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URB Magazine, Jan/Feb 2005 issue 'How Soon is Now?' mention

posted by davidt on Wednesday February 23 2005, @02:00PM
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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  • It's tempting fate surely to insert a lame story about a DJ's floor management, that, in stream of consciousness fashion, conjures up images of what also happened to troubled Joe, immediately prior to his ghostly state...
    goinghome -- Thursday February 24 2005, @05:20PM (#152297)
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  • This guy doesn't know what he's talking about.

    --Richard Blade
    Anonymous -- Thursday February 24 2005, @05:21PM (#152298)

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