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November 01, 2010 - Electro-Hop for the Whompstrong
With this one I really wanted to challenge myself and play some tracks that weren't 4 to the floor, minute in minute out, made to mix tracks and to feature a sound that I was digging around then. I don't think "Electro-Hop" is a real genre, or that anyone else necessarily refers to this sound with that term, but that is what it has always been in my head. Heard more in the Jamtronica / Festival scene than the Rave Warehouse, I was digging what these artists were putting down nonetheless. This is about as close as I could ever come to enjoying anything resembling brostep.
May 2011 is when I started releasing mixes as Sneakers in the Dryer. Prior to that, I recorded and posted about 15 mixes as "DJ Erock," a nickname I had been using since early high school - well before I understood what a DJ even did, I just knew I was into dance music. By 2009, when I first got a pair of turntables, I knew enough to know what a good DJ set should sound like and what it shouldn't. The DJ Erock mixes are probably closer to not good than they are good. As my hero, James Murphy says about DJing, "We want to take you on a journey" I released the mixes I recorded as DJ Erock as part of that journey - they're not technically perfect, they're not mind blowingly great, and they were never intended to be the final product of a DJ persona who would be seeking gigs. I just wanted to be transparent and share music along the course of my development. I'm uploading these mixes all to Soundcloud to have them archived for listening. Hopefully someone will enjoy, or at least take inspiration from these!
RJD2 - The Horror
Two Fresh - Third Day
Flying Lotus - 1983
Alex B - At Channel One
Panty Raid - Our Second Chance
Mimosa - FTMAF
Bassnectar - Kick It Complex
The Chemical Brothers - Keep My Compusre (Feat Aesop Rock)
Gorillaz - Every Planet We Reach Is Dead
Nightmares On Wax - Date With Destiny
Kanye West - Get Em High (Ratatat Remix)
Big Gigantic - Wide Awake
Pretty Lights - Gold Coast Hustle
Archnemesis - Diamonds and Glass
Sneakers in the Dryer
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Venue CV :: (DC) 9:30 Club Backbar, MilkBoy Arthouse, Denizens, The Black Cat, The Barking Dog :: (Baltimore) Baltimore Soundstage, The 8x10, Domefest, The Depot, Hour Haus, Funk E Fest :: (Other) Awful Arthur's - Blacksburg VA, The Brunswick Hotel - Lancaster PA, The Whole Cannoli - Harrisburg PA, Bangaroc City Music Festival - Philadelphia PA
Appeared with :: Pigeons Playing Ping Pong (x15), Papadosio, Space Jesus, Cristauff, Jon_MFD, Zoogma, Cloudchord, Mr. Bonkerz, FunkBot, DigitalDavy, Love City DJs, Segway, The Heavy Pets, Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty Band, Speakerbot and many more
- Genre
- Triphop