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Subject: Why do people DJ live?
Original Message Date: 31-Mar-00 @ 04:38 AM - Why do people DJ live?
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Message 11/51 11-Apr-00 @ 10:23 AM - RE: Why do people DJ live?
"disc jockeys" they play music, no offense, but it's not that great
Message 12/51 11-Apr-00 @ 03:13 PM - RE: Why do people DJ live?
Message 13/51 13-Apr-00 @ 12:28 AM - RE: Why do people DJ live?
Well, you have to understand the power of a turntable and a fat ass beat...just think about this little disc that spins and physically transfers little notches into beats...stuttering away from the needle to the speakers.
More concretely, you just need to understand DJ culture. Electronic Dance Music is just that...DANCE music, and when people go out to a club or a party or a rave or whatever, there are some people who are there to dance they're ass off, some for drugs and some for the music and some to get laid... (we all have our own priorities).. A DJ makes many songs into a set...a set as a cohesive whole...he manipulates the records, the pulse, to his liking. A DJ with a name will be the center of many people's attention (will have more trainspotters) while an unknown is the source of the party.
Other reasons, umm... one could say that as a DJ you pick what you feel the BEST (to your taste or within a certain cohesion) are and come on, no DJ/producer is going to say "my records are just the bomb ass shit, I will spin only my shit" and anyway then you'd have a boring set...producers tend to have styles and you'd here only one.
More reasons - a lot of producers just don't go live...they just sit in the studio and crank out vinyl for the DJs...that's just what they're after.
Again, remember that DJS are musicians...if they weren't, one couldn't have preferences for one DJ over another. There are so many reasons ahhhhh! You just need to get out to a party...
Clubs/Parties/Raves are concerts and "regular parties" in one... that fusion makes the DJ necessary.
Come on guys, help me out!
Message 14/51 13-Apr-00 @ 02:23 AM - RE: Why do people DJ live?
I don't know why you've chosen to take such a myopic look at this issue. You yourself claim to be a proponent of open mindedness, and are the first to criti-size those who approach new concepts with closed minds. So what the fuck man?
Do you believe that you created the tone of say A#? Did that tone not exist before your moms squeezed your little sticky ass out? "Ah," we said, "now we can use A#". Naw, this ain't the case. A#'s been around. But nonetheless you will take this tone and use it, add a tone before, a tone after. Are YOU a thief for simply playing a tone, thats been around as long as air? Or are you an Author for arranging the tone into sequences? Why is it that you can sequence tones, and be the Author, while others sequence sonic experiences far more compl.exe and difficult to manipulate than simple tones, and are called "archivers"? I'de expect this level of thinking from a fool, but surely not from someone with such a deep and open mind as you, pongoid.
Message 15/51 13-Apr-00 @ 05:20 AM - Why don't DJ's dance live?
Which brings me to the point that the reason DJ's and the producers that want FAME do it is because they look like a constipated octopus on the dancefloor.
Really, some of them should be told that they arent doing themselves any favours.
If you are a dJ and you can dance then you should copyrite it or something ;)
Message 16/51 14-Apr-00 @ 02:50 AM - RE: Why do people DJ live?
Message 17/51 14-Apr-00 @ 10:35 AM - RE: Why do people DJ live?
In fact I can't really understand the whole DJ as.....rockstar... thing at all...
I write beats, and I've dj'd and there is absolutely no comparison. DJ'ing requires: very good taste, a sense of crowd psychology, and minimal rhythm. Hate to bust the bubble, but I've controlled and sculpted crowds like an artist, and I did it half drunk...
Message 18/51 15-Apr-00 @ 09:07 PM - RE: Why do people DJ live?
Okay, rockstar you know DJ KO?
Dude absolutely blew my mind. I've NEVER had that amount of quality sonic information coming at me.(especially live) I couldn't process nearly a quarter of it. Dude was tight, you know him?
Message 19/51 17-Apr-00 @ 01:23 PM - RE: Why do people DJ live?
Message 20/51 17-Apr-00 @ 08:20 PM - RE: Why do people DJ live?
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