Just Blaze speaks his mind about Serato and the digital DJ.
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2 Comments
Software such as Serato that still allow you to mix with your turntables are cool, but with all the new technology and software out now days, the art of beatmixing has lost some of its value. Much respect to all the DJ’s still doing it old school.
There’s nothing wrong with Serato in particular. He’s right, we have to make the technology work to our advantage and the argument is more about carrying vinyls around, which is a huge pain, especially travelling abroad.
Personally, my biggest fear using a laptop as my main music library engine is more to do with potential crashes or a computer freeze. Now that would sound pretty lame and stupid in the middle of a set.
The real danger of technology, as highlighted by Chris, is beatmixing. Some software out there mix automatically for you, which allows anyone to ‘mix’, or pretend. And there are now alleged ‘DJ’s’ popping up everyday, out of nowhere, ready to play for a buck and destroying the market for those keeping it real.
But at the end of the day, talent is what’s key. So whatever a good DJ might use, as long as he’s manually controlling the technology (vs the technology driving him/her), he/she will remain a good DJ.
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