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beats me wrote:I can't wait until a DJ gets on stage all Andy Kaufman style and as a "fuck all you" puts his laptop on a TV tray, hits the space bar, and spends the duration of his set leaning back in a leather recliner smoking a cigar and reading the paper.

Aphex Twin has come dangerously close to that level of performance on the odd occasion to be honest .

Personally, I think he's taking the piss out of everybody- the promoters, the crouds, the people that complain on message boards. Nobody in their right mind would do what he is doing unless its supposed to be an absolute joke. Why not keep doing it if you keep getting paid to do it. If promoters and people are dumb enough to take him seriously, then rock on Pete!

" Im messing with the eq. on the desk , as taught to me by the great Arthur Baker, to emphasise rolls hand claps effects etc, then you sneak the bottom end out then bring it back in suddenly for added frisson.Shit he will kill me for telling you!"



ummmmm, no he won't d00d..... the cat's been out of the bag on that one for 20+ years or more. every kid and his grandmother does it. find a new knob, and try again.

favourite Youtube comment

I actually have this mix CD he's miming to.... it's a free CD that was given away with Mixmag December 2003. It's a good CD, but that is the biggest piss-take I have every seen.

nebulae wrote:I agree, no one is beyond reproach...but you gotto give props to people who try things that they hadn't before...

+1

how about this one where the Mixmag jingle leaps in at 20 seconds!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecyuBs3WotI

Angstrom wrote:how about this one where the Mixmag jingle leaps in at 20 seconds!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecyuBs3WotI

olio89 wrote: i read on another forum that theres youtube video evidence of him playing out a cd from the british magazine mixmag because you can hear a jingle in his set

haha thats the one!

Now thats fucking brilliant,,
the only way it could be any more brilliant would be if it where Shaun Ryder!!!

Long live good money for old rope!!!

Oscar F wrote: No more a slap in the face to all those talented musicians out there who have to keep hearing how Dj's "perform" and are musicians also.

"A DJ who thinks he's a musician is like a milkman who thinks he's a cow."






. . . hey, I didn't say it!

Angstrom wrote:favourite Youtube comment

I actually have this mix CD he's miming to.... it's a free CD that was given away with Mixmag December 2003. It's a good CD, but that is the biggest piss-take I have every seen.

for fcukin' fcuk sake - if it is true then hook saves the day - He is more than Jedi.

Imagine - you get a suitcase of coke and a mix-cd taken from a dj-zine and charde 4 digit payment for that… oh forgotten smthng - "and a chicks for free".

Pitch Black wrote:"A DJ who thinks he's a musician is like a milkman who thinks he's a cow."

whoooaaaaaa!!!!!


that makes you a lactating milkman or a cow with opposable thumbs.

Pitch Black wrote:"A DJ who thinks he's a musician is like a milkman who thinks he's a cow."

it is possible to be a dj who is also a musician but surely a cow cant be a milkman?

I think its a bloody shame when a talented musician is reduced to this to earn a crust.

DJ's are musicians? Ever read the story about the Emperor's New Clothes?

"It shows a clip on YOU TUBE so out of context"

How is that video being taken out of context? He admits to being a fraud. People's first response to criticism is to say it was taken out of context. What context could make him not look like a tool in that video?

Hey, I know this dancing style. It's from Muppets/Fraggles!