Elektron Musical Instruments

Federico Ciapi wrote:
>>> What makes a good DJ? Perfect beatmatching skills?
>>
>> It's a good start!!! Maybe for some people skills are
>> not important, but for me it's a real turn off when a
>> DJ can't mix (or at least TRY). It's no different from
>> a band playing out of key or a good band with a bad
>> singer. It's downright disrespectful to the
>> profession.
>
>
> Agree!
> Why have I spent the last 2 months practising every day with my new
> 1200s ???
> Mixing skills aren't a plus, they are basic.
> Obviously, skills alone mean nothing.

On the other hand, everybody's got to learn. I remember a gig with my first
band. We existed 1 year, and just had about 15 songs so we could play for
about 60 minutes. We had only done one gig before. Then I got a phonecall
from a guy who wanted us to play live 3 days later at a big student party
where at least 500 people would come (which was huge, considering the fact
we had only played for about 50 people at the local football club!). We had
to replace an American funk act that couldn't make it (and we were playing
"new wave", couldn't sing, and had no experience whatsoever.
Well, what can I say. We rehearsed day and night for 3 days, did the gig -
and many things went wrong.
Although we got some applause, and strangely enough no one walked away
(probably because of the dj that got on stage right after us), we definitely
sucked big time. Somewhere I still have the tape, and I just don't dare to
listen to it. It was really embarrassing...

Gert