Matt Challands
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Matt Challands
ParticipantOLD: scratched records
NEW: crap digital filesOLD: finding a record shop and sticking to it
NEW: overwhelmed with too much choiceJune 30, 2011 at 12:54 pm in reply to: What type of person is the most annoying during your set? #1979ParticipantAnother request (similar to what is said above) that I couldn’t believe once was: “What do you suggest to us?”
As though I was some waiter in a restaurant recommending specials!
Instant Automatic Cue: put headphones back on, concentrate on finding tunes and never ever even make eye contact with them again, ever
June 30, 2011 at 12:50 pm in reply to: What type of person is the most annoying during your set? #1977ParticipantDJ Dain, post: 535 wrote: Seconding this.
The first thing that comes to mind as “annoying” are the times someone places a request and then proceeds to hang around the booth waiting for me to play it. It creates a really uncomfortable atmosphere – as if their entitled to whatever they requested to be played right away (or at all for that matter). Next to that would be people who return to the booth and ask why their request hasn’t been played yet, and/or when I’m going to play it. I really want to tell these people to just chill-out, go get another drink and find someone to dance with in the meantime. I don’t mind requests too much because it’s valuable info for reading the crowd, but I hate being treated like a jukebox.
Now that is the singularly most annoying, irritating person ever. Even worse than the drunk space invader.
I’ve had this very situation on numerous occasions where they:
1. make a request exactly as you’re lining up a mix, approx 45 seconds from the end of the current track, just so you get distracted
2. make their crap request then hang around the booth like a bad, nauseous, gassy fart which is burning your eyes and nose simultaneously, and making you choke
3. make a face and start acting all indignantly when your next tune (about 30 seconds after they requested) comes through the speakers and they realise it’s not theirsWho are these people and how did their parents bring them up?
I don’t let it get to me. I neither agree nor disagree with their request, I won’t say I will, won’t say I won’t. That sends a kind of underlying message to them that I’m in charge and I’m not listening to any self-centred brat.
These people deserve a thrashing with bamboo sticks.
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ParticipantGot a good few tunes up and about to release.
Here’s one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJY8jy61FmA
You can download others too here: http://soundcloud.com/saopaulopunks
ParticipantThe whole scene took off because of drugs. Make no mistake, from the roots of EDM in downtown NY and Chicago gay clubs to the early the 90s in hedonistic UK, to the coke-befuddled last ten years, drugs are instrumental in influencing music and always have been.
Funny how now house and electro has gone totally mainstream and none of the listeners take any drugs.
As for DJs, doesn’t matter. Don’t play when you’re out of it on drugs obviously, but I think it does help to have lived a drug scene and to be able to relate to people who pop a pill to appreciate the music.
June 22, 2011 at 5:53 pm in reply to: So where in the world are you? (Apart from the US/Canada and Europe) #46ParticipantParis. Capital of France and dog poopie.
I’m from the bohemian side.
ParticipantWhat is indeed true is that recently, since electro and house went mainstream (thanks Guetta and chums) top 40 does indeed consist largely of tracks at around 126-130BPM. A piece of cake. I just have to practice mixing them beforehand.
I guess I can play some remixes of Britney and friends.What is true is that top 40 DJing has never interested me in the slightest. It’s the direct route to easy pleasing and I’ve always preferred it to be more challenging. Still, I’m not complaining if people dance and I still get to play in my regular joints too..
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