ok this thread can die without anyone caring. hint hint
----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas D. Cox, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <313@hyperreal.org> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 2:03 PM Subject: Re: (313) dave clarke live > ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- > 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 > > ________________________________________________________________ > andythepooh.com > > > >
