Yeah, I played alongside some pretty skillfull DJs in Japan. The thing about Japanese people is that they tend to find one thing they like and they devote their entire identity to that single type of talent/subculture/knowledge. Western people tend to base their identities on as many unique things as they can handle so they can be unique individuals, rather than concentrating on one thing. Of course this is a huge generalization with plenty of exceptions, but it's a simple version of what I've noticed.Red Kite wrote:Actually Jeff described everything in the interview. You just need to beatmatch everything together and then cut with the faders between the tracks. In theory not the complicated. But you need to practice, and practice a lot, because you need to get really fast with what you are doing. And very few DJs are willing to practice these days.Castronova wrote:Can anyone recommend a good site to learn those turntablism maneuvers?
And in some way they are right about it, because 99% of the audience don't give a fck about DJ skills. Like Jeff said: Too many bad DJs lowering the standards. If noone presents anything else but playing music, then people will stop caring for anything else. Most don't even care for the music it seems. Maybe if some more DJs would start pulling off some stunts when playing, like in Japan, awareness would change, but everything's going the opposite direction.
Well, I already do that mixing stuff with the faders that Jeff is doing, fucking up everyone's songs beyond recognition -- usually with two CD decks and a drum machine. I'm interested in learning more about hip hop-based turntablism techniques... beat juggling and all that nonsense. Does anyone have any experience in this and know the best place to begin? I'm Googling it of course, but it helps to hear advice from a human...
