Easy to mix - and only really interesting to the DJ for any extended period of time. Then you get a real DJ in and people don't quite know what to do or make of it. The audience's ears gets dumb-down, like giving kids McDonald's burgers all their life. Then have them taste a real burger they might not like it as much because it's got the full range of taste - not just sweet and salt.
I've seen supposedly "real" house people get totally put off by a DJ I know who plays the real deal. Not edits but full songs - most of them made before any of them were born. It's taken him years to get them to come around to it - and not just the party goers but other DJs in town Now he's a hero to everyone. He's even gotten kids who are into "happy hardcore" and "psy-trance" on board! Now there are a good handful of local djs playing the real thing. However, again, it's taken him years to get them to come around. I've been putting on shows with him for nearly 10 years now and it's only within the last three that people are finally going "oh, I get it!" Took us ages to even get people to show up for the shows and half of them were totally miffed as to what we we're doing. I think also a lot of it has to do with how DJs are booked and how the nights are built up. How many places have one DJ all night? All too often it's a "more bang for the buck" night with 4 or 5 jocks jockeying for position of best performance. If you've got so little time how can you possibly let a full disco tune play out? You shoot for the sweet spot and that means disco edits. However, it starts to shorten people's attention span for a song - and I mean a SONG. Not just a "tune". It's the difference between exercising (a night of all disco edits) and exercising out some demons (a night of all disco songs). MEK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09/10/2008 11:16:17 AM: > I just saw Dj Harvey do his Sarcastic Disco thing in this great venue in > downtown L.A. rite around the corner from S.Central. Everytime I went up > to see what he was playing it would say "BLAH BLAH BLAH RE-EDITS". Should > I be Happy A great Dj like himself is actually playing records? I tend to > think the whole Re-edit craze takes away from the highs and lows the > original track has to offer. I don't mind it as a tool here in there but > Morgan Geist seems upset by it here. What'ch'all think? > http://andybetablog.blogspot.com/2008/01/morgan-geist-interview.html > > Sorry if this has been a topic before. I just recently got back in the game:) > L.L. Cool A. > >
