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On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote: > It takes skill to be a DJ and mad skills to be one of the best in the > class > of performers..........but I agree with Matt when he says that 90% of all > DJs are NOT composers, that they are merely cleverly manipulating music > that has already been composed and recorded......and almost invariably > (though there are rare exception) they are NOT playing music > that they even created themselves. I think I can chime in to add a little more here regarding the real skills of real DJ's. When I was playing with an artist trio under major a record deal our record label used to hire very good folks to make remixes of our tracks. I think I collaborated with at least a dozen such craftsmen during that period, both DJ based and musician/music engineering based remixers. What I noticed with the remixer that came from the DJ world was that they often had a more accurate image of the details in the music, the emotional mood and of course the groove. The typical workflow was to have a musician type team mix the album (these guys tend to be better at layering sounds to create an evol-sounding-wall) and then hand over tracks to DJ type producers for hackomg it up and re-use just certain parts. Their skill in choosing what snippets to sample and re-use is excellent! I guess that is because their hearing is not "dumbed down" by knowing how the sounds were played in the first place on instruments etc. A vocal line with treble-smacking-lips or a hi-hat pattern are just similar type of sounds to their ears. Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.perboysen.com http://www.youtube.com/perboysen