So I came across a dj that plays all the parties at my uni the other day on Soundcloud, and I was kind of surprised to find that in their mixes, about half of the tracks they played were premade mixes. Just two tracks that they’d mixed together and then they played that mix.
Not judging per se, but I personally feel that that’s a bit of a cop out, because they’re essentially doing half of the mixing necessary. I listened to the mixes and they weren’t even intricate mashups that couldn’t be done live, they were just moderate length blends with effects.
Has anyone on here seen anything like this/do this/what are your thoughts?
Peace
I’ll do this (rarely), but only for a mix of two songs that is really intricate (lots of remix deck work or effects) or involves some additional beats/instrumentation in a DAW. Basically, it’s sort of a studio “remix” of two songs that I then blend in to the rest of the set.
Yeah, but I wouldn’t class them as bootlegs. I’m all for playing your own remixes or whatever, for sure, but these are just a-b mixing between tracks and then labeled as a bootleg. Just seems lazy/cheating.
And see I would say that that is fine, if it’s something that can’t be done live then do it yeah, but simple mixing between tracks seems a bit iffy to me
It wasn’t a style that I enjoy, but the mixing was done cleanly.
Obviously making the crowd happy is priority #1, but ethically and on principle I just don’t agree with it.
This does sound lazy to me - but it depends how much they are actually DOING to the 2 different tracks. If it’s just intro over outro, then yes, that is just lazy - but if they are doing much more (see some of my own tracks on Soundcloud) then that is probably considered to be a bootleg/mash-up.
See my own “England Story”:
Starts off as the original by YT, then after a bit of cool vocal looping, it launches into a hell-fire D n’ B mash-up of the original.
I’m trying to envision what you’re saying. So the Dj plays tracks that are actually two tracks that have been blended together already instead of just blending it himself live. Lazy? I dunno, the DJ spent the time to pre mix it. Just takes away from the Live feel and creativity that comes with DJing.
But if you’re talking about someone who uses Bootlegs and mashups from Soundcloud. I don’t see a problem. i download remixes and from Soundcloud from aspiring Producers and Djs. Sometimes their remixes are better than the original song(rare). Back in the day and maybe even now you can find Bootleg Vinyl with singles that have 8/16bar intros which help when some songs that drop on the first bar.
Lazy, I guess so. Boring, INDEED!
