From my experience it’s hard to get a dancefloor really going until 1/2am - venue/genre dependent of course.
I know this to be true, and yet I still always wonder...what is everyone doing until 1 or 2 am????
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 20:26 (one year ago) link
Out drinking? Disco napping?
Waiting to get drunk enough / pingers to take effect…
Which begs the question - why not start earlier :D
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 24 November 2022 16:20 (one year ago) link
Things certainly get started much earlier in Glasgow, for example, when most clubs shut at 2 or 3am.
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 24 November 2022 16:21 (one year ago) link
4am mostly now.
― stirmonster, Thursday, 24 November 2022 16:37 (one year ago) link
Want restrictive laws that mandate everything close by midnight to prevent unwanted pumpkinizings. I’ve finally reached the age where my attitude is “nobody on earth needs to stay up til 4AM. Go out earlier and go to bed at a reasonable hour, you goons.”
― an incomprehensible borefest full of elves (hardcore dilettante), Thursday, 24 November 2022 18:44 (one year ago) link
Ted Thursdays: Nothing good happens after 2am pic.twitter.com/gGMZbENL0P— HIMYM (@OfficialHIMYM) May 30, 2019
― sleeve, Thursday, 24 November 2022 18:48 (one year ago) link
My Friday bar sets are 10pm to midnight (although I usually do a warm up from 930), and it’s always frustrating to have to end when the night is at its peak. They’ve started letting me extend by another 15 minutes or so, but it’s not enough, dammit.I’m on tomorrow night straight after the England/USA World Cup game, which they’re showing upstairs, so that will make for a very different vibe. Curious to see how my Seven Nation Army/Glad To Be Gay mashup will land.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 24 November 2022 21:06 (one year ago) link
i do 9:30 to 1:30 at the gay bar, feel like it's about perfect tbh. fridays the floor starts filling up before 11.
― ꙮ (map), Thursday, 24 November 2022 23:20 (one year ago) link
the late nights are probably the hardest thing for me. once a week is ok, my body treats it like an anomaly and readjusts. twice a week back to back and it's like jetlag, takes a day or two for me to get back to normal.
― ꙮ (map), Thursday, 24 November 2022 23:22 (one year ago) link
Curious to see how my Seven Nation Army/Glad To Be Gay mashup will land.
ha ha ha! i hope this is actually a thing.
― stirmonster, Thursday, 24 November 2022 23:40 (one year ago) link
Yeah, I did it, and it landed fine. Just a couple of drops of the TRB chorus into Seven Nation Army, but the first drop kinda recontextualises its second verse, if anyone was listening that closely! It comes just after 52 minutes in the recording of last night's set.
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 26 November 2022 13:09 (one year ago) link
I definitely used to pee in jugs when i DJed a lot. Longest I ever DJed was 9p- 4:30a or so— my last track was Closer Musik’s “Ride Me” to about seven couples essentially dry jumping on the dance floor. One of my finer moments tbh.
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Saturday, 26 November 2022 20:43 (one year ago) link
Well, preparing tonight’s Christine McVie tribute mix was fun; Everywhere into Don’t Stop is a particularly satisfying transition.
― mike t-diva, Friday, 2 December 2022 21:21 (one year ago) link
last night was weirdly intense, i did well i think. part of it was i took a whole edible instead of half and was pretty high. another was that i had a few disparate groups that i was trying to please. and another is that i have an awkward relationship going on with the resident queen. it's a long story but the gist is that she asked to draw me, and me being naive and bored, sent her sexy videos. bad move, never shit where you eat. i had to tell her i wasn't interested in being flirty. she is petty, annoying and talentless lol and she's always pushing boundaries a little bit with me. i've been super polite so far. at the end of the night last night she was gabbing my ear off about how she appreciated that i played things that no one knew in between more popular tracks. it was veering into backhanded compliemt territory. i had to say, hon i don't mean to be rude but i'm dead tired and have to get up early tomorrow, but thank you!
i wish there was a good place i could go on about music i'm discovering and playing, i'll do it here i guess, have to mention something even though i gather most people itt would grimace if they heard this. i've always hated the black eyed peas have avoided playing any. but i got a request for them last night and i have a new one "pump it louder". it totally won me over, switched me 180*, wild and creative stuff, what a banger. i don't think you're supposed to be discovering music while you're djing generally speaking, but it was fun! it's amazing how much people pick up on your body language when you're playing something. if you're engaged with the track, people are so much more likely to engage with it. i'm someone who can't fake that, which is why i can't play stuff i don't feel in some way. but i'm stretching that a lot lately by expanding what am into.
