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Choral Reef! Forgot about that! Massive "Jules tune" at the time! Ralph Fridge - Angel would be guaranteed if he were to do a classics set. Its one of his all-time favourites. I would imagine he'd play Team SR - Leaving London too. I think that still stands as his most supported tune on Radio 1 (wasn't it something like 26 weeks of airplay?). He likes it so much, he also played it twice during his set at Global Gathering 2006 too! :shifty:

Yeah, despite Jules not being the DJ that he once was, and not my cup of tea at all for the past 3 years - overall, he's still my favourite DJ of all time. One of his main criticisms over the past few years has been his mixing and lack of set flow - but 10-12 years ago, that's where Jules stood out from the rest. He'd think nothing of doing a really long, 2-3 minute mix that sounded absolutely genius. He'd also not be afraid of pulling off 'risky' mixes - you know the ones, mixes where you'd never expect two tunes to go together. Mixes that other DJs simply wouldn't even dare to attempt - yet Jules would pull it off with ease and make it sound amazing. He's also one of the very few DJs that, throughout his career, has never been afraid to play a variety of genres in one set - he'd often play his old pacey Euro-House sound, Trance, Tech-Trance and Techno all in one set - yet make the set flow perfectly with none of the genres sounding out of place. Jules was very unique in his DJ'ing style. If you turned up to a club not knowing who was on the line-up, you'd instantly know Jules was playing without even seeing him simply through hearing the tunes that were playing - the sound that us Jules fans referred to as "The Jules Sound". Generally, fast-paced, 'fun', bouncy tunes of various genres that you could associate with him. He also wasn't afraid of his critics - if Jules felt that a tune was good, he played it - whether it was a more 'underground' Techno tune, a top 10 chart hit, or one of "those" bizarre tunes that he occasionally played throughout his career. Whether every DJ was playing it, or whether he was the only DJ in the world playing it. Whether it was signed to a massive label, or signed to a minor label that nobody had heard of. Whether a tune had had huge chart success or whether nobody had ever heard of it - Jules didn't care! He'd play them all. Thats why there will never be another Jules. Everything is far too serious these days. DJs have to have 'a sound'. DJs have to be a brand. DJs won't touch anything if its entered the charts. DJs won't touch anything if it could be regarded as "cheesy". Every DJ is playing the same tunes, and everyone knows what they are. None of that bothered Jules. Even today, 10-12 years on, there are still unidentified tunes from Jules's tracklistings because he was the only DJ playing them, and nobody knew what they were, or where they came from. That doesn't happen with DJs any more.

Tunes i'd always associate with Jules: Dark Monks - Insane (Steve Murano Remix) Mario Piu - Library Joy Kitikonti - Joy Energizer JamX & De Leon - Can U Dig it RBA - No Alternative Moogwai - Viola Yomanda - On The Level Nigel Gee - Hootin' Burgy - Lochfresser Citizen Caned - The Journey Yves Deruyter - Back To Earth Miss Shiva - Dreams (Cosmic Gate Remix) Riva - Stringer Excession - Altitude Angelic - Its My Turn Mauro Picotto - Verdi Mauro Picotto - Baguette Hi-Gate - Pitchin' The Clergy - Saints & Sinners The Clergy - Oboe Song (Green Martian Remix) Plus, I think these would be pretty much guaranteed if Jules picked his favourites from over the years: Brainbug - Nightmare Green Martian - Industry DJ Elite - That Fuct Camera Kristine Blond - Love Shy Lost Witness - Happiness Happening Ferry Corsten & Robert Smit - I'm In Love Hi-Gate - Caned & Unable

