Robin >i see there's another article in Jockey Slut this month saying that mixing >records together is an out of date approach. i beg to differ.
I beg to differ too. Of course the advent of Final Scratch and Ableton Live is exciting, but for f**ks sake. More than 75% of the punters in the club don't even know the tracks anyway, so why do they give a s**t about some mad version of a track that they don't even know the original of. If mixing together two records is out of date, then f**k me, lets all pack in playing music altogether in night clubs. I couldn't give two hoots about the quality of anybodys mixing - as long as its obviously not train wrecks all the way. Just simple selection that flows well is fine for me. Anyone care to tell me David Mancuso isn't a dj? IT'S ALL IN THE SELECTION FOLKS. Listen to Derrick May's quotes in the recent technotourist article. "Ron Hardy wasn't a dj, he was some kind of musical shaman" f**king amen to that I say. (not that I ever saw him, ha ha ha) OK, what I'm trying to say in a round-a-bout sort of way, is that Joe Bloggs could be the best technical dj in the world - or the surgeon for example, but if anyone is just going to play 3 hrs of nonsense just because they find it hard to mix anything else (or that it might make their mixing sound 'bad'), it just doesn't interest me in the slightest. It also explains why the vast majority of clubs and parties are boring as f**k, and why kids don't want to go out anymore. If you listen to all those Hardy tapes, you can almost feel the vibe *even on the tape* - they're just electric - there's no other word for them. Its the way he played the tracks, and what he did with the tracks that create the vibe, not the mixing. Theo Parrish is the same, although it's fairly obvious where his style comes from (although he has his own slant). Rant Over. and I really hope Tom Magic feet didn't write that quote from Jockey Slut, otherwise I'm going to feel a right tit. Alex. Alex _________________________________________________________________ --------------------- End of message text -------------------- This e-mail is sent by the above named in their individual, non-business capacity and is not on behalf of PricewaterhouseCoopers. PricewaterhouseCoopers may monitor outgoing and incoming e-mails and other telecommunications on its e-mail and telecommunications systems. By replying to this e-mail you give your consent to such monitoring
