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Mastering The Art Of Remastering J Temp 13 With Junk 26 · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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Speaker 2: Erow how you doing this is JT JT?
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Speaker 1: Listen to that voice? My god, I can tell you
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Speaker 1: work on that thing. My god, you speak in tune
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Speaker 1: as well?
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Speaker 2: Oh my god, how you been? Man?
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Speaker 1: Doing fantastic? How about you?
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Speaker 2: Dude? Can't complain? Can't complain? No one would listen right.
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Speaker 1: Well, and if they could listen, how would they turn
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Speaker 1: it into some form of entertainment? Because it seems like
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Speaker 1: that's what we have to do these days in order
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Speaker 1: to get some sort of word across.
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Speaker 2: That's right, that's right, I guess, I guess that's right.
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Speaker 1: What do you do with that creative person though that
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Speaker 1: when you do pick up on that vibe because it
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Speaker 1: seems like any step by tickets like oh, I could
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Speaker 1: write about this oh I could do this? What about you?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm a big note guy, post it note guy,
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Speaker 3: and I have a bunch of different random notes, and
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Speaker 3: sometimes I'll write down ideas and then if I'm working
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Speaker 3: on a project, you know, could be days, weeks, months,
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Speaker 3: even years down the road, I'll like, I think I
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Speaker 3: have some information on this, and then I'll pull up
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Speaker 3: what I wrote and see if it'll work or not.
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Speaker 3: And sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't.
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Speaker 1: What about this latest project? Because I mean, how did
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Speaker 1: it come to you? First of all? And then to
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Speaker 1: be able to step into it. That's the difference that
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Speaker 1: a lot of people. You know, everybody thinks that they
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Speaker 1: can be a musician or a DJ until they have
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Speaker 1: to do the work.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: The Slatest project is basically a remix of a song
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Speaker 3: that I had produced.
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Speaker 2: Called junk In.
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Speaker 3: The original version was released in twenty eighteen, and uh,
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Speaker 3: you know, being in more in the DJ world these days,
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Speaker 3: I've worked with different collaborators on taking the original stems
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Speaker 3: of these songs and having them do remixes. And that's
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Speaker 3: how this one came about. Worked on it with a
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Speaker 3: guy named Handanu.
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Speaker 2: Oo ooh, what was okay?
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Speaker 1: Tell me about that journey because I mean that right there,
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Speaker 1: when you start collaborating like that, I mean that means
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Speaker 1: that's two different sides of your personality coming out.
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Speaker 2: Then yeah, you just I just meet.
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Speaker 3: You know, there's different forms to meet people online that
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Speaker 3: do remixes, and then you check out what they do
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Speaker 3: and if you if you like it, that's great. There's
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Speaker 3: another guy I worked with a lot for His name
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Speaker 3: is Cali Beats. You know, just finding different producers that
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Speaker 3: are specializing in doing cool remixes of tracks and then
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Speaker 3: collaborating with them on what you like and don't like,
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Speaker 3: and then you know, you may get a mix back,
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Speaker 3: and then you have more suggestions and so on and
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Speaker 3: so forth, and then ultimately come to what becomes the
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Speaker 3: finished product and what.
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Speaker 1: Goes through you. Though, When when you're in this process
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Speaker 1: of rebuilding, especially something from twenty eighteen, and you've got
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Speaker 1: all these different club DJs and mobile entertainers that are
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Speaker 1: going on to Spotify or they're going on to Serrato somewhere,
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Speaker 1: whatever the connection is, and they're picking up your beats.
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Speaker 1: When I know for a fact that it came from
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Speaker 1: you first.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. That's a good question, uh, I just
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Speaker 2: I think it's a.
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Speaker 3: Compliment when someone does a good job taking what you've
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Speaker 3: done and then putting their artistic spin on it. It's
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Speaker 3: kind of like, I guess it's equivalent to doing a
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Speaker 3: cover song. I just saw last week Dead Mouse just
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Speaker 3: released a cover of Fabianc, which is one of the
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Speaker 3: songs from Engine des Portrayne.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if you're familiar with them.
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Speaker 3: They've kind of like been the latest music phenomenon this
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Speaker 3: year that everybody. It seems to be a question that interviews.
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Speaker 3: Interviewers are asking every established artist, like what do you
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Speaker 3: think Engine portrine and you know, dead Mouse essential did.
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Speaker 2: I wouldn't even call it a remix.
