Sunday, October 14, 2007
This is the song that doesn`t end...it just goes on and on my friends....
So first, I pose to you this question. If you possessed turntables, would you challenge this man? That is DJ Q-Bert. He is one of the legendary Invisibl Skratch Piklz and he is amazing. You might also recognize this famous Pikl.
If you can`t tell, I`m absolutely enamoured of this whole DJ thing.
So, here goes a long winded story that will eventually lead back to this topic. Eventually.
Work took me to Toronto this weekend. It was a leader`s conference, which is basically just a bunch of high level management talking to us about how we need to improve our pitches and lives and images and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
The conference itself was a useless sack of horseshit. I didn`t have a lot of fun, but I did learn a lot.
Anyways, that`s not the point. The point is..we took Toronto turf and went out on a Team Day. Once a week my business goes around on Team Day. What that means is that you`re placed into competitive teams to see who can drop the most deals in the day while working with someone you rarely or have never worked with. Well, because offices from Whitby, Ottawa and Toronto as well as us were there, we had a larger, province-wide Team day. Now, on Team day, bonuses are usually put up. On an office level, these usually range no higher than a hundred dollars and rarely that. Because there were many high level managers there, they put up a larger bonus to the "high rolling" (most deals dropped) team. Teams are two people, and Eric from Ottawa and I took that money home.
"But Blake, how much is that? 50? 100?"
No. I took home 200 dollars in cash, plus my wage, plus my weekly bonus for deals dropped. I am god. What makes this so great is that I was up against people who have years of experience. I beat them.
So, today, we went to the Delta Chelsea on Yonge street in downtown Toronto, and I went to this boring conference. Afterwards, I realized how close I was to Ellen`s, and I called her.
I told her to meet me in the hotel bar, where I would be sipping on 7 dollar rum and cokes and waiting for her. She arrived fashionably late, and we began to chat about life and things in general.
We toured from there when I realized that I didn`t want to pay that much for shabby rums (on a sidenote, they made the best liquid cocaine I`ve ever had. It was a perfect burn, and I want to know how they did it.) and we got coffee. We continued to chit chat, and all was well, and my boss sent me a text message explaining that he needed to know where I was, and that I was to come back to the hotel.
I left with Ellen, and headed back. I found my coworkers drinking 23 dollar pitchers, and commiserating as to how much better I was than them. They informed me that they too were tired of high cost of mediocre drinking, and wanted to find another bar.
My coworker Cain noticed Ellen was there, and being a bit of a creeper and a horndog, immediately began hitting on her. Hilarity ensued.
I watched Ellen get hit on for a while, and kindly informed her to stay away from him, as he was a strange man.
We moved onward to a bar behind the Delta, and I sat beside Ellen, with Cain in quick pursuit. He hit on her more, and Ellen switched from making fun of me to defending me.
I ate two plates of the best Garlic Bread with Cheese ever and enjoyed a drink.
SO...here we see the full circle.
Ellen demonstrated that she needed help as far as her musical taste was concerned. I offered a few choice cuts for her to download and enjoy. She asked me what I was giving her, and I told her "DJ music". She commented that that was synonymous with Techno and she didn`t like Techno.
I shook my head..and moved onward.
Techno is not real DJ music. What is a DJ that can`t cut and scratch? I mean, I want talent here, not just some asshole with a beat from one hit, and the lyrics of another, and to make a mix. That`s garbage. Make music with awesome samples and scratch in awesome patterns. It`s a subtle art, and I love it.
Techno is also more danceable than Scratching. Scratching is like guitar solo songs. It`s only cool if you like the shit. But please don`t call Scratching Techno.
So, with that being said..I`ll give you more.
No one special. He has a cool mix and creates his own beats later by scratching. I hear that`s really hard to do. Scratching. Turntablism.
The Musical Equivalent of Journalismo. Techno.
Good Luck, God Speed.
THE BIZZLE and his OPERANT.
If you can`t tell, I`m absolutely enamoured of this whole DJ thing.
So, here goes a long winded story that will eventually lead back to this topic. Eventually.
