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What *can’t* Jane Remover do!? Master mixing and genre switching, making jersey club feel fresh again 🏹
Jan 9, 2024
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an incredibly fun DJ mix from one of my favourite emerging DJs. you will not be bored and *will* be needing to get up and shake ass
Oct 26, 2024
duo of Maara + Roza Terenzi. is it jersey club? is it hard house? is it dubstep? who cares enjoy the ride and twerk something
Fave track: Loose Lips Sink Ships
Apr 9, 2024
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I love to create a long ass list of mixes to listen to on YouTube (and pray that an angel has put the tracklist in the comments)
One thing I have noticed in the comments of DJ mixes, is people's pure amazement that a DJ has mixed a wide range of genres together.
I picked up DJ'ing two years ago and with that, a keen interest in the history of genres and where they originated. To be fr, the majority of music we listen to today was created by black people who were innovative against all odds. I truly believe that rhythm is intrinsic to that creative process and the reason why a lot of these genres blend so well is because of common drum patterns and melodies.
For example, I went to a salsa night and felt moved by the drum patterns of the songs being played, as they were reminiscent of the music I grew up on (Highlife, Ghana). This can be traced back to the slave trade, where Africans were enslaved and transported from Africa across to the Caribbean, taking those rhythms with them and creating new sounds that established this tangible sonic connection.
So when we witness DJ's mix Jersey Club, with Reggaeton, to Baltimore Club to Grime, to Jungle, Baile funk and back again... that's lightwork! Black people pioneered all these genres, infusing those intrinsic rhythms and unknowingly creating a formula that makes all these musical genres blend so perfectly.
So the next time you listen to a multi-genre DJ set (I'd recommend Zack Fox's Boiler Room to start) just know you are getting schooled in BLACK HISTORY!
Sep 17, 2024
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Jan 6, 2024
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Full disclosure, I live in Aus so cannot *actually* pay for a criterion sub but it would be the first thing I’d do if I lived in the US!!! 🥺 I have accessed one via ~nefarious means but it’s very much worth the $$$
Jan 8, 2024
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(I am boldly applying this paragraph to the experience of consuming Perfectly Imperfect recs)
“One of the characteristics of taste is that it is infectious. The essence of a mesh is that it is a repeating pattern, and although each repeat may depend for its shape on the operation of outside forces — economic, social, religious, political, climactic and so on — yet those forces can only operate on single individuals. And the particularly sensitive individuals who first respond to them become, themselves, forces that affect the whole surrounding area.”
Jan 17, 2024