----- Original Message ----- From: "chad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Giles Dickerson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 8:44 PM Subject: RE: [313] Baby Ford / Zip ==> mixing styles
> On Thu, 16 May 2002, Giles Dickerson wrote: > > +rules. BUT, and this is a big one, you usually need to know the rules to > +break them. > > what? seems to me that people who don't know the rules break them all the > time. I'm with Gilles. I see tons of kids coming into the DJ/production studio I work at with big notions of "doing something that's never been done before". People who want to get 2progressive4jumpstep... In production this is even more obvious, but that's a different story. Like Matt said, learning how to mix two records seamlessly is just the first step. I'm pretty sure that's the "rule" Gilles is talking about. But really I think this is moving the thread back to where it started, covering the same ground again. The biggest issue I have with the original comments is the idea that Detroit (or Chicago) are representative of DJing in the US. This is not the case. Techno and its offshoots are really the only genres other than hip hop where you see DJs get crazy on the decks. "Smooth" mixing is what's most popular in house, trance, progressive, drum 'n bass or whatever. There are exceptions in almost every genre, but my long belabored point is that techno doesn't have a home anywhere in the US but Detroit, or maybe New York, so the idea that the Detroit or Hot Mix style is representative of the US is very misleading. If I'm not mistaken, you don't see too much of this in Chicago anymore even. "The long mix" is the goal most DJs in most genres aim for these days. It can be nice, particularly with thick, deep house, but generally I wanna see someone go off and you don't see that much outside of the Midwest. Tristan ------------------- http://www.mp313.com <- Music http://www.metrotechno.net <- DC techno + more http://www.metatrackstudios.com <- DC DJ/Production studios http://phonopsia.tripod.com <- Hub [EMAIL PROTECTED] <- email --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
