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