Martyn said about his Fabric 50:
“I did the whole mix CD live just because I thought that was more honest than doing an Ableton DJ mix. It is how I would play live - not everything on the CD is perfect, but it’s not meant to be. That goes for my DJ sets and for my music as well; there’s always little bits and pieces that could have been much better or more streamlined or whatever, but that’s the beauty of music to me. I wanted it to be raw and honest.”
bigup Martyn and his consistently good work, but this "more honest", "how i would play live" bullshit... certainly not the first time i've heard these sentiments from grumpy vinyl grampas, and i'm getting sick of it.
1. no one will be listening to this release in a club with loads of drunk people.
2. he will not be playing live on people's ipods or stereos.
3. live performance is live performance. making a studio mix is making a studio mix. the 2 are DIFFERENT contexts and
4. the only "honesty" is doing the best you can in each situation, with respect to its specific freedoms and limitations.
5. i would not want to hear a studio album from beginning to finish in a club, and i CERTAINLY don't want to hear sloppy mixing on my headphones.
wake the fuck up people. its 2010. it was time to throw away your BORING BORING BORING vinyl purism fucking 10 years ago. you are the same as people who booed when Bob Dylan went electric, and you are the same as people who wear "drum machines have no soul" t-shirts.
“I did the whole mix CD live just because I thought that was more honest than doing an Ableton DJ mix. It is how I would play live - not everything on the CD is perfect, but it’s not meant to be. That goes for my DJ sets and for my music as well; there’s always little bits and pieces that could have been much better or more streamlined or whatever, but that’s the beauty of music to me. I wanted it to be raw and honest.”
bigup Martyn and his consistently good work, but this "more honest", "how i would play live" bullshit... certainly not the first time i've heard these sentiments from grumpy vinyl grampas, and i'm getting sick of it.
1. no one will be listening to this release in a club with loads of drunk people.
2. he will not be playing live on people's ipods or stereos.
3. live performance is live performance. making a studio mix is making a studio mix. the 2 are DIFFERENT contexts and
4. the only "honesty" is doing the best you can in each situation, with respect to its specific freedoms and limitations.
5. i would not want to hear a studio album from beginning to finish in a club, and i CERTAINLY don't want to hear sloppy mixing on my headphones.
wake the fuck up people. its 2010. it was time to throw away your BORING BORING BORING vinyl purism fucking 10 years ago. you are the same as people who booed when Bob Dylan went electric, and you are the same as people who wear "drum machines have no soul" t-shirts.