Recap: Haven - 7.7.09

[seedarklyxero]

HAVEN; July 7, 2009

So this time at Haven I spun with Dirge & Damian Plague.

It was lots of fun, basically another up & down ride, but for the most part I'm growing as a DJ and I enjoyed the night overall. The time I'm putting into practicing at home by spinning for GZ while she works on her gardening or desk-work is really paying off with some really interesting mixes and new ideas. Some of them work better than others, of course, but I'm hearing more and making new connections to what I'm spinning. With nearly 3 weeks before my next gig, I'm sure to have ample time for more practice.

It was also nice to see some Boston friends who made it out.

Meanwhile, an old injury is making dancing more and more problematic as time goes on. I would've danced a lot more than I did but I didn't want to aggravate it. GZ and I are looking into options for treatment, which look good from one standpoint and risky from another. We're going to go dancing Wednesday @ Vigil and Saturday @ Sin-o-matic... I hope I'll be able to enjoy it without any or much pain.

Dirge and I had a funny conversation because of a requested song. It basically boils down to a strange "ownership of play" phenomenon where by Dirge didn't play the song because he thinks of it as mine to play, while I think of it as Damian's to play, except when x meet y during a waning moon but not for 4 hours after a cow gives birth and so on and on...
Dirge played it in the end.
I hear all the discussion of one DJ or another saying they feel ripped off by this or that DJ because the second plays a song the first has hunted and found.
I've come to this realization though:
Unless you are being serviced direct from an artist, most all of us find new music because someone else put it out there for us to find. There is no "original find." So, while I certainly hope not to upset or offend any other DJ, I think I'm done with this silliness of assumed ownership of play. If I have it and can work it in, then I will play it and hopefully it will be enjoyed as intended. After all, the people who dance to these songs certainly don't care who plays them. Right? :)

I return to Haven on August 4, when I'll join Mothra and Damian Plague for the Gothic Beach Party! Don't worry.. I don't plan on a bikini! heh heh

Here are my sets from Haven:


9p set:
King Black Acid - Soul System Burn
Thompson Twins - Slave Trade
Puscifer - The Mission
Tori Amos - Caught a Lite Sneeze
Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground
Massive Attack - Inertia Creeps
Enigma - Seven Lives
The Academy Is... - Black Mamba
Duran Duran - Come Undone
Mutemath - Transformers
Apoptygma Berzerk - Kathy's Song


11:15p set:
Consolidated - You Suck
Stromkern - Stand Up (request)
London After Midnight - Kiss
The Smiths - How Soon Is Now
The Cure - Fascination Street
Sneaker Pimps - Loretta Young Silks (request)
Covenant - Bullet (Funky Indian mix)
Velvet Acid Christ - Lysergia (request)
Spectra*Paris - Mad World
fin

Comments

[dj-rabid-angel.livejournal.com]

The only things that I sometimes guard are some -- not all -- mashups. Usually that's because I have to hunt down the ones i really like and get them straight from the artists or remixers, so I want to have my time with them first before passing them on to others.

Otherwise, shit...I'm generally happy when others glom on to what I drop. Not that it happens too often. ;)

[sariel-t.livejournal.com]

Playing "You Suck" absolutely made my night dear, and I'm totally psyched to see you at the Beach Party! *hug*