Prodding my DAW
There comes a time in every mashup djs life when he realises that the art of performance djing will never be what it once was. AM is dead, Z-trip is now underground, and people are shovelling cash and accolades at dudes who admit to doing nothing more than 'pressing play' when they step behind their non-existant 'decks'. why? cause they create amazing music. Some of my collegues believe this is a trend, and soon enough we'll go back to the 'good'ol'days' and people will again start caring about fast cuts, innovative mixing, and the ability to bridge music styles, rip through multiple genres and truly innovate behind the decks. While this might be true, its deffinitely only part of the picture. The reality is that, as far as the digitization of music is concerend, we are only at the tip of the iceberg. Computers and exponential increase in computing power is rapidly changing the enire world, not the least of which the world of art, and in particular music. This isn't slowing down any time soon.
Computer music is here to stay and here to grow, and while DJs (in the conventional sense of someone who jockeys discs for your entertainment) no longer run the DJ market, musicialns (in the conventinal sense of 'someone tat plays an musical instrument') no longer run the music market. Even though I'll probabbly never love producing like I love performing, its time for me and other djs like me to get on board, to cast off into the sea of online music and start generating original content alongside the bizzillion other people banging away in home studios. Franklly, I'm excited, I've got a long way to go,but there's more power and software in my new laptop than most full sized studios had in the 90s, and I'm sure its gonna be a bumpy road but, but hey that's nothing new in the music biz. Below is a original remix of mine, one of many to come as i learn, experiment, and try to find my sound. hope you enjoy it
