I was curious about this subject recently. I'm not talking about like, "Oh I like to spin this track a lot" type OCD. But more like full-out wierd rituals, in the same style as baseball players. Becuase I think it would be pretty funny/cool if there were any well-known DJ's that were like that, So anyone know if there actually are any out there. Just curious an' all.
― Tokyo Ghost Stories (Tokyo Ghost Stories), Saturday, 20 August 2005 04:52 (twenty years ago)
DJs? On meth?
Never heard of such a thing.
(Haha.. ok, I got to DJ one time on Groovetech.com many years ago, and I ended a set with the chants from that Sounds Of The American Doomsday Cults Vol 14.: Church of the Universal and Triumphant, which is just this random series of parishioners doing these "transcendental" chipmunk (as in Alvin And The) sounding mantras. So, the guy after me is deciding what record he's going to start with.. he already looks kinda nervous, but handling the tables like a pro. It takes a small while for him to figure it out, so i'm thinking "ok, he probably just rushed here. No problem." I start getting complaints from listeners on ICQ going "this is getting annoying"... so I tell them "no worries... the next guy is going on any second!"... one.. two... three... 10 minutes later, the guy CANNOT figure out what he wants to start his set with. He's gone through around 15 records in that time frame. The guy clearly knows what he's doing, but he also has NO CLUE what he wants to do! The ICQ messages are now "TURN THAT FUCKING SHIT OFF!!!", "YOU'RE FUCKING WITH MY HEAD", etc. so I asked the guy.. "Um, is that turntable not working out? Is the cue broken? I could do a quick fade out, and let you on my side".. then he tells me "I just can't mix into your shit, man". The guy was trying to fucking BEATMATCH into my FREAKY MONTANA CHURCH/CULT CHANTS! I got up very quietly and said "....OK then... What BPM range are you looking for?" and he goes "Oh, I don't know"... and I go "Would 120s do? Maybe 130s?".. and he said "yeah, that sounds right".. so, I calmly faded out the chants, I turn around behind me and see a flood of ICQs saying "IT'S OVER, PRAISE THE LARD!"... and I choose a random single from my bin in that BMP range, fade it in, then within 30 seconds, he happily beatmatches into the track, I remove my records, leave... and then almost fall onto the sidewalk outside the studio completely losing my shit!)
― donut floccinaucinihilipilification (donut), Saturday, 20 August 2005 05:17 (twenty years ago)
when i saw jeff mills spin he spent a full twenty minutes fucking with the decks. he was mixing like a hip-hop dj, letting songs play out for like, oh, three minutes or so ... in the meantime he rejected two needles, adjusted each of the legs on each of the three turntables, fidgeted with the tone arms, did something involving a screwdriver to the drivetrain of one of the decks, and had one of the decks COMPLETELY SWAPPED OUT.
then, after all of this was done, he calmly tore through like 100 purposemaker/axis tracks in two hours (this is counting doubles and triples) ... but still, wow, what a primadonna!
― vahid (vahid), Saturday, 20 August 2005 05:59 (twenty years ago)