But yea the good days of after hours clubs and warehouse parties mind you warehouse parties in Houston were mostly just d&b jungle style or experimental
This is all a mixed bag. In some case I feel like we’re hated before we even start so at times it makes me wonder, why do these places bring djs?
One thing I have a hard time is with poorly setup gear, it truly breaks my mood and not play at the top of my game, but I feel it’s maybe because I’m not good enough??
Last weekend I played in a great location, good gear. But the monitor was poorly setup, it was basically pointless … so why do they go through all the touble if they can’t do it right?
But beyond all this, and I think more importantly, are we all respectful towards what we do?
I’m surrounded by people who have little respect for themselves and what they do. They fail to see things in a rational matter and things get very hot headed and argument driven when working towards specific goals, , , cat fighting with partners is truly exhausting and I personally get in these situations way too much that it makes me want to keep everyone at a distance.
Too many of us fail to see things in a realistic matter so we fail to progress. But this thinking stems from who I am and the way I think, I know some people go with the flow are chaotic yet can be at the top of the game.
In the last few years, I’ve seen Sasha play 12-3, locals play 3-5 and 5-7, residnts play 11-1 and 1-3, Mr. C play 1-8ish. Even at tomorrowworld, the mnus stage was doing 90-minute sets.
An hour is more normal, but “extended sets” are a selling point in parts of the scene.
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One thing I have a hard time is with poorly setup gear, it truly breaks my mood and not play at the top of my game, but I feel it’s maybe because I’m not good enough??
Last weekend I played in a great location, good gear. But the monitor was poorly setup, it was basically pointless … so why do they go through all the touble if they can’t do it right?
[/quote]It is your job to deal with things like that. My suggestion is to get a set of IEMs and learn to mix with them…for those days when the monitors suck (or it’s just too loud in the booth).
As for why they do it…money.
I think Sasha rarely plays less then two hours as with most headliners or more well known… Residents usually play longer sets… I was mostly referring to the attention span of most people is less then that of what it was 10 years ago… Maybe I’m just old and stuck in the past and need to get with the times but meh oh well that’s why it’s a hobby not a profession lol
Lol. Nah…probably just finding different nights.
I still don’t know exactly where to go every night here, but there are things like what I want to hear around…most of it is either too soulful/jazzy or too…idk…the boring side of mid-naughies progressive, I guess…for what I really want. But it’s not like longer sets are seriously lacking.
Then again, you can count the number of times I’ve been to a mainstream/EDM/top40/etc. club on one hand. So, maybe it’s rampant there.
Deep house is catching on more which I don’t mind at all since it’s very similar to prog house
Some of it is.
I’m convinced that there are “factions” that don’t know what they’re talking about, but I’m not sure who’s who. It’s like the guys making progressive house a few years ago saw the tripe being peddled as progressive house and changed the term for what they were making.
Just one more reason that genre names are complete garbage.
Whatever it is, I like the sound that I think we’re all talking about.
There are a few tracks being released at the minute that have a certain sound that spans the prog/tech/deep house vibe. I saw Sasha and Subb-an play yesterday and you would find it difficult to really label the genre they played. Whatever its called I really like it.
Incidentally, Subb-An played for 1.5hrs and Sasha played for 4hrs.
This is SO true. The whole genre system of recent years has gone crazy. To the point where it means absolutely nothing when you tell people what genre you play. Case in point - I played a gig last weekend that was a "deep house’ event and all 6 of the DJ’s played a completely different style of “deep house”.
Do you feel respected?
Very much so… There’s about 3 genres that have their own name that at one time would of been lumped into one genre… Deep house/ tech these days sound very much like the prog of years past here’s a few good examples of what’s called deep house now that’d is like call prog…
Or the techno that is really just kinda deep tribal house or what I’d call tribal sound with the fast hats
So, beatport actually calls that track “Trance”. But, yeah…125bpm trance…it’s a weird animal. I kind of like it.
I think I’m at the point of just saying I play dance music and figuring out the details based on the day/night.
Yup I k ow whT you mean both of those tracks are ones I’m really digging lately more tracks with that sound and feel are fine by me lol
ive been DJing in the actual sense of the word of playing tracks together, not producing and then playing out my tracks, but just plain old DJing, for over 20 years, and have rarely ever felt taken seriously by musicians. i have been in every debate and argument i think you could really have trying to validate DJing to musicians, and only some can rise above their own perceptions of orthodox music theory that comes with learning a traditional instrument, and then its usually only scratching that gets credibility for being a musical skill. its sad but for some reason people that have not actually faced the challenge of blending tracks cannot see it as a talent or skill.
i am usually very well received by any crowd i play for, so as far as just the general audience i always feel love there. its just when im sitting down debating with people outside of the dancefloor that i ever have had any issues of feeling not respected as an artist whatever that means. i obviously dont take any of it very seriously since im still doing it after this long.