Rolling "Should I see this DJ?" Thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjRNLK4O3s4

how about sasse, people?

Sasse is probably a good bet.

Just for fun I decided to compare one year (2009) in Toronto vs. one weekend in Berlin. Taken only from Resident Advisor's listing pages, taking the appropriate names (techno, house, dubstep and the like DJ's, that I know of, and whom I've deem not bad enough to go out of my way to avoid - although I wouldn't give half of the Toronto names listed half a thought at best, many of them playing at atrocious clubs anyways).

Doubles and Resident DJ's are taken out.
Either way

TORONTO:

JD twitch (CANCELLED), Modeselektor, Sammy Dee and Frivolous, Dusty Kid, James Holden, Hercules and Love Affair, Marc Houle, Cari lekebusch, Tiefschwarz, Damian lazarus, Marcin czubala, Akufen (DJ), Mistress Barbara, Nick curly, Someone else, Radio slave, MANDY, Derrick May, Perc, Hugo, Mikael Stavostrand and Pheek and Jesse Somfay and Stefny, Abe Duque, Elon, Pablo Bolivar, Pat Mahoney & Andy Butler, Format: B, Loco Dice, Lusine and Tycho and SV4, Pilooski, Moderat, Alva Noto and Byetone, Mike Shannon and Adam Marshall, Joey Beltram, Stacey Pullen, Skream and Benga, Sian, Davide Squillace, Dan Bell, John Dahlback, Green Velvet, Joris Voorn, Runaway, Clive Henry & Gregor Tresher, Derrick Carter, Jeff Mills (at an irredemably crappy festival), Johnny D, Reboot, Daniel Steinberg, Stephan Bodzin, Speedy J Paul Kalkbrenner and Sascha Funke, Hobo, Dandy Jack & Jeff Milligan, Matt Tolfrey, Adam Beyer, Paul Ritch, Martyn (CANCELLED), Ernesto Ferreyra, Philip Bader, Guy Gerber, Caspa, Jimpster, Martinez, Luke Hess
Substance and Vainqueuer, Butch, Audion, Cassy (CANCELLED), Timo Maas, Simon Baker, Claude Von Stroke, Jeremy P Caulfield, Guillaume and the Coutu Dumonts, Pier Bucci, The Mole, Alex Smoke

VS. Berlin in less than a 100th of that time:

Scuba and Kode9 and Schackelton and Martyn and Pangaea, Mark Henning, Jeff Samuel and Hrdvision, Brother’s Vibe and Ed Davenport, Panda Bear and Pantha du Prince and Carsten Jost, Jay Shepheard, Ame, Jeremy P Caulfield and Elon, Kenny Larkin and Cristian Vogel, Jimpster, Axel Bartsch, Xpansul and jens bond, Marcell dettmann and delta functionen and newworldaquarium and Quince and Marcel Fengler, Pikaya, Tolga Fidan, Matthias Schaffhauser and Ark and MyMy, Kreon, Marcel Knopf, Frivolous, Kolijah, The Mole and Marco ressman and Ewan Pearson and Sasse, Sweet N Candy, Jan Jelinek, Falko Brocksieper and Benajmin Fehr, Touane and Gummihz and Vincenzo, Rainer Truby, Federico Molinari and Damian Schwartz, Shonky and Ellen Allien and Lee Jones

I mean I'm thankful for what I've got, but man...

haha. that is pretty funny. we're in a similar situation in sydney but i still feel like i go out quite a lot and see lots of good ppl. living in berlin would prob kill me.

how's horse meat disco? i'm definitely going, but just wanna know what to expect. full-on disco or what?

funny living in berlin, it all becomes so passe... so much happens here it's impossible to get excited about even 1/10th of it, and shows that i would have jumped up and down at finding out about 3 years ago, these days i'm like "yeah it's only 5 subway stations away but i'm kinda tired" a lot of it is just me having checked out so much good stuff already and like, how many transcendent narcotic experiences on the dance floor can you have before it gets redundant? it's easy to go from all night club to all day afterhour to club again and stay out for 2 weeks while you completely lose touch with reality here, but now it feels like going through the motion for me. and i'd rather geek out in the studio and watch a movie with my girl...

with that said, Transmediale is under way, and i'll be seeing Charlemagne Palestine, Thomas Köner, Pan Sonic, Ryoji Ikeda, Brackles, Rustie, Deadbeat, Tikiman, ATOM tm. :)

What's a Joey Beltram DJ set like these days? He doesn't try to keep up with what the kids like too much, does he? I don't really want that

dixon?

i'm a fan but what type of stuff does he play out? is it worth the $20?? (fwiw i am a huge fan of 'temporary secretary' and his RA mix and 'the grandfather paradox', just wondering how well that style translates to a live dj set)

He was very good when I say him in Berlin, played a very broad range of house for about 6 or 7 hours - and we were grinning from ear to ear when he dropped West End Girls towards the end.

i saw him w/ame a while back and while i don't remember too well what he played, i thought he was very good. seeing him tonight with seth troxler!

saw him in indonesia and he played obvious predictable hits! it's because of the uneducated crowd, though.

saw horse meat disco last night and i can only say it was tiring. played too many obvious tracks and the flow just wasn't errrmm flowing.

pete herbert and MCDE?

dixon played:
hot chip - one life stand (carl craig rmx) <-- sick!
armando - don't take it
cajmere - feelin' kinda high
dj koze - dr.fuck or mrs. bojangles
martyn - elden st (sebo k rmx)

and some pretty rude techno stuff.

i think MCDE would be really fun to see, esp with a good soundsystem

holy ghost? treasure fingers?

