Multiple residencies. Tons of great routines in front of packed dancefloors all while mixing pretty great sets. Able to play to the hipster kids in ny one night while playing commericial shit the next. Mash up and scratch skills that are as solid as they come. Maybe not the best, but consistent to the nth degree.
I cant even imagine what would have happened if we could have put some of these newer technologies in the hands of this guy. I think at some point he would have been rocking a controller and I really think it would have changed the way people view us as dj’s.
So get to practicing. It’s on us at this point.
(keep this thread respectful or i will find you and punch you in the junk… twice)
this was meant to be my 1k post but i fucking forgot when i got back from my math exam.
with all due respect. even if DJ AM or someone with similar capabilities adopted controllers at this point in time, it’d make no difference at all.
turntablism evolved to the point it is now over decades. controllerism is still in it’s infancy.
i’ve no doubt we’ll see some new jacks come up and be the next Z-Trips and Q-Berts of controllerism, but it’s going to take time. it’ll probably be a couple goofy kids from this forum too hehe.
We NEED turntablists to get involved with controllers. The skills are completely transferable - although it did take turntablism a while to establish itself, we won’t have to wait years for the same to happen with Digital DJ’ing routines.
Look at Blakey - he’s getting right on board with the Dicers.
All turntablism is, is cuepoint juggling, where the cuepoints aren’t immediately available (ie - at the touch of a button). Instead of hitting a button, the turntablist has to manually search for (back spin/forward spin) the cue point, then launch it on beat (or off beat, as the case often is).
At it’s most basic, using software cue points in a turntablist routine free’s up time for scratching. Where a DJ previously had to manually back spin the record to the cue point (marked on the record) during a juggle routine, all he has to do now is tap a button. It might give him an extra 2 bars to throw in some scratches, or even samples - but it’ll change the way routines are put together.
Seriously - turntablists WILL get onto this sooner or later. They’re mad not to. And if this generation of turntablists don’t, the next generation will swallow 'em up.
Can you imagine Babu, or Jazzy Jeff juggling using cuepoints, effects, loops, samples??? I dream of Jazzy Jeff doing the “I Wanna Rock” routine with Dicers, scratches, effects, etc…
I don’t know much about TTism but I think that video posted of Craze on the blog was sick. Him and Shiftee are doing a great job of taking advantage of the DVS and controllers as im sure AM would of too.
On it! The Bridge is really where the door opens up, you still don’t see a whole lot of guys taking full advantage of this I think because you need some experience, and I think the bugs might need some ironing, but it’s coming.
ive thought about this and ive been a big bridge guy. but think about this.
2 instances of traktor pro. one with 16 sample desks as a slave to another instance of traktor pro running 4 decks synced to maschine in stand alone mode.
serato needs to pull off a miracle as far as im concerned
I don’t see how - IMO, since ableton has pretty much ENDLESS decks, able to fire off endless amounts of samples…synched to serato for scratch action…I feel that Ableton already trumps traktor for number of decks and samples possibilities…
Not to mention Ableton FX, and the endless VST’s you could run.
But I do like the sounds of your idea^^ would love to see a vid of that for sure
