Sophistik
07-16-2003, 11:47 AM
How many of you out there are freestyle DJ's, or mingle styles out of your base genre(s) to an extreme?
I have this problem where I don't wanna drop bombs, I wanna drop nukes, ownin shit left and right. Unfortunatly in a 1 to 1 1/2 hour period this really can't be done every time.
Well, I have the tendancy to leave a show wishing I had done more. Not necessarily because I didn't do enough, but because I just couldn't possibly represent what I wanted to do within that time frame.
I tend to mix on the fly, but build a sort of flow-chart of how I want things to go. I guess what I'm saying is when you want to do 1 million things in one night, drop your fave's, act like a crazed mad man/woman, and do your best: Do any of you find yourselves looking at 500 different ways of doing it and having trouble on the best route?
I tend to run in circles and to always want to do the best I can, and sometimes it's difficult for me to destress, knowing if I go one route, I can't go antother. For instance say I'm planing on opening up with a turntablism clinic, move to nuskool breaks, then into the crunchiest electro I can find. But at the same time I really wanna go at it from a different angle and drop maybe the funkiest house, and garage, then move on to breaks. Or perhaps I want to play trance, and breaks, and move to nuskool. Just some examples. And I tend to let my mind run in circles deciding on how I want to take it before it even happens and I sorta just go mad, knowing there's so many possiblilities and wanting and being able to do them all, but knowing I can only do so much within one night.
Do I just say lets pick one and shut the fuck up and run with it?
I guess I'm looking for a mental exercise on what to do, and how to overcome this barrier. It's like looking at 3 dope ass cars on a dealers lot and not being able to decide on what to do. Any ideas for this confused SOB? :confused: I always go one in the end, but this stalling makes me counter productive and I tend to just sit and think about it too much rather than go and just do it.
Aside from the point but yet another factor that contributes to this is that us as DJ's at least some of us have completely different prespectives on our OWN stuff merely because it's ours, never being able to see it from an outside angle. I'll never be able to hear my own material as someone on the dancefloor wouldelse would.. It's kinda like how you go buy a cd and your favorite song on it sounds different to you now that you've heard it 300 times, only it's the same song... hmm...
I have this problem where I don't wanna drop bombs, I wanna drop nukes, ownin shit left and right. Unfortunatly in a 1 to 1 1/2 hour period this really can't be done every time.
Well, I have the tendancy to leave a show wishing I had done more. Not necessarily because I didn't do enough, but because I just couldn't possibly represent what I wanted to do within that time frame.
I tend to mix on the fly, but build a sort of flow-chart of how I want things to go. I guess what I'm saying is when you want to do 1 million things in one night, drop your fave's, act like a crazed mad man/woman, and do your best: Do any of you find yourselves looking at 500 different ways of doing it and having trouble on the best route?
I tend to run in circles and to always want to do the best I can, and sometimes it's difficult for me to destress, knowing if I go one route, I can't go antother. For instance say I'm planing on opening up with a turntablism clinic, move to nuskool breaks, then into the crunchiest electro I can find. But at the same time I really wanna go at it from a different angle and drop maybe the funkiest house, and garage, then move on to breaks. Or perhaps I want to play trance, and breaks, and move to nuskool. Just some examples. And I tend to let my mind run in circles deciding on how I want to take it before it even happens and I sorta just go mad, knowing there's so many possiblilities and wanting and being able to do them all, but knowing I can only do so much within one night.
Do I just say lets pick one and shut the fuck up and run with it?
I guess I'm looking for a mental exercise on what to do, and how to overcome this barrier. It's like looking at 3 dope ass cars on a dealers lot and not being able to decide on what to do. Any ideas for this confused SOB? :confused: I always go one in the end, but this stalling makes me counter productive and I tend to just sit and think about it too much rather than go and just do it.
Aside from the point but yet another factor that contributes to this is that us as DJ's at least some of us have completely different prespectives on our OWN stuff merely because it's ours, never being able to see it from an outside angle. I'll never be able to hear my own material as someone on the dancefloor wouldelse would.. It's kinda like how you go buy a cd and your favorite song on it sounds different to you now that you've heard it 300 times, only it's the same song... hmm...