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Positive/Negative Experiences with DJs & Producers
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| Chimney |
Surely many of you have had the opportunity to come into contact with DJs and producers either at venues or through different socialization websites. I'm curious as to which of these have left either a good or bad impression on you.
Some of mine:
Dave Seaman: Very nice bloke. Asked him for a copy of an unreleased track some years ago, but he couldn't hand it out. After contacting Renaissance and re-writing him, he made an effort on my behalf but at due time he had lost his own copy of it. Nevertheless, the gesture was well-appreciated.
Raresh: Met him at a venue back in 2010. One of the nicest, down to earth people I ever had the pleasure to talk to. Social and friendly as hell.
Airwave: Spoke to him roughly 3-4 years ago. Great guy with great knowledge of music. I asked him how he produces his music and so on.
Terre Thaemlitz: Spoke with Terre some years ago about the entire gender idology that was covered in Midtown 120 Blues. Great person as well.
James Holden: Asked him a question on twitter about an old track. He refused to answer for some reason.
Eric Prydz: Never tends to serious question on different medias either. Not even his twitter, which is used to promote himself and answer only to chicks.
Petter: Weird one. He promised to look for an old track for me in the studio only to block me after asking him again a couple of months later.
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| djnitride |
| quote: | Originally posted by Chimney
James Holden: Asked him a question on twitter about an old track. He refused to answer for some reason.
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Panic attack caused by unicorn trance. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
I'm not really fussed about hanging around trying to chat to famous DJs/musicians, but on the few occasions I have they've always been pretty positive.
Ulrich Schnauss - Chatted to him and his wife (who does the visuals on his live show) after a gig. Talked about the evolution of his drum programming across his albums and he said "It's nice to know people notice these thinga". Seemed like a lovely guy.
Jody Wisternoff - I caught him after his set and asked him about all the samples of The FSOL's Dead Cities on his Anjunadeep 5 CD and he said "I've been sampling the FSOL for 20 years - that's all I do!" We ended up chatting for about 20 minutes about Way Out West and where they should go with their next album. The guy is a complete prankster and kept winding me up by deliberately talking nonsense, probably as a bull filter to see if I just blindly agreed with him or not, then laughing and slapping me on the back when I was getting baffled.
LTJ Bukem - Only caught him fleetingly as I rushed to the toilets before he came on, only to find him in there. The only DJ I've ever been starstruck by. "Hey man, even DJs need to take a piss" he deadpanned in the face of my gushing fanboyism.
J00F - Obviously I've played at his night, interviewed him and so on. Goes without saying he's a lovely guy and when he's off the record he can talk a lot more freely about things that don't always come across clearly in his interviews/rants due to a need to remain diplomatic.
Orkidea - I actually told him how disappointed I'd been with his previous set as he'd played banal click-prog when he'd been pretty much the only reason I'd gone to the event. He took it very well and actually appreciated that someone was being honest with him, which he said was refreshing in the industry. Proceeded to play a great set and say "Was that more like it?" afterwards.
Lm1 - Not really a big name but one of my favourite drum 'n bass producers. Chatted to him for ages, turns out he used to make progressive trance as Red Devil and featured on Northern Exposure: Expeditions, for which he apparently got paid £15k for the use of his track. Another very sound guy.
Lee Coombs - Briefly spoke to him at the end of a night where he headlined. I was utterly drunk though and can't really remember any of it. He seemed pretty avuncular.
The only really "negative" experience I can remember was DJ TLR (owner of Creme Organisation). He played an absolute blinding acid house/techno set, but when I tried to talk to him afterwards to praise his set he pretty much blanked me in favour of packing up his and leaving the club as quickly as possible. Possibly because there were only about 40 people in the club and he was feeling a bit demoralised, but it was annoying as I really wanted the ID of his last track. |
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| MSZ |
Must...resist...negative.. there are so many inflated ego's its pretty nuts, they'll try to convince you they love music more than you.
Airwave and Joof both very genuine people that care, cant say that often so respect where its due. Thank you for your respect if you're reading. |
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| Scoops |
Donald Glaude - used to chat wit him via myspace. A promoter friend aske me about booking him and i told he would be great for the venue. So sure enough Glaude gets booked. the night of the gig, we see Glaude make his way though the crowd and he stops and starts talking. 2 minutes later, he is like "Lets go grab a few shots before i go on". A year later I'm in AC and he is playing a club with DJ Dan. Both of em are making their way through the crowd and Glaude stops and is like "dude, you and your girl are hanging out with me and Dan in the booth" After their gig was done, Glaude says "Alright...lets go hit the roulette tables"
Glaude is hands down one of the most humble DJs i've met who enjoys meeting and interacting wit his fans |
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| Guest |
Mike Huckaby: Totally cool guy. Was murdering a rooftop set in Manhattan and was more than happy to entertain my double molly capsule enduced conversation and high fives from the side of the booth. Super chill and was also very responsive on facebook when I asked for a few ID's later in the week.
Ripperton: Shy, a bit eccentric. Nice guy but he's definitely more of a musician than a DJ. A very polite introvert.
