moar fire!

imma hire this 'Mindset'...

I wanted to, believe me.... here's the thing... I was working the Grand Prix for Queen Elizabeth Catering... dirty hard physical work, but pays well and hours are long during the grand prix.. you'll work your ass off for a week but come home with a HUGE paycheck on it's way...
I worked all day saturday and all day sunday starting at 7:30am. which is why i 'demanded' the earlier timeslot, my plan, which almost went according to... itself, was to go to sleep right after work saturday (7pm) then wake up, spin, and go to work.

SO i went to sleep at 8pm saturday, woke up at 1:30am sunday morning, went to go mix (for 3am right...) then went home to change/shower/eat and went straight to work... my shift ended at 1:00am Monday morning just to give you an idea...

point is that at 3am, you're told to wait an hour before spinning, do you go home and 'wait' for 3 hours before going to work? my plan was to party a bit... so i did



I'd like to know that too... he was there... he asked Psyrenity to cede... but Psyrenity just kept Trancin'...

I would have liked to hear you mix actually!



cocaine is a hell of a drug




Also, the other day I mentioned to my girlfriend the line-up of the party... when I said "Psyrenity", she said: "C don ben fife comme nom ça."

Fife.

yeah, he finally let me play 1:15 minutes later, right before I would have had to leave.

just to clarify the whole situation, it was a question of respect. I was asked to play for free at the FREE party Absolute Destination, I accepted because after all I still love the music and it seemed it would be a good cause, and decent party...
The day before the party, it became a non-free party, OK, still not getting paid, whack... but you know they needed a venue because of rain, that never came, w/e, I'll still participate.

originally they had me at 5am, I said I couldn't do that because I worked at 7 am that same day... I asked for an earlier timeslot or I couldn't play, simple... they put me at 3am finally, that was better, still cutting it close but w/e, I can participate.
so I convince two friends to come, 3am being pretty late for them (since they don't do pills anymore) but they could head home at 4am, get SOME sleep at least
I get there at 2:30am, ready to go, friends and perhaps a person or two who appreciate what I play ready to hear it all. I put about 4 hours mastering two of my latest tracks to play them exclusive and for the first time that day so I was excited.
First thing I see is that the guy who was supposed to play after me is playing (Psyrenity)... so I go up on stage, supposed to start soon anyway right? there's a guy there claiming to be the next DJ and that I have to find the promoter to clear shit up, wtf.
I find him finally like 15 minutes later (2:50ish now), he tells me that a DJ didn't show up and that timeslots got moved up, meaning earlier... no one bothered to call me and let me know, but now what right? so I ask the dj after me if I can play at my original time, he says NP, respect.
right then I go up to Psyrenity, who's dancing to his tracks harder than ANYone in the room, let him know it's my turn.
"NO, I just went on, I'm playing for 1:30, you can play after me." he says, while obviously he'd been playing for more than 30 minutes.
The guy isn't even mixing, he's letting tracks finish and pressing play on CDJ#2, WACK.
SO I try to explain that I got work ["I WORK TOO!" he interupts] at 7am and that I can't stick around. That it was important for me from the beginning to NOT play late and that 3am was essentially MY timeslot, he tells me to 'step down', that HE brought deco and that it was basically HIS party and so I was going to wait for him to be satisfied.
I push a little more cause I'm starting to get pissed (same old sketchy organized rave event starting to remind me why I stopped accepting non-paid gigs)
Now he says something to the effect that the crowd/he is in a trance and you can't interrupt the trance because it's the Trance. what a retard (no offence to retards) I mean, at some point we'd switch, so the 'trance' would be interrupted, then what's the fucking difference.
so he refuses a tag, which I graciously offer (because he brought some deco of course lol) he refuses to let me play my timeslot, insisting that it's his party and that he didn't book me anyway. wtf. how does that even work?!
I leave him alone for a bit
So it's 3:50am, I go up, prepare my first track, headphones, at 3:55 I remark that the track playing is already going to go over 4:00am and that I was short on time at 3:00am
"I want to play till 4:15am", he informs me.
"This is your last track, please step aside." I ask relatively politely but with fire in my eyes.
he says: "One more track!"
What am I going to do? Physically remove him? not very plur, so no.
So he puts another track... starting queuing up ANOTHER one.
"What the fuck is wrong with you man, it's 4:04 and your queuing up another track, YOU told me 4:00, here I am." I say
He replies that the track is for his baby daughter and proceeds to show me a picture of her, as if I didn't believe that he had one or something... What the fuck, was his baby daughter there? I hope not but it wouldn't surprise me. So he plays this track that is like 170bpm, totally kills the vibe, my buddy on the dancefloor texts me that people look scare, nobody is dancing anymore and that I should punch Psyrenity in the vagina.
lol
Finally he 'sacks' his 'camp' and I go on to much rejoicing, from what I could tell.


So FUCK you Psyrenity, you have NO respect for the people who were part of the scene long before you had your first period. Your deco is ugly, your music is crap and you can't mix.

THIS is why the turnover is so high in the rave scene, because you don't respect the tried tested and true methods of throwing a proper event, you have the nerve to charge for a free party, NOT pay the talent, fuck with the timeslots and then treat the people you invite like shit.

P.S. For information's sake, I was booked by K-DZO, I thought it was his party but I guess it wasn't, he was nice to me, even tried to get the Faggot off stage two but Faggot responded with the same weak BS to him. K-DZO: I have nothing against you man, your music is great imo.

And to top things off, Psyrenity tells me he'll never book me again, to which I responded: "I never want to have anything to do with your laughable methods, cheap events and horrible presentation again, so thanks for the assurance."

So Thanks Psyrenity for reminding me exactly why I was getting tired of this shit in the first place.

it's important to get the word out... information travels faster than more ravers on speed!

aha!

he didn't piss on my shoes, but he does smell like someone pissed on his...

faggot

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And I mean no disrespect to homosexuals...

eww

that explains everything.

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go jogging outside, much better work out that gym equipment... sit ups, push ups stretches...
all free!!

ipad

i can play psytrance!

indeed

i do websites and work for the Queen Elizabeth Catering company... we';re doing the Grand Prix now... too late for this year but drop a CV off next year.

so fake...

psychedelicookies

nowh ere

Is it ever hot?! Does that remind of you of anything?

especially when it's good

*sigh*

thanks I haz found :P

Hash damn it!

Could be a rapper, a letter, but I'm looking for the good kind from overseas. anyone know what I'm talking about? pm me pls asap

it almost burned down, but it didn't. must be safe

nah, that's more knowing the style and the tracks you play.
I'm refering to Percentage Change
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That's what the slider controls.

stay up for 18 hours, then until you want to start going to sleep at.

there's a simple formula you can use to calculate the exact percentage change between BPMs, this will make for flawless beat matching, then you just need to learn how to job and how to transition... that is all practice and taste... if you have no taste or no ear, you'll never be a good dj.

what?! Stirk agrees ?!

maybe the world did end last week...

hot

carpet

Ottawa?!

Ashley, learn from Noah!

what I don't get, is if you can get that many people out to an event, why not do it properly?

Isn't it obvious?

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no you quant, get it?

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