Fred Heutte wrote:
I see I hit a nerve on DG :)
Y'all can say what you want but in 93-94 Donald was playing
serious Detroit stuff. Being polite about it, DG is a "character"
and there are a lot of stories, but i always revert to what a
friend used to say: "believe half of what you see and none of
what you hear."
yea i would say it annoy's the hell out of me...lol cause donald NEVER
represented detroit in seattle/portland...and was heavely into his funky
breaks...i know donald would play a random UR record here and
there.....but we threw half of the parties in seattle back in
92-95...and i whitnessed donald kill a party vibe in less than 3
minutes, more than i can count on my 2 hands....never was it more
frustrating to be enojoying a nice night of music by someone say like
jon williams(organized noise) or mark farina back when he played loads
of acid music, they would have the party jus popin off... and here would
come donald...not even booked to play...have a talk to the
promoter....next thing u know someone would be asking the current dj to
step off the turntables to let donald on....it happened with doc martin
a few times and led to some infighting between crowds and styles of
music...
basically in the NW which is much different that cali.. there was the
house schene/style which was chicago/ny/detroit baised stuff with
progressive uk thrown in for times sake...and the other side of the
scene..which was breakbeat/hardcore rave/progressive stuff.....and for
the portland/seattle scene quickfix (later from bc) quidity & bliss from
portland, d-lyte & hebegeebe from seattle were the ones who leaned more
to chi/detroit/ny with outside help from doc martin which at the time
was ON FIRE playing mostly chi/det/ny ...., the other side was all
about breakbeats/ego's ....donald/spun/and the wicked crew when they
came to seattle/portland they played heavy breaks except thomas who in
the NW played usally more like doc martin and had many sweet
sets....basically that sums up the scene/styles of the NW back from
91-95.......
i remember sooo many promoter who hated donald and did'nt want to book
him but were somehow forced to as they always ended up letting him
play.....i always attributed it to the social circles and the other
things happening at the parties...and people jus wanted to hear him....
when i finally met Mike Grant later on, and he told me that he had given
donald some wbmx mix tapes & let him know a few things...i just about
shat..cause there is no trace of that ANYWHERE in donald...he was a club
jock before he got into underground parties...and worked at a decent
record shop in tacoma...he bought LOADS of records and most of what was
coming out at the time...so yea he has some sweet records..but for the
life of me i still have not heard him play hardly ANY of them....except
when doc/spun/yeno/thomas/farina would come to town and drop certain
records....donald would play them the following week as to let people
know.."look at me i have the same record that killed the party last week
right here" but never played it untill someone else did....always a
trend rider and follower....never pioneered anything here in the NW
except some old club culture in seattle and maybe helping the bad part
of the rave scene survive....
so say what ever what u want fred but i was at/SAW alot of those parties
where donald was and usally left about 15 min into his sets.... but he
played like 3 parties in a night so it was hard to get away from him.....
ok sorry for the rant..lol NW struggle in a nut shell...and now sadly
on topic as paxahau actually brought it back to me....i thought i ran
far enough away...lol all the way to detroit...the one place i never
thought i would have to worry about him being around...haha been to
every festival except the first one...me=no go this year for sure :-(
michael
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Klaas-Jan Jongsma"
Just wondering but is this the same guy who had something to do with
this:
http://interimlover.livejournal.com/386142.html
It's the same guy, but it's doubtful he had anything to do with that
b.s. Donald's a showboat but is not a bad guy. Unless he's
done a 180 in the past few years, he's respectful and would
wait his turn. The club owner and/or security pulled that
crap on their own, with *zero* input on ~any~ level from Donald, imo.
What Renegade808 said below about Donald's dj-ing and
selection is spot on, however. The bit about biting Spun is a bullseye.
Playing 'Punisher' a half-dozen times in one's 'career' does not
qualify as having done any "serious justice" to Detroit techno.
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