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but yeah, skrillex is pretty dumb... my advice if youre gonna be another ableton dj who learns how to do it in a couple weeks, dont mix dubstep... theres way to many of those evrywhere

Stratos wrote:and before you go bashing on "Skrillex's style is just waiting for one song to end and playing the next", check out his hour long BBC Radio mix at Rockness, a whole hour of music with NO breaks in between the songs, he actually does mix the songs together. Just saying. people always bash on him simply because he's mainstream, when he has alot of talent and good ideas

Bro it's called a pre-arranged mix, almost all those Essential Mixes are done in the studio perfected and sent to Pete Tong, they ain't live. It's also called the arrangement view in Ableton where you can align those waves up for the perfect beat match. I'll give it to him he's a good producer for his "dubstep" followers, some technical stuff in his writing but a DJ far from any talent.

pedrogent wrote:

Stratos wrote:a whole hour of music with NO breaks in between the songs, he actually does mix the songs together

That's why it's called mixing.

Touche

birdhouse19 wrote:

Stratos wrote:and before you go bashing on "Skrillex's style is just waiting for one song to end and playing the next", check out his hour long BBC Radio mix at Rockness, a whole hour of music with NO breaks in between the songs, he actually does mix the songs together. Just saying. people always bash on him simply because he's mainstream, when he has alot of talent and good ideas

Bro it's called a pre-arranged mix, almost all those Essential Mixes are done in the studio perfected and sent to Pete Tong, they ain't live. It's also called the arrangement view in Ableton where you can align those waves up for the perfect beat match. I'll give it to him he's a good producer for his "dubstep" followers, some technical stuff in his writing but a DJ far from any talent.

+1

I think that skrillex is way too busy flying around the world (most likely in a private jet that he either rents or owns), meeting talented/interesting people, writing the most popular songs in what is arguably the most popular genre of music out there right now (for better or worse), and swimming in enormous piles of money, to practice "beat matching"....I guess I never understand these anti skrillex/deadmau5 forum threads...why is it so important to do something like "real beat matching", when a computer/ableton can do it almost instantly, with no practice, and with an invariably greater degree of precision?? Technical skills are technical skills. No one is going to give me a promotion at my job for handwriting memos in perfect Times New Roman font; wordprocessors and printers work just fine...John Henry fought admirably, but ultimately, he was defeated handedly by the steam engine...Let the computer's do what they do...I've always understood that the real art in electronic music, the real "talent", is getting those computer's to sing some interesting, beautiful songs. Say whatever you will, but from a soft objectivist standpoint, skrillex and deadmau5 have done that objectively better than other "DJ's" out there.

Seems like you just revived a 5 month old thread to beat a dead horse.

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