Reply to Can someone help me about: Pre-mixed Bootlegs?! Soundforge?!

Hey peeps,

Quick one..
I was DJing with a fairly big house/electro DJ in the UK (Joshue Roberts - MOS, Nitro etc etc) and was checking out his mixing quite thoroughly.

I realised that a lot of the really creative, quick and impressive mixes that I was in awe of before were infact 'bootlegs' which he'd put together before hand and mixed in.

Now this would definitely be classed as "cheating" to all those haters in the purist youtube fuckwit fraternity (who can't even come to terms with DMC champs pressing their own acetates to compete with..) - but I definitely understood why Josh was doing this, preparing a few songs together before playing live (without just recording a mix and pressing play).

Firstly (to the DJs) - am I being a total noooooob or is this a fairly normal thing to do?

Secondly (to the production-heads) - what would be the best medium to do this? I've been looking at Acid as a DAW, as in my (very few, and shit) productions I prefer to use samples to make beats and I like ACID's workflow for this. But would this kind of 'pre-mix' bootleg thing be better done in something like Soundforge?

I don't really have a clue about what soundforge is for - if anyone could enlighten me, I'd greatly appreciate it

I hope there are people who might enjoy lending me a teeny weeny part of their enormous wisdom on this