> I thought Robin meant: > > 1st Wave: Jimmy Saville (50's) to Levan etc. (early 80's) > > 2nd Wave: Acid House (85-ish) to Now (general beatmatching, > DJing as an artform, big money etc.) > > 3rd Wave: The future? (Digital mixing from laptops, personal > edits, more accessible, FX & outboard, without vinyl?)
That does make sense to me, except I'd say that the second wave began with the likes of Kool Herc and was in place before acid house took off. Viewing the manipulation of a pair of vinyl records on two turntables as a valid form of musical expression is probably the central ethos of the "second wave" of DJing. Obviously advocates of the first wave were highly sceptical of the second wave when it first appeared (Jimmy Saville not holding people like Grand Wizard Theodore in very high esteem), and there is no reason not to expect similarly reactionary positions from advocates of the second wave now... Brendan
