Melbourne Beats

EvilSnakeWoman wrote:my mate felix was a jazz muso who used to play regular gigs at a club & is now international success... Ali B is here playing at the mo playin BA & 161... i dunno heaps of good musos/djs start from a residency.

...how would anyone know where to find them otherwise? *cheeky*

I think stopping is in best interests of all involved and you can all get back to chatting about the great line up that melbourne has (I am jealous)

BTW - ESW, who are you?

Amick wrote:this has turned into a circular argument of stupidity.

no it hasn't !

Back on track...


I made a picture for you ... Pictures make everything better! ha ha ha!!!!

Doesn't look nice enough imo

witty_pseudonym wrote:

gnat wrote:andy page

x a gajillion

he's great, but what is he doing locally gig wise????

The more I've thought about this the more I am convinced that the biggest/best current local DJ hero is.... OPIUO without any contest. I was at his gig a few weeks ago and it was RAMMED, he killed it AND he pretty much plays all the time (my point being that most good DJs that play all the time end up dilluting themselves big time (boogs, dave pham, nick thayer, etc etc... great DJs, but do they pack clubs on their own these days?)... he's packing clubs almost every week. Plus he has releases on international labels etc etc etc.....

BIGUPS OSCAR!!

mad khunt

aroes wrote:

Amick wrote:this has turned into a circular argument of stupidity.

no it hasn't !

OH YES IT HAS

It most certainly has not!

deviant wrote:

witty_pseudonym wrote:

gnat wrote:andy page

x a gajillion

he's great, but what is he doing locally gig wise????

The more I've thought about this the more I am convinced that the biggest/best current local DJ hero is.... OPIUO without any contest. I was at his gig a few weeks ago and it was RAMMED, he killed it AND he pretty much plays all the time (my point being that most good DJs that play all the time end up dilluting themselves big time (boogs, dave pham, nick thayer, etc etc... great DJs, but do they pack clubs on their own these days?)... he's packing clubs almost every week. Plus he has releases on international labels etc etc etc.....

BIGUPS OSCAR!!

mad khunt

I dont know if there's any correlation but he also doesn't chat shit on the internet much which is unusual and makes him something of an enigma.

Saturation is definitely an issue. Playing every weekend is not necessarily the best way to build a fanbase in this day and age.

Just saying I think the best way to promote yourself is STFU and make wicked tunes. Not that I'm guilty of either of those things.

Its oh so burial

Feigan wrote:^ if they want international success why would they need a platform in Melbourne?

Wouldn't it pay to leave and start your international reign of terror?

How many internationals reside in Melbourne other than Carl Cox and School of Thought?

Phil K
Jamie Stevens
Steve May (at least once upon a time)
Rollin Connection (they play Asia every now and then)
Danny Bonnici
Luke Chable (well he did reside here once upon a time)

^^^ those guys are great, but again, I don't think they could fill a [Melbourne] club on their own these days......

My bad, I wasn't clear. The above are all Australian - my query was for DJ's and producers not from Aust living here.

all above listed are amazing and a great sign of the talent Australia has.

AHMAYZINGH

deviant wrote:^^^ those guys are great, but again, I don't think they could fill a [Melbourne] club on their own these days......

well thats the thing isn't it?

there isn't one person who can fill a club, there aren't even that many collectives that can do it week in week out.

so whats the real issue, is it lack of local superstars, lack of original programming or just lack of interest?

Phil can fill a club. Of course he can. I mean, he's Phil!

youthful_implants wrote: so whats the real issue, is it lack of local superstars, lack of original programming or just lack of interest?

no lack of.

glut of.

glut of good gigs, glut of good venues, and not enough dedicated punters to go round.

this is a small city population wise for everything we got goin on.

:whatamidoinhereagain:

Scene is fine.

ghetto kitty wrote:

youthful_implants wrote: so whats the real issue, is it lack of local superstars, lack of original programming or just lack of interest?

no lack of.

glut of.

glut of good gigs, glut of good venues, and not enough dedicated punters to go round.

this is a small city population wise for everything we got goin on.

:whatamidoinhereagain:

hehe thanks for that Bo. makes more sense than what I said haha.

argument wrote:It most certainly has not!

I didn't come here for an argument, i came here for abuse

ghetto kitty wrote: no lack of.

glut of.

glut of good gigs, glut of good venues, and not enough dedicated punters to go round.

this is a small city population wise for everything we got goin on.

:whatamidoinhereagain:

Too many chiefs not enough indians

you mean native americans.

Too many kitchens spoil the lightbulbs in your top paddock

youthful_implants wrote:

deviant wrote:^^^ those guys are great, but again, I don't think they could fill a [Melbourne] club on their own these days......

well thats the thing isn't it?

there isn't one person who can fill a club, there aren't even that many collectives that can do it week in week out.

so whats the real issue, is it lack of local superstars, lack of original programming or just lack of interest?

