DANIEL WANG

most Classic disco is not tight enough to do hella smooth mixes. one band decides to drop back on the beat and your in the middle of a mix with some galloping horses.

So unless your happy to only mix with Ableton'd reedits, your better off choosing drop-in points and getting away with what you can.

For my money I'd pay to see a hyperactive DJ, Gym instructor & Childrens entertainer before I'd pay to see two kick drums played at the same time!!

I was wondering about that, beatmatching disco records. I always assumed it had something to do with the pressing (when you jam 6 minutes of music into less than 2cm of groove, etc), but that doesn't explain why my copy of thriller beatmatches, but my Chic LP's don't. Are they just not keeping exact time?

I remember first seeing Theo Parrish, or listening to Michael Mayer, still wet behind the ears and subscribing to the Richie Hawtin school of mixing, and being nonplussed by how "lazy" their mixes were. As much as I do love smooth, long, mixing, you can't really apply that framework to all music, especially disco, which often is much more song structured, there's something to hearing it's beginning, middle, and end? Also, the proportion of vocal tracks makes it harder too, given that two people singing on top of each other doesn't make for good mixing either.

In some circles a DJ is measured on how well they can blend and mix disco. It isn't impossible, you just have to know your records and how to ride them.

Remember that you don't play the vocal sides of every record back to back to back. Also, if you know your records and their song structure, you know which record has that 32 bar break that will lock up with other records.

Also, generally it isn't the band that will fuck you up with live drums, but a bad tape edit.

it's probably less being hung up on the mythology and more just not caring. He's been djing for a million years, I'm sure he can mix, I'm sure I've heard him mix, I used to hear him all the time like 9 years ago or whenever and he mixed fine.

You don't have to be all "well Mancuso doesn't do it so I won't" to decide that you'd rather just focus on grabbing good records and throwing them on and not sweating the mix.

Even in the circles where a DJ is measure by how well they can blend, eventually people stop caring that much. When it's done really well it's a lot of fun to hear. When it's not done at all, if the music is good enough, you barely miss it. I do it as much as I can because nobody's there and I have to work extra hard to keep people dancing, so it's best not to confuse the dancers too much.

What would be great though is if people started taking disco records and somehow changing them so there was more space at the beginning before the vocals came in, making it easier to mix. Some kind of editing process to make the music more DJ friendly. I did it once with Vitamin C by Can.

i see what you did there

2cd reissue set on rush hour is so killer

heh.

What would be great though is if people started taking disco records and somehow changing them so there was more space at the beginning before the vocals came in, making it easier to mix. Some kind of editing process to make the music more DJ friendly. I did it once with Vitamin C by Can.

what's even cooler is to then make those original song titles and artists mysterious and put your name on the record.

What would be great is if DJs started taking records and somehow manipulating them so there were more instrumental bars at the beginning, making it easier to mix... some kind of "editing" process to make the music more DJ-friendly.

^^ that was my dub edit of dan's post

lol, you guys are funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNASMym1nXY

Listening back to the BiS from 2008. He ought to have his own radio show.

halp what's the track on Balihu 002 that isn't "in the street" or "sylver belt"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p3GN6OS0go

i think it is "on the moon", on this release: http://www.discogs.com/Daniel-Wang-Jamie-Hodge-Balihu-Sampler/master/567131

thanks peeps

just listened to his beats in space, he talks between every track and, man, i could listen to him talk forever. so charming