Well apparently this anime convention didn’t like the 1st dj for their rave since he was playing house music.
ohhh boy.
Then I started to wonder what went wrong since I didn’t go, so I hop on their forum to ask and I get
“Out of the hour we spent at the light rave, about 80% of it was house music That’s fine and all, but you would expect more anime and video game music at a con I suppose.”
Thats all fine and dandy, I can somewhat see about the videogame music. Not gonna run into cheap anime remixed tracks here in the US
I went on explaining that buying anime mixed stuff isnt too easy since most of it is on CDs and the import fees are not worth it.
Then I get
"I think you’re taking what I said out of context. I understand what DJ’s have to put into there work and gear costs. But I also know of DJ’s who make their own mixes off of base source material. We (the fans) are not asking for you to “be an iPod” but what we are asking for is that if a DJ is going to be at an anime convention, make some mixes with anime source material "
Not all of us can mix in anime/video game music in with popular tracks. I sure as hell know I can’t so I don’t bother. And apparently the people running the rave at the con also didnt like the DJ.
Which con was it? Every convention i’ve been to except Anime Boston had pretty awful DJ’s; not because they were playing any specific unpopular genre but just cause their EQ levels and mixing was awful.
Thing is, I love anime, but nearly every “anime techno song” is made of pure fail. Given there are some exceptions (ali nadem - electro saiyans) most of it is pretty bad. It is my dream to DJ a big anime con like anime boston or Connecticon someday, however. The crowd is generally awesome, there are no bouncers, loving atmosphere and the ones i’ve been to had some amazing lighting setups (also Anime Boston has a showing of ~ 14,000 people which is nothing to scoff at!). The good DJ’s at Anime Boston - that everyone loved - didn’t play any anime remixes, a couple good video game remixes like Doctor P - Tetris. Maybe the DJ you went to see just genuinely didn’t play any ‘good’ house music?
edit: Also, it doesn’t hurt to play some electro/trance/dubstep with crowds like that. House isn’t the genre of choice in a group of people that likes crazy energetic stuff. Hell even some Pendulum would’ve gotten them bouncing off the walls.
I think its both faults, the dj probably should have known anime freaks would have wanted that, and anime freaks should have voiced they wanted that to him. Its a tough assumption to make on both parts. I mean its hard to know what people want, but for an event like that I would have asked, what kinda of music do they want, I want to make sure i’m a good fit. I ask that for just about every gig, so I can say yes or no.
And finding anime music isnt too hard, I mean its definately a pain to find good mixes, but look on sound cloud, they are all over the place for free. Hell there is an entire anime music section in turntable fm.
That’s fine and all, but you would expect more anime and video game music at a con I suppose.”