I'm new to staff, so I'm learning basic moves, and smoothing out the transitions... but I sooo look forward to a future where I am actually able to dance to my favorite music while the staff moves around me with seeming effortlessness. I guess it must be like learning to drive stick-shift... gotta think about all the little stuff before it starts to become second nature and you're better able to enjoy the scenery...
I find myself listening to various songs and imagining what kinds of movements would choreograph well with them, kinda like a mini - fire - staff - spinning - music - video thingy. So I was thinking... what are some of your favorite songs? What really seems to put you into the zone as that staff is rotating around you?
I find myself listening to various songs and imagining what kinds of movements would choreograph well with them, kinda like a mini - fire - staff - spinning - music - video thingy. So I was thinking... what are some of your favorite songs? What really seems to put you into the zone as that staff is rotating around you?
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Re: music for your spinning
Wed, April 9, 2008 - 7:39 PMHiya Ash, it kinda looks like yr on the playa in your icon, so Im gonna go out on a limb here n say...
Psy-Trance?
Bassnectar is a crowd-pleaser with the En Fuego folks, I got a good response staff-spinning to "Elevate" from Mezmerizing the Ultra. There's others like GlichMob, FreqNasty, Shpongle, Cherubic & Watamelon, etc.
But why limit yourself? My other faves include jam bands like Perpetual Groove, electronic jazz like STS9 and Zilla and so on.
Ive seen good staff shows to goth, emo, even classic rock! Find your vibe, the fire will follow!
ps: "Tokyo" by Soundtribe Sector 9 is a multi-staff/poi/hooping throwdown-hoedown!! -
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Wed, April 9, 2008 - 7:53 PMooops... sorry... I meant what puts YOU in the mood... to get some feedback on the varied tastes of my staff spinning brothers and sisters... :) ... I have heard some of Bassnectar's stuff - they won an award recently for the best hooping song of the month. I forget which song, but I like their sound. I will have to check out some of the other sounds you mentioned - they sound good to me!
Some of Depeche Mode's stuff off the Ultra album has me feeling quite spinny these days. :) -
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Wed, April 9, 2008 - 10:26 PMThanks for this post & repsonse. I, too, have been trying to find some great music to spin to. I'm not quite familiar with goth music, but will be spinning for some friends' wedding reception in May who are definitely goth. As will their 200+ friends:). Any suggestions along those lines? -
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Goth music for your spinning
Thu, April 10, 2008 - 12:14 AMI don't know if it's goth or pop, but I LOVE it when Houston's Spitfire poi-spins to Evanscence's "Wake Me Up Inside"!
I'm prolly showing my age here, but goth never got better'n Bauhaus "Rose Garden/Funeral of Sores" (Killa proto-techno beat here!0
and The Damned "Ignite"
Like a fuse I must Ignite
Im gonna set the world alight!
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Thu, April 10, 2008 - 4:11 AMHa! That is so cool! The whole reason I made the decision to learn spinning (aside from seeing it and thinking "omfg that looks awesome!") was so that I could surprise my future wedding reception guests with a performance... I figure every groom should do a little something off the wall. :) And our wedding will have a goth theme.
My suggestion: alot of the categorically "goth" music I love is slow, with more flow than beat to it. Music with a beat seems to be easier to feel spinny to, so EBM works reeeeally well. If you're not familiar with EBM (electric body music), it's a nice bridge between goth and dance music. You'll hear alot of it at goth themed dance clubs. It's also a bit more upbeat than pure "goth," so you can reach a wider variety of wedding guests.
Yummy music: Covenant (check out the song 'Bullet'), VNV Nation (they've got slow and fast stuff), and I don't think you can EVER go wrong with Depeche Mode. Like I said earlier, I seem to be stuck on their Ultra album for now, but Exciter has some spinny stuff, too.
I hope this helps. Whatever you spin to, I'm sure you'll get ooohh's and aaahh's from all watching! :) -
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Thu, April 10, 2008 - 7:29 AMSome of my favorite spinning music is by a band called Firewater. Can't really go wrong with any of their stuff. Cake as well has some fun bouncy kinda songs. I dunno, I mostly listen to metal, ska, and punk while spinning. -
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Thu, April 10, 2008 - 8:40 AMLast year on the playa if I had LCD Soundsystem's song "Someone great" played I was spinning in heaven. I was not doing any technical moves, but I was flowing to the music with fire. It is a beautiful song. -
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Fri, April 11, 2008 - 10:19 AMI love dancing to Hip Hop. Visionaries - Love, Jurassic Five, Ozomatli, Rage Against the Machine, BlackStar, Blackalicious, it just makes me want to move my ass and spin on my back. Maybe its the BBoy in me.
I also like dancing to Led Zeppelin, how they change tempo from fast to slow and have such great driving rhythms. Blues can be fun to dance to for a change up from fast to slow, Jazz is good too. I did a great spin to Dave Brubeck's Take 5 the other night. I also really like dancing to Reggae, like Bob or Damien Marley. It Was Written by Junior Gong is one of my favorite spinning songs.
I had an amazing spin the other night to some Peruvian Folklore music, Virgins of the Sun. Its a single melody played by a bunch of different instruments, so I switch from contact to horizontal to off center to double hands to throws to groundwork depending on the instrument and if the melody is high or low. Thats the beauty of staff, you can speed it up, slow it down, do it with your hands, do it with your feet or you chest or your body, so much room for variety. You can almost be a human visualization for the music if you practice enough.
I also dig Sublime, Weezer, hell, anything with a good bass line or beat that I can groove to. The only type of music I can't dance to is Techno or Electronic music. Too boring. No instruments to connect with, no lyrics to reflect on. Just boring boom boom untz untz. Thanks but no thanks. -
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Mon, April 14, 2008 - 2:25 PMI suspect the various answers to this are going to be very much aligned with people's personal music preferences, but my spinning playlists are mostly upbeat industrial and electronica. Covenant, Ladytron, the Azoic, Stromkern, Audio Bullies, etc
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Re: music for your spinning
Fri, May 2, 2008 - 10:58 AMit really comes from what you like to listen to in general. what do you enjoy dancing to without the toy?
i've found staff and contact especially to go with slower based music. hip hop or psy dub. -
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Mon, May 5, 2008 - 11:16 PMMy new favorite is Taiko drumming. -
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Re: music for your spinning
Wed, May 7, 2008 - 9:14 PMI looove Taiko! Any albums in particular? I don't currently own any compilations.
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