Roland TR-808 And Vinyl: The Egyptian Lover Throws Down The Gauntlet To Digital DJs
If Movement 2008 was Wrestlemania and DJs were all wrestlers, The Egyptian Lover and Jamie Jupiter would be the tag team champion based on this interview. The Egyptian Lover lays the smack down on DJs who start with CD players or software like Serato and simply play music.
This may be the greatest promo ever given on Gearwire.
[THE EGYPTIAN LOVER AND JAMIE JUPITER PERFORMING]
THE EGYPTIAN LOVER: Yo. This is the Egyptian Lover, and you're watching Gearwire.Com. Gearwire.Com, where all the best interviews are taking place. That's right, baby. Yo. This is The Egyptian Lover.
JAMIE JUPITER: Jamie Jupiter.
THE EGYPTIAN LOVER: Jamie Jupiter, the height man on stage with me. We're here in Detroit doing the festival, the Detroit Electronic Music Festival, the DEMF, and right now we just got off the stage. Me and Jamie turned it out. Man, Detroit was on fire. I was on the records, on the Tools, on the turntables, on the Technics, doing tricks like you've never seen before.
JAMIE JUPITER: Oh no [OVERLAPPING] awake?
THE EGYPTIAN LOVER: Not CDs. Not CDs. Not Serato. No! I keep it old school. I brought the vinyl down from Los Angeles, heavy vinyl, on the airplane, brought it here, paid it just for you, doing it just for you, Detroit, America, the world, Europe.
JAMIE JUPITER: Yeah. The 808.
THE EGYPTIAN LOVER: Yeah. I brought my baby, the 808 down too. I play the 808 live, perform my [SOUNDS LIKE] big goes boom live for them. It was like, Hey baby doll, there's a new guy in town."
JAMIE JUPITER: Yeah.
THE EGYPTIAN LOVER: "I'm rockin' girl. I'm shocking every chick around." It was crazy. Detroit loved it. I love Detroit. I love coming here every time. This is my first time at the festival but I will be back every year after this. It was lovely. I loved it.
JAMIE JUPITER: Yeah. Believe that.
THE EGYPTIAN LOVER: Now DJs out there. If you're using CDs and you're using Serato, learn how to mix on vinyl first, because if you're just doing CDs and Serato and you don't really know what you're doing, you're not rocking the party. All you're doing is playing music like a house party in a club. You don't want to do that. You want to rock the party. You want to be creative with the CDs. You want to be creative with the Serato. You want to be creative with the Vinyl. Be creative. Show the people what you can do. Don't just play a record. Mix the record. Buy two of them, mix it. You got Serato? Put it on both turntables. Mix it. Dub it. Sample it. Start it over. Put the breakdown on. Make the breakdown all over. Freak it out! Do your thing, baby!
JAMIE JUPITER: [LAUGHING]
THE EGYPTIAN LOVER: Don't be one of them bedroom DJs. Be a four-star DJ. Be a five-star DJ. Be all you can be. Be The Egyptian Lover, a real DJ, old school with 25 years, still rocking it. Yeah!
JAMIE JUPITER: Yeah! Be like the first superstar DJ.
Well... its certainly a promo.
Nothing like a self-hyping DJ to remind myself why I am not doing it. It was certainly a self plugging promo.
Wow.. he has got an 808! Crikey. Thats, erm, old.
While I agree with his sentiments on doing more than just playing music, I don't see what his comments regarding the medium you play off have to do with anything. I learnt to 'beat-match' on vinyl - but how does that prepare you to deal with looping, effects, or the massive amount of things new technology allows you to do now?
Did James Zabiela learn to mix on Vinyl? Would it have made any difference to what he does now? I doubt it.
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