...at a club that played all eighties music, which 3 NO songs would you play in one night? (It could even be off the WFTSC album)
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i done a bit of dj ing at Shugzv's 30th birthday'i played Temptation BLT Round & Round my top three NO Track's ..
Considering I only have to take the 'at a club that played only 80's music bit' into consideration (I occasionally DJ, usually really bad times in shitey suburban 'clubs')....
Shellshock (from Substance) Vanishing Point
And Round and Round, album version, as the session closer.
MYOB wrote: Considering I only have to take the 'at a club that played only 80's music bit' into consideration (I occasionally DJ, usually really bad times in shitey suburban 'clubs')....
Shellshock (from Substance) Vanishing Point
And Round and Round, album version, as the session closer.
I just meant in general terms but since you're a DJ I can understand your sentiments and the whole "playing to the crowd" idea which will widely vary from states to countries, I suspect.
ceromony b.l.t dracula's castle(this might be a now moment thing) where's is this club going to be anyway? in lancashire i hope by the way is there any chat site where new order talk can be enjoyed late at night?
If I were I DJ I'd shoot my leechin, untalented, muso robbin,glory thievin self for the good of the human race. thank you and good night.
Steve Campbell wrote: If I were I DJ I'd shoot my leechin, untalented, muso robbin,glory thievin self for the good of the human race. thank you and good night.
Remind me to stay on the other side of the province (used in a non-political sense) next time I go home to Donegal, okay 
LOL, yes you;ve unearthed one of the few true prejudices I hold. I've produced too many tracks for DJ's I think. Coupled with the obvious fact that a well know DJ can make several thousand pounds from a record that the band got 50p for, they spent years learning to play, and weeks writing and recording that tune, and he lifts a tone arm onto it. There is no justice I tell ya, no justice.
Steve Campbell wrote: LOL, yes you;ve unearthed one of the few true prejudices I hold. I've produced too many tracks for DJ's I think. Coupled with the obvious fact that a well know DJ can make several thousand pounds from a record that the band got 50p for, they spent years learning to play, and weeks writing and recording that tune, and he lifts a tone arm onto it. There is no justice I tell ya, no justice.
Its even better making a hundred pounds for a night knowing that in total, about 50p will go to the artists for the entire night.
Tonearm? Bah. Its even easier than that thesedays. I DJ off a Thinkpad....
EDIT: The irony starts to pile on when yer standard nightclub DJ, being paid to play other peoples work, plays something that a vaguely more creative performance DJ has mangled out of someone elses work, which in some cases was nicked in the first place.
This gives me a guilty pleasure when I play Maniac 2000, knowing that Michael Sembello probably saw a few pence from that song being Irish number one for an entire summer...
yeah I probably should have said there are some DJ's who can actually create, The Orb, Coldcut, Shadow, to name just those I like:) Mr 2grand an hour to make track a go the same speed as track b is a different creature entirely.
DJ'ing off of a thinker is good, but I'll tell you what, If I see one more fooker billed as "live electronic" and see that it's just one guy standing smugly behind a lapper, I may lose my mind.
It's ALMOST enough to bring the slightlynarrow out of hiding for a hit and run "teach the kiddies that to make a big noise you gotta get more machines, and get mental wit em" gig. To me a live electronic rig has look like Gillans old rig or Orbital's ( OR at a push, feature a couple of hideously large steam powered modulars). Two gits, a DAT and a lapper could be playing a tape and browsing porn for all I know.
Sammy wrote: ...at a club that played all eighties music, which 3 NO songs would you play in one night? (It could even be off the WFTSC album)
This is another hidden favourite tracks question... Well as DJ I had to play what the audience would like to hear... Hmmm...
I fear I had to play "Blue Monday 83" (even though I don't like it), "True Faith" and the "Sub-Culture" 12" (as on "Substance") I refuse to play newer tracks in an 80s only club ;) )
Bere wrote:
Sammy wrote: ...at a club that played all eighties music, which 3 NO songs would you play in one night? (It could even be off the WFTSC album)
This is another hidden favourite tracks question... Well as DJ I had to play what the audience would like to hear... Hmmm...
I fear I had to play "Blue Monday 83" (even though I don't like it), "True Faith" and the "Sub-Culture" 12" (as on "Substance") I refuse to play newer tracks in an 80s only club ;) )
Now, you can occasionally get away with a weird track that you like but the crowd doesn't at certain occasions
On NYE 2004 I got away with two versions of Here To Stay - the Felix Da Housecat remix earlier in the night, and then the Extended Instrumental directly after midnight
However, when someone gets you to play 80's music, you play 80's music... nothing else. And thats why I divide my HDD by year....
I did play Crystal (Digweed & Muir), Out of control (original) and Here to stay (Felix da Housecat extended) during my DJ period.
*hides from Steve*
True Faith 
Temptation
Blue [effin'] Monday '83 
Self praise is no praise at all [or something like that] but I've just figured out the smilies 
I'd pick three tracks you can actually DANCE to!
Blue Monday Confusion Pump Panel Er, and then I'm struggling for a third: perhaps one of the recent mixes of Crytal or Here To Stay.
If someone can show me how they dance to the likes of Temptation and Ceremony without the elbows and knees going up then I'll take me hat off to them. You don't 'dance' to such songs as a rule.
Anyways, WTF is 80's music?! Isn't that, like, 2-tone or Acid House?! 
vanishing point egg ceremony
Mrs garymac reliably informs me that both me and ourkid will do the same ' dance ' to all three , I asked if this was a fine example of grace / economy of movement , she elaborated further that whilst economy of movement is a factor , the movement on display is generaly an affront to both good taste and Newton's law .
After 20 years,we have yet to have our first dance as a couple :(
It totally depends on the mood and crowd but....
Morel's Krafty Mix Heller/Farley's Regret Mix (Fire Island) Temptation
I'll go with the most obvious choices:
-Bizarre Love Triangle (Shep Pettibone's Mix) -Blue Monday '83 -True Faith '87
i would love to mash the lenny gray mix of "don't do it" with the chemical brothers "galvanise". but keeping it strictly 80's -
Sub-culture (Sarm West mix) is this mix also known by another name?
EGG
Round & round (Detroit mix)
