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| quote: | Originally posted by beats and beeps
Comparing popular EDM djs mixing skills is pretty trivial. I mean big names like tiesto and oakenfold realise that all they are doing is playing music, so why even bother trying to mix, just get from one track to another.
I'm confident a dj like tiesto could pull off mixes like sasha and digweed if they wanted to. Especially if they played the same sort of records as them. It is not hard. Mixing just isnt as important to his fans as it is to sashas fans, because sashas fans are people who like to think they are listening to a more intelligent, or superior type of music than oakenfold or whatever else you have. In the end its all the fucking same. Tiestos fans would rather see him stand on a table like a dumbass, and then only step down to throw on another record. Where as sashas fans want to see him acting like he is doing something complex and difficult, you know, to make him look more intelligent and superior to the other big djs. Again, its all the same shit. |
This is asinine. Tiesto couldn't pull it off. The style doesn't make much difference, and he doesn't do it on the prog tracks he mixes on ISOS4. Trance can be mixed longer too, but you have to know your tracks and key them, or be careful of level clashing on your mids, for example. And some of Sasha's fans are Tiesto's fans too. There aren't two different kinds of fans wanting something different. Maybe the more knowledgeable, estute fans want to hear good mixing, but that's not because of the style, or the dj, but because they demand more. Tiesto is an abrupt mixer, and I don't believe he could change his style and start drawing out mixes, fluidly. He might have to use his volume levels and eq s to do that, and that might hurt his brain a bit.
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