quoted 7 lines artists: would you rather a dj tracklisted their tape? what if
> artists: would you rather a dj tracklisted their tape? what if
>the tape sucked? there is always the possibility that a person would
>butcher a song a person worked hard to perfect. what if they didn't
>touch the song at all, i.e. let a eight minute song nearly run it's
>entire course, only to beatmatch it's hi-hat intro...and let it fade on
>it's own? now, what happens if that dj credits the song on the
>tracklist? who deserves the money paid for the tape?
From the Artist point of view, it's abit unfair for someone to use
your tunes, no matter how good or bad the result and then sell the
product for you not to see any royalties. At the end of the day
the DJ is still creating a product with ingredients, whereas the
artist is creating a product from scratch. (Ok give or take a sample
or two) A topname DJ could probably make more on one performance,
than some of the artists will make on the release of one EP - frightning
thought really.
Also on the LIVE front I'm strongly against the people using DAT on
stage. we (the mobeus) use an EMAXII which provides the sequence lines,
you may argue that is just the same as DAT however the Emax provides
trigger sync to an SH-101 and two Pro-1's. The internal sequencers
are programmed live, to assist this each tune is in the same key, and
then all sound settings are "played" in real time. Also as the tunes
are in the same key lines are also played from a Poly800mkII and an
Alpha Juno, along with making weird noises on either the Pro-1 or Korg
MS-10 There's no way we could "play" this sort of intricate trance, but
everytime we perform it's different.
Recently we played to a club of about 450 people, and there was a girl
at the front of the stage doing "the old hands bit". I programmed
some mad resonant filter "noises" into the pro-1 and used the mod wheel
to pull the sound up and down as she was moving her hands - she went
mental, then all her mates had ago. They loved the way they were interacting
with the tune.
However because the all the drum lines, most of the bass and any too
fast runs are sequenced would the "Memorex person" ever consider us
a LIVE act ?
Orbital take the idea one step further and have all their sequences
stored in patterns. The 4/8/16 bar sections can then be brought in
or out in a LIVE arrangment fashion, along with track mutes, how does
this fare in the same debate ? Are you are paying for a performance,
in the same way you see a performance of a pianist etc ?
M:)
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