DJ G.Host

About me:

Any promotional material sent within my spectrum of Darkness, will be honestly reviewed in writing and shared with the artist and if I like it, I will use it. I believe that to D.J. for people is more about playing feelings than about playing music! The music I use is just a tool to prompt a feeling… a feeling that should flow like a river, smoothly and carried by plenty of emotional power… power that is silent but has a voice because of the sound around it. It is for this reason silence and it’s placement in the sound, is the most important element in music. It is like the Darkness that is carried by the lighting on the dance floor – too much of it and the mood is broken! I believe that if enough feelings and emotions are generated by the music, one should be able to close their eyes and be enveloped by it… taken over and almost controlled through a journey of their own imagination and wonder. If this is achieved and enough of an emotional current is conjured on the dance floor, one's body will know what to do even with what was thought of by others as not “a dance floor track.” It is for this reason that I will try not to shock the mood by playing two tracks back to back that are totally different. I try to move these emotions through cycles of 3 to 4 songs with the same kind of feeling and into a different feeling- like a painter would blend his colours perhaps.... Too much difference between the songs certainly adds variety, but it doesn't give the emotional current a chance to develop on the dance floor. ..And what a feeling when 50 or more people around you, feel the same way!! So much wonderful music has been overlooked and underexposed because it has been suggested that it has to have lots of beats in order to be danceable. I think tracks with many beats are also important and I use them too for their feeling… not for their rhythm. To only be able to dance to rhythm, is like being a soldier set to marching and mechanized. A ballet dancer, acting out a theater of heart breaking drama is way more powerful to me. I think that people who can only dance to the songs with rhythm and beat, have not discovered the magic of dancing… It is like admiring the beautiful frame of the “Night Watch” and not seeing the painting! But this said, we should never allow ourselves to become divided by our own styles of music - (It happened once - see; www.goth.co.za UNITY II- Blue Blood's legend.) Dancing is an important part of human kind and the practice is as ancient as man’s ability to feel emotions… it is art and a way of expressing a fantasy in movement to sound while using the right hemispheres of the brain to express and FEEL…. Truly FEEL… The freedom of being able to act out how we truly feel through movement and gesture has been hindered in everyday life, for fear of what others may think of us. The dance floor is the only place left we can still do this and retain our integrity, so why not use it and discover how wonderful it is to loose oneself in a fantasy world. Loosing our fear to feel freely can change our perception of our emotions and if that happens even feelings like sadness can become comforting, gentle and beautiful… when Loneliness becomes our best friend, how can we ever be alone again?! I think the best dancing is done with ones eyes closed and our mind imagining images that take shape from the sound. This strangely enough has very little to do with the lyrics. A song could have sad lyrics but carry a very happy feeling – example; (Wolfsheim – Once in a lifetime.) Some other examples may be; Sadness: Diary of Dreams – Stimulation Ice ages – This killing emptiness Loneliness: Eden – Stone Cat Decadence: Diva Destruction – The Broken Ones Strength: Corpus Delicti – Noxious (The Demons Game) Caring: Girls Under Glass – When I think about you. Anger: Hocico - Wounds ...Well, this is my style and my way of thinking about music and the way to play it in a Gothic setting... ...I appreciate other opinions as well.