Dan Amitai

As some of you know, I’ve been a regular guest at Club Five’s Arcadia — a weekly “alternative” night that features “industrial, gothic, synthpop, ebm, indie, electro, 80’s, britpop”. I don’t tend to fit in too well there. There are a few reasons why. For one, even though I used to listen to industrial music all the time in high school, nowadays I go months without even looking at my KFMDM CDs. Secondly, I have no goth friends anymore, other than the ones I hang out with at the goth nights. And third, my mixing style is very unorthodox, especially when it comes to the goth scene. The way it was explained to me was: goth people are very particular about their music, so when a song comes on that they like, they want to hear it through. And, as you all know, I get tired of tracks after a minute and just switch to the next one. Last time I played one guy was so angry at me for not letting tracks play out that he called me an asshole and bla bla bla. It was intense!

Anyway, I still do it because I love music and I love DJing and I get more compliments than insults, so I’m coming out on top.

Here is a mix I made in preparation for my gig there this Thursday. I think I’ve done a good job at playing classics that everyone knows, playing out the entire track (well sometimes, but notice that I’m playing 18 tracks in an hour instead of in 30 minutes), and still having fun with a little scratching and looping. I don’t get too crazy with the mixing and there’s a lot of just straight cutting-through to the next track. This is how they like it!

LOLNIN

TRACK LIST
00:00 Massive Attack - Angel
05:45 Nine Inch Nails - Sanctified
09:00 Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin' Beats
12:10 Prodigy & Tom Morello - One Man Army
..... scratching: Charizma - Soon to be Large ("What? I've been using my technics")
..... looping: Snoop Doggy Dogg - Gold Rush ("I got lots of cash stashed in money bags")
16:45 Vitalic - Repair Machines
19:50 Prong - London Dungeon (Misfits cover)
21:55 Nirvana - Scoff
26:00 Orgy - Dissention
26:30 Vitalic - Newman
30:59 Benny Benassi - Satisfaction
34:57 The Hives - Coz I Wanna (Hyper remix)
37:58 Marilyn Manson - Dance of the Dope Hats (remix)
42:49 Daft Punk - Human After All
45:46 Apoptygma Berzerk - Rollergirl
49:38 VNV Nation - Genesis (Icon of Coil remix)
52:58 Depeche Mode - Behind the Wheel


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