Who should be added to the Hall of Fame at the SA Dance Music Awards?

[PaulHamon]

At this years dance music awards... who do you think should be added?

[a_618allstarr]

Does it really matter anymore? Or have they shaped up?

[Beekayz]

I know that Brendon was added last year.
Who else is already a member?

[PaulHamon]

HMC
John Pike

Josh?
Tim?

[Charlie17]

Come on Beekayz, thought you had your finger on the pulse *wink*
Tim and Josh ARE in the SA Hall of fame (confirming the question marks).
I don't know...
What's Hall of fame based on??
Achievements or popularity??
Can a venue be given Hall of fame status??
Radio Station??
Or is it just people??

[PaulHamon]

Current List:

Brendon
HMC
John Pike
Josh
Tim

I know there is one more? From the first year? ULTRA old school...

I know HMC, Tim and Josh were put in because they kept winning in there respective catagory for several years... not allowing any others a chance...

I think currently it's reserve for people...

[a_618allstarr]

but why did Josh keep winning it?

She's been around, but still waiting..

Thoughts for others to be inducted...

Damien "Dames" Donato
Georgie Knight

A venue could not receive

[a_618allstarr]

oops.. A venue could not recieve a Hall of Fame reward.

Also... others maybe.... Madcap and Gu$.

Doing a lot for a long time.

I just found out Madcap is engaged to my girlfriend's flatmates girlfriends best friend.

Got that. :P

[Charlie17]

Ok so now that the venue issue is cleared up... and congrats to madcap...

what's it based on??

Achievement, popularity or both??

[a_618allstarr]

Both I say.

There are plenty of DJs who are popular but haven't done anything for the scene. It's the ones who put back in and are truly dedicated to the industry. As without those types of peoples, you wouldn't have a scene.

That's why I've mentioned such people as Dames, Derek, Angus and Georgie.

Dames as label manager for Juice Records, and working his ass off to get Australia noticed as a techno producing country, and through that helping Cam, Paddee, Theo, Bold, DCE etc.. realising their dreams of releasing wax.

Derek for his devout stand for the Adelaide hip-hop nation. Enough said.

Angu$, from hip-hop to house to hardcore, been around a year and a day, and I'm sure there's a lot of the current new blood in Adelaide who wouldn't have been interested in the music but saw him doing his thing at a Heaven Thursday and helped them to crossover.

Georgie, for providing the only radio conduit for electronic music in the early 90s and continiuing it on. For giving new artists the ability to air their music. For giving DJs air time to educate the listeners. For being the only channel (apart from The Core and flyers in Central Station) that people could find out about dance parties an the like and for her true love and patronage of the music, pushing out the sounds of Detroit and Chicago house and techno.

[amilne]

Yes, Madcap is engaged to the lovely Joanna :)

It would be a timely year for him to be added to Adelaide's famous hall for all the work he has done for our hip-hop scene over the last 10 years. believe he has now lost his enthusiasm for playing live, nice way to bow out & move on in holy matrimony

[PaulHamon]

Angu$ would be a good call... but he has boycotted the event since the beginning.. I think??

Dames is a good call...

[Mr S]

Yeah I agree with the recent suggetsions of who should win this year
The award should be exactly that.. someone who has made a mark on shaping the Adelaide dance scene, not just someone who plays other peoples music.

[Michaela]

I agree MrS. It should be someone who has made a difference to the dance community and/or industry.

Perhaps Paul Hodder would be a good choice.

[PaulHamon]

The fellow that walks down the mall with the boot and tights :)

[Mr S]

That would be Johnny!

Local legend and huge cult figure around the globe
There is even a website dedicated to him

[PaulHamon]

Good friend of yours?

[marcus]

Odyssey?

[PaulHamon]

I think I've seen oddy in the mall with tights and sexy boots...

[thane]

how about John Chalmers?

Or Tony Caraccia?

Why cant Onion magazine be put in the hall of fame, its Adelaide's nite life bible and deserves more credit that it gets.

