No Club Scene for Old Men

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thirdform

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IdleRich said:
No idea, was just a gentle tease - one thing where I agree with you though, I'm pretty fucking sure the Turks don't want him
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I would go to war with England to wipe him off the surface of the earth. Luke can be too hasty proclaiming England the greatest country. only because I'm not in power in Turkey, in which case it definitely would not be the greatest country. But I am a gentleman and a scholar.
 
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catalog

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But I don't think I can make it. Shame cos the first night I ever went to a weird one in Manchester, he was playing, at pollard Street East place, not twh. But same sort of thing.
 
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catalog

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Really wanted to go on the strength of this one



But I'm stuck on the sofa watching telly drinking red stripe.

First 10/15 mind a big weird, like what is this tempo, but then he drops a good grime and you are like "ah" and theres a section an hour in where it all come properly together
 
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I think we are currently in a massive resurgence in older people raving, but masquerading as bottomless garage brunches and day parties

My sample size is basically three conversations with people from Essex/Herts this week but all signs point to me being correct
 
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martin

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Never mind clubs, the real forbidden zone for the 40+ is water parks. I'd kill to go rocketing head-first down the pipes again...but it feels way more off-limits than a gummy Battle of Newbury veteran trying to hug you when Shades of Rhythm comes on.
 
shakahislop

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wild greens said:
I think we are currently in a massive resurgence in older people raving, but masquerading as bottomless garage brunches and day parties

My sample size is basically three conversations with people from Essex/Herts this week but all signs point to me being correct
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day parties are all over the place here. not hard to find a place to dance on a saturday afternoon
 
dilbert1

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Saw DJ Spinn and DJ Manny play last night, the spot had great sound (when they were on there was almost certainly a volume boost) and a handful of bonafide footwork dancers in the modestly sized but enthusiastic crowd. Manny even broke it down for a second right when Spinn went on. Ears are still ringing, best night out in a while
 
shakahislop

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dilbert1 said:
Saw DJ Spinn and DJ Manny play last night, the spot had great sound (when they were on there was almost certainly a volume boost) and a handful of bonafide footwork dancers in the modestly sized but enthusiastic crowd. Manny even broke it down for a second right when Spinn went on. Ears are still ringing, best night out in a while
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that sounds class. was planning to go to rrose in greenpoint and then bike over to that. had to stay in in the end but am now a bit jealous. that was market hotel right, with the train going past the window?
 
dilbert1

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@IdleRich @wektor @thirdform @0bleak and anyone else here who DJs. Is there really a point to the CDJ hegemony? Maybe this has been discussed before but you can’t search ‘cdj’ here… I’d like to play tunes out, and there’s studio space equipped with CDJs I can rent out to practice on, but what’s the point? A friend of mine who’s been playing for the first time recently reports that promoters and even others on the bill scoff at the idea of bringing your laptop/controller/interface setup, claiming CDJs have superior sound output, and that this is how “real DJs” do it, as if CDJs require some kind of extra skill and not simply limited access or tons of disposable income to purchase (a pair with a standard mixer is upwards of $3k USD). Also, that people roll their eyes at using the sync button… on digital equipment… with BPM counters and waveform visualizers… yeah I’m so much more authentic and talented for fiddling with fake pitch sliders that aren’t connected to a motor, let’s throw away precious time that could be spent on crossfader acrobatics and dynamic blends, on emulating the old heads. I also leave my washing machine unplugged as I scrub my laundry inside of it by hand.

What’s the point of all this? Smooth transitions between acts in the booth? Pioneer psyop? Pining for the days of Technics standardization? When seeing the above show, DJ Spinn bypassed the CDJ setup and had a standalone controller of his own, and nobody batted an eye or spent any time fiddling with switching channels, the hand-off was smooth, it was obviously figured out during soundcheck. I’m just curious people’s experience with this and similar DJ politics in general. I’m with Third when it comes to ‘fuck a DJ’ but playing tracks out on equipment you can afford and have practiced on/are familiar with on a big system to even a small gaggle of hungry dancers is really really fun. I’m already up against the Brooklyn Cultural Mafia as it is and then there’s the Resident Advisor Mafia with their gun fingers choreography, shitty club music decorum and gear snobbery?!
 
dilbert1

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Also re: anti-sync button artisanship @shakahislop I forgot to mention Spinn and Manny played their entire sets without relying on headphones(!), working smarter not harder, yes partially because of footwork’s sharp percussion but also because they’re from the future and use technology
 
william_kent

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it's all about the selection

media doesn't matter

not that I've been in a club or rave or free party since 2017, so fuck my opinion

Edit: it's only the nerds with notebooks who pay attention, most people just want to get off their heads and dance, they don't care if you are playing OG vinyl or CD or 96kb mp3
 
dilbert1

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Yeah the crowd of course, I feel closest to that perspective. I’m talking more about the people you’ve got to go through and deal with to play in the first place
 
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dilbert1 said:
Yeah the crowd of course, I feel closest to that perspective. I’m talking more about the people you’ve got to go through and deal with to play in the first place
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if you can rock the party then they are quids in ( err, "dollars" in ) so they will forgive you for your transgressions
 
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