The Postmaster General
04-17-2005, 01:30 PM
Felix Da Housecat puts out some awesome records, but spinning live he will often drop the mix down to silence for periods of up to 2 minutes. Seriously, 2 minutes of people at 1am in the morning standing on the dancefloor. In his favor, he has excellent crowd control, but is that really the kind what you want? I've seen him twice do this and know of another unrelated incident.
While I think it's important to have decent taste in music, and know how to time sych the songs in order to get something new going, I think it's most important just to keep it going. If you are playing dance music, people should be dancing, but no matter what style it is, people shouldn't be like "Where's the music." Ah! It drives me nuts, because in all honesty, the show would have other wise been great - I like the individual cuts, really cool on-stage entourage, nice production by the venue, but there was downtime. I equated it to watching a live-band tune their instruments for 2 minutes. Come on... The other annoying part was that there only seemed to be a small band of us bothered by this while everyone else was staring at the DJ booth like fucking rats being dragged to the lake.
Enough about that. Is it just me? Should I be saying fuck you to this guy? Does anyone else have this standard, or any other type?
Please don't respond with a critique of DJing in general or some comments about how this isn't a form of music or what-not. I can see that coming. Well, if you want to go ahead, but I've already commented enough about that so you probably won't get a reply for me, but maybe some other schmoes could get an interaction going, but just letting you know that's not what the topic is about. Boing!
While I think it's important to have decent taste in music, and know how to time sych the songs in order to get something new going, I think it's most important just to keep it going. If you are playing dance music, people should be dancing, but no matter what style it is, people shouldn't be like "Where's the music." Ah! It drives me nuts, because in all honesty, the show would have other wise been great - I like the individual cuts, really cool on-stage entourage, nice production by the venue, but there was downtime. I equated it to watching a live-band tune their instruments for 2 minutes. Come on... The other annoying part was that there only seemed to be a small band of us bothered by this while everyone else was staring at the DJ booth like fucking rats being dragged to the lake.
Enough about that. Is it just me? Should I be saying fuck you to this guy? Does anyone else have this standard, or any other type?
Please don't respond with a critique of DJing in general or some comments about how this isn't a form of music or what-not. I can see that coming. Well, if you want to go ahead, but I've already commented enough about that so you probably won't get a reply for me, but maybe some other schmoes could get an interaction going, but just letting you know that's not what the topic is about. Boing!