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Speaker 3: It was more like an electronic cover version of that
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Speaker 3: particular song, And uh, it's really cool, And I think
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Speaker 3: that that is a compliment to them. You know, someone
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Speaker 3: like Dead Mouse is basically covering your song.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 3: Remixes are a reimagination of a song, and sometimes certain tracks,
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Speaker 3: I personally, especially coming from the DJ angle, I like
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Speaker 3: some remix is way better than the original version.
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Speaker 2: So too.
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Speaker 3: So it's actually cool to hear what people put their
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Speaker 3: spin on it, and then it just becomes a collaboration.
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Speaker 3: You know, someone had the original idea, someone takes it,
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Speaker 3: takes it to another level and creates a whole new
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Speaker 3: piece of art.
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Speaker 2: See.
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Speaker 1: That's That's one of the reasons why I like iHeart
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Speaker 1: or even even Spotify is the fact that I know
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Speaker 1: that I'm going to get, you know, guaranteed work when
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Speaker 1: it comes to you know, trying something new or somebody
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Speaker 1: taking a chance. And I find that to be very
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Speaker 1: inspiring because then then I sit there and I start
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Speaker 1: studying what they did differently, and then it's like, okay,
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Speaker 1: how can I emulate? Obviously I'm inspired as well.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, right on.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. So, but when you're working on a song though
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Speaker 1: from twenty eighteen, I know what it's like to go
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Speaker 1: back into those chapters where that was your mindset. Then Okay,
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Speaker 1: we're up there eight years later. How does that when
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Speaker 1: you're sitting inside that room with the engineers and things,
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Speaker 1: how do you start rebuilding something or replenishing it.
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Speaker 3: Well, this collaboration actually was done virtually, and that's how
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Speaker 3: that's how a lot of these are done now. I
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Speaker 3: actually was just in the studio last night with my
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Speaker 3: buddy Brandon, who we are in a band called GLASSI Together,
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Speaker 3: but we also do production work, so we're not just
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Speaker 3: a band, We're like a production team and he does
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Speaker 3: a lot of things for me. And a guy on
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Speaker 3: my label from Sweden worked on a track with one
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Speaker 3: of his friends in Sweden. They did the drums, bass, guitar,
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Speaker 3: and then they sent it to me to do the vocals,
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Speaker 3: and I was at the studio getting that last night
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Speaker 3: and then we'll mail that back to them. So we
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Speaker 3: actually had a conversation about one of the greatest things,
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Speaker 3: or I guess, you know, benefits of the way music
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Speaker 3: is today and the fact that everybody can record it
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Speaker 3: that has a laptop is that you can do collaborations
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Speaker 3: like that really easily.
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Speaker 2: Whereas back in the day, we would have had to
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Speaker 2: take a tape.
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Speaker 3: They would have had to mail a tape from Sweden
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Speaker 3: to the United States. I then would have needed to
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Speaker 3: have an engineer that knew what they were doing to
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Speaker 3: set that up, record my vocals, send the tape back.
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Speaker 2: You know, a lot can go wrong.
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Speaker 3: That brought us, whereas now you just email stems and
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Speaker 3: a zip folder, line them up in you know logic
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Speaker 3: or pro tools or you know whatever daw someone is using,
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Speaker 3: and then you know, go from there, and that's what
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Speaker 3: I did in this particular track. I had had initial
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Speaker 3: conversations with hand a new I sent him the original stems,
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Speaker 3: he came back.
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Speaker 2: With his thoughts.
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Speaker 3: We went back and forth and then came up with
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Speaker 3: a strategy, and then he did his remix and sent
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Speaker 3: it to me.
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Speaker 2: And then that's a there's a back.
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Speaker 3: And forth process after that original version is done, you know,
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Speaker 3: and usually it's just tweaking things.
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Speaker 1: And what I'm hearing altogether in that is the fact,
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Speaker 1: and this is what I'm so proud of you about.
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Speaker 1: You could have easily just put that on on like
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Speaker 1: chat GPT and had a remix right there in thirty seconds.
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Speaker 1: But no, you're putting the grunt work in. You're physically
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Speaker 1: working with people around the world, and I find that
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Speaker 1: to be just unbelievably inspiring.
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Speaker 2: It's cool, and I don't you know, I'm I'm I'm.
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Speaker 3: All for AI for social good and for certain things.
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Speaker 3: Creating art is not one of them. If you want
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Speaker 3: to use it to create a prototype or to get
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Speaker 3: your idea down, almost like the equivalent of recording a demo,
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Speaker 3: I would be cool with that. But personally, you know,
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Speaker 3: these people that are using AI to create music and
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Speaker 3: then calling themselves artists.