Opiuo can fill a club... that's what I'm saying...

sorry mrj, but Phil can't really still fill a club on his own. Yes he is Phil, and he is awesome

Aw this forum is awesome! Always makes me smile.
Lots of wonderfully happy people are all in here.

How many people here actually go out on a regular basis anyway? Going to at least one gig min a week? Sometimes managing 2?

I know I don't. But I'm poor and old and by the time I'm home in my nice warm house I just can't be arsed leaving.

I honestly don't know that many people who will actually go and support at least one dnb/dubset/dub gig a week min most will pick their "crew" persay that they follow and go to their monthly gig and maybe roll out for a big name headliner who's being put on by someone they wouldn't usually check out.

Meh, Either way melbourne dnb scene is moving up theres heaps of crap on (I missed london though cause I'm old and was in bed still from the night before)

Can someone buy me a ticket to SOM? No really? Like take pitty on my and buy me one?

I got to at least one dnb gig a week :] usually 2 or 3 :]

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kinda sux if it's just the same heads go out to these parties each week to keep it all rollin.. def don't have numbers then.

and yes deviant - opiuo is sick kunt

I am old.... I go out at LEAST once, usually twice and sometimes 3 times a week, mainly due to that fact that I'm an alcoholic... haha

quietly... i recon someone needs to buy the heavy innit mailing list b4 they shut their shit down (and no can't DYI this one cos i'm povo). though personally i don't want them to shut up shop tres sad

Wouldn't that be illegal?

depends on the privacy agreement when they sign up... membership bases can b highly profitable if u get it the tick boxes/small print rite.

EvilSnakeWoman wrote:depends on the privacy agreement when they sign up... membership bases can b highly profitable if u get it the tick boxes/small print rite.

australia's privacy legislation is pretty tight on attempts to transfer membership information

what software are they using for their mailing list? you can tansfer lists but they'll all need to optin again.

Someone should just buy the brand

put it on ebay!

yeah, if it's sold as a business u should get access to client list

What is dubset?

EvilSnakeWoman wrote:quietly... i recon someone needs to buy the heavy innit mailing list b4 they shut their shit down (and no can't DYI this one cos i'm povo). though personally i don't want them to shut up shop tres sad

Have you ever tried asking them? besides i'm not on it so it can't be that useful


Oh and im extremely old, think your mum..... I only go to shit i haven't heard before or artists that were off the wall the first time. Its the youngins that parties need to survive. You gotta remember youngins follow trends, Th3y ar3 w@y coo13r 7han uS. They know whats goin on they just haven't got the ear for complex shit yet.

And the suburbs are full of the f'kers, do you know how often they pop out kids out there. F'k me!, its like its a freakin human farm. Plonk, plonk ....plonk
Anyway there are a shit load of bored teenagers walkin around. Just need to fool them into comin lol

enigneyratorelknaw wrote:

EvilSnakeWoman wrote:quietly... i recon someone needs to buy the heavy innit mailing list b4 they shut their shit down (and no can't DYI this one cos i'm povo). though personally i don't want them to shut up shop tres sad

Have you ever tried asking them?

I wont speak for the boys, but I highly doubt they would just 'sell' either their brand or their mailing list.



and, its not sad - its awesome. They made a massive successful brand out of Heavy Innit, a huge mark on the scene for dubstep here, and they are ending on a REALLY high note, rather than fading away to half arsed obscurity like so many other party brands. And they leave room then for other nights like Too Much etc etc to take the scene further.

Massive props to Affiks and Brendan, and the others, both for what they have done and the hard decision they just made.

Big ups Heavy Innit! :]

:BROHUGS:

:brohugs::brohugs::brohugs:

at least one of them is for me right sameo?

ghetto kitty wrote:

enigneyratorelknaw wrote:

EvilSnakeWoman wrote:quietly... i recon someone needs to buy the heavy innit mailing list b4 they shut their shit down (and no can't DYI this one cos i'm povo). though personally i don't want them to shut up shop tres sad

Have you ever tried asking them?

I wont speak for the boys, but I highly doubt they would just 'sell' either their brand or their mailing list.

why sell list its worth fuck all. Whay does everyone wanna hide information from everyone else?? Maybe that whats wrong no sharing of resources here. To many people think its a competition. Ya go looo

besides heavy innit is not a business its a movement innit

And why the crap doesn't any one use this emotion?>>>

and wheres my dinner?

and what the hell are you lookin at?

we're not selling anything

ez all, i've locked this ... if you want to start new threads in off topic feel free.

and for the avoidance of doubt, at least from outside, we're not (trying to) buy heavy innit's list.