'Real' DJs - what do they do

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Patty Hearst wrote: »

Check out this Jeff Mills mix to see some proper old school mixing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtw2-kL32YM&t=256s

That was probably a bad example, he's all over the shop...

I used to work in night clubs behind the bar. On several occasions I took over for the DJs as I was very friendly with them. Got the whole matching beats and mixing thing relatively easy. The main problem was I hated the music because it is actually very boring and relative not unlike trash metal in many ways.
Anyway I met and talked with most of the big European DJs of the 90s as they all played in venues I worked in. Had lunch with Carl Cox and we spoke about funk and progress rock. Nice bloke as were most of them. The only acts I had an issue with were Sulton of Ping and the Frames. Ping were just rude and messy while Glen in the Frames just had a bad day and didn't like the fact he had limited list of people on the guest list.

Woke Hogan wrote: »

Anytime a discussion about modern music comes up you see the Hotpress-reading auld fellas shuffle in with their double denim outfits and soul patches, telling everyone that the young people wouldn't "get it" if they weren't at Féile 92.

I'm not a fan of electronic music myself but I'd rather my kids go deaf listening to that ****e than listen to the maudlin guff you'd hear from the "Rizla days and stratocasters" crowd.

Have no clue what you are on about & I don't I've ever remember seen anyone with soul patches or denim outfits at the Olympic or Ormond. The OP asked a question about DJing an the difference between today & back in the day.

Anyway, I'm a huge Mark Kavanagh fan, I listned to some new (well 2012) remixes he did of his "Bad Boy" track which was a big Abbey Discs hit around 1999, and Yo Yo - Ga Ga remix, they were good but not bad, but just too much stuff going on, over produced, I wouldn''t say it ruined the songs but they could not match up to the Original 1999 mixes one little bit. I loved his Club Mix show & his Baby Doll label,

Mr. Spring as well, him & Mark did the Sound Crowd records from 1992 - 1996, and think they did Liquid Wheel or it could have been Johnny Moy or someone like that, but Red Records was without a doubt Ireland's greatest dance records label, great, Progressive & Piano House, Techno & Hard & Acid Trance.

Here's a tour of Tony De Vit's studio from 1998, you can see you actually needed a bit of hardware to make a decent record, not just a cheap bit of software prorgrame you can download on to your iPhone . He even says in the interview the analoge machines make the best sounds.

Classic example of "im am completely ignorant of this skill, therefore it must be easy"

DJing and electronic music production are far from simple and certainly not just pressing a few buttons on a computer or twisting a few knobs on a mixer.

This is a great mix from a few years ago.

Hawtin long since gave up on turntables, but he's still playing regular tunes, and just looping/effecting/re-editing them to fcuk!! So I'd believe every knob twist or button press is doing something that you can hear.

MadYaker wrote: »

David Guetta :pac: nobody who has any idea of what good music is takes David Guetta seriously. Go and listen to Jon Hopkins most recent album

That was his point

https://youtu.be/jN8DfKP2-CE