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
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
