This is such an absurd stereotype. Mills is an excellent DJ. When I saw him both at Fabric and at Bridge and Tunnel two nights in a row in December, one night playing all disco and funk, the next night playing all techno with a few nice bits of house and disco thrown in, he was nearly flawless. He is an easy tagret for people who formulate opinions based on rumor. Jeff Mills has attained his status through decades of hard work and consistent performance. If he errs occasionally, to the extent that people who spot his recordings bitch, that is a criticism that does not play out on the dancefloor. Watch him live and tell us the same thing. Jeff Mills has earned every bit of the credit that he deserves
Tristan ======= Text/Mixes: http://www.phonopsia.co.uk Music: http://www.mp313.com Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas D. Cox, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <313@hyperreal.org> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 7:03 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 > > > > > >
