Bossdrum

This is by far one of the best conversations I’ve been apart of in along time. Much love everyone, much love!

lol indeed I love the darker sounds as well. I absolutely love the evolution DnB has taken over the last 20+ years. I was a House/Trance head for years, pretty much all I spun then I heard Pendulum’s Hold Your Color in 2007 which was a direction changer for me. Still love that song!

Great track selection, perfectly soulful.Well done.

What is so great about our choice of music? It is one of the few genre/styles of music that ALWAYS evolves, it’s constantly in motion because unlike Rock/Country/Folk etc it does not have a set of rules or traditions that must be followed for acceptance. Country music almost died in the 1980’s because it stubbornly refused to break from traditional norms of instrumentation and attire, yup T-shirts. Shania Twain saved country music with a T-shirt. I’m an old school clubber/dj, started 1987 in Seattle (b.1972). I still love my firsts… Mantronix,Freestyle,Cover Girls,CCCP,Egyptian Lover. Played and loved alot of the early Freestyle Electro House and I was sad when it died out around 1991-92 but a few years later I got hit with LFO’s – Freak and my mind was blown again like it was at the first rave I did back in 1991.

By 1996 we got the love from people like LTJ Bukem, 4hero,and BT who goes on to basiclly fathered a whole genre then got bored and evolved his skill set to create F’n STUTTER EDIT which opened the creative tool box door for any person on the planet that wants to create or destroy music. Think Metalica or Kenny Rogers would come on stage with nothing but a laptop and no band on a whim? nope. But if BT,Daft Punk,Skrillex or Sub Focus showed up with no laptops but a full live band,we would think “oh wonder what surprise we have coming up?” DAMN our choice of music is unlike anything else…. well maybe like Jazz but Jazz is not music, it’s musical wanking? 🙂 Eliah I understand your perspective but man your not old, you still DJ, you still have the passion for the craft and the control you have in making people move and lose their freaking minds for 6 to 8 hrs then happily drive themselves home.

All you need my friend is a fresh perspective. We are no longer at the age where our whole peer group influences our choices (which is why America has “taken over” electronic music) . Also being a DJ kinda shields you from your peer groups taste in music no matter what age you are. I ride motorcycles Harley/cruisers/classic 70’s imports wearing not boots but Puma’s or Samba Classics and I listen to DnB,House,Dubstep on rides. Choose what you like and how you like it. I’m a house head at heart but what I spin now is mostly DnB and a bit of Dubstep because I’ve found a new home that has elements of house,trance and breaks which makes the house lover in me happy plus I’ve discovered some simply amazing artists and producers that would be lost to me and I would be poorer for it as a music lover and as a DJ.

The pay off for me: in 03-04 I was a res house dj at The Red Sea, 3 rooms 200-400 people a night. Every night I played the same style of house (per the owners) and people had a good time, I thought I was happy. Club closes after 20 years and I take a break from gig’n. FWD to 2012-13. I do some radio sets and small venues, but I do them on my terms. I stay away from the Afrojacks and Guetta’s not because I don’t like them but because everyone has heard it 100 times. I play what I like and think the listeners will appreciate. I played a small venue of about 40 people last year and the second track I play is Seba – Under The Sun it was not on any radio or charts at the time…… I had 3 people come up to me,one of them was tearing up to ask me who the artist was and thanked me over and over during the night. That moment made me smile more than I ever would have at the Red Sea with 400 people going crazy. Not a single person danced that night,they listened.

Long winded,sorry for that but I hope something in there gives you a fresh perspective.

Also DUDE HOUSE!!!!! your in Canada home of Black Tiger Sex Machine which are imo some of the best creators of Deep, Dark and Prog House.(im biasd though I did a demo/sample mix for one of their EP’s) awesome guys!!
Look for the track Moonlight or Rezorecta. To add: Nora En Pure – Come with Me (house perfection and a personal fav house track). Hot Since 82 – Shadows and Isbells – Reunite(Niklas Thal Edit) (more house perfection) I hope that at least one of these tracks will make you smile.

Massive memory trigger, The MOS ANNUAL CD, good stuff. I went through the death of the mix cassette, the death of the mix cd is just the next logical progression due to cheaper distribution methods.

Great programming, nicely placed and smooth transitions. A very well done set m8

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