Matthew Kane wrote:
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:19, kent williams wrote:
So if you're doing something, speak up! If you just bought a killer
Detroit record, let me know. If you know of some crazy kids doing
something interesting ...
I just got a copy of the new Octave One album which I quit
Due, you missed my point. I wasnt saying the printing press killed
all culture. it begat so much of it. i was making an analogy. i'm
against mediocrity.
With everyone and their mother getting in on djing, everyone and their
mother cant be that good at it, that musical, or devoted.
Between dem
Sasha is a prime example of a boring dj becoming even more boring with
Ableton.
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From: J.C.
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Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 11:08:38 AM
Subject: Re: (313) re: Mills interview in the Wire
On 17 February 2009, kent williams wrote:
This would be better discussed on the .microsound mailing list, but
suffice it to say that without the printing press we probably wouldn't
have Franz Kafka and Italo Calvino, not to mention the Age of
Enlightenment and the American Revolution.
I don't believe in "democracy" per se, but surely acce
well, as with vinyl - Amazon's "Kindle" has nothing on printed and bound
books
the details and feeling of the binding, the quality of the paper, the smell
of the book, the little joy in slowly turning the page, and the whole
culture of bookstores, etc. all missed out by the digital book reader
in
> now with the democratization of djing, everyone knows how to dj
> supposedly the printing press was indeed an innovation, but the
> quality of literary output is surely down in a world where literacy is
> epidemic and books are published every day only to be thrown out the
> next, where writ
My take on all this is theres no excuse for a serato dj not to have
20-30 recs on him just in case
A dj can do damage for at least a good lil while with that number of records
anyways, i still think vinyl always sounds better, unless youre carl
craig and you use a radar hard recording sys
Andrew, that was awesome!
> I think the important thing to remember is not process, but results.
> So much of this turntables vs software talk has nothing to do with ears,
> it is all eyes, to be honest.
>
At the Shake/Todd Osborn party in Detroit this past Friday, my friend
(who is a DJ), said s
On 17 February 2009, kent williams wrote:
I've seen loads of DJs play boring sets with no consideration for
their audience, using good ol vinyl and turntables. To paraphrase the
NRA, "Technology doesn't bore a crowd, DJs bore a crowd."
Exactly!
I think the important thing to remember is not p
On 17 Feb 2009, at 15:55, kent williams wrote:
As someone who has embraced Ableton Live as a DJ tool
NO not again
m
This is the kind of argument I hear from friends who don't like music
made with computers/programmable synths/drum machines at all, much
less replayed by computers. For them, there's no feeling or
'mistakes' unless it's played on manually-operated instruments like
guitars, drums and Peruvian panfl
As someone who has embraced Ableton Live as a DJ tool I have two
observations: 1) Removing beat matching from the equation means you
don't make beat-matching mistakes. Plenty of other surprises and
mistakes are possible. 2) a preprogrammed set doesn't interact with
the audience.
To the extent I su
Yeah, it's a bit of a read but well worth it, really, really interesting
stuff he talks about.
Funny to read that one of the dj's being on the forefront of technology
speaks about the fact that all these technological developments
(traktor, ableton and so on) will lead to the fact that dj's might
Martijn de Blaauw wrote:
Dunno if this was mentioned here already but the feb. issue of the wire
has a very good and long interview with mr. Jeff Mills, u can read it
online here:
http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/2035/
Thanks much for the heads-up on this, Martijn.
Lengthy, in-depth article a
Dunno if this was mentioned here already but the feb. issue of the wire
has a very good and long interview with mr. Jeff Mills, u can read it
online here:
http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/2035/
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