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Posted by deejay2002 on Feb-14-2003 17:59:

How about some redbull?????

Posted by Zain on Feb-15-2003 22:02:

I wish, Us canadians dont get redbull. What is redbull all about?
Just a rave energy drink? or do you mix that shiz?

Posted by Kid Lax on Feb-16-2003 02:16:

quote:
Originally posted by Zain
I wish, Us canadians dont get redbull. What is redbull all about?
Just a rave energy drink? or do you mix that shiz?

not all canadians
you can get it here in toronto

Posted by Tony Morello on Feb-16-2003 02:55:

we have the syrupy thailand stuff here in calgary
the austrian carbonated stuff is illegal here
the other stuff is ok

Posted by Fire999 on Feb-16-2003 04:40:

Funny gossip news I just had to share...this story is heard from my bro::[truth or not, take it with a grain of salt please]

Craig Richards (Tyrant,Fabric Resident) and Lee Burridge (Tyrant), both very talented trippy, tech-house DJs from UK spun at a club in S.E Asia. Very strict regulations everywhere in the region with regards to narcotics and drug policies.

Craig Richards is a party animal. He's known to play at 7am and all the way to 12-1pm in the afternoon. The reversal of clubbing, if you will. Very original. Anyways, Craig is a herb smoker. Listen to his music and you'll know what I mean. So in the club down in Asia, no herb allowed. Rumours had it, or people recorded the set and there was a distinction in the flow of the mixes. Some people attributed to this disruptive flow to the lack of herb to ease the mind and physical state.

My point is that tons of DJs out there smoke herb [healthiest among every other substance], snort Coke [extremely popular but it's a stimulant and the comedown is okay compared to the other popular dance culture substance, MDMA] and do a wide array of stuff to calm themselves down.

You could just take a caffeine pill to perk yourself up as a lot of attention is needed with regards to you, the DJ, working under dark-lighting conditions.

2 cents:: Arrive early. Condition yourself..this happens to anyone and everyone on their first try. These are electrical appliances if you will, you can control them very easily. The monitors [those facing you] can be adjusted to your liking [be it more treble, mid or gain] to blend in with the surrounding speakers --> to enable you a smooth and comfy area to conduct your mixing...

Fire999

Posted by MERiDiAN5i2 on Feb-16-2003 04:49:

agreed. nothin like a good schmoke before spinin

Posted by deejay2002 on Feb-17-2003 18:27:

House parties suck ass.....I would never spin for a house party again.

Posted by farley on Feb-18-2003 02:59:

Actually I just spun a party on Saturday, and it went really well. For about two hours the actual basement was packed with ladies dancing, and a few smart guys too...got a ton of compliments from people who don't like trance at all. What sucked was I let this guy spin his jungle records when the floor was full so I could take a break, and he cleared my damn floor! It just wasn't the same after that, I guess you learn though. The great part was hearing a few girls tell me "The other guy sucks, but you're an awesome dj." And they didn't even notice my drunk ass trainwreck...

Posted by Zain on Feb-18-2003 04:05:

that sounds wickid pagoda, i love it girls give you compliments
What happened to your night deejay2002?

Posted by MERiDiAN5i2 on Feb-18-2003 04:51:

quote:
Originally posted by pagoda
What sucked was I let this guy spin his jungle records when the floor was full so I could take a break, and he cleared my damn floor! It just wasn't the same after that, I guess you learn though.

how typical! jungle is tight.. but it totally has that effect... it just doesnt sustain proper dancing.

long live 4/4

Posted by farley on Feb-18-2003 18:59:

quote:
Originally posted by MERiDiAN5i2
how typical! jungle is tight.. but it totally has that effect... it just doesnt sustain proper dancing.

long live 4/4

Yup. He did a stupid thing though, while he was spinning some of the chicks came up and asked him to play something faster, so instead of changing records he pitched the stuff up as fast as it would go..it sounded terrible, like chipmunk music.

