Quote Originally Posted by Dustin Zahn
These days I just don't understand why you want to take one hard as nails record and mix into the next hard as nails record. For instance, if you're mixing in a heavy G.Wilson track, and then mix in another track by him or a like-minded artist...
I've never understood this neither, maybe it's BECAUSE it's easy to mix this stuff that it's so popular. Why not mix up a whole load of different stuff, if anyone actually bothered to look and took their blinkers outside of loop hell, and stopped worring about whether they would have the ability to "Mix it smoothly" then maybe things would be more diverse. The fact every kiddy wants to be a dj means all the loop records sell loads as it's so easy to sound like a "Good DJ'" (If your benchmark of good is being able to beatmatch perfectly), so it's the hard loop stuff that gets perpetuated, the distributors become less interested in more varied stuff, and just go for stocking and putting out what's selling.. I mean c'mon people, start thinking out of the box, be brave and try something out you'd never have thought you would like, the world doesn't end at SUF, Cluster, and Hydraulix (No disrespect to those labels BTW).. I'm currently listening to the new Richard Bartz album on Gigolo, Something I would never have considered listening to at all (Was lucky to get a promo I suppose!) and I'm not into most of it, but I've found a gem of a track for playing out, and I would never have found it if I hadn't have listened to it.. A good DJ should be able to play in a variety of circumstances, not just at 3am when it's totally 'avin it, and record sales dictate what the distributors are going to take on, and what they're going to drop, so the future really is it the record buying public's hands.. If you support interesting varied stuff, you'll get more of it, if you support more of the same, it's going to get more and more boring and formulated..

Quote Originally Posted by Dustin Zahn
I remember the reason I got into techno was because of hearing these really insane, mental tracks like Spastik or some other cari lekebusch stuff. .
It's all got a bit blanded out.. if you love the nutz shit, you want to be checking out Noodles 6 for a complete gem by frankie bones, or even just go for playing the old stuff.. I'd say 75% of the records I play out are pre 2000, just as I feel they're BETTER than a lot of stuff that's coming out now.. Sometimes you have to look back to move forward...
That's the DJ thing covered, as for production, you don't think I'd give my secrets away that easily did you?
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Just keep buying the Crime records if you want to hear something that's moving things on......