I had a feeling my 'sleep house' would get me into trouble. ;)
I am just so frustrated that here in Australia house promoters want to book these new school house DJs who play so smooth you wanna bring a pillow and drink cocoa yet they don't wanna book great DJs from the US as they're not hip (well maybe West Coast). You just know that they were into Sasha, not Kevin Saunderson and Mayday, back in the day. They play great records (eg Classic) just very boringly. It's... nice. There's one particular don of sleep house from the UK but I don't wanna get in trouble. If you're getting that kinda response then you're not playing sleep house. Sleep house DJs don't mess with the EQs much or anything much like that, it's all about The Mix. It's not a performance, it's not innovative, it's just immaculately boring. I can't think of any 313 sleep housers. > From: "Jonny McIntosh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: (313) 100 BEST DJ IN THE WORLD (Mills) > Date: 05/11/2002 2:16:38 > To: "313 Detroit" <313@hyperreal.org> > > Personally, I like to get the dancers dancing and the 'spotters 'spotting: I > like having the whooping, screaming, yelling, jacking, climbing the walls > AND the googly eyed "what's he doing?!? What's that record?!" You don't have > to dance to recognise that it's a pretty similar achievement: everyone comes > away saying, damn he/she banged it out - *that's* what I'm after. > > As to how you do it, do it any way you want to. I used to do tricks far more > than I do now, I now never scratch beyond the odd second copy doubling up, > and I pretty much conform to Cyclone's "sleep house" school of DJing. I > certainly *wouldn't* say that the mix supercedes the records - quite the > opposite - and in any case, it's just something that I have observed works > better for the music I play. Some of the "sleep house" gang would say that > mixing it up in the Mills style is mix over content, but they'd be equally > wrong. It's horses for courses, and I suppose a good DJ will adapt > accordingly. In my case, it's certainly not lack of skill - I'm relying on > some charity here :) - nor is it some deeper than thou homage to the house > canon, it just works for me. Not to say there aren't style over content DJs, > but they're the *real* boring ones. > > All just IMHO.
