pcock Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 and ive never touched a deck in my life. should i learn to mix in 3 days or should i learn how to make a mix in software in three days. i was also thinking i could bypass needing to learn to be a dj by simply playing beatless stuff in between the beated stuff. a few other ideas would be appreciated, its gonna be a bit scary gettin up in front of 700 hippys and playin an instrument i dont even know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solo Strike Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 Probably best not to do it then! If you really must then avoid beatmatching Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solo Strike Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 On second thought, just dl a psytrance mix and play it off your laptop whilst looking thoughful, they'll lap it up... it's all that seems to get played at free parties round here, whenever I'm ushered onto the decks it's normally 8am and I get to play to 5 fucked mashheads staggering about... bitter? Of course not! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ιυιron Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 you could always do a ***WESTWOOD*** and make explosion and gun sounds and shout "THAT WAS OFF DA HOOK" inbetween the tracks. thats pretty fly. you should do it though and just have some fun. few times over the last uni year ide just grab an assortment of vinyl before the party and play whilst fucked - simultaneously a floor filler and floor clearer. probably the difference between dnb mixing and scratching squarepusher B-sides over venetian snares. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ten fingers ten toes Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 That's like a Dancehall soundclash and it's stupid unless you're doing a dancehall soundclash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ιυιron Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 muuurrrrdaaaaa! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCM Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 and ive never touched a deck in my life. should i learn to mix in 3 days or should i learn how to make a mix in software in three days. i was also thinking i could bypass needing to learn to be a dj by simply playing beatless stuff in between the beated stuff. a few other ideas would be appreciated, its gonna be a bit scary gettin up in front of 700 hippys and playin an instrument i dont even know. nice! er, i wouldn't bother trying to learn to mix vinyl in 3 days.... took me about 3 weeks just to learn to start beat matching properly..... anyway, just use Traktor or Ableton or something - as long as you've sorted all your tracks out into the correct tempos etc, should be pretty easy to pull off a half decent mix... Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcock Posted August 15, 2007 Author Share Posted August 15, 2007 fuck psytrance the whole point off this festival is to try sand diminish the amount of shitty wank same over psytrance that apparently the whole club scene adores so much they cant bear to listen to any other music. this party is psy trance free. lead hippy organiser has chosen me because i have some tastes in music that arent the same as most people who dj(ie pystrance) see i think it would be wicked if i was playing gabba/house/simplistic electronic music for the dancing, then just throwing noise, ambience, contempory classical and modern piano inbetween the beated stuff. i think thats what im gonna do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Coalbucket PI Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 that sounds like it would be pretty irritating to try and dance to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rook Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 just download a luke vibert set and press play on your laptop. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solo Strike Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 Don't go for the ambient stuff, people will get disinterested and wander off. You could maybe get away with a little bit of it, but what you think is a great idea beforehand will more than likely totally kill the vibe if you want people dancing (and I'm guessing you'll want them to be seeing it's a free party)... I've tried that sort of thing before, it works OK at house parties where there's no room for anyone to dance and you're playing more in the background, but in that sort of environment it won't work too well If all else fails, Idiron's advice is sound (well, not the Westwood bit). Get a bit tipsy, take some vinyl and bang on tune after tune. Normally works for me when I'm too drunk to do it properly or the gear is shit (belt drives, tiny speakers etc). Just try not to send the tone arm flying or anything! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcock Posted August 15, 2007 Author Share Posted August 15, 2007 i think im stuck in the middle of some hippy poliking here, because ive basically been instructed to irritate the hell out of the whole clubber thing where you just have a fat beat to dance to. the guy whos asked me is the guy whos land its on, hes supplying all the rigs and generators and that too, but the actual event is organised by a group of chester ravers called 'get twisted' which is basicaly psytrance and drum and bass. i have no inhibitions about my reputation as a dj being destroyed because im not a dj and i think its a bunch of wank for people who cant play proper instruments, so im gonna go with the irritate the hell out the psytrance heads idea basically. also theres no wandering off, its just one big 4000 watt circle stage with everybody in a big circle around it. so heres my playlist, which im gonna put together in cubase and then just press play and pretend to spin vinyl: u-ziq - siege of antioch aphex - hankie angerfist - dead man walking burial - southern comfort hellfish+producer - spitting blood massona - part IV spectrum ripper mr oizo - flat beat milieu - lazy days squarepusher - menelec plug - maker of all massona - spectrum ripper VIII luke - piano player hata and then for my last bit of time im gonna play merzbows rising sun with a bartok piano dance suite over the top of it. im probably gonna get shot for this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solo Strike Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 Haha! Well good luck to you man :) I would consider doing it on Traktor though. It'll be hard to fuck up if you aren't beatmatching and it means you won't just be standing there like a plum pretending to faff around with decks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Drahken Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 This one event I went to someone called the promoter (who thought he was one badass dj too) on his DJ skills. The guy gets up on the decks and starts playing a scratch record like it