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DJ Lace
DJ Name – Lace
Email: [email protected] Genre Of Music: Trance – Progressive – Breaks Affiliations: 816 - VUTAG Websites: www.club816.com www.djlace.com www.vutag.com www.midivid.com How long have you spinning the decks for? 24 years What originally hooked you into the DJing scene? I left home at 17 and needed a job. I like girls and the cutest ones where in clubs. What type of music do you specialize in? Trance – progressive - breaks What is your most treasured record and why? I have no material attachment & have donated my entire record collection to younger local djs. (you missed out *_^) What events have you played at? I have played thousands of gigs across North America & Europe What National / International club nights have you played at? I don’t keep track, most large outfits have booked me. Are you a resident DJ, if so where? Trance & club electronic 11pm to 6am every Sunday at 816 Trance & club electronic 11pm to 6am every second Thursday at 816 Any other information? It’s difficult to explain what I do in life in a couple paragraphs. I’m a multi-medium artist. I also play live electronic, devise and implement music and video performance technology, have trained local & international artists DJ & midi composition/live performance, I build everything from midi controlled robotics to large scale sound systems. I run a local design and fabrication laboratory called VUTAG and I also used to teach electronic music production in a local school. I do the best I can to inspire young artists to achieve their dreams (yet keep a level head). I’m living mine every day and enjoy life. I don’t promote much, but I manage to pop up every now and then on local forums to say hello and check out the vibe. Everything I do centers around electronic art music and technology (& girls *_^). I achieved international success in the 90s with many releases, but hated the music industry so I got out (if you ever had to deal with morons like C. Sheppard & DR. Trance you’d get out too). Most people I have met in the international music industry are driven by various forms of vanity and/or greed and I just don’t have time for it. Everybody needs to make a living, but the music industry is a mess. It’s unfortunate but it’s true. After years of traveling, Home is where it’s at. The BC scene rocks and the local djs are better than most international djs I have played with. I give my audience 100% of my abilities when I play but I have never considered DJing to be an art form or something of importance. It’s just a cool job designed to help people release the tension of life by dancing and having some fun. It’s that simple, really. It does take skill and dedication just like any career, so you have to apply yourself to succeed at it, but it’s not rocket science by any means. True professionals are far and few between. “Respect the crowd” is a mantra. If I can help you forget your weekly problems for a few hours and make you feel like dancing, that’s what matters most. Oh by the way a note to new djs: Vinyl is dead. CDs are now, Memory cards are the future. Go buy a laptop. |
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May 30, 06
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This is quite possibly the best thing I have ever seen written on this site. Couldn't agree more and couln't have said it better myself. Well done! |
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May 31, 06
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LOL Awsome... btw have you at all tryed the DVDJ thing? I'm thinking of giving it a shot, but wondering how its going out there for DVDJs so far? |
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Jun 06, 06
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Also keep in mind audio/video performance is nothing like audio only. A complete other world where the rules are all new. The connection with the audience is much more engaging and for a DJ type show, a careful balancing act must be achieved to avoid falling into the "much music video dance party" trap or audience paralysis. Visuals and audio in perfect synch tend to have a deeper psychological effect on an audience. It's entirely feasible to predict that in the near future, people will go to a party expecting a certain level of synchronicity between all the information mediums present in the room. But most people will need more multitasking experience before that takes off. It's very true that we only process one conscious message at a time, so to multitask we need to think faster. Funny how everything boils down to time. It's a tall order we are evolving towards, with the help of pervasive information technology such as on demand protable A/V cell phones. Techno savvy ravers (&co) may have a head start, but an experienced A/V artist can still stun anyone in any audience with the right combination. It may sound cool but it's not. We are all still that easely re-programmable and ultimately..fragile. So this will require a level of personal information processing that most people aren't quite used to yet. The current average audience tends to stop dancing when you cross the border between a dance music performance and a movie. There's nothing more disturbing for an artist to notice that he/she has stunned his audience into information paralysis and everyone is just standing there lost in the screen. It's scary. I took me years to find the balance, and I usually pull back towards audio dominance a lot in my a/v shows. The music must come first. The audience may still enjoy the show (maybe even more) but you may end up missing the original intent (And may be screwing with people's minds if they are too high), which is first and foremost to create a physical acitivity based on rythm (dancing). The dancing is a priority, because the repetitive physical workout is the main part of what drives the experience. Remember part of the original idea is to get people to forget things for a little while, allowing the conscious mind to take a back seat and letting the subconscious and physical take the lead, so throwing visual information back in the mix is tricky. Few VJs can really pull that off. It's easy to throw fractals on screen, anybody can do that, but it gets much harder as the pertinence of the visual information increases. You could write a book on the effects of A/V peformance, especially when dealing with frame rate changes and image strobing. So I am condensing a lot here. but I hope you get the idea. So in conclusion, I highly recommend experimenting with any visual performance device, and if money is no object, then sure buy a dvj-x1. Otherwise I would buy a laptop and run vj software instead. Most good VJ programs can scratch already. I think you'll have just as much fun and save some cash. Hope this helps. Cheers Lace |
