當國外一片叫好對新科技phase歡呼中,DJ Rob Swift提出了不同的思考方向。
猜想他也不是全然反對,因為他也用Rane62跟djm-s9等數位產品。他的說法在於大家太容易隨便就接受了新科技取代人工這件事然後沒有疑問思考。「我沒聽說一個吉他手會抱怨他的琴弦一直壞掉需要換,他只是繼續換掉它然後繼續演奏」然後他舉了影片當例子,DJ Aladdin在比賽中左右交換時唱針多次跳針,通常這樣會搞亂原本既定的段子難以處理而亂掉內容,但Aladdin馬上用經驗跟記憶去判斷唱針大約跳針的位置且很快的用不同風格改變演出的內容,而且最後完成極美好的90秒旅程。
2000年後科技跳躍至電腦控制器跟各式樣的樂器跟DJ數位門檻降低,完全不需任何技術即可使用,至今2018更多厲害不費工的器具誕生不該只是為了服務商業跟讓一般人去消費玩耍,這些器材公司這些年來漸漸的沒有尊重DJ或音樂人來設計產品,而是強迫他們來為自己設計的產品代言,說實在這些產品大都缺乏了真正的DJ創意精神或音樂概念而且功能都很糟很表面功夫。
如果只是有錢跟圖方便,就算是擁有了多少台先進鼓機樂器合成器跟數位DJ器材,在演出大家看起來都一樣很沒意思。
I've been quiet all weekend about phase. Actually, practicing silence has been my method of operation as of late when it comes to the corny DJ shit I be seeing from so many of y'all. But this morning I woke up to a video of a guy lifting a control record off the turntable with that phase gadget still attached to it, making a mockery of scratching to be honest, and I just couldn't fight off the compulsion to speak my peace on the subject.
People are so removed from the truer days of DJing they get easily sucked into technology hype. The DJs I see salivating as they look on while one of their DJ heroes is testing out the product will never be remembered or respected for the new DJ software being pumped into the scene by corporations that honestly care more about getting your money than whether or not you're developing your skills. The only true path to building and cementing your legacy in this art is down a one-way road called Practice Street.
It's to the point now where soon muhfuggas are just gon' be like... "Fuck it, I'm cool wit' letting technology do all the work for me. This way things can sound perfect and we don't have to worry about needles breaking or any of the stuff that DJs naturally deal with."
*I've never in my life heard of a guitar playing bitching about his guitar strings breaking. Dude just replaces it and continues playing.
Here's rare footage of DJ Aladdin's first round set in the 1989 New Music Seminar for World Supremacy. The beauty within the 90 seconds you're about to see/hear lie within this routine's imperfections.
Timeline
0:13 - Aladdin releases the right turntable and starts his 90 second round.
0:15 - Aladdin begins to obliterate the left turntable with some of the most aggressive scratches I've ever heard him execute in all his battles. *I think the sound he chose to manipulate (the word "Goes" from Orbit's "The Beat Goes") plays a major roll in his cuts sharpness.
0:29 - By now, Aladdin swaps over to the right turntable and starts going back and forth between both decks. Prepping to showcasing his "Juggling" abilities.
0:38 - Aladdin launches the right turntable and it skips on him.
0:41 - Once more Aladdin sets up to launch the right turntable and it skips for a 2nd time. It's obvious by now he's trying to "Juggle" the words "BEAT GOES" on both turntables but something is wrong with the right deck.
0:44 through 0:47 - You see Aladdin feverishly trying to launch the right table from the start point he intends but it refuses to cooperate. (*See 0:43: Aladdin gives the right deck a quick glance. He knows something is wrong).
0:48 - You could tell that as Aladdin is trying to trouble shoot the issue he's having with the right turntable he realizes he's running out of time in the round and needs to act fast before the buzzard signaling the round is over is heard.
0:50 - As Aladdin jumps back into some scratches on the left turntable he decides "...to hell with this" and stops the faulty deck's platter and commences to coax an entirely new rhythm from the left turntable. He rides the left table for 24 seconds!!!
1:14 - Aladdin moves back to the left turntable in one last ditch attempt to get that side of his set up to cooperate but to no avail.
