Eclectic DJing – yes or no?

[Flavour]

its good to start with one thing and end with another... like if its getting to the busy bit of the night and you gradually go from dub to jungle to dnb or the other way round if its getting late and everyones tired

 

[Pieface]

A bit like dinner then Flave?

 

[Skim]

sorted

Can we just call a truce and give me exclusive rights to play that Diplo song everyone likes?

 

[Skim]

and then stick some boney m on and do my cack handed rewind special move!

I thought we were never going to mention that sorry incident again?

 

[kakuma]

i like dj'ing a lot better if it changes a bit, it's always good to have a couple of different styles going on, all has to be hard tho

mind you i tend to just play a couple of nice tunes and then go into hard shit till the end, but i'm not a very good dj

my digital mixes always have lots of different types of music stuck on top of amens

 

[Dubversion]

I thought we were never going to mention that sorry incident again?

sorry incident? SORRY?

that was the fucking motherlode, the zenith, the purest dropping of turntable science i've ever seen.

"i've got fuck-ups you ain't even seen yet"

 

[Skim]

Ach, I'm just jealous.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

well during Online the chatroom night i played

1. [Nipponsei] Samurai Champloo Episode 26 ED Album - San Francisco (3:26)
2. [Nipponsei] Samurai Champloo Episode 26 ED Album - Tanoshii Drive (3:48)
3. RHYMESTER feat. FIRE BALL - HEAT ISLAND (5:01)
4. Abenobashi Mahou*Shoutengai - Treat or Goblins (3:48)
5. Suga Shikao - 19sai (4:08)
6. Ilaria Graziano - I Can't Be Cool (4:31)
7. Yoko Kanno/Origa/Shanti Snyder - Inner Universe (4:54)
8. Love Hina, Hinata Girls Song Best - Sakura Saku (3:12)
9. CLOVER - Maji Suki MAGIC (4:08)
10. demitri from paris - Neko Mimi Mode (4:16)
11. Mahoromatic - Mahoro de Mambo (3:45)
12. Kenji Kawai - Pappetry Song - Dying After Much Resentment (3:40)
13. Karakuri Zoushi Ayatsuri Sakon - Kanaete (6:18)
14. Chitose Hajime - Haru no Katami (4:18)
15. Evangelion - Cruel Angel's Thesis (10th Anniversary Version) (4:52)
16. Frank Sinatra - Fly Me To The Moon (2:28)
17. Roy Orbison - Blue Angel (2:50)
18. Dean Martin - Ain't That A Kick In the Head (2:24)
19. Tom Jones / Catatonia - Baby It's Cold Outside (3:41)
20. Dolly Parton - I Will Always Love You (2:53)
21. Blues Brothers - Everybody Needs Somebody to Lo (3:19)
22. Harris, Phil - That's What I Like About the South (2:51)
23. Rick James - Superfreak (3:21)
24. Hi-STANDARD - I Can't Help Falling In Love W (2:43)
25. Richard Cheese - Creep (2:55)
26. Hi Standard - California Dreamin (2:17)
27. A3 - Speed Of The Sound Of Loneline (5:57)
28. Elvis Presley - A Little Less Conversation (2:11)
29. the pillows - Hybrid Rainbows (3:58)
30. MC Frontalot - I Heart Fags (3:53)
31. FischerSpooner - Emerge (4:46)
32. Mindless Self Indulgence - Bring the Pain (3:39)
33. MSI - Daddy (1:20)
34. Paul Williams - Bad Guys (2:18)

which is fiarly random though i tried to line it up somewhat


but then i have about as much talent as a coprolite

 

[fractionMan]

That dirtchamber sessions by liam whatever is really really good. And pretty eclectic.

 

[brokenyolk]

I thought we were never going to mention that sorry incident again?

Ye-eah we wept, when we remembered that one

When the wicked dj's
carried away in beer induced activity
Required to play a song
Now how shall we mix it so wrong .... in a strange way

 

[Flavour]

A bit like dinner then Flave?

Dinner with Flave, that is. I don't just serve my food on any normal kind of plates you see, but dubplates. (Dubplates.) (Did you see it coming? Honestly?)



And because they're dubplates, they only last 30 meals

 

[Dubversion]

by the rivers of VERY WRONG

 

[Dubversion]

arse

 

[Kanda]

where we post twice...

 

[Chorlton]

isn't that why we love john peel he was saying that they're both great dance tunes from different eras. It's a bit like juxtaposing the British Libaray with St.Pancras Station, it's shocking but somehow it works.

you try coming up at ATP and buzzing yer tits off when that beardy-hoor puts on 'down down' and tell me that 'somehow it works'


*shakes fist*

 

[Skim]

Ye-eah we wept, when we remembered that one

When the wicked dj's
carried away in beer induced activity
Required to play a song
Now how shall we mix it so wrong .... in a strange way

Even though I mock that night, it was a moment of revelation for me. Ever since your set, I have been trying to find a Goombay Dance Band track that I could drop into a set and make the place go wild. Like a finger of Fudge, it would certainly give the kids a treat

 

[editor]

I can only do 'eclectic' because I'd rapidly get bored playing the same kind of stuff for more than 60 mins.

