Re: [313] Redefinitions (was: Re: trading on napster)

2000-11-30 Thread TekHitsHarder
hahahha--im with u on that 1 johnny. lmfao mike

Re: [313] Redefinitions (was: Re: trading on napster)

2000-11-30 Thread Jonny McIntosh
When the MP3 revolution comes, you can send your unwanted vinyl to me - don't burn it after some baseball game :) Jonny.

Re: [313] Redefinitions

2000-11-30 Thread Cyclone Wehner
That didn't make sense at all. Sorry I have a temperature, apparently, and am downloading the wrong words from my memory!! Enuff posts for me today! Here it is again. Call me dumb but I always wonder how it is that Mills' music is considered in such theoretical terms, even he speaks of it in this

Re: [313] Redefinitions

2000-11-30 Thread Cyclone Wehner
Call me dumb but I never wonder how it is that Mills music is considered in such theoretical terms, even he speaks of it in this way. I guess if I composed I would be very intuitive and mood-based and think not in terms of theories but emotion and experience. Not that it would like conventional sou

RE: [313] Redefinitions (was: Re: trading on napster)

2000-11-30 Thread Batory, Jason
>Not to boost my own theory here, but Mills captured, to me, the sounds of >what toneshifting sounds like in these three tracks... Have you listened to any of his Purposemaker releases? There are some amazing sounds here which I believe are the essence of your theory. At least this is the stuff th

Re: [313] Redefinitions (was: Re: trading on napster)

2000-11-30 Thread darw_n
: > > jeff mills- metropolis As I said before, I just got this CD, and I have to admit, it is near close to brilliant, although, I am having trouble seeing about half the tracks as movie scores, but the use of sounds in some of the more dancy tracks is stunning to say the least. I don't have th

Re: [313] Redefinitions (was: Re: trading on napster)

2000-11-30 Thread Peter B Leidy
> > With these mp3 players, you could do midi > > quite easily (well for the consumer) > > Can we please be careful about using the term midi? Midi has nothing to do > with .mp3 technology whatsoever. I see lots of people making this mistake. > Midi provides no definitive sound characteristics,

Re: [313] Redefinitions (was: Re: trading on napster)

2000-11-30 Thread TekHitsHarder
In a message dated 11/29/00 6:03:48 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << hmmm... I'd say that turntables will go the way of the guitar (that they've replaced). Sure guitars are still played, but are our kids going to be right into what we listen to? How many people these d

Re: [313] Redefinitions (was: Re: trading on napster)

2000-11-30 Thread TekHitsHarder
<< With these mp3 players, you could do midi quite easily (well for the consumer) and match effortlessly (even though would take some of the fun out of djing, as well as some frustration -- for me at least).>> well isnt that the point of dj'ing? fun and frustration?

Re: [313] Redefinitions (was: Re: trading on napster)

2000-11-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
on 11/29/2000 5:43 PM, *!*! at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >If there were an adequate alternative, say a mp3 player with > the digital cueing capabilities that I currently have with my 1200s, I > woudl switch in an instant. Numark in two months. http://www.numark.com/flash/productdetails.cfm?CatName

RE: [313] Redefinitions (was: Re: trading on napster)

2000-11-29 Thread Nathan John de Yonker
Ugh man. This thread hits 313 once a year I think. Is techno dead? Is rock dead? Is the turntable dead? how about the zither? Classical music has been around for centuries and it is still the only genre of music that some people will listen to. Much traditional music has been around for a milenniu

RE: [313] Redefinitions (was: Re: trading on napster)

2000-11-29 Thread Rich Baker
hmmm... I'd say that turntables will go the way of the guitar (that they've replaced). Sure guitars are still played, but are our kids going to be right into what we listen to? How many people these days are right into Motown or Duke Ellington (for example)? Many respect it (and many haven't heard

Re: [313] Redefinitions (was: Re: trading on napster)

2000-11-29 Thread Todd Smith
ot;Todd Gys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Craig Stodolenak'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <313@hyperreal.org> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 12:57 PM Subject: RE: [313] Redefinitions (was: Re: trading on napster) > Vinyl and/or turntables will never die out.

