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Before there was mixing, there was the human jukebox. Working with perhaps only one turntable, this DJ was primarily an entertainer who happened to play music. His (or rarely, her) skill was in entertaining an audience with amusing patter. Even with two turntables there was no attempt to blend songs together. As recently as the late 1970's, this was the dominant DJ lifeform.
There was zero-dimensional mixing, because it rarely occurred (except by accident). Mixing was much more difficult because:
•Turntables rarely had speed stability until the arrival of the original Technics 1200's.
• Music rarely had speed stability until electronic drums became affordable in the mid-1980's.
• Affordable mixers, with phono pre-amps and suitable faders, were rare until GLI entered this market.
HOME THEATER ANALOGY: Before the arrival of B&W commercial TV, a "home theater" consisted of only a radio. It too was zero-dimensional because a theater requires visual input.
