we have two extremes here. looped bangers all night, same tempo, boring as hell. and then we have the approach where selection rules and there is a lot more variety and mixing is secondary...(if there is just one or the other i prefer the second, simply because this approach allows a dj to read the floor and respond with a mood....ron hardy/shaman style)
what i'm saying is there is now a middle way between the two where the dj plays a hugely varied selection with a brilliantly mixed flow...(imagine this: genuinely a dj that can pull the bassline out of one track and lay the highs and mids over the top of it all live in response to what the crowd go metal over...) to illustrate my point will mean me finally getting off me arse, smoking less and recording all the ideas i have in me head :) (if i can, heh) robin... > > 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records together is an out of date approach.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.
