Posted by Amir_Alexander



Yeah... that mentality breeds stagnation. It's good to just "enjoy the music", and to not be so serious, but if no one steps up to the plate to innovate, you get what we have now. If you think that the state of the "movement" is fine, cool. keep having fun. The scene needs people who are only concerned with having a great time and not being too serious. However, it will stagnate and perish if everyone adopts that attitude. It all comes down to what you're in it for. I listened to the mix again and stand by my words. The mix is not bad at all. It's quite passable actually, but what about it is ground breaking? Maybe most people don't want ground breaking. Perhaps they just want to not be too serious, and just enjoy whatever is presented to them.

Posted by bhbognar
Please, let RA.300 be pieced together by a reliable veteran like Daniel Bell or some supa-young whiz kid we've never heard of.

Anyway, it's just a random number. Pretty soon we'll be screaming for tons of TB-303 for an RA.303 special. I'd like to see someone demanding Goth-Trad or Rondenion for an RA.311 mix or something. Maybe I just did that. Yep.

Posted by bhbognar


In a weird way, I fully understand your point of view. I think though, that it's pretty tough to demand "innovation" from every single mix that we hear. Especially on a site like this, one that caters to a really large audience with a huge range of interests. Not all DJs will present the same tunes in the same way, and non-innovation is not the same as stagnation. Music is always evolving regardless of what we think; sometimes it's slower than at other times. True about Chicago house for example, wouldn't you say?

There are a couple of things that I'd like to put out there, for the sake of healthy argument:

* There is not only one music scene or movement
* All kinds of DJing presents music in one way or another
* Transitioning and "mixing" (your definition anyway) are in fact on the same spectrum and are not so different
* This is a site about music and not the "art" of DJing
* "Innovation" is subjective - to some, the connection of unlikely tunes was innovative!

In fact, it's all subjective, which is why I am not dismissing your points at all. But when we hear someone like BenUFO stitch together a completely mind-blowing set of incredible tunes, it's a bit of a party-pooper to say, "yeah, but it's not new." And "all he did" was transition through some incredible music. Same can be said for this set by Agoria, which I admit I really enjoyed. And I already know most of the tracks!

The bottom line is this: you didn't feel this mix. And that's all right. But other people heard different, exciting things in the set!


nice answer,
for my part, music is creativity. As a DJ putting track after track, creativity is all the ways he uses so as to highlight some important parts, points, instruments... of songs.
I expect a DJ to make me feel good and have a good day after hearing something incredible which can't go out from my cortex and make smile just thinking about it.
As human, so as someone who gets fed up of everything you're used to listen, see .... i think that i expect unintentionally something new to listen, so I care about technicals. It depends, of your approach of music, what you expect. But i think, focusing first on the technical aspect of a mix, you're more likely to get pissed because it's a judgment approach. Sometimes, you're just listening songs, mixes working about stuff in a way that music is not your first thing to think, and suddenly you wake up thinking the music is huge after dancing mechanically for few minutes. Your judgement was off, just feelings


Anyway, you didn't like so much and it's your choice.

and my part is subjective