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| quote: | Originally posted by montana
adam vana, seriously? are you really taking that route, critising when they actually are adding to the tune and taking a new spin on something, i.e. being creative. i mean, if you are just doing edits where you are extending the track, then just play the track as it is.
and i fucking love that you mentioned the theo parrish edits. i love the internet fanboys, they managed to hype up the most pointless edit series in the business. i've read somewhere that parrish wanted to keep the edits in a tight number of copies and only pressed a few of them. ye, ok. i can buy that. but not expecting the demand of his nerdy fanbase, fuckoff? anyone playing the theo parrish edits should be playing the originals instead and/or work a looping machine.
btw, sg_57, leonard part sixx isn't the same guy as leonard remix rroy. rroy is out of chicago and the former is out of philadelphia (afaik) and rroy wasn't even active in the house scene at the time when leonard part sixx was coming out with his underdog series. rroy was still in retirement/being in the military/having a 9-5 job and family etc etc. |
nah, i agree that theo's ugly edits are mostly pointless from a musical point of videw. he basically just loops the good parts for a little more time to fiddle with eq knobs
but what i mostly appreciate about them is that it's a platform to break awesome records that otherwise i may not hear about, and i like that the edits retain the character of the original instead of trying too hard to fit them into a 'nu' mold.
about your 'being creative' point. most of the people here probably also thought they were being creative.  i totally agree about extended edits being pointless. i think what gets me is this slew of nu-edits tends to standardize and sterlize (whitewash ? lol) the original. it's fitting a funky shaped peg into a square hole. that itself is no problem, and obviously everyone samples, but what is a problem is when the producers take it a step further by appropriating the 'soulful' or 'funky' cachet for themselves and their acts that comes with the sampling, when the rest of their act or set clearly has nothing to do with soul and funk. IDK, it's like wearing a soul train tshirt, pimp hat, or afro wig to a hipster party or something.
in general i hate it when people treat musical traditions (or any traditions) as fashion fads.
Last edited by nefardec on Mar-08-2011 at 00:57
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