High school reunions are great because you can meet up with all your old friends and reminisce about the good old days. On the other hand for some people use this event as an opportunity to brag to their friends about there success. I never really liked high school and much preferred to stay home practicing my mixing. I don’t I think that I function well in class room. Looking back on my life now I can honestly say that not much has changed. I still DJ and that pretty much has been my job since the beginning. I wish I could say I accomplished more but, still after all these years at the end of the day all I want to do is mix records. I guess the closest thing that I have come to a “high school reunion” was at the Origins party hosted by Smirnoff Vodka. The concept of the party was to bring all the DJs who were the originators of the different sub genres of the Thai rave/party scene. I’ve been around for ages so I guess the promoters saw it fit to invite me to spin. Other movers and shakers that were invited were, Sound Element crew, Spyda Monkey, Pauly and Pichy. The interesting thing about the event was that I really thought everyone was going to play tunes from the good old days, I mean like 1990 -1997 type steez. To my suprised I was the only one going that far back with my selection, everybody else just played the current hits. I think my tune selection kinda weirded people out, as most kids weren’t even born by that time(kdding). I really thought Ganja Kru’s True Playaz anthem would kill em…. but it was a very lukewarm reaction. Some of the tunes were the old releases on the Urban Take over label. I thought they might be interesting to play but still it looked a bit slack on the dance floor. Fortunately I did get one good reaction and it was when I played Ray Keith’s Chopper. I had a mixed bag full of goodies from back in the day, I’m just a bit depressed I didn’t get to play them all. Good thing that there is the MTV party this Tuesday and Goldie on Thursday, both parties I will be spinning at so I am hoping that I will get the chance to redeem myself. For those parties I will throw in some classic tunes but mostly I’ll play safe and drop the current releases. Overall it would have been cool to have all the DJ’s play there favorite cuts from back in the day. Doing that we all can definitely hear how much dance music has changed, it would also remind us of all the great experiences we had raving til morning when we were kids. But most of all those tunes would remind us about why we were so inspired to become DJs in the first place.
