Spotted over on Dogs On Acid, via this thread on DNBArena:
The rumours are true. Mistabishi is a complete and utter fake.
I went to Bassment presents Hospitality @ Bar Mango in Reading last night and it was awesome. High Contrast and Logistics both played wicked sets, i was having a great time until i went up to the balcony (which overlooks the DJ booth) at the beginning of Mistabishi's set and watched him play a mix CD on a CDJ and prick about pressing buttons for a whole hour!
I litterally couldn't believe my eyes!! He put vinyl on the decks then pretended to mix them...even though it was the same 2 vinyl the whole night! How do i know? Because i watched him take a vinyl off a turntable, put it in his bag, get it BACK out then put it on the other turn table and pretend to mix it!
The guy spent so much time dancing like a penis behind the decks in not supprised he couldnt mix. It's annoyed me a little bit because the Bassment guys work so hard to put nights on and with the exception of Mistabishi it was a wicked night!
Let this be a lesson to all you promoters out there, he charges hundreds of pounds to turn up and play a mixed cd.
Shout out to the Bassment family.
xXx
Here's an explanation, having to do with what sounds like a live PA set-up that didn't come to fruition:
Mistabishi was contracted to do a set using just studio hardware, effectively performing his tunes live. Me and Mistabishi turned up to Mango a good couple of hours before his set time at 3am to give him enough time to set all the equipment up to enable hm to perform a live set. This equipment included an Akai digital sampler/mixer, something similar to an Akai APC40 but twice the size (it's about a metre in legth). Well it turned out that there was not enough room to set it up, and therefore, he was forced to mix CD's and the few vinyl that he had. As you lot have discovered he doesnt care for mixing vinyl, he wants to move onto performing live from now on, so since he was unable to perform live, he was forced to go back to his old tricks. I'm sure you will agree, especially the creator of this thread since you had a good view of the stage (or lack of it), that no consideration had been given by the promoter to enable him to set up his machines so they stayed in the back of my car all night!There are some pre-mix accusations being lobbed as well:
PLEASE READ...... This is how it was regarding Mistabishi. 1. We tried to contact mistabishi for two weeks leading up to the event, with no reply. 2. When he turned up on the night his rig was one akai sampler, i asked him what he needed and he said a phono lead out of the back of a cdj would be fine to connect the sampler. I did this and he promptly said he needed 3/4 inch jack connector to connect it to the akai sampler. 3. We then found him a phono to 3/4 inch jack lead which would of connected the sampler to the mixer and he said" its fine i've sorted something else out." 4. With regards to the space we could of quite easily moved the 3rd deck in the dj box, which would of given him ample room for his rig. 5. It felt like he didnt want to perform live, he then played cd's and to my horror watched him pretend to dj when the pre mixed cd's were doing the work. i dont understand why he could just mix his tunes like a dj should do. 6. We think that mistabishi is a excellent producer but feel cheated on how he performed, we thought the pre made mix cd's was a myth. A lot of our residents was watching him above the dj box and he was definately pretending. Our night has been running for 5 years and we are always pushing the boundaries and doing things in Reading a bit different, mistabishi set was definately different but in the wrong way. Last night was our 5th birthday and for someone to do this on such an important night has left us speechless. We would like to thank everyone who came last night and thanks to the hospitality team for letting us put on this night. Bassment team
I'm not going to judge who's correct and who's not, but there's a storm brewing...



6 comments:
This shit is so lame. Get over it, DRUMANDBASS gossip, give em a break we got enought of that shit on fucking (brainleak) TV.
this story is uber-lame when compared to the classic DJ Keoki off-his-nuts-on-drugs pretending to DJ stories!!!
those are epic.... this is.. meh
This is old news, those "in the know" have known for a long time that mistabishi cannot dj! Fact!
He plays mix cd's and pretends to go through the motions of mixing, he also on occasion has been known to throw vinyl he was pretending to mix into the crowd only for whoever catches the vinyl to realise that is not the track that was just playing!
Also mistabishi assured hospital records he used samples for printer jam that he himself had personally made, he said he sampled various epson and hp printers, only for hospital records to be contacted by a website that provides royalty free samples to complain that mistabishi had in fact used samples downloaded from their site and not given them a mention... when faced with the truth mistabishi finally admitted this was what he had done and he had lied previously.
ALSO... hospital records gave mistabishi a year to learn how to mix, apperently he just cannot do it properly and failed!
ALLLSSSOOOO....hospital are now telling promoters who want to book mistabishi to perhaps think about booking somebody else. Ive also heard the fact he is an "ex cityboy" is lies as well and hospital records believe mistabishi to be slightly bi-polar... in other words mad!
If you cant DJ why not get someone on board who can? thats how good production partnerships usually work. One guy is an ace producer, one guy an ace DJ. To hog all the lime light for yo self is abit selfish, specally if u aint got the skills!!!
this is funny - even when you look at the photo at the top of the post he is trying to operate what looks like a cdj that is not even on.
meh, it ain't jungle so who cares... :-D
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