1:21 - Aladdin jumps right back to the good ol' reliable left turnable, sets himself up, stops the right platter and improvises a clever escape out of a challenging first round.
I've witnessed my share of DJ battles and I can genuinely say this is one of the most exciting rounds of any competition I've seen. Not so much because Aladdin did something out of this planet or anything. It was that we were able to see an expert in his craft spontaneously figure out a way to work around the technical difficulties he experienced in his round. I so miss that rawness man. I've seen battle DJs cave in to that tension and end their round early. But when you're the pedigree of an Aladdin, you stay cool, calm and collected and rise to the occasion and figure out a way create magic anyway!
That coolness, that calmness, the skill you see in this video was cultivated from years of walking down Practice Street. I suggest a lot of y'all take a stroll down that road. You'll find yourselves there.
同時也有2部Youtube影片,追蹤數超過15萬的網紅pennyccw,也在其Youtube影片中提到,The Philadelphia 76ers never lost track of Vince Carter, but the Toronto Raptors did. The 76ers held Carter scoreless for the first 10 minutes of the...
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"When do you know it’s over?" He asked quietly.
"When someone stops trying," she answered.
"Or worse, when trying no longer works."
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The Philadelphia 76ers never lost track of Vince Carter, but the Toronto Raptors did.
The 76ers held Carter scoreless for the first 10 minutes of the fourth quarter as they rallied for a 104-98 victory over the Raptors in their home opener.
Allen Iverson scored 24 points for Philadelphia, which defeated Toronto for the sixth straight time. But it was fellow guards Eric Snow and Aaron McKie and forward George Lynch who shut down the explosive Carter.
"We got it done and got stops when we needed to," Lynch said. "Everybody wants to see Vince do something spectacular. We're a defensive team and we don't want to see our teammates get embarrassed. We play well together, we help each other out and that's what it's going to take to win. We're not going to let somebody come in and have a big night against us. We just look out for one another."
Carter scored 25 points but just four in the final period, when the Raptors went scoreless for over five minutes. He did not score in the fourth quarter until making a tough drive with 1:45 left that cut the deficit to 93-89.
"Other people were scoring," Carter said. "You have to go the hot man. It's not all about me. It's a team thing."
Toronto never got any closer as Theo Ratliff and Iverson hit baskets and Philadelphia sank 7-of-8 free throws in the final minute to improve to 2-0. The Sixers were 7-of-12 from the line through three quarters and 12-of-16 in the final period.
Carter made his first six shots but was just 3-of-13 thereafter. In the fourth quarter, he was 1-of-6 as the Raptors could not get him untracked, instead going inside to Antonio Davis, who scored nine of his 18 points in the fourth quarter.
"They were in the penalty so that's just smart basketball," Raptors coach Lenny Wilkens said. "They were in the foul trouble and the penalty and Antonio delivered for us. I wanted to go at them and have the other guys be patient."
"The biggest thing right now is trying to understand each other down the stretch," Carter said. "Sometimes, we're trying to think for the other person, and we have a lot of mixups. In due time it will get better."
In addition to slowing down Carter, Snow scored 16 points, McKie added 11 and Lynch grabbed nine rebounds.
Tyrone Hill had 12 points and 10 rebounds and Toni Kukoc scored 11 off the bench for Philadelphia. Mark Jackson had 16 points and 12 assists and Kevin Willis scored 12 points for Toronto.
"I've always said that it's going to be better for the team if we get five of six guys involved," Kukoc said. "We are playing good basketball right now. It's early, but if we continue to play like this, it's going to be good for us."
"It's been a total team effort," Iverson said. "A lot of people have said that we can't win a championship unless I do it by myself. They hear stuff like that and feed off it. No one feels better than me seeing those guys do what they do on the court."
The Raptors cut a six-point deficit to 75-73 entering the fourth quarter and a jump hook by Willis gave them their first lead since the second quarter at 81-79 with 9:20 to play.
But Toronto went scoreless for the next 5:06, missing eight straight shots. Iverson and Hill each had two baskets in a 9-0 spurt that gave Philadelphia an 88-81 lead with 4:35 remaining.
