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TIESTO - Latest Interview [Indepth Stuff] (pg. 9)
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| MichaelBoogerd! |
| quote: | Originally posted by Clovis86
Do you know the number of local DJ's who bust their ass and work 100x harder than he does? When you're that big everything is handed to you on a silver platter. People send YOU tunes to play. All the time. You have people working for you that do practically everything, you have a team of people working behind you, the whole point is to let you concentrate on the DJing. I know people who bust their ass promoting events, getting new fans, digging through tons of music and evolving their playlist, handling their own bookings, booking line-ups, while having rock solid mixing all the time, and some of these guys/gals aren't known almost at all. Most of them have to juggle that between regular 9-5 jobs just to be able to get by.
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But tijs did this in his early career too. Even as a "mobile dj" of sorts playing school parties in Breda and surrounding area in the late eighties.
The whole point of his support crew is delegation of workload - not necessarily so he can solely concentrate that alloted saved time to mix practising or perfecting his beatmatching skills.
Tiesto still has final say on most of the things you list as being "delegated" however, he gets only the best offers after his manager and co. have sorted through the .
Mixing wise his tightness has always been something of hit or miss dependent on a number of factors, however, (not wanting to sound like making more excuses) in recent years i've heard from my own ears his monitors getting louder and louder. It could've literally all gone pete tong for the poor cloggy, with sufficient hearing loss to make studio work and ALSO using computer based mix software a bit of a burden (especially from BT's living room couch) :wtf:
I think its actually a bit uncalled for to pick apart every sentence from his interviews... most of the time he uses a "agree & expand" method whereby he will agree with a point made by the interwer and then expand with a few choice phrases which he feels fits the country/location/area he is playing in.
Some of the more interesting answers come from questions he is not so used to hearing. And its nice to see that he took time to answer them quite confidently and securely (english is not first language you know!)
While he exaggerate's the point far too much in "mixing so loosely people can hear the next tune" people who have actually taken time to follow this guy will understand the point he is trying to make. As Pio debated with Ishkur in detail over 6 months ago, its for the dramatic effect. Its deliberate and its effectively HIS STYLE. Do we belittle Sasha & Armin and co. because they can beatmatch smoothly because they choose to do so? Knowing they are attempting to perfectly mix a tune its no wonder the second there is a double beat clued up fans are switching on to the trainwreck and complaining.
However, while Tijs' example in the interview didn't do him any favours, he is only trying to explain that in some mixes he isn't even attempting that succinct beatmatch as part of his take on DJing.
Therefore isn't he actually a huge success in how he creatively performs to his own standard.
I could say - hell - i'm going to be the first DJ to trainwreck every transition, and that is my style. Would anyone buy my releases? no. So Tijs must be doing something right... and its certainly not as bad as certain people make it out to be.
*lil' disclaimer* i stand by what i wrote (the 7 beats, the transitions 2>3 and 7>8 - they f*cking suck Tiesto). |
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| Kapedan |
| quote: | Originally posted by MichaelBoogerd!
*lil' disclaimer* i stand by what i wrote (the 7 beats, the transitions 2>3 and 7>8 - they f*cking suck Tiesto). |
that was you!!!! shame on you!!!!!!! :whip: :whip: :whip: :whip: :whip:
hehe jk
Anyways, this was a great interview, I really enjoyed it. You always hear negativity from different people, and thats normal I suppose, but sometimes it gets a bit irritating, anyhow, I always loved his productions and I dont get to hear his livesets alot, but the ones that I do have, I absolutely love, and he still will be one of my favorite producers. I have never seen him Live, but the first chance I get when I turn 18, I will defently do so..I mean come on..Its Tiesto! Who wouldnt want to see him live? Just the name speaks for itself.
Anyways Tiesto if your reading this!!!! I LOVE YOU!!! :D:D:D |
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| RapidFire |
| quote: | Originally posted by MichaelBoogerd!
So Tijs must be doing something right...
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yep. its called marketing. |
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| Konijn |
| quote: | Originally posted by RapidFire
yep. its called marketing. |
sure it is. :rolleyes:
if simple marketing was the means to money and fame, why isn't every other dj hiring a manager? oh, wait, they are. |
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| miamitranceman |
| quote: | Originally posted by Clovis86
You honestly think the top 10 DJs have it so much harder than those around #500 something? |
Not everyone can be at the top. The guys at the top now were once hard working DJs at the bottom of the pile. For many reasons we won't discuss in this thread, they "made" it. DJing can be equally hard on the DJ whether you're Tiesto or an up and comer...
