All of the edits I've done (and frankly I can only speak to my own
philosophy on this) have been kind of personal. I wanted to do
Kraftwerk's Hall of Mirrors and re-vision it as a near tech-house
groove...I wanted to see if I could make a song by The System sound
like an industrial track...I wanted to make a cheesy rock song like
'love is like oxygen' a stomper. All of the edits I've done have my
personality built into them, they have many of my signatures: drum
programming, new or reworked basslines, etc.
I did these things not to 'improve' them, as they were strong
tracks to begin with and tracks I liked to start out with. I did them
in MY style-creating something for my own DJ sets and the like.
I really don't know why others do edits (money, power, respect?)
however I to this point had not done any...most of this has been
practice for remixing for me.
And yes, Abelton Live is a GREAT program for mangling and
re-arranging loops and samples. The key is the creativity of the user
with the tool...a chisel in a sculptor's hands rather than in the
hands of an auto tech I guess.
And, sadly, there are so many things now that are released that DON'T
make the cut. Most are available on mp3. With that, I say...vote
with your feet.
I've had a gift of time to do something I've not done before,
and it seems to be paying dividends...you'll hear about it soon!
Cheers listers!
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:44 AM, David Powers <[email protected]> wrote:
> Meant to say: "life is too SHORT to waste time..." etc.
>
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:43 AM, David Powers <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Yeah, I mean I don't really listen all these edits, but if 1 minute of
>> cheese ruins 5 minutes of genius, what's wrong with improving it? That
>> said, I personally don't have time for such shenanigans, there are so
>> many good records out there already, life is too to waste time editing
>> ones that don't quite make the cut...
>>
>> Actually it's funny how many records aren't quite there, but would be
>> good if they just didn't have that one horrible sample or hit running
>> over top of things ruining them...
>>
>> ~David
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:29 AM, kent williams <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>> If the original was good on its own terms, you don't improve it by
>>> editing it. There's a bazillion 'disco edits' right now, and they
>>> bother me because they take something with its own internal pace and
>>> flow, and fit it to the procrustean bed of DJ expediency. And
>>> usually, to fit the ADD no-soul mixing style of DJs who can't tell
>>> fake funk from real.
>>>
>>> The point being, it's great to sample but add something new, make it
>>> your own, be original with it. Just because Ableton Live makes it easy
>>> to chop tracks to pieces doesn't make it right. It's akin to
>>> bowdlerizing Shakespeare.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:12 AM, David Powers <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> What difference does "being true to the original make?"
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
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