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A JP Party worth attending?? (pg. 3)
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| zizack |
| quote: | Originally posted by djy2g33
OK how's about I've seen the guy spin in boston a couple of years ago and he was just plain bad... boring music and nothing special about his mixing... That doesn't really inspire me to go see him when he's here in a couple of weeks... :D |
you saw him 2 years ago and he played music that you found boring and that means he is 'just plain bad?'
When I see djs who bore me I chalk them up as just not being my cup of tea, but I don't run off and tell peopel they suck. |
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| zizack |
| quote: | | Originally posted by matt167698 does he loop stuff for an hour while comes back out of a k-hole... yeah. |
again, exagerations here. have you ever seen JP do K? have you ever heard him loop a song and looked at your watch to count exactly how long it was looped for?
I have been to many many JP parties over the years and have never ever once heard him loop or mess with a song for more than 20 minutes. But of course, somebody exagerated one of his looping sessions til it was 30 minutes, then the next guy made the story even grander until it was 40 minutes...so on and so on til now JP loops songs for over an hour. lol Seriously. |
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| Clovis86 |
| quote: | Originally posted by zizack
according to who? Clovis from TA?
he uses 2 laptops, same as a lot of other djs / acts. Most clubs come standard with 3 cd decks and 3 TT's. he doesn't use TT's anymore so he uses laptops. so what.
I'm by no means a JP fan, but most of the criticisms of the guy are done by people "who have heard" things about him. Get off the bandwagon and form your own opinion of the guy. |
This looks like Vinyl to me:
Look at the amount of equipment here, its absolutely ridiculous. There is no way in hell it all serves a purpose, because even if it does, you dont need THREE instances of Ableton, let alone more than 1.
I didnt go to this party, but I have a few friends who went and said he wrecked numerous times, and ed up effects work aswell. |
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| zizack |
ok, so now we're down to 3 from 4. That other laptop may well be someone else's from that night. Either way, what the hell does it matter how many computers he uses? Look at pictures of Infusion's live set up or Hybrids or NU NRG's. they do Live PAs and rtequire a ridiculous amount of gear. JP does a slightly stripped down version of a live PA, hence so much gear. So what? Hats off to him.
In regards to him wrecking, all djs do, no one is perfect. carl Cox rocks three TTs on ngihts and you know what, his mixes go off a lot. Does that mean he isn;t a good dj, no. It means he takes risks and is trying to push his sound. Same with JP. Anyway schmuck dj can mix two records together, hats off to the guys who push themselves and technology, even if they do mess up every so often.
And I never said he didn't use TTs, I just know he uses more cds these days. |
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| Clovis86 |
| quote: | Originally posted by zizack
ok, so now we're down to 3 from 4. That other laptop may well be someone else's from that night. Either way, what the hell does it matter how many computers he uses? Look at pictures of Infusion's live set up or Hybrids or NU NRG's. they do Live PAs and rtequire a ridiculous amount of gear. JP does a slightly stripped down version of a live PA, hence so much gear. So what? Hats off to him.
In regards to him wrecking, all djs do, no one is perfect. carl Cox rocks three TTs on ngihts and you know what, his mixes go off a lot. Does that mean he isn;t a good dj, no. It means he takes risks and is trying to push his sound. Same with JP. Anyway schmuck dj can mix two records together, hats off to the guys who push themselves and technology, even if they do mess up every so often.
And I never said he didn't use TTs, I just know he uses more cds these days. |
lol do you work for him or something? As far as pushing technology, try James Zabiela, or Richie Hawtin. I havnt seen him live, but I seriously doubt he is utilizing all that equipment to deliver a more interesting set. Hes doing a scaled down live PA? Doesnt look like it. Looks like a standard DJ set with 10 tons of extra equipment to make him look cool. And how do you WRECK using ableton live? |
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| Clovis86 |
I should add the disclaimer, that since I havnt seen him yet live, I'm only basing my opinion on what I have heard from good friends, and through the photos I see.
