Do you like DJ AM + that style of playing?

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Posted by cache on May-29-2009 09:38:

Do you like DJ AM + that style of playing?

managed to catch his set recently and while he started out crap with lots of trainwrecking, he actually got into it after a while and started playing well and doing a few cool things.

BUT it isn't all that fancy. just a few chigga chigga woos with the turntables and dropping a few vocal samples and chops into his mix.

It basically is to disguise the fact that you cannot mix two completely different songs without using ableton live or something like that.

how he doesn't kill himself having to play daft punk and michael jackson every Fckin set, i don't know.

Compare his style to someone like Justin Long who also plays Serato - fkc. what a difference. (justin Long + mazi playing KING KING 31st JULY as WASTED CHICAGO YOUTH - debut LA performance)

What do you think of the whole serato/30 sec cut style? love it/hate it?

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Posted by mar46017 on May-29-2009 10:15:

Mashups? I've seen him play once or twice and from what I remember it was a mixture of top 40, hip hop and house.

Works well with a diverse crowd. Don't think an EDM fan really cares for him.

Posted by henryv on May-29-2009 13:39:

no.

Posted by Sadface on May-29-2009 15:53:

I've seen clips of him djing and he's definitely good at what he does, especially when compared with 98% of hip hop club DJ's. I don't think it makes much sense to compare hip hop/mashup dj's to guys who play techno/house because the music is so different.

Posted by Nerologic on May-29-2009 18:09:

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Originally posted by henryv
no.

But the guy does have talent when he tries, hes just not my style.

Posted by DJ IDeaL on May-29-2009 18:27:

unless youre doing more than just mixing... i hate serato.

I've actually seen Serato dj's 'mixing' without headphones... just matching the wave file images.

they might as well make an arcade game out of it since its as simple as matching the images.

as for AM... lol

Posted by cache on May-30-2009 00:55:

matching just to the wave file images? fckin hell. thats unbelieveable.

wonder can the lad (dj am) actually play house or techno?

would be funny if he 'discovers' say fidget and then starts slamming it to the eau-de-cologne-ed 'vip' masses at the posh spots.

or on the flip side - say T*EST* starts playing 30sec cuts of songs and drops michael jackson + daft punk... hahaha

oh its a funnny world we live in...

Posted by surfrgal on May-30-2009 01:15:

I remember BPM Mag was championing him as the next big thing a few years back when everyone had that "Hollywood/Paris Hilton/Nicole Ritchie" mania going on.

He certainly hasn't broken very far into the dance scene, but then again who needs to when you are being paid major bucks to DJ at socialite and corporate parties?

Posted by DjWoody on May-30-2009 01:43:

AM might not be that big in the die-hard EDM scene, but on the Mashup/Hip Hop Scene AM is KING!!! I'm not a big fan of his style, but he is good at what he does. He certainly is the biggest NON-EDM DJ there is! You can pretty much thank him for bringing the Mashups to the mainstream.

Posted by mar46017 on May-30-2009 02:07:

I remember Avalon booking him last year with a (house set) in parenthesis.

Anyone catch that set?

Him and Aoki have a good Sunday night @ LAX in Hollwood. Been going on for a while.

Posted by money on May-30-2009 04:22:

negative

Posted by |Thrax| on May-30-2009 10:08:

quote:
Originally posted by mar46017
I remember Avalon booking him last year with a (house set) in parenthesis.

Anyone catch that set?

Him and Aoki have a good Sunday night @ LAX in Hollwood. Been going on for a while.

i was there, it could have been worse, but it wasn't great.

Posted by money on May-31-2009 01:19:

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Him and Aoki have a good Sunday night @ LAX in Hollwood. Been going on for a while.

Sarcasm?

Posted by Nerologic on May-31-2009 03:36:

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Originally posted by money
Sarcasm?

I think i am safe to say that it wasn't sarcasm.

Posted by mar46017 on May-31-2009 15:49:

quote:
Originally posted by Nerologic
I think i am safe to say that it wasn't sarcasm.

Google Banana Split Sundaes LAX Hollywood

Posted by DJ Reese on May-31-2009 21:11:

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Originally posted by mar46017
Google Banana Split Sundaes LAX Hollywood

Been going on for a couple years now. Never felt the need to go. I'm still bitter that they turned that place into what it is. My favorite club night ever was Monday Social @ Las Palmas...not that I don't still love Social.

Posted by allan77 on May-31-2009 22:42:

I saw him play for the first time at the KROQ Weenie Roast a few weeks ago with Travis Barker complimenting him with the drums. Why they headlined the concert is beyond me. Anyways he started with some Electro House, playing shit that I was impressed by. Unfortunately, I wasnt feeling it. I had been listening to rock all day and the EDM killed my vibe. I remember thinking, "shit, this would be great a club" Fortunately enough though, he started playing more rock mashups with a few hip-hop mashups in between and I got back in to it. Oddly, enough, the entire crowd seemed into it.

Posted by raven848 on Jun-01-2009 02:22:

caught him at WMC a few months back and it was horrible. Terrible mixing, trainwreck after trainwreck, and just stopping songs in the middle of them to start another. No cohesiveness, no fun, no good.

Posted by Jim Carson on Jun-01-2009 07:12:

It's all about the eight track bitches!!!