Muujun.

The lovely people at Fat! decided to ask me a few questions ahead of my Fat! debut in a few weeks. Unfortunately, due to my intrinsic nature of having a lot to say, they got a bit more than one word answers.
They said nice things about me too, which is often a rarity…

Like most things in life, DJing is often governed by rules about what you can and can’t play, what is acceptable and what isn’t. Stacey McDonald, aka Jung, is a perfect example of just how good it can sound to not just tear up the rulebook, but grind it down to a fine paste. Ahead of the next Chew The Fat! @ The End, he took some time out to answer a few questions about genres, blogging, and the state of DJing today….

You can have a  read of it here…

http://www.thefatclub.com/interviews/chew-the-fat/jung.html

Thanks to Wub for the interview.

Due to the utter amount of shit I seem to be getting on MySpace these days, I have decided to stop using it for general banter and just DJ / Music related stuff.
As such I am going to delete my old account and have set up a music MySpace instead…

myspace.com/jungcantdj

Feel free to add me, I have only got about 20 friends at the moment, which probably illustrates perfectly the amount of talent I have.
I’ve also written out a new biog / about me type thing, which you can find on aforementioned MySpace or also here

Oh and I’ve updated my listings as well.

I have seen the rising culture of blogs hosting copy written (or otherwise) music for download discussed in various places, mainly on the issue of it being right or wrong in terms of copyright and piracy, but I want to talk more about the advantages and disadvantages for a potential blogger themselves, and how this might effect them.

Is it wrong, or can exceptions be made in the light that it allows the music to reach a wider audience who may not have discovered the aforementioned tunes before?

I have thought about the idea, but often find myself feeling that if it were something I were to do (which I doubt I would, for various reasons) it would hinder my progress as a DJ, by allowing me to become known as someone who doesn’t pay for his music (See disclaimer at bottom of post*), although I do know of people who are downloading music from Hype Machine and then going and playing it in a packed club an hour or two later (I am not saying this is right or wrong).
Offering music on a blog to download for free would probably also hinder being given promos, as although a clause is ’signed’ stating the music wouldn’t be shared, an element of doubt would probably come from the artist or label.

On the other side of the argument are artists and labels who see the blog as an entirely different promotional tool, and actually allow their music to be blogged and downloaded in order to gain them exposure, perhaps even sending the blogger free tunes up front as exposure, this functioning as a more up to date promo tool. Also more functional than the current model, as lets face it, promo lists are a dated concept, sending records to DJs who are pretty likely to think the record is shite and put them in the ‘melt down and make bowls with these’ pile.
Whereas in this case, a DJ can download tunes that HE/SHE wants and play them out, giving the tune and label more exposure by being played in public, than it ending up in the bin because it wasn’t to their tastes.

The final point, is that of course there are people who will download the tunes, whether they have been released or not, and then not purchase them if they like them. But my opinion is such that these people would not pay for the music anyway, and would most likely download their music for free from another source.

It’s an interesting topic I think, with positive and negative points to either side, one being a potential financial loss, the other being increased exposure for the artist and label, thus leading to a potential financial gain.
At the end of the day, there is no way Justice and the majority of the Ed Banger camp (I’m using this as an obvious example) would be as huge as they are without the hundreds of thousands of kids chasing the next big thing downloading their tunes from blogs.

I leave you with this thought, it functions in the same model as your local heroin dealer, offering you a cheap buzz at a discount price, he makes a loss but before you know it you have a £100 a day habit and he is laughing all the way to his own dealer and quite possibly incarceration.

*Disclaimer: I can assure you for the sake of the argument, and before there is a witch hunt at my door, the only music I download for free and play out is unreleased bootleg remixes, any legitimate tunes are purchased before I play them out, although this is something done for my own conscience and support of the artists more than anything

It’s been a while, and I’ve kind of lost touch with this place. Couldn’t be bothered to write anything to my beautiful world because I found myself under the opinion that due to the amount of shit I have running around this ever complex brain of mine, no one will actually be interested in anything I have to say, but fuck it.
I have seen Rob’s blog about falconry, and realised that he talks more shit than I do, so I might as well.

So, what have I been up to since we last spoke?

Well, I haven’t been DJing much this last month, but I am getting back on the metaphorical horse and have landed myself a few decent gigs over the next few months, the one I am most excited about being a few upcoming at Chew The Fat @ The End, London in May some time. Warming up for (probably) Meat Katie, Riton and Alex Metric, this is likely to be the biggest of my humble DJing career so far, it’s safe to say I am shitting myself, but it should be a laugh.
Other than that there is Frustrated Disco Machine @ Blue Mountain, Bristol in April, some charity shit in Southampton in May (luckily I don’t have to kiss babies or fellate the mentally retarded) and a few secret small festivals over the summer.
This is good but I need to pull my finger out of Colin Norris’ latest victim and get myself noticed a bit more, promoters this means you! (Yes you Marcus, if you are reading this)

I am also probably going to start doing a bit of a Palms Out Sounds and post some download links to tunes on here as well. I used to think it was morally wrong to do it, but everyone seems to be these days and I think it’s great to share the music I love with others, after all that’s why I started DJing.
Besides, I remember reading somewhere that 70% of American males responded to an anonymous poll admitting they would copulate with a sexually mature 13 year old if she consented and the law allowed it, so who really gives a shit about morals?!

In other news, Jeremy Beadle died, I laughed a bit.

Every day I am quite happily eating my lunch and enjoying whatever delectable morsel I have chosen for the day, when I turn the page and see that cracked out skett Amy fucking Winehouse in the middle of the page, with her mouth looking like a raped labia and puss oozing from every orifice.
Needless to say it puts me off my lunch every fucking day and would like a cease and desist order put in place for putting pictures of her in the news paper, at least until she cleans her act up and starts acting like a human and not a laboratory test primate let lose on a pharmacy full of medical grade Ketamine.

