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Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 6:33 pm
by pk-
But hey, if you're ok with compromising your personal tastes in music in order to keep on getting gigs, then fair enough. I could never do that personally, as DJing would be far less satisfying when I have to dumb down the music I play to get gigs.
get many gigs do you
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 6:38 pm
by Pistonsbeneath
oh guys give the guy a break!
i find it really pleasant
i dont care how much effort is put in to a remix...the original is obviously stunning and this doesnt touvh it imo but at the end of the day it makes sense.....the type of sets he plays are more beatmixed & tight and uptempo so he made it *IN TIME* and smoother..maybe thats not what burial is all about but you can see the practical side of it
its nice....no remix could possibly do the original justice because its so special
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 6:42 pm
by sand leaper
pk- wrote:But hey, if you're ok with compromising your personal tastes in music in order to keep on getting gigs, then fair enough. I could never do that personally, as DJing would be far less satisfying when I have to dumb down the music I play to get gigs.
get many gigs do you
Probably not, but I'd rather have a few gigs where I won't have to dumb down the music I play than many where I have to. Quality over quantity.
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 6:48 pm
by boy 8-bit
Sand Leaper wrote:
Probably not, but I'd rather have a few gigs where I won't have to dumb down the music I play than many where I have to. Quality over quantity.
Please re-read what I said in my last post above yours. I dont compromise quality.
Do you DJ a lot? I bet your sets are great when you drop in some of your favourite Neo-Folk tracks or Some classic Swedish death metal. Were you the the guy I saw mixing Bluegrass into Digital Mystics. You didnt compromise quality and played across the board. I respect you for that.
This is dry.. Thanks for any support and any valid criticism...
Hopefully we will never meet again over, say, a re-edit of 'Near Dark'
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 7:05 pm
by spender
The mix ain't for me, my initial reaction was WHY?! But then, as 8bit said, it's not made for me. It's made for the househeads.
When you think about it, this last year (or so) we've had dubstep refixes of Bob Marley, Kraftwerk, Minnie Ripperton, Baby Cham, MFDoom, Art of Noise, Nina Simone, Eryka Badu, Movado, Barrington Levi and er... Mozart.
More recently, a few old jungle tunes getting refixed for the Dubstep dances. We didn't see too many cries of 'why not just drop the original?' or 'Sacrilege!' then.
Apart from Zinc's Request Line refix (which also went down like a cup of cold sick) this is the first time the shoe's on the other foot and dubstep's being refixed for and by another genre. With stuff like Night on the daytime playlists, catchy as fuck tunes like 2D and a catalogue of Coki basslines, I wouldn't be suprised if this is the first of many.
It's not neccessarily a bad thing though. Hip Hop saw some wicked D&B mixes by 4 hero and DJ Crystl. Masters at Work / Nu Yorican Soul made some deep remixes of Roni Size and 4 hero returned the favour with Black Gold of the Sun. All classics.
This ain't one of them, but a bit of cross polination can't hurt. Can it?
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 7:16 pm
by whineo
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 7:16 pm
by shonky
spender wrote:
More recently, a few old jungle tunes getting refixed for the Dubstep dances. We didn't see too many cries of 'why not just drop the original?' or 'Sacrilege!' then.
Well there were grumpy mutterings from me, but then that's nothing new
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 7:26 pm
by ory
I'm not against the concept of cross-genre remixing/refixing, but making a Burial track into a house stomper goes completely against what the original artist had in mind. It's like doing a happy hardcore remix of Bright Eyes.
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 7:29 pm
by shervington
Ory wrote:I'm not against the concept of cross-genre remixing/refixing, but making a Burial track into a house stomper goes completely against what the original artist had in mind. It's like doing a happy hardcore remix of Bright Eyes.
exactly,
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 7:38 pm
by Pistonsbeneath
osmyso did a killer 2 step remix of bright eyes
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 8:19 pm
by hyperdub
sending a copy to the label b4 spunking it around the internet might have been nice
its not as if we would break his kneecaps with concrete slabs dropped from the top of a bus
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 8:22 pm
by shervington
merkle
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 8:28 pm
by d3dr0k
link is dead ?
*edit* never mind got it
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 8:31 pm
by seckle
if you send it to a blog, your motivation is for it to be spread around to as many people as possible. apologizing after the fact is a bit silly. it's like lighting a car on fire and then calling the fire dept to say sorry.
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 8:43 pm
by misk
the only poster on here who has a right to complain is hyperdub. All your reactions to this sacreligious "remix" amuse me. get over it.
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 8:57 pm
by sand leaper
Boy 8-Bit wrote:
Do you DJ a lot? I bet your sets are great when you drop in some of your favourite Neo-Folk tracks or Some classic Swedish death metal. Were you the the guy I saw mixing Bluegrass into Digital Mystics. You didnt compromise quality and played across the board. I respect you for that.
Yeah, that was exactly my point, wasn't it.
Ah well, I'm not in the mood for another six posts of breaking my arguments down this time anyway.
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 9:00 pm
by bob crunkhouse
Misk wrote:the only poster on here who has a right to complain is hyperdub. All your reactions to this sacreligious "remix" amuse me. get over it.
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 9:01 pm
by bob crunkhouse
double post
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 10:25 pm
by shonky
Misk wrote:the only poster on here who has a right to complain is hyperdub. All your reactions to this sacreligious "remix" amuse me. get over it.
I really like the assumptions as to what the artist meant too.
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 10:25 pm
by keith p
Rather liking this and some of the attitudes and reactions on here were rather predictable weren't they?
