--- Christopher Grass <bluesjumper@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Interesting article, but by no means the death knell
> for cds and vinyl.
remember the music has to come from somewhere. how
many major artists (including our scene) release their
tracks as mp3s--other than for preview?
> MP3s may sound ok on a smaller sound system, but
> they sound for crap when
> played on a nice system, unless they have been
> ripped at a high bitrate.
there's still some sonic funkiness because of the
compression even at the higher bitrates. i have a
friend that burns cds for gigs from a lot of d/l'ed
stuff (he's a cd dj) and he's trying to figure out how
to overcome the sound ishs.
> Pioneer's new MP3 player is pretty cool,
> though...but I'm sticking with my
> CDJ 1000s and my Technics 1500 for now. By the way,
> that pic of "Donnie
> Darkwave" cracked me up. Sure, those Ipods can hold
> lots of songs, but what
> happens when some drunken idiot saunters over to his
> setup, yaks it up with
> our hero...and then while walking away, snags one of
> the wires, yanking
> those precious IPods to their doom? I can just see
> one of those things
> shattering into millions of pieces. Hell, one
> spilled drink could wipe out
> half his library. Technology is so fragile these
> days...
that mixer looked like a vestax pmc 05pro. do you
think donnie works on his crab skratches?
> The "anyone can be a DJ" line amused me as well.
> True, mixing isn't
> everything (just ask Gilles Peterson), but most
> people couldn't program a
> set to save their lives.
even as a member of the trick(y) mixing fraternity, i
have to contend that 99% of dj'ing is in set
progression--mixing, scratching and their descendants
are for transitions, and/or personalizing the records
in the set. even w/o mixing NOT EVERYONE CAN BE A
DJ!!
> Most "DJs" I've seen these
> days are spinning
> trance because it's (for the most part) brainless
> music and it's easy to
> mix....THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP....bah, I
> say!
> Just my humble opinion...
while i'm no fan of trance, i think that you're being
a little unfair. deep house is easy to mix, and it's
not as fast as trance. so why do people really spin
trance? crowd response. it's the same reason that a
dj that plays all your favorite musical, underground,
groovy hiphop when you walk in the club, will at
peaktime switch to the jiggy...
-t
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