the wee djs

[Jay Pace]

Saw this fella at bloc

Really impressed. Still can't quite figure out what sort of music it is.

Feels techno to me... loads of attitude, the structure makes me think of techno and the way it rolls - but there's no 4/4.

Dead good set here: http://www.basterdized.com/the_wee_djs_-_LiveSet_Sept2007.mp3

website here:
http://www.thismachineisbroken.co.uk/

[TechMouse]

As a rule I'd label it Electro, but it's definitely very dark rough Electro.

Dave's a wicked bloke.

[MARK ANXIOUS]

yeah that's really good stuff isnt it. dark electro but with bags of atmosphere and innovation. straight on the ipod :)

[DVNT]

Superb stuff. I love the wee djs.

Wicked pure dark electro. Really wanna catch him live. Got some excellent mixsets from him. I'll have a look for them Jay and post them up.

edit: http://www.thismachineisbroken.co.uk/ Nab them. He did a wicked set on the Breezeblock a while back.

edit2: oh, you already gave his link. lol.

[DVNT]

Also, if you like this stuff, check out the Agent2 stuff forthcoming on Subgrade Records.

[DannyBlack]

I like this a lot, I'd call it Minimal acid schranz hard industrial electro-tech.

[Jay Pace]

Was really impressed. Felt like a totally new sound to me, very innovative.

[TechMouse]

@Jay: Check out Digital Distortions... http://www.digital-distortions.co.uk/

[DVNT]

Jay. check out previous MANTIS broadcasts. Lots of stuff like this. :)

We had Bushby (Co-owner of the excellent Digital Distortions) on #12. :D

www.myspace.com/mantisradio :)

[DVNT]

/plug

[massplanck]

Was really impressed. Felt like a totally new sound to me, very innovative.

lol. I found it funny in the Block thread where you were complaining about there being too much electro whilst bigging up the wee djs and this crazy new style he was playing . ;) It just wicked electro. And there is plenty of it. You should check some of Volsocs stuff. Also make sure to download the monthly mixes that 214 posts up on http://www.electroalliance.net/

214 February 08 mix

www.zebox.com/214 (stream or download)

http://zebox.com/cgi-bin/artists/dl.cgi?214_-_214_February_08_mix.mp3+q+d1 (direct download)

tracklist

AS1 – From the Above – Transient Force
Supreme Ja – Digimachine (DJ Wreck’s Ghetto Bass mix) – Subsonic Device
Abstrakt Knights – Six Number Test – Cultivated Electronics
SST and Glitch – Snail Trail – Apparatus Recordings
Brice Kelly – My Technology – no label
Alpha 606 – Domino (Phoenecia remix) – Dopamine
Ignatius – Gridpit (Bot23’s Piggrits remix) – Buried in Time
Ben Milstein – blahblah - Subartifact forthcoming
Senor Frio – Jeanegille – unreleased
Clatterbox – Vector Model – Touchin Bass
Pal Secam Kids – WBS_70 – Spacebar Sentiments
Silicon Scally – Proteus (the wee djs mix) – SCSI AV
DST – Lifeforms – Subgrade Records

[massplanck]

@Jay: Check out Digital Distortions... http://www.digital-distortions.co.uk/


Yip. Busby does some wicked mixes.

But I am going to be a twunt and once again the bass can be lacking in some digital sets.

[Jay Pace]

I've honestly never heard anything like that. Electro/dubstep generally bores me, never keeps a rhythmn and is to sparse to hook me in.

There was too much of that at Bloc - sparse breaks stuff that made me feel tired/bored.

Thing I liked about the wee djs was that the beats fell in regular patterns. They provided a pretty consistent framework that all the mad atmospherics and synths were built around.

I like techno for the same reasons. You get into a rhythmn, forget about the rhythmn and focus on all the percussion and sounds surrounding the beat

Does all techno have to be four to the floor?
Is it electro by virtue of its off-beat drum programming?

[massplanck]

Does all techno have to be four to the floor?
Is it electro by virtue of its off-beat drum programming?

generally. but who gives a shit. ;)


your right though the wee djs blurs the two.. as does good dubstep I reckon.

[TechMouse]

Is it electro by virtue of its off-beat drum programming?
The textbook definition of electro is anything where all the sounds are electronically generated.

Like most pigeonholes though, it's come to mean a specific sound rather than a methodology.

I preferred it when names like "Techno" or "Electro" meant more about how you went about making the music than what it sounded like. You got more variety then.

[eyeswithoutaface]

good call, the wee djs are ace, been around for about ten years now though, so certainly not new, and i wouldnt say particulary innovative, clever certainly and very professional, just obviously care about what they do and they have a really good heavy electro sound going on.

check out "9k" on Spacebar Sentiments 01

lovely stuff

[clubsynthetic]

yeah i played after him at slashdot in Edinburgh and his set was very nice, very dark. Sound geezer too