My Mrs says I should learn how to vent....
My Mrs says I should learn how to vent.... Posted on: 05.07.2012 by Lavone Grignon Back To The Naughties Part 1…I feel lost. I feel saddened. Most of all I feel disillusioned about the art of Djing I once placed above everything else around me. House Music is & DJ Set Ups are rapidly changing around me. Over the past five years Dublin Clubbing seems to have imploded, and the house music has had so much cosmetic surgery its hard to find enough of the sounds and rhythms' being played, the sounds that I fell in love with all those years ago are being played by DJs who resemble something from a science fiction movie or TV show, but a shit science fiction movie or TV show, something like that Steo Spielberg thing on FX. Rubbish. Because sets or so programmed thanks to the likes of DJ Software I find modern DJ sets boring. I wana go back… I remember when I was a 20 year old superstar doing my Saturday shopping in stores like HMV Henry Street, then hitting up Abbey Discs via Arrnotts sports department before crossing the boarder onto the sophisticated Southside to spent a euro or 50 in Carbon, situated on the prime hot chick viewing platform that was the mezzanine level of Urban Outfitters. Those really were the days in my opion. I wana go back… I understand that almost half if not the majority of people that read this bit of script will be believeing im just another 29 hitting 30, two kids and a mortgage, still hanging on to the slick mix that was once his social scene every weekend, with the more than occasional Tuesday. The not old school to him but old school to you type of DJ and I would say you are right, I am all of those things and more. I'm bitter. I'm twisted. I wish the scene as I knew could return and remain. I wish vinyl was everything, I wish there was only good producers making it to the promised land of the label, I wish there was a cartel of downloading sites Traxsource, Beatport & Clickgroove and file sharing was never invented. I wish a DJM 600 and pair of Technics kitted out with some funky "Fuck of I'm Mixing" slipmats and some tidy looking Ortafan Pro Cartridges was all that was required. I wish there was no such thing as USA Dub Step, fuck I wish mainstream USA would just stick to there fucking Rap Rap with there Dr. Snoop Ice Cream's. I wish there was no acts that use the words, Swedish, House or Mafia within there title. I really wish the alter ego know as Deadmau5 was just dead mouse or I wish, I wish, I wish…. But the fact is in ten years time the DJ who is 20 and of the same make up but slightly altered mentality as I am now will feel exactly as I do and communicate there feelings as I have done today, through what ever medium they will have at there disposal how they will wonder how the next wave of electronica acts & software DJs coming through would just give it over, and cop on to themselves… DJ Depression is a serious Illness, if not treated can manifested it self in ways your young DJ mind can not yet comprehend. I wana go back… I'm not trying to write anything clever, just getting shit of my hairy man chest.. | |
| Yong Aptekar 05.07.2012 |
Originally Posted by joonmusic
Sorry OP |
| Lavone Grignon 05.07.2012 | Back To The Naughties Part 1… I feel lost. I feel saddened. Most of all I feel disillusioned about the art of Djing I once placed above everything else around me. House Music is & DJ Set Ups are rapidly changing around me. Over the past five years Dublin Clubbing seems to have imploded, and the house music has had so much cosmetic surgery its hard to find enough of the sounds and rhythms' being played, the sounds that I fell in love with all those years ago are being played by DJs who resemble something from a science fiction movie or TV show, but a shit science fiction movie or TV show, something like that Steo Spielberg thing on FX. Rubbish. Because sets or so programmed thanks to the likes of DJ Software I find modern DJ sets boring. I wana go back… I remember when I was a 20 year old superstar doing my Saturday shopping in stores like HMV Henry Street, then hitting up Abbey Discs via Arrnotts sports department before crossing the boarder onto the sophisticated Southside to spent a euro or 50 in Carbon, situated on the prime hot chick viewing platform that was the mezzanine level of Urban Outfitters. Those really were the days in my opion. I wana go back… I understand that almost half if not the majority of people that read this bit of script will be believeing im just another 29 hitting 30, two kids and a mortgage, still hanging on to the slick mix that was once his social scene every weekend, with the more than occasional Tuesday. The not old school to him but old school to you type of DJ and I would say you are right, I am all of those things and more. I'm bitter. I'm twisted. I wish the scene as I knew could return and remain. I wish vinyl was everything, I wish there was only good producers making it to the promised land of the label, I wish there was a cartel of downloading sites Traxsource, Beatport & Clickgroove and file sharing was never invented. I wish a DJM 600 and pair of Technics kitted out with some funky "Fuck of I'm Mixing" slipmats and some tidy looking Ortafan Pro Cartridges was all that was required. I wish there was no such thing as USA Dub Step, fuck I wish mainstream USA would just stick to there fucking Rap Rap with there Dr. Snoop Ice Cream's. I wish there was no acts that use the words, Swedish, House or Mafia within there title. I really wish the alter ego know as Deadmau5 was just dead mouse or I wish, I wish, I wish…. But the fact is in ten years time the DJ who is 20 and of the same make up but slightly altered mentality as I am now will feel exactly as I do and communicate there feelings as I have done today, through what ever medium they will have at there disposal how they will wonder how the next wave of electronica acts & software DJs coming through would just give it over, and cop on to themselves… DJ Depression is a serious Illness, if not treated can manifested it self in ways your young DJ mind can not yet comprehend. I wana go back… I'm not trying to write anything clever, just getting shit of my hairy man chest.. |