I don't think anything can be taken for granted with Radio 1 now. It wasn't that long ago that we all thought that Tong, Pearce and Jules all had 'safe' seats and were fairly valuable to Radio 1. 2 of the 3 have gone/are going - and Tong has had his show time reduced - therefore, I think Radio 1 have proven that they're not afraid to make changes to popular shows and presenters. Personally, I think Tong has only survived just to keep a little bit of stability to the schedule. I'll give it 12 months before he's gone too. The sad thing is, Tong and Pearce have good, natural radio voices and sounded equally at home on the radio as they do playing club sets. Jules has never sounded like a 'natural' radio presenter (he's admited it himself in the past too) - but he did have a very big personality, good sense of humour and incredible musical knowledge to make up for it. All three of them are very much the last traditional British radio/club personalities. Everyone knows who they are and respects what they've done even if their music wasn't their cup of tea - and thats rare these days. Its to easy for someone to say "he's crap" these days, just because they don't like their style of music. Unfortunately, the new presenters will simply be club DJs-turned-presenters. They'll lack the radio personality that Tong, Jules and Pearce have. This is why, in my opinion, Eddie Halliwell never really settled in. He was a great club DJ - but just lacked the charisma, personality and ability on the radio. He never really seemed comfortable on the radio - and the same could happen to the new guys.

They share the output mate - for example, when Westwood is on, he can be heard on both 1xtra and Radio 1 at the same time. Cost cutting I guess - why pay two presenters during the 'graveyard slots', when they can put one presenter on two stations. They'll more than likely do the same with the Dubstep show now

He did - but I can't remember what he said in his diary now. Possibly - but it also means he'll get less promos - so he'll have to search harder for tunes rather than picking the best of the freebies he's sent each week. It also means that Tristan D isn't likely to be needed, so therefore, Jules will be listening to EVERY tune he recieves himself, rather than the dodgy stuff that has been filtered through. It also means he'll have less, if any, media interviews to deal with, no critics following his every move to pick fault, or no expections from crowds - so it may mean that when he does DJ, we see a 'refreshed' Jules doing his own thing.

I think the problem there is that Jules said in his diary about 12-18 months ago that he'd got rid of most of his vinyl. He stated that he'd converted some of his old favourites to MP3 - but I suspect the ones that he's converted are the classics that he still regularly plays now - Kristine Blond - Love Shy, Lost Witness - Happiness Happening, Green Martian Industry, etc. I suspect the really dated and/or lesser known tunes are long gone. I do think he'll finish off with a special show though playing some of his favourites throughout his Radio 1 career - or he may even play snippets from previous shows, such as some of the outside broadcasts, etc. There are also rumours that he's being given an Essential Mix as a "goodbye" too - so hopefully that is the case, and he'll play a set of some of his favourite "trademark" tunes. I'd love to hear him dig out something like Altitude - Excession, The Clergy - Saints & Sinners, Citizen Caned - The Journey, JamX & De Leon - Can U Dig It & DJ Elite - That Fuct Camera. All tunes that you could refer to as "Jules tunes".

I suspect he's had an idea for a while that his time would be coming to an end sooner rather than later knowing that Radio 1 have been slowly removing the older presenters from the radio 1 schedule over the past few years - plus the fact that Radio 1 had reduced Pete Tongs show (the 'safest' dance show on Radio 1) signalled that none of the dance shows were safe (particularly when Dance Anthems, which out of all the dance shows, was the one more suited towards the age range of listener that Radio 1 are trying to appeal to). Its been clear for the past 2-3 years that Dance music isn't as valuable to Radio 1 as it once was - this was evident when dance music was removed from the schedule completely on Saturdays, and replaced with urban music - and even more so since Radio 1 shared some of its airtime with 1xtra - hence the introduction of Dumbstep. Personally though, regardless of whether Radio 1 had brought in Dubstep or not, I still think Jules would have gone within the next 12 months anyway. Simply because Radio 1 want younger presenters - plus Jules's decline in popularity in the UK. The reality is, ten years ago, up to around 5 years ago was a headline DJ and could fill a club just with his name on a line-up. These days, at places like Passion, Godskitchen and the Ministry of Sound, Jules is now just a support DJ. He's had an amazing Radio 1 career - and, sadly, i'm sure we'll never see another club or radio personality like Jules. He's a genuine legend and single-handedly launched many producers/DJs careers years ago such as Fabio Stein, Michael Woods, Paul Masterson - and many many more. Even thought Jules has said he's going to continue DJ'ing, its inevitable that with his new career as a lawyer, his gig diary is going to be much lighter due to other work commitments - so I think that the Queen should honour his achievements, services, and commitment to helping new artists, by awarding him an MBE, at least, when she's considering her new years honours.

