Comments for Ali on the Air http://aliontheair.wordpress.com Just another WordPress.com weblog Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:19:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU Comment on DJs and Turntablism - are hipsters and laptops killing the art form? by Gerald Scrutchions http://aliontheair.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/djs-and-turntablism-are-hipsters-and-laptops-killing-the-art-form/#comment-61 Gerald Scrutchions Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:58:08 +0000 http://aliontheair.wordpress.com/?p=65#comment-61 YO I agree with this article for the mos part. Cats are all of sudden coming out of left field with their mac laptops and I-tunes. I was doing a set with this cat last month for the 1st time and he ask me if I bought any vinyl along. I didn't think that was a completely strange question. Next dude went on to tell me that b4 he picked up serato that he just used his laptop. Now I heard good things about this dj b4 the show however, that statment alone just killed me. In my mind that dude is not a dj in the sense that he did not learn the traditional style and values of spinning vinyl. Myself, I dropped just straight wax for my first four years of djing. It took me along time to accept serato as a dj tool. You need the program if you ever expect to make it anywhere in this industry. I just couldn't find all the dope new tracks I find through beatport and juno mp3 searches, I mean you can download something that came out 12 hours b4 your set. I also agree that serato does not make you a good dj. Beatmatching is just the tip of the spear. Peace DJ Killing Good Beats (K.G.B.) YO I agree with this article for the mos part. Cats are all of sudden coming out of left field with their mac laptops and I-tunes. I was doing a set with this cat last month for the 1st time and he ask me if I bought any vinyl along. I didn’t think that was a completely strange question. Next dude went on to tell me that b4 he picked up serato that he just used his laptop. Now I heard good things about this dj b4 the show however, that statment alone just killed me. In my mind that dude is not a dj in the sense that he did not learn the traditional style and values of spinning vinyl. Myself, I dropped just straight wax for my first four years of djing. It took me along time to accept serato as a dj tool. You need the program if you ever expect to make it anywhere in this industry. I just couldn’t find all the dope new tracks I find through beatport and juno mp3 searches, I mean you can download something that came out 12 hours b4 your set. I also agree that serato does not make you a good dj. Beatmatching is just the tip of the spear.

Peace

DJ Killing Good Beats (K.G.B.)

