getting off topic, and i honestly don't say this in some kind of bullsh*t i'm-from-detroit kinda way, but until you've seen rich at a Small Detroit Event, 5:00am, sweat pouring down the walls, no lights on, the whole room erupting, you haven't seen him. what he does at events around the world, that i've seen, is certainly great, but it's not the same. rightly so.
true enough about the physicality of stacey (totally fun), and i know rich also has a more clinical side/reputation, so maybe what you say about the laptop is true. but having seen several plastikman live shows, i kinda doubt it. from what i can gather however, this is not a sit-behind-the-laptop proposition. and considering that rich has referred to this as "the death of vinyl", i'll be really interested to see what happens. btw - none of this degrades the 'entertainment' (for lack of a better word) value of djs like stacey. i love to see stacey, derrick carter, claude.. people who really get physically into it. and it's always cracked me up how acquaviva can have the room going OFF and he looks like he's reading the newspaper... ;) ------Original Message------ From: "Cyclone Wehner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 313 Detroit <[email protected]> Sent: January 22, 2001 7:16:07 PM GMT Subject: Re: [313] Future of DJ'ing, also anyone at MIDEM? >c'mon people, do you really think hawtin and acquaviva would endorse >(unofficially or not) a product that amounts to sitting behind your laptop? > or that makes djing *less* of an art? Actually..... Well I think again this comes back to how you define DJing and what you expect to experience. I think Hawtin places value purely on the sonic aspects, right, that could be why I never feel him as a punter. He doesn't have the physical presence of, say, Stacey Pullen, who you really feel, he communicates in a variety of ways. So I think it's quite possible that Hawtin could sit behind a laptop and if it were challenging enough technically (as I believe he would want to be) then sure he might endorse it. But it would lose me. It would be too clinical, too technical. I guess I've always loved R&B/soul, so it could be that is why I value presence and performance and that kind of projection. It's not a technical thing. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