Edit: I didn't read all of Booger's post before I typed my reply, but I agree. :) |
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| PersianMafia |
| quote: | Originally posted by MichaelBoogerd!
*lil' disclaimer* i stand by what i wrote (the 7 beats, the transitions 2>3 and 7>8 - they f*cking suck Tiesto). |
What's 7 beats? |
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| Clovis86 |
| quote: | Originally posted by miamitranceman
Not everyone can be at the top. The guys at the top now were once hard working DJs at the bottom of the pile. For many reasons we won't discuss in this thread, they "made" it. DJing can be equally hard on the DJ whether you're Tiesto or an up and comer...
Edit: I didn't read all of Booger's post before I typed my reply, but I agree. :) |
lol you cal him "Booger"?
I generally agree with everything he said as usual, and I give his opinion more credibility because I know he is objective.
I still disagree about workload. Bigger DJs, have bigger responsibilities, yes, but they have alot of things available to them that the lesser guys dont have, its the truth. |
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| luisjb82 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Swamper
The problem becomes that once you reach that level of popularity you get shuffled from gig to gig/promo meet to promo meet -- the only time you have to breathe/think for yourself is on a plane or the odd times in the hotel room b4 a show.. It's hard to stay cutting edge all the time when you're caught up in that world... Sometimes comments that are said are made by ppl who don't take a second to think of putting themselves in his shoes.
...and on that last note -- I've had some top DJs (Trance/House) mention things to me in the past 2 years regarding some of the negative posts (and as usual I see signs of it in this thread) -- how about learning to objectively critique something without blatantly referring to everything they do as just because you're no longer a fan. |
+1 dude.
Just because you don't like someone's music you don't have to insult or use some lame form of criticism. Sure you can give your opinion on something, key word opinion... just because you have it about a certain issue doesn't mean it's automatically 100% absolute and true.
Opinions just like music are not objective, they never were and will never be. The moment some of this forum's readers/users learn that I'm sure things will go a lot smoother than the usual flaming we tend to see whenever the words tijs/armin/pvd/insert a famous dj are mentioned.
And this is just an advice for life as well, if you ever expect your opinions and voices to be heard, you will have to try the let's keep it objective as much as possible approach, resorting to insults hoping to make a point won't get you anywhere.
Finally, great interview... it's nice to see some different questions and some interesting answers from Tijs, some confusing for me but that's just me lol. |
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| Nayil |
| quote: | Originally posted by MichaelBoogerd!
But tijs did this in his early career too. Even as a "mobile dj" of sorts playing school parties in Breda and surrounding area in the late eighties.
The whole point of his support crew is delegation of workload - not necessarily so he can solely concentrate that alloted saved time to mix practising or perfecting his beatmatching skills.
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+1
Theres no comeback to that. |
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| Nayil |
| quote: | Originally posted by Clovis86
Haha. Well its no big loss judging by what most of TA thinks.
I like how people here think "exciting mixing" = ing up
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Really ?! :wtf: |
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| Sveta |
It was a great interview. Thanks Bernard Pol and Robert Near for smart questions and Tijs for honest answers.
3,4 or 5 unintentional mistakes during one night??? Hmmmm, i would be fired long time ago...:( It's always difficult to admit (even in front of 3% of your listeners) that you are not "perfect" but i hope it won't stop you from trying to reach that perfection. It all comes to professionalism.
I want to highlight a fact that Tijs does participate in charity events. That subject was never popular on TA board but for those who checks www.tiesto.com from time to time know that Tijs does it on a pretty regular basis. 100% love to you for that!!!
And since when you started reading TA? I thought you have an army of employers who does it for you? LOL
:haha:
A lot of respect and looking forward to your gigs on the US territory. Take some rest before heading over. ;) |
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| RapidFire |
| quote: | Originally posted by Konijn
sure it is. :rolleyes:
if simple marketing was the means to money and fame, why isn't every other dj hiring a manager? oh, wait, they are. |
yep. and some are better marketers than others. |
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