"We had some really good shots and we missed them," Wilkens said. "We just could not make a shot in that one stretch. They were good shots and the ball just didn't go down for us."
Davis made three jumpers around two free throws by Iverson to pull Toronto within 90-87 with 2:57 left. But McKie answered with a three-point play 50 seconds later before Carter finally scored.
The Sixers shot 48 percent (41-of-85) and limited Toronto to 45 percent (39-of-86). They blocked 10 shots, five by center Theo Ratliff.
Carter came out on fire, scoring 15 points on 6-of-6 shooting in the first quarter. His 3-pointer gave Toronto a 31-21 lead late in the period.
Trailing 43-36, the Sixers went on a 16-2 burst that featured points from six players, including three from Nazr Mohammed. The reserve center played only in garbage time in Tuesday's 101-72 win at New York.
Snow's basket made it 52-45 with 2:16 left and Philadelphia held a 59-53 advantage at halftime.
"It was hard to keep the focus," Iverson said. "We went down a little bit, then we brought ourselves back up and were able to win the game. That's the most important thing, regardless of how sloppy the game was."
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Michael Curry was quite happy with the way his team defended Tim Duncan on Thursday night.
That's why the rookie Detroit Pistons coach was so impressed that Duncan finished with 18 points and 18 rebounds in San Antonio's 83-79 victory.
"It says a lot about Tim Duncan that we can say he didn't have a great game when he had 18 and 18," Curry said. "People aren't going to fully appreciate what a great player they're watching until he retires. He just goes out there and does that game after game."
Duncan had seven points and eight rebounds in the fourth quarter, helping the Spurs break a three-game road losing streak.
"Tim is the base to everything we do," San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich said. "He rebounded and he got some buckets, and that's what we needed."
Tony Parker added 19 points and 11 assists for the Spurs, who are 4-3 on an eight-game road trip.
"This was tough, but we'll take it, because we needed a win," Parker said. "We've lost a couple games that we could have won, so this gives us some confidence to try to finish this in Washington."
The Pistons dropped to 2-10 at home in the past six weeks, and face a road trip that includes games at Boston, Cleveland, New Orleans and Orlando.
"We lost again," point guard Rodney Stuckey said. "I don't know. I really can't explain anything anymore. We just keep losing, and now we've got some great teams to play."
Allen Iverson led all scorers with 31 points, and Antonio McDyess added 13 points and 13 rebounds.
San Antonio led 64-58 going into the fourth, and although the Pistons got as close as three, George Hill's fast-break dunk made it 73-66 with 6:35 left.
Detroit rallied again, and Iverson's jumper pulled the Pistons within 78-77 with 3 minutes to play. Two stops gave the Pistons a pair of chances to take the lead, and Iverson took advantage of the second with a layup with 1:21 to go.
Rasheed Wallace fouled Parker, who gave San Antonio a 80-79 lead from the line, and Iverson missed at the other end. McDyess hurdled the Spurs bench to save the rebound, but Michael Finley grabbed the loose ball.
Parker's jumper bounced off the rim, and Wallace grabbed the rebound with 28 seconds left, but missed a fadeaway over Duncan.
"We had Rasheed with a good look at a 17-footer in a one-point game," Curry said. "That's what you want."
Bruce Bowen grabbed the rebound, and was fouled while frantically trying to call a timeout. Despite coming into the game shooting 47 percent from the line, he hit both shots to make it 82-79 with 9.7 seconds left.
"Bruce is a real pro," Popovich said. "He doesn't start for us, but he does whatever we ask. He guarded Rip [Hamilton] for a while, he guarded Allen for a while, and he did a great job."
Iverson missed a tying 3-pointer and Duncan clinched the game from the free-throw line.
"I couldn't have gotten a better look -- I've got to come up with that one," Iverson said. "I had more time than I thought, and I rushed it."
Game notes
Popovich announced before the game that sixth man Manu Ginobili will miss an additional 2-3 weeks with a right ankle injury. ... McDyess got his 1,000th career block early in the fourth quarter. ... Bowen finished 4-for-4 from the line -- just the second time in the past three seasons that he had attempted four or more free throws in a game without missing. ... The Pistons only used seven playe