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-- Big Shot State of DJ Culture 2012 Survey: 90 DJs Speak Out

Big Shot State of DJ Culture 2012 Survey: 90 DJs Speak Out

Long read! Should take cover bathroom trips for a week

http://newsflash.bigshotmag.com/features/19503/

i really liked the dave clarke one

Tommie Sunshine also has an interesting view..along with a very interesting beard and hair.

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Originally posted by jon jon i really liked the dave clarke one

+1

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Originally posted by DudebuD Tommie Sunshine also has an interesting view..along with a very interesting beard and hair.

When is DJ Jesus coming back to Toronto.....I love his work.

You can really see the difference in responses between those who have been around for ages and those who haven't.

I think the art of programming a set and being taken on a journey is being lost amongst what the younger lot is being exposed to. Sad really. As you can get proper sloshed anywhere but coming home from an 'experience' is much harder to come across.

...or maybe I'm just too used to all this? lol

nice read.

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Originally posted by Swamper I think the art of programming a set and being taken on a journey is being lost amongst what the younger lot is being exposed to. Sad really. As you can get proper sloshed anywhere but coming home from an 'experience' is much harder to come across. ...or maybe I'm just too used to all this? lol

Nope. You speak the truth. It's why whenever a proper older dj comes into town you see a lot of TA veterans out.

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Originally posted by ChemEnhanced You can really see the difference in responses between those who have been around for ages and those who haven't.

I thought the same thing

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Originally posted by Swamper I think the art of programming a set and being taken on a journey is being lost amongst what the younger lot is being exposed to. Sad really. As you can get proper sloshed anywhere but coming home from an 'experience' is much harder to come across. ...or maybe I'm just too used to all this? lol

This has been slowly happening over years and years. It is sad that the journey through music is being lost....now its all about throwing some big name tunes and finding something to fill the time between big tunes.

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Originally posted by LightsOut I thought the same thing

It would have been interesting to get the views of those like Guetta and other highly mainstream DJs.

The art of being a DJ is lost in the mainstream world....but people wanted this....how many people on this site alone would say how great it is that EDM was getting mainstream exposure? Sure for the pockets of some it was great....but at what cost

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Originally posted by ChemEnhanced It would have been interesting to get the views of those like Guetta and other highly mainstream DJs.

There's more than enough interviews with those questions being answered by them out there. SHM, Guetta, all of them seem to take the "hey I play what I love and I can't help that it's so huge" angle. It's BS but you can't really solely blame them for this crap. It's a clusterfuck combo of the grab-a-buck corporate music industry, them, and the fans imo.

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Originally posted by GGM hey I play what I love

The only thing they love about it is the money it makes them. Anybody who actually loves that music is not human.

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Originally posted by Adam420 The only thing they love about it is the money it makes them. Anybody who actually loves that music is not human.

lol. A bit harsh.

It would be interesting to see what kind of set guetta/shm etc would play if they could play a set of whatever they want, without any consequences.

Apparently Axwell is going "underground".

We'll see what that means I guess.

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Originally posted by Adam420 Apparently Axwell is going "underground". We'll see what that means I guess.

LOL

you can't just choose to be "underground". it doesn't really work like that...

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Originally posted by LