To be honest, I didn't think the Solid Steel mix was terrible or anything (I
think it was better than most things you hear), but, coming from the stable
that created Coldcut's Journeys by DJ set, I was expecting something just as
good. In that mix, When Harold Budd mixes into the acapella thingy, into
Photek's into the 90s, it really astonished me and changed the way I thought
about what a DJ can do and acheive. I suppose it might have been unrealistic
to expect anything to top that, but I thought that if anyone could, it would
have been the Ninja posse once again. The solid steel album doesn't have bad
songs on it, nor is it badly beat-matched in any way, but I hoped for a
little more interaction between the records.
I mean, the Jeru the Damaja track has no tune in it, so would have gone
really well with any jazzy track of similar speed. If, by contrast, you mix
'Sunvibes' by DJ Food with 'The Lie-In King' by The Irresistible Force, both
records actually go together in order to create a beautiful, soothing tune
which both fuses and *improves* both of its costituent parts. I suppose this
is what I think DJing is capable of, and what the Coldcut set (and
despairingly few others) manages to reach. Incidentally, both those tunes
are on ninja tune, one of my all-time favourite labels by quite a long way,
so I'm not hating or anything.
As you can tell, I'm really anal about my DJing, so please excuse my
ranting.
Cheers folks,
Yer old Dad.
quoted 16 lines From: Aaron D Meyers <adm226@nyu.edu>
>From: Aaron D Meyers <adm226@nyu.edu>
>To: "production unit" <productionunit@hotmail.com>, idm@hyperreal.org
>Subject: Re: [idm] solid steel
>Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 14:45:55 -0500
>
>I thought the Solid Steel mix cd was quite good. It had some familiar
>stuff and some more obscure stuff I'd never heard. I thought the
>mixing was superb and totally creative. I'm not sure what you expect
>from a DJ mix. Maybe you could suggest an amazing mix CD that will
>blow the Solid Steel thing out of the water. If you listen to the
>Solid Steel CD next to the DJ Spooky mix CD that came out at the same
>time, it should be even more obvious that a lot of talent went into
>that disc. That DJ Spooky is the laziest most boring mix ever!
>
>-Aaron
>
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