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Speaker 2: That's that's kind of funny to me.
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Speaker 3: That's it's I wouldn't even say it's insulting. It's just ignorant,
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Speaker 3: you know, to actually think that. Or these people like
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Speaker 3: they have these apps where you could just sing into
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Speaker 3: it and then it completely fixes it and spits back
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Speaker 3: this like angelic voice.
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Speaker 2: It's like, no, man, that's a computer. Did that. You
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Speaker 2: didn't do that?
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Speaker 3: Go go replicate that live then we'll talk, you know,
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Speaker 3: but if you if you're not able to replicate anything live,
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Speaker 3: and I can honestly say, of all the projects I've
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Speaker 3: been in over the years, I can replicate live anything
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Speaker 3: that I've put the tape.
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Speaker 2: So you know, it's.
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Speaker 3: If you can't do that, then that's fine, but don't
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Speaker 3: don't if you're using artificial intelligence to create your music
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Speaker 3: computer nerd or whatever.
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Speaker 1: Wow, that's exactly what I went through when when you know,
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Speaker 1: auto tunes started coming into the scene and I kept
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Speaker 1: looking at my engineer Jim, going don't do that to me, please,
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Speaker 1: You're you're making me sing things that that didn't come
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Speaker 1: out naturally.
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Speaker 2: I hear it.
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Speaker 1: He goes, well, nobody else is going to pick up
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Speaker 1: on it, but I did, I hear it? Yeah, and
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Speaker 1: and do you battle that war?
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Speaker 3: Well, I think the original intent of auto tune was
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Speaker 3: to save time. Like you know, say you're a vocalist
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Speaker 3: and I mean we're going back to the days of
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Speaker 3: tape and you just can't hit this one note and
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Speaker 3: you just can't over and over. Auto tune just allows
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Speaker 3: you to tweak that up so you don't have to
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Speaker 3: spend you know, destroy your voice and spend take after
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Speaker 3: take after take take just to hit.
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Speaker 2: One little note. That was the intent of auto tune.
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Speaker 3: It wasn't like you know, it's now spawned an entire
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Speaker 3: generation of artists that like use it live and they're
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Speaker 3: singing live with auto tune.
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Speaker 2: And not going to pick on him because he's really talented.
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Speaker 3: But earlier this summer, my girlfriend is a big fan
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Speaker 3: of post Malone, and we went to his concert at
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Speaker 3: Cleveland Brown Stadium and extremely entertaining. I think he's got
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Speaker 3: a lot of good songs. I actually like post Malone.
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Speaker 3: I gained a lot of respect for him when he
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Speaker 3: did that Nirvana set with Travis Barker during Lockdown.
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Speaker 2: A few years ago. But the dude sings live with
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Speaker 2: auto tune, and that's just weird to me.
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Speaker 3: It just that's not you know, I grew up in
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Speaker 3: a different era and that to me is it's the
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Speaker 3: way things are now.
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Speaker 2: But to me, that's just weird.
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Speaker 1: Was Yeah, in the way that I feel like that
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Speaker 1: you're sitting there right there in front of that live crowd,
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Speaker 1: is that you're going to be using the same kind
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Speaker 1: of creative technology or inside your imagination that you would
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Speaker 1: be in the studio. That to me is the practice ground.
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Speaker 1: You don't go out to a live show to practice.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 1: Please do not move. There's more with j Tim thirteen
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Speaker 1: coming up next. Thank you so much for coming back
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Speaker 1: to the conversation. We are back with j Tim thirteen.
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Speaker 1: You know what we're going to do. As listeners, it's
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Speaker 1: almost like you can foresee it, and then when you
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Speaker 1: put it inside your music, such as junk here the remix,
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Speaker 1: and then it's almost like he knew I was gonna
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Speaker 1: do this. He knew I was gonna do some air
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Speaker 1: guitars or I'm gonna use my hands and I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: follow that beat. He just knew that I was going
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Speaker 1: to do this.
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Speaker 3: Well, that's cool. If that's a side effect. But ultimately,
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Speaker 3: you know, I think a lot of artists will say this,
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Speaker 3: you create the art for yourself, right.
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Speaker 2: And and and getting that.
