I agree. For a while we had a rash of local Ableton users and their sets were really boring for two reasons: one reason was because I think the DJ felt that their set was special or impressive mainly because they were using Ableton and two I don't think that they were really using the software to its full extent. I remember being convinced to listen to a Sasha set, after he went mnml and started using Ableton, and man what a total bore. It didn't sound any different than, if he slow-blended his records all night. The only thing he did was cut the hook out of the previous track and carry it through for a bit into the new track.
my .02 ----- Original Message ---- From: "Thomas D. Cox, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 313@hyperreal.org Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 11:16:31 AM Subject: Re: (313) Richie Interview On Nov 14, 2007 12:00 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's interesting that this beatmatched recombination idea has sparked a > discussion on whether *any* combination or *any* beatmatching is good / > necessary / appropriate. well, i think it is about exploring the boundaries. richie seems obsessed with pushing the boundaries of making the original artist irrelevent. other people (david mancuso being one) is interested in making the original artist the only thing that is relevent. both ideas are more interesting theoretically than they are on the dancefloor! i think the happy medium is in the middle somewhere, and i can see advantages to leaning a little bit to either side (lets call them the jeff mills approach and the theo parrish approach since they are 2 good examples of each side of the argument but on a far less extreme level) but going all the way to either end is pretty stupid and limiting. tom
