Boring bangin' DJs have really done a disservice to the music. No beauty
and no little movement make for a restless crowd. And especially in a city
like Chicago (where I live) where house rules, this sort of approach seems
to drive people away from techno events that are far from painfully
monotonous. A lot of newcomers hear a hard techno set with little
variation and mix-action and they immediately run for the house hills.
Venting a bit, Ben
At 01:45 PM 8/15/2002 -0400, you wrote:
Well, I'd say I somewhat agree, although not totally.
1. I think it can be done on two decks... but the mixing has to be pretty
quick certainly. Not letting records just play out but really mixing and
playing around with them.
2. Not all looped bangers are equally interesting! Some records may be
looped but, have, say, a bassline that is just sick. Or just one little
thing, such as a string part, that fades in slowly and gives it that
certain feeling. I tend to look for records that are certainly mostly
looped bangers but have that one thing that makes them dramatic and
memorable in some way.
3. There are a lot of different textures within minimal techno and
banging drumtrax records. To me a big problem with boring techno sets is
often that they display no variation in the overall texture as they
progress. To me things should move in a gradual way to different
places. I notice with the overabundance of tribal tracks that the all
tribal texture can definitely get boring if not mixed with other flavors.
4. There is a way to mix in more minimal records which makes them seem
more dramatic, good DJs do this. Of course working the FX well helps on
this too.
just some comments, I think this is pretty 313 relevant since Detroit has
its own share of this techno!
/dave.cyborg_k
robin pinning wrote:
i think to make the most of 'looped bangers' you have to have three decks
and skills to match (a feel for what frequencies you should be using etc
etc for a start)....not all techno DJs have these skills and just play
3mins of looped banging and then a quick 8bar mix and another loop record,
this is why looped records have a bad name imo
robin...
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