Guti - Patio De Juegos

**Jenks** · April 8, 2011, 07:54:23 PM

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yeah adam, it's a really great album, very impressed with it all the way through.

*i used one of the tracks of the album in the mix in my sig. blatant listen to my set post.

**Haziel** · April 8, 2011, 11:58:42 PM

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its ok ... to me its filler techno ... couple tunes here and there that could be considered ok. but nothing to be too excited about .

A track that I really like from guti is the remix he did for Glimpse - things to do in denver ...... its yummy

**Jenks** · April 9, 2011, 12:13:55 AM

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^i think it's filler as you're describing it if you're just playing it alone. it's a really solid album to dj with, taking pieces and parts as tools, which is how i use it. nice funky basslines to use as bottoms and play quirky noise over the top. i hardly ever play it by itself.

**Haziel** · April 9, 2011, 12:16:02 AM

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I guess if I had to choose a track that stands out in that album it would be this one ... but seriously this sound has been around for more than 3 years now .

**Jenks** · April 9, 2011, 12:23:15 AM

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Originally posted by Haziel

but seriously this sound has been around for more than 3 years now .

a lot of sounds have been around for a long time, it's what you do with it that makes the difference. i just don't listen to music the same way I used to when I was just buying loads of vinyl every week. technology allows me to do so much more these days. what i probably wouldn't even give consideration to 10 years ago, i'll hear something interesting today and take it and use a piece of it to make something else, which has really changed how i listen to music, from a djing perspective.

i know this is guti's artist album, but it reads more like a tools set to me. this isn't carl finlow's electrology, or lusine's a certain distance or what have you, albums that stand by themselves alone. i think that's where it might get lost on a lot of people just hitting play and listening to it, and i get that.

**Haziel** · April 9, 2011, 12:28:53 AM

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Originally posted by Jenks

^i think it's filler as you're describing it if you're just playing it alone. it's a really solid album to dj with, taking pieces and parts as tools, which is how i use it. nice funky basslines to use as bottoms and play quirky noise over the top. i hardly ever play it by itself.

My take on using tools is... if you are going to constantly be looking for tools to make your set "better" then that pretty much means that the track/music you are playing is not that good to begin with .

U should look for more interesting tracks

**Jenks** · April 9, 2011, 12:39:47 AM

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no.

djing to me has always been about blending things together. some of the best moments in djing i've ever heard on the dancefloor or behind the dj booth have been when two records are in transition, playing together. two parts making one.

i think if you don't understand the concept of loops and simple bits like tools, you don't really understand (or fair enough- don't really care) how techno works, because that's exactly what it has embodied from the beginning. that's why there are crates and crates of locked grooves. use loops. create yourself. you don't need a single record to move anything for you, use multiple to do it on your own.

that said, there are a ton of records, more often than not, that just need to be played...leave it alone...it's awesome by itself. but that doesn't discount every other solid single groove out there that's waiting to break somebody's legs.

**Haziel** · April 9, 2011, 01:57:19 AM

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With that concept my friend you are basically pushing djing into a LIVE set.

Btw I do loop during my sets ...I use Traktor / Serato.

**Caley Martin** · April 9, 2011, 02:52:02 AM

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I like to fart on a mic over a loop of Spastik, then drop Deadmau5. I'm so fucking l33t.

**DIDI** · April 9, 2011, 05:21:28 AM

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Originally posted by Jenks

no.

djing to me has always been about blending things together. some of the best moments in djing i've ever heard on the dancefloor or behind the dj booth have been when two records are in transition, playing together. two parts making one.

i think if you don't understand the concept of loops and simple bits like tools, you don't really understand (or fair enough- don't really care) how techno works, because that's exactly what it has embodied from the beginning. that's why there are crates and crates of locked grooves. use loops. create yourself. you don't need a single record to move anything for you, use multiple to do it on your own.

that said, there are a ton of records, more often than not, that just need to be played...leave it alone...it's awesome by itself. but that doesn't discount every other solid single groove out there that's waiting to break somebody's legs.

Really interesting posts. Thank you !!

**Haziel** · April 10, 2011, 12:44:08 AM

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Originally posted by DIDI

< Filler post >

**Caley Martin** · April 10, 2011, 12:47:54 AM

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Originally posted by Haziel

**Caley Martin** · April 11, 2011, 12:23:29 PM

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In all seriousness though, I can see both sides of the conversation here... I think what it really comes down to is how tastefully you can execute the inclusion of samples/loops. Too much of trickery and layering really detracts/distracts from the music overall... far too often nowadays I hear DJs trying to be "creative," however, they end up sounding either really jagged or played out.

**picklemonkey** · April 11, 2011, 12:31:32 PM

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I like it as an artist album too. Maybe I'm easily pleased

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