"DJing is the greatest form of expression"

"DJing is the greatest form of expression"

Read this somewhere again the other day.....not sure i totally agree though?!

fair enough....if you play exactly what you want then music is a great way to express yourself....but what if you are in a place where you have to adopt a certain style to fit the crowd/venue which isnt quite the same as you normally would like to play?

like at stereo, I wanted to keep it a bit deep, a bit darker.....but found myself getting more funky as I went on, since stereo isn't really the place for full on tribal or prog!

Anyway....discuss

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agreed you can't just bang anything out, all of the above needs to be taken into consideration.

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Too true. There needs to be more nights where you can play whatever?? ive always thought the backroom at Stonelove is good for this??

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only been to stonelove a few times, damm good night. like the backroom more than the main.

As for changing styles - there's not many clubs/venues that are gonna give you a free run music wise, they know what they want. Ive had bookings telling me what time I would be playing and what they wanted from me, fair do's you can't argue. I would think they have learned from some shit bag laying it on really early and keeping the place empty, the event should all be about progression

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true! its more fun going to see someone and not having a clue what to exect.

Resistance is a good little night for that, Gareth just let us have total control on what we played.

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I have GH a deep house demo CD, put I played a techno set after Disco Noir

that's what we do @ Naughty. The guests gets what ever slot they want, to play whatever they want. we will be looking at you boys for a gig soon, just let us know roughly what your gonna be putting out so me and Marty can work around you. We have a much bigger soundsystem to punish than Resistance do...tis good fun.

Cool.

How many in Try - Hard ?

Tri Hard

3,

Revel
Batman
me

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two hours do ya ?

yep 2 is good.


split into 2?

one hour near the start then one near the end?

your call chief ? night is yours....that what you want or 2 hours solid ?

me and James are playing at resistance before promise on the 26th March if u want to come down and listen....

will pop down chief, you don't need special kit ? 6 dex 3 mixers ? a 909 perhaps ?

what do you boys play exactly ? bit 80's electro/pop/house/hip hop fusion ? I have heard good things, I'm quite looking forward to it.

i dont need any kit, just some decks. a cd deck would be nice.

we play loads of stuff. Just depends on the night really. With Gareth and Lee playing breaks/prog, we will probs play pretty tough....

there's already 2 there m8, not pioneers like will get a hold of an 800 for you.

Where's it at? Is it on every week? More info please revel!

Hit GH off here with a PM for dates m8, check the photo section and look @ the pics I posted from Naughty, he's on there.

its a one off i think? im not sure...

Its at the stout fiddler b4 promise. We are playing 8-10...

Cool I might come down!! Got to be better than hardstyle @ vuzz!!