Grimes Coachella DJ Set Appreciation Thread

Dan

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

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:

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?

zackster

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

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

303abuser

zackster Good. Seems like over-commercialized garbage, but what do I know, I’m old and mostly boring now.

zackster

Looks like it’s more like 50,000. Seems like there was a real disconnect between the promoters and the festival attendees. Blur getting booed off stage and the Anime Singer not being able to appear in hologram form as two non Grimes examples.

303abuser

I guess that’s the inevitable timeline when you overcharge, oversell, and the acts are mostly shit.

zackster

They are booking Blur and Will Smith for a bunch of zoomers who want to see Tyler the Creator. Bunch of Gen X idiots running it I would guess.

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.

zackster

Along_the_Wire I’ve just seen another video and she just doesn’t know what she’s doing at all.

Oh it’s this 100%. She didn’t know how to use the CDJs and wasn’t familiar with the tunes. This is a person who was kept locked in Elon’s basement whilst being repeatedly impregnated. Add in her clear autism and it’s not a total shock that she would turn up unprepared and not think it would be an issue.

hugopal

Along_the_Wire 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.

Again, as I explained above the likely issue is not with Rekordbox’s analysis per se - but rather that the tempo range in settings given for it to analyse the tunes was set as being too low/narrow, eg 80-140 bpm, meaning say a tune at 160 would not be marked as 160 but rather as 80.

Along_the_Wire Maybe someone was being malicious, but I dunno about that.

I doubt that as well, but whoever put the tunes in to Rekordbox for her missed something. It maybe would make sense if it had been her Tale of Us bf, as I doubt any of his tunes ever normally go high at all and so his default analysis settings could have had the narrow tempo range.

zackster She didn’t know how to use the CDJs and wasn’t familiar with the tunes.

Yeah she doesn’t know how to use the CDJs, but around half of the tunes were hers.

Along_the_Wire

zackster Autism would’ve helped her, she would’ve obsessively prepared

zackster

Along_the_Wire Hugo that you?

Along_the_Wire

hugopal Yeah, maybe, but there’s no reason to have a restrictive bpm range is there? I don’t see the point, even if you mix in a restrictive bpm range like Tale of Us maybe does. Even so, it’s still shite, she should’ve at least taken a few minutes to run through some bits to check - going in that cold is absurd given the circumstance ie 50,000 people and not have a clue how to DJ

hugopal

Along_the_Wire Yeah, maybe, but there’s no reason to have a restrictive bpm range is there?

I dont have Rekordbox to check myself, but I saw somewhere that supposedly the factory default setting is 75-155pm.

Along_the_Wire she should’ve at least taken a few minutes to run through some bits to check

Sure.

Along_the_Wire

hugopal I have tunes with 175bpm in my library and they sit there as that and I haven’t touched the setting. Anyway, it’s possible that it was changed - she kept talking about how shit she was at math, but fuck me, dividing numbers by 2 is only just beyond my mentally disabled brother.

Millsy

I thought autism was a super power?

hugopal

Along_the_Wire she kept talking about how shit she was at math, but fuck me, dividing numbers by 2 is only just beyond my mentally disabled brother

That’s no way to talk about our Ed, Granto - he’s just a bit slow is all.

But if she had been trying initially to not just play the track at say it’s original 160 tempo, but rather to match it to an outgoing track’s tempo then it may have been a tad more tricky. That could be why at the end she gave up trying to blend at all and just played the tracks one after the other. Again just speculating.

Mad_Cyril

Are Grant and Hugo riffing???

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Along_the_Wire

Mad_Cyril it appears we are with neither protagonist being a cunt. Scones.

Mad_Cyril

Along_the_Wire it appears we are with neither protagonist being a cunt. Scones.

The eye of the storm!!

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