It's perhaps a little more complex. He tends to play for 90 minutes and during that time he will start off with straight-up house and gradually, as the set progresses, the demarcation line between the genre of the tracks he's playing (for those who love categories) gets more and more blurred, until by the end - if you were to ask anyone in the room "Is this house or techno?" most truthfully, would say they don't know. (Apart from thinking: 'what a d***k! Why can't he just enjoy it, whatever it is?!')
Sunday (at Lost) he was supberb. In terms of selection we had some jackin' Chicago-style house, deep reese-bass line driven techno, some latin flavours earlier in the mix, and a host of other things which mean I (and most others around me, danced without respite for 90 minutes! *Again* I had to check his mixing with the references I get off so many folks complaining about his poor mixing: are we listening to the same dj? Anyway, maybe I'm not as fastidious, but to me it was more than adequate. k >-----Original Message----- >From: spw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 12:35 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: (313) That Friday Question > > >One thing I respect about Juan Atkins is theres always a futuristic aspect >to his music even though he plays mostly house. > >on 4/25/03 6:48 AM, m a t t [d] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Good question! I find that however many great tunes you may >play them, they >> won't 'get it' until they hear it loud in a club being DJ'd properly and >> dancing with others to it. So I drag them to nights like Lost, then they >> understand -- the Atkins / Hood sets last Sunday proved it to >quite a few >> new techno fans :) >> >> matt >> - >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
