DAY FOUR: INSPIRATION VS. TECHNOLOGY!

Saturday is all about getting to know your ways around in the dance scene. Aiming mostly on people that are new in the scene. We are all familiar with the fact that the dance scene is pretty much technology based. Now anyone can stack a pile of loops, and call it a track.Technology made producing a track a lot simpler, and maybe faster, but how about the inspiration?

To talk about this topic there were five guests, namely Dan Tate of Pioneer, Melon, Matt Edwards (Radio Slave) and the guys from Slam. The consensus is that all of them got inspired by life. Matt Edwards: “I get inspired by listening to a lot of music. Taking a lot of things from life, like art. I don’t care about technology, only on life. I don’t buy a lot of new gizmo’s to make music. I use an old computer, but also some analog stuff.” It also seems that dj’s like to keep it simple. “The more technology there is to use, the more confused I get” says Dan Tate. And Melon agrees. “The more options you have, the more you limit yourself, because you can’t find the functions.” But this is a somewhat older – more nostalgic – group of people. Dan Tate expects the younger to adapt easier to new technologies.