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]]> Comment on Stone Temple Pilots at Jimmy Kimmel - Scott Weiland’s swan song before the slammer by ponytail http://aliontheair.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/stone-temple-pilots-at-jimmy-kimmel-scott-weilands-swan-song-before-the-slammer/#comment-44 ponytail Tue, 27 May 2008 06:08:19 +0000 http://aliontheair.wordpress.com/?p=54#comment-44 This is the first time I've ever seen your site; I found this post from googling Stone Temple Pilots and Jimmy Kimmel, which I did pretty much immediately after I heard the first three notes out of Scott Weiland's mouth (it's rerunning tonight). Basically, I wanted to see if anyone else had had the same reaction I did. What you wrote about SW's performance was like an instant and beautifully written summary of all the thoughts I was having and all my instinctual emotional reactions in those few seconds between the time he started singing until I clicked on this page. Like you, I was never an STP fan first and foremost; I listened to the songs that most people knew but, despite their being popular, were commonly considered genuinely good songs. Actually, right now I have one of Scott Weiland's solo songs on my playlist. But what kind of bandYou've really captured that strange feeling of not-altogether-unpleasant nostalgia for a time that seems much simpler, whether it's because I'm aging or things are changing rapidly or, most likely, some combination of the two. It's the kind of nostalgia that makes me feel like even though I was never crazy into STP, they're still, in retrospect "my generation's" music, and I have a certain feeling of ownership of that time, when they first came out and everybody was comparing them to Pearl Jam. That time feels so distant to me and so different from my current life, and I felt a real, wrenching sadness for Scott Weiland, who is just as many years past that time as I am, but lives essentially the same life he did then, one it seems he has tried desperately to change for so long that his struggle with addiction is as perilous and widely acknowledged as any of the young musicians, in the grunge scene and in music in general, who didn't make it. You told this story with enormous grace, a quality that I really appreciate and am saddened to see only very rarely in celebrity/music media coverage. I have no idea who you are because I started writing this as soon as I finished the post, but I will definitely read some more. This is the first time I’ve ever seen your site; I found this post from googling Stone Temple Pilots and Jimmy Kimmel, which I did pretty much immediately after I heard the first three notes out of Scott Weiland’s mouth (it’s rerunning tonight). Basically, I wanted to see if anyone else had had the same reaction I did. What you wrote about SW’s performance was like an instant and beautifully written summary of all the thoughts I was having and all my instinctual emotional reactions in those few seconds between the time he started singing until I clicked on this page. Like you, I was never an STP fan first and foremost; I listened to the songs that most people knew but, despite their being popular, were commonly considered genuinely good songs. Actually, right now I have one of Scott Weiland’s solo songs on my playlist. But what kind of bandYou’ve really captured that strange feeling of not-altogether-unpleasant nostalgia for a time that seems much simpler, whether it’s because I’m aging or things are changing rapidly or, most likely, some combination of the two. It’s the kind of nostalgia that makes me feel like even though I was never crazy into STP, they’re still, in retrospect “my generation’s” music, and I have a certain feeling of ownership of that time, when they first came out and everybody was comparing them to Pearl Jam. That time feels so distant to me and so different from my current life, and I felt a real, wrenching sadness for Scott Weiland, who is just as many years past that time as I am, but lives essentially the same life he did then, one it seems he has tried desperately to change for so long that his struggle with addiction is as perilous and widely acknowledged as any of the young musicians, in the grunge scene and in music in general, who didn’t make it. You told this story with enormous grace, a quality that I really appreciate and am saddened to see only very rarely in celebrity/music media coverage. I have no idea who you are because I started writing this as soon as I finished the post, but I will definitely read some more.

]]> Comment on DJs and Turntablism - are hipsters and laptops killing the art form? by Is Technology Destroying The Art Of DJing? | Learn Some Shit http://aliontheair.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/djs-and-turntablism-are-hipsters-and-laptops-killing-the-art-form/#comment-43 Is Technology Destroying The Art Of DJing? | Learn Some Shit Mon, 26 May 2008 19:04:42 +0000 http://aliontheair.wordpress.com/?p=65#comment-43 [...] DJ Ali On The Air vents her frustration to her blog readers: It seems that with the nightly dance parties in heavy supply, anyone, and I [...] [...] DJ Ali On The Air vents her frustration to her blog readers: It seems that with the nightly dance parties in heavy supply, anyone, and I [...]

]]> Comment on Murs & Me: A Hip Hop Delight by MyStreamcast » Blog Archive » Murs & Me: A Hip Hop Delight http://aliontheair.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/murs-me-a-hip-hop-delight/#comment-41 MyStreamcast » Blog Archive » Murs & Me: A Hip Hop Delight Fri, 23 May 2008 02:50:36 +0000 http://aliontheair.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/murs-me-a-hip-hop-delight/#comment-41 [...] post by aliontheair Explore posts in the same categories: Music [...] [...] post by aliontheair Explore posts in the same categories: Music [...]

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]]> Comment on DJs and Turntablism - are hipsters and laptops killing the art form? by dub.ca: music, culture, design, life » post » Are hipsters and laptops killing the art form? http://aliontheair.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/djs-and-turntablism-are-hipsters-and-laptops-killing-the-art-form/#comment-39 dub.ca: music, culture, design, life » post » Are hipsters and laptops killing the art form? Fri, 23 May 2008 01:47:21 +0000 http://aliontheair.wordpress.com/?p=65#comment-39 [...] An ‘interesting’ (but likely going to be unpopular) view about new technology killing off the old. [...] [...] An ‘interesting’ (but likely going to be unpopular) view about new technology killing off the old. [...]

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