Dance Music fans

Haha! Great minds eh!? Just looked at some of your tracks and mixes you have put up and they sound right up my snicket! Will give them a listen at some point. Just buying tracks at the moment for my next mix. Sounds like you have a good idea of what you're needing to do. All the best with it mate, hope it goes well.

 

Yeah cheers, some of the ones I have posted were work in progress but posted so I could listen to them in the car.

I'm spending shed loads on downloads to the point that building a mix is so flipping hard cos I have all the latest music and too much choice. Some great stuff out at the moment. I'm friends with Thermalbear these days as well as a producer called Thomas Smith, who made Retina Scan (which was a big hit a year or so ago) and they throw me free downloads and pass me unreleased material, which is great.

Let me know if I can pass anything across.

 

Not for me sorry , in fact if theres dance music on i generally avoid the place,baba. Hth

 

I was saying just the same thing to my mate today, my beatport cart was loaded with too much good stuff. Some great music out at the moment! Thanks mate. Used to get unreleased material from 2 guys called the Festa Bros from Argentina who came to see me in London. Was bizarre as they'd give me the odd track only me and Hernan Cattaneo had.

 

I'm not being facetious or owt when I ask this question as I know absolutely nothing about this sort of music but do DJs consider themselves artists? Is there any talent to this? As far as I can tell it's just people playing other folk's records. Or am I missing summat?

 

There is a degree of skill in the art, although not what it used to be when Vinyl was king. To get the speeds, key and music synched was a very difficult skill, now technology makes it far easier, although putting a set of music together that works is still relatively difficult. The top DJs now alter the music using technology during a gig which means its like a live gig of electronic music rather than DJing. You'll never hear it again. I hope that makes sense, they are almost producing music as they are playing to a crowd, like a rock band ad libbing.

 

Never turned up to Bassment(was next to Gala Bingo) one time. Bottled it.

What about guru josh?

 

So it's taking other songs and putting them together to make something new? Or have I got that wrong?

 

Sasha, who was/is my favourite DJ, always talks about making a story with the tracks you select, they should all melodically follow each other. If you listen to a mix he makes, nearly all will be somebody elses music but he puts it together so that it all links. Through that 'story' though he will take the music through different sounds. Its really difficult to explain without sounding like a geek, but you can make a dancefloor go ballistic or go for a deeper sound which changes the atmosphere. Its like a journey...

Obviously copious amounts of alcolol or substances add to this equation.

I like rock music in addition to Electronica, and its similar in many ways. A Band will play their harder music towards the end and take you on a journey to the climax (apologies for the term) which is normally the banging, crowd favourite. Its just the same. These days the technology means the DJ can alter the tracks as they go along rather just mix the songs together, they can alter and change the track almost completely as well as mix them together.

 

Ok. Final offer. Ali Whitehead. If not,I'm out......

 

Sorry mate, Ali Whitehead might be a goer as he has started again. I think he did the Southport Dance weekender recently. I havent a clue about Jeremy Healy these days and I think I'm not exactly fond of Guru Josh.

Keep 'em coming though mate.

 

I forgot to say that I went to the Bassment many times. XS was miles better and was a great success when Bassment never really hit the heights.

 

Nice one Hicksy. I shall be adding a new mix for your pleasure tomorrow. I just need to fine tune a few things and it should be ready to go...

The Likelihood of Superstars is but a dream but some of the others, who Thermal has helped me source would be great. He's interested in doing a recendency if it can work out, which is a reight start.

Check him out on Soundcloud.

 

Exactly...

Its not about making money, I hope to make a few quid to make it worthwhile but only pocket money, if we can finally get Barnsley back to summat like then we all get summat out of it.

Sasha would be the ultimate but Diggers a very close second, shame they ******* hate each other these days.

 

Start with Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers

 

Thanks for explaining it to me. I sort of get it but I'm all about heavy guitars and blast beats so it's a bit difficult for me to fully appreciate it.

Good luck with it all.

 

Will Frankie Wilde be invited or will it all have gone Pete tong by then?

 

Dance music - no thanks!

Think there's loads going on musically in town, Alternative Barnsley putting loads on, bands on at Polish Club, blues and acoustic stuff downstairs in No.7. I don't consider having DJ's as adding to the music scene.

Anyway, good luck with the venture, the more variety the better.