Beatmatching; a lost art?
Finally i've got my hands on an Audio DJ 8 recently and have been playing with the 4 decks for a few weeks now. Being brought up with turntables and learning skill of djing by trying to beatmatch in my room for hours and hours, I more and more notice how little of my time i'm spending on beatmatching while playing.
Here's the thing; with Traktor there's no need for beatmatching anymore. When you've set your beatgrid right, there's nothing in the world you have to worry about as long as you've got the sync button assigned. Of course, you're doing a whole olot of other things instead, playing around with effects, making your mixing like a madman and playing 60 tunes per hour, but still...
Maybe thought for an interesting discussion:
Is being able to beatmatch still a neccesity for being a good DJ? Is controllerism leading to a shift from the more classical beatmatch-based Djing to a more effect-based, cut-and-paste kind of DJing-style?