DJ Godfather, Jitting, and Movement 2009
June 24
Detroit is a major influence of mine. I feel like electronic music really takes its own shape once its been passed through Detroit, and electronic music gets a certain richness after being experienced in Motor City. Ghetto Tech is a world of its own, it has its own history, its own artists, its own dance. Its 140-150 bpm dance music with a dirty edge and raw bass sounds, and its been around for a while.
Chicago Booty has been getting more and more popular recently with Busy P signing DJ Funk to his label, but Detroit is still just grinding away with underground releases and very little cross over. I can see that changing soon this stuff is perfect for mixing in with a 140 bpm dance set. The best place to search it out is at the Electrobounce website, run by DJ Godfather himself.
When I visited Detroit recently for DEMF 2009, virtually all of Sunday was dedicated to Ghetto Tech. The Doors opened and Electrobounce residents ran the Redbull stage for most of the day with DJs like Starsky and Clutch and Chicago Juke/Booty Pioneer DJ Deeon hosted by DJ Omega (if you don't know the name, he's the voice of Ghetto Tech, all those singalong moments of "ass and tittes" are generally his voice). When the fest was over, we went to the Electrobounce afterparty with virtually the same line-up but with Toronto's Syntonics added to the Line-up. The party was at the 5 Elements Gallery, in an area of town that wasn't nearly as well kept as the DEMF grounds. Across the street from the venue was a dilapidated pawn shop that would trade gold for rifles. The party was sweet, sweaty, and the crowd was diverse.
DJ Godfather murdered it, I've never seen a DJ go through so many songs so quickly, if a song ever got more than 40 seconds it was because he was beat juggling the hell out of it. There was some serious Jitting too with crews like the X-menn showing up, I wish I'd brought my camera, but I was a bit wary of carrying around my DSLR.
I found this on Youtube tho-
I got back from the afterparty around 6 or 7 and we stayed in the GM building that night.
I couldn't get the Ghetto-tech vocals from ringing through my head, and scenes from
Robocop, namely ED-209 laying waste to corrupt execs, kept me from sleeping.
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In a related note: Toronto artist Egyptrixx has a forthcoming release on Vicious Pop Records,
Grab the 12" and digital available July 21st featuring remixes by LVIS 1990 and DJ Godfather.
Check a 128k of the DJ Godfather remix here, and get the whole release exclusively at Turntable Lab!
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