> -----Original Message----- > From: Thomas D. Cox, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 14 November 2007 21:28 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: (313) Richie Interview > > > but the dancefloor is a transient environment, the dj only > has to be > > good in the moment, for as long as the club is open. > > i cant agree with that at all. people like all sorts of > nonsense "in the moment", its what trendy dance music is all > about, really.
Yeah, like not that horrible Carl Craig song. ;) > the real challenge is to play things that > sound good today and will sound good tomorrow and the day > after and the day after. the fact is that there is tons of > good music out there, the results of richie's (and > others') previous efforts in this direction have not been > very good, i dont see why you would purposely play bad stuff > to try to be different when you could just play good records! > but i guess if people buy into the concept, its easy to take > their money no matter what the results sound like.... Yeah, I mean it doesn't need to be summed up that way, but that ain't wrong. Why can't people just play good new music well? The DJ used to be good for a) finding good new music, b) fishing out good old music and c) presenting it well. It's only recently that 'b' has become "finding good old music" as well, from what I can tell (although I could be totally wrong about that). I'm not saying people can't dig and dig well to beef up their sets, but surely the world would find itself listening to more good music if some of the most rigorous diggers spent less time looking for what's old and more time finding all the new good sh*t. Not that I'm trying to tell people how to spend their money, but I can't help but feeling like when I buy play 'Wheel Me Out' I'm a bit of a poseur, no matter how much I love the track. But maybe I'm just taking my turn at being the controversial mofo... Tristan ======= http://www.phonopsia.co.uk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
