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[Chris Rapier]

Yeah, but the people in this city are fucking assholes.


On 6/23/06, Ancilla Sea-Maid <ancilla6 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Over the 9 years of observing Ceremony crowds,
> no....I'd have to say Brian is right. this scene just
> doesn't give a hoot. I've seen Brian go nuts just
> bursting forth with mad technical skill, Arvin makes
> his own remixes, guest DJs from all over do crazy
> tricks, incredible technical mixing, and then at the
> end of the day......people whine "the DJ changed the
> song that was playing."
>
> that's it. they whine that the song that was currently
> playing got "messed with." I paid $400 for decent CD
> decks that simulate the abilities of vinyl, and that
> was a mistake. no one cares.
>
> the Upstage CD players were recently replaced with a
> pair of My First Sonys. and it wouldn't matter anyhow.
> I noticed no difference in crowd reaction between
> then, and when Brian brought in his own CD players and
> I could beat-match again. oh wait. the one crowd
> reaction I got was someone told us to quit mixing the
> songs so much :o
>
> - t
>
> --- Chris Rapier <rapier1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > technology exists to press one's own records, but
> > it's prohibitively
> > > expensive.  Also-- as much as I enjoy the
> > technical tricks one can
> > > bring to DJing-- it is not something the G/I crowd
> > typically cares
> > > much about.
> >
> > I disagree. I think the G/I scene doesn't tend to
> > care because the G/I
> > scene has developed very low expectations. G/I DJs
> > back in the late
> > 80s and early 90s *used* to do all of the turntable
> > action. I think
> > partly because they wanted to play around and the
> > tools they had
> > available allowed (if not actually encouraged) them
> > to.  That sort of
> > died out and I think it was in part due to the fact
> > that people were
> > switching to CDs and the technology at the time
> > simply didn't lend
> > itself to playing around like that (there were some
> > people using
> > digital samplers to cut loops but that never really
> > moved that far).
> > Times change, eventually they will change back
> > because I really think
> > once you have a G/I DJ that can really excite people
> > with what and
> > *how* they are playing more clubgoers will demand
> > it. It would
> > certainly make the experience more interesting.
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