Dubman I kinda agree with this, surely if you are a DJ producer then as long as you have the necessary skills, everyone should really be their own favourite DJ. It’s a controversial opinion I guess but at least as a DJ, if you have integrity rather than a need to be liked, you will play the tracks that you like rather than the ones you think everyone wants to hear. Maybe it’s naivety on my part but isn’t this what primarily separates business from art?

      SM001 some DJs do this as standard, I’m thinking of artists like Babicz, Nthng, really often play sets consisting of nothing but their own productions - Is it self indulgent? Not sure I agree - When I’m listening I’m not thinking ‘FFS, Play something else’

          ArchimedesQ Maybe now, but the stuff they released together years back was way better than the stuff NM did on his own.

              ArchimedesQ Babicz & Nthng are artists first. I wouldn’t consider them DJ’s.

                ArchimedesQ if you have integrity rather than a need to be liked, you will play the tracks that you like rather than the ones you think everyone wants to hear.

                Reminds me of an interview with C Richards where he was being led by the journalist with the question, ’Do you read the crowd when you’re choosing your records?' as was the popular question to DJs at the time so they could say about how they adapt their sets accordingly. He shut that shit down and said, ‘No, I play whatever I want to play.’ lol

                    ArchimedesQ I’ve been under the impression that Transitions has been NM for many years. In terms of production NM was quite candid in an interview that he did most of the work, but JD’s contribution would be to critique the track and make suggestions for tweeks here and there.

                      Diggers properly got his tits out when I said to him it’s well known NM did transitions for him haha.
                      Called me a plank he did. Which cut me deep I can tell you.

                      BlainSA the whole notion that the DJs we love and admire mix on the fly and just let the crowd dictate the set is pie in the sky in my opinion. You only have to look at a snapshot of Sasha’s sets of old to see he pretty much played the same set for 3 months straight with the odd new track substituting in. It was (and still is) an art finding two/three tracks that work perfectly together. Everyone put multiple hours in practicing those mixes, and I can’t imagine it’s too dissimilar now too

                          BlainSA yep, when the merch was plain and understated

                            ArchimedesQ yep it’s been like that since day dot, literally nothing new

                              Dan he’s just back from a skiing holiday, so not surprising at all really

                                ArchimedesQ NM pretty much said John’s influence was along the lines of -

                                JD - “Right, put a sound there”
                                NM - “What sound?”
                                JD - “Any sound, it doesn’t matter”

                                I look at it like CM and Sasha. Together their output was better than solo efforts. Not sure musical hardware was a factor.

                                    I totally swerved Diggers after the first Transistions CD….despite going to the launch at Heaven I thought it was dull and too moody. Last time I saw him was in 2016 at the MOS which was pretty good for the first few hours, but then turned into a pounding techno sausagefest. To quote my brother “Where’s all the birds”

                                    Dubman Yeh, my comment was simplified, but sticking a sound in the right place can obviously make a notable difference to groove and rhythm.