IdleRich
IdleRich
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No Club Scene for Old Men
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kinda insensitive of you to say this the week Randall passed away. I'm not beefing don't get me wrong but dance music djing works best when you know how to economise on the double/triple drop technique.
for reggae, funk and soul, you're absolutely right though.
WashYourHands
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Never really used cdj’s beyond running one as an adjunct device via a mixer. Apart from it being a very different beast, the platter touch always throws me. You can ride a 1210 pitch, even if it’s got to the point of a cliche. As soon as my fingers go near a cdj platter it’s just a matter of time before it all goes clumpwompthump
Guess if you start on them or integrate sooner you find a fluency. Last mushroom expedition was a micro-rig and an mp3 player, so it’s not a medium position so much as never nailing the gear fully. Everything i tried faired better with cut and pasting
If Milo Johnson does future gigs this side of the pond I’d make an effort for one of the last master selectors at extended locked meditations, hence the format question becomes quasi irrelevant as venues decide
Guess if you start on them or integrate sooner you find a fluency. Last mushroom expedition was a micro-rig and an mp3 player, so it’s not a medium position so much as never nailing the gear fully. Everything i tried faired better with cut and pasting
If Milo Johnson does future gigs this side of the pond I’d make an effort for one of the last master selectors at extended locked meditations, hence the format question becomes quasi irrelevant as venues decide
wild greens
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CDJs are just a lot more fun and tactile to use than a controller or laptop plus you can do comedy rewinds. You can easily get some 400s and a mixer for very cheap now & they will take a USB, don't waste your money on controllers
I am going to a couple of new house day parties this month & will hopefully put my hip out
I am going to a couple of new house day parties this month & will hopefully put my hip out
exactly the problem with the prevailing opinions of dj culture succinctly summed up in this post. on one hand they want fun and tactility, on the other hand, they want the dj to act like they are on an obstacle course. stop being so schizo and agnostic!
wild greens
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I sympathise with your plight but i have zero interest in DJing with a computer, it is boring to me
Not really tbh, but whenever I argue this point I get shot down. the problem is the 'nuum appropriation of house is always aesthetic conservatism vis-a-vis chicago. It always has taken more influence from new york.
It's no surprise that the Roy Davis track which got adopted by the garage boys was one of his most nyc tracks. Chicago arguably pioneered the minimal aesthetic that 2nd wave detroit really ate up.
Why does that matter? what matters are he end results.
for instance noone says that the prelude to getting laid as part of a loveless one night stand is boring, yet it undoubtedly is. the pseudo-courtship, the foreplay, etc etc. all boring. but you trick yourself into thinking it is not.
can do the same with computers, just think about the end result.
can do the same with computers, just think about the end result.
wild greens
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Nothing "matters," I just don't find the experience of sitting down at a computer DJing a fulfilling experience. I need to be standing up and moving.
The context of the statement within the thread is talking about the inconvenience of using controllers in clubs to which I would suggest learning on a cheap version of industry standards rather than controllers of comparative value.
Zizek is actually illuminating here, as I told @luka
the point is djing is not supposed to be fulfilling, only through it not being fulfilling and the satisfaction of the superego can you actually regain a love for music rather than the ruthless enjunction to 'consume' as is so prevalent in modern dance music culture.
wild greens
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Okay
0bleak
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I'm confused. You think you need to sit down to use laptops and/or controllers?
Is this referring to my recommendation of getting a used RX-2?
It's not a controller unless you insist on using it with a laptop. And it's still just as tactile even if you do.
It's a complete all-in-one unit rather than separate CDJs and a separate mixer and is just as tactile. Also, it has two USB slots that both accept lossless wav and aiff unlike the 400 USB which only does lossy MP3 which I feel like people shouldn't still be DJing with lossy MP3 in this day and age - maybe 10+ years ago, but things have improved, and you can do even more file types like lossless FLAC if used with a laptop or if a person upgrades to the RX-3.