Registered: May 2008
Location: The Pacific Northwest, of course
How long before we can play 10+ year old tracks?
Nothing stopping us now, but how long before we can play tracks from 10-15 years ago and get away with it and not be called stuck in the past or "retro"?
I'd play trance if I could get away with playing tracks from the 90's again.
I mean EDM for the most part has had a pretty timeless sound since the mid 90's at least. Its hard to date a track just by the production quality or content.
May-29-2009 22:23
kadomony
FRENCH EXPRESS
Registered: Jul 2004
Location: Philly
Re: How long before we can play 10+ year old tracks?
quote:
Originally posted by Joss Weatherby
Nothing stopping us now, but how long before we can play tracks from 10-15 years ago and get away with it and not be called stuck in the past or "retro"?
when is that a bad thing?
i enjoy droppin 80s funk/pop in my sets
Registered: May 2008
Location: The Pacific Northwest, of course
Re: Re: How long before we can play 10+ year old tracks?
quote:
Originally posted by kadomony
when is that a bad thing?
i enjoy droppin 80s funk/pop in my sets
Yea but I mean soley playing tracks from 10 years ago...
I guess the underlying question is "would anyone care?"
I doubt party goers besides people that hang out on places like TA would even recognize tracks from 10 years ago and the only people who you'd have to worry about criticism from is other DJs... and who cares what they thing...
May-29-2009 22:58
DjWoody
Chingon
Registered: May 2003
Location: Los Angeles (OC) / Mexicali
The first time I played with Serato at Spundae, my laptop fried at the beginning of my set. I had a CD book with classic trance. I finished the remainder of my set with old trance. Everyone got really excited and they thought I purposely did a classic trance set!
May-29-2009 23:12
Rikki
Senior tranceaddict
Registered: Oct 2004
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
Play whatever you want mate!
Im gonna drop the original Lizard mix tomorrow night which is what, exactly 10 years old now?
If it mixes and sounds good theres nothing wrong with it
May-30-2009 00:01
DJSoulstone
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Jan 2007
Location: Berlin (GTA #346)
I hopefully get a pack of vinyls today where the oldest is from 1993. So, who cares? I just say 'Juno Reactor - Jungle High' and 'Fluke - Bubble'
I anyway don't care about release dates. All that matters is the flow!
Last edited by Jarvmeister on May-31-2009 at 00:24
May-31-2009 00:00
Cryogen
Senior tranceaddict
Registered: May 2009
Location: Birmingham, England.
I don't see the problem dropping old tracks into sets. Last time I saw Armin at Gods Kitchen last year he played Binary Finary 1999 and the crowd lapped it up.
If you want to play a full set of it then it'd probably be best to advertise the set as being a classics set.
Registered: May 2008
Location: The Pacific Northwest, of course
quote:
Originally posted by Cryogen
I don't see the problem dropping old tracks into sets. Last time I saw Armin at Gods Kitchen last year he played Binary Finary 1999 and the crowd lapped it up.
If you want to play a full set of it then it'd probably be best to advertise the set as being a classics set.
Thats the thing though, why would you even need to advertise it as such?
I guess this thread is more academic than practical...
