On Nov 14, 2007 4:08 PM, Frank Glazer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "i think it is way too far to the other extreme to just be playing
> little audio bits."
>
> so, let me get this straight...
>
> it's ok for people like jimmy yancey, josh davis, paul huston, the
> dust brothers, theo parrish, crystl, dj premier, lee perry, carl
> craig, thomas bangalter, 4 hero, ganja cru, etc. to use samples
> ("little audio bits") to produce tracks for people to listen to and
> deejays to play, but it's not ok for deejays to play bits of those
> tracks live to create something entirely new? i don't get it. that's
> completely illogical. you may not care for what people like richie
> hawtin and monolake do with the technology available to them, but
> blame them, not the technology.
there is an art to sample usage, the results are absolutely always
better when they come from a studio setting. i have the same problem
with turntablist sets that i do with the idea of splicing out bits of
single audio tracks on the fly, it just sounds like wankery. like i
said before, if that is really what they want to do, go do it in the
studio where things have to stand up to repeated listenings to be
good. it is not easy! id rather not be testing ground for joe blow to
try to take apart tracks that were perfectly fine before and try to
rearrange them on the fly. its like the worst kind of bad jazz
improvisation where someone has an instrument in their hands and just
wont stop playing, even when it would sound better if they would STFU.
tom
