Michael Aregood (maregood@comcastpc.com)
Wed, 2 Jun 1999 16:01:56 -0400
I'd like to hear of what you speak... um..err ... maybe not the Ani Di
Franco! ;-)
I've recently started getting a lot more extreme as far as the different
directions i've been going in a live setting and intend to push it
furthur... however, the dillema i'm finding is that the more variety you put
into a set, and the more bizarre the combinations, the less fluid. At the
same time it could be looked at as great.. and it's difficult to straddle
that line and be objective about it. Last night at Silk City i mixed "Give
it Away" by the Chili Peppers with an old Differenz EP on Shadow. That was
the bomb!... however i'm not quite sure how they liked the Jaws soundtrack
into Cal Tjader... ooops.
oh, and plus the other dillema is, the more wacked out stuff you put in your
bag, the less room you have for the sounds which might be expected however
you are promoting the night...
cool thread!
aRgo
-----Original Message-----
From: n.n [mailto:nnine@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 1999 3:43 PM
To: Michael Aregood
Cc: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
Subject: RE: time for a cheesy new thread
--- Michael Aregood <maregood@comcastpc.com> wrote:
> I'm not quite sure how you were able to know for
> sure whether the dj did it
> spontaniously or planned it...
Good question....it's the difference between _knowing_
when to bring in a track (as in, studying how the
big-namers do it, the math and science of it, going,
ok, here comes the break, time to bring in my next
slammin track), and _feeling_ when to bring it in.
Which, I think, is the gist of just about everything
that's been said about the subject, just in different
ways. :)
I'll clarify a little..
I've been a radio dj and a beatmatcher dj, and I like
them both for totally different reasons. What a
thrill to mix Morphine and Duke Ellington, and what a
thrill to mix T1000 and Joey Beltram! But for totally
different reasons, right? On different scales.
Mixing, say, techno, for me, is making the individual
sounds talk to each other. You are mixing on a
beat-by-beat, measuer-by-measure, scale. Crazy!
But to draw the connection between an Ani Di Franco
tune and a Betty Carter tune is on a much higher
level. Not higher like better, higher like more
abstract.
As a radio dj, I had a knack for making these broad
connections, mixing buddist chants into beastie boys,
scratching salvadoran folk music over organic trancy
stuff.
working within the delicious restriction of matching
beats is a different challenge entirely. So far, all I
can tell is that my mixing is either very smooth, with
super long mixes, or very chunky. not very
sophisticated yet, in my opinion. I've tried to get
real-life samba to go with organic techno, but so far
it's been a disaster. ;P
that's the kind of question I was getting at. I really
didn't want to start a war over whether beat-matching
is sublime or evil, cuz we all know that a good mix is
one that puts that sparlky thing down your spine and
makes you go, "ooooooohhhhhh...."
s
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