was a regular track. Never laughed so hard in my entire life, he cleared the room out promptly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcock Posted August 15, 2007 Author Share Posted August 15, 2007 i never realised yuou scratched with a specific record, thought u just used normal ones and picked your timbre of track carefully in order to achieve the righ scratching sound Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perunamuusi Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 i used to play free parties to crowds of hardhouse / trance / crappy free party tekno and dnb heads (the usual basically) many's the time i've cleared the floor with "making orange things" on one deck and "making orange things" on the other deck .. always played half of the planet-mu mealtime lp (esp. horse opera), girl/boy, mr angry, dimotane co, smedley's medley, plug, sonic youth's providence mixed with random gabba, geoff love's ufo theme (as ripped off by jake slazenger), the dallas theme, bergerac theme, (early) human league and end with this truly abysmal charity shop cover version of "love is in the air". nowadays i'd just play some proper tresor tekno for hours which is equally as bad for your typical crowd cause its a good few bpm too slow for the cunts and it's actually good basically 90% of the time if you play anything good you'll alienate your audience in these situations i never realised yuou scratched with a specific record, thought u just used normal ones and picked your timbre of track carefully in order to achieve the righ scratching sound of course you can do that but there are records with hundreds of little samples and beats and shit on specifically for scratching Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jimbob Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 Oy Felch, i actually went to one of the Get Twisted events last weekend actually, it was called The Laff Fest and was held in a place called Waverton. There was the usual naff electro house and trance shit, but they had a load of hip hop turntablism, some dubstep and some pretty brutal d&b djs too. Sound bunch of people, i was asked by a guy called Dale (who i presume the main organiser) if i'd play one of their parties. From what i observed they seemed like pretty open minded folk, not sure if i would play piano and ambient stuff mind, but you never know. Is it just one rig that'll be there? I would ask you to fill me in on where it was if i wasn't going to a breakcore night in Buxton, when is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcock Posted August 15, 2007 Author Share Posted August 15, 2007 Oy Felch, i actually went to one of the Get Twisted events last weekend actually, it was called The Laff Fest and was held in a place called Waverton. There was the usual naff electro house and trance shit, but they had a load of hip hop turntablism, some dubstep and some pretty brutal d&b djs too. Sound bunch of people, i was asked by a guy called Dale (who i presume the main organiser) if i'd play one of their parties. From what i observed they seemed like pretty open minded folk, not sure if i would play piano and ambient stuff mind, but you never know. Is it just one rig that'll be there? I would ask you to fill me in on where it was if i wasn't going to a breakcore night in Buxton, when is it? yeah i was at that too. was a bit full of scallies, few bits got robbed that nite, and the guy who owned the house was a complete prick. i turned up at 1 and put some tunes on in the tent close to the house and 1 minute later im getting some mad farmer screaming BASTARD BASTARD I HATE YOUR SORT TURN THAT FUCKING SHIT HOLE ASS MUSIC DOWN even tho there was tunes goin off fuckin everywhere. garden was full of masonist symbology apparently but i dont know shit. nice house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jimbob Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 Oy Felch, i actually went to one of the Get Twisted events last weekend actually, it was called The Laff Fest and was held in a place called Waverton. There was the usual naff electro house and trance shit, but they had a load of hip hop turntablism, some dubstep and some pretty brutal d&b djs too. Sound bunch of people, i was asked by a guy called Dale (who i presume the main organiser) if i'd play one of their parties. From what i observed they seemed like pretty open minded folk, not sure if i would play piano and ambient stuff mind, but you never know. Is it just one rig that'll be there? I would ask you to fill me in on where it was if i wasn't going to a breakcore night in Buxton, when is it? yeah i was at that too. was a bit full of scallies, few bits got robbed that nite, and the guy who owned the house was a complete prick. i turned up at 1 and put some tunes on in the tent close to the house and 1 minute later im getting some mad farmer screaming BASTARD BASTARD I HATE YOUR SORT TURN THAT FUCKING SHIT HOLE ASS MUSIC DOWN even tho there was tunes goin off fuckin everywhere. garden was full of masonist symbology apparently but i dont know shit. nice house. y'mean the 'tea' tent? i spent alot of time there quite mashed, sat on those bizarre mini stool things. I didn't see much trouble to be honest, but i was a bit pissed off when the owner came up to the barn and shut the bass down, cocksucker. It was really quite packed wasn't it. Might catch you at the next (next) one. Where do you reside? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modey Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 just play a 4/4 808 bassdrum loop for a couple of hours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcock Posted August 16, 2007 Author Share Posted August 16, 2007 i live down in neston like. should meet up for a spliff on the new year, that one is gonna be ballin, hopefully get myself a live set there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jimbob Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 i live down in neston like. should meet up for a spliff on the new year, that one is gonna be ballin, hopefully get myself a live set there. yeah man awesome, get in touch nearer the time innit. who knows if we're lucky we might be on the same bill :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCM Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 just play a 4/4 808 bassdrum loop for a couple of hours lol, yeah just do that - no hi-hats or snares or anything, just a kick drum on loop at 130 BPM for 2 hours......well minimalist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcock Posted August 19, 2007 Author Share Posted August 19, 2007 lol, merzbow with post immpressionist piano went down extremely well in the chillout section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCM Posted August 19, 2007 Share Posted August 19, 2007 nice one! went ok then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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