Monday, March 8, 2010

Superstar DJ FAIL!

My least favourite member of the Swedish House Mafia, but still a very talented and appreciated Steve Angello is under a little criticism these days.
It all stems from YouTube user dudullerena's videos of the past Rio Music Conference (see below)
The Swedish House Mafia's forum has this all posted under the title, "Steve Angello Mixing?" surprisingly. The forum members seem be under the same curiosity as I am.
Honestly who can mix without headphones, not touch either pitch controls on their music decks and not adjust their mixer knobs? (If your wondering what he's doing when he is touching the mixer, he's playing around with his effects, not mixing). Right at the 2:12 mark of the clip, an effect is put in and the next track starts to mix in. At this time, Angello has his hands up smiling and looking pretty dozy if you ask me. The next song then re-enters around 3:10 where I still can't understand how it was mixed. Even when Angello explained himself on his Twitter, on Monday March 1st:
For all you ppl out there who wanna know how its done .. Lemme tell u .., dj for 5 hours a day for 10 years. When you have done that .. Start touring , playing 4-6 gigs a week for another 5 years... After that try play on the CDj's. U see the BPM on the right side of the display , u have a pitch and easy way to count the BPM is by looking on the cd u gonna mix in , if 1 bpm is the dif just adjust the pitch to +0.8 or -0.8 depending on if its slower or faster .. After that 0.8 either way is one BPM. So 1.6 is 2 , 2.4 is 3 , 3.20 is 4 and 4 is 5. Ok .. Learn the trax u play and enjoy. 
From what I saw, he didn't even play around with the CDj's but he does have a point with the whole experience factor. It must get pretty easy mixing the same tracks continously so who knows.
One other point in the clip which I found hilarious, was his manger in the background. Look on the right hand side around 3:40 (dude in the suit). He looks at Angello and shakes his head with a bit of a "I dunno man..." iffy kind of look shaking his hands and then having a word with him. More funny than straight proof but just take a look at this other clip from the night with some more fabulous mixing! (right around 3:30)
Angello is more successfull than I'll ever be but c'mon, superstar DJs shouldn't slack like this (or at least appear to be). He had to of seen the cameras recording him. Then again who would care if thousands will continue to spend big bucks no matter the case.
MEHH
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