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Are you a DJ?

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  • 08-07-2001 6:07am
    #1
    phobos
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    K,

    I was just wondering is there any DJs using these boards? . By DJ I don't mean the people who play 21st/weddings/funerals(LOL) or the like. I mean people who play in clubs/radio or bedroom DJs. I dabble in the area and have had a few small gigs in the past. My preferred style tends towards hard house to more progressive stuff.

    I know you Kayos were in to this, actually you still have my last mix CD, Hmmm I want that back!.

    I notice that Metal is big on these boards, so lads don't flame me just because I like Dance music. It will only reflect poorly upon yourself, because I myself would listen to anything, and hence don't criticise any kind of music.

    ;-phobos-)

    [This message has been edited by phobos (edited 08-07-2001).]


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    Karl Hungus
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    Personaly, I'm currently trying to get a club night started SOMEWHERE, seeying as there is very little metal at all in Galway...

    Try and get a nice little Gothic/Metal/Black Metal thing going if I can...
    With of course, myself being DJ! biggrin.gif


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    plastic membrane
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,219 ✭✭✭plastic membrane


    Hey Westo,

    Just so ya know, or just so i can ask, Stevo and i were in the TF on Thursday night. It was bloody great, and the music, was top class, i guess there must have been one of those fabled blue moon that night. Anyway, the last song was a sweet version of Shining Happy People that went on for about ten minutes and it brought the house down. So, there i was, standing amidst all the rubble, wondering where the hell that had come from, seeing as how nobody actaully knew. Have you heard of it at all ??

    Oh yeah, how are you ??/
    Who is The Beefy King ?
    Owing to an administrative error, the Pope had been replaced by Lemmy from Moterhead...

    [This message has been edited by plastic membrane (edited 08-07-2001).]

    [This message has been edited by plastic membrane (edited 08-07-2001).]


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    Yo Mamma
    Registered Users Posts: 954 ✭✭✭Yo Mamma


    Yeah, I'm a DJ.

    I play pumping House to Progressive house, and sometimes the good quality Hard house!

    I also play Funky house, for the warm up gigs and whilst playing for "Deep fried Disco", or "Hit & Run", both respectable club nights, although deep fried is gone due to the mills shutting down!

    I have played in every Venue in this city bar the main room in the Temple Theatre (which i really want to play). I'v been DJ'ing for about seven years now and have held down a couple of decent residencies albethey once a month gigs wink.gif,including the Kitchen and the Colombia Mills(gone now)

    I'm part of the Pyro DJ agency!

    I am currently working on some Summer gigs in Greece, Mikkenos I think ? And on some tunes with a few of my mates! They will be doing most of the actual producing where as I'l be getting the ideas for them ! (well thats the idea wink.gif)

    Good luck with it anyway, God knows its very hard to make it as a DJ in this town !!

    smile.gif


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    phobos
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    Good stuff m8,

    You seem to have a good headstart on me, since I'm only playing for the past 2 years. We seem to be playing the same stuff. But funky warmup house to quality HH covers a lot.

    On warmup I like to play either chillout stuff like Leftfield, Planisphere moving in to something a little tribal like Chab + DJ Nukem. Then depending I will take a progressive track, something like Tiesto's new stuff, or else Timo.

    Post up some of your fav. tracks @ the moment...

    ;-phobos-)


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    SHADOW
    Closed Accounts Posts: 768 ✭✭✭SHADOW


    Dabble a bit myself, only had the decks a while now but have been huge into music for years. I'm kinda tryin to set up a studio in my bedroom atm.

    Hard House is the only way forward biggrin.gif

    Any tips Yo Mama as to get started as far as getting yourself heard goes? I know most ppl get into pirate stations and that but how?


    If the bottom falls out of your world, drink Andrews and the world will fall out of your bottom!!
    games?


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    Yo Mamma
    Registered Users Posts: 954 ✭✭✭Yo Mamma


    Getting yourself heard in this town is no easy feat let me tell u!

    When I started out I was lucky in that I shared a flat with a DJ called Derek M, who was and still is one of the best DJ's I have ever heard! Well at the time about 5 years ago, Derek was big on the Dublin scene and there was a whole bunch of us who used to organize gigs in The Ormond Multimedia Center called Bliss!

