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EDM DJ's playing hip-hop. WTF!!!

So I went and saw Mark Farina at Ruby Skye on Saturday night. Amazing show! That guy is unbelievable! One of the best sets I've heard in a long time (he's right up there with Lee Burridge).

But that's not the point of this thread. The guy that opened for Farina started out ok......until he dropped "Hey Bartender" and right afterwards he played a song by Justin Timberlake. I'm not talking little snippets of the song, I'm talking the song in it's entirety! Talk about a fucking buzz kill! The dance floor completely stopped and half the people walked away. These are songs that I expect to hear at a club in Sacramento, not at Ruby Skye before I'm about to see Mark Farina. And also on New Years I was at Mighty and Lee Coombs was spinning and he played "Drop It Like It's Hot" by Snoop. Just threw the song in the mix and again a complete buzz kill; I literally left the club.

Anyone have any similar experiences? Did it bother you as much as it bothered me? Am I out of line here?

Re: EDM DJ's playing hip-hop. WTF!!!

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Originally posted by TOOLhead So I went and saw Mark Farina at Ruby Skye on Saturday night. Amazing show! That guy is unbelievable! One of the best sets I've heard in a long time (he's right up there with Lee Burridge). But that's not the point of this thread. The guy that opened for Farina started out ok......until he dropped "Hey Bartender" and right afterwards he played a song by Justin Timberlake. I'm not talking little snippets of the song, I'm talking the song in it's entirety! Talk about a fucking buzz kill! The dance floor completely stopped and half the people walked away. These are songs that I expect to hear at a club in Sacramento, not at Ruby Skye before I'm about to see Mark Farina. And also on New Years I was at Mighty and Lee Coombs was spinning and he played "Drop It Like It's Hot" by Snoop. Just threw the song in the mix and again a complete buzz kill; I literally left the club. Anyone have any similar experiences? Did it bother you as much as it bothered me? Am I out of line here?

I don't know but Oscar G dropped "Get Ya Freak On" by Missy Elliot and it went off in the club. He mixed it in so sick and that beat is just bananas. I don't even like hip hop but he made it flow.

What's your take on Kelis/MilkShake?

as long as the music flows. breaks aka breakbeats was born from hiphop. and you do know that Lee Coombs play breaks, right?

i have a bigger appreciation for DJs who can mix up different genres and still have a flow in their set.

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Originally posted by SexySmart666 What's your take on Kelis/MilkShake?

xpress 2 remix is dope.

i dont think he was talking about the remix versions but the radio edits or extended mix

rooz was the closer, who was the opener? the guy sounds like an idiot playing those tracks when his job is to set up farina. hip hop could work in a set i guess, but very rarely is it ever done properly--because it'd be hard to do...

i dont mind hip hop and/or rap when its good. lee foss made some good mixes.

haha i just remembered. once outside of shine during a dirtybird party, andrieux yelled "brotha lynch!" so we ran back inside only to find out it wasn't

This is blasphemy.

Sometimes mashup DJ's work w/ a diverse crowd. Hip Hop listeners can't even tell that it is mixed in w/ a house beat.

I personally love house, but the boojie Hollywood crowd is still caught up w/ hip hop and so is California or USA in general.

In Europe, the default genre @ a club is always house/EDM however I can't say the same about here.

lee combs is a terrible dj, both times i have seen him, and every time my friends have seen him, there is nothing but negative reviews.

sorry for any lee combs fans...

Hip hop IS EDM though... or did you forget about the beats in the background?

Either way, I like it if its done at the right time & place - if the song matches the rest of the set genre-wise (dubstep, house, breaks, dnb) or simply just fits the vibe right...just like a cheezy trance anthem/classic would.

...but clearly the examples listed were most definitely a buzzkill. Especially right before Farina? Very weak.

I agree with OP.

That's a 99% buzzkill unless the track was mixed in REALLY well and it wasn't top 40 radio pop trash hiphop.

On a random note, I love Ferry Corsten's "Junk" though.

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Originally posted by rizo haha i just remembered. once outside of shine during a dirtybird party, andrieux yelled "brotha lynch!" so we ran back inside only to find out it wasn't

I was so off on that one.

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Originally posted by mar46017 Sometimes mashup DJ's work w/ a diverse crowd. Hip Hop listeners can't even tell that it is mixed in w/ a house beat. I personally love house, but the boojie Hollywood crowd is still caught up w/ hip hop and so is California or USA in general. In Europe, the default genre @ a club is always house/EDM however I can't say the same about here.

Totally. I was in Ibiza a few years ago and Armand Van Helden was to headline at Space (this was a year or so after he reinvented himself (again) with "you don't even know me").

Three tracks in to the set, to a packed dancefloor he drops hip-hop, and doesn't stop.

It didn't just clear the dance floor, it cleared the whole fucking club.

Not a wise move as it badly damaged his for a time rep on the European scene.

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Originally posted by DizkokidD i dont think he was talking about the remix versions but the radio edits or extended mix

you are correct sir. not even a tolerable house remix. it was just an extended mix of the original song.

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Originally posted by R!CH rooz was the closer, who was the opener? the guy sounds like an idiot playing those tracks when his job is to set up farina. hip hop could work in a set i guess, but very rarely is it ever done properly--because it'd be hard to do...

i have no idea who the opener was. but rooz fucking killed it after farina. great closing set. kept the floor packed until about 3:30 - 4:00am.

Probably because it was promoted as Mark Farina "Mushroom Jazz"

Mark plays much different when he plays a set promoting his mushroom jazz vibe

They should have gotten someone like J Boogie to open, he always knows how to keep an urban hip hop vibe going with different music

Re: EDM DJ's playing hip-hop. WTF!!!

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Originally posted by TOOLhead So I went and saw Mark Farina at Ruby Skye on Saturday night. Amazing show! That guy is unbelievable! One of the best sets I've heard in a long time (he's right up there with Lee Burridge). But that's not the point of this thread. The guy that opened for Farina started out ok......until he dropped "Hey Bartender" and right afterwards he played a song by Justin Timberlake. I'm not talking little snippets of the song, I'm talking the song in it's entirety! Talk about a fucking buzz kill! The dance floor completely stopped and half the people walked away. These are songs that I expect to hear at a club in Sacramento, not at Ruby Skye before I'm about to see Mark Farina. And also on New Years I was at Mighty and Lee Coombs was spinning and he played "Drop It Like It's Hot" by Snoop. Just threw the song in the mix and again a complete buzz kill; I literally left the club. Anyone have any similar experiences? Did it bother you as much as it bothered me? Am I out of line here?

We couldn't agree more!!! if a hip-hop track comes on we vacate immediately, it's so not cool!! If we wanted to hear (c)rap or hip-hop we'd go to some mainstream, lame club that plays that stuff.

If you're talking about Mark Tabberner, it's no secret that the man has no clue how to dj.

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