Big shouts to everyone who came to see me at Bloc Weekend. It was good fun as always to play there and great to meet the UR & Model 500 guys, sneak into Salt N Pepa's dressing room, dance hard to Matt Whitehead, Bass Junkie & Dexorcist, and chill out with various friends old and new.
The music poll reveals that you most want to hear Old School Electro, followed closely by Detroit Techno and New Wave/Synth Pop. Then clearly behind but popular were Rave, Chicago House, and Disco/Boogie.
Personally sad to see funk and soul so low down the list and amazed to see European & UK house & techno so far down as well - none of you like Aphex Twin? Luke Slater? Mike Dred? Baby Ford? Shiver?
I've decided to mostly ignore the results on the basis that if you give the people what they want when they want then their brains shrink. If you don't like funk then you just haven't heard enough James Brown records yet! Podcast 17 is almost ready and will contain lots of music you didn't vote for, but after that I'll play load of old electro for y'all.
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some reggae too, lee scratch perry, linval thompson if you got any.
ReplyDeleteyeah, don't give people what they want..
ReplyDeletethey won't respect you for it!
(but you can give me what i want - plenty of disco, boogie and f*nk!)
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i listen to your show to hear new (old) stuff, not listen to stuff i already know about. dig deep into the crates and play the gems. one thing that has always bothered me is DJs I know catering to the crowd and playing shit. most people have generic tastes, and the role of the DJ is to get people into new tunes and to get them to have a good time while they are doing it.
ReplyDeleteHahaha, thanks for the concern for our brains! Did you end up meeting Salt N' Pepa?
ReplyDeleteJimmy - stay tuned :)
ReplyDeleteHolly & John - quite right. I reckon people who come to listen to this show know I'm not gonna play too much obvious stuff. If I was the kind of person who tried to cater to the crowd I might be successful by now :)
Patrick - no I ended up getting asked to leave their dressing room! but they did a shout out to my friend during their show which was what I wanted to ask them so I was happy. they were delightful to watch on stage, seemed very happy to be there and not at all going through the motion in the way you might expect of a "comeback" kind of act.
And the runners-up? Will you play genres of the popular votes that didn't receive the absolute highest amount, as well? I hope so!
ReplyDeleteI'm going to side with you on your last paragraph, Ed. I like the fact that you've kept the podcasts widespread. It's interesting to hear what you've been digging out of your collection. I reluctantly posted my votes because I didn't really want to help steer the podcasts in a direction *I* liked. If you had added 'All of the Above' and 'Do whatever you feel like' I would have only voted for those two anyway!
ReplyDeleteCarry on sir. It's been fantastic end to end.
Before:science
ReplyDeleteforgot to tell you.. you got me there at BLOC! totally ecstatic, orgasmic & trancendent (esp. the last 20mins)
i havn't felt that on the dance floor for awhile.. i thank you!
mwah!
Play what you think we need to hear!!!
ReplyDeletewicked set at BLOC. Was a cracking festival this year, so much fun.
ReplyDeleteI really would like to know what you thinking about Whitney Houston song titled I wanna dance with somebody or perhaps what about Eurythmix, as you see I'm very intrested about mysterious music genre called pop...
ReplyDeleteand thank you for EDMX RADIO SHOW :)
Yeah don't worry everyone, I'll still play everything.
ReplyDeleteI just won't be doing a 4 hour jazz special....
Ms M and Ben, why didn't you come and say hello?
Evelyn, not really into Whitney but I like a few Eurythmics tracks, I played one a few shows ago.
>>Ms M and Ben, why didn't you come and say hello?
ReplyDeletei really was, very veerry drunk. not a very good excuse i know ;)
i was incognito.. as someone else!
ReplyDeleteyour set @ bloc was rocking man! i was at the front going crazy! hehe. my highlight of the festival.
ReplyDeletecan y*u guess who?
ReplyDeleteoh you've started doing that thing with asterisks that miss h does.
ReplyDeleteare you just posting under 2 different names?
that would be... odd.
the girl's a super freak!
ReplyDeleteshe's super freaky!
ReplyDeletesorry: i just have waaaay too much time on my hands!
ReplyDeleteHey Ed,
ReplyDeletequote: Personally sad to see funk and soul so low down the list and amazed to see European & UK house & techno so far down as well - none of you like Aphex Twin? Luke Slater? Mike Dred? Baby Ford? Shiver? "
I agree and i do !!!
Are u playing on bangface this year ??
I have been talking to ya the night u played in club marguerita, utrecht, i was with my irish friend.
ps liking podcast # 17 !
Greetings!
Yeah will be at Bang Face, still sorting out details but probably playing on the main stage on Saturday.
ReplyDeletesee you there
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oh yeah, and we fancy you!
ReplyDelete(if you need an entourage at bang face, let me know!)
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how about some booty/ghetto tech on new podcasts?
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