| Margie Pavell 06.07.2012 | don't blame dub step on the USA... it sounds to me like you aren't looking in the right places. There are places in California that still do (and do it well) quality house music week in and week out. I know Doc Martin is very active still. The Moontribe still throw their full moon parties. Miguel Migs and Mark Farina are doing it in San Francisco. Plus the occasional weekly guest like Lawler, Digweed, Sander K, etc that come through the Vanguard or the Avalon. I'm 39. I don't expect to go out every weekend like i used to. I have to pick and choose my parties now. The scene changed and is changing, you need to change with it. Even though i am "old school" it's my belief that there are waaaaay to many older DJs that are hanging on too tight to the past. It won't ever be that way again. I enjoyed it when I was there and I am still enjoying myself now. or start up your own evening |
| Rolanda Clodfelder 06.07.2012 | @My Gaff I Completely know where you are coming from, but shit happens as they say, unfortunately things really started going down in Dublins clubscene since around 2000, and guessing you creeped in just at the tail end of there being something decent to hold onto. For those that don't know - the opening hours in a Dublin bars used to be until 11.30pm and Nightclubs until 3.00am however in around 1998/1999 that changed with a wave of new "Superbars" (Palace/Zanzibar etc..) which were allowed to open until 2.30am - these super bars had capacities of up to 2000, free entry (before 9pm), Commercial DJ's, better lighting and sound than most of the clubs and above all drinks promotions early on in the evening , so you can imagine the club scene got hit pretty damn hard. For example of the downturn a Saturday evening routinely might have a capacity crowd at midevening , that dropped to half or less within a year with stragglers building up the numbers to around 3/4 full at 1am - leaving (gasp) 2 hours of dancing time. Then in 2002 drinks promotions were banned pretty much across the board and 2004 smoking was banned in bars and clubs. Before the Superpub's/laws etc... there was a decent club evening to go to EVERY evening of the week (and on Sundays dance from dawn until Monday Morn). In a few years you'll be telling the story to your kids like the tale of Concorde .. "I Remember when I was young and we could get from London to New York in 3 hours" I Blame the Stupid Feckin' Nanny State ! And +1 on all the Names you mentioned hehe..I wish it was just the music at fault in Dublin, but it runs much deeper than that. Keep Trucking. |
| Nilsa Erben 06.07.2012 | I'd like to go back to...the early 80's - when you could walk into a club and here everything from Patrick Cowley to OMD to Run DMC and back again - genres? WTF are those, we didn't care...we just wanted to hear music we could dance to and almost ever song was a different "genre"! Well, sorry to tell you my friend, times changes, there is no going back to the "good old days" whatever they mean to you (or me, or someone who went to Woodstock and misses that groove). Time to look forward and make the future not suck as much as the present...that's progress! |
| Brunilda Kora 06.07.2012 |
Originally Posted by dripstep
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| Yong Aptekar 05.07.2012 |
Originally Posted by joonmusic
Sorry OP |
| Lashay Walchak 05.07.2012 | These acts are the "new" music industry adapting to the post computer era. You're not mailing this letter to a magazine are you? You can still play your traditional house music using modern technology. Find a venue with a more mature crowd whom appreciates and has good taste. It's a smaller venue without huge capacities, but you'll have fun and get paid. |
| Neva Lahr 05.07.2012 | I wish I was a little bit taller. |
| Rena Estabrook 05.07.2012 | Nice you were a superstar at some point. |
| Celine Surico 05.07.2012 | The cycle repeats. |
| Belen Tallbull 05.07.2012 | And when you were 20 there was crowd doing what you are. "thats not proper dancing" " how can you listen to that crap" " it just goes doof doof all evening " etc etc Its called getting old brother. Welcome Now go and put the kettle on |
| Breanne Penge 05.07.2012 | Seems like when you go to smaller towns where there's less of a 'scene' the people there still run shit old school. At least around here....I can't speak for Dublin of course, and I believe the whole magic of digging through those exclusive shops is pretty much lost, but at least it's nice to see in some out of the way, hole in wall spot that there's still a sweaty room full of people totally up for it Keep on trucking homes |
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