pure fire grime in nyc

looks big !

petergunn said:

now, we just need people to come down!

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i'll be there next week -- was too depressed to go out last night

hmm i sent a friend of mine to this a couple of weeks ago but he complained that it was all US hip-hop, said that the advert about grime et al seemed like a gimmick to get people in the door. (that's just fyi.) with any luck you'll turn it into a big night with the diversity you're striving for. best of luck with it

petergunn said:

hmmm, good to know, i would say that in a bar in nyc, grime is an anti-gimmick (i.e if we wanted to do a night of just US hip hop, we could get way more money in a mainstream club!)
i def. play almost all grime during my sets, (last week i did mostly "classic" grime, 2003 style, with a set of stuff like Ice Rink remix, Shanghai, Tinman, Eskimo (devil's mix), Sky Dive, Pied Piper (tinchy strider version is pretty fucking rad), Bounce, etc)... crito and reaganomics play more of the crunk/reggaeton/breakcore/dancehall stuff... like i said, we are getting better at integrating all of it into a coherent hole, so i hope your friend stops by again... thanks for the feedback...

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yeah the friend i sent to yr night was a producer/DJ, so his notion of 'gimmick' was a little bit different But it's great that you are doing this. how was the turnout this week?

petergunn said:

it's getting there... the challenge as dj's, as is discussed in a similar thread in the Music section is how to combine all the genre's in a way that's unique, funky, and an expression of your own personality, not on some ethnomusicologist tip... and it's starting to happen... now, we just need people to come down!

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ive been trying to do something like that for a while. i think the main why i keep from sounding just like some pretentious music snob is by relying on my instincts. i know that my next musical selection is based on 1) the track before it 2) my reaction to the crowd 3) some sort of mystical force that pops up ideas in my head ( ) and 3) my own tiny attention span-after about 3 or 4 tracks, im already bored with a genre.

ive done it poorly in the past. losing my audience b/c they didnt get into a groove. but my goal is to do a whole set focused on the wickedest basslines out there.

if youve got any suggestions for how to mix up genres of bpms, that wouldbe appreciated (beyond the double-time trick of hip-hip/jungle).