aha you have answered it..apologise Brendan, I was late on my one finger typing then :0)
"there's not a lot of pressure on people like Norman Cook or Paul Oakenfold to show off dazzling new deck tricks" ha ha mate its 30 secs for each Norman Cook track, every mix I hear of his is the same but then some might say it suits that music..same with Oakenfold but yeah its not for me..I want something exciting.. -----Original Message----- From: Brendan Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 August 2002 16:29 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Cyclone Wehner; 313 Detroit Subject: RE: [313] Mo' Ghetto Tek | -----Original Message----- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 4:16 PM | | Its emphasis on DJing skills: outside the US there's less of a culture of | respect for a DJ's skills on the turntables. | | I don't understand why people think this... | There must be millions of Americans that don't know sh*t about mixing - | just like everywhere else in the world. | | Pls explain. You just have to look at the crowd attendance at, say, a Q-Bert gig in the UK against one in the US. The US spawned a genre of music, hip-hop, where skills on the decks are hugely important to the DJ, and that culture lives on quite strongly there. In the UK, you have to admit, the majority of people rate DJs more on their track selection / PR profile than their deck skills - there's not a lot of pressure on people like Norman Cook or Paul Oakenfold to show off dazzling new deck tricks. But there are indeed groups of people in both the US and the UK who like to see good mixing - it's just that in the UK they're largely confined to the hip-hop scene, and that's why there aren't any British techno DJs who mix like Claude Young, or booty DJs who mix like DJ Godfather. It's not necessarily a good or a bad thing but I do think that raw deck skills get you further in the US than in the UK (unless you're a hip-hop DJ). Brendan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
