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I enjoyed reading this article immensely. I'm a nobody bedroom producer but the description of the feathering and blending out tracks, and his interaction with
by parksy 8y ago
I enjoyed reading this article immensely. I'm a nobody bedroom producer but the description of the feathering and blending out tracks, and his interaction with the audience and how he's using layers to tell a story from his mind and not just appeasing the crowd really spoke to why I do what I do the way I do it, made me respect the man all the more for his integrity, and it's something that is increasingly difficult to do - be an artist above being a slightly randomising musical xerox. There's a message there for producers and DJs that there's a soul or spirit that's always at risk, and we have the ability to uphold it.
Reading Jeff's description of the mental process not just the mechanical process... I was sad the article seemed to just touch on those areas and would love to see deeper into the artistic process. When he's imagining approaching a planet, or being in the forest, and how that translates to music for him.
What a legendary DJ. I'd love to see / hear him do a modern set mixing old school hits records like he described. And now I'm falling down a youtube hole back into the 80s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejSvyXlin_s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejSvyXlin_s