Trance lovers: Listen now!

[John]

i second Kristina Sky. I remember Lee telling me how Kristina was talking to him and pointing out the way some super popular DJ (like Tiesto) was doing these sloppy transitions and she was actually right on.

I know I'm rekindling very old posts - but please allow a few comments from somebody who was a DJ snob for quite some time.

Yes, for the longest time, many big DJs were really sloppy - partially b/c they were so f'd up. Plus with really loud sound systems, you can get away with a lot just by turning up the bass and minimizing other aspects of the frequencies (that and the use of filters). From a technical standpoint, you aren't going to find any amazing DJs in the progressive scene, however, you will find them in the breaks, DnB, and hip-hop scene (scratching). But back to what we were talking about - there is a lot of technology out there that covers mistakes, and when I listen to sets, I can still pick up on the most minute errors they have, but I applaud DJs that still go for a long mix where you can still here them to a slight adjustment of the vinyl speed.

Now for the good ole' days - seeing Deep Dish, PVD, S&D, Mark Farina, Miguel Migs, etc go to town on 3-4 turntables consequetively - now that's talent. S&D and PVD used to overlay 1-2 additonal records all the time over their normal mixing (you can get a little flavor for this on Northern Exporsures, CD2 - the song "Deep Space" or whatever it was called).

Kristina is a good DJ, but she's not seamless and I still can pick up her errors as well. But she's pretty decent. Paul Oakenfold used to slam a lot of cross-faders in his mixing, but he's actually improved since I saw him back in ~2000. What's different about what Kristina plays is that she plays more anthems for the crowds - I miss the old sets where no-name white labels were dug up and made into epics just by how they were mixed and overlaid with other tracks (or two other tracks at a time).

I digress...