I think we should petition to have Gil play a 24 hour HIP-HOP set, or gangsta rap... i hear he has quite the collection from the OC in the hizzouse, er something...


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let him play as he is, I still haven't been...but as a dj, let him play. that's what he does. apparently he blows you mind regardless. he has a good track selection ALWAYS.

why not just spin goa yourself?

There's a difference between your mobile disc jockey playing top 40 at some meat market club, and the type of events that the psychedelic trance scene is about as well as the gil events. Also, Gil is a producer and he's always been about showcase the up and coming and new breed of music he considers psychedelic. He was doing that back in the day when he played goa and he's doing in now with all the other stuff he plays. If you really want a goa stompathon, go get some goa and play it.... Personally, I'm not that big of a fan of goa, and I appreciate the styles of the new stuff. Some of what gil plays isn't my cup of tea, but I'd rather hear stuff that challenges me to understand it rather than hearing stuff that I've already heard and not into that much.

re: no turntablism, no dedicated beatmatching, no flawless mixing, not much storytelling

well to start off, all of those things you listed came -chronologically- AFTER gil started playing music for hours on end. and anyone who has heard him play can atest to his storytelling. thats all he DOES is tell stories with the sound. the simple fact that when you want to ask him to stop you have to tell him way in advance (because his track queue list/stack of DAT tapes is two hours long) says something about what he does up there.
ON THE FLY no less. no presequenced tracks, no setlist, no NOTHING.. just the music. granted he may know what goes together like any other DJ but it if you have heard him play on more than one occasion at more than one location you can immediately notice he isnt just playing one track after another for a day or so.. every time i have heard him play he plays with a different "intent". i dont know if it is because of the new music he has and he is merely speaking from the new point in the evolution of that music or if he is just meaning to say something different - either way it is not as if he is up there doing the same shit from set to set.

i would love to see him agree to it and play his normal stuff and just MESS everyone up apocalyptic style. it is likely scare some away and for this reason i am sure he wont do it but some people just need a wake up call.
you wouldnt revert back to acting like you did when you were a little kid or think with the wisdom you possesed as an adolescent so deductively it wouldnt seem rational to suddenly reject all the current music and stop that path of evolution for the sake of sentimentality.