Deadmau5 hates DJ's

[superchibisan]

Re: Deadmau5 hates DJ's

man, this exact thread has come up in so many places.

never liked his production and now i really couldn't care less.

and you who says laptops are bad for djing, get a clue! everyone is going to be on laptops within the next 10 years! if they aren't, they are probably gonna be a little bit outclassed.

[highdesert]

Re: Deadmau5 hates DJ's

that's ironic because last night, I decided that I would never go see a dj or producer who used only laptops in thier shows; sasha included.

I think I'm almost with you on this. I saw Steve Lawler this week and he used nothing but Tractor. While the music was amazing, something is just missing when every mix is "perfect" without some type of organic transition. Plus the fact all night he kind of had that look on his face of a first time Windows user trying to add a printer or something, didnt exactly look comfortable.

The first time this feeling hit me was when I saw Sasha a few years ago and instead spent almost all my time that night in the basement cutting a rug to Lee Burridge. There use to be a fine distinction between the DJ and the live PA but now laptops are taking something away from the DJ experience, at least for me. I was also put off by CD decks when they first came around because then I couldnt catch a glimpse of a label or get a heart flutter at the site of a white label. The old days, when you had to find a copy of that record before it sold out. It's just evolution for things to get easier but sad to see some of it go.

Would Deadmau5 really offend his entire customer base? Must of have been smocking crack if he really did say that but being that the only source of information on this is internet message boards my bet is on hoax.

[coleby761]

Re: Deadmau5 hates DJ's

The guy DJ's in mouse costume for christ's sake. Who gives a f-ck about him or what he says.

[kassios]

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Hard to believe this story isn't a hoax .....i mean it would be stupid to state such things.......not impressed by his productions at all

[88Mariner]

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88Mariner, I thought Diggers was looking at adding laptops to his set-up in 2009 ... you may be burning a few bridges with your decision.

look, ever since sasha started using maven and abelton, the magic of his sets have died. there's no emotion, there's no connection with the crowds anymore. no tension with picking the next track, no laser-beam concentration on dropping the cue at the right moment. it's simply point and click, drag, ad infinitum. just because you're a master at beatmatching doesn't relieve one from putting on an intense show. Sasha may like the idea that he's putting together a unique 'symphony of sounds', but sympthonies are snooze-fests. people once took drugs to let loose; I would have to take drugs just to get into one of his sets.

I don't know if the blame rests mostly on sasha, or on the tracks/producers he's picking, but his 'presence' (whatever that means nowadays) behind the laptop makes him really detached from the audience. it's one thing to be a live PA and twiddling nobs and punching keys on all sorts of equipment, but laptops make the dj detatched from the musical experience. I posed a question about this out in another thread that asked the question, "what happened to building sets and mixing in key anymore?" Laptops would surely be a great way to make any night out with sasha sound like GU: San Fran or Ibiza or whatever.... i mean, with the tools right there, how could he NOT sound like the most amazing thing you've ever heard? to the contrary, what I've seen and heard is more like somone making a mix that you hear on the radio during friday nights. what should have improved things actually made it a bit worse. sasha still possesses great musical talent, and he does play tons of great tracks; thus I think the laptop is to blame.

The only person I've seen really connect with a crowd AND use laptops is James Zabeila, but you know what? he's also fucking around on cd-players and effects boxes etc...sasha doesn't even do that. And I dont' think diggers would, either. I'll wait and see myself, but honestly, the full frequency of the dirty, twisted, and raw sound diggers used to play will be diluted significantly. it would be an utter travesty if he ditched cd's altogether for a usb drive and a mou5e.

So, Imagine, for a moment, that pink floyd was up on stage, but instead of playing thier instruments, they had a drum machine, ableton, a mixer and an effects box, yeah, it sounds the same...but....there's no connection with the crowds. it sounds like pink floyd, but the distinction is clear; a total digital format played solely through computers is killing (at least for me) the total experience of a set. would you honestly say that the 'new' pink floyd still rocks? probably not. What about the london symphony orchestra playing each instrument on a single track connected through to the conductor who was simply layering them on the screen on the podium? They're already masters at thier craft so why bother still playing live with instruments when simply playing with a midi-sequenceer would suffice? Yeah, still, sounding the same but that human element is gone.

video killed the radio star. laptops killed the dj.

[herogee]

Re: Deadmau5 hates DJ's

Plus the fact all night he kind of had that look on his face of a first time Windows user trying to add a printer or something, didnt exactly look comfortable.

[Miroslav]

Re: Deadmau5 hates DJ's

and you who says laptops are bad for djing, get a clue! everyone is going to be on laptops within the next 10 years! if they aren't, they are probably gonna be a little bit outclassed.

this already happened years ago. still don't care; "outclassed" is way overrated.

and Deadmau5 can think whatever he wants. why would I care? I do what I do. It means something to me. That's all that matters.

[kassios]

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this already happened years ago. still don't care; "outclassed" is way overrated.

and Deadmau5 can think whatever he wants. why would I care? I do what I do. It means something to me. That's all that matters.

Deadmau5 is a pc digay

[dj_macgyver]

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can somebody please switch the places of the topic? i think DJs hate deadmau5 to.

it's so ideally ironic that he just got voted into the dj mag top 100... now is he or isn't he a dj?

[88Mariner]

Re: Deadmau5 hates DJ's

How do you define a DJ? do you even have to mix well to be one?

[mazi]

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and to think i downloaded his music for free on soul seek

[Localizer]

Re: Deadmau5 hates DJ's

deadcrap is overrated. sorry. his music puts me to sleep.

[DancingQueen]

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Wow, I don't know what to say.....he has always seemed like such a genuine, down to earth guy.....I find it really hard to believe he even said any of this. Has anyone checked to see if his website or anything like that has a reaction/statement to this?

[superchibisan]

Re: Deadmau5 hates DJ's

the laptop is a tool, nothing more. it sucks no souls and it does not make things sound worse. (well, depending on the artist's interface)

sasha's problem has nothing to do with his laptop.

ableton/traktor will do more for djing than two decks and a mixer could ever hope to accomplish. when its all said and done, we won't have djs anymore, we'll have composers. composers who use pre fabricated music to create live musical experiences. it will be more than djing. Im sure djing will exist in some form, but im pretty sure the big guys will all end up being called composers.

[Miroslav]

Re: Deadmau5 hates DJ's

the laptop is a tool, nothing more. it sucks no souls and it does not make things sound worse. (well, depending on the artist's interface)

sasha's problem has nothing to do with his laptop.

ableton/traktor will do more for djing than two decks and a mixer could ever hope to accomplish. when its all said and done, we won't have djs anymore, we'll have composers. composers who use pre fabricated music to create live musical experiences. it will be more than djing. Im sure djing will exist in some form, but im pretty sure the big guys will all end up being called composers.

fascinating. really.