I think its a bit unfair that you seem to be suggesting that there was discrimination against 'non-psy' music at CG. While I'm the first to admit I love psy, I also love non-psy styles.
The reason why I think you may have noticed a lot of psy played is that:
1) The guys that own the rig and brought it down love psy and played psy sets on it - fair enough I think - they do provide the rig free.
2) during the day when most people didnt want to play a set, Biggins did an awesome job of playing epic psy sets (psy btw is what Biggins likes to play, we didnt twist his arm).
3) Most of the DJs wanted to play on the big rig and didn't take the opportunity to play on the little one, when I'm sure Biggins would have been happy to have had someone play for a few hours to break up his 8+ hour sets.
I didnt actually play at all, I gave up my set on the big rig so that we could accommodate some of the late editions to the lineup, that would include you, Bender and UCOF.
The DJ set times on the festival day were agreed and up on the site several weeks before CG.
sorry Bender, but it seems to me that you think we were somehow preventing non-psy, when really people were just playing what they wanted to play.
That said - I certainly WILL prevent
some psy and non psy if people try to break it out. I personally find sexist violent gansta rap offensive, some mashups involving simply wrong material eg rape, paedophilia offensive, and most heavy metal offensive. Additionally I think that psy that contains obvious drug references is not appropriate either. If you think this is unreasonable lets talk about why you think that limiting the music to tunes that make people generally feel good or relaxed is wrong.
ugh - I hate to be confrontational like that, but I couldnt let that one go, and also - I think people need to know where Kate and I stand on this issue.
We believe that music is incredibly important and has a big impact on the vibe of the weekend. We want everyone to be happy, but we can't be radio DJs playing requests all weekend. If you want to hear a given style of music bring it along, with your headphones, and I'll teach you how to use my decks, and you can play a good long set of whatever you want - as long as its not offensive (as defined by us
).
as I said last year, Id love to hear more sets of;
-world
-vocal
-ambient
-classical
-dub
-electro
-techno
-hiphop
-breaks
-bolywood
-accoustic
-experimental
and stuff I've not ever heard before ++++!!!!!
You played a great set last year Bender, I can remember it.
I'm really looking forward to your set this year.
Josh
... but i like obvious drug referances... hmm...
). 
hmmm....no metal hey?? wanders of to find gabba records 
it confuses people!
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