London based tech house DJ, Robert Jonathan Swift, made his international debut last week when he was invited to play club Trouw in Amsterdam.
“It was a huge gig for me at this point in my career,” Robert told Wunderground. “Unfortunately when I arrived at the club for my slot I realized I had accidentally brought along a blank USB stick. I began to panic until I looked out into the crowd and noticed the eyes closed, gentle swaying being exhibited by the crowd and figured everyone was likely on some sort of bath salts and/or completely blitzed on ketamine so I figured I could shoot from the hip and wing it.”
Robert was able to borrow his mate’s laptop and download a generic tech house loop moments before he had to begin playing. “The plan originally was to download a few more tunes somehow, but after playing with the effects a bit and using the faders slightly the crowd was actually giving me a great response so I decided to just keep on with it and I actually had them eating out of my palm in no time,” Robert explained.
“Three hours into the set, I feigned going to the toilet whilst I loaded some indecipherable vocals onto the sample decks,” Robert informed us, “that really sent them over the top, and soon enough it was complete bedlam in the main room.”
When asked about the set, stoned club attendees gave Robert shockingly favorable reviews despite the fact that he played the same track looped for five hours straight.
“Sick innit?” one clubber exclaimed when asked about the night. “The technicality of the mixing was such that I hardly noticed a transition for the whole of the set.”
“Brilliant,” flatly stated another partier, “rarely do you see a DJ put in that much variety and thought from the warm up to peak time and come down. A masterclass in both technical ability and musical knowledge. So refreshing to see a DJ not simply press play but take the crowd on a journey start to finish.”
Image: Ronny Theeuwes
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Apparently you can fool all the people all the time
Yeah, I wish. Someone should actually try this. I’m still pretty sure that if you actually tried this on a nuthouse or an actual blazed out dark alley crowd, it would work…
uhhh,who was on ketam….. crowd ?
see how is done with Guetta live act with a mixed cd – suggestion 4 a 1st track : I am a great pretender,….
fairytale 4 those without imagination & common sense …
“Three hours into the set, I feigned going to the toilet whilst I loaded some indecipherable vocals onto the sample decks”. What a prick.
Not sure what’s funnier, the article or the muppets who think it’s a true story!! ^^ Jesus.
I’m with ‘Djliam Dunning’ I dont think this is a true stroy and cant find anything on DJ Robert Jonathan Swift either is he a real DJ? Anyone have a link to the DJ’s site, Facebook etc?
Here is his website – http://www.djrobswift.com/
wasn’t hard to find
@Matt Fisher: Jonathan Swift was a British satirist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Swift), which is probably a hint about the intended validity of the information in the article. Google Is Your Friend indeed but when used in conjunction with the built-in wetware search engine called brain – simply finding any DJ called Rob Swift (a hip hop DJ in your case) is a trivial exercise that contributes no new knowledge.
Robert (author) is fake as this article…. a DJ who forgets the USB STICK for his international debut….hahahaa…
Robert – or whatever you loser is – you must be one of those banker DOUCHEBAGS with no rights to be in any clubs except for Tomorrowland kind of shit place, so you write a sling piece about quality music your scheming bird brain will never understand. Pathetic you know. Probably also rejected at the door of Trouw. @Trouw you should sue. #Trouw #tech-house
Calm down dear, it’s not real…everything’s going to be fine.
even if this article is fiction its content is the pure truth.
false but true haha
I think this particular DJ has stumbled across the little known human brain wave state known as “hypnosis”. You could have used a gold pocket watch swinging on a chain like a pendulum, or perhaps you could just play a little something something from the BAND Pendulum. Same diff. Good job dude bro.
Oh my god!
Ha.
lol this is genius, well done
Only thing that scares me more than your post, is the fact that he thinks the drugs
& the crowd, is what`s wrong in this picture…
This is why I’m a junglist (;>_<;)
Yeah, cause jungle doest rely heavily on one particukar drum sample…*cough cough* Amen break *cough cough* 😉 <3