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rajatrao5
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Posted : Nov 14, 2006 00:39
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You never heard me spinning before so keep your young mouth shut 
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It has nothing to do with your spinning or track selection, in varun's words he personally judges his sets by the number of people he can put to sleep (like seriously), so i was just guessing you follow the same criteria i didnt mean to say your sets are boring  |
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paradigm
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Posted : Nov 14, 2006 00:42
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do you 2 need to be put in time out?
do you 2 need to be seperated. So help when i get out to you guys Ill put you both on time out at seperate stages if you dont play nice.....
Logical Light Music - SF
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rajatrao5
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Posted : Nov 14, 2006 00:45
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Hehe nothing called time out exists in our books All is good between the two of us, damon is just a big bully considering hes 18 years older than me!  |
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Yidam
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Posted : Nov 14, 2006 00:53
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Oh wait... I just remembered. That also means no tequila for you. We can't promote underage drinking can we!? It's just not right. 
As for the chillout blah. I judge it that way only when I'm playing in the chillout area. Main stage chillout has to be uptempo. and Damon plays a wicked Goa set on vinyl
i like paradigms idea of punishment. Put rajat in the chill room and damon in the dark psy area!  hehehehe.
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damon
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Posted : Nov 14, 2006 01:21
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On 2006-11-14 00:53, Yidam wrote:
i like paradigms idea of punishment. Put rajat in the chill room and damon in the dark psy area! hehehehe.
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I will fell asleep because of the boredom
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damon
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Posted : Nov 14, 2006 01:22
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On 2006-11-14 00:45, rajatrao5 wrote:
Hehe nothing called time out exists in our books All is good between the two of us, damon is just a big bully considering hes 18 years older than me!
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I see you suck@math really bad
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si*om
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Posted : Nov 14, 2006 01:38
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On 2006-11-14 01:22, damon wrote:
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On 2006-11-14 00:45, rajatrao5 wrote:
Hehe nothing called time out exists in our books All is good between the two of us, damon is just a big bully considering hes 18 years older than me!
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I see you suck@math really bad
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rajatrao5
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Posted : Nov 14, 2006 01:44
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damon?! arent u 35 :S
but yes im an E grade math student as well |
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robyo
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Posted : Nov 14, 2006 02:10
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Younglings always want to go faster... I think some need to learn to chill the fuck out and listen to some Pink Floyd. There's some REAL psychadelic music!
All this trance stuff is fun, but the human heart can only take so much digitized metronomic energy. We are organic beings. Chill-out is (generally) more harmonious to our natural biorhythms. Some ambient music is even healing!
Yes, fast and hard (trance) music can be quite liberating and ecstatic dance is a need of our primal being. Healing music though, is usually much slower, in sync with our natural heart rhythms, and filled with lots of harmonic and melodic content. Too much "darkpsy" consists of the beat, a nonstop 16th note bassline, and a bunch of "throw-up sounds" as Damon so eloquently once put it. It can be fun music, but how deep does it go? I would argue that a good portion of psytrance isn't even psychadelic. It's more like cock-rock, if you ask me.
As for the nonsense of how long DJs play for...
A story can be built out of one song or 20. Time is just another limitation imposed by a limited mind. I've played for 15 minutes at an open turntables here in town and for 12 hours straight at Geologic. I'm just happy to play! |
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DiMiTry
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Posted : Nov 14, 2006 03:26
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i'm going to try and turn this into an actual discussion..
i think 1 hour is too short for a proper psytrance set. yes, it's better than nothing - but really feels like coitus interruptus.
1.5 hours is decent, 2 hours is proper, 3 hours even better - if there is space in the lineup.
I agree that many DJs don't know how to work the dancefloor energy or how to create a journey. If a DJ can't maintain the crowd's interest for 2 hours, they shouldn't be playing out at all, imo.
also I think encouraging beginner DJs to play longer sets - that way they can actually learn how to build up energy instead of cramming "killers" into a short set - or even doing combination chill-dancefloor-eclectic sets in the daytime or whatever - may help remedy that problem.
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damon
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Posted : Nov 14, 2006 06:15
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On 2006-11-14 03:26, DiMiTry wrote:
also I think encouraging beginner DJs to play longer sets - that way they can actually learn how to build up energy instead of cramming "killers" into a short set - or even doing combination chill-dancefloor-eclectic sets in the daytime or whatever - may help remedy that problem.
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We both know usually it's up to a promoter not dj (unless you are well recognized and getting paid well/sign a contract/etc.) how long your slot is going to be
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damon
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Posted : Nov 14, 2006 06:16
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DiMiTry
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Posted : Nov 14, 2006 08:14
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On 2006-11-14 06:15, damon wrote:
We both know usually it's up to a promoter not dj (unless you are well recognized and getting paid well/sign a contract/etc.) how long your slot is going to be
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well, I think promoters have a stake in encouraging DJs to grow and improve. Giving a beginner DJ an early 2-hour slot (8-10, 9-11, etc) can really teach them some important skills - how to gather a crowd and build the dancefloor, how to properly control the ebb and flow of energy, etc. Experience is what turns a beginner into a DJ. A 1-hour timeslot is good for playing a few choice tracks - doesn't really allow for much in the way of buildup or flow, and doesn't really give the DJ much in the way of experience. though probably a little in the ego-stroking dept.
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nicksynergy
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Posted : Nov 14, 2006 09:32
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On 2006-11-14 03:26, DiMiTry wrote:
i'm going to try and turn this into an actual discussion..
i think 1 hour is too short for a proper psytrance set. yes, it's better than nothing - but really feels like coitus interruptus.
1.5 hours is decent, 2 hours is proper, 3 hours even better - if there is space in the lineup.
I agree that many DJs don't know how to work the dancefloor energy or how to create a journey. If a DJ can't maintain the crowd's interest for 2 hours, they shouldn't be playing out at all, imo.
also I think encouraging beginner DJs to play longer sets - that way they can actually learn how to build up energy instead of cramming "killers" into a short set - or even doing combination chill-dancefloor-eclectic sets in the daytime or whatever - may help remedy that problem.
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Dude, TOTALLY. It's amazing how the concept of building ANYTHING has been so totally lost on the rest of electronic music culture. Good thing most of us aren't spinning some other genre where 1.5 hours is considered an extended set. At least in psytrance 2 hour sets are relatively common. |
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robyo
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Posted : Nov 14, 2006 14:58
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On 2006-11-14 06:15, damon wrote:
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We both know usually it's up to a promoter not dj (unless you are well recognized and getting paid well/sign a contract/etc.) how long your slot is going to be
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absolutely! |
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