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, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

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)