) build up to a loud, crescendo of yelled lyrics and overdriven thrasy guitars) by the end of the song.At a progressive music gig, is it normal for the DJ to mix the beginnings (slow, sedate bits) of about 20 songs, then mix the middles of more or less the same 20 songs together, then mix the trashy uptempo endings of the (more or less) same 20 songs?...
In a side function room at the venue I was playing the main room last night, there was a private firms office do. One of their 40 or so work-colleagues was a bedroom DJ into "progressive" music, so...that group had decided to let him do the music for their party - I hope Doreen and Doris in "accounts" liked progressive music...
According to the waiting staff, the DJ was using this "mix the beginnings together", then "mix the middles together", then "mix the ends together" style, as described above - meaning that he got through only about 20 different tracks in 3 hours.
On a side note...(sit down, this will scare some of you) - in order to get his funky speakers up high, he turned a table upside down, slid 4 long poles over the legs, and then lifted another table (rightway up) ontop, so that the 4 feet of one table, rested on the 4 feet of the upturned table... the poles, about 2 or 3 inches longer than the table legs, basically kept the on-top table, in-line with the bottom, upturned one...
(im watchin the cartoon with my daughter at the mo)
