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EDM DJ's playing hip-hop. WTF!!!
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| 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 ing 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? |
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| snatonsb |
| quote: | 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 ing 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. |
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| SexySmart666 |
| What's your take on Kelis/MilkShake? |
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| gerard6975 |
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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| nchs09 |
| quote: | Originally posted by SexySmart666
What's your take on Kelis/MilkShake? |
xpress 2 remix is dope. |
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| DizkokidD |
| i dont think he was talking about the remix versions but the radio edits or extended mix |
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| 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... |
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| rizo |
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 :whip: :o :haha: |
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| Kismet7 |
| This is blasphemy. |
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| 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. |
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| JoNMiTz |
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... |
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| xDJxSAPHYREx |
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. |
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