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| quote: | Originally posted by Psy-T
yeah.. that's the same thing. |
No it isn't. Stop being obtuse. You may be synchronising music with the aid of technology when you beatmatch, but that's not what the word defines. Similarly, you "cover distance under your own power" when walking, but that doesn't mean we can lump crawling, running, jogging, tiptoeing and jumping as "walking". There's an obvious difference between what occurs when you do something, and what actually constitutes that something.
No band playing together have ever called it "beatmatching". The word was not formed to describe that action. It was formed to explain the very specific action of mixing two records together by matching tempos so the beats were in time. Beatmatching is a word that solely describes an action or a skill invented and practically exclusively performed by DJing. So stop wasting my fucking time with semantic games.
| quote: | in other words, nearly everyone is a dj according to your criteria. just as nearly everyone is a collage artist, because anyone except the severely mentally challenged can both use a button to press play, and glue!
damn, we're a skillful bunch! |
What? Seriously... what? How can "nearly everyone" pull off DJ-specific skills like beatmatching or scratching? You're the one who seems to be implying that if you can sequence a bunch of records, you've performed a DJing skill. So according to you, anyone who's ever burned a disc or made a playlist that isn't randomly organised has performed a DJ skill and so is apparently, to an extent, a DJ.
I don't know how you've completely missed the point. "Using a button to press play" is not a DJ-specific skill. What cack-handed interpretation of my argument did you use to get that gemstone out of it?
Oh, and just to get rid of that collage artist bullshit... the obvious skill of making a collage is gluing things to paper to eventually form a coherent pattern. If you're doing that, then... yeah, you're making a collage. However, if you're ordering your MP3s into a playlist, you're not DJing. "Gluing stuff to a page" is not the definition of a collagist, so the distinction is the skill of being able to make coherent, meaningful patterns from what you've glued. Which most people don't do when they glue stuff to a page.
You're usually a smart guy, but this is far-and-away the most stupid post I've seen you make. Judging by the second part, I'm not even sure you understood what I said.
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Last edited by SYSTEM-J on Nov-19-2006 at 16:49
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