It's a science and an art.
> interviewing is a SCIENCE. nick should be commended for getting it right > here. > > (as a sidenote, tristan isn't the nature of the internet ephemeral? i > remember this dope web magazine called FEED. disappeared into the void > with the QUICKNESS. overload is gone, but it'll bleed into to something > else...just like FEED bled into places like Salon and even Slate.) > > as far as FS goes... > > FS is the thing that makes DJs able to forego the work of building a > collection through blood, sweat, tears, and loot. And in as much as that > process winnows out (to a certain extent) people who aren't that serious > about DJing as a craft, Theo thinks (according to my reading of the > interview) that something very very important is being lost. > > He's right...but also wrong. > > People ARE now able to just take an entire record collection, or even > recreate an entire record collection with a tiny fraction of the effort > previously required. And some of those people are no doubt doing it just > because they can. And their art suffers for it. Speaking technically, > you learn something about the craft of DJing from blending two tracks BY > HAND that you don't necessarily get by tweaking a couple of BPM knobs. > > BUT at the same time when the means of production is opened up to the > public and made democratic think about what you gain. You gain access to > all of the tracks that previously needed a 19th level Wizard to find. You > gain more time to develop your craft because you don't have to go sifting > through bins. Through the process of competition and cooperation, better > DJing results from the increased interaction of all those cats who are > spinning now. With the means of production widely distributed you now > have the ability to use found sounds in a much richer fashion. I've been > toying with the idea of taping my lectures and then using them as > background for my mixes...something that would have been very difficult > just five years ago. > > So Theo is channeling Wynton Marsalis here, against an invisible Herbie > Hancock. > > He's got some points...but I guess where you stand on them is very much > related to what you think about democracy and art. > > > peace > lks > >