I'm going to play The Quo on Saturday now as a tribute to John Peel.

 

[brokenyolk]

, I have been trying to find a Goombay Dance Band track that I could drop into a set and make the place go wild.

Goombay haven't got the oomph required - i've experimented within the safety of a home environment rather than the untamed wilds of the dancefloor, but my crew didn't bounce to it.... perhaps that's where i'm going right/wrong - playing to please a two-and-a-half year old?

 

[Pieface]

Dinner with Flave, that is. I don't just serve my food on any normal kind of plates you see, but dubplates. (Dubplates.) (Did you see it coming? Honestly?)



And because they're dubplates, they only last 30 meals

yummy

(take an analogy and run with it why don't you )

 

[Skim]

I'm going to play The Quo on Saturday now as a tribute to John Peel.

Don't feel you have to do a tribute or anything... you know, a Fall track would do...

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

you know, a Fall track would do...

 

[art of fact]

its all about the eclectic mixing if done right... yesterday i was messing around with ableton and ended up mixing bloodclaat gangsta youth with faith no more

 

[perplexis]

<snip>like on the dj food/dk one where the beat's "mirror in the bathroom" goes nicely into a drum n bass track.<snip>

I was going to mention exactly this one- the way the beat drops and rolls out at the end of Mirror... is proper !

I really like eclectic sets that maintain a certain feel throughout. I don't know how it's done, but there are loads of mashup mixes out there that just fall short (mostly because they'll drop a tune I really can't stand, which irretrievably ruins a set for me, like most times I've been to T*R*A*S*H in fact) but there are some real gems.

It's all about the vibe, fuck knows what that actually means but there are tunes in completely different genres that have a similar harmony, or melody or even key or emotion, and they can be made to fit together.

The bit in Richie Hawtin's Decks, Fx & 909 where he bangs out Nitzer Ebb, for example- shouty industrial in the middle of techno without disturbing the mix (in my eyes).

I think techno probably does mostly need its own set, but the rougher edges of it be they ambienty or industrially or gabbery are all open to all sorts of trans-genre mangleation-
ambient-->dubstep-->breaks-->jungle-->breakcore-->gabber->speedcore-->metal-->punk-->ska-->dub...
over a few hours could be a lot of fun. I think I just set myself a little challenge! (1- learn to mix, 2- get amazingly good at mixing, 3- produce a 6hr musical odyssey. There's a nice plan for a weeekend at home!)

Depends if it's for dancing or "listening" clever-clever DJing in clubs can be fine for having a drink and going "OMFG they did what???" but sometimes you need to have a reasonably constant pace to keep on dancing.
Or sometimes I just want it to get faster and harder all the time...

 

[Skim]

It's all about the vibe, fuck knows what that actually means but there are tunes in completely different genres that have a similar harmony, or melody or even key or emotion, and they can be made to fit together.

While anyone can learn to beatmatch, learning how to link harmony, melody, keys and emotion is a lot harder. I feel I've really achieved something if I can produce a mix with a blend of sounds that complement each other in subtle ways.

 

[Blagsta]

The bit in Richie Hawtin's Decks, Fx & 909 where he bangs out Nitzer Ebb, for example- shouty industrial in the middle of techno without disturbing the mix (in my eyes).

Very similar though aren't they, industrial and techno.

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

While anyone can learn to beatmatch, learning how to link harmony, melody, keys and emotion is a lot harder. I feel I've really achieved something if I can produce a mix with a blend of sounds that complement each other in subtle ways.

Seconded. And also sounds that anti-complement each other, creating cornea-dessicating cacaphony - so wrong it's right. I'm good at this.

 

[perplexis]

Very similar though aren't they, industrial and techno.

Well yes, and no.
I think that's the point I was scrabbling for about eclectic DJing- some things are alike even though they really aren't and these are the eclectic things that go together.
Simply in terms of sounds, industrial with words is very very different to techno, IMO, though they share an ethos ? mebbe.
As I say, I'm scrabbling here...

 

[Wave-E]

Mr Scruff is excelent at spanning genres. When I went to see him at the Concorde 2 in Brighton, his set started off with some quite jazz, moved on to some soul, then Hip Hop, all the time getting louder and louder until he was pumping some excelent DnB.

Well worth seeing!

 

[Dubversion]

Mr Scruff is excelent at spanning genres. When I went to see him at the Concorde 2 in Brighton, his set started off with some quite jazz, moved on to some soul, then Hip Hop, all the time getting louder and louder until he was pumping some excelent DnB.

Well worth seeing!

Mr Scruff has this talent for taking a wide range of eclectic material and yet somehow making it all sound arseclenchingly dull by the time he's finished with it.

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

I'm with perplexis on this. This principle could apply to any two genres of music - maybe the slide guitars of Merle Haggard segueing seamlessly into a feral George Formby banjo-a-thon, for instance.