> Its a complex chain of affairs .. but is the artist the person who > records the record > or the person who builds the sound system? Or is it the Dj who > plays the record > or the Engineer who tunes the system and the frequencies that you hear.
It's all of them - if they do it right. Problem is, few good sound system designers exist. Raves have been a black hole of good sound system design. Line up a bunch of speakers into a single wall and blast it as loud as you can has been the rave motto for ages. > Our societies have ways of isolating these roles and giving one moreimportance > over the other .. but if one role can't exist with out the other .. > which is really > more important. eh? I think those that know speak of all of the "legendary" DJs/engineer/sound system designers in the same breath. Where would Larry Levan be without Richard Long? Nicky Siano and David Mancuso without Alex Rosner? See, the BIG problem is the entire rave culture was outside of the original DJ nightclub thing (especially the legendary NYC gay nightclubs). I've argued countless times with local raves who just Do Not Get It. They tell me lasers and other bs are just as important as a sound system which is complete bull crap. They don't understand the importance of sound and how it translates into an experience that can send people into outerspace. Raves were disassociated from the discos and as a result you've had to deal with people who don't get it. As far as I'm concerned they are two totally different cultures with different histories with only occasional cross-over. However, one does not translate well into the other. I see more DJs from the disco world being asked to perform at raves than I see rave DJs being asked to perform at the discos that know. MEK
