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GPO's "Discovered" DJ Comp: The Battle Lost!
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27-Nov-09, 10:40am
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GPO's "Discovered" DJ Comp: The Battle Lost!
Hey people unfortunately for myself i missed out on making the top two in my heat last friday night in the GPO discovered DJ competition!
But since i worked pretty hard on my mix I thought it would be a waste to not share it with people. It's a bit of a cheeky mix and all the tracks were carefully selected because of their lyrics which either was about 'being in a battle or 'being the best' The mix also crosses a bunch of genres hopefully in a way that makes sense to people, It's also more something you would watch and listen! Tracks used / sampled within the mix: Doug E Fresh & MC Ricky D - La Di Da Di (Acapella) Tears For Fears - Head Over Heels Cypress Hill - Insane In The Brain House Of Pain - Jump Around ACDC – TNT Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger Beastie Boys – Intergalactic Pharoahe Monch - Simon Says (Bombstrikes Remix) Pharoahe Monch - Simon Says (Acapella) David Bowie - Let's Dance George Kranz - Din Daa Da Bob Marley – Jammin Technotronic - Pump Up The Jam Technotronic - Pump Up The Jam (Acapella) Chase & Status - Eastern Jam DJ Assault - Tear The Club Up Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild Kanye West - Amazing (Instrumental) Scribe - Not Many (Acapella) Lil Wayne - A Milli (Acapella) KRS One - Step Into A World Missy Elliott – Get Ur Freak On (Acapella) This is the live recording from the the GPO discovered DJ competition Friday 20th November! http://soundcloud.com/djvanmiert/van...min-battle-mix Enjoy!  http://www.myspace.com/djvanmiert Last edited by vanmiert : 27-Nov-09 at 11:34am. |
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27-Nov-09, 11:00am
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I cant say i enjoyed your set man, and im pretty open minded...
I have never heard a set of so many different songs put together and i commend you for that... but yea... Im just being honest...
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27-Nov-09, 11:05am
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Yeow! don't stress brother it's rigged anyway
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27-Nov-09, 11:41am
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Sillalobo
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did ya mix it with ableton?
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27-Nov-09, 11:49am
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Originally Posted by WADZA
did ya mix it with ableton?
nah mate have a listen.. it was mixed on a pair of technic 1210 and djm800 using serato, a lot of the tracks had been re-edit (shortening tracks, taking acapella snippets etc..) using ableton |
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27-Nov-09, 11:51am
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Sillalobo
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too easy - i'll get on the d/l when i get home.
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27-Nov-09, 12:15pm
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Very bad man
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interesting t/l
its refreshing to see some honesty from slackas too  i would listen and judge for myself but my downloads have run out for the month |
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27-Nov-09, 01:13pm
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Mr HardHouse
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To be honest mate, there are a shit load of tunes on there that i like, but there was something about the mix that didn't grab me.
Some of the mixing was pretty bland and i'm sure you could have made some of the songs even shorter, as a few seemed to drag on for too long. |
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27-Nov-09, 01:29pm
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i'm keen to have a listen when i get home, as the tracklisting is very interesting!
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27-Nov-09, 01:42pm
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good to see some real constructive criticism being given back!
tidy mix mate and a pretty gutsy effort for throwing something like this down in that comp.........shame you didnt get through! |
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27-Nov-09, 09:02pm
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even if you cut that shit up like qbert, the track listing is still way too predictable and overplayed
all thats missing is lets talk about sex :p it might work at mystique or in a city club but i cant see it really working for gpo
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28-Nov-09, 01:20am
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I not going to listen, but definitely try and keep these two tracks apart;
Cypress Hill - Insane In The Brain House Of Pain - Jump Around I love both the tracks, but it's almost too obvious a choice to mix the two, especially for a competition mix |
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28-Nov-09, 11:23am
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Originally Posted by vanmiert
, It's also more something you would watch and listen!
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28-Nov-09, 01:34pm
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Angus van Beeran
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Originally Posted by slackas
I cant say i enjoyed your set man, and im pretty open minded...
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28-Nov-09, 01:41pm
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I'm listening now and I must say I agree... The Insane in the Brian/Jump Around/AC DC thing didn't really work either...
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28-Nov-09, 02:00pm
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28-Nov-09, 03:11pm
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Insane in the Brian?
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28-Nov-09, 05:53pm
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Hey thanks to the people who took the time out to listen to the mix… and to those that haven’t yet don’t be put off by the fact that some people on here didn’t enjoy it / don’t understand it...
For this mix I decided I wanted to make sure I would put out something completely different to what everyone else was doing, I could have easily selected my current favorite house tracks and mixed them smoothly for 20 minutes but I thought that wouldn’t really be anything different to what everyone else would be doing… So I decided to theme my mix as a ‘battle’ and try to create a story within the mix… and the story is told through each song and the lyrics within the song... Hopefully that makes sense I can’t be bothered going through each song and explaining how they link hopefully you’ll be able to pick it out yourself… Also what I meant by ‘it’s also more something you would watch and listen’ is that in these 20 minutes I wasn’t trying to play tracks that people would dance and party to, I was trying to tell a story within these 20 minutes and I wanted people standing there watching me mix and listening to the songs trying to figure out what this is all about, and how do these songs link… maybe that sounds crazy but yeah that’s just what I felt like doing... |
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29-Nov-09, 10:33am
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just had a listen. i understand what u were trying to do, and mass props for going out on a limb, but it didnt work imo.
especially the first half was just a bunch of old commercial tracks with some scratching in between. i think instead of focusing on the lyrics, u should rather be focusing on what the song 'says', so to speak.. the vibe. all your mix said to me was 'i listen to too much 4K-wikkity-Q' |
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29-Nov-09, 08:44pm
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I understand wat u were doing and massive props for doing it...
it is refreshing to see u do that in such a major comp (massive risk) and also to see the honest opinions... I'm streaming it now - not my flavor but don't hate it... |
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01-Dec-09, 10:55am
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Originally Posted by vanmiert
For this mix I decided I wanted to make sure I would put out something completely different to what everyone else was doing,
But isn't this exactly what the Yacht Club djs do? I heard a set of theirs on JJJ on a Friday afternoon and it was pretty much the worst dj set I've ever heard. I think a problem some people will have with this set is that, irrespective of editing and mixing, all of these tracks are frightfully over-played. Presumably pretty much everyone on here listens to a lot of music and is only really going to dig a set if it features a majority of tracks they haven't heard before. In short, I understand what you may have been trying to do, but you've got to dig a LOT deeper. |
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01-Dec-09, 11:12am
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^^^ Unless you are very very good at what you do, the masses generally don't dance to stuff that's buried too deep.
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01-Dec-09, 11:24am
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^^^ Unless you are very very good at what you do, the masses generally don't dance to stuff that's buried too deep.
I dont think he is talking underground, but in the scope of what he is trying to do there is much better songs that could have been used... I mean eye of the tiger... is so overplayed in movies/ads/radio/sports carnivals....
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01-Dec-09, 11:43am
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01-Dec-09, 01:24pm
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Manny Pacquiao's entrance song......GO MANNY!!
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01-Dec-09, 02:04pm
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Originally Posted by RudeTed
^^^ Unless you are very very good at what you do, the masses generally don't dance to stuff that's buried too deep.
You're right, and given how crowded the scene is with people with DJing aspirations, as punters we can afford to be fussy and expect to hear only the very very best in the clubs we frequent! There's plenty of local jocks who can get me dancing to stuff I've never heard before, and the ones that rely on familiarity alone to get a floor moving simply aren't all that good at what they do. |
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