(Here comes some flame bait) And this is why I really like Jeff Mills. Frankly, I know very few electronic music people who look at things as producers. They become producers after djing, which to me isn't musical, it's beat making.
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 12:56 PM, wojciech <wojtek....@gmail.com> wrote: > > -With Rick Wilhite: > > "...The whole entertainment industry has created people that really > have no passion doing what we do, as a producer, as a remixer, as a > DJ. All these new websites and everything have totally annihilated the > industry. Nowadays anybody can just do overnight what took somebody > else ten years to really become sufficient enough or experienced > enough to do. The industry is in total shambles—from the pressing > plant to the mastering plant, the people that make the labels and the > jackets, to the actual artists themselves. All of that is totally gone > because most people don't believe music is worth more than a dollar. > If that." > > http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1245 > > > -With Jeff Mills: > > "...In my generation we learned differently from the way most DJs are > learning now. Most of us came into DJing from being musicians, so when > we thought about tracks to play, we were thinking about song structure > – we had musical structure to refer to. I’m just trying to create a > much more balanced view of what DJing is all about." > > http://www.junodownload.com/plus/2010/09/03/interview-jeff-mills/ -- -Mike