I think the initial decline started as early as when Radio 1 made the decision to sack Danny Rampling and also when they cut live club/festival broadcasts. Seb Fontaine never really worked out, Fergie started off well, but then his sound changed and didn't really suit mainstream radio - plus Phil Kieran seemed to be 'guest' every week and the show became very predictable. Eddie took a long time to settle and only really hit the potential to become Jules's successor about 9 months before he left. Dance Anthems was ideal for a Sunday evening, and Dave Pearce has a natural radio voice. Personally, I always preferred Jules Friday show much more than the Saturday show too. The Friday show always represented Jules's club style and had less speech - whereas the Saturday show had more speech, more gimmick features, and always started off Housey (which wasn't Jules's main club style). Anyway, back on topic, it is now public that Jules is becoming a lawyer... http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/dj-judge-jules-departs-radio-1-to-become-lawyer-6273542.html

Not sure how much truth is in it, but i've seen it from several people online stating that Jules is set to announce his retirement from DJ'ing completely and is going into Entertainment Law. All online rumours, but with Jules's law background, his expertise and knowledge of the clubbing industry, his decline in popularity (and reduced bookings) at the 'specialist' big clubs like Godskitchen, Gatecrasher, etc - and now the loss of a previously guaranteed annual salary from Radio 1, it wouldn't seem too surprising.

Not overly surprised really and i've been saying on here for a while that I thought Jules would be the next victim of a Radio 1 schedule shake up. He's a legend - and he played a massive part in my DJ'ing/clubbing interest - but at the same time, he's been past his best for a while. Time to move on. Hopefully, with his departure from Radio 1, it'll mean that he's playing music that he enjoys - not music that he feels he should be playing to appeal to everyone. His sets have been dire for a long time, so hopefully, we'll see the end of the T&D mash-ups, horrific bootlegs, and cheesy crap - and he'll focus on good quality club-standard tunes again.

That whole tracklist looks rather poor in my opinion. If Jules is playing that stuff out in clubs, i'd imagine his sets to be rather dull at the moment.

I'm with Tom i'm afraid. Never been out to a 'proper' club on New Years Eve - for the same reason as Tom said, plus tickets are generally 3x the usual amount, for a 'standard' line-up that I could see any time of the year for a third of the price. Not to mention excessive drinks prices. I stick to mates parties/local clubs for NYE.

Good old DJ Kev!!

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The same as the majority of other Trance DJs - he's jumped on the "oooh, I have to play slow Trance too to fit in" bandwagon. "Fire it Up" has become "Watered Down". As Tom said though, there has been a severe lack of "bosh" around since 2008 - however, over the last 6-8 months, there's been some real quality stuff coming through - on both the faster side of Trance and the harder side of Techno - more than enough to keep him going if he wanted to switch back to that style. When it comes to that sort of music though, there are now DJs that are better at it than him. Indecent Noise is superb at the moment. Kearney is also playing the best he's ever played (although becoming very predictable with the tunes he plays at each gig), Askew is always very consistent - and JOC still hammers it out on occasions, although more often than not, he plays too much floaty, vocal rubbish since hes moved from Discover to Armada. All of them are better set builders than Eddie. That was always Eddie's weaker side - but his creativity, trickery and scratching made up for it - although he's even cut a lot of that out of his sets now. He still gives his massive ego a boost on regular occasions though by reducing the volume constantly throughout his sets so that he can hear the crowd chanting his name. Fantastic......

I'm struggling at the moment. I've been off work since July - and likely to be off work for around another 12 months because i'm waiting to have 2 operations. The government's sick pay/ESA rate of £67.50 a week to live on is an absolute disgrace - but I can't do much about its, so there's not really much point in me moaning about it. With regards to everything else going on out there at the moment - strikes, redundancies, etc - i'm afraid its one of those things about it at the moment, Labout left the country in a mess and its gonna take years to sort out - particularly as the current Lib-Con government don't really seem to have a grip on things either.

