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sparks

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  1. I doubt he reads it, and recently he's got a bit numb towards anyone disliking anything anyway. Putting it down to 'people love to hate him' and he ' always gets a good reaction in the clubs with ' whatever tune. But then again, he doesn't see it from our end. The kind of reaction OTHER DJ's are getting from the floor end, the conversation between paying clubbers, and boards such as this.

    He is still filling his club isn't he. Just mostly with deaf wankers maybe.

    i must be deaf ..............going off to play with my self :D :eek:

  2. Sadly I think part of this is due to the fact that trance (and dance music in general) had moved on and reinvented itself over the past few years. Go back to the early 2000's and Jules was playing full on banging sets with energetic peak time trance, a bit of hard house here & there and the odd obscure techno track (BXR anyone?) thrown in for good measure. That's what everyone loved Jules for; his sets a complete mash up of all that was pumping. Dance music as a whole has moved on. Most straightforward trance these days is very samey and it's only once in a while (in my opinion) that a truely stand-out track is released. Go back to the early to mid 2000's and there was such an array of fantastic trance that it was hard to keep up. A lot of trance has also adopted a more progressive sound (what I like to call the "Arnej" sound). It's melodic and it's well produced but it just doesn't kick and personally I like my trance to kick. There's a lack of energy there, nothing that makes you want to move. Even artists (Cosmic Gate for example) who have produced some real hard-edged stuff over the years have moved over to the more progressive style. Techno has also gone all minimal on us which has taken tech trance the same way leaving tech trance & tech house virtually indistinguishable. Sure, there are artists like Peppelino producing the more banging side of techno but to my ears it all sounds the same. Likewise there are still a few producers producing the harder side of tech trance but with the exception of Mac & Taylor, BK, and a few others the rest of it just sounds like the sort of stuff that JOC and Bryan Kearney have been churning out for the past couple of years which doesn't give much variation. Hard trance has also changed. Virtually all of the hard trance I've heard over the past couple of years or so is that Steve Hill vs Technikal style tacky stuff which is, again, very samey. I think that partly Jules is just trying to move with the times. Granted, many of the J&T productions / bootlegs are utterly shocking (which supprises me since the past couple of Tristan D productions have been outstanding) and some of his track selection leaves a lot to be desired. Back in the day though Jules was famous for dropping these wacky & wonderful tracks that no one else was playing and I think that's what he's trying to do here but missing the mark by a country mile. I don't think Tristan is helping matters either and at times it does seem like he is in it for his own gain. Before the whole J&T thing I wouldn't have had a clue who the hell Tristan D was. I now, of course, know him to be a bad influence with a strance face. So yes Tristan doesn't seem good for Jules but at the same time even without him we wouldn't see the return of the Jules of old because dance music has simply moved on too far.

    Essay over

    spot on trance / dance has changed / jules has always been a dj people love to hate ......

  3. :lol: This time next week we should be on our way to MOS! I'm really excited.

    BTW, as l've never been to MOS before was just wondering whether it's normally hot or cold inside (temperature). When l went up to Glasgow to see Jules and Eddie it was freezing cold in the 02 Academy due to the air conditioning working overtime :angry:

    every time i have gone its been fine in a t shirt :thumbsup:

  4. Obviously sparks, we don't know you very well, but if you want to give someone your mobile number via PM on here, I'm sure we'll say hello on the night. If not, cool beans. We'll all just share the report after. :thumbsup:

    Mike W if you want somewhere to go on the Saturday too, there's this...

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    no worrys will sort out sendind on my number ,just sorting out what time we will turn up :thumbsup:

  5. i bet you'll hear them......

    Yep we heard them on Sat night along with the J&T remix of snow patrol and they seemed to work as every one had their hands up in the air ! :rolleyes::rolleyes: As for working in somewhere like Gods K I dont think he would have played the same set as he would have in bristol so you cant compare. The dancefloor in bristol came alive as soon as jules came on but within 20 mins of him leaving and Matt Hardwick coming on there was a very noticable difference and not much movement on the floor

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