How do all the new software and hardware options compare to mixing in the good ol’ days?
“Well, in the good ol’ days we didn’t have computers that had enough processing power to play music from. The old days were very much back to basics — two turntables and a mixer. But that gave us the DJing skills to be able to mix and play like we did, and to now emulate that in what we can do today with software like Traktor or Serato.” So would you say technology has revolutionised the way we mix now? “I’m happy that I had 20 years of being a DJ that played on turntables, but then it was revolutionised by the Pioneer CDJ players, which changed the whole DJing culture and the concept of it. The CD players allowed us to loop, sample, and to still do things possible on a turntable but a whole lot more. In the end CDJs over turntables became more favourable, and the fact that not many record labels were actually pressing on vinyl played a major factor in this. Now you have computers to add to the mix. This basically gives you even more options over turntables.” Can you explain how you us
