From Kent Williams Sent Mon, May 24th 1999, 17:59
From Kent Williams Sent Mon, May 24th 1999, 17:59
On Sun, 23 May 1999, Brock Suter wrote: > Fortunately, things have changed but artists like Rap, Goldie & > Grooverider still insist on *just* their name on the title, when in > truth they are using the amazing engineering/song writing talents of > people such as Rob Playford, Dillinja, Optical, Matrix, etc. > 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. 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...