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Gareth Emery: 95% of Trance is Cheesy Bollocks (pg. 14)
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| TheVrk |
| quote: | Originally posted by 8Wonders
He's right but perhaps not the right person to be saying it |
Ditto |
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| DJMaytag |
| quote: | Originally posted by ArgentinaHouse
Hey buddy nice myspace. Awesome, that you have Marco V as your number one buddy on your top 8.
Very impressive, seems you are very calculating in your set preparation. Im sure MARCO V really notices that when you go on GIGs with him.
Oh wait a second, you dont........ :nervous: :nervous: :nervous: :nervous:
who are you again...:nervous: |
That's me on the far left, Marco in the center
see flyer from said show where I opened for him:
he's my favorite DJ, hence being in my top 8 list... so what? |
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| DJMaytag |
| quote: | Originally posted by Mike_Foyle
i dont plan my sets but when i go to a gig ive got a pretty good idea of certain tracks i want to play, and roughly what kind of progression i want to achieve. |
exactly. there's a difference between just randomly throwing tracks out there without really caring what you're playing, versus having a selection of tracks that you know AT SOME POINT will be played, without planning out exactly what time of night they may fall (leaving room for some tracks that might have been thought of, but would fit perfectly in a spot that you hadn't thought of earlier). |
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| ArgentinaHouse |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJMaytag
That's me on the far left, Marco in the center
see flyer from said show where I opened for him:
he's my favorite DJ, hence being in my top 8 list... so what? |
Ummm your name is on the flyer with about 10 other nobodies...including someone named DJ TEDDY.:nervous:
your point? OH, you were the showstopper that sold out the event right? |
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| DJMaytag |
| quote: | Originally posted by Joca
Maytag is a stud, he gets 40+ new tunes a week delivered to him! |
um, that's 40 per month
I would say I wish I could get 40 a week... but i sincerely doubt there are that many being released that are decent |
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| DJMaytag |
| quote: | Originally posted by Nayil
Thats why ive never heard of you.... |
I know a guy who operates in much the same manner as I do, not really having a preconceived notion of what he's going to play when he goes to his gigs (so he said a few years ago, things may have changed).
I'm pretty sure you've heard of him... Armin Van Buuren (ring a bell?)
yeah, I'm a nobody, and am fairly content to be a big fish in a small pond where I live right now. |
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| AnLyGi |
| Handbags at dawn. Some controversial going down. There is more bitchiness goes on here than who gets to lay beside hef in the playboy mansion at bedtime. |
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| Nayil |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJMaytag
I know a guy who operates in much the same manner as I do, not really having a preconceived notion of what he's going to play when he goes to his gigs (so he said a few years ago, things may have changed).
I'm pretty sure you've heard of him... Armin Van Buuren (ring a bell?)
yeah, I'm a nobody, and am fairly content to be a big fish in a small pond where I live right now. |
armin made me weep... when he came to dallas. I was like..is this wat the great had to offer ? He hardly played a single classic track.... and that night okenfold just blew armin away...so did JXL.
anyways dude..... i if i were you ..id save sum respect for Darude... he has accomplished more than any of us... |
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| DJMaytag |
| quote: | Originally posted by darudevil
Maytag, I didn't mean to underestimate your talent, I'm sorry. Personally I find it quite impossible to spin a "spot on" set without getting to know the tracks beforehand (Don't get me wrong though, I do "all freestyle" sets here and there, sometimes play b2b with my friends etc). It's great that it works for you. |
would I expect someone to play a set of tracks of nothing but tracks they just got? no (and not what I was referring to earlier).
Would I consider it "quite impossible" to spin a set of a balance of about 80% known material to 20% new material? also no. i don't see how (based on your numbers) playing 3 or 4 new tracks you didn't know all that well would throw you off.
getting back on topic here, it would seem like most prog and trance is getting so formulaic from a song structure standpoint, that it's pretty obvious where to mix out of most songs anyway (especially in the cases where you a very familiar with a producer and/or label very well, and know how they tend to produce). |
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| DJMaytag |
| quote: | Originally posted by Nayil
anyways dude..... i if i were you ..id save sum respect for Darude... he has accomplished more than any of us... |
I wasn't trying to bash Darude (see beginning of my first post), hell I was even trying to defend him! |
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| isoterra |
| quote: | Originally posted by Nayil
armin made me weep... when he came to dallas. I was like..is this wat the great had to offer ? He hardly played a single classic track.... |
his set sucked because it didn't have classics in it? :/ |
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| Nayil |
| quote: | Originally posted by isoterra
his set sucked because it didn't have classics in it? :/ |
well...that and too much ASOT stuff.... tunes which i was not at all fond of from b4. |
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