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| quote: | Originally posted by Ishkur
In other words, you consider this the electronic music equivalent of lip synching. heh.
I won't argue that (although I could), but it bemuses me to think that you people can actually tell what the hell he's doing up there behind the decks anyway. Like you would know if he's mixing the music "live" or not. Unless you're standing behind him and can see everything, he could push 'samba' on a casio keyboard and fake the rest and no one in the club could tell the difference.
And even so, if the music is pre-mixed and pre-recorded already and all he has to do is push "play", so to speak, then it stands to reason that it BETTER be far superior to anything he can do do live ("on-the-fly") since he has all that time to prepare and craft the perfect set at home.
And if that's the case, then that sparks another quandary: WHICH DJs are actually better live than they are if they play their own pre-recorded performances? Who is so inept at pre-programming his own flawless sets that doing things manually in person--flaws and all--is actually better?
Well, according to some arguments in this thread, that man is Markus Schulz. He's just a cyclone when he DJs live. Someone better not let him near vinyl next, he'll mop up the DMCs. |
So there's no such thing as an interaction between crowd and DJ, or vice versa? Just a sequence of mixing in abstract? I'll be among the first to say Schulz sucks in most arenas, and I'm not defending him here, but I think your concept of a liveset is really off. The reciprocal element between crowd and DJ is one of the defining elements of dance music. When bands perform, they don't typically sequence their performances on the fly, to effect a certain overall flow to the set. That's essentially why dance music is mixed, and it has a significant live component to it. Some DJs do this better than others, and their respective abilities to do so won't be reflected in prerecorded mixes.
I'm not really defending this idea in the context of DJ worship, either, since it taints the whole relationship between the DJ and crowd. But for most local or no-name spinners, it's an important element that you can't capture on a CD.
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