Not my cup of tea either. No really feeling Eddie's "new" sound at all - and all of his productions have been rather uninspiring so far too. As Tom said, this don't really do anything - it just plods along for 6 minutes. I always thought the original was a bit bland anyway really. As the saying goes, you can't polish a turd.

Is it possible to have a show without anything by Tristan D in it? I'm all for artists being supported - but Jules ignores so many good producers, yet will accomodate loads of Tristan D stuff - which, is only ever average at best. I can't think of one production, remix or bootleg that Tristan D has done that has stood out. The fact that no other DJ, other than Jules, supports his productions suggests that they're just not of a high enough standard to be supported by credible DJs. Sorry Jules, but you need another 'assitant/filterer/whatever they're called these days'. Tristan is a poor DJ, an average producer, and it seems as though he is trying to make a name for himself by working for you and living off your name because he's not good enough to 'break-through' on his own. Give him your "somebody screeeeam" voiceovers, some T&D Project bootlegs and send him to a Luminar Leisure venue. Should fit in a treat then! #somebodyscreeeeamatthetrancefamily

Yeah, thats what happened the last time I saw Jules. The DJ before him left the club with a full dance floor - and then it was, literally, half-empty by the time Jules was half way through his set and people were making those "WTF?" faces as they walked off. Two weeks later, in Jules's diary on his website, his comment about the gig was "the crowd were really up for it". Deluded! Thats when I realised that Jules had actually lost the plot and was out of touch with his audience.

Me too. Those are the best ones by far. Current compilations seem to have the same tunes on them all - just mixed in a different order.

Unfortunately, "proper" dance music doesn't sell compilations now (and why would it when we can get better Podcasts from respected artists for free). These things are now aimed at your average chav or student that can pick them up from Tesco.

He was a weirdo - but a legendary weirdo. You wouldn't get many 80 year olds running the London Marathon to raise money for charity like he did. He alone raised £40m for charity - and that's some going for one person.

That drop down list would have to be mahoosive though because the poll is open to, literally, everyone - not just established DJs and producers, but even people like us - for example, the unknown (well, was unknown until she got herself publicity for all the wrong reasons) that is Rebecca Saforia came in at something like 233rd this year just because she's spammed Facebook and DJ forums non-stop for 2 months. "for a laugh", a DJ called Mikey Mike from the Matt Hardwick & Trance Addict forums finished inside the top 100 a few years ago because the forums members voted for him to "make a mockery of the poll" - so to include every single DJ and producer of all levels in a drop-down menu would be impossible.

That's a nice theory - but unfortunately, it doesn't happen - plus it would get complicated with DJs like Ferry Corsten who are renowned for their productions equally as much as their DJ'ing. There are obvious ones such as Afrojack that you know have got votes based on productions - then there are DJs such as Carl Cox that you know have got legitimate votes based on his DJ'ing - but when it comes to people like Ferry, Sander van Doorn and Richard Durand, who produce as much as they DJ, how do you know whether they've got a "production vote" or a "DJ vote" without DJ Mag emailing the person that voted saying "Excuse me, but we noticed you voted for Sander van Doorn this year - was your vote based on his productions or DJ'ing?". Which then leads to your other comment..... So the only way of getting around the above problem is, in my opinion, to scrap the Top 100 DJs poll, and have two seperate polls - a Top 50 DJs poll, and a Top 50 producers poll. That should then result in "proper" DJs like Carl Cox and James Zabiela in the top 10 (where they belong), instead of number 89. It should then get crap like Gash Berlin out of the "Top 20 DJs" (where they don't belong) - and into the producers poll instead. Better still, just scrap the whole lot completely and let the whole scene focus back on the music again so that DJs get booked on merit - not because they've had a number 1 chart hit. Producers and DJ's are two entirely different jobs - so its about DJ Mag took notice of that and changed their poll accordingly.