Duggan
Here’s his new Youtube channel with the recordings mate. You can subscribe for the updates of when all the new ones go on.
For the moment we’ve got him up and running - he’s gonna hone in on the microphone skills but it does take a bit of time. I can’t get over how well he’s doing in this short a time. I’ve never seen someone come out of the gate running like this and I think he agrees with some of us that he could do with balancing the chatter a bit.
It’s really stimulating when you stand where he is - when DJs do this on their own and press “Start Streaming” and suddenly genuine friends join plus welcoming in new faces showing their love, we feel connected to everyone all of a sudden and it gets to a point when you’re restraining yourself from talking. We can’t get practised in feeling / being this way until we are doing it for real with you there.
This year especially, that feeling of connection is completely missing in our lives and we really get an amplified, tangible feeling of genuine connection when we share the same enjoyment in exactly the same moment. It’s so good.
Some of you see me pick up the mic and put it back down on my shows because I really want to add something (again) and I fight myself quietly to try to let the music do the talking. I’m trying to make an effort to talk less and only during breakdowns as much as I can now. I think that’s what Digweed/Tong did on radio shows. The whole streaming world is totally mental for most DJs - we never had to bother talking in Microphones in clubs thankfully, but it does add a nice dimension when it is balanced.
Music wise, Richard’s gone through some of his best vinyl and does have more to go through (I mean, he has walls of it). Aside from what the music is, I have appreciation for how well he knows where it all is located.
He’ll be changing the vibe up soon - whether it’s this next one or the one after is up to him, but for now he’s been focused on bringing the early 2000s clubbing community together over the music that started it for most of us.
Although he was also a proper rave DJ (new monkey, anyone?) that was before most of us knew him. When we kicked off in clubbing, loads of us came for the Trance headliners like J00F, Matt Hardwick, M.I.K.E. Joy Kitikonti, and discovered Prog via Richard by going for the first two hours with him on warming up often. The and the obvious Prog DJs at the time were rarely there (his night was called PROMISE! on Fridays but Saturday was Shindig) yet Richard’s club had Prog warmups for a number of good years before Electro and Minimal took hold.
He did have Anthony Pappa and Corvin Dalek which were curveballs for his night.
It’s been really nice for many of us to revisit this with the guy responsible for so many good times.
Glad you guys have enjoyed the bits you have - he’s buzzing that you guys get involved and said to say thanks for jumping in.
When he does move to the “current” "vibe, I think loads of us are going to find that interesting.
@Unbroken1 let’s get you set up for streaming and give @Smallman1 the what-for 😉 x
