In todays saturdated bar and club market, alot of venues play it very safe and play the same generic music. Im not sure as if they feel that music is not an integral part to the clientel of their establishment or if that hiring a DJ to play the most popular tracks around is what people want?
When I was 18, I held a UK Garage event in my local 'dive'. The place was called The Glen, its still there as a late drinking but under the name Funky Browns. 11 years ago UK Garage was tiny, the only events around the local area were in function rooms of football clubs. The legendary parites of Edgware and Kingsbury town. Local DJs made a name for themselves playing the best in UK Garage at the time. This music was filtered round through cassettes of larger events and the pirate radio network. But each DJ in these events had his own sound. The scene, still in its infancy, still allowed the DJ to select sounds and tracks that he wanted to play for the crowd. DJs developed their own followings depending on the tracks they played and this was all decided off the back off 1 or 2 hour sets in small venues and sometimes bedroom cassettes floating around.
Today, music is rife. There is actually so much music out there that it is frightning. What seems to be missing from all this new music is the open minds of the audiences. People have come acustom to going out and hearing a certain genre of music. Or even more disturbing, knowing their favourite track will be played by the DJ on the night.
Audiences really need to open up and allow the DJ to once again shepard them through all the junk and lead them to the gems of music. Once venues and punters start to realise this, music will not just be a human playing the best of MTV Base on a couple of CDJs at the bar
When I was 18, I held a UK Garage event in my local 'dive'. The place was called The Glen, its still there as a late drinking but under the name Funky Browns. 11 years ago UK Garage was tiny, the only events around the local area were in function rooms of football clubs. The legendary parites of Edgware and Kingsbury town. Local DJs made a name for themselves playing the best in UK Garage at the time. This music was filtered round through cassettes of larger events and the pirate radio network. But each DJ in these events had his own sound. The scene, still in its infancy, still allowed the DJ to select sounds and tracks that he wanted to play for the crowd. DJs developed their own followings depending on the tracks they played and this was all decided off the back off 1 or 2 hour sets in small venues and sometimes bedroom cassettes floating around.
Today, music is rife. There is actually so much music out there that it is frightning. What seems to be missing from all this new music is the open minds of the audiences. People have come acustom to going out and hearing a certain genre of music. Or even more disturbing, knowing their favourite track will be played by the DJ on the night.
Audiences really need to open up and allow the DJ to once again shepard them through all the junk and lead them to the gems of music. Once venues and punters start to realise this, music will not just be a human playing the best of MTV Base on a couple of CDJs at the bar
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