    There was a real carnival atmosphere about these gigs, there is nothing like it going on today. We had fire breathers outside the door, stilt walkers all this kind of street theatre stuff going on outside the venue and on the inside we hired these specialist artists who used this luminous paint and projectors n stuff, it all looked pretty amazing!! It was all just for everybody to have a good time! Unlike today where the promoters rely on big name Dj's and don’t bother with decor or atmosphere, just cram them in and count the cash!! Sad really!!

    Anyway,.... While I lived there there were like 3 sets of decks in the gaff and because we were all on the scene it was a bit of a Party Central! So at some stage or other we had all the promoters in Dublin in the gaff and every DJ in Dublin has been there,(and I just have to say this !)Sasha and Dimitry from Paris also played there and Pete Bones loads more !!!

    So long detailed story short !! That’s how I managed to start getting gigs on the Dublin scene! I knew all the boys, still do, and a few well-placed tapes and some schmoozing later I was getting a good share of gigs smile.gif

    Its calmed down a bit now but I still keep the finger in and get about 5 nice gigs per year! I know that’s not allot but sooner or later all the DJ's have to get a day job even if it is just to pay for tunes! wink.gif

    If u really want to make it in this town the only sure way I can think of is to go abroad and make it over there and when u come back with that rep. u will find it much easier to get the gigs, that or just schmoooooooze around the scene until u get yourself in a position where people will take your tapes and give them a listen!! 90% of the time a promoter will not even listen to the tapes given to him!!

    Its not how good u are, it's who u know!!

    Cliché I know but it’s very true of the scene here smile.gif


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    aGoff
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    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by SHADOW:
    Hard House is the only way forward biggrin.gif</font>

    Pshaw, hard house is where it's at NOW, the way forward is techno/EBM. If you've never heard of VNV Nation, Covenant, Apoptygma Bezerk, Psyche or Assemblage 23, then you'll soon be behind the times. Think hard house with a bit of classic stuff (Utah Saints, KLF), but with droning male vocals. Sony have just grabbed Covenant, APB are already on Warner and this stuff is charting big time in Germany. If you wanna hear some of this, you've gotta check out Goff clubs at the moment, and unfortunately have to put up with irritating old style Goffic/new wave/industrial, but things are a changin'.

    Girl (DJing soon at Spellbound - http://spellbound.gothic.ie/ ).


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    black_wizardd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 221 ✭✭black_wizardd


    I love the auld unch unch meself *ahem* wink.gif. Ah no, just messin', I know nothing about the methods of DJ'ing but I do know when a DJ is good or bad (I have ears, although some people would debate that with the stuff I listen to smile.gif) and I know Phobos is a shít hot DJ (spent a year in college with him), his gig's were class (all the dance heads seemed to enjoy them anyway), I almost had him playing PanterA at one (remember that mate, but you bottled it ya bastid smile.gif). If I remember correctly Westy you're not really bothered about making it big, it's just something you enjoy as a pass time, or am I talking shíte ?.

    Cheerio.
    But oh, no tears please, fear and pain may acompany death, but it is desire that sheperds its certainty, as we shall see...



    [This message has been edited by black_wizardd (edited 13-07-2001).]


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    #10
    phobos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,322 ✭✭✭phobos


    Cheers for the plug Jimmy! smile.gif

    Yeah, you introduced to me to a style of music I wouldn't have touched on by myself. I have to admit, I'm still a dance head, but some of that Pantera & Cradle of Filth Stuff is real party stuff. Speaking of Metal, how's the band?. I'll always remember the first time I heard you play. Twas when Palatic were @ the Cabin in C'bar. All I remember was this quite little lad walk up, pick of a guitar, and shortly afterwords I was 80% entertained, 20% scared. It was mental!!

    But I remember that gig I was playing during rag week that time. You wanted my to play "The Passenger", but @ the last minute pulled out because I would have been knifed or something, LOL tongue.gif. The clientelle wore "hoodies", a bit like me really.

    Good ta hear from ya Jimmy, and check your e-mail.

    ;-phobos-)


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