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| quote: | Originally posted by Woony
is it just me or do we live in an age where very few people still put great effort into bedroom / studio mixes? There don't seem to be a lot of meticously constructed "statement mixes" anymore. I suppose with the mix CD being long dead and the age of social media and video content, traditional mixes just don't have the promotional value they once had but it's still sad. |
I might draw a distinction between 'statement' and 'concept' mixes, the latter of which Voorn has been studio assembling since at least 2005, but, in general, seems more a product of the technology that made it much more accessible toward the end of the last decade- where you'd have tracklistings consisting of numbers and letters.
But the statement mix seems more prevalent than ever, and is what so many RA podcasts basically amount to these days, saying loud and clear: this is my diverse musical history, these are my diverse musical interests, so watch me transition from Motown to Detroit Techno to R&B with all all the seams perfectly visible. I also get the impression that the cruder these mixes, the better, as it delivers a more 'real n raw' feel as it moves from one block of music to the next, incompatible block, like you're scanning through a personal CD the DJ burned in their teenage years. The tracklistings are sometimes nearly as large, but, in general, the statement mix seems in many ways the opposite of the concept mix.
What doesn't fly these days, as you mentioned, is the traditional 'GU' mix- 90 minutes of cuts that you've likely already heard over several different podcasts. It's still where bedroom DJ's start, and where professional DJ's connect with their audiences week after week, but when it comes time to deliver a commercial mix (and they still gotta do em), the need to release something extra unique is greater than ever.
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