― ꙮ (map), Friday, 9 December 2022 17:39 (one year ago) link
Our task tonight is to quell the teenage rampage, which has grown from a few people about six weeks ago, to a full scale invasion last week. From my point of view as a DJ, they’re enthusiastic and appreciative, but for everybody else they’re an annoyance which has started to deter some of the regulars. They’re all lads apart from one girl, half of them don’t buy drinks, some of them smuggle in their own drinks, I’m told they get up to God knows what in the toilets, and some are under age - the staff were completely caught out last week when about 20 of them entered at the same time. So this week, there will be ID checks on the door, which we’ve never had to do before, and my set is going to swing right back to the old school (tbh I’m sick of having to play Freed From Desire and Show Me Love every damn week). The best of them are welcome, but the worst of them can sod off to Spoons!
― mike t-diva, Friday, 9 December 2022 19:40 (one year ago) link
map, personally I’m all for talking about specific tracks on this thread; I find it interesting. Hearing you also on the effect of body language; after the warm-up, I rarely stand still and expressionless. It’s an act, but also it’s very much not an act.
― mike t-diva, Friday, 9 December 2022 19:57 (one year ago) link
cool mike, i also think it's interesting and want to hear others' thoughts on their favorites or notable "moments" etc.
good luck reigning in the little shits! lol
― ꙮ (map), Friday, 9 December 2022 21:32 (one year ago) link
Well, that was a bit more bloody like it! The little shits didn’t get past the notional velvet rope, and the people inside were massively up for it, in a way I’ve not had for a few weeks now. (I still had to play Freed From Desire though.)
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 10 December 2022 01:11 (one year ago) link
Oh, and I totally fucked up the One More Time/Insomnia transition that I’d been so proud of in rehearsal, but my fuck-up was kindly received, so hey.
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 10 December 2022 01:12 (one year ago) link
happy hour tonight was holiday-themed so i made a playlist of all Xmas/winter-y songs. tried to avoid the more obvious stuff you hear everywhere. the host told me that one of his guests thought i wasn’t playing enough holiday music. idk i’ll let you be the judge:Low - Little Drummer BoyNico - Frozen WarningsRyuichi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas Mr. LawrenceSaint Etienne - California Snow StoryClaire Hamill - Icicle RainSiouxsie & the Banshees - Il Est Né, Le Divin EnfantPaul Haig - Scottish Christmas Thick Pigeon - Jingle Bell RockSy Mann - Santa Claus Is Coming to TownTricia Marks - Christmas CalypsoLord Executor - Christmas Is a Joyful DayCelia Cruz - Jingle BellsRotary Connection - Christmas ChildAugust Darnell - Christmas on Riverside DriveBoney M - Mary’s Boy ChildUniversal Robot Band - Disco ChristmasDizzy Heights - Christmas Rappin’Hot & Sassy - Christmas StruttBilly Jackson - Have a Happy ChristmasElectric Jungle - Funky Funky ChristmasYoko Ono - Walking on Thin IceCristina - Things Fall ApartThe Cure - Let’s Go to BedMental as Anything - ApocalypsoCaptain Sensible - One Christmas CatalogueSally Shapiro - Anorak ChristmasSaint Etienne - I Was Born on Christmas DayLoleatta Brown - Christmas House (Dance With Mix)Sisterhood - The Rocking Disco Santa ClausFuture Shock - Santa Left Us Microchips for ChristmasCan - Silent NightThe Damned - There Ain’t No Sanity ClauseShonen Knife - Space ChristmasJan Terri - Rock n Roll SantaDarlene Love - Marshmallow WorldDean & Britta ft. Sonic Boom - He’s Coming HomeKate Bush - December Will Be Magic AgainCocteau Twins - Frosty the SnowmanBroadcast - Winter NowClaudine Longet - I Don’t Intend to Spend Christmas Without YouLaura Branigan - GloriaSandy Marton - Merry Merry Xmas and a Happy New YearWeather Girls - Dear Santa (Please Bring Me a Man for Xmas)Material with Nona Hendryx - It’s a HolidayPrince and the Revolution - Another Lonely ChristmasRufus Thomas - I’ll Be Your Santa BabyThe Bionic I - Disco ClausDavid Walker - Lucky ChristmasDolly Parton - Hard Candy ChristmasStevie Nicks - Silent NightYoko Ono - Listen, the Snow Is FallingGloria Lynne - On Christmas Day
