"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?!')"
This is the best type of mixing by far - not enough younger jocks doing this (at least not where I live). I've been doing a bit of "research" around town and when I find a local DJ who mixes "techno" it's either really hard crap bordering on goa trance or just a bunch of 2 bar loops in the Beyer, Downwards, Surgeon style. Dark hard stuff but totally uninspiring and it ends the way it begins - i can start to listen to a download, walk away for 15 minutes and come back and feel like I haven't missed a thing since it's still in the "bang bang bang" mode. Too bad so many young jocks think disco is "fag music" because they're missing out on the basics of djing - how to tell a story or take you from point A to point Z. Disco came from Funk (at least parts of it did) and if you want to have your techno be funky then I suggest you slip in some house/disco/funk. I think that the question of is this "house" or "techno" is as old and worn out as my rant. ;) "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." Sounds like a top night to me. MEK
