LeVzi Advanced Member
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Posted - 2020/05/07 : 07:15:56
See, to me, this is how Brisk sold out. I used to love the days when he'd open with some quite hard techno, played fast, and "happy" it up as the set went on. That was the Brisk I loved to see live.
Or the 94 Brisk that just played fast as fk and never let the beat drop, his mixing style was actually quite brutal, always keeping a beat going through the breaks. That's what made Brisk "brisk".
Si Thompson Advanced Member
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Posted - 2020/05/07 : 08:51:07
quote:Originally posted by LeVzi:
See, to me, this is how Brisk sold out. I used to love the days when he'd open with some quite hard techno, played fast, and "happy" it up as the set went on. That was the Brisk I loved to see live.
Or the 94 Brisk that just played fast as fk and never let the beat drop, his mixing style was actually quite brutal, always keeping a beat going through the breaks. That's what made Brisk "brisk".
I wouldn't call it selling out at all. He ran a label with Ham which was providing new material. Hardcore had moved on since 95/96. I suppose he could've gone down the harder route and played in the techno rooms, but I'm glad he moved with the upfront stuff.
The year previous at Helter Skelter 'Human Nature' in June 1998 he started a set off with Dutch stuff and moved into newer Hardcore later.
This is one of my favourite Brisk sets from back in the day. It even has a 1995 MC Storm on the Mic.
LeVzi Advanced Member
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Posted - 2020/05/09 : 08:25:53
It's a sell out in terms of what made him popular in the first place. Listen to a lot of his 94-96 sets , he starts with a lot of the dutch hard stuff, he was one of the first to play it in main arenas and it went down a storm, then he'd move into more happier stuff. But he'd always play at break neck speeds and the continuous beat mixing was what made him.
99 onwards he played happy from start to finish and slowed it down. Which is why I feel he sold out to commercialism. Because the CD's that were coming out then probably wouldn't have his earlier style on it.
NG/BB went down the commercial route anyway, I completely gave up on them when the podcasts started.
Si Thompson Advanced Member
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Posted - 2020/05/09 : 10:59:36
quote:Originally posted by LeVzi:
It's a sell out in terms of what made him popular in the first place. Listen to a lot of his 94-96 sets , he starts with a lot of the dutch hard stuff, he was one of the first to play it in main arenas and it went down a storm, then he'd move into more happier stuff. But he'd always play at break neck speeds and the continuous beat mixing was what made him.
99 onwards he played happy from start to finish and slowed it down. Which is why I feel he sold out to commercialism. Because the CD's that were coming out then probably wouldn't have his earlier style on it.
NG/BB went down the commercial route anyway, I completely gave up on them when the podcasts started.
I think around 1997 he started playing full on English Happy stuff. I didn't mind that at all. You can only play that 1994-96 era for so long before your sets get a big samey. Brisk did slow things down later on, but he was still always faster than the rest. That 1999 set in the original post is still faster than the other sets from that night.
I really liked all the NG and BB stuff up to around 2005. 2005 was a good year for Brisk collab stuff and Next Gen IMO.
Thumpa Advanced Member
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Posted - 2020/05/11 : 21:11:40
quote:Originally posted by LeVzi:
It's a sell out in terms of what made him popular in the first place. Listen to a lot of his 94-96 sets , he starts with a lot of the dutch hard stuff, he was one of the first to play it in main arenas and it went down a storm, then he'd move into more happier stuff. But he'd always play at break neck speeds and the continuous beat mixing was what made him.
99 onwards he played happy from start to finish and slowed it down. Which is why I feel he sold out to commercialism. Because the CD's that were coming out then probably wouldn't have his earlier style on it.
NG/BB went down the commercial route anyway, I completely gave up on them when the podcasts started.
If you knew the Dutch scene you would know by about mid 97 no one was making fast hardcore, it was all slowing down bar a few labels. You wanted him to just play the same records in every set forever?
DJ A.K. Average Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 2020/05/12 : 06:52:00
Loved Brisks mixes, he always played different to anyone else and how he nailed every mix on crappy club decks was a minor miracle, don?t think I ever heard anything resembling a clang from him.
He did change his style slightly in the late nineties but as Thumpa said that was almost certainly due to the changing Dutch scene and the lack of tracks in the style he liked to play.
The death of Dutch Bouncy Techno and Happy Hardcore was a big blow to the scene in general though and effected the quality of many DJ?s sets.
Did my own attempt at a Brisk style mix the other week and it made me appreciate his mixing style even more.
LeVzi Advanced Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 2020/05/12 : 07:25:09
quote:Originally posted by Thumpa:
quote:Originally posted by LeVzi:
It's a sell out in terms of what made him popular in the first place. Listen to a lot of his 94-96 sets , he starts with a lot of the dutch hard stuff, he was one of the first to play it in main arenas and it went down a storm, then he'd move into more happier stuff. But he'd always play at break neck speeds and the continuous beat mixing was what made him.
99 onwards he played happy from start to finish and slowed it down. Which is why I feel he sold out to commercialism. Because the CD's that were coming out then probably wouldn't have his earlier style on it.
NG/BB went down the commercial route anyway, I completely gave up on them when the podcasts started.
If you knew the Dutch scene you would know by about mid 97 no one was making fast hardcore, it was all slowing down bar a few labels. You wanted him to just play the same records in every set forever?
Did I say that ? No, so stop trying to put words in my mouth. His style was to play hard techno, doesn't matter where it came from. Techno didn't stop getting made, he made a conscious decision to keep it more happy. The History of Hardcore was probably the last time I heard him do it, but what a set that was.
That is Brisk at his main room best imo.
The scene got ****ed up anyway, I don't blame Brisk, he just moved with the times and did what everyone else was doing. Glad I got out when I did.
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