What are they like? I'm just curious if the mixing was any good. I was just reminiscing the other day about yesteryear and recalled that at the earliest rave i went to (in 1992) the mixing was pretty ty. No flow, just abrupt. Even the the club djs back then were pretty abrupt, unless they were using those professionally mixed canned cds. Any memories or testimony brothers?
Mr Game+Watch
If you look on the Tracklist Requests/Postings you might be able to find some early (1992-1993) Sasha sets... or http://www.deephousepage.com/ has a whole bunch of them from the early days of Chicago house. The mixing of a lot of DJs back then was... "loose" to put it politely.
brohandy
Doesn't iTunes have some old stuff like that?
SYSTEM-J
A lot of the tracks back then were nightmarish to mix, in fairness. The idea of tailoring a track so it was easier for a DJ to mix was still quite a new one. Modern dance records practically mix themselves, it's so easy it's untrue. Try mixing a set of tracks from 1990-1993 and you'll understand why nobody bothered attempting seamless mixing.
dj_alfi
Seamless mixing is so 2000 and late:rolleyes:
It's all about the drop now. wubwubwubwubwubwubwubwiiiiiiii
Trance-MB
Just trance or also early edm?
One guy definitely tried to mix seamless many many years ago.
I have mentioned him before on TA, Ben Liebrand, who inspired about all Dutch DJ's of the 90's.
Don't know if this is what you mean though:
Pretty cool. There is a good read on the history of djing called Last Night a Dj Saved my Life. It is actually pretty informative. The guy at the loft in NY was beatmatching in the late 70s so I imagine the practice was around earlier.
I think that djs where much more mysterious as it was completely foreign. I remember thinking how is this dj making music. I was young and didn't really realize that it was just playing actual tracks. I would say most were in the same boat. I think it would be hard to judge them from today's standard. It was just something completely foreign.