Saw Pete Herbert a couple of weeks back. He played plenty of deep discoy records (not a good descrip, sorry). He played Simian Mobile Disco's Cruel Intentions.

yeah anyone seen treasure fingers dj? his remixes are great, how's his djing?

I saw him for ten minutes in a garden the other week, not enough to really make a judgment on

Pole last night: very nice, very nice (didn't hurt that the sound was also very nice), but it was Barbara Preisinger's set after that really shook up my soda, so to speak.

how about larry heard?

a-trak?

OF COURSE you should see Larry Heard, just because he's LARRY HEARD!!!

OF COURSE you should not see A-Trak, just because he's A-TRAK!!!

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OF COURSE you should not see A-Trak, just because he's A-TRAK!!!

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but but Dirty South Dance is awesome!

pick one: idjut boys or todd terje?

barbara preisinger is a fantastic DJ, not nearly as well known as she should be.

terje imo

but i fukken love that dude

Terje for sure.

really excited about MATIAS AGUAYO here in SF next saturday. also excited that i don't have to pay.

felix da housecat?

Yechhh!

Felix da Housecat =
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ytCEuuW2_A

hahaha, never heard any of his set so I didn't know if he's regarded that low.

what about richard sen (padded cell)?

I'm just basing this on FdHC's music, and from what I can tell his tastes, if that's your thing he might be great, for all I know, he's definitely not my cup of tea, though.

Anyone seen/can comment on Soul Clap?

I saw Felix DJ Centro-Fly during the height of Electroclash. It was pretty awesome. He played Our Darkness...

Felix's mix with Diddy last year was pretty incessantly banging. If that's his DJing style these days don't expect much downtime.

green velvet?

GV is loads of fun

should i go see lil louie vega at santos tonight? what should i expect to hear?

how was it, reyes? i'm guessing he played a lot of vocal house?

what do you think of this lineup? i'm only familiar with major lazer, and they're the reason i'm going. but i want to know about the others. thanks.

above and beyond
major lazer
spirit catcher (live)
rene amesz
chocolate puma

Above and Beyond are Paul Van Dyk with less cred. If that is hard to get your head around you should watch their NYE 2007 show in Rio on Youtube. I'm pretty sure I've seen Spirit Catcher but I couldn't tell you if they are any good.

DJs I have seen in the past month that are absolutely worth seeing:

Justin Martin & Christian Martin (dirtybird)
Michael Mayer (duh)
Paco Osuna
Derrick Carter (DUH)
Nadastrom
Classixx
Deathface (Trouble & Bass)
Tim Sweeney (always liked his radio show, but he's a shockingly good live DJ!)
DJ Spen

Sweeney is so much better live than the radio show would suggest

anyone knows how ramadanman sounds live? i suggest pretty banging and club-friendly?

joris voorn or juan maclean + tiga? (all dj sets)

the latter. joris voorn is kind of a bore live, imo.

also, just a note: i didn't get to see Matias Aguayo that night in march. i was about to head over to the club when i got a call saying my house had been robbed. apparently, it was fucking awesome.

ouch, sorry about your (double) loss :(

shut your mouth

That's a serious question :|

Valentino Kanzyani

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Saw Valentino Kanzyani at Ibiza Underground a couple of years ago. Would definitely see again. Deep, understated, minimal. Plenty of his mixes on Soundcloud etc..

Also Herodot, some of those guys can be severely hit and miss - depends what vibe they are feeling?

Ben UFO, #1 on my DJ wish list, is going to play in a neighboring country. To attend, I will have to spend approx. $250 (all in) and miss my cousin's engagement party. Worth it?

correction: $150

Sven vath, anyone? Tracklists of his sets didn't impress me though..

so are you going to see ben ufo or what?!?

Yes! Hope it's gonna be the best $150 I've ever spent.

Ben UFO was disappointing. I didn't come to see a one dimensional techno DJ and that's what I got.

sven vath or john talaobt?

xp I've seen Ben UFO three times and it's been completely different each time - a boring time probably in that same one dimensional techno vein, a great time in the adventurous way you'd expect of him, and a really weird time when after hours of supports throwing out filthy dubstep he came on, cleared the floor with a couple of really skeletal tracks, then gave up and let someone else take over.

Skeletal tracks? Such as..?

oh it was a few years ago, I don't really remember, but just stuff in the spare and rhythmically-oriented Hessle vibe, which didn't go down well with the teens who'd been enjoying buzzsaw synth lines.

How is Carl Craig these days?

i saw john talabot at a smaller outdoor daytime thing and he was perfect. not sure how he'd fair at indoor/at night, but i'd say go for it.

ended up seeing sven vath since I was late to see talabot. it was okay, but I didn't have any expectation anyway.

Anyone seen Ron Morelli?

I thought his set was the best at Dekmantel Festival last year. So grinding yet still danceable.

What about Lil Louis?

martin buttrich?

I LOVE Benoit and Sergio's original material, how are their DJ sets? Seeing them tomorrow with Eats Everything and Dusky, who I don't know and a Spotify search seems like they're a much different kind of thing...

I've seen B&S play some pretty good sets and I've seen them clear the floor with terrible sets. Eats Everything and Dusky are always fantastic, though.

^^They were dope btw.

i feel like i should go see Cashmere Cat tonight, but also it seems like it would a whole thing.