Frankly I couldn’t give a shit if Blake whatever his name is has managed to swallow his own sphincter.

I am back at work today, and reeling from the constant debauchery I seem to have undertaken since Thursday, although I enjoyed it so much that I felt I should write about it (and possibly even rub it in to those of you who had a shit weekend compared to mine).

Thursday
It started off when I finished work on Thursday at 4pm, went home and then had to pack my laptop and stuff up, then get a train up to Oxford to meet Pomp, we then headed over to the Cellar Bar in Oxford centre, where I was DJing @ Eclectricity alongside the ever lovable & incredibly talented TJ Hertz and Lee Mortimer. Needless to say they both smacked the living shit out of it, and had the crowd in a frenzy, much to my dismay as I definitely had a hard act to follow, being on at 1.30am straight after Lee. But alas the crowd loved it, and although the numbers dwindled a bit towards the end everyone still seemed to have a wicked time.
Big shouts to the Swindon crew for coming up to support, as well as the Oxford heads for coming down. Extra big shouts to Marcus for having me down, and TJ for helping me set up all the kit, despite him being a little bit worse for wear.
Luckily I managed to bag a lift back to Swindon after the night finished around 3am, so didn’t end up sleeping on Pomp’s floor with curtains for a blanket.

Friday
Woke up around 3pm, chilled out for a couple of hours and then got straight back on the train to Oxford to meet James & Madz, as we were off to Eclectric’s 2nd birthday at the Zodiac.
Line up was supposed to be SebastiAn, Claude Von Stroke & TJ, but for some (still unknown) reason, SebastiAn was a no show, apparently he just never showed when they went to pick him up from the airport. Luckily Lee Mortimer was still around, stepped up and did an absolutely wicked job, so hats off to him for that.
Don’t remember much else from the night, I think TJ was pretty good though, I should’ve laid off the whiskey a bit earlier really!
Ended up back at Madz’ mate Sara’s until around 6am, until I decided to get the early train back to Swindon, just managed to get to the station in time. 20 minutes later I was in Didcot waiting for my connection, when it dawned on me that there was no connecting train to Swindon until 8am! Cue me sleeping like a tramp on a couple of benches for two hours, never again.
Got home around 9am and went to bed.

Saturday
Got up around 5pm, had a shower and all that jazz, and then got the train down to Southampton for the Out of The Void Oxjam party on Sunday, got to mates’ house about 9pm, and we ended up out drinking in Unit 22 until 4am, pretty messy but great fun, really good to see people I haven’t caught up with in months.

Sunday
Woke up stinking of alcohol and dodgy kebab.
Managed to get up around 3pm, get a KFC and then roll up to the Hobbit for the all day Oxjam party. Met some great people and wandered around with the lovely Gem harassing people to donate in pub that had somehow became nightclub.
Spoll did a wicked BBQ and managed to smoke the whole pub out, but not kill himself or anyone else, which was a bonus (possibly).
DJed from 10-11pm to a bit of a difficult crowd at first, but somehow managed to rescue it and fill the room back up with a few Prodigy tracks and a dodgy 2 Unlimited bootleg (I have no morals), I also thought it would be quite funny to just throw glowsticks at the crowd whilst DJing, and someone stuck a ginger wig on me at some point.
Then I got drunk again…

Monday
Woke up with another hangover, got the 2pm ish train back to Swindon at the tail end of a fantastic weekend.
Shout outs to Network Rail (or whatever it’s called now) for managing to have every train running perfectly on time, except for when some bellend managed to fall in front of a train moving at 100pmh at Winchester, so there was a bit of a delay whilst they probably mopped up what was left of him!

It was indeed such a brilliant weekend, which is why I feel the need to write about it. Big thanks to everyone who looked after me, booked me to DJ or let me crash at their houses, as well as all the lovely people I met.
No thanks to whoever’s idea it was to put the table with the decks on at knee height, as I have well and truly fucked my back up.

Eclectric
Out of The Void
Oxjam
Bloke Falling Under A Train

There's this stall in the local market that sells all kind of second hand CDs and 12s that I like to visit every now and again to see what they've got on on offer.
The best thing about second hand music shops, is that people usually sell the most exciting musical gems that you never thought you'd get hold of, or ever stuff that isn't that rare, but it's now a classic. (A good example of this is that I once bought 'Mr. Oizo - Analog Worms Attack' for three quid)
I don't know why people sell these sort of things, but I'd imagine it has something to do with musicians developing heavy coke/crack habits, and so they sell all their music at reduced prices to fund said habit.
Doesn't bother me, I get to buy stuff I either lost or never bought first time round, for ridiculous prices.

Today I bought:

DJ Shadow - High Noon
Which has the extended overhaul of Organ Donor on it
Unkle - Rabbit In Your Headlights
With the instrumental & 3D Mix etc
Radiohead - Paranoid Android
Which is ace, because it's  got Polyethelene on it!
Death In Vegas - Dirge
Including Micronauts Mix, filthy electro
Mylo - Destroy Rock & Roll
Riton Mix
2001: A Space Odyssey - Sound Track
DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World

All for like 15 quid. Deal done, bargain

Long story short, I've managed to restore all the lost content from the last few weeks. I remembered that when search engines such as Google and Live.com crawl websites, they cache the pages they've archived. Luckily Live.com crawled the site the day before I lost everything, and so by using their cached pages I was able to get all the old blog posts back, excellent.

New podcast mix is in the works, and I'm trying to persaude a few people to do me some featured mixes over the next couple of weeks.
Watch this space ja bitte.