Grimes Coachella DJ Set Appreciation Thread

mono-stereo

Hank_Solo 😆

rhouses

All in on Grimes, but will swerve her DJ set.

Dan

I’ve no idea who Grimes is?

Hope that helps.

Cheers.

Mad_Cyril

Dan

Smallman1

All of this could have been avoided if she played wrecking ball prog on vinyl.

SM001

Smallman1 All of the worlds problems could be sorted with wrecking ball prog, Ed.

We’d have peace in the Middle East by just rocking up to the Gaza Strip with disc 2.

SM001

303abuser I have no idea what happened here, but I’ll toss in my opinion anyways. If you take money to do something, you should probably know how to fucking do it. Especially if that something is to perform in front of a large crowd who paid way too much to be there.

Is this not the responsibility of the promoters for making these bookings in the first place?

I’ve heard of producers getting booked for DJ sets and accepting the offers because the money was too good to turn down. One producer said they were watching Youtube ‘How to DJ’ tutorial videos on the train ride to the gig!

303abuser

SM001 I guess, but their primary job is to sell tickets. The results reflect on them obviously, although I’m sure they won’t be hurting next year because of whatever happened, but maybe they assumed she’s put in the most minimal effort to be semi-competent?

ScottBailey

SM001 disc 2

correct

hugopal

SM001 We’d have peace in the Middle East by just rocking up to the Gaza Strip with disc 2.

I doubt it - the bloomin’ Palestinians will probably try to argue that disc 1 is better.

apyssjw

303abuser who couldn’t be bothered to learn a skill as simple as digital dj’ing

This. Digital dj-ing is so straightforward (all the dj’s on this board have mastered it!). To not have a handle on it / to not even bother to prepare speaks volumes.

rhouses

Don’t know about the djing, but I’m a big fan of her live performances (on YouTube) and catching all the subtle variations while she’s running around and working all her gear on the fly.

mono-stereo

Having skipped through this I actually feel sorry for her, she’s obviously having a reg from the start. A sound engineer briefly appears then fucks off again staring at his phone. A good engineer would of stayed up there and botched a workaround (ie give her a pair of cans and point at where the crossfader is.) No one there would of noticed or given a fuck)

Anyways the wheels start to compeltley fall off at around 30 mins in, but fair play to her she carries on and attempts to explain the problem with a bit of humility. Others would of just walked off stage at this point I reckon.

hugopal

mono-stereo A good engineer would of stayed up there and botched a workaround (ie give her a pair of cans and point at where the crossfader is

I don’t know why she’d been trying to use sync to begin with anyway - it’s not as if she was actually trying to mix any of the tracks together on beat.

mono-stereo , but fair play to her she carries on and attempts to explain the problem with a bit of humility

Yeah, though also after the first couple of times jumping on the mic to explain what was going on not sure she had to keep doing it between every single track.

Along_the_Wire

mono-stereo I dunno, I’ve just seen another video and she just doesn’t know what she’s doing at all. Rekordbox is a solid bit of kit - it might get the bpm wrong now and again, but I’ve had it happen maybe twice in years. She doesn’t know what she’s doing at all. She can’t even play a song unmixed it some parts. Maybe someone was being malicious, but I dunno about that.

erik

303abuser nailed it

Mad_Cyril

I haven’t watched, or listened.

But it’s a total disgrace!

nicksneddon

The worst thing about the whole debacle is a load of gatekeeping DJ’s on social media saying I told you so

Dan

nicksneddon She needs Phil from Digital DJ tips in her corner.

mono-stereo

nicksneddon Exactly. No one seemed to mind most of the old Prog DJ’s using pro tools to stich a mix CD together.

zackster

She’s a borderline r-word with only one good song. She can fuck right off.

Morty-C-137

zackster She’s a borderline r-word with only one good song. She can fuck right off.

Lol.. such an open mind you have. You’re green with envy obviously Zacky

hugopal

zackster She’s a borderline r-word

Clearly not.

zackster with only one good song

This is way off. Which one could you even pick as her supposed only good one?!

hugopal

I don’t suppose most of you have ever heard about the only other time I think Grimes has ever done a streamed “DJ set”?

In 2013 she played at a Boiler Room show filmed at a pool party in Richie Hawtin’s Ibiza villa - yes you heard that right. She was just playing tunes from her laptop - including the infamous moment below.

Boiler Room deleted her set from Youtube a few days later, and the below is the only existing clip of her set online. It’s pretty baffling that the set got removed and has never been re-uploaded since; maybe at the time Boiler Room thought it was too uncool or not underground enough for their image, but if anything now it would be the reverse. Or maybe copyright issues? Regardless it would have had millions of views by now I’m sure. There have been lots of people who have tried to lobby Boiler Room to put it back online but to no success.

Richie Hawtin’s set from the end of the same party/Boiler Room stream is still online though and Grimes can be seen occasionally dancing in the background:

zackster

303abuser I’m sure they won’t be hurting next year

Idk about that. Supposedly attendance was down by like 30,000