DJ Advise. When is a toon an Old toon?

0:01 Punk TV in it, this is how it should be, real life

Right folks, up here in the bedroom, dodgy hat on and no top, but there you go. Punk TV in it, this is how it should be, real life. Alright, now then, this is one of those videos where... Got out of my system. Alright, this is one of those videos where we talk about shit. We're going to talk about music now, and more importantly, new music. Right, it seems to me, and it's always happened, it probably always will happen, that every single DJ out there wants the newest track. You want the best tune. In other words, if it's not warm from the press, it's old. And quite often it annoys me because sometimes people say, oh you know, that was out three weeks ago or two months ago or whatever. Well, it's not like that. It shouldn't have to be like that. Because think of it from this point of view, right? There are a lot of people around the world that have never heard a lot of music. So for example, a track released today in the UK or the US is new.

1:12 Even though it's been released for a year

But a year from now you could have someone the other side of the world hearing that track for the first time, therefore it's new to them. Even though it's been released for a year. Now you imagine taking 100 songs that were released say, I don't know, a year ago and taking those 100 tracks to a nightclub or somewhere where they've never heard them before. To them they're new, to you they're old, to a lot of other DJs they're old, but... The beauty about it is, it doesn't matter. I think we need to start as a DJ community. Get away from this sort of, like, oh, if it's not, if it's like over two or three weeks old, it's, oh yeah, it's a crap track, it's old, it's old school, like it's retro. It's not. It's still new. No, another way. Hello? Cat's jumping all over the place.

Another way of looking at the way the dance music works now, modern day dance music has been going on for say, I don't know, early 80s, mid-80s, so we're looking at like 25 years. Now I bet you, alright, DJs of today who started DJing maybe a week ago, two years ago, three years ago, I bet if you got a load of tracks from say 20 years ago, old school rave tracks... Kitty, kitty jump!

2:29 Hold on, I'm not going to be nasty here, kitty jump

If you got a load of tunes from 20 years ago and did a set, people would think, a lot of people would think, wow that's a wicked set, but they're old school tracks. So in other words, what you may find is the really old style of dance music could be new because people forget about it and don't play it enough. Hold on, I'm not going to be nasty here, kitty jump. The whole emphasis of this video is not to think if a track is, say, more than two or three months old. It's old. You should think on the basis if a track is more than two or three months old, it is still new, it's uplifting, it's full of vibe, full of soul, full of hardcore, whatever style it is. It may be old to you, but to a lot of DJs out there, it's a new, exciting track. So dig through your box, and this is what I say to a lot of people, don't think when you're doing a set...

Thank you for watching.

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