From Greg Earle Sent Mon, Mar 22nd 1999, 22:52
From Greg Earle Sent Mon, Mar 22nd 1999, 22:52
dj merck spewed:
>> BTW, she's an absolute Goddess in every sense of the word. She played
*the*
>> most slammin' set of any DJ set I heard at WMC
>
> My opinion was that she was probably one of the worst dj's i've seen bar
> none (skill wise)...the word mixing has absolutely no meaning to her
Well Mr. Nose-In-The-Air DJ,
I said "the most slammin' set". I didn't say "the most deftly mixed set", now
did I?
If I want great DJ mixing, I know where to find Claude Young and Stacey Pullen
and the like, thank you very much. (And, in fact, after Funkstoerung - who
were pretty fucking boring as far as I'm concerned ... there, how's that for
some IDM flame bait? - I rushed downstairs to catch Stacey's set.)
The reason it was "the most slammin' set" to me was the tracks she played,
not her mixing. I guess I should have qualified that in the first place.
> another note on
> her performance, about 1/2 at least of her set was her songs as he
> mentioned .... but i wont go off on that tangent...nonetheless i'll end
> off on a good note saying that i do for the most part like her music, if
> not too diverse but still decent sounding.
Well, there we differ, she's one of my most favorite music makers, and I
went to WMC hoping that she'd play live (she said she was going to try to
do just that after Mo' Wax gets the album out in the UK). But I knew she
wasn't, so I was satisfied to hear her play a lot of her own music, especially
given that most of it was unreleased tracks.
> She was definitely the most
> dissapointing act of the whole winter music conference (notice i didnt
> say worst ... worst would have to go to Wink or Icey or some bullshit like
> that)
I'll reserve that slot for Fatboy Slim, Lord knows what anyone sees in the
mainstream quasi-Rock music he spins, but hey, whatevah ...
> if I want beautiful I'll go to a strip bar...if I want music i'll go see a
> decent DJ ..... don't confuse the 2.
I didn't go there because of her beauty, I went there because I thought I'd
get to hear some of her music, and from the DJ Kicks CD I figured she'd spin
some decent tracks. And they were better than decent. I got what I came
there for.
I'm really glad I'm not a DJ. You listened to it with DJ's ears and picked
it all apart because it didn't meet your DJ'ing standards and you were
disappointed. I listened to it through non-DJ's ears and heard some great
music that I loved and enjoyed. I'd rather go through life enjoying music and
having a good time instead of being disappointed by technicalities, frankly.
It's not like she fuckin' trainwrecked or anything ...
<rant>
In another post I was going to mention how seeing Jega play live at WMC was
the best thing I saw the entire week, but after reading the last week's worth
of digests and all the Jega slamming, fuck it. I'll just think to myself
that I heard some of the most intense hardest-ass drum n' bass I've ever heard
(and nary a drill n' bass moment, t'was more Jenkinsonian than Paradinasian)
while the rest of you can keep thinking that Dylan sucks. Whatever.
This list is starting to remind me far too much of 1990-vintage
rec.music.industrial. I came to Techno in part to escape the relentless
negativity and effete snobbery of Industrial, and now it's catching up to me
again. Sigh.
</rant>
- Greg