Recently, in the dnb world, we had 2 acts exposed for dancing around behind the decks to a premade mix cd and pretending to mix (mistabishi and chase & status). A lot of us were appalled (he was seen stacking vinyl on top of vinyl and messing with a cdj not even turned on) but there was a lot of people that didnt seem to care saying "it's all about the music". Now i agree that there's nothing inherently creative about beatmatching but surely this is taking it way too far?
i know its pretty normal for big trance/psy/eurodance acts and djs to do 'playback' but i've got no idea of how widespread it is in techno. i'd imagine/hope with all the tradition in this scene that it'd be frowned upon severely. anyone come across anything like this and what's your thoughts on it?
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