Re: [microsound] Make your own vinyl

["tobias c. van Veen" <tobias@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hear, hear.

I had someone send me an .MP3 of a Traktor or somesuch mix. Asking for a
gig. Telling me he was a DJ. After a year of "djing." In the bedroom. With a
laptop.

Besides a complete lack of programming, passion, mixing styles, use of the
mixer, EQ, a complete neglect of the cross-fader, line cuts, slow fades, an
utter absence of tension, flagrance & fusion, hotheadness & cool recovery,
one of the mixes was "off".

Oh, I'll fix it, he said.

And so it was fixed.

Clean.

As a pickle.

Perfect pickle music.

For perfect plastic people.

Who can't tell the difference.

Between your hand and that test tube --

Did you know that a very clean rectum can hold a lot of bullshit?


    - tV



> yeah, aside from the sheer pain of lugging heavy
> records around, it is still the best dj medium, by
> far. even the little things -- like searching thru
> records for the right song/groove are far more
> exciting/fun & rewarding then having your eyes glued
> to the screen, scrolling thru lists for a passable
> (sound quality-wise) mp3... (i am endlessly surprised
> that people think mp3's sound ok over a serious sound
> system.. to me it they sound sub-standard most often
> -> the highs are off, the low end is shyte, etc. etc.
> No? I mean come on.. mp3's, aside from their
> portability are crap...)
> 
> 
> But, the dream of digital is exciting (modular,
> sleekly portable, endlessly flexible, huge storage,
> etc.). And it will come one way or the other...
> 
> right now, you can spend a whole lot of time neatly
> organizing your laptop dj thang to be some kind of
> incredible set, with all kinds of segueys etc.
> 
> but to me, this doesn't seem like dj'ing, as much as a
> kind of presentation.
> 
> To me, what makes dj'ing take off is a certain direct
> instrumental spontaneoity, that goes on live, not
> fixed sets, or limited range of physical change you
> can make to the sound (i.e. the ridiculous scratching
> on Traktor or Mixx, etc.).   At present, records are
> essential -- for the real dj set...
> 
> -Andrew
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Subject: Re: [microsound] Make your own vinyl
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> 
>> IMHO, as long as there will be DJ's, there will be
>> vinyl. There's  
>> certainly a huge trend for DJ's to use
> laptops/traktor >and a
>> combination of iPods and CDs, but plenty of them love
>> the feel and  
>> design of vinyl. As a DJ I know I prefer spinning
>> vinyl over anything
>> else, especially as a physical thing. For me, playing
>> vinyl is  
>> playing an instrument, and nowhere close to doing the
>> same thing with 
>> digital media.
> 
> 
> 
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