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posted by davidt
on Wednesday February 23 2005, @01:00PM
Suswa writes:
There's a three-page interview with Interpol's bass player, Carlos D (Carlos Dengler), who is also a dj. In it, he mentions the timing of spinning The Smiths' classic song.
http://www.urb.com/cover/carlosd.shtml
Interviewer(Scott T. Sterling): You just have a different kind of skill. We could talk about technique versus programming. It's like Gilles Peterson. He's extremely acclaimed, but it's about his selection, not his mixing abilities.
Carlos D: That's exactly what my idea of being a DJ is. I'm almost anti-skills in a way. For me, a DJ's most important asset is their ability to respond to a crowd, to sense what they're expecting and what they want to hear. The DJ might want to play, "How Soon is Now?" by The Smiths at a certain point, but if you're sensing that the crowd doesn't want to hear it and you play it anyway, you're going to kill the party. I think a DJ's job is to be the temperature gauge of the party. You're the force between the crowd and the music, guiding the two together.
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