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Speaker 3: Out of your system, whatever it is, and then if
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Speaker 3: other people are into it, then that is the That
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Speaker 3: is the icing on the cake, you know what I mean,
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Speaker 3: that's that's the that's the ultimate goal. Is if if
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Speaker 3: other people are into what you're doing artistically, you know,
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Speaker 3: then that's that's just that makes it all great. But
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Speaker 3: ultimately it's once I put it on tape and I'm
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Speaker 3: satisfied with it, to me, that's where it ends. And
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Speaker 3: then if other people like it, then that's just a bonus.
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Speaker 1: Don't you think that fans and followers are more loyal today?
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Speaker 1: In other words, if they pick something up on a
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Speaker 1: streaming outlet and they find out that you're going to
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Speaker 1: be doing a club scene, that they're going to come
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Speaker 1: there and be more faithful, get the merch, get and
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Speaker 1: really bring that that energy to you on that dance floor.
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Speaker 3: Hmmm. Do I think that it's more prevalent today than
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Speaker 3: then the because it just it just seems like that,
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Speaker 3: you know that, I mean, they're worrying the sure, they're
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Speaker 3: they're they're they're they're buying the merchandise.
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Speaker 1: I can see it. I Mean it's like I'm stand
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Speaker 1: back and I go, my god, why didn't I have
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Speaker 1: that ten, fifteen, twenty years ago where it just seems
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Speaker 1: like everybody is buying into the whole process of marketing,
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Speaker 1: you know, I.
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Speaker 3: I from my experience, I've seen I saw more loyalty
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Speaker 3: in the past you I did.
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Speaker 2: And and I think that if you are successful.
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Speaker 3: In today's world with all the noise out there and
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Speaker 3: cultivating a loyal audience, you just keep doing what you're
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Speaker 3: doing because you are you are accomplishing something that is
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Speaker 3: difficult to do because there's so much out there, not
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Speaker 3: just musically and entertainment, just in life that is vying
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Speaker 3: for everybody's attention. And if you're able to cultivate your
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Speaker 3: own audience and make a living as a musician doing that,
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Speaker 3: then whatever it is you're doing, just keep doing it
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Speaker 3: because that's you know, especially if you're just being yourself
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Speaker 3: and putting some marketing behind it and people are responding
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Speaker 3: to it, that's I mean, you can't get better than that, Like,
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Speaker 3: just keep doing it. But for me personally and maybe
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Speaker 3: because I'm a little older now, but I saw more loyalty,
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Speaker 3: you know, fifteen years ago, ten years ago, I would say.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, because it's like they'll come in and it
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Speaker 1: just seems like they know your story. You're going, my god,
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Speaker 1: you're an educated person that's coming to see this thing live.
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Speaker 1: And in the past it was like, oh, who are
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Speaker 1: you again? Who are you again?
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Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 1: You know, they seem to be more educated nowadays.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean there's more information out there. There is,
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Speaker 3: so there's a and they and people can search you
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Speaker 3: on chat GPT and chat GPT will give you a
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Speaker 3: complete summary of your entire existence.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I'll sit there and argue with it, going. I don't know, man,
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Speaker 1: that was that was too pretty, man. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if I want that to be associated with my chat GPT.
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Speaker 1: Let's do that one again, buddy.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Now people want to get their hands on the physical
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Speaker 1: copy of this. Now what was this that I saw?
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Speaker 1: I mean, the first of all, the neon lime green
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Speaker 1: caught my attention. I thought, oh my god, you just
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Speaker 1: shot me back to the days of the Electric Light Orchestra,
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Speaker 1: who used to use those same colors and everything that
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Speaker 1: they did to promote was that part of the marketing plan.
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Speaker 2: Well, it was.
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Speaker 3: It was to keep it more lively and upbeat, was
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Speaker 3: the idea behind the cover color scheme. Also, the original
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Speaker 3: junk cover had that same color, it was just different.
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Speaker 3: So it was a much because it was released as
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Speaker 3: a single back in twenty eighteen, So it was it
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Speaker 3: was just you know, a much more polished modern day
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Speaker 3: version of like the font and the text and everything
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Speaker 3: on it, and even the little design with the lines
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Speaker 3: and whatnot. But this is a digital only release as
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Speaker 3: of right now. It is not released on any physical formats.
