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[0bleak]

why do all the lights have to flash now? looping is cheating

I don't mind looping and/or effects on principle, but a lot of that kind of stuff seems to be employed by people whose selections i don't want to hear anyway

 

[thirdform]

I don't do much eqing besides bass swapping which seems to work fine to my ears most of the time (ok, sometimes I should have done a little more, but whatever).

i suppose theo parrish is the master of eqing in a dance music context these days. will turn up the bass on an old stevie wonder joint and cut out all the mids so all you get is bass and highs. doesn't really work at home though, has to be listened to on a big sound. I'm not completely sure though, as most club djs aren't very interesting to me, technically.

of course, all this is standard on any reggae/dub sound system.

there's a pitfall of overabusing the eqs though, definitely. one thing i hate about modern djs is when they will cut the bass out of both tracks where it just goes to highs, and then slam the bass in on the incoming track. That sounds terrible.

 

[0bleak]

there's a pitfall of overabusing the eqs though, definitely. one thing i hate about modern djs is when they will cut the bass out of both tracks where it just goes to highs, and then slam the bass in on the incoming track. That sounds terrible.

oh, god, I accidentally did that once on a mix I recorded when I was near the end - hated it so much that I thought about doing it again, but said fuck it

 

[Murphy]

Pivot as intermezzo?

 

[thirdform]

oh, god, I accidentally did that once on a mix I recorded when I was near the end - hated it so much that I thought about doing it again, but said fuck it

I did an entire mix like that half asleep without realising the buttons i was pressing. needless to say I'm glad I never released it.

one more reason why I could never become an afterparty dj, thank Allah.

 

[Slothrop]

different approaches I think. Only really works with house music when you start going into dystopian UK mutations with tearing bass and ragga chatter. or really dark ny garage.

Yeah, I mean half joking there obviously but I do kind of struggle to see the point of this sort of time signature trickery. You're still basically going to wrongfoot the crowd at some point, it's just that you're doing it with some tricky overlapping rhythms instead of a gracefully handled stop-and-start.