Whats the Jonny web address?

[MrToastE]

http://www.csnz.com/hammer/
for naked pics of oddy....

[PaulHamon]

I think Tony would be a good candidate, but considering he runs the show.. I don't think it will happen!

[a_618allstarr]

Paul.. you can't be serious.

If Odyssey was to be voted... then what about those who were doing the same thing as he does just at the beginning of the 90s like MPK.

Not quite enough IMHO.

[thane]

but the fact that he runs the show is just another reason why he should

[PaulHamon]

I'm serious about Tony... he has been active in the scene for the past 15 years... has done a great deal for it...

I can think of only one reason what he should not... and we all know hwat that is...

[phuqmeimfamous]

There's a few more I can say (they aren't related to the one already mentioned), but they are still very bad). I think I know where a_618 is coming from.

[thane]

without Tony, this scene would have fallen apart years ago. The amount of effort he has put into dance music here in Adelaide should not go un noticed. So we all have bad luck from time to time, big deal, why should a few mistermena's out way the good?

[a_618allstarr]

God if you only knew the half of it.

We're not talking about misdemeanours.

He helped alot, but he was one part of the wheel. There were a lot of people who were involved and to say 'without Tony' is ridiculous.

[PaulHamon]

I think the Reelax might get moved into the Hall of Fame considering he has won the past 2 years!

Got to give the less 'good looking' DJs a go :)

[oddy]

i think MPK or Noddy deserve it .. especially if Tim and Josh can win it ..

[Royal]

But just because you have won it for the past 2 years doesn't mean you get to go to the hall of fame. What was he doing 5 years ago? Pffft.

It's a sham now anyway... I don't hold much value in it.

[PaulHamon]

I'd like to see an actual national awards? would be good!

[oddy]

there's already a national dance music awards .. run by sydneysiders

[PaulHamon]

Hardy national :) DMA pertends to be national.. i don't think it REALY is..

[Royal]

Didn't Onion run voting slips in its magazine.

The problem is that Sydney will always win through because of population.

If they came up with a fair way of doing it would be fine.

Perhaps, the votes for each nomination get divided by the population of a city.

Maybe not, but Sydney has a population somewhere around the 4 million mark, Adelaide at over 1 million; of course they are going to have a higher number of votes per category.

[PaulHamon]

I think the votes should be waited per head.... I would say take the top 3 DJs for each state and weight the votes eg: per head on populaiton in each city.

[PaulHamon]

Weighted: (this is how much each vote from respective city could be worth based on population)

Sydney 1.0
Melbourne 1.2
Brisbane 2.6
Perth 3.0
Adelaide 3.5
Hobart 19.2
Canberra 12.4

[a_sixunhuit]

Now how do we apply the figures.

Does a vote from SA get have a multiplier of 3.5. Or do DJs from Adelaide get their tally multiplied by 3.5.

I would say the former, as it's quite possibly for someone in Adelaide to vote for say Kazu Kimura as their fave Australian DJ.

We would need to run a test case, perhaps gathering all the data from the top 20 dj competition from last year and running this method of distributing votes fairly across it.

Would have some interesting results.

[PaulHamon]

Yep... number 1 :)

[CandleStickMakr]

well here's a few

Big E or Ian (old Dj hes a Veteran and is still prolly working at some off beat record store)
Paul Hodder for sticking his head money and neck on the line to bring you all some parties to go to when no one else would.
GT dont forget the ones that made ya big brothers and sisters dance
Matt Pearce for bringing the genere PunkBboyDJ to you all, member the mohawk

thats a few good or bad nuff said

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[Beekayz]

If it's the Ian I think you mean he is now working in the basement (secondhand section) of Big Star Rundle St.
He as doing Pop at Stix a while back.
But more recently set up shop at Jimmy Rowes (used to be called Heritage) with night called Stereo (also pop music) but I don't think that did too well & died after a month or two.

[CandleStickMakr]

Think so just think BIG + add lots of photo's of BigE with Celebs and that would be him...

