Can we now play any era of music and get away with it?... What do you think?

0:00 Exactly what I'm on about

Okay, I don't know if you can see that comment there. It was on the video I did which was that one there. So there it is. Now I'm going to explain exactly what I'm on about now or what this particular video is about. And first of all, very important, okay, I am still looking for silly hats. So when I do find some silly hats, I'll wear them. Let's look at the video I did and I played some old school sort of trance, techno, electro, funk, hip-hop, soul, reggae, whatever you want to call it because we don't really have an argument. So let's call it rock and roll. But it's not rock and roll is it? Why did I use that and why did I do a video tutorial about that? I did a video tutorial on that as opposed to say not modern day music. Now there's lots of ways of looking at this. Now first of all, at the end of the day, I can use whatever I want to. If I want to use hip-hop from 20 years ago, I can use hip-hop from 20 years ago. If I want to use trance from 10 years ago, I can use trance.

So in other words, I can use whatever I want to do videos whenever I want, so can you. So in other words, don't let people tell you what you should be doing, just do what you want to do, just so long as you're breaking the law or whatever. But here is a fact. Now if we go back say to the 60s, what music did we have? We had 60s and 50s, 40s, etc. You know you have the bluegrass, you had a bit of soul, Tamla Motown, etc. But you didn't have that many genres, not that many. Then you went into the 70s and you had the likes of disco, you had two-tone, etc. Then in the 80s you had the new romantic kind of stuff, you know reggae was coming out more into the top 40. And then of course 90s or sorry mids. Mid 80s you had house music, late 80s you had the rave scene, etc.

1:56 Around about sort of the mid 80s, house started coming about

Now around about sort of the mid 80s, house started coming about. We had drum machines, therefore we had perfect timing, 4-4 time and instead of a band, we had a drum machine making the tunes. So in other words, the BPM was set at a relatively good constant. Now let's imagine we start that point, we have a starting point of the mid 80s. Now mid 80s, 90s, 2000, we're looking at 25 years of dance music near enough. So if we look at that 25 years, let's say someone was born on the first day that we had a house tune turn up, 25 years ago, for argument's sake, they're 25 years old now. So let's say someone found a whole load of tunes from the day that person was born. And that person was born in the early 90s.

And that person was born in the early 90s. And that person went to a nightclub, and all of a sudden heard this set of those tracks. Now maybe that person will think, oh they're old school, they're crap. But maybe that person might think, wow, these are quite good, they're different, they're a little bloopy, they're very minimalistic, but I haven't heard that genre before. So what I'm getting at here is we're at an era now, we're at a time in dance music where any style of any dance music from any era can be played. This is faster, this is modern, and to a certain degree, is not necessarily modern, but it's in vogue. Because we've reached a point now where we can start bringing the old tracks in. It's like I said, if you're doing a set, and all of sudden you're going to be playing the banging electro-house tunes of, like today.

They were released tomorrow!

3:43 Play, twenty years, silly

And you have to play them because they were just only being released tomorrow. You can't play stuff that was played two days ago or sorry released two days ago, because it's old! It's not. from any era mix it into your set also think about this, let's imagine for example you have to like... it's cool how it is you have someone said I've got a bag on me, don't be silly, I wouldn't be that daft let's imagine as well you take your set from say the nineties and you go to a country that has only just got into the likes of dance music. Now think about it, that set is new to them, they don't know that all of a sudden the tracks you're playing from twenty years ago because they've only just been introduced to dance music

So in other words open your mind so again looking at that comment yes there is a certain amount of logic there but I mean I can play what I want I can do what I want and so can you. So in other words one way of looking at it is when you're constructing your set of modern-day dance music why not take it out of the box, look at it from another dimension and bung in tracks from five years ago ten years ago twenty years ago come back into the modern stuff as well. In other words do anything expand your mind play what you want when you want how you want and you never know you could be the next superstar DJ practice and enjoy thank you. Alright guys this is a video response to a comment there right check it out

Now first of all again I'm looking for really silly hats so when I do find silly hats

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