Re: DJing...
Dirk van den Heuvel (dirk.v@ix.netcom.com)
Thu, 20 Jun 1996 00:30:04 -0500
>Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 00:28:26 -0500
>To: badmood@earthlink.net (Michael Donaldson)
>From: Dirk van den Heuvel <dirk.v@ix.netcom.com>
>Subject: Re: DJing...
>
>At 08:01 PM 6/19/96 -0400, you wrote:
>>However, mixing is very important to me. And just as important as mixing is
>>realizing imagined mixing juxtapositions: this song would sound good with
>>that song, etc. Playing two cuts together that click just right (even if
>>just in a 10 second crossfade mix) with perfection can light a magic spark
>>onto the crowd. It is an area (besides transforming, scratch-tricks, and
>>other acrobatics that I'm not that great at) where the DJ can create art
>>and touch on the concept of 'DJ as musician'. And it is a DJ challenge to
>>find these magic mixes. I work at it all the time, when listening to songs,
>>when practicing on the turntables, when running through mixes in my heard
>>as I ride my bike... this is where I have the most fun as a DJ.
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>lots deleted..
>>michael
>>Q-BURNS ABSTRACT MESSAGE
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>I really disagree with this and its an attitude that a lot of people I
respect have so I wonder if anybody out there agrees with me. Like Michael I
got into deejaying to expose people to new music (first industrial dance 10
years ago, then techno, hip-hop and now acid jazz) but it was the music I
heard and bought that I wanted to expose people to, not the music as I
wished it was or that it didn't exist except at the moment I was blending
two tracks together or laying a beat track ontop of some bass loops. It
seems that to some deejays playing a record relatively unadultered is
boring, but if the track is so boring why play it? Does every track have to
be "improved" by blending it with another? I don't think so. I think
sometimes it makes for interesting combinations that make some okay tracks
excellent, but taken to the extreme it becomes very self indulgent and
borders on egotism. My other pet peeve related to this is how may
interesting intros never get played at clubs because the deejay can't beat
mix it ('cause the beat didn't kick in yet) so he/she just skips past it.
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