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    A great article. Took me back a bit to my day sin the club. The community aspect of it. The aspect of having to participate in order to get the whole experience. I too remember the days when everyone wanted to control a crowd like your favorite dj could, but didn't want to try as to not ruin the music for themselves.

    I also love it when old heads (such as myself) reference the way guys used to mix (house/trance/ethereal) music. We used to title all of our mixes "seamlessseaofgroove". When I was learning, the point was to mix for hours with a minimal number of audible transitions. So much fun to try, and to hear when someone could actually do it.

    The DC local boys did it for me. Scott Henry, Charles Feelgood, Dara, dj sun, Dieselboy, Lovegrove, Bagadonuts, and even some left coast guys like Doc Martin and the Hardkiss brothers.
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    We have lots of clubs around me, that play the same top 40 songs every week, but there is also a night that some friends of mine put on in a little hole in the wall bar that is all drum and bass. Not your little brothers radio play, and that's why we all go. Maybe only 20-30 people, but the scene is tight because of its size.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dripstep View Post
    We have lots of clubs around me, that play the same top 40 songs every week, but there is also a night that some friends of mine put on in a little hole in the wall bar that is all drum and bass. Not your little brothers radio play, and that's why we all go. Maybe only 20-30 people, but the scene is tight because of its size.
    Yeah, I'm from a much bigger city (Melbourne), shit loads of crappy clubs, but quite a few decent ones. Basically no matter what you listen to you can be sure there's a scene for it. A respectable scene.

    But this is city thats responsible for Anthony Pappa, Phil K, Infusion, Nubreed, Luke Chable, Ivan Gough etc etc. It was a hub for progressive house in the 2000s and lots of clubs have always kept that ethos.

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    thanks xonetacular that was a great read! tenaglia and steve lawler were actually the guys that inspired me to become a dj around 2001 or so. well, them and the musical renaissance i went through when i discovered that there was way more to music than what was on the radio. it blew me away to see that there were so many passionate people creating beautiful art that most people will never hear. i wanted to make it my mission to spread the word of these heroes that changed my life during that period of time.

    tenaglia is one of the greatest djs to me and i was lucky to see him here once at a club in vegas. the thing i love about him is the broad range of house and techno he plays, but at the same time he isn't perfect. in every set that i've heard from him, both live and on cds there are always mistakes. it's endearing to me. it makes me feel human and connect with him in a way since i too make plenty of mistakes when i dj or create. when you listen to him play you just understand that he is a part of something bigger than himself and he loves all of those gems that he's slinging at you.

    when i saw steve lawer on the turntables my mind was blown. i've never heard a more technically perfect set full of brilliant, darkly sexy tribal tracks strung together in my life. not at one point did even a kick waver in the slightest bit when he was mixing, with some tracks overlapping by large amounts. there were many times that evening i could not even tell if a transition occurred and i was in heaven.
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    The thing is that massives used to be like this, for the most part. Go to a huge party see a ton of great DJs throw down, go to another and get blown away again in a new way.

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    Lots of truth in the article!

    But more often than not – and this is a critical point – WE DID NOT KNOW WHAT THE F*CK WE WERE LISTENING TO. We did not know where one track ended and another began. We did not care to know. We were losing our minds out there. We were in the depths of minimal synthetic despair one hour, brought up by the palpable joy of gospel house the next, then mind-blown by a postcard from the world outside. DT once dropped Truth Hurts’ “Addictive” (it’s hip-hop) and Portishead’s “Numb.” He knew what was going on in music. He made it his business to know, so he could run it through his filter and feed it back to us. That was our deal, our bargain with each other.
    This is the point many people don't seem to get. The main function of a DJ is as a kind of curator or filter (like it's also stated - with exactly the same words - later in the article), he's the guy you trust for his instincts and taste in music. That's why requests are bullshit, that's why mainstream music is shitty per se (I mean, if you want to hear the same crappy charts music that's playing on the radio all day, what do you need a DJ for?) and that's why all those stupid sync-button-debates are moot (because it isn't primarily about beatmatching, never has been).
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    Yeah pretty much.

    Quote Originally Posted by squidot View Post
    when i saw steve lawer on the turntables my mind was blown. i've never heard a more technically perfect set full of brilliant, darkly sexy tribal tracks strung together in my life. not at one point did even a kick waver in the slightest bit when he was mixing, with some tracks overlapping by large amounts. there were many times that evening i could not even tell if a transition occurred and i was in heaven.
    Same- Lawler was great when I saw him. Say what you want about ultra music festival but away from the main stage there was tons of quality acts and even seeing lawler, hawtin, carl cox, etc. there was pretty mindblowing.


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    The problem with today, is that DJs only get to play an hours set and the promoter fills the rest of the bill up with other big/small DJs / producers. DJs dont get time to build a set these days.

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    Awesome article.

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    Sorry in advance. This clears up the DJ thing that rat was talking about (that's sarcasm). Like I said before its not about the light show. It's about the emotion you feel from the music. Not the awe from the visuals. But that's just me.

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