― donna rouge, Friday, 16 December 2022 06:49 (one year ago) link
Super cool (winter pun intended.) I used to spin a happy hour like this where anything was fair game. Claudine Longet, Rufus Thomas, and The Damned in the same set is right up my alley.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Friday, 16 December 2022 13:58 (one year ago) link
i like that playlist, i think you are going to have to interpret that guest's comments as meaning "you're not playing enough music i recognize and i don't care enough to pay attention to what you are actually playing", which is the sad reality of much dj'ing in my experience
― the late great, Friday, 16 December 2022 16:39 (one year ago) link
yeah, i'm pretty sure that's what they meant too. i'm kinda used to that by now lol. i did have a large swathe of xmas classics on hand in case anyone requested anything, but nobody did. probably could've thrown a "christmas wrapping" or the like in there, i guess.
i'm usually not so genre-promiscuous but i feel like playing a set with a unifying theme allows me to do that in a way i maybe otherwise wouldn't think to do. it was fun to play more song-y than track-y too, not as much fussing over matching/cues.
― donna rouge, Friday, 16 December 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link
i'm kinda used to that by now lol.
yep.
that sounds like a fun project and glad you enjoyed it. as for me i'm greatly relieved i don't have to do anything christmas-y this year.
last night i got a request for the white lotus theme song lol. i haven't even seen the show.
feel like many songs or artists 'hit' because people, most of whom are younger than me, are consuming media i'm just oblivious to. i don't watch any tv, it's not a brag, i just don't, other than train ride videos on youtube to calm my anxiety. i can see how doing so could make me a better dj at my bar but it's just not gonna happen. as of now there's end-of-year list stuff i need to comb through.
― ꙮ (map), Friday, 16 December 2022 22:01 (one year ago) link
that's like every youtube of a 20th century pop song ... "LIKE if [streaming tv show / video game loading screen / viral advertisement] brought you here"
― the late great, Friday, 16 December 2022 23:34 (one year ago) link
happy hour tonight was holiday-themed so i made a playlist of all Xmas/winter-y songs. tried to avoid the more obvious stuff you hear everywhere.
Love this playlist! Some of my favourite Christmas tunes and some that I don't know and will have to check out.
Claudine Longet - I Don’t Intend to Spend Christmas Without You
Have you heard the version by Margo Guryan? It doesn't have quite the same swinging arrangement (and accent) but I love it a lot.
Sandy Marton - Merry Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year
Once in my extremely brief DJ career I did a Christmas set and played this - after about a minute a woman came up and screamed at me "This is shit!". Is it the only Italo Christmas record?
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Saturday, 17 December 2022 20:47 (one year ago) link
another christmas offering for ye:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mom7usa42rs
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Saturday, 17 December 2022 21:34 (one year ago) link
I only have two other Italo Christmas songs:David Walker - Lucky ChristmasKey Band - Christmas Time
And there's Sally Shapiro - Anorak Christmas
― Siegbran, Saturday, 17 December 2022 21:39 (one year ago) link
I'm just discovering this Spanish gem from 1986: The Christmas Rap
― Siegbran, Saturday, 17 December 2022 21:42 (one year ago) link
Italo but not Disco: Christmas Is Now Here
― Siegbran, Saturday, 17 December 2022 21:44 (one year ago) link
Yello did a version of Jingle Bells but it's super cheesy and possibly the worst thing they ever did?