But I'm not the only one with this opinion. Anyways I'm done wasting my time arguing about "The Jonathan Peters Experience" :p |
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| zizack |
| quote: | Originally posted by Clovis86
lol do you work for him or something? As far as pushing technology, try James Zabiela, or Richie Hawtin. I havnt seen him live, but I seriously doubt he is utilizing all that equipment to deliver a more interesting set. Hes doing a scaled down live PA? Doesnt look like it. Looks like a standard DJ set with 10 tons of extra equipment to make him look cool. And how do you WRECK using ableton live? |
I'm not a JP fan at all, I just get annoyed when I see people jump on the bandwagon and talk about djs they have never seen because they "have heard" things about them and feel cool regurgitaing what they have heard. You can speculate all you want, but you still haven't heard him to actually criticize. zabiela and hawton are two of the biggest djs in the world so comparing them to him is unfair.
And as you pointed out, JP uses vinyl too, hence how a trainwreck could happen. |
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| zizack |
| quote: | Originally posted by Clovis86
I should add the disclaimer, that since I havnt seen him yet live, I'm only basing my opinion on what I have heard from good friends, and through the photos I see.
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you base opinions on what friends of yours tell you and though out of context photos you have seen on the internet? Sweet! |
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| Clovis86 |
| quote: | Originally posted by zizack
you base opinions on what friends of yours tell you and though out of context photos you have seen on the internet? Sweet! |
Yes and so does everyone else, whoever says they dont is a liar. |
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| djy2g33 |
| quote: | Originally posted by zizack
you saw him 2 years ago and he played music that you found boring and that means he is 'just plain bad?'
When I see djs who bore me I chalk them up as just not being my cup of tea, but I don't run off and tell peopel they suck. |
No, I do like that type of music... Just him playing it was boring... Plenty of other DJs in the same style are not boring at all! However, he was! There's a difference between not being my cup of tea or just being a really nasty-ass bitter cup of tea... He was the latter :D
If I didn't know any better, you sound like a relative or promoter of his?? LOL... You like refuse to accept what people who HAVE seen him, HAVE heard his music and HAVE listened to other comparable djs think about JP (and common consensus is that he really isn't all that great). You're gonna have to swallow that :) |
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| DJ Eco |
| quote: | Originally posted by zizack
again, exagerations here. have you ever seen JP do K? have you ever heard him loop a song and looked at your watch to count exactly how long it was looped for?
I have been to many many JP parties over the years and have never ever once heard him loop or mess with a song for more than 20 minutes. But of course, somebody exagerated one of his looping sessions til it was 30 minutes, then the next guy made the story even grander until it was 40 minutes...so on and so on til now JP loops songs for over an hour. lol Seriously. |
everyone knows that JP is a serious drug addict.... i know people whove done bumps, sniffed lines, and shared tina with him, and have pics of some of these instances (of course i wasnt there, so taking their word and pics to formulate my own opinion still makes it invalid?).... i've been to probably half the JP parties in the past year (only because all friends of mine go, and i always get free admission, so why the hell not?) and i can safely say all times, he looped for wayyyyy more than 20 minutes... Zack, youre cool and all, but dont say that youve stayed through a whole JP set, be it 12 hours or 24 hours, enough to say that he doesnt loop more than 20 minutes.... i left his Copa party following a 15 minute loop of a BREAKDOWN in some like 1999 trance song, and then when the beat came in, he looped it another 30 minutes at least while throwing in some acapellas, and everyone thought he was god for it.... hes just terrible, and this is not from word of mouth, this is from some1 whos seen him plenty of times to say so.... and as far as WORD OF MOUTH that hes a drug addict (back to that point), take a look at his pupils at any given point of his party, and thats enough evidence right there :stongue: |
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| DJ Eco |
| i got so bored at his Avalon Halloween party, i decided to just watch him from the mezzanine or w.e. u call it.... there is nothing he does that requires anything more than one laptop, a mixer, maybe 2 turntables, and 2 CD decks.... didnt see him touch the keyboard once, and all he does is loop and loop and loop and loop.... seriously, i dont know why youre defending him so much, hes got normal skill as far as DJing goes, but half of that equipment is unnecessary, and the REAL DJs know it.... sure all the JP heads see that and think hes no ordinary DJ, but thats because they dont know the half of it |
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