I think you're missing the point that when a dj crosses genre's then that just his "sound". A gig which crosses genre's is entirely different and usually has a pants trance room for the kids, a drum and bass room for the girls, a house room and a techno room, etc.
This is off topic. We were talking how the gig was sh1t because *I* thought he played lame hip hop and the fact someone on a mic was chatting through everything. |-----Original Message----- |From: Benn Glazier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sent: 15 July 2003 06:43 |To: Ryan Snowden; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [email protected] |Subject: RE: (313) 313 Weekend in London | | |On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 12:24:47 +0100, "Ryan Snowden" |<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: |> I thought it was very average in Manchester. If I wanted a hip hop |> gig I'd go to one. Is this what planet-e is pushing for? And he |> could have played |> some better hip hop too *snigger*. Apart from that, the |fact that an MC |> was |> talking over everything and one air conditioning wall unit upstairs |> blowing smoke really made it an average night. And those curtains |> just did NOTHING |> except get in the way. Whats the point? | |On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 13:07:52 +0100, "Ryan Snowden" |<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: |> A hip hop gig where they play deep house & disco. Interesting. It |> must be a manchester thing.. You know, next thing mills will be |> playing drum and bass. | |Well Mills plays disco and house as well as techno. Laurent |Garnier whilst being a techno/tech-house producer (to box him |in) plays anything and everything. I've seen him layup 155bpm |Roni Size records alongside Luke Slater records. | |The key is to playing good music, no matter what the genre. |Who says you can't play Sade next to T La Rock next to Common |Factor next to Drexciya? Throw the rule book out the window. |Are the tracks good? Yes. Does the transition work? Quite possibly. | |Unfortunately, some DJs are a little one-dimensional in the |attitude towards playing music, and those that can trascend |genres are typically better DJs IMHO. When I was younger, it |was detroit tech and nothing else. I gradually eased into |other genres such as house, and now I'll play whatever I think |will make people dance and be happy. | |I remember a night in Adelaide where HMC used to play for 6 or |so hours, and it would range from dub to minimal tech, vocal |house some electro, and whatever. Recloose the two times I've |seen him (as previously mentioned by a few other |Sydney-siders) laid down the full 9, hip-hop, broken beat, |house, electro etc.. Sure, you wouldn't put him on at a |straight up hip hop night, but put him on at a 'deep house' |night and it will work because he's the type of artist that |has a following of slightly older persons who are more |excepting to a little variet in their music tastes - as long |as it's off class, then it's all good. | | |-- | |Benn Glazier |aka DJ Royal |[EMAIL PROTECTED] |ph:+61 (0)413 316 618 |http://www.royaltech.net |
