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What are the factors you consider when voting for a DJ?
Hi all,
I am curious to know, what are the factors that determine your votes for a particular DJ, on a poll like DJ Mag or TA top 250.
Is having good productions enough to warrant a vote or must you have heard the DJ's sets/live performances? Does it go like 'oh I have heard many good tracks by this DJ on ASOT/TATW,I will vote for him/her'. Looking at poll history, it seems people value productions more than the actual DJing.
Any non-music related reasons for voting? Undying loyalties to any DJs?
How important are old emotional attachments? I raise this because when I glance at many trance listeners' choices, they would list 4 trance DJs and 'Tiesto'. Some would even have Markus Schulz together with Tiesto (Dark techy prog vs commercial house/electro). How many of u would vote based on old productions or sentiments alone?
Just looking for some honest opinions. Would be interesting for research.
Cheers
The only time I've ever voted for a DJ was to get a free download from Trackitdown, and I only voted for some local DJs who were never going to get anywhere near the Top 100.
The funny thing is, I always think it's stupid to vote for a DJ or judge a DJ based on their production work, and I am forever chastising newbs for conflating the two. And yet I get excited about seeing DJs based entirely on their production work - I'll have never heard a set by them, but will go along entirely because I like their tracks, and usually hope to hear some of those tracks in their set.
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| Originally posted by SYSTEM-J The only time I've ever voted for a DJ was to get a free download from Trackitdown, and I only voted for some local DJs who were never going to get anywhere near the Top 100. The funny thing is, I always think it's stupid to vote for a DJ or judge a DJ based on their production work, and I am forever chastising newbs for conflating the two. And yet I get excited about seeing DJs based entirely on their production work - I'll have never heard a set by them, but will go along entirely because I like their tracks, and usually hope to hear some of those tracks in their set. |
Skill, and that's about it. In the handful of times I've voted, I think only one of the DJs I chose (Ben Sims) ever made a top-whatever list. The rest are far too eclectic to even register on the mainstream radar, which is essentially what these popularity contests are.
i vote for DJ's i have seen and who have rocked the hell out of the party on a repeated basis.....markus was my #1 this year
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| Originally posted by drEamer i vote for DJ's i have seen and who have rocked the hell out of the party on a repeated basis.....markus was my #1 this year |
Markus has been a clubroom monster for those who haven't seen him live
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| Originally posted by foothegreat But it seems u are the minority |
and these polls actually cost us money.....LOL......
I only vote for DJs that advertise with banner ads on Tranceaddict.
How many times I reached for the lasers when listening to their set.
Its kind of tough to say. I mean, this year I voted Sander van Doorn #1 because who could resist? He's a likable guy, he's putting out banging tracks AND mixes, he's been to Atlanta 2x this year and both sets were just out of this world impressive. He's consistent, and he's just awesome. I'm partial to Deadmau5 because of his sound, and who could not want to put him in the top3 for single handidly reshaping an entire genre?
So, I guess to answer your question, its music/mixes, production/tracks, persona/dj character , and whether I personally know/follow/like the dj.
In this case...
SVD #1
I base my decision on how good the DJing is. Not productions.
LOVE!
I'd say the programming and song selection of a set is the most important part of DJing. The DJ can be technical as fuck but if he can't build up a set properly he's not worth a shit.
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| Originally posted by Banora How many times I reached for the lasers when listening to their set. |
How much they pay me.
Incidentally, I'm not voting for anyone.
Normally I tend to vote for politicians rather than DJs, although I'd be curious to know what would happen if a DJ took charge of the government.
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| Originally posted by noikeee Normally I tend to vote for politicians rather than DJs, although I'd be curious to know what would happen if a DJ took charge of the government. |
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| Originally posted by Mr.Mystery How much worse could they do? |
I just vote for the best people I've seen over the last year.
Ability to prevent the major hack David Guetta becoming number 1.
deadmow five is the best dj evar
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| Originally posted by DJRYAN� Its kind of tough to say. I mean, this year I voted Sander van Doorn #1 because who could resist? He's a likable guy, he's putting out banging tracks AND mixes, he's been to Atlanta 2x this year and both sets were just out of this world impressive. He's consistent, and he's just awesome. I'm partial to Deadmau5 because of his sound, and who could not want to put him in the top3 for single handidly reshaping an entire genre? So, I guess to answer your question, its music/mixes, production/tracks, persona/dj character , and whether I personally know/follow/like the dj. In this case... SVD #1 |
Skill and tracklisting, in that order.
Why the fuck am I even discussing in a thread that involves the concept of voting, I will never know. The best DJ I've heard play is a friend who plays at the local pub. Wonder why he's not up on the list.
What is the statistical probability that talking about how I voted for DJ so-and-so will get me laid? In order to satisfy the maximum potency for this, two factors are taken into consideration: Their underground credibility and mainstream popularity (See Fig. 1.1).
Fig. 1.1
If you'd asked me this in 2009, the easy answer would have been Markus Schulz. Everyone knew who he was but he still had that edge. That boat has sailed, however, and Schulz is at the pinnacle of his success over in the left-hand column of my chart. In early 2010, If I'd have said Skrillex, that would have been a non-starter. He was at the peak of the Underground Credibility line, over on the right hand side of my chart. Unfortunately, Skrillex peaked in both popularity and underground back in June of this year and while I still stand a small chance of getting laid, it's probably not going to be with someone I'd want to watch eating breakfast, the next day. With Schulz, I'd be eating my own arm for breakfast.
The deal is that you have to pick someone who's popular enough that the cool chicks have heard of them but underground enough that the hot chicks think they're still cool. Basically, you're sittin' in the club and definitely should be wearing a t-shirt that says, "Yo bitches! I'm a DJ." A DJ Mag T-Shirt is too obvious. You have to have something like a Record Needle Cartridge brand name, a diagram of head-phones, or a Vestax or even a Rane logo.
You go up to the bar and be having a conversation with your wing-man about who you're going to be voting for. Talk about it like it's all important, n' shit. Make sure that shorty's wriggling her butt to the music at the bar, and that's when you say, "Oh, well, I don't know... Armin had his day. He deserves it, but I want to give it to someone who could use a boost, like David Guetta. I'd give it to Above & Beyond but those are like two guys."
Slam, bam thank you, mamm! She's rode hard and you're put away wet. Anyway, those are the factors that go into who I vote for.
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