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Originally Posted by guccilvr
So to say that it doesn't take talent is a little insulting from my view point.
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Sorry to offend. I am not claiming that it doesn't take talent. What I am saying is that that is not a musical talent on the same order as performing on an instrument, but rather something between that and writing elegant code. It's a talent, but one that does not by itself make music I find compelling or even particularly attractive. (As with everything else, there are exceptions. I heard an interleaving of Oasis - Champagne Supernova and Green Day - Boulevard of Broken dreams put together by a local radio DJ th'other day that was quite clever, but clever only gets so far.)
I understand that it is harder than it looks. I have heard turntable played as a musical instrument - it's percussion - and mixing the percussive scratching with sampling from the records' grooves is quite impressive (if not particularly euphonius to my ear). That's not what I am talking about, not primarily in any case. That's not what I have heard on those selections of house and techno it has been my misfortune to have been obliged to tolerate. Simple 4/4 beats played very very loud, and tape loops, with the occasional snippet of movie dialog thrown in is what I heard. Turn the beat down a bit, throw in a fill once in a while, have some people who play their own instruments react to it and record that (if their reaction isn't to walk out of the studio), and then you have some music that I might be able to respect (or not - playing your own instrument is no guarantee that you play it well.)
So please don't be insulted because I think you're not talented. You may well be talented, but I don't think it's a musical talent. If you want to be insulted about that, well, I am still sorry to have offended, but it doen't change my opinion.
(And I am equally not saying that this technical talent for mix and production precludes musical talent, but, in the case of Moby, I would say it occludes what musical talent he may have. I am not familiar with D'n'B, so I can't competently comment on them.)