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
----- Original Message -----
From: "production unit" <productionunit@hotmail.com>
Date: Saturday, February 9, 2002 1:29 pm
Subject: [idm] solid steel
quoted 63 lines I don't want to pee on anyone's parade, but I found the DJ Food
> I don't want to pee on anyone's parade, but I found the DJ Food
> Solid Steel
> album INCREDIBLY disappointing.
>
> The mix that you speak of (Mirror In The Bathroom/Mask) is
> actually really
> simplistic - it's a drum and bass track that has no discernable
> melodies in
> it whatsoever, and thus is bound to sound pretty good with
> anything that
> it's beat-matched with. What's more, there's a big spiel on the
> cover about
> how one should 'not think for a second that this was made with
> just two
> decks and a computer', which I think is a total and utter crock.
> Hell,
> there's even a point in the mix where one record just stops and
> another
> begins, which I find *really* lazy.
> This would probably lead on to a good stream - what do you folks
> think makes
> for good and bad DJing?
> Myself, I like records to actually merge together both
> ryhthmically and
> melodically, which is not that hard at all with a bit of effort. I
> think
> that DJs have raw materials to work with, and have to present
> something
> amazing with these limited resources, without having to resort to
> too much
> trickery. Don't get me wrong, I'm not some 'Back to the land, away
> with ye
> and your machines, Satan!' sort of guy, but I do like to see
> limited tools
> used to their full effect before graduating to the next level of
> technology,
> a level that is often superfluous.
>
> Well, that's the 4-album deal with ninja down the tubes...
>
> Wow, 2 posts in 2 days!
>
> Cheers, folks. Please disagree to your hearts content.
>
>
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