I agree, it's pretty hard to find real deep house in Sydney. It may pop up once in a while at a one off party or on the radio, but mostly it's pretty weak off-shoots.
After spending the weekend down in Melbourne, it's definately a great place to hear deep house... and I gotta say Angela Maison really throws it down @ Honkey Tonks on Saturday nights. Man, she was playing some great tracks. One of Melbourne's best dj's! Peace, Patrick. -----Original Message----- From: James Bucknell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 4:00 AM To: Cyclone Wehner; 313 Detroit Subject: Re: (313) deep house (was 100 BEST DJ IN THE WORLD (Mills) i'm a deep house (among other genres) dj who moved (back) to sydney after 10 years in new york. i can't get a booking playing deep house here. i get booked to play techno and electro. the stuff that people in sydney call deep house has nothing to do with the stuff i play. i go to nights billed as deep house here and they're playing progressive. laylo and bushwacka are't deep house, and nor are peace division. i hope someone can prove me wrong and tell me where they're playing real house in sydney, i realy really want to go dancing. maybe melbounre is better (i did get booked to play a house set in melbourne at a club called honkytonks, but my records box never showed up). james > From: "Cyclone Wehner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 03:20:59 +1100 > To: 313 Detroit <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: (313) 100 BEST DJ IN THE WORLD (Mills) > > 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" <[email protected]> >> >> 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. >
