacing point
― 0r4l R0b3rt5 (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)
accidently playing the instrumental side when you meant to play the vocal side (see Planet Rock, Mr. Flagio, and others)
as bad as bad beatmatching is, let's shake our heads at people who, because they can hold a mix forever, insist on doing so, even though the songs sound terrible together.
DJs not having fun with transitions, endlessly beatmatching and fading and never cutting.
I dance behind the tables, and I've been known to run out onto the dancefloor and dance for a song then run back and keep mixing.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)
i dj because i love it and if playing ac / dc records from time to time gives me and my crowd a hard on, who the hell are you to decide it's lame?
asswipe,
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 16 June 2004 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)
stirmonster, do you dj junior high dances?
― 0r4l R0b3rt5 (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)
60) throwing records out of the dj booth and breaking someone's nose.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 16 June 2004 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 16 June 2004 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 18:37 (twenty-two years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 18:39 (twenty-two years ago)
i'll add one:
62: not setting your gear up properly stable for a basement party and upon getting too excited with the peak of your set and jumping up and down, inadvertantly knocking the whole coffin off its stand onto the floor, hearing the record go "SKKKKRKKKK", the case go "THUNKK" and then having total silence while you stand there going from the highest high to the lowest low. (thankfully i only did this once)
oh and 63: staying with one style/genre for HOURS (i'm specifically thinking of ProgHouse and DnB djs) so that the set sounds like one megalong version of the same record
― rentboy (rentboy), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 18:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)
I prefer the input faders to rotary knobs because it's easier to change both with one hand on the former.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:12 (twenty-two years ago)
Exercise #1: contains three measures with triplets and rests in each measure. The Time Signature is 4/4...which means 4 beats to the measure and the quarter note (and each TRIPLET) gets one beat. Click on the SOUND Icon --> midi to hear Exercise #1.
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)
The "swinging eighth note" is written as two eighth notes
BUT the "swinging eighth note" is PLAYED like a dotted eighth note and a sixteenth note.
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)
the music literate would call this pioneering new beat you described above as: "a waltz".
― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)
Stencil, you're not quite listening: yes, if you are writing with triplets / swing / regular shuffle, that's most certainly 4/4, and you could certainly put together schaffel stuff that way. But schaffel has a feel that's slightly different from that. My guess is that that's because schaffel is put together using electronic sequencers that aren't typically user-friendly about programming triplets or doing very good hard shuffles. I've tried programming schaffel that way, and it bugs the living crap out of me. Programming schaffel as a very-fast 3/4, on the other hand, turns out -- for me -- to be a billion times simpler, and to capture the particular feel of e.g. Raumschmiere a whole lot better. The feel of what you're talking about is ever so slightly different from the feel of the same thing programmed out (in about a tenth of the time) as a fast 3/4, and you're welcome to come up to my apartment any time you want and observe a demonstration.
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― 0r4l R0b3rt5 (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)
― mike a, Wednesday, 16 June 2004 20:14 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 16 June 2004 21:56 (twenty-two years ago)
I had two words to say to him:
"Duh"
― peepee (peepee), Thursday, 17 June 2004 01:19 (twenty-two years ago)
― tylero (tylero), Thursday, 17 June 2004 01:28 (twenty-two years ago)
― peepee (peepee), Thursday, 17 June 2004 01:40 (twenty-two years ago)
― peepee (peepee), Thursday, 17 June 2004 01:41 (twenty-two years ago)
― sorry. (gcannon), Thursday, 17 June 2004 01:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― peepee (peepee), Thursday, 17 June 2004 01:44 (twenty-two years ago)
"house music all night long"
― tylero (tylero), Thursday, 17 June 2004 03:07 (twenty-two years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 17 June 2004 03:25 (twenty-two years ago)
― 0r4l R0b3rt5 (ex machina), Thursday, 17 June 2004 04:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 17 June 2004 04:30 (twenty-two years ago)
― 0r4l R0b3rt5 (ex machina), Thursday, 17 June 2004 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)
― the housefox (blueski), Thursday, 17 June 2004 11:39 (twenty-two years ago)
Supah not!
* cymbal crash
Hey!m.
― msp as rodney dangerfield, Thursday, 17 June 2004 12:03 (twenty-two years ago)
― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 17 June 2004 15:26 (twenty-two years ago)
― noggin out with sharon davies, Thursday, 17 June 2004 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)
... to clear the floor?
― rentboy (rentboy), Thursday, 17 June 2004 16:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 17 June 2004 19:55 (twenty-two years ago)
eclecticism is the most pimped out gimmick around, as regards DJing. Not to dismiss it entirely, whatever "it" is, but the idea that eclecticism is somehow more difficult to harness than purity, in dance music, is nonsense. And I say that meaning that finding a common thread among records from different genres can make a great set, but the effort to do this is important.
― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 18 June 2004 02:53 (twenty-one years ago)
61 (or whatever): throwing records out of the DJ booth, cutting someone's head open and then ending your set because of "the trauma" (Sasha did this at my old student union last week. No I wasn't there)
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 18 June 2004 08:20 (twenty-one years ago)
― stirmonster, Saturday, 19 June 2004 03:38 (twenty-one years ago)
― Clarke B. (Clarke B.), Saturday, 19 June 2004 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)
-- stirmonster (jd_twitc...), June 16th, 2004.
hahaha!! i'd forgotten about this thread.
― piscesboy, Tuesday, 13 December 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)
― blunt (blunt), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 23:28 (twenty years ago)
― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)
Ah, yes...back when people still gave a f&ck.
― viborgu, Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)
Anyone ever been out anywhere where the DJ tries to send a hilarious message or make a "wild" statement by playing two tracks in a row?
E.g. I once heard the Strokes new single around the time it came out, followed by 'Dedicated follower of fashion'. Hoho.
I'm sure there's been more, too. Usually it's along the lines of "oh hey this credible indie/rock track you all love is actually a rip-off of this little-known PWL song from the 80s!"
― Not the real Village People, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 17:16 (sixteen years ago)
i do it but only if I like both songs.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 20:45 (sixteen years ago)
i do it too, but again, like dan says.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 20:59 (sixteen years ago)
I <3 this thread.
Even if I violate the Not Being Thin rule.
I do however heed the "being at least 50% female at all times" rule.
― hüzün (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 21:09 (sixteen years ago)
I once heard the Strokes new single around the time it came out, followed by 'Dedicated follower of fashion'.
oh thats so bad
― NI, Sunday, 23 August 2009 15:15 (sixteen years ago)