I-G @ Slabs of the Tabernacle 06.02.10 (Page 3 of 6)

just a word

I-G = R.E.S.P.E.C.T.

actually im the best 

well david is that what you said? which version do you play?

my mate was giving me a fairly hard time for my 'wrong' choice lastnight.

@karamanga the jesse one is the one no-one plays, so your friend gives you a hard time for not liking the one everyone else likes, sounds like a douche! i still think the jamie is more typical chicago sound, and the jesse sounds less typical, different to other things at the time. both rock of course, but there is no wrong version, and i-g didnt play it for a joke

this is so nerdy, as nerdy as it can be, even more

agreed - haven't people been playing both versions for over 20 years now?

think it's just called being able to mix tbh...

No need to get upset. I wasn't commenting about it any further than saying that simply being able to beat-match tunes that go together sonically is not something that in my opinion puts you in the "masters league". if I-G is in that league it would surely be for other reasons... that's all.

edit: I like I-G and am not criticising him in any way. I just stop short of some of the hyperbolic commentary on here.

pfff i wish i hadn't said that about the jesse record
i hate the "wellus, niettus" game on this forum, please guyz it was just an opinion

@QOB - glad there's no upset

"track choice is fantastic" - hehe let's not get stuck on the whole Jesse Saunders thing again... but of course I'll happily say the track selection is usually great with I-G. That's all well and good but surely in terms of saying this as a reason why he's great there's more to it than just owning good records? otherwise plenty of record collectors I can think of would surely also be considered world-class DJs...

"tracks fit together for reasons outside bpm" - well if they don't then you suck as a DJ, it's that simple! it's not something that makes you "masters league" to me just cos you think about more than matching bpm's when you mix records together. any DJ who doesn't suck has to do that. again I'm not saying I-G isn't great or "masters league" or whatever but again, surely if he is it's for better reasons than that?

"I stop short of some of the hyperbolic commentary on here" -> but why?

- well because I don't agree with it... I hope that's ok.

for me greatness as a DJ comes with taking risks, rewriting rules, giving a separate and distinct character to every performance/recording, being the master of every second of sound that comes out of the speakers and when you have to knowing how to ride the chaos, having deeper concepts/ideas that underpin the work, being prepared to live for the music above all else and of course having the mystical and unquantifiable "flow", "jam", "magic", whatever you want to call it... and being able to rock a crowd at the drop of a hat in any insane and unlikely circumstances that come up.

I read about Larry Levan that he once literally reduced a sober audience to tears just by the sheer beauty of the records he played and what order he played them in. That's what it's about, not simply having good records or knowing that mixing involves more than beat-matching... it's about connecting with people emotionally and making them move their bodies for hours on end.

Hotmix 5, Tony Humphries, Ron Hardy, Orlando Voorn, DJ Discotizer, Fast Eddie, etc were all examples of truly great DJs for me. I don't think anyone's giving them any competition right now or anytime soon... but I-G has certainly got good records and is very good at what he does, I'm not arguing with that.

agreed... esp about Ferenc.

I think IG is great because he has a really nice record case.