Danny Howells: Met him at Output this past December, the entire purpose of me being at the club that night was to meet him/get a photo, and it just so happened that I had taken a potent capsule about 15 minutes before he walked in to start setting up so he got me on the upswing lol. I was a bumbling mess but I eventually calmed down and asked him for a photo. When I told him my name he said "Oh you wrote that really nice review for me on discogs, right?" Needless to say I was happy and ecstatic that he recognized me. The review must have meant something to him. Awesome.
Steve Lawler: This was back in 2006 I think, again I was wrecked on pills and someone was dumb enough to give me a bracelet to go up on stage with Lawler and his crew. The girls that were there with him were unbelievably hot and wearing pretty much nothing. Like true thoroughbred coke whores. So I was hitting on them, stumbling around, knocking bottles over and whatnot. Total mess but I stayed away from the mixer and Steve which was all that mattered. Despite my antics Steve took a picture with me and there were drinks spill stains all down the front of my shirt. God I wish I could find that photo it was hilarious. |
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| Dj Pluviose |
My experience has been absolutely positive. because DJ Tiesto played my record. I was a happy man.
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| Dj Pluviose |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Orkidea - I actually told him how disappointed I'd been with his previous set as he'd played banal click-prog when he'd been pretty much the only reason I'd gone to the event. He took it very well and actually appreciated that someone was being honest with him, which he said was refreshing in the industry. Proceeded to play a great set and say "Was that more like it?" afterwards. |
Out of all these I think this one sounds the most interesting for some reason... I think it's the fact that it implies development on Orkidea as an artist and listening to input from you. Then the fact that he asked "Was that more like it?" just made me think or something inspirational and respectable. That was pretty cool. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dj Pluviose
Out of all these I think this one sounds the most interesting for some reason... I think it's the fact that it implies development on Orkidea as an artist and listening to input from you. Then the fact that he asked "Was that more like it?" just made me think or something inspirational and respectable. That was pretty cool. |
Don't get me wrong - he didn't alter his set because of what I'd said. The first time I saw him he was on early before an all star line-up of trance and I had gone to see him specifically in the hope he'd play some deeper trance. Instead he'd played extremely generic click-hiss tech prog. The second time I saw him (when I spoke to him) he was headlining at a much smaller night and played most of his "20" album which he'd just released at the time. This was 2010/11. |
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| Paradox Lost |
I've had positive experiences with both Nick Warren and Chris Fortier, but it's not like I had to machete my way through their legions of fans and surrounding press in order to get to them. They serve a niche market, but they also get booked at major venues where half the people there don't know or care to know who they are, so they tend to be appreciate people who have an existing appreciation of them and their work.
As for producers...I mean, they're mostly just people with day jobs who make music on the side, so your experiences with them are usually no different than with any other random stranger. They're all Facebook accessible, and are usually quite happy to field questions from people who have taken the time to track them down on account of some single they released in 2004. |
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| Mr Game+Watch |
For being just an average, long-time electronic music fan, I've met some pretty famous people:
Ferry Corsten - Met him on 2 separate occasions at meet-and-greets sponsored by the erstwhile Virgin Megastore (one time in SoBe, another back up here). He was the first big electronic music artist I met so I was a bit star-struck, and he teased me a bit for that... extremely down to earth and friendly, I was telling him when I first got into trance, I realized a lot of my favorite songs were all his aliases.
Tony McGuiness (Above and Beyond) - Met him while he was casually wandering around the main stage at Ultra. He was talking to my friend and I, asked where we were from... and then he said how much he loved to play at Pacha NYC and my friend and I just looked at each other and were like "wtf, why?" :P This was at the time Anjunadeep was first getting started and so I was talking to him about that.
Guti - Met him after his Electric Zoo set in 2011. Very humble, took the time to chat with fans after his set and pose for pictures. I was talking to him a bit and told him I was a big fan of his work with Dubshape... and he said "And I'm a fan of you!" or something like that... maybe he thought I was his fellow countryman Messi (some have said I look like him).
Grum - Met him at a meet-and-greet one year during Electric Zoo. Was a rather quiet and reserved guy, kind of the opposite of his big-room 80's influenced music.
Tom Middleton - Met him hanging around during Frankie Knuckles' set during the first ever Electric Zoo. Extremely friendly and outgoing.
Sander Van Doorn - Met him when he first started getting big (when he still produced tech-trance and minimal), smoking a cigarette on the street in South Beach. He took the time to chat with my friends and I. Nowadays after he got huge with EDM, I wonder if he'd still take the time to talk with his fans.
Sasha - Went to a house party in Miami during WMC where they were showing "New Emissions of Light and Sound", the surfing film he did the music for... never in a million years did I expect him to actually be there. And for him to approach my friends and I asking for a light (if there was any time where I wished I smoked, it would be that...). Almost didn't recognize him, since he was a bit out of shape and his head was shaved. Afterwards I did get to talk with him a bit, and he was a bit more reserved than I imagine but he did take time to chat and pose for a pic. Even though this was in that late 2000's era when he was at his weakest, DJ wise, you bet your ass I was still starstruck. |
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| Dj Pluviose |
| Did you guys meet all those people in VIP or something? |
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