Hard to quit the scene when we have (((STEREO))) in Montreal.
zyklon-jay
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Originally posted by Adam420
It's true that going to a club is not always all that it's cracked out to be, but when you really love what a certain DJ plays, and they are at the controls and you have the confidence to completely submit yourself to them, well it's a great feeling.
of course it is, but at the same time, like everything else, it gets old. It doesn't mean that I don't like the music.
WittyHandle
I know people who still occasionally go out dancing who are older than you, Jay. They are well adjusted and responsible. Everyone makes their own decision what they want to do, but saying it has to stop at a certain age is silly.
zyklon-jay
I feel like the weird guy at the mall with his out screaming at all of the children that Santa doesn't exist.
WittyHandle
That's fine, just stay on the right side of the dance floor and you'll look normal by comparison.
Alex
Tag dragged me to Aria while we were still in High School.
Then he continued to drag me to Aria for a while before I actually started to like the music and not just the pills.
That's it.
zyklon-jay
quote:
Originally posted by WittyHandle
That's fine, just stay on the right side of the dance floor and you'll look normal by comparison.
I can still like totally do the Santa and the thing right?
Romchik22
quote:
Originally posted by zyklon-jay
I can still like totally do the Santa and the thing right?
Sure, it's the holiday season.
PivotTechno
High school, early-80s. I'd moved from one small city (Cornwall, blech) to another (Brockville, almost as bad in its own Wonderbread way) and was a metalhead - totally into AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, et al. My best friend (now of 28 years) and I met on day 1, grade 9. Thanks to the influence of a sibling ten years his senior, he was an avid synth pop fan; Depeche Mode, Howard Jones, New Order... Some years later, he told me that at first he didn't let slip that he was into this sort of music as he figured I'd think he wasn't cool. Turned out to be the total opposite; we'd go over to his place to listen to his cassette and fledgeling record collection, and these new sounds quickly found a place in my heart.
We'd also listen to the radio, catching broadcasts from Montreal, Toronto and the northern U.S. Was so long ago, and can't recall how we tuned in - my friend's brothers were tech geeks, so might have been a long-range receiver (I'll have to check with him on that one) - but at some point, we found a Chicago radio station that was broadcasting this new music called House. We soaked up jacking mix after mix, which it turned out were from the now legendary Hot Mix 5, from Chicago's WBMX. Soon after that, we were making regular trips on the Via train to Montreal to buy the latest House records (sadly, most of which I no longer have, though I have repurchased a lot of them), and at around age 16, started blagging our underage selves into clubs like Metropolis to listen and dance to our first live DJs. The rest, as they say, is history. :)
danidrops
Would you believe me if I said it sorta started with stuff like this?
Around middle school I'd been composing pieces on my keyboard but reached the point where my performance wasn't keeping up with the ideas, and where I'd exhausted the instrument presets on the keyboard, so I was turning to computers and getting into electronic compositions and I thought the only real place for my dramatic electronic instrumental style would be soundtracks, tv, theater and this sort of thing:
By then I'd become the music person at parties and I did a lot of Napster homework, searching for all kinds of music through a dance lens which is how I discovered trance and the dance element and electronic instrumental element came together under the word 'DJ'.
By highschool I'd diversified into eurodance and house (and drum n bass) which I did play at parties but didn't go too crazy cuz my friends wanted to grind to hiphop.
(Chocolate Puma, Fragma, Darrude, Mojo, Sonique, Armand Van Helden...)
At that time in Dubai, the Brits were getting into UK Garage and I stumbled into one of their parties once and was so inspired to see people dancing ALONE in their own space, heads down minding their footwork to beats. It made me realize that the world had different scenes and the one I was after existed.
So when I got to Montreal, I'd heard of RAVES like Bal en Banc (droool!) and was determined to find the scene. I searched and found edmm.ca which took me to Complexe Millenium(??) for Paul Oakenfold (where I was able to touch my closet girlfriend in public! WOW) and Aria (Timo Maas), Circus (John Creamer), million dollar cab ride to Red Lite(!) for Antoine Clamaran, etc. I'd go sober and with whomever would come with, and danced all night alone or with whoever and I was never disappointed. Music and PLUR baby :)
I finally bought CDJs and my class friend from McGill Eng promised to teach me how to use them (he'd learned for Barmatizvas and stuff in Turkey). I learned to mix and beatmatch on his deep house CDs but I was more into the progressive (commercial) stuff cuz I was still a hyper party girl at heart. Around then I'd gravitated back to my Arab and Pakistani friends spending our nights at Central Station and Time. But I was getting sick of that bottles culture and still preferred the music at the Afters, esp for creative mixing purposes. Till one night, I think Yaz was playing at Circus after Tiesto and a friend of his called me up to the booth. He told me what Progressive House was (as opposed to trance) and explained dirty mixing, and so I went home, practise, followed all the links and started getting much darker.
But I was still alone in all this except for my best friend who lived in Toronto and was deep in the scene there, dating Nathan Barato (Carlo's Roaches parnter) for some years (among other things), and she shared those influences, tastes and stories with me, pulling me towards tech house
And then I finally came out, and dated the artist later to be known as Jackie Spade. She liked my music so I taught her to mix and we spent all our Thursdays at Overdose, Parking with a couple friends. We later broke up and remained DJ friends, ready to find our own scene. We tried to throw a party that worked once but then immediately flopped, but in doing so ran into Move the Masses and Projekt Underdog who were a couple steps ahead of us. That was my first scene and sorta still is.
But then a brother of a friend of a friend said he'd let me play at Alkemista, where I'd met Ali and complimented his sound. He snatched me as his opener and pretty much took me under his wing, soon after making me his Head Nodders partner. In the meantime Zeina, my Toronto friend's sister had moved there, become a DJ, then moved here with a penchant for minimal that influenced both me and Jackie. Since then we've been an odd bunch, building our careers and chasing the scene around, comfortably, AFTER ALL THESE YEARS!
So in summary, I s'pose it's a good mix of party arab, gay, and music nerd that got me here ;)
Marcus007
good post danidrops
you sound cool, props
danidrops
Oh and Erika ...
Armed and dangerous, ain't too many can bang with us
Straight up weed no angel dust, label us Notorious
