what happened to beatmatching?

[SirJulius]

For the record my post wasn't to the OP, it was to all the purist that took his post further into the "old school vs technology" debate as well as the Top 40 vs self expression thing.

[fat8ack]

[Hausgeist]

Seems some people need to read the OP before posting.

Imagine that.

[Mrspyaman]

I attenced EDC this past week, and saw a healthy handful of artists, more and more i am noticing that a lot of djs no longer beatmatch... they just highpass filter out and into the next track, is anyone else noticing this huge and annoying trend?

I have seen that technique used a lot but usually to do a rapid tempo change I dont think beatmatching is as respected of a skill as it once was since sync buttons can do it for you or efx machines can hide your train wreck if you have not put the time in to get it right. The most common cop out I have heard lately is long delay/echo out but at least they try to beatmatch on that one.

[Drevo]

So you are all saying the DJs at EDC are just doing it to be cool and have no skills. Because that's how they got booked to EDC, right? Even will.i.am has some musical talent (though no DJing talent).

Artists are getting less than hour sets sometimes at EDC and want to make their set as jam packed and memorable as possible. I think attacking skills of any DJ who is playing on North America's undisputed biggest stage is kinda retarded.

Don't get me wrong I think some of the DJs that were there make shit music and aren't great performers but saying they don' have any skills and are just doing it to be cool is retarded.

[nabjab]

As far as using 40 year old gear technology vs. new technology -I agree with the idea that sync only makes sense if you are using the time you used to spend beatmatching - to actually do something creative. If you are using "sync" as a means to play one track into another - and then spending the free time between transitions, drinking vodka and doing blow - then YES, I agree you are lame.

What if you are getting blown?

[mrkleen]

What if you are getting blown?

If you are getting blown - you are playing shitty, pop crap that slutty college girls like....in which case, no one cares about your mixing either.

[ShawnDexter]

i honestly feel the artists focus mainly on their production rather than djing imo. I have noticed this a lot within the past 2 years , and the music is way different. Beat matching is one of the biggest things to know in djing but its not the only skill in djing. And every "dj" should know how to do it. a lot of people who are starting now who have never picked up a record or touched serato and go straight to syncing and don't have the knowledge of matching bpm's.

[Finnish_Fox]

The funny part is it completely misses the fact those douches from Good Charlotte are DJing.

[RDRCK]

EDC

It's just funny how this festival is a perfect contrast to Movement. Where, just this last May, some of the greatest DJs in the history of DJing threw down some of the most amazing, and amazingly beatmatched, sets of all time using, LITERALLY, everything from reel to reel tape decks to Traktor+controller to everything in between the two.

And yes, I said amazingly beatmatched. Because basic beatmatching is no real feat, but when you've got Jeff Mills playing a halftime live funk record, together with a Sylvester record, together with The Bells on record, all over a live TR 909, all timed and synced perfectly, that's amazing beatmatching

Beatmatching didn't go anywhere. You just went to the wrong party