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From: "David Pinter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>I find perfection a bit
>boring.
ive said this all my life. i like raw lo-fi recordings, i like
deejays who are human, etc.
>Jeff to me is like an impressionistic painter....more about mood
>than the details.
its as simple as this: most people just want to hear records mixed
in the most simple fashion - beat mixing. really, you can take any
2 songs as long as you can get their bpms and time signiatures
matched it doesnt matter what else is going on, you can do a
"tight" mix. to me, this kind of mix is most useful when
contrasting 2 very different styles of music, or when moving
between emotions in a mix. much more difficult, IMO, is the most
larry levan style of mixing, where you play song after song with
the continuity coming in the emtions present in the songs as
opposed to the BPMs. of course, you get people who want to do both
of those kinds of mixing at the same time, and what ive found is
that you usually get a long monotonous homogenized sounding set.
i just think beatmixing is extremely overrated. being confined by
BPM is really just not cool to me. if beatmixing is all you care
about, you have to be limited to records that are the same tempo
as your first record, double the tempo, or half the tempo. or you
can rely on records that switch tempos, which while that may
satisfy "tight" mixing fans, i find that it still cuts down on
where you can go and when you can go there in a deejay set.
tom
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