On 2/6/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eh? That sounds like just about any type of good djing regardless of the > genre.
i suppose it does, but i have to say that the people associated with the "beatdown" style are all amongst the best deejays ive ever seen: delano smith, mike clark, norm talley, mike huckaby, malik pittman, theo parrish, and rick wilhite (kenny is a good deejay, but not like those other guys...). honestly, there should be a word for what it is that they do that almost no other deejay ive ever see does. > It's pretty vague but then so is the sound these guys are playing > one a sound is defined and corralled I think you're on the road to ruin well theyre safe then, because i think of the whole thing as a style or approach in dealing with deejaying and production. ive watched those guys play everything from dancehall reggae to acid to techno to disco to italo to hiphop to jazz to funk to soul etc. what theyre doing on the surface may not seem different from what other deejays do, but theres something in the energy those guys have that is completely original and makes their sets stand out. i also have something to say about the comment someone else made earlier about beatdown not being "floor friendly". those deejays and their tunes are far and away the MOST floor friendly that ive ever experienced. nearly every one of the best deejay performances ive seen have been by those guys i listed. and in my own sets, their tunes are always amongst the most well received. its funny, people hear something on a record thats "slow" or "chilled" sounding to them, but theyre not able to extrapolate how those kinds of records work in a deejay set. ive seen complete pandamonium erupt a countless number of times to those "slow" records. IMO there's more room for energy in the slower music..... tom