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[a_sixunhuit]

What's Matt Pearce up to these days?

[drwahwah]

Matt Pearce paly Garage Saturady's and I think wed or Thursayday at Moskavar

[PaulHamon]

Matt Pearce... go, core magazine, go!

[a_sixunhuit]

Speaking of Core - ACb and Stilgherrian. I did see Stil had a website up for a while, but it is frozen - http://contour.prussia.net/archiv/ps002/home.html

Was it the little pink bear, and the cartoon Le Rex..

[PaulHamon]

Acb was O/S last I heard? Would like to catch with both of them!!

[davecode]

How about Pauly Fairburn......first DJ I ever saw pull the needle of the wrong record and not realise for a minute or so because they were so mashed!!

Go the disco biscuit shop at the LeRox DJ box.

[a_sixunhuit]

Fairburn.... ahhh dear. :)

[Mr S]

Paul Fairburn deserves nothing but his head beaten after ripping my studio off and fleeing the country with many people after him. He is nothing but a scammer to many people now (even though he was a major part of the early 90's Adelaide scene).
Actually, if everyone did all vote for him, it would be interesting to see if he came back to get the award... I DON'T THINK SO!

[PaulHamon]

I thought that Fairburn was at the bottom of a river??

[davecode]

I've heard several stories including the Thames one. Does anyone know what actually happened to him??

[PaulHamon]

I'm happy believing the river story..
Sounds good to me!

[Mr S]

Who cares??... If anything did happened to him, he probably deserved it anyway after what he did here

[a_sixunhuit]

Wouldn't be suprising though. We're all curious cats though...

[PaulHamon]

Has anyone suggest Groove Terminator?
He one of Adelaide's biggest Dance exports...

What do you think?

[TECHiONE]

how about that DAMC guy?

:P

[Michaela]

I heard he stopped making music LOL!!!

:p :lol:

[PaulHamon]

Originally posted by TECHiONE
how about that DAMC guy?

:P

I just think he changed his name to avoid the tax department :-D

[Michaela]

Has anyone heard when the awards are??

[MrToastE]

no date is set, but they'll be in the week after the Queens birthday weekend...on the monday tuesday or wednesday....

[PaulHamon]

Originally posted by MrToastE
no date is set, but they'll be in the week after the Queens birthday weekend...on the monday tuesday or wednesday....

I think it is the monday night...
gezzz... might be some seedy poeple there...

:/

[oddy]

I think it is the monday night...
gezzz... might be some seedy poeple there...

last years was the Monday after the May long weekend .. I really didnt think anyone in my household (yes im looking at you mr.s) would make it there .. but we did .. and fuck we looked seedy .. making speeches was shockingly hard i tell ya !!

[PaulHamon]

Originally posted by oddy


last years was the Monday after the May long weekend .. I really didnt think anyone in my household (yes im looking at you mr.s) would make it there .. but we did .. and fuck we looked seedy .. making speeches was shockingly hard i tell ya !!

You wonder why they would choose a long weekend? considering just about everyone has to work in one way or another the day before??

I'm hoping to make it this year!!

[Miffy Psychosis]

Originally posted by TECHiONE
how about that DAMC guy?


Didn't he sell out and go commercial? XD

Seriously though, I did think of you or MPK. Hell, seems like MPK has consistently been a big part of the adelaide scene since forever. He will have to get it sometime, why not this time? :)

[davecode]

Well not sure if has already been made part of the hall of fame or not, but GT should be in there. Not a big fan of what he's doing now, but watching him in the 1990 DMC kind of inspired me to be a DJ. Brendon should be in there also and Paul Hodder!!!
Another person who has done alot is Madcap! He did alot for hip hop in SA and deserves the props for that! It is about time people involved in things other than house and more commerical dance music got respect in these awards. Repertoire was the longest runnng hip hop night in Australia at the time, but never got nominated for anything?
:?

[PaulHamon]

I think it is time that I put myself forward!!




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