it has nothing to do with djs. in fact, the 'rave act' is no longer even called that. its now the 'illicit drug anti-proliferation act'.
the law has to do with venue operations and ownership. if someone does drugs in a club, arena, ampitheater, bar, resturaunt, hotel... then the owner of said establishment as well as the operator, leasee or temporary promoter can be found guilty of providing a place for drug usage, similar in legal terms to running a crack house. more info at- www.drugpolicy.org and www.emdef.org On Fri, 23 May 2003, robin pinning wrote: > > 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 > >
