DJ's: Producing and marketing your own CD's

[bigpoppa]

Originally Posted by StuckIn1979

Does anyone know of any good disco compilations that are mixed?

Actually, I have always liked the Dimitri series of Night at the Playboy Mansion series.

For everyone else - speaking of DJs, how can you have a thread talking about Larry Levan, Frankie Knuckles and Nicky Siano and not mention where THEY all learned it from, Francis Grasso.

[Cdnbob]

Just to stir the pot up a bit

...all of the DJ names that have been bandied about in this thread mean absolutely nothing to me, and I think never did to a lot of people in the day. They're all unknowns who back in the day - meaning back in my club going days (77-92) and I was a serious club going person - I'd never heard of them and they didn't mean squat to any of us going to the clubs here. This is not to flame their reputations or skills as a DJ but these peoples claim to fame was I think purely limited to their local geographical sphere (meaning not outside of the respective city where they DJ'ed). Names like Levan, Gibbons, et al meant absolutely nothing unless you frequented a club they played at. I don't think I'd ever heard of Larry Levan until maybe a year or year and a half ago, while Walter Gibbons I'd never heard of until I started frequenting this forum. And if I'd seen their name on a record at the time, it wouldn't have meant anything to me. I'm saying all this, because I tend to feel that the large vast majority of people who were into disco, these names didn't mean a thing. I don't think a lot of people even knew the name of the DJ who was playing at the club they went to. And, not dissing the skills of people like Levan and Gibbons et al, I'm sure there were DJ's in your local club who were just as good or maybe even better than these people and who never sought out the fame or got the recognition.

To me it was never about the DJ, but more about the music and the artist. I'm not dissing any DJ cause having done it myself, I know its a skill and one that you must practice at to be good, but I always felt that if the music in the club was good, encouraged you to want to dance and was mixed so that you didn't know it was being mixed or wasn't mixed badly, then the DJ had succeeded at his job. (I've never understood how someone can become a "star/celebrity" because they DJ in a club?) I don't think I ever knew the name of any of the DJ's of the clubs I went to except for one or two here locally in Vancouver, and I only knew their names because they were printed on an advert for that particular club they played in in the newspaper.