Any Drum & Bass DJs inside?

ruffneck said:
I love how everyone diss pendulum when in-fact dj's like andy c, nicky blackmarket etc were dropping pendulum tunes way before they went mainstream...

mainstream hate is funny... :eek:
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Feel free to love that all you want, its a free world.
I dont care if they were though. Of course they are the easiest target but they represent drum and bass at the moment, and like i said after about 2001 i saw it coming way before pendulum. Blame them, blame andy c or nicky blackmarket, either way i think drum and bass is at its lowest point, so dont try and troll me making silly remakes about knowing loads and mainstream this and that.
My point was i prefered drum and bass before. Simple enough wasnt it. :eek: ;)
Pendulum is a drum and bass/breaks group from Perth, Australia. In 2003, the group relocated to the United Kingdom and released there first single.
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Smiley Man said:
hahahaha

that made me laugh

vinyl is harder to beatmatch/cue etc yeah, but digital etc doesnt do it all for you, using both vinyl and cd is the best way imo. i reckon vinyl only now is really limiting your choice of music

walk up to armin van buuren and tell him that him using cdjs makes him a crap dj ;)
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Prefer Tiesto tbh :D
 
Pendulum are just sound and new school.

I completly agree, they arent "DnB" (when refering to classic dnb), but they are still DnB and they have a very smart style to their music, which is different and interesting when you want to break away from the classic style, with mebe a bit of a funkier weirdier way of the genre.

I love listening to their stuff for a change, but cant really listen to a pure only Pend album.

Listening to a lot of Zinc atm, found some really pro tunes from him, one being called "Moonboots" which i obsolutly love as a go between track, it really does fit in with anything :D
 
Nah Ram is still having quality releases, if it wasn't for Sub Focus on their team then they wouldnt be much at all, cept for Andy's DJing skills which remain awesome.
 
my flatmate mixes drum n bass on vinyl, have to say id never really heard DnB before but i quite like it, i like house, trance etc so its not "THAT" different to me, i might upload a few of his mixes
 
Smiley Man said:
i dont see why people hate cds? its just plain ignorance, by all means use both, but you're cutting off your nose to spite your face if you stick to vinyl and refuse to touch cds

all the top djs ive seen use cds, it doesnt mean they're worse DJs for it :confused:

unless you're scratching and want the true vinyl sound cutting cds out of the equation is just daft, having both gives you the best of both worlds

if a top dj walked into a club with a bunch of cds and a few vinyl he'd be pretty annoyed when they said "no cd is crap only vinyl here" and rightly so
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The problem isnt just Dj's using cds its more to do with the fact some pre mix them stand in a club and play em out pretending to DJ. Supposely there are quite a few names that do this in the scene, now when they take home like £1k to DJ and play nothing but a pre mixed/beat matched cd whats the point :confused: Takes the skill out of mixing which after all is where they all started!

I mix dnb too :cool: Love the stuff no other music comes close to the same sort of thing imo. Plus theres different styles for the mood your in so its all good.

At the mo im feeling Taxman and the whole propoganda label :)

@ TommyB & Darkinjection

I dont listen to any other djs other than those in DNB scene really so wondering do they mix anything like the dnb djs do? Theres a lot of double drops/teases/beat juggling going on in in dnb but i cant imagine house djs etc.. all doing that :confused: Theres a bit more turntablism involved in dnb id imagine.
 
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drum and bass and IDM...! o yeah! bang on aphex and squarepusher and you will cry................with joy
 
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R5Rich said:
The problem isnt just Dj's using cds its more to do with the fact some pre mix them stand in a club and play em out pretending to DJ. Supposely there are quite a few names that do this in the scene, now when they take home like £1k to DJ and play nothing but a pre mixed/beat matched cd whats the point :confused: Takes the skill out of mixing which after all is where they all started!
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beatmatching and mixing is a skill whether or not you do it in the club or at home beforehand :confused:

ive seen a few top trance DJs doing their stuff, and yeah you may think they pre mix stuff, but its just cos their beatmatching is so damn fast you think that they've pre mixed it
 
The point behind djing is using the crowd. Mixing a cd at home using a computer which will do all the hard work for you defeats the purpose all together. Plus doing that just means they have a set already done, what good is that if people aint feeling your tune selection!

And no its definately not a case of them mixing fast and it looking like its pre mixed, check out forums on www.breakbeat.co.uk and do a search theres proberly a few threads by now on djs that do this :)
 
Been trying to get into it myself recently but haven't had the time at all, even though I invested in 500+ vinyls 1210s etc but I'm sure I'll find the time to get into it eventually :o

Pendulum .... have produced some good tunes , when I first started listening to DnB they are mainly what got me into it, now my taste is a lot more varied than before!
 
Got my new shipment of tunes in the other day which i saw and had to snap up :D

These are -

* DJ Fresh - Escape From Planet Monday (LP)
This is SUCH a good LP, it has some really kicked back uplifting tunes which are pro for having heavier drop on the other end, really good LP :D

* DJ Fresh - The Immortal and Living Daylights
Pro tunes, old vinyl but classic. Immortal has a REALLY nice voice rift which can flow any songs going. Sounds good on anything behind it and the drop is subtle and just flows.

* Benny Page - Turn Down the Lights
Classic tune, dont even have to go into detail on it :P

* Night Breed - Pack Of Wolves
I have both the Pend and Original and both are cracking tunes. Very heavy, very dark, very damn good !

* Fresh - Submarines
Old school and good.

As you can tell im into the funkier heavier stuff at the moment. Fresh always gets new tunes going, and kudos too him, loving his work :D
 
Feeling the more jump up stuff recently

visionary - jungle rock
twisted individual - bum troubler
Damien marley - welcome to jam rock (remix)
Loxy - warlord
chase and status - the druids
dj zinc - funny
tc - jump
q project - greatest thing(total science remix)
 
Dark_Injection said:
* Benny Page - Turn Down the Lights
Classic tune, dont even have to go into detail on it :P
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Quality tune - One of the highlights of last year :D

Some tunes Ive liked recently

  • Human Nature - [Makoto RMX]
  • Heist vs Lupe Fiasco - Kick Push [RMX]
  • Commix - Talk to Frank
  • Noisa & Mayhem - Moonway Renegade :eek:

Heres the top selling tunes of 2006

Quarentine and Subtitles are the best DnB labels of recent years as they consistantly keep releasing quality tunes.
 
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