Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Announcing My Retirement
Yes.
Ladies and Gentlemen.
The time has come for me to officially retire as Dj Gicky.
I would like to play out one more time for a good four to five hours to play some of all the great music I've acquired over the years to a crowd of people who would really appreciate me for all I've done over the years. Unfortunately, I believe the possibility of that happening is doubtful. The music is something I'm never going to walk away from, but the scene is. After ten years of the rave scene, I'm at a point in my life where I no longer find the scene to be enjoyable. This decision has been a long time coming. There is no one aspect or event which has triggered this, it's a multitude of things really. I've been saying for a few years now that I'm going to give it up, but something kept bringing me back into it. That something isn't there anymore. People who I genuinely held close in my heart as being my friends have time and time again shown me that there are few friends in the rave scene, just alot of contacts and associates. It's something that I have no need for anymore. I really don't care about any of it. I wish I did, because for a long time, it was all I cared about. I've seen entire generations of ravers come and go. Ten years of this, and there are kids who have no idea who I am and what I've done. There are kids who are being put on fliers now as headlining DJs and I was standing out in the snow handing out fliers to illegal outlaw underground parties when they were in kindergarden. I was a part of this scene when it was really underground, there was no MySpace, there were no E-Mails, there was no text messaging. There were infolines, there were checkpoints, and there were fliers. Not the full color glossy fliers of today, I'm talking about photocopies of a handwritten note that had nothing on it but directions. Printed fliers are outdated anymore, all you need now is to design it and post it as a bulletin on MySpace. Mixtapes. Thats right, tapes. Tapes that we would wear out from listening to them so much. We made our own clothes. Gigantic pants. Parties getting raided by swat teams. Going to parties that held 8,000 people, and having people not being able get in because the venue was too full. I can't relate to it anymore, I feel out of touch, I feel like the old guy. I don't like that feeling. Hell, there are "DJ's" now who don't even own one vinyl record. Its just not the scene that I fell in love with, and instead of changing who I am to fit into this new generation, I'd rather take my memories, and move on with my life.
Posted by Gicky at 15:00 · 0 comment
Friday, May 09, 2008
DNB 4 GROWNUPS
So yeah..
This is what I've been working on for quite some time..
It's music. I like it.
Hope you all do as well.
Posted by Gicky at 18:16 · 0 comment
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Bought The Domain Name
So today I finally went ahead and bought djgicky.com
It's about fucking time.
I've had this zebox.com/gicky up and running and current for over 2 years, and I've been spinning records for close to a decade, so why not :)
It's like, yeah, I got my own site.. It's not just some myspace page, it's my own page.. It'll make handing out demo's alot cooler.. Like I'm some sort of big deal or something.. HA!
Uhm.. So yeah, I guess check out my page, leave a comment on the messageboard, and enjoy :)
Posted by Gicky at 23:09 · 0 comment
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