The Big Amsterdam Meetup

JDS · Post by **JDS** » Tue 9th Jun 2009 10:47 am

Hi again guys,

Have decided seen as last years attempt at a little meetup went so well to take this years to a new level. have set up a website devoted just to this one trip from 18th August and would love it if as many of you as possible can try to make it. want to get a serious little mob togehter for 3 days and have a crazy party! Absolutely everyone is welcome...

Hope to hear from some of you really soon

Yours

JDS

The Big Amsterdam Meetup @

http://thebigamsterdammeetup.webs.com/

Kermit · Post by **Kermit** » Tue 9th Jun 2009 11:02 am

If my missus drops the baby on time i will try and be there. Due around the 20th july so fingers crossed i will join your party

Will check back as soon as i know for def.

joshbhoy · Post by **joshbhoy** » Tue 9th Jun 2009 02:26 pm

unfortunately im off to the dam the month before and will be skint so i cant make it

liquidSwords · Post by **liquidSwords** » Tue 9th Jun 2009 03:32 pm

If im not living it up in Thailand and India with REI around August expect to see me at this Stoners Party

Hammy · Post by **Hammy** » Tue 9th Jun 2009 04:14 pm

Get in the morning of the 21st... still be about or is that the day things pack up?

JDS · Post by **JDS** » Tue 9th Jun 2009 10:54 pm

Im afraid Hammy that 21st is the day things pack up, change your flights or whatever and join us sooner!! i would love to stay anouther night but i have to DJ in Paris the evening on 21st so i have a train to catch in the afternoon

sh@dy · Post by **sh@dy** » Wed 10th Jun 2009 01:33 pm

hey man, what music do you play? am a DJ myself. playing house, at least thats what I call it, stopped trying to find out whats minimal,electro,trance or whatever. I love the french house and you are on a gig in paris, thats why I am asking

JDS · Post by **JDS** » Thu 11th Jun 2009 08:43 am

Im an electro house DJ first and foremost. Like you i really dont have time to check whether my tracks are classed an minimal, trance etc. i simple run with the attitude that if i like it i play it!! Of course i have some 'french house' in my bag too!! although thats not the sole reason for my gig in Paris!!
You gonna make it to Amsterdam for the MeetUp?????

sh@dy · Post by **sh@dy** » Thu 11th Jun 2009 01:33 pm

JDS wrote:Im an electro house DJ first and foremost. Like you i really dont have time to check whether my tracks are classed an minimal, trance etc. i simple run with the attitude that if i like it i play it!! Of course i have some 'french house' in my bag too!! although thats not the sole reason for my gig in Paris!!
You gonna make it to Amsterdam for the MeetUp?????

No idea man, its in 2 months, will have to see whats up then, although I would like to meet other house-djs, especially when they already have a career and can give me some idea how to manage this and that

(if I make it to the meeting, you will have to answer all of my questions, so think twice before inviting me

)
will let you know.
where do you inspire yourself? I always look out for the tracklists from the live-sets of elektroaktivisten.de or Beatport. Right now I got another hot thing, its an internet-radio called Frenchkissfm.com plays nice NEW french house (this new thing with acid-sounds to it you know what I mean, terror-music ) so fucking nice!

what do you use to DJ? old-school vinyl/timecode-system or the modern mp3/midi-controller thing?
I use the Stanton Finalscratch, because I love playing Vinyls (I cant stand these midi-controller thing, there is nothing to do for the DJ anymore in my eyes....) but I dont want to buy EVERY SINGLE song I play. Of course the songs I know I will be hearing in 10 years as well are here on original Vinyl

Cisco · Post by **Cisco** » Thu 11th Jun 2009 03:02 pm

You cant go wrong with the good ol technics 1200 or 1210 ! used to do a bit djin myself by the sounds of it same music you lads are into ! Detroit Chicago house !?

sh@dy · Post by **sh@dy** » Thu 11th Jun 2009 09:20 pm

cisco wrote:You cant go wrong with the good ol technics 1200 or 1210 ! used to do a bit djin myself by the sounds of it same music you lads are into ! Detroit Chicago house !?

nice tunes for freakin out

I am not in favour of the technics, but Stanton do a very good job as well.

SoulRider · Post by **SoulRider** » Fri 12th Jun 2009 10:37 am

sh@dy wrote:
cisco wrote:You cant go wrong with the good ol technics 1200 or 1210 ! used to do a bit djin myself by the sounds of it same music you lads are into ! Detroit Chicago house !?
nice tunes for freakin out
I am not in favour of the technics, but Stanton do a very good job as well.

Unfortunately, I grew up with the 1200's and 1210's. Stanton didn't even do a pro deck in my day!! They only did cartidges and styli (? No idea of the plural of stylus). Vestax began to do a very good deck towards the end of my DJ career. I got bored of DJ'ing and sold my decks, but kept my records. Now in the last 10 years my records collection has dwindled to about 1000 records. I've not had a way to play them for 5 years, lol

Cisco · Post by **Cisco** » Fri 12th Jun 2009 10:53 am

Im kind of in the same boat as you SR Technics were industry standard back in the day ,before all the others jumped aboard ! vestax for 1 and there are many others that have got in on the DJ turntable market

out of interest what type of music did you spin Soul Rider ?

SoulRider · Post by **SoulRider** » Fri 12th Jun 2009 11:22 am

Pretty much everything. My record collection currently still gives an idea of what I used to spin, but includes, House, from American deep house through to Euro pop house, Trance, from original Goa sound to Cheesy Euro Pop Trance (although this seems to be the dance mainstay now, people like ATB, Paul Van Dyk, Tiesto etc), Drum n' Bass, from Original Jungle to far out phuture beats, Hardcore, from Old Skool to Happy (keep it quiet, but I also have a decent Gabba - Dutch terror core music collection - cos terror is more extreme than hard, lol) Breakbeats, from chilled hip hop to trip hop, from Big beat to low-fi, jazz cuts to electro, basically, I love a break

That's the sort of stuff i'd play out, depending on what sort of gig I had

sh@dy · Post by **sh@dy** » Fri 12th Jun 2009 11:26 am

erm SoulRider, when was your trip to Germany supposed to be, I forgot???
well, the Stanton of course are not as good as the Technics (I play them when at a friend whos DJing since 20 years) but I could not afford them, so I had to buy Stanton

havent had my first gig so far, its gonna be on 1st of october