RE: moRE: skills?selection?both

From: McAtee, Malcolm (MMcAtee@philamuseum.org)
Date: Tue Jul 24 2001 - 14:12:15 CEST

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    It seems to me that it is really all about reading the crowd and
    programming, in other words, playing the right thing at the right time.....
    And doing that for 2 to 10 to 15 hours at a time.......

    -----Original Message-----
    From: T-Bird [mailto:djt_bird@yahoo.com]
    Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 4:16 AM
    To: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
    Subject: moRE: skills?selection?both

    At 09:46 AM 7/24/01 +0100, you wrote:
    >The reason so many producers are turning dj is not through some
    >"ego" but because of necessity often. As you say it is a way to
    >promote their music but also the sad fact is that people are
    >not willing to pay for live bands.

    there was a band that i once had the opportunity to book and i was excited
    about it until i found out that i would have to pay for equipment also--the
    band was from overseas--i was just trying to throw an acid-jazz club and
    didn't have that kind of money...

    also, many dance producers don't do live oriented music. photek w/a band??

    >I agree that technical skills are important too - however just
    >mixing beat after beat is not difficult. The problem comes when
    >the mixing side becomes more important than the song selection
    >side - i.e. you end up with same old beat after beat after beat
    >just because it flows well!

    that's just laziness...

    >The truely great Dj's can mix a variety of styles and rhythms
    >seamlessly (like Tom Middleton) - and those are the one's I
    >give respect too.

    personally, i feel that the reason to acquire "skills" is to give you more
    options when you mix (records, cds, whatever). let's say that you want to
    play two songs back to back, but the tempos are too far apart to properly
    beatmix them and you don't want it to be obvious that you're changing
    tempos (dancers don't always deal well with that). you can use a dj
    "trick" to distract the listeners/dancers from the tempo change (e.g.,
    backspin, scratch). i once heard a dj use the pitch control to slow a
    record *way* down and then pull it back up so that the dancers wouldn't
    realize that he was *actually* speeding the track up so he could beatmix
    something else out of it.

    -t

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