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Saturday, 17 December 2022 21:45 (one year ago) link
Once in my extremely brief DJ career I did a Christmas set and played this - after about a minute a woman came up and screamed at me "This is shit!"
what a disgusting savage, never heard it before but that’s a great track!! thanks for sharing, hope you screamed back “YOU are shit!”
― the late great, Saturday, 17 December 2022 22:48 (one year ago) link
yeah margo's version of "i don't intend..." is tops, too.
i also played that david walker track, it's so good! one of my favorite discoveries while i was putting the set together.
the sandy marton track is hilarious and great - a xmas-themed rewrite of his biggest hit single that i'm not even sure he sings on?
― donna rouge, Sunday, 18 December 2022 01:29 (one year ago) link
I have been deeply immersed in a collection of ~3000 records that I got from a dead friend (technically the group of his friends that administer his estate gave them to me for indefinite storage), we will probably give most of them away in the future but it's been fascinating to alphabetize/organize them and realize they are basically a snapshot of 70s/80s DJ history. At the same time, I've been reading this (great) book of interviews, and the crossover % between records mentioned in the book and stuff that's in the collection is high
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/10763917-the-record-players
― sleeve, Sunday, 18 December 2022 02:46 (one year ago) link
e.g., call me a noob but I never realize that Cerrone totally rules
― sleeve, Sunday, 18 December 2022 02:47 (one year ago) link
also wild to see the crossover between the (recently bumped) italo poll and this collection, hey Fun Fun is fun!
― sleeve, Sunday, 18 December 2022 02:49 (one year ago) link
cerrone is fantastic
― ꙮ (map), Sunday, 18 December 2022 02:51 (one year ago) link
i played disco edits, funk rock and house music at a brewery tonight. as soon as i started playing house music there was a fight. mission accomplished!
― the late great, Sunday, 18 December 2022 07:13 (one year ago) link
yall for real i'm so sad that house DOES NOT translate in this whitetopia. the groove does not compute here. the kids only want sick drops and sugary synth rushes. i'm trying my best. it's only ever people from out of town who stumble into my bar that get it.
― ꙮ (map), Sunday, 18 December 2022 13:48 (one year ago) link
Always been like that, even in the heydays of house, the kids liked 2 Unlimited more than Frankie Knuckles.
― Siegbran, Sunday, 18 December 2022 23:25 (one year ago) link
dudes who started scrapping when i put on honey dijon record less into frankie knuckles more about bare knuckles iykwim
― the late great, Monday, 19 December 2022 01:11 (one year ago) link
so i was out in public doing normal human being things as i sometimes do, and this guy came up to me and was like HEY YOU WERE THE GUY THAT WAS DJ’ing AT SUCH AND SUCH LOCATION ON THIS DATE A COUPLE MONTHS AGO?!?
and i was like oh yeah bro, that was me! and he goes DID YOU LISTEN TO THAT BAND I TOLD YOU ABOUT?!?
― the late great, Thursday, 22 December 2022 23:42 (one year ago) link
in my mind the actual title of this thread is “On (the pathos of) Djing”
― the late great, Thursday, 22 December 2022 23:45 (one year ago) link
lmao
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 23 December 2022 01:25 (one year ago) link
DID YOU LISTEN TO THAT BAND I TOLD YOU ABOUT?!?
haha i had a dude come up to me mid set to tell me about a band
― ꙮ (map), Friday, 23 December 2022 01:34 (one year ago) link
it's so refreshing when someone knows how to talk to a dj. this guy last week came up and was like "i really love your playlist" and then "can you play some house?" (i was playing house) and then "my girlfriend thinks you're really hot and wants you to take your shirt off" (thanks but no thanks, it's fucking cold!)
― ꙮ (map), Friday, 23 December 2022 01:36 (one year ago) link
"playlist" argh
― sleeve, Friday, 23 December 2022 01:38 (one year ago) link
(aside from the rest)
"my girlfriend thinks you're really hot and wants you to take your shirt off"
i thought i had heard it all but that is next level.
― stirmonster, Friday, 23 December 2022 01:49 (one year ago) link