I’m on Shadow’s side on this, definitely. He should never have been booked there, and he shouldn’t have to sell out because the bottle service punters want some.
However, when he said D&B did it, I was like “Really?” and then he followed with trap and juke I literally, out loud said “Oh.” Now I understand what he meant by too future. I’m really into it at the moment and everyone I’m showing it too cannot stand it, they’re only just getting on the deep house bandwagon; which is sidestepped completely because balls to deep house. But yeah, if he played trap it’s understandable why people complained, that is full on bass swagger music, and is about as far from the top 40 as you can get with current EDM!
Trap is fine down here for Mansion. Craze is playing there this Friday and he’ll def. play some Trap. Mr. Mauricio makes his rounds at the mega clubs here and he drops Trap all the time.
He should’ve never been booked there on a Friday night ----- it’s usually open format night. I think both sides are responsible, the promoters and booking manager. It’s going to happen. Bottom line, Mansion, LIV, and the rest is a money making businesses. Place will be packed this weekend for Craze, and on New Years for Carl Cox and Shadow will play his set surely somewhere else and jam.
Am I missing something in your meaning here? if its usually open format night to me that would suggest an eclectic crowd who are up for listening to lots of different stuff and therefore he should be able to play lots of different stuff without risking been booted
When I hear Trap it sounds like it should be Top 40 not EDM at all.
I can’t stand the Trap people play around here. Maybe all the Djs suck or something but what I hear is basically horrible Top 40 hip hop.
You would think the “open-format” crowd would love Trap
I am pretty sure that Haze means “open-format” in the sense of Top-40, Mashup, Hip-hip, basic punter type music. Not as in open to any and every musical genre.
Open Format means multiple genres concentrating heavily on the Top 40 Charts. Disco, 80’s, Hip-Hop, EDM, etc. The open format crowd is open-minded for genres, but they like to hear stuff they recognize. If you are a good DJ you can throw in some new stuff and make it work. It used to be called DJing.
Open Format does NOT mean beat juggling obscure drum and bass and getting kicked out the booth.
If I was in the crowd and the DJ I went there to see got kicked off I would be asking for my money back straight away. If not get a few mates together and smash the place up. PS I am english btw so its to be expected. my local club had to get rid of the smoke machines cuz bouncers kept getting beat up when they went off and the cameras couldnt see
Reading this, I still can’t figure out what caused the London Riots…
On topic: This is an American thing I guess. I can’t imagine it happening in Europe, because our clubbing culture is very different. Only if the dj is drunk or really screwing up.
I think it’s funny that the VIP douches are dictating the music. In better days of past, the dancefloor would dictate the music.
The VIP took over the dancefloor and the music became shit. I told people to boycott this and no one listened.
All of these DJ’s kept selling their soul for the ca$h. Now the beast has risen from the depths to collect it’s debt.
Check out this parody PSA I recorded for my friends podcast back in 2006: http://soundowl.com/track/4rwu/john-sterling-psa-dancefloor-dnaradiocom
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