Re: (idm) Piloerection

From Brock Suter
Sent Mon, May 24th 1999, 19:30

ChairCrusher wrote:

> I think it oversimplifies things to say that the DJ name on a track
> means that the DJ fronts for the producer, who does the actual work.
> I've done collaborations with DJs who don't have the studio skills to
> bust tracks on their own, and my experience is that this can be a very
> fruitful combination.  I like working with guys who have strong ideas
> for samples and structure of tracks.  Doing the geek-tech thing is
> second nature to me now, and being able to focus on that end of things
> and let someone else come up with the ideas can be very productive.

I agree.  I think I said the same thing in the first post about this
subject. 

> On the other hand if you read between the lines about people like Goldie,
> it seems to me that he really doesn't do very much on some of the tracks
> released under his name.  In fact, in interviews with Rob Playford, when
> Goldie came to his studio for the first time was a floppy of sequences
> that he got from somebody else...

I remember someone (may have been optical) telling me that goldie came
into his studio one night with a drawing on a napkin of a seascape with
little stick figure birds flying around and told him that's how he
wanted the bass to sound.

:-)

brock