So Laidback Luke now DJ's on his Phone

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  1. clone

    clone Audiosexual

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    alot of the djs who were famous from working with hiphop mcs and groups are not extremely technical at all. Premiere is another good example of this. They could scratch well enough to record what they needed to, but mostly they just played records and handled the sampling as the basis for the tracks. Like you mention, they were not there to do turtablism, they were there to provide beats for the mcs. It's a totally different thing. You will not find any mention of those kinds of djs on the DMC lists. It would have been a waste of time (and reputation) for most of them to have even entered.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMC_World_DJ_Championships
     
  2. BlackHaze1986

    BlackHaze1986 Rock Star

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    Agree by the way i have seen DJ Rafik a couple of times live and he is a real Beast on the Turntables. Does anybody if someone is producing AV8 Style Partybreaks nowadays?
     
  3. EddieXx

    EddieXx Audiosexual

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    It’s a great platform. What kills it for me is their ridiculous price and abominable subscription. Other than that, great
     
  4. stopped

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    all sorts of celebrities are paid to represent (and do) all sorts of terrible things
     
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    When you see someone like this guy talking about how everyone should just embrace new technology, that's all well and good. But it's pretty silly when it's only because they would just like everyone to hop on using "the next big thing", because they weren't all that great at the last thing either. " I don't know why all these great lead guitar players insist on still using 6 strings. Let's use only one," so it won't be so painfully obvious. It's why those skiers at the Winter Olympics still use a .22 pea shooter rifle instead of a Javelin missile launcher.

     
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    I think the Deborah de Luca types of the world are far worse than Luke. At least he's honest about it.
     
  7. clone

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    Do you mean the ones who are not only playing digital media, but the ones who are even faking that? The next level is where someone else even made the mix for them on a computer. What's next, ghost produced tracks? :winker:
     
  8. krameri

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    A few years ago, I watched a video of Aoki (and some other DJ) on stage at a festival. The camera was fixed behind the mixer, facing the stage. In other words, their movements on the mixer were front and center. The video displayed that they reached for knobs on the mixer, but never touched a single one. This happened several times a minute
     
  9. clone

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    Did you know Aoki's dad Rocky Aoki brought sushi into common/popularity to America? Even so, he's not telling this dude what to use:

     
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    As with anything that is digital the price point of new technology will decrease over time. Pioneer decks probably cost 1/5 of the price they sell them at.
     
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