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Jun 06, 06
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Personaly DJing isnt realy enough for me. Ive always been a huge fan of mixing music and visuals together. Most visual ppl just dont do it for me and or can never realy match up with the dj if they dont know what their playing... hence whyI think DVDJing has a little bit of a boost. I dont think the point is to realy amazing ppl with visuals, but realy just have something to go along with what the DJ is playing. Next would be to have a DJ controling hte lighting :p But wow seems like you have alot of experince under you belt, so whens your next visual show??? Last edited by Ree Fresh; Jun 06, 06 at 04:38 PM. |
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Jun 06, 06
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For the last couple years I've been working on a few things. A new realtime 3d version of Midivid with Dj midnight that is now almost out of beta (you can see it in action any night at 816 under the control of Jess), DMX leds, replacing my entire MIDI rig with computers, and what has eaten up most of my time, my custom laser/video system. In other words a complete re-haul of the summer love type laceshows. So far I have Succeeded in testing a MIDI laser frame player that allows me to overlay laser graphics with source video, but the synching is still dodgy. Laser projector galvos have mechanical limits that make realtime video imaging very difficult. I'm close, but not quite there yet. stay tuned. :) For the vjs in the scene, the beta of MidividGPU is available for download at http://midivid.jasondorie.com/ (dj midnight, the programmer of midivid). It also supports freeframe plugins. Last edited by djlace; Jun 06, 06 at 07:39 PM. |
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Jun 07, 06
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In essence my show to me has always been a sort of giant photo-painting that moves and makes noises. it's not a rock concert, dj gig, live pa or a dance movie (in fact I call live electronic not live pa), it's a big ass painting you can dance on front of. Because I view it as a audio-painting, I give my audience the option choosing how much of it they want to take in. That's why I like playing raves, because raves are supposed to be different from the norm, and I think what I do is also. So Very much like a painter/photographer I disappear for ages look for new ideas and concepts, and develop new ways to show it to the public, display it for for a season then put it away and make a new one. IT's all one very long continuous process. I have been asked many times to take chunks out of my shows and release them as singles, like the alphabet jungle track a few years ago, but I have found it hard in the past to remove one piece out of the whole picture because I compose my works as 1 hour pieces that progress. Although I have to admit that as far as Elmo was concerned worried about pissing the children's television workshop, for whom I have great respect. I think it's a bit more memorable for the audience too as they experience something unique, that cannot easely be copied since my screen ratio is 36:9. I am starting to try writing short pieces and am getting better at reducing things down to 4 minute video songs. I've been doing the live av stuff since the same time as bands like cold cut, but found they were always better than myself at releasing "single" videos (Timber is a phenomenal piece about the rain forest it's online if you haven't seen it) and promoting themselves. You can see one of my later collages online here: http://www.bolt.com/vutag/video/796472 it's called the goose and uses old american propaganda footage to display america's irresponsible take on their own environment. That one piece took about 2 months to create, from concept to final editing and live recording. The whole thing was midi triggered live as individual samples and recorded in realtime to DV without any mix automation. With this one I was able to do the opposite: write a short downtempo song in 4:3 format then remix it as a drum & bass track for the shambalah 2003 show. This develop-compose-perform-a-one-hour-piece cycle is the main reason I take forever to reappear between summer seasons, and most people forget who I am by the time I do. By the end of a season my name starts to get out again...and I disappear for another 2 years. Artist curse. LOL Incidently I'm on vacation for a week, which is why I can give everyone a bit more infol, next week I'll probably disappear again. But I'm always available via email for enquiring artists and tech questions. I hope the fnk board is ok with me writing these really long replies. :) Cheers Last edited by djlace; Jun 07, 06 at 11:18 PM. |
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Jun 07, 06
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I found a good link for the cold cut video. it's awesome stuff check it out, you may recognize the track from a recent commercial, however keep in mind the video was created in the mid 90s. very advanced stuff for that era.
http://video.download.com/3800-11168_53-12303.html enjoy |
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Jun 10, 06
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The old world sound system drove me nuts. The previous sound company really pulled a fast one on the club. So I've just finished replacing the 4 old control30 speakers with 6 new JBLs mp415s. The sound is already much improved. I'm currently building a set of double 18" & double 15" bass bins for the main dance floor, Moving the entire old main dancefloor sound system to the secondary system by the coat check so the second dance floor crowd will get a better experience. We now have an extra 4000 watts or so extra power in the form of 3 new crown amps and I'll be moving the amp rack to the back by the coat check behind a floor to ceiling glass door. This will all be ready by sept. We are also adding a commercial airflow recirculation system in the smoking room, which will get rid of all that cigarette smoke in there and improve the overall temperature of the whole club. Then we are adding 2 plasma screens, a few more lasers (red & yellow this time) and finally rebuilding and expanding the entire DJ booth out of tubular steel. So as you can see I'll be there for a while yet. The confusion might be because the owners of the club and I have started a new company together called 816 productions. We have booked 6 dates at the maritime hall for parties starting in september, and I am designing the production system. We are also looking to start some nights in other clubs such as tokyo lounge & cyber club. Lots of cool stuff up ahead. :) |