Re: [313] Redefinitions (was: Re: trading on napster)

2000-11-29 Thread Kent williams
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Craig Stodolenak wrote: > > Vinyl can already be more easily replaced with a digital file; all > we're waiting on is the interface. And who the hell is going to lug > around a 50 lb. box of discs of plastic with little squiggly lines on > them after they're presented with

Re: [313] Redefinitions (was: Re: trading on napster)

2000-11-29 Thread Christian Bloch
OTECTED]>; <313@hyperreal.org> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 10:16 PM Subject: RE: [313] Redefinitions (was: Re: trading on napster) > I was in boston and I was in a bar where there was a CDJ definetly play two cd's together and beat maching them accordingly. I am not sure

Re: [313] Redefinitions (was: Re: trading on napster)

2000-11-29 Thread Christian Bloch
Wednesday, November 29, 2000 9:57 PM Subject: RE: [313] Redefinitions (was: Re: trading on napster) > Vinyl and/or turntables will never die out. CD DJ decks have been out for > over 5 years. Smaller sized units, digital sound, and CD's are a much > physically smaller medi

Re: [313] Redefinitions (was: Re: trading on napster)

2000-11-29 Thread Christian Bloch
nesday, November 29, 2000 10:11 PM Subject: RE: [313] Redefinitions (was: Re: trading on napster) > i agree with GYS, > > if records and turntables were going to be misplaced..it woulkd have already happened. My friends and I always talk about how its ironic that we pump out the most &q

Re: [313] Redefinitions (was: Re: trading on napster)

2000-11-29 Thread Cyclone Wehner
I may have missed this. Sorry. I agree with you - I love the look and feel of vinyl. However, in Australia (that's my sphere of reference) where you find CD decks is in R&B clubs as there is a limited amount of wax coming in for DJs. The market is growing and it is being serviced but DJs want to pl

Re: [313] Redefinitions (was: Re: trading on napster)

2000-11-29 Thread Cyclone Wehner
Yeah, that is definitely possible. During my (fortunately) brief 'DJ career' I had two CD units as part of the decks, so you could go from vinyl to vinyl, CD to CD, or vinyl to CD, etc. The CD unit works the same way so you can mix with the cross fader or volume controls. The CD unit also allows yo

RE: [313] Redefinitions (was: Re: trading on napster)

2000-11-29 Thread *!*!
> if records and turntables were going to be misplaced..it woulkd have we pump out the most "futuristic" music, with the most "manual" of >instruments. . I disagree. If there were an adequate alternative, say a mp3 player with the digital cueing capabilities that I currently have with my 1200s

RE: [313] Redefinitions (was: Re: trading on napster)

2000-11-29 Thread Matthew Gerbasi
I was in boston and I was in a bar where there was a CDJ definetly play two cd's together and beat maching them accordingly. I am not sure what type of equiptment he was using, but the mixing that he was coming from it was not one track end one track start. there was a definete third track cre

RE: [313] Redefinitions (was: Re: trading on napster)

2000-11-29 Thread TekHitsHarder
i agree with GYS, if records and turntables were going to be misplaced..it woulkd have already happened. My friends and I always talk about how its ironic that we pump out the most "futuristic" music, with the most "manual" of instruments.

RE: [313] Redefinitions (was: Re: trading on napster)

2000-11-29 Thread Topping, Micah
> But, it hasn't caught on at all and most likely never will. I can agree about cds but here are a couple of things I would like to one day be able to do, or see happen: technic 1200 midi controllers i'd love to see these made to control digital audio in a mixer so the digital medium can be pla

RE: [313] Redefinitions (was: Re: trading on napster)

2000-11-29 Thread Todd Gys
wax. GYS -Original Message- From: Craig Stodolenak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 3:29 PM To: 313@hyperreal.org Subject: [313] Redefinitions (was: Re: trading on napster) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >Why don't you pay for the music instead of ripping arti