mixing vs music itself

[Guest cyber]

What is more important to you mixing style or good choice of music @ a party. If you could choose only one what would it be?

I would choose good music selection without great mixing instead of well mixed but boring music set...

[Guest Rumz]

good music selection....

 

You have to put up with the music selection all night

 

Where as the mixing is only 5% of the total aural assault...so if its crap it doesnt ruin all the track

 

RumZ

[Guest Akira]

Completely agree, which is why djs like Carl Cox bore me to tears.

[Guest Dr. Cheroot]

.....and djs like Goa Gil rock the place inside out.

[Guest serotonot - hypoteekkiyhd]

i think both are important. 50/50

 

because if dj makes mistakes all the time, the is no feeling of "trance" because the set "starts from the begining" after every big mistake IMO

 

though, if the music isn't what you like, it also ruins the feeling.

 

in dj:ing the most important thing IMO is to play as well as your skills allow. Not trying to do something you know you can't and that way ruin the feeling

[Guest bugbread]

Mixing is a complete non-issue for me. I saw Loopus Fabula (forgot which member) DJ the other day. Terrible DJ technique, lots of mistakes, and the best damn music selection I've heard in a long long time. I loved every minute of his set. I've heard much superior DJs with perfect mixing, and they played crap, so it sounded like well mixed crap. If I want well-mixed crap, I may as well listen to a medley of Backstreet Boys tunes.

[Basilisk]

but you CAN have both, and its rather disturbing when people don't try... this question is like asking what you would want more - cake, or the icing. they should go together for maximum effect.

[Guest KS]

but the cake is way more important... honestly i feel that selection is 90% of the job, because it can't be quanitified.. and as a result a dj has much more leeway in this area. In the case of mixing, practice will make anyone with basic computing skills a good enough mixer..... but selection is key.. whenever i hear great sets, the common factor is selection.... for eg. dimitri is a great dj, his selection is amazing and so is his mixing, goa gil is almost as good as dimitri, but his mixing skills are very basic.... so in my opinion its mainly about selection.. mixing is important, and is more an area where a dj can mess up.... but as an enhancer, mixing is not that key, make no mistakes and you'll be fine....

[Guest v4K]

I think both are important to me, but I think the track selection gets more to your head than the mixing after the party...

After all we´ve all have our party song after a party, but hardly a party mix... but ther´s nothng like a good party whit great tunes and great mixing

 

v4K

[Strumpling]

well the good music is definitely the Primary "objective"

 

If somebody's doing an awesome job mixing, but they're mixing crappy music, it won't even matter.

 

-=- Matt/Strumpling -=-

ya know?

[Guest JanUa]

yes Basilisk Maximum effect.

 

but to choose, good music ofcourse.

[Guest bugbread]

Both is best, but given the question, "which is more important?", I'll pick selection.

 

Also, I dislike constant beats. There should be those long ambient passages between songs. So, I guess the best DJ is one who picks excellent tunes, beatmatches them perfectly for three or four songs at a time, but doesn't use beatmatching throughout the entire set.

[Guest Lair]

track selction is the most important part of the Psy party experience. As a Psy Dj

I often hear man you play wicked tracks but why don't you mix more? ( Sidenote The scene where I live is dominated by DJ's whom mix the hell out of the music, The main genre is breaks/hardhouse......ick....)

 

If i could I would have minimal mixing skill and astronomical track selection ability.

 

As was mentioned before everyone remembers the music played not really how well it was spliced together.

[Guest clive frog]

BOTH, BOTH, BOTH, I can't stress enough, seemless mixing skills and great track selection make an amazing set every time