yeah that's what i'm getting at. in fact track selection (brendan mentions it at the end of the below post) is more important to the hi-tech dj.
another thought: from what i can gather the Rave Act in the US classifies a party with no djs and just live acts as something other than a rave and the law is less stringent (please correct if wrong). So is a "DJ" with a powerbook and ableton live now a live act and not dj? will this change things? robin... > I would agree that "traditional" DJs listening to mixes done in things > like Ableton will try to copy some of the techniques they hear, and that > this will also help the traditional form of mixing to progress and > absorb new ideas. For example, the first time I heard proper booty music > was back in 1996 when I got a tape from 12 Tech Mob - the tape had been > recorded using multitracking and various other tricks, but at the time I > didn't know - I thought it was a straight mix. > > So off I went, spending the next few years gathering booty and > ghetto-tech records and attempting to emulate the frenetic multi-layered > action you get on the mix tape. When I eventually found out that the mix > was not recorded live, of course, I realised I'd been wasting my time, > but in the process of trying to do the whole thing live I'd learnt a > whole bunch of new tricks and had generally upped the standard of my > mixing, which was a good thing. And did it make me value the tape any > less? No! It was just as enjoyable a listening experience, whether it > had been put together by NASA or by a demented child with sticky tape. > > I definitely don't think straight-turntable mixing is dead, and won't be > for a long time. And when I say "long time", I'm speaking in > generational terms, not "the next few years". Even if the future sees us > all with ableton/final scratch and so on within about a five years, the > fact of the matter will remain that if your basic track selection skills > are lacking then you won't do very well. > > Brendan
