4 Responses to “BERLIN SPREEBAR DJ JPS”

1. November 29th, 2008 at 8:33 am

   Kath said:
   

   Your choice of music that evening raises questions of musical understanding, musicality, and respects, and also points to some gaps in your (apparently non-existing) knowledge of the history of tango music demonstratged in particular by the D’Arienzo-Di Sarli-Pugliese tanda you played.

   “And people loved it” testifies to your utter lack of empathy. This has been my awfulest milonga in 2008! I actually I thought of claiming back my money. Please announce your further DJ appearances so I can save it the next time and stay at home.

   Btw, we do have a nice electro and clubbing scene in Berlin you might want to try out instead of playing havoc with milongas.

   If you can’t appreciate tango music, go dance something else.

2. November 29th, 2008 at 12:36 pm

   jps said:
   

   THANKS FOR THE CRITIQUE. AS A DJ YOU CANNOT MAKE EVERYBODY HAPPY. I HAVE A DIFFERENT CONCEPT OF TANGO DANCE-MUSIC ATMOSPHERE. AND WHEN I SAY ‘PEOPLE LOVED IT’, I MEAN THEY WANT ME TO PLAY AGAIN. I WANT PEOPLE TO EXPRESS THEIR OPINION TO THE ORGANIZER WHO IS INVITING DIFFERENT DJ’S. IF MORE PEOPLE AGREE WITH YOU THAT DISAGREE, I MUST NOT PLAY MUSIC AGAIN IN THIS MILONGA. SORRY FOR THIS TANDA. IT WAS A MISTAKE. BEST REGARDS. DJ JPS.

3. December 3rd, 2008 at 3:50 pm

   katharina said:
   

   I had the same feeling, it was a crazy milonga for me. It seems that you don’t know anything about tango? Perhaps you should try Berlin’s great electro music scene, I think you would work better there.

4. December 13th, 2008 at 4:30 pm

   marialena said:
   

   i totally agree with you girls. he ain’t know nothing bout tango. just as Miles Davis knew nothing bout jazz, as a friend once told me. and it so happened that i recently bumped into an interview of his at http://www.jazzprofessional.com/interviews/Miles%20Davis.htm where he admits it himself>
   ”…I mean, it’s those producers and record companies the way they sell things helps with a lot of prejudice. It builds a white image. Like, jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.”
   “But is there any substitute word?” asks the interviewer.
   ”Just music, man.
   We might play anything out there. It gets back to you asking me how I learned how to play a trumpet. I mean, you hear correct fingering and all that crap. But when you sell one side. . . White people can handle a horn and other white people want to see ‘em, with their long hair and all that—okay. But also sell the black man, so he can appreciate his black brothers..”
   hang the fools for their ignorance.. what on earth has tango to do with music?? What on earth has tango to do with evolvement..? i say the best is to stick to tradition. there s no reason for us moving forth, is there? keeping our borderlines safe and clean, segregating our beliefs and groups from innovators’ troubling and menacing minorities, making small steps at a time, apparently helps us feel safer.don’t you see that? such innovating futilities should be banned and their provokers, punished for intruding new ideas in people’s minds. i mean who asked them anyway? we love being stable. and ignorant. and blind. who are you to tell us there can be more of music? more of life? more of.. us? we won’t just express dislike. you offended our roots and threatened our beliefs, our history, our peace. and thus we shall condemn you and cut you off and eventually eliminate you.. you and your unanimous ones. For disturbing our silence. Keep your ideas to yourself. Or at least save them for someone who can listen to you. Davis managed to gather a few. Perhaps you ll manage too…
   and btw, John, you can’t be seriously expecting to be confronted with a higher truth or value in a world where expression is utterly suppressed. And besides, as Socrates said it centuries ago: Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of..

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