I have one word to describe last night. It is “Shitmat”, the aptly named DJ who ruined it.
I don’t know if he classes himself as DJ, musician, mentalist or what, but in my books he’s divvy!! Don’t get me wrong, the guy has talent! He has some amazing ability to take music to another level. A level which no one has tried to reach before (because it’s crap!!). I would like to formally apologise to everyone who joined me for the first time, It is honestly usually wicked!!!
The first guys who were on were ace (Monster, Monster!)!!! Everyone was boogying!! Then something happened, the music stopped, a hurl of swear words resounded over the PA, some noise came on then disappeared, more swear words, then noise again, then more swear words (Dave cleverly left at this point, why did I not think of that!).
I can only compare the music to a combination of drum & bass (without the bass, so jus ‘drum’ really), over the top of some novelty 20p records found in Oxfam (eg. captain Pugwash and the blue peter theme) all played really fast (just hit the 45rpm button on the decks), with random bursts of swearing from him inbetween while he tried to cue up the next track.
I think my favourite moment of the night was when I thought he shouted “Does anyone like Abba?”, it was only when I looked at Matt (not me, tho that would be really surreal) and pointed out to me that the guy shouted “Does anyone like gabba?”. I have no idea what that is, but depressingly it is nothing like Abba.
For those curious about what this mad man played, try these links to some of his tracks (I haven’t heard them, I hope they’re as bad as what he played though):
- uk swampcore sucks in comparison to techstep new wave psy-jungle
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light the flame in my heart baby whilst i pretend to be a good DJ
I also found a link to a set he did, Shitmat Live @ The Freebutt 27-05-03 – laptop, mic, kaoss pad, deck’n'mixer and a few too many cans of beer
I would love to hear other peoples views on this guy.
PS: for more information in this so called “gabba” see Wikipedia’s entry here (hehe! gabba is derived from a yiddish word! Surely the Jews did not spawn this evil!)
PPS: I apologise for the language in this post. It’s his name and I’m not afraid to use it
