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DJ LiveSet Xmas Charity/Birthday Bash Event 2016
Senseless Rapture LiveSet 11th DEC ‘16
It was a pleasure to be invited to DJ a set at a private venue, I was given a fairly free choice of tracks to play, given only a few criteria, it was a result from several conversations over time with the friend whose event it was. The set theme had to be old skool blending into some recent current house tracks. Over the last few weeks as I prepared for this set I had been literally living a past back to the early days of the House Genres and concluded that the scene of 88-89 was a fitting set start rather than the earlier Freestyle/Electro style of the early Eighties, even though your notice a track or...DJ LiveSet Xmas Charity/Birthday Bash Event 2016
Senseless Rapture LiveSet 11th DEC ‘16
It was a pleasure to be invited to DJ a set at a private venue, I was given a fairly free choice of tracks to play, given only a few criteria, it was a result from several conversations over time with the friend whose event it was. The set theme had to be old skool blending into some recent current house tracks. Over the last few weeks as I prepared for this set I had been literally living a past back to the early days of the House Genres and concluded that the scene of 88-89 was a fitting set start rather than the earlier Freestyle/Electro style of the early Eighties, even though your notice a track or two that probably originated from back then.
So pivoting around the acid and rave era I love and enjoy, my problem was how to keep it from going cheesy, as I don't do cheese of any sort!
I needed to also add a perspective to it to keep the set on key. So basing it on the house tracks from '88, Jack and Piano house, evolving into acid house and then rave. Iconic tunes of that time that already haunt me, as one of my favourite tracks is from ’88. Developing a route to modern house without doing a complete anthropology of house genres that was created and diversified from that era was going to be hard, so I decided on a hard and fast leap.
The result is what was DJ-ed, recorded and uploaded for your listening pleasure and reminisce, for the love of House!!!
During my track selection and practice preparation, it reminded me of the past how hard it was to mix on the 1,2's with vinyl due to pretty much the inconsistencies confined to that media, it has been a long while indeed for mixing this genres. But with the modern abilities of both pre-processing on the PC and the excellence of Pioneer XDJ-RXs, I was able to experiment and achieve mixing that would be very difficult for even the apt top Vinyl DJ. It was made a challenge by the inclusion of certain tracks, which many are NOT DJ friendly by being far too busy at the beginning or the end. Using sampling and reproducing parts of the song I was able to get round a few, the rest was down to a bit of magic, experimenting and a few learned tricks. Add this to changing the genres slightly in a progression and it made it a very enjoyable set, many of my fears for using old skool tracks have been for the moment eased. I do fully understand now why many pub/bar and private venue DJ's simply don’t mix tracks, wedding DJ's are a typical example of this as the broad spectrum of genres and difficult tracks would need an exceptional skill. Then again many are just plain lazy unskilled and don’t prepare.
I have this time decided to put the track list together with notes both why I chose the track and its importance as well as the technics used to deal with mixing issues, a short insight into why DJing for me is a passion!
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