| Author
|
your worst chill out stage memories
|
John
IsraTrance Full Member
Started Topics :
76
Posts :
768
Posted : Feb 22, 2008 15:58
|
I've just been reminded of my worst chillout experience - I think I must have been trying to blank it from my mind...
There's a large pub in Bristol (UK) called the The Black Swan that's often used for parties as its got a few big rooms and can stay open until 6am. I was due to play in the chillout room at a party there - unfortunately the venue had problems with the Council licensing people (plus I think the owner was trying to squeeze more cash out of the party organisers).
Anyway.. the number of rooms the party could use got cut & it was decided to put the chillout in the front bar - away from the rest of the party. The front bar was originally to be just be for party goers.. then the owner said it would be for party goers from 11pm onwards.. as it turned out - it was just open as normal for the regulars all night...
I should point out that the regulars in the front bar were mainly young Afro-Caribbean lads who were bemused and not overly impressed that there were some hippies playing "music to send us to sleep, bwoy". Nobody had bothered to tell them that their bar would be the chillout room for the night... And due to a large courtyard with a big bonfire - nobody from the party bothered to come through to the front bar... The other guy playing before me was getting outright hostility - I managed to get it down to just indifference by playing a load of old reggae (or grand dad music as they called it!).
Anyway - after a hour or two of a frosty reception to say the least - we admitted defeat and decided to knock it on the head (the promoter was that stressed from other comings & goings - the party almost hadnt gone ahead- that he was just "er.. ok then") and leave the regulars to their bar and go and sit outside by the bonfire.. but very definitely my most challenging DJing experience - but at least we tried!
|
|
|
-Abatwa-
IsraTrance Junior Member
Started Topics :
42
Posts :
1087
Posted : Feb 24, 2008 18:18
|
cant get any better than grandad reggae 
 `Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end` Mandelbrot |
|
|
|
Rex Trueform
Started Topics :
2
Posts :
150
Posted : Feb 29, 2008 12:00
|
I was playing in a club, granted it should have been more upbeat but I was asked to play downbeat/ ambient.
Next minute the owner gives me a nasty rant, swears at me and hands me a commercial house cd from 1932.
TURN THIS SH*T OFF AND PLAY THIS CD.
I packed up and walked off.
|
|
|
|
maer
IsraTrance Junior Member
Started Topics :
29
Posts :
101
Posted : Mar 11, 2008 22:59
|
awesome topic.
i was running a chillout room in the back of an underground breaks party in San Francisco 4 years ago.
the dj table was low to the ground, the dj sat on a foot rest essentially, and there was virtually no separation between the audience and the dj.
when i was spinning, a youngish lad extremely high on ectasy was laying right next to me. he started making gurgling sounds for a moment, and then turned to me and vomited all over my lap and leg.
it was revolting. i put a new track on quickly and made for the bathroom. the line for the bathroom had 12 people in it. i explained to the line that i had just been puked on and i needed to cut the line. NO GO. they wouldn't let me. i lost the plot and screamed at them that i was the dj playing right at that exact moment, they finally let me cut.
dub beautiful collective
bringing elitism to the masses.
http://www.dub-beautiful.org
-----
OEM Radio - original electronic music radio.
http://www.oemradio.org |
|
|
|
maer
IsraTrance Junior Member
Started Topics :
29
Posts :
101
Posted : Mar 11, 2008 23:00
|
|
damon
IsraTrance Full Member
Started Topics :
88
Posts :
2122
Posted : Mar 12, 2008 00:22
|
|
aXis
IsraTrance Full Member
Started Topics :
116
Posts :
2562
Posted : Mar 12, 2008 06:22
|
|
fact remains power cuts = underground!!! |
|
|
|
brij
Started Topics :
9
Posts :
204
Posted : Mar 25, 2008 00:25
|
Playing at a party in London a couple of years ago, 15 minutes into my set the promoter comes in and says 'sorry mate, I need to take one of the CDJs for the main room'.....leaving me with only one deck!!!
Good thing I always keep a couple of my demo discs in my CD wallet 
www.BarakaRecords.com/brij.htm
www.myspace.com/djbrij |
|
|
|
MARGHERITA
Master Margherita
Started Topics :
156
Posts :
1442
Posted : Apr 27, 2008 14:26
|
Quote:
|
On 2008-03-12 06:22, aXis wrote:
fact remains power cuts = underground!!!
|
|
 
Quote:
|
On 2008-03-25 00:25, brij wrote:
15 minutes into my set the promoter comes in and says 'sorry mate, I need to take one of the CDJs for the main room'.....leaving me with only one deck!!!
|
|
a classic for chillout dj, apen to me many times.
they never think to have a back-up players, for the mainfloor (its realy usual)
i remember one very nice:
Turkey, Soulclipse Festival 06..
opening the mainfloor, monday after-noon
&
a spring tunderstorm comming to us
and
cause full of water on the plastic roof, the light structure & the plastic roof crash down,
crash direct on the gear off course
psynema
highlight tribe
lany
the peaking goddess collective
+
other guys, friend and workers was on stage
we all most risk to die this day...
|
|
|
|
Justin Chaos
IsraTrance Full Member
Started Topics :
117
Posts :
3086
Posted : Apr 27, 2008 15:20
|
My worst chillout memorie is when I had to listen to entheogenic.
My fake plants died, because I did not pretend to water them. |
|
|
|
Gunter
IsraTrance Full Member
Started Topics :
55
Posts :
1465
Posted : Apr 27, 2008 15:36
|
|
Justin repeat-mode? *g* |
|
|
|
Justin Chaos
IsraTrance Full Member
Started Topics :
117
Posts :
3086
Posted : Apr 27, 2008 16:18
|
is true though
My fake plants died, because I did not pretend to water them. |
|
|
|
sure_smoke_alot
IsraTrance Junior Member
Started Topics :
45
Posts :
6874
Posted : Apr 28, 2008 05:09
|
Quote:
|
On 2008-04-27 15:20, Justin Chaos wrote:
My worst chillout memorie is when I had to listen to entheogenic.
|
|
the problem with valuing art is, till u dont understand it, it's worthless but wen u do understand it, it's priceless!! |
|
|
|
vector_0
IsraTrance Full Member
Started Topics :
113
Posts :
1189
Posted : Apr 28, 2008 21:15
|
you spoiled euro  send entheogenic over here (well, to canada for their sake) if you're sick of them. We'd all love to see them live!
http://soundcloud.com/rob-vector |
|
|
|
vector_0
IsraTrance Full Member
Started Topics :
113
Posts :
1189
Posted : Apr 28, 2008 21:23
|
oh, and this is a great terrible chillout memory from this past weekend: http://people.tribe.net/7ac27468-71ae-470e-bb6c-bd565b8c1812/blog?_click_path=Application%5Btribe%5D.Tribe%5B246ccaec-a374-4e81-b596-be6707e42331%5D
This crew (also from boston) basically took all our ideas for chill rooms but made it explicity clear that they didn't want to team up with us. At first we were slightly offended, and kind of made fun of them because they're really not very chill people....real static kinda vibe. but whatever, we decided to spin at their first major gig at a new york psy party because we're just all about making chillout the new thing.
After reading the shenannigans that ensued, i think you'll understand why we're now incredibly relieved that they insisted we not affiliate, lolol!!! Fisticuffs, police officers, and the end of a psytrance crew! talk about not chill!
oh well, i had a good time. DJ Morninglory and I played a sick tag team set of the phattest psychedelic beats around.....contrary to the mishmash of random electronica our adversaries spun, lol. Thank god we got shut down an hour early and immediately left!
http://soundcloud.com/rob-vector |
|
|
|
