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- ad10
that's part of the beauty of it. it's a community that feads and progresses. frankie knuckles along with larry used to go to the loft when they were teenagers.
fritz, i see you are in chicago - have you been to any of frankie's parties at the house of blues?
- Meeklo0
An artist playing his own tracks on a laptop has more respect from me than someone mixing random tracks on turntables. visually they are both boring, people still want to compare it to a live band show, and there are not the same, a dj with records that only puts one track after another, is as entretaining as a guy pushing the fast forward button on a cassette deck, and a guy on a laptop, looks like his checking emails, or chatting on aim to most people,
there is no show in that, its the music what counts.no offense to anyone, there are execptions I go to dj/laptop shows very often and even work with them, and I listen more to electronic music than live band music persoanally, I see the laptop as a cheap way for new artist to show their tracks (not everyone gets their work on vinyl, or a way to perform live without getting all the hardware out from the studio.
- gruntt0
funny editorial on the subject
http://www.viceland.com/issues/v…
- ********0
Yeah, some good points, Rasko, as usual..
The performance aspect of DJing always came to take somewhat of a backseat when club culture really took off..
That was really one of the defining aspects of it all...Instead of everyone focussed on someone doing 'his' thang on a stage, the 'performance' became the dancefloor, thats where the focus, the energy, the action was. Not gooning around in the latest shirt to try and cop off with some girl/guy or other, but a symphony of the crowd lost in the music individually, then being aware of being a united group of people...a good DJ will bring the crowd back and forward, into and out of itself.
Great DJs dont showboat with the fekking arms in the air in front of a stadium full of people, nor should they just stand there, coked up, with their coat on.
The best of the best have a stage prescence, certainly, but that presence shows itself through the music they play - in an ideal world, a DJ is someone who's identity is best expressed through delivering the right music at the right time - not somebody straining to be the empitome of Hoxton or WBerg chic, beit using a laptop, decks MIDIpenis or whatever.
DJs I include in the 'real' catagory are people like Paul Edge, Eddie Richards, Weatherall, Terry Francis and few selected others.
If the music is right, you really shouldnt even know what the DJ looks like till maybe the end when they might somewhat humbly take some applause.
Fuck those gigs where the 'Music Industry' shiterrati pack 20 deep earnestly leering at the way'SuperstarX' is cueing up the next tired, corporate, gutless, nazi 'trancey-progressive' promo.
Everyone seems to have forgotten what it was that drew people - DJs and clubbers, to the scene in the 1st place -
THE DANCEFLOOR.
That magical place where, united in the beat, the rules of engagement changed, and it changed people.
http://www.djpauledge.com/downlo…
shows that this ethos is alive and well, and about to come out of shadows once again :).
- sherman0
one of the best!
- toe-knee0
Mixing is quite diffecult. Beat matching is easy but to actually find two tracks that workk well together is quite difficult. Dont dismiss something you've never tried.
I dont think there are djs out there who just play there sets from a laptop. Surely you are talking about a live pa?
But there are djs who use final scratch, which plays mp3s using a vinyl turntable interface
- MLVR0
Last night I saved a DJs life...
- surfito0
i really enjoy all this dj stuff.
in a year and a half living back home, ive seen, howells, lorber, sasha, carl cox, infusion,digweed, barbara, didnt go to tiesto but he was here, but he sucks, chus & ceballos, wink,chriss leibing, james lavelle, pretty much all of the top djs, and deep dish and richie hawting on their way, frank lorber, oh, i love frank lorber, zabiela, shit, all of the top ones, and i love this shit.djs deserve a lot of respect, some of them of course play shit sometimes, but when theyre good theyre good, they make you party all night, and in this place, shit goes on till 9, then the after, then some ones house at the beach, then party then work, and were i work has to do with this shit, so i love this.
and for some reason, i allways come up with these wierd ideas that get rejected, but they rock.
those of you hating on house, check charles feelgood, he rocks.
anyways, a night of jumping around happy its really good.
:)
- lilrich0
You go out to have a good time, its your choice.