The mixture of traditional djing and the producer activities points to
the future, i think. But in one hand we have the hysterical girl talk
thing, in the other the hospital food richie's stuff. I wanna find a
compulsive knob twister doing this thing good.
There's a lot of baile funk players here, in brazil, doing nice stuff
with laptops, midi, mpc and traditional tunes inside an act.
Kw
On Sep 7, 2008, at 11:09 PM, /0 wrote:
within this context, I don't think that things benefit from micro-
loop sampling, or production decisions made with DJing in mind. DJ
sets just don't seem to be the series of little trips that they used
to be.
maybe I'm just used to it all.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kowalsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: (313) Richie Hawtin's Traktor setup
Certainly, there's a way out of this so called BS. Wich compulsive
knob twister is doing something creative these days, in this list
opinion?
On Sep 7, 2008, at 10:28 PM, /0 wrote:
its just that they've defeated the song structure through all of
this micro-DJing BS.
30 seconds into the set, your journey is over.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kowalsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2008 9:23 PM
Subject: Re: (313) Richie Hawtin's Traktor setup
Saw him playing in my city last wednesday. His set was pretty
tasteless, flavourless. My impression was just like that: a bunch of
loops scrambled over and over, with a crescendo to make the crowd
scream from time to time.
It seems that a lot of djs, or producers, are showing up in the stage
the capabilities of digital blending, the knob thrill just for the
sake of it. Well, techno always had a thing about the process, not
focusing on a begining or an end, but this tasteless knob thrill
usually turns into a kid play, something like "i'm having fun playing
with my lego blocks, aren't you?". Well, it's not really that fun
just
watch someone else playing lego, cause there's no space for you to
get
in – the expression of the music was suposed to do that, bring the
people into the playing.
Kw
On Sep 5, 2008, at 10:13 AM, Odeluga, Ken wrote:
Whilst admiring how clever he is - and I genuinely think Hawtin
shows a
profound intelligence about how he applies the new opportunities
which
these latest technologies offer - I found myself drifting.
I think I can only take so much technological advancement at a time.
Then I kind of withdraw, hoping to hear some actual music. Perhaps
something which completes rather than loops over another loop or
even
four fragments looped at the same time.
The day when these genuinely impressive techniques add up to
something
equally as genuinely impressive coming out of the speakers will
be the
day when many luddites just using one laptop [ha, I'm not even
going to
mention the pre-historic relics, like me, who use that black plastic
stuff!) won't be allowed to DJ anymore due to being seen as a comedy
act.
Till then - and it could happen soon: perhaps 3 years? - I think
there
are few more gigs to come.
-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 12:39 PM
To: 313@hyperreal.org
Subject: RE: (313) Richie Hawtin's Traktor setup
Although i have different midi controllers it's the way i'm
playing as
well and exactly due to the same reasons.
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Interesting little video:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6n4cy_richie-hawtin-traktor-setup_musi
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