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| quote: | Originally posted by tachyon
we were at altitude for recovery on sunday morning and some obscure dj (j/k  ) dropped laurent garnier - man with the red face (jan driver rmx) and it went fucking right off.
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lol i'm not obscure, just obtuse. 
I've never heard Lister play, so I'm not going to comment on any aspect of his sets. Generally speaking, though, I'd have to say that any excess technical ability (beyond beatmaching, gain structuring, and phrasing so that your 16/32/64/128 etc line up) is lost on 90% of the population of 90% of dance floors 90% of the time. Heck you could probably train a monkey to beatmatch - and if phase-perfect beatmatching really made a difference on the dancefloor, we'd see a lot more of it out there (Ableton, Traktor, BPM counters, etc), and we'd see those who are using it gaining, rather than losing popularity. (Alex, look at your ticket sales mate, we're not being entertained like we used to!) Reading people, and giving them what they want in a manner that they don't predict, is a far more challenging exercise than learning the technical side of things - and that's exactly what those at the top of this heap we call DJing do. Using technical skills to enhance the experience and control energy flow, great. Expecting to fill and/or keep a dancefloor with a technically perfect six-minute mix between two tracks that aren't perfect for that exact moment on that exact dance floor, in the minds of the people who are right in front of you listening to it, not so great. A bomb is only of any value when it hits its target, right?
People don't dance to mixes, they dance to tunes. Raise your hand if you already knew that.
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Last edited by Nyquist_Theorem on Dec-12-2005 at 04:45
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)) so that could be factored in to the whole ticket sales/entertainment value scheme of things) 
..my words has always got me into trouble on more occasions than i could possibly remember! 