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Speaker 3: It's just it was a digital single that was part
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Speaker 3: of the Jib Machine Records Summer Single series, but specifically
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Speaker 3: this this track was released on Jib Machines imprint Electric
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Speaker 3: Stick Records, which is EDM and ambient music.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 1: See, because I've always said, you know, people always go, well,
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Speaker 1: it's used to remix or it's a remake, And I go,
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Speaker 1: you know what, in this world today, if I have
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Speaker 1: never heard it before, it's brand new. And even if
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Speaker 1: I have heard it, it's still a new song to
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Speaker 1: me because it's different. And that's the thing that I
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Speaker 1: love about you is that you're willing to go in
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Speaker 1: there and put an easter egg in there that gets
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Speaker 1: us a new hook.
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Speaker 2: And in the middle.
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Speaker 3: The one thing good about digital music and music living
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Speaker 3: online is you could put an album out that was
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Speaker 3: that's twenty years old, and maybe under the old format
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Speaker 3: of the music business, that would get lost once you know,
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Speaker 3: the CDs were gone unless someone found it in a
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Speaker 3: bargain you know, dollar bargain bin somewhere.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: But now with digital music, people can rediscover your music
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Speaker 3: no matter how old it is. And something like you said,
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Speaker 3: something that's twenty years old could be brand new to
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Speaker 3: someone that's hearing it for the first time today. You know,
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Speaker 3: which is which is a which is a cool thing?
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Because there was a couple of weeks ago
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Speaker 1: the for some reason one of my interviews from twenty
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Speaker 1: twelve took off again and I'm going just shut up,
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Speaker 1: just ride the wave. And you know, I don't know
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Speaker 1: what I was doing in twenty twelve twelve that would
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Speaker 1: make it a big thing in twenty twenty six. But
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Speaker 1: let it go, just let it happen. Accept the blessing
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Speaker 1: right on.
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Speaker 3: That's uh, that's one of the positive side effects of
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Speaker 3: everything being you know, existing in the digital world online.
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Speaker 1: So what else are you remixing since you did junk?
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Speaker 1: I mean, are you sitting in there and just just
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Speaker 1: enjoying what you're because I mean, to me, when you
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Speaker 1: go back and re explore the journey, that to me
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Speaker 1: is such you know, it's like the endless Ride across
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Speaker 1: the Ocean in fourteen ninety two with Christopher Columbus.
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Speaker 3: So I'm always all over the place artistically. Right now,
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Speaker 3: I am working on actually an album with GLASSI who
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Speaker 3: It is a It is a hard rock leaning, heavier record.
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Speaker 3: We do all sorts of different things. We have done
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Speaker 3: death metal record, We've done punk records. We've done so this.
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Speaker 2: Is more in the hard rock vein.
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Speaker 3: And we're probably about two thirds of the way done
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Speaker 3: with that record.
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Speaker 2: And then I also have a project.
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Speaker 3: It's been around for years called Alcoholics Bock, which is
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Speaker 3: more I would say doom stoner metal meets space rock.
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Speaker 3: And we are working on our fourth album. It's myself
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Speaker 3: and Paul Scott Resnik, who is a.
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Speaker 2: Keyboard player, has been around.
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Speaker 3: He's been in bands called Nucleon and screw Tractor and
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Speaker 3: tour it all over in the nineties and into the
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Speaker 3: two thousands and whatnot, and it's a project we've been
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Speaker 3: were I think the first Alcoholics Bock album came out
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Speaker 3: in two thousand and nine or twenty ten. We've done three,
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Speaker 3: so we're working on Alcoholics Bok for So that's what's
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Speaker 3: that's what's taking my attention. Now I'm in the studio,
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Speaker 3: I'm more working on heavier projects, but I'm still out djaying.
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Speaker 3: I've got a pretty full schedule the remainder of the
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Speaker 3: year and uh and and who knows what this winter
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Speaker 3: what I'll.
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Speaker 2: What'll what what I'll work on at that point.
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Speaker 1: Well, the stream is definitely rising to the top because
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Speaker 1: even as a DJ, for me, it's like, if the
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Speaker 1: people want the experience, anybody can do the DJing, but
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Speaker 1: not everybody can bring the experience. Are you running into
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Speaker 1: that as well?
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Speaker 2: Well?
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Speaker 3: I think if you're if you produce music, you can
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Speaker 3: and you have an understanding of music and how things
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Speaker 3: flow together, it's a lot easier to DJ. And I'm
18:44
Speaker 3: I'm I am a mobile DJ, so I do all
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Speaker 3: sorts of different events, and when you're like that, you
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Speaker 3: have to I've developed a skill at being fluid and
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Speaker 3: mixing genres. So going from uh edim to popular music
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Speaker 3: to maybe a hip hop track, then back to a
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Speaker 3: classic song, back into another ed. You know, how do
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Speaker 3: you mix those songs so they sound like they belong
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Speaker 3: together when their stop musical styles are complete completely different.