Posted by MERiDiAN5i2 on Feb-19-2003 00:31:

quote:
Originally posted by pagoda
Yup. He did a stupid thing though, while he was spinning some of the chicks came up and asked him to play something faster, so instead of changing records he pitched the stuff up as fast as it would go..it sounded terrible, like chipmunk music.

proper response: I'm a DJ, not a jukebox.

at least the tard didnt just hit the 45 button on a 33... lol

Posted by Bryant on Feb-19-2003 02:27:

House parties suck, well in anyway L.A. I would spin, and people would come up to me and say "Can you play Hip-Hop?" Usually happens when I am on my third or fourth record.

Posted by farley on Feb-19-2003 05:44:

quote:
Originally posted by MERiDiAN5i2
proper response: I'm a DJ, not a jukebox.

at least the tard didnt just hit the 45 button on a 33... lol

Oh believe me, he tried but I guess he didn't realize that his jungle records were 45s naturally. The thing that really got me was he said he had been djing for "6 or 7 years". Now I'm not a jungle fanatic, but I sure as shit know what a baaaaaaad trainwreck sounds like, I've been spinning for barely a year and I could do better. Shit, I slowed down one of his records and matched it to Max Graham-Sepia, and it sounded pretty decent..

I'm amazed no one asked me to play hip hop, everyone seemed to dig the trance/prog sound. The only thing that was annoying as fuck was the house had a drum set right next to where I was, and every stupid person tried to keep along with the records but failed miserably.

Posted by Tony Morello on Feb-19-2003 06:15:

quote:
Originally posted by pagoda
Oh believe me, he tried but I guess he didn't realize that his jungle records were 45s naturally. The thing that really got me was he said he had been djing for "6 or 7 years". Now I'm not a jungle fanatic, but I sure as shit know what a baaaaaaad trainwreck sounds like, I've been spinning for barely a year and I could do better. Shit, I slowed down one of his records and matched it to Max Graham-Sepia, and it sounded pretty decent..

I'm amazed no one asked me to play hip hop, everyone seemed to dig the trance/prog sound. The only thing that was annoying as fuck was the house had a drum set right next to where I was, and every stupid person tried to keep along with the records but failed miserably.

that would piss me off to no end
i couldn't imagine trying to mix while some drunk fuck is banging away on the drums
i would've asked the owner to put them away before the party started

Posted by farley on Feb-19-2003 06:45:

Yeah, it really fucked with my beat matching sometimes. Luckily my friend stood right next to me and got any kid off the drums...almost got into 2 or 3 fights because of it...

My friend hosted the party, and his dumbass roomate who owned the drums came down and played on them too...but he was alright, he at least kept up the beat and sounded good. It was the drunk frat boys fucking around.

Posted by Zain on Feb-19-2003 07:49:

I am sorry, but i am sick of hearing from every whino in the world asking for hip hop. I hate crap-hop, and i hope all those losers get over the soldout, overplayed genre. On a different note, i had a crazy idea about how Hip-hop was legit, cool, underground music, and some how turned into the "thing" to listen to. I was reading abouts guys were into their hiphop and valued it as much as we value our underground trance. Do you think that trance will ever be completly sold out and be the thing to listen to?

Posted by DJ_FRAZ on Feb-24-2003 19:49:

Proof that my house parties are a success...

(click the link to view as some may find the photo disturbing)

PIC

LOL

Posted by DJ D-Man on Feb-24-2003 20:17:

I just played my first set with vinyl on a small party. Beatmatching on my headphones went really well, no problem. But when I started mixing... it just sounded very different from the sound I usually hear in my bedroom while I'm mixing... Maybe it was just the crap sound system we used.
But I soon got used to it, and I played a nice set. The people liked it, so I was confident.

And I learned one thing: I'll never spin again without a monitor.

Posted by TheTornado on Feb-24-2003 23:00:

My first house party was awesome, I played funky house/techno, it was great. I'd do it again any time. I played first, then my friend went on and played hip-hop, and the dance floor cleared. I love hip-hop, but it was just that he wasn't mixing or anything, it was like a wedding DJ. He played underground shit though, not like commercial stuff. People started leaving, so I asked him to throw on some instrumentals and I rhymed over 'em and people seemed to enjoy it, so it was all good.

Posted by Zain on Feb-25-2003 02:21:

thats cool, you see over here the dance floor would get pumping for hip hop and not trance. For some reason the girls dont dance to trance. But i dont have that much expierence with playing trance at house parties.

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