You feeling brighter now?

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 20:27, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

A little, thank you.
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.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 20:29, Reply)

first it's sperm, then it's laptops, whatever will she take next?

( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 20:30, Reply)

'The fucking piss'

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 20:31, Reply)

oh pfft

( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 20:38, Reply)

Look, you can put your 'little 'un' to bed all you like.
We don't want to hear about your sordid behaviour on the internet, thenkyouverymuch.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 6 Jan 2011, 20:30, Reply)

Just for that, you're getting a cock-gaz tonight.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 20:35, Reply)

I could do with a laugh.

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 6 Jan 2011, 20:42, Reply)

Did you get to cock about with the fort this evening?
Or does that stay at yours?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 20:31, Reply)

I most certainly did. It's superb.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 20:32, Reply)

remember to delete the history!

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 20:31, Reply)

Believe me I will.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 20:32, Reply)

He has been trying to do that for years hasn't he?

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 20:33, Reply)

I love that feeling, My best ever gig was a tremendous feeling-
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.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 20:32, Reply)

I still get nervous after all these years.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 20:34, Reply)

I understand completely.
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.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 20:37, Reply)

I know Dan and Jon Kahuna very well indeed.
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.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 20:48, Reply)

Mindset to Cycle is one of my favourite records ever. I still give it a regular airing, even though it came out when I was 20.
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
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 20:51, Reply)

I used to play at their 'Big Kahuna' club nights,
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.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 20:54, Reply)

J Saul Kane was somewhat overlooked I always thought.
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.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 20:57, Reply)

He also did this*:
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
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 21:05, Reply)

I saw 808 State DJing last year.
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.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 21:10, Reply)

I prefer a longer set myself.
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.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 20:51, Reply)

Weatherall is fucking boss, he really is.
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.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 20:54, Reply)

One of the best DJs I've ever seen is Jah Shaka,
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.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 21:20, Reply)

Indeed.
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.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 21:22, Reply)

DELETE HISTORY
LOG MONTY BOYCE OUT AFTER USE
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 6 Jan 2011, 20:52, Reply)