... Johnny Mcintosh will be appearing at Public Life, London on 16 November, in Slices #3, dedicated to all forms of house.
:o) >-----Original Message----- >From: Jonny McIntosh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 3:17 PM >To: 313 Detroit >Subject: Re: (313) 100 BEST DJ IN THE WORLD (Mills) > > >Personally, I like to get the dancers dancing and the 'spotters >'spotting: I >like having the whooping, screaming, yelling, jacking, climbing the walls >AND the googly eyed "what's he doing?!? What's that record?!" You >don't have >to dance to recognise that it's a pretty similar achievement: >everyone comes >away saying, damn he/she banged it out - *that's* what I'm after. > >As to how you do it, do it any way you want to. I used to do >tricks far more >than I do now, I now never scratch beyond the odd second copy doubling up, >and I pretty much conform to Cyclone's "sleep house" school of DJing. I >certainly *wouldn't* say that the mix supercedes the records - quite the >opposite - and in any case, it's just something that I have observed works >better for the music I play. Some of the "sleep house" gang would say that >mixing it up in the Mills style is mix over content, but they'd be equally >wrong. It's horses for courses, and I suppose a good DJ will adapt >accordingly. In my case, it's certainly not lack of skill - I'm relying on >some charity here :) - nor is it some deeper than thou homage to the house >canon, it just works for me. Not to say there aren't style over >content DJs, >but they're the *real* boring ones. > >All just IMHO. > >