Work took me to Toronto this weekend. It was a leader`s conference, which is basically just a bunch of high level management talking to us about how we need to improve our pitches and lives and images and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
The conference itself was a useless sack of horseshit. I didn`t have a lot of fun, but I did learn a lot.
Anyways, that`s not the point. The point is..we took Toronto turf and went out on a Team Day. Once a week my business goes around on Team Day. What that means is that you`re placed into competitive teams to see who can drop the most deals in the day while working with someone you rarely or have never worked with. Well, because offices from Whitby, Ottawa and Toronto as well as us were there, we had a larger, province-wide Team day. Now, on Team day, bonuses are usually put up. On an office level, these usually range no higher than a hundred dollars and rarely that. Because there were many high level managers there, they put up a larger bonus to the "high rolling" (most deals dropped) team. Teams are two people, and Eric from Ottawa and I took that money home.
"But Blake, how much is that? 50? 100?"
No. I took home 200 dollars in cash, plus my wage, plus my weekly bonus for deals dropped. I am god. What makes this so great is that I was up against people who have years of experience. I beat them.
So, today, we went to the Delta Chelsea on Yonge street in downtown Toronto, and I went to this boring conference. Afterwards, I realized how close I was to Ellen`s, and I called her.
I told her to meet me in the hotel bar, where I would be sipping on 7 dollar rum and cokes and waiting for her. She arrived fashionably late, and we began to chat about life and things in general.
We toured from there when I realized that I didn`t want to pay that much for shabby rums (on a sidenote, they made the best liquid cocaine I`ve ever had. It was a perfect burn, and I want to know how they did it.) and we got coffee. We continued to chit chat, and all was well, and my boss sent me a text message explaining that he needed to know where I was, and that I was to come back to the hotel.
I left with Ellen, and headed back. I found my coworkers drinking 23 dollar pitchers, and commiserating as to how much better I was than them. They informed me that they too were tired of high cost of mediocre drinking, and wanted to find another bar.
My coworker Cain noticed Ellen was there, and being a bit of a creeper and a horndog, immediately began hitting on her. Hilarity ensued.
I watched Ellen get hit on for a while, and kindly informed her to stay away from him, as he was a strange man.
We moved onward to a bar behind the Delta, and I sat beside Ellen, with Cain in quick pursuit. He hit on her more, and Ellen switched from making fun of me to defending me.
I ate two plates of the best Garlic Bread with Cheese ever and enjoyed a drink.
SO...here we see the full circle.
Ellen demonstrated that she needed help as far as her musical taste was concerned. I offered a few choice cuts for her to download and enjoy. She asked me what I was giving her, and I told her "DJ music". She commented that that was synonymous with Techno and she didn`t like Techno.
I shook my head..and moved onward.
Techno is not real DJ music. What is a DJ that can`t cut and scratch? I mean, I want talent here, not just some asshole with a beat from one hit, and the lyrics of another, and to make a mix. That`s garbage. Make music with awesome samples and scratch in awesome patterns. It`s a subtle art, and I love it.
Techno is also more danceable than Scratching. Scratching is like guitar solo songs. It`s only cool if you like the shit. But please don`t call Scratching Techno.
So, with that being said..I`ll give you more.
No one special. He has a cool mix and creates his own beats later by scratching. I hear that`s really hard to do. Scratching. Turntablism.
The Musical Equivalent of Journalismo. Techno.
Good Luck, God Speed.
THE BIZZLE and his OPERANT.
# posted by Blake @ 9:32 PM 
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Remember when we watched Yngwie Malmsteen's concerto in E minor and all you did was make fun of how it all sounded the same? That DJ Qbert thing was kind of like that. Only with a rabbit suit.
Liam: The video I posted about Q-Bert was an excerpt from a video about learning to battle. It`s intentional that the pauses are there and that it`s just fast scratching because he`s trying to show fledgling DJ`s how to perform and improvise.
So, Yngwie Malmsteen`s symphonic performance was not one of these, and was actually supposed to be a concert. I don`t hear the genius in it. I also like hooks in my pop though.
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So, Yngwie Malmsteen`s symphonic performance was not one of these, and was actually supposed to be a concert. I don`t hear the genius in it. I also like hooks in my pop though.
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