Originally posted by Clovis
I'll have fun however I want to, thank you very much.
i wasnt talking to you
i doubt highly that some of you will be here lol
Cool1g
one thing no one has mentioned....its the club owners and promoters who are booking Steve...they wouldn't if they thought the crowd didn't like him.
I've never heard Steve for more than 5 or 10 minutes but i have caught DJ AM a couple of times and IMO he knows his dance music history. When you see AM at LAX on sundays, he always drops a lot of old school rave tracks in his sets.
Scotty Boy actually prefers to play house music sets but he's made his name in Vegas playing closer to open format - so that's what he's expected to play for most of his booking. last Sunday nite Scotty started off playing a mashup-type of set but as it got close to Felix's da Housecat's start time, he did fewer quick-mixes and went a bit more underground so as to be a good lead into Felix. He's also in the non-headphone group...i gotta play with Tracktor to figure out how these guys are doing it...i'm guessing they have the breaks memorized visually as to when to mix them in???
bas
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Originally posted by Cool1g
I've never heard Steve for more than 5 or 10 minutes but i have caught DJ AM a couple of times and IMO he knows his dance music history. When you see AM at LAX on sundays, he always drops a lot of old school rave tracks in his sets.
Sounds like he really knows his stuff.
edit // And if he's not using headphones than he edits all his tracks to be the exact BPM. Traktor doesn't beatmatch for you.
DaveT
I am just gonna keep randomly posting this in this thrad...
Kismet7
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Originally posted by DJ Reese
We need some dj's to chime in here. There's a lot of talk here about the tracks. You obviously need a good track selection, but as it was said in this thread, we all pretty much go to the same places to get them. As a dj it's about the constuction of a set. The programming of the mixing and tracks to create an experience. Carisma is a great thing, but means nothing if you're music sucks. I wouldn't love someone like Zabs any less if he just stood there. And even someone like Glaude, at least has dj skills and a decent track selection. One of the things we pride ourself on in the EDM scene and especially on this board is having good taste in music and djs...although our opinions may vary. He's done something right to get to where he is...but it's not his musical talent. And his carisma...you can stick a cd in of badly mixed Justice and Boyz Noize remixes and have any drunken in a sparkle shirt jump up and down on stage if you want to be entertained. Fact is anyone with taste would lose interest when the music selection jumps around while being mixed poorly. And the first time he played at Vanguard, he played no less than 4 Justice remixes. I mean come on man.
See the thing is, what im saying is valid if you want to climb the DJ ladder. You don't have to do the song and dance to be a good DJ or play good music. So i'm not saying you have to do it to be considered good musically at all. What i'm saying, if you want to be fully recognized by the promoter, the club goer who pay your checks by showing up to your shows, because they know you'll entertain them, then you have to make urself unique in a way that is memorable to them ON TOP of the great music. Its something extra that the most successful DJs seem to have. Do you need it to be a great DJ? No. Do you need it to be successful? I think it definately helps.
Steve Aoki is an example, but not the example you or anyone here should follow, he overdoes it, there are others who do it in other ways like Eric Morillo or Carl Cox or Lee Burridge. So do you have to be a monkey? No. All you have to do is show your passion for what you do, and nothing is wrong with that.
Thierry
He has such a HUGE following where I live, its so strange. Basically any DJ that plays some form of 'electro' is beloved here. I went to an Aoki show once or 2wice and he'll play a lot of crap and then drop a big hit in there then back to more bad house/electro stuff. His antics on stage are stupid when he starts standing on the decks and falling off because he's too drunk and . One time here, he kept knocking the decks off and skipping the CDs because he was drinkin straight out of the goose bottle so the resident had to step in and take over... that is unprofessional.
tjpatel
AbcGum
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Originally posted by Kismet7
And based on his performance he is building a following by using physical movements alongside the music to entertain his audience. you could practically say he is unique. he is adding a dynamic to a set that doesn't really exist in many DJ sets. Which makes him unique in a way and makes the old school EDM listener open their mouth like those
If you say so.
Plenty of dj's get physical. It's not something new.
DaveT
lalala
skell
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Originally posted by Andrieux
Here's a pic of Steve Aoki's drunk ass in Toronto earlier this month. He jumped into the crowd and noone caught him, and he laid on the floor for a bit :stongue:
skell
:stongue: :stongue: :stongue:
Skipped to the good part so you don't have to watch the whole massacre. (just watch about 15 seconds of it from where I started it)