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Speaker 1: All right, mister mobile DJ, here's here's a question for you.
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Speaker 1: How are you handling these people, especially with brides and
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Speaker 1: grooms that are that are dealing with I'm going to
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Speaker 1: create my own Spotify list and you go with the song,
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Speaker 1: and you know, darn good and well, ninety percent of
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Speaker 1: those songs have filthy language in them.
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Speaker 2: So what I typically do? That's a good question.
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Speaker 3: A lot of times, if I'm doing a wedding and
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Speaker 3: the bride and groom say, you know, I have a playlist.
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Speaker 3: This is the songs we want for our ceremony. These
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Speaker 3: are the songs we want for say, cocktail hour, oh
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Speaker 3: our dinner. I just usually play the list because a
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Speaker 3: lot of times they're acoustic things are a lot of
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Speaker 3: people are still into the crooners, you know, playing Sinatra
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Speaker 3: and Dean Martin and that kind of stuff. What regardless
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Speaker 3: of of what they want for those things, when it
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Speaker 3: comes to the portion, the party portion, the dance floor portion,
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Speaker 3: even if they give me a list of suggested tracks.
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Speaker 3: I put my own playlist together, and I am using
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Speaker 3: edited versions ninety percent of the time. Once in a while,
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Speaker 3: I won't have an Eric can't find an edited version,
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Speaker 3: so I'll just use the original. But I put my
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Speaker 3: own playlist together, and then that integrates, which I use Serrato.
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Speaker 2: DJ Pro that's it. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: And then and then I have a pioneer, a REF
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Speaker 3: five mixer, and that's it. That integrates with my MacBook
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Speaker 3: and and then I have complete control over you know,
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Speaker 3: obviously they may want to hear those songs, but the
20:41
Speaker 3: key is timing right. Timing is everything with djang and
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Speaker 3: it's and it's reading the room. It's a feeling the vibe,
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Speaker 3: and it's playing the absolute right song you can play
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Speaker 3: at that particular point in time.
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Speaker 2: And that's the that to me is the art of
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Speaker 2: djaying as you know.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, because I mean I'm known for coming right
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Speaker 1: into the studio going okay, here's your list, Okay, I
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Speaker 1: get to play. Now, I'm gonna remix it. I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: get all that junk out of there. We're gonna have
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Speaker 1: some fun. And then it becomes even a deeper performance
21:06
Speaker 1: when when when it comes to showtime you got it?
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Speaker 2: Wow?
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Speaker 1: Where can people go to find out more about you,
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Speaker 1: especially with you being out on the road and everything
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Speaker 1: like that, you know, to find out more about the music,
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Speaker 1: but you as the performer, and that's and people want
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Speaker 1: to go see a real show. I mean the grocery
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Speaker 1: stores here in Carolina they now feature live music on
21:26
Speaker 1: what Wednesdays and Thursday nights. I mean, music is everywhere
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Speaker 1: because people want it.
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Speaker 3: Well, if you want to see me DJ, you can
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Speaker 3: actually check me out online at Ohio DJ Ohio DJ
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Speaker 3: dot Club. I know that's kind of a weird website,
21:41
Speaker 3: but OHIODJ dot Club. You could also go to uh
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Speaker 3: I think it's we have Electric Stick has a a
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Speaker 3: band Campaige, so electric Stick Records.
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Speaker 2: Just go to band camp and search that. Plus we're
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Speaker 2: all these tracks.
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Speaker 3: You could look up Jay Temp thirteen on Spotify, on
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Speaker 3: Apple Music, on all the major you know, streaming platforms online.
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Speaker 3: But if you want to hear some of my remixes
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Speaker 3: and find out where I'm playing, or you want to
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Speaker 3: book me for an event, go to OHIODJ dot Club.
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Speaker 2: I love it.
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Speaker 1: You got to come back to this show anytime in
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Speaker 1: the future. Man twenty five minutes with you is not
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Speaker 1: enough and we're just barely scratching the surface here.
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Speaker 2: Dude.
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Speaker 3: Well, I always love chatting with you, Aro, so thank
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Speaker 3: you for having me and I hope you're doing well
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Speaker 3: my friend.
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Speaker 1: All right, man, will you be brilliant?
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Speaker 2: Okay, we'll do