Dogma 08 (for djs)
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nice list beaming with dentine positivity from that article someone linked to earlier:
Slothrop
Tight but Polite
Actually I'd allow rewinds. The point of the rules would be to make myself (if I was a DJ, which I'm not, and if I did follow those rules, which I don't) go for a much more varied and unpredictable selection than I maybe would if I knew I could get a reaction from playing from playing my small selection of big exclusives that everyone's expecting me to play and filling out the gaps with tried and tested stuff from the last year or so. But I think if you're out to surprise people with great records, it's fair enough to pull up the odd one. It's only a problem where every tune's a big obvious anthem so every tune gets pulled up.
Also, I've seen a few deep dubstep sets lately that would have been improved by having the flow broken up a bit tbh; they were smooth and in the groove to the point of tedium and a rowdy break in the flow and a bit of audience participation might have helped wake people up...
not NEARLY as whack as hearing shitty "remixes" of Paperplanes followed by Justice on every shitty dj mix on every identical hipster music blog from every major metropolitan area on earth.
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Think this was covered by...
I do think one person's "deep" is another person's "dull and indistinct" though.
stop listening to them then. no one is forcing you to.
i think i must have heard justice maybe once in my life, and never a "remix" of paperplanes, you know why? cause i know i don't / won't like them, so i avoid them.
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swears
preppy-kei
I think Justice are great. "DVNO" is one of my fave singles of the year, it's what pop should sound like in 2008. I think a lot of the resentment towards them stems from the fact that they're two guys who've acheived more in terms of a musical career before the age of 25 than most muso spods will in a lifetime. I've seen them play twice and they rocked it 100x more than any goateed deep house "legend" would.
online mixes with shit track-listings are easy to avoid but sometimes you just go with the flow and end up at some hipster hangout where there is a dj...
i only heard a few of their songs the two i really liked was the goblin track and the 'we are your friends' which was a remix by simian, i guess what the problem is, is the ease of creating a really botchy mix out of distorted grating ed banger stuff, i agree in small doses there are some moments but even most of the ed banger music seems to have been thrown together with no real ideas or conviction etc.
but there will never be a shortage of nuravers desperate to get skull fucked by horrible distortion set to rock-riffs-for-todlers over an electro-by-numbers beat until their ears bleed.
i'm not saying there is no place for that, just like Dogme95 never said there is no place for blockbuster films.
last night just further reinforced in my mind the absolute necessity of this.
friends drag me to this party because friend of theirs had some "art" up, and the dj was just fucking atrocious. had no sense of flow or structure, cut from roots reggae to house and would go from high energy all of a sudden back to mellow. nothing made sense, and then he got into his mashups:
Smells like Teen Spirit VS. Billie Jean
Beat it VS. (what sounded like) Chemical Brothers,
the Cure Close To Me VS. Drop it Like it's Hot
i mean i try, oh the good lord knows i try... not to think, not to judge, and get down have a good time... i give people SO MUCH LEEWAY...
what do people do when this shit happens? do you just politely take your leave, trying not to think about the money you paid, the time you wasted, the good cheer ruined, the hopes of having a good time robbed from your saturday night? does anyone ever just tell the DJ that he sucks? does anyone ever tell the promoter the DJ sucks? i did the former, and went home quietly around 1AM, which is like, 9PM berlin time. fucking BULLSHIT i tell you.
friends drag me to this party because friend of theirs had some "art" up, and the dj was just fucking atrocious. had no sense of flow or structure, cut from roots reggae to house and would go from high energy all of a sudden back to mellow. nothing made sense, and then he got into his mashups:
Smells like Teen Spirit VS. Billie Jean
Beat it VS. (what sounded like) Chemical Brothers,
the Cure Close To Me VS. Drop it Like it's Hot
i mean i try, oh the good lord knows i try... not to think, not to judge, and get down have a good time... i give people SO MUCH LEEWAY...
what do people do when this shit happens? do you just politely take your leave, trying not to think about the money you paid, the time you wasted, the good cheer ruined, the hopes of having a good time robbed from your saturday night? does anyone ever just tell the DJ that he sucks? does anyone ever tell the promoter the DJ sucks? i did the former, and went home quietly around 1AM, which is like, 9PM berlin time. fucking BULLSHIT i tell you.
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I don't really go to clubs unless I'm playing, so I'd probably keep that quiet. :slanted:
I may have been lucky and not heard any really shit dj's (certainly not that I've paid for), but being dull and predictable has been far too common.
MankyFiver
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no drums on any record whatsoever
dance constantly
dance constantly
unless they get really big
"Producers must make half of their tracks without reverb or delay...now we're talkin'! "
This inspired me to do this: http://www.dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=806157#806157
This inspired me to do this: http://www.dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=806157#806157
