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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Apologies for extreme gayness.
Making people dance to the wilfully-obscure sounds of my bands and DJ sets is one of the other best things I've made.
(, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 20:25, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
Just put my little'un to bed and am now risking my life and liberty coming on here using my ex's laptop. I say ex's laptop, it was mine once, she stole it off me.
(, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 20:29, Reply)
We don't want to hear about your sordid behaviour on the internet, thenkyouverymuch.
(, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 20:30, Reply)
Or does that stay at yours?
(, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 20:31, Reply)
Making people cheer a record that they are hearing for the first time is a fantastic thing- that and the fact that I never start to enjoy it until about two thirds of the way through.
Nerves are terrible- but if I didn't take it seriously, I wouldn't care and wouldn't be nervous.
(, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 20:32, Reply)
That night, my first tune was Morel's 'True- The Faggot is You', FC Kahuna's mix. I'd had people asking for dubstep before I started- those ten minutes or so before you go on are horrendous, wanting the time to fly by so you can get stuck in on the technics, whilst also wishing you would faint, or your head would fall off, anything so you can duck out.
But it's a heavy responsibility- if you fuck up, there's nowhere to hide, nobody else to pin the blame on and people will call you a wanker for the next two or three hours.
Playing for two hours is my maximum- I have neither the clout nor the experience to play for any longer than that.
(, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 20:37, Reply)
Jon is superb, Dan is a weaselly fucking shitbag who nicked my mate's copy of the Double Trouble remix of Eric B and Rakim's 'I Know You Got Soul', the cunt.
(, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 20:48, Reply)
And I am 31 on Monday. But that fucking bassline, when that hits it nearly makes me do a sexwee.
Just for you Monty, www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtoKSoS1i5k
(, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 20:51, Reply)
from whence their name came, the first one was in the bar of a hotel in Finsbury Park and was really, really shit. They had J Saul Kane at one of them, he was excellent. I really admire that man.
(, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 20:54, Reply)
His Depth Charge records were well ahead of their time- he was doing massive breakbeats with Kung Fu samples way before Big Beat (remember that?) was even thought of. I have a Mo Wax record by Nigo (of Bathing Ape fame) with a Depth Charge mix on it. Him and Jack Dangers only got the props they deserve from the underground heads, which is sadly always the way.
(, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 20:57, Reply)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8y6MlCEhqs
A rave classic from the golden age. I fucking love it - there's a better mix on the other side though.
*with someone else I think
(, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 21:05, Reply)
A mate of mine is well into his techno and rave- he has had records released on Djaxx. He has also heard a tune of his get played by Ellen Allien at a clubnight during Sonar a few years back- that must be an incredible feeling.
He is also doing a demo package for Ovum- if it comes to fruition I will hit you the fuck up. He's rather ravey, but impeccably produced and very very sleek techno. I've DJd at gigs where he plays live- bit of a strange mix, me doing techy breaks then live acid techno, but it sort of works.
(, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 21:10, Reply)
I love the freedom of a four-hour plus set, where you start in one style and end somewhere completely different. I learnt from a master: Weatherall's Sabresonic nights were incredible - he had great guests but the best nights were the ones where he was on his own for six hours.
(, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 20:51, Reply)
He'll play rockabilly, T Rex, Primal Scream, techno, breakbeat, back to rockabilly, swerve into post punk and with impeccable taste and programming skills.
He is the man I want to be. Ivan Smagghe is superb as well, very much a French Weatherall. If Wevvers was the only DJ in the world I would never stop listening and never get bored.
TANGENTIAL EDIT:
It is my firm and unswerving belief that of the three key skills that a good DJ possesses, the order, in decreasing importance, is:
Selection
Programming
Mixing
There are DJs like Lavelle that are great at the first two but shit at the third, then those such as Judge Jules who mix impeccably but play toytown shit. If Judge Jules was a band, he would be Pendulum. Music for plebs and nonces.
(, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 20:54, Reply)
and he plays with one deck. That tells you all you need to know about my attitude. I am a huge fan of turntablism etc but really it's all about your records: Tony Vegas used to moan massively to me about the hordes of Japanese scratch-nerds who would just stand there gawping at him rather than getting into the music. It's not a fucking spectator sport.
(, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 21:20, Reply)
All about the records.
Though there is something about hearing one record coming in over the current one, bass knocked off then BOOM basslines swap, faders are flicked, gains tweaked and a bassline drops.
Nothing quite like it, and no other performance medium offers anything remotely similar.
We should DJ together sometime. Here or London.
(, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 21:22, Reply)
and that seems to have been validated by other opinions.
(, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 20:52, Reply)
www.benderloch.com/
(, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 20:58, Reply)
What's been happening anyways, still the same old clusterfuck?
I have basically zero access at work these days, and once home, i'm too busy wanking to do much else
(, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 21:10, Reply)
Hows tricks?
(, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 21:14, Reply)
How's you and family?
I really do miss you on here, old boy. The bile levels are not what they should be.
(, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 21:17, Reply)
Xmas was cold and filled to the brim with work. Ended up spending NYE playing Trivial Pursuit...rock'n'roll.
Last I heard, you were on the up and up, what with a lovely lady to keep you company and all.
(, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 21:21, Reply)
I have cracking Afghani hashish at the moment*, what're you burning?
*good old 'war on drugs', there's been fucking loads of it
(, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 21:23, Reply)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOFvRUjbae4&feature=related
(, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 21:25, Reply)
And this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psb3ZMOAcII
(, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 21:31, Reply)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6NBAZrdjQw
Or this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFlmEznsr2w
But you really need to find an hour and a half to watch this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgBmGuC0HWk
As approved by both Roota and myself.
(, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 21:43, Reply)
Would love to hear this in a club
www.youtube.com/watch?v=29ZRjYh3Pg0
(, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 21:41, Reply)
So what about Benderloch for the OT bash?
(, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 21:26, Reply)
Very fresh, gives a blissed out high. Still harking after some good solid though ;-)
Now, i know i recommended Aliester Crowleys 'Diary of a Drug Fiend' before, but I started reading it again the other day and you really should give it a go. Brilliant stuff, excellent dialogue and especially as how you can read it online line, for free!
books.google.co.uk/books?id=YDzCLo7ozycC&printsec=frontcover&dq=diary+of+a+drug+fiend&source=bl&ots=WUqzT-7bpo&sig=QK2M7PFecOZRqvS52Bgqt6sQTi8&hl=en&ei=0TImTcOuHJCyhAep7qnwAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCQQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false
(, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 21:30, Reply)
How can you turn it down when he's talking about 'Appalling rotters' and 'the boche' in the first few pages...then the ocean going coke abuse starts. 1922 remember!
(, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 21:39, Reply)
Can't remember which one though.
For racismlols I think Conrad is always worth a chuckle.
He's also pretty much the only Modernist I can enjoy reading (that is unless you count Beckett and Burroughs as Modernists- I've read serious academic work that cites Burroughs as a Modernist but I can't agree).
The same work though posits Beckett as the first postmodernist- a view I'm happy to take on board and discuss if need be.
(, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 21:53, Reply)
Not that keen on the heavy cut up stuff though. Junky is brilliant, got that on CD, with Burroughs himself reading it, very dreamy and soothing.
(, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 21:58, Reply)
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