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[Ancilla Sea-Maid]

Over the 9 years of observing Ceremony crowds,
no....I'd have to say Brian is right. this scene just
doesn't give a hoot. I've seen Brian go nuts just
bursting forth with mad technical skill, Arvin makes
his own remixes, guest DJs from all over do crazy
tricks, incredible technical mixing, and then at the
end of the day......people whine "the DJ changed the
song that was playing." 

that's it. they whine that the song that was currently
playing got "messed with." I paid $400 for decent CD
decks that simulate the abilities of vinyl, and that
was a mistake. no one cares. 

the Upstage CD players were recently replaced with a
pair of My First Sonys. and it wouldn't matter anyhow.
I noticed no difference in crowd reaction between
then, and when Brian brought in his own CD players and
I could beat-match again. oh wait. the one crowd
reaction I got was someone told us to quit mixing the
songs so much :o

- t 

--- Chris Rapier <rapier1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> > technology exists to press one's own records, but
> it's prohibitively
> > expensive.  Also-- as much as I enjoy the
> technical tricks one can
> > bring to DJing-- it is not something the G/I crowd
> typically cares
> > much about.
> 
> I disagree. I think the G/I scene doesn't tend to
> care because the G/I
> scene has developed very low expectations. G/I DJs
> back in the late
> 80s and early 90s *used* to do all of the turntable
> action. I think
> partly because they wanted to play around and the
> tools they had
> available allowed (if not actually encouraged) them
> to.  That sort of
> died out and I think it was in part due to the fact
> that people were
> switching to CDs and the technology at the time
> simply didn't lend
> itself to playing around like that (there were some
> people using
> digital samplers to cut loops but that never really
> moved that far).
> Times change, eventually they will change back
> because I really think
> once you have a G/I DJ that can really excite people
> with what and
> *how* they are playing more clubgoers will demand
> it. It would
> certainly make the experience more interesting.
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