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Is the art of DJing Dead?
If you showed up at an electronic 'artist's' concert, and he/she simply plugged in their laptop and played some pre-mixed set that allowed software (such as Ableton) to automatically sync/beatmatch for them, would you feel cheated? For example, Skrillex will show up to a show, plug in his laptop, hit play and let his software do all the mixing for him. It's like someone showing up and plugging in their iPod and loading their pre-made playlist. Back in the day, we mixed each track by hand, on turntables, and it required SKILL. Not just some guy pressing play and allowing his software to 'timewarp' all of his tracks so they match up automatically. Where's the skill in that? What is your opinion?
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- TopherLv 59 years agoFavorite Answer
Skrillex lol he uses Ableton and still doesn't mix. He literally waits for the song to end and presses play for the next one. I seen veteran pros like Paul Van Dyk and Richie Hawkin use Ableton in there live set and there is some real mixing going on and live melodies being played. Vinyl is dead but I have little respect for some of the producers that use software to preform.
Using Pioneer CDJs is the closest to the old skool. At least top producers like Tiesto, Laidback Luke, Boys Noize, Axwell are actually still up in the DJ booth making ques, fixing the pitch manueling to match their beats. Which in my eyes still takes skill.
- 9 years ago
Agreed. There are still some DJs out there who take the art of turntablism seriously but they're a dying breed. I think the increase in technology that magically does everything for you is partly to blame. It's too much of a temptation for some people and it's created a generation who don't even know what DJing really is. If you ask kids about mixing these days, you'll generally get some incoherent response involving Fruity Loops, MIDI controllers and other such stuff. As you say, there's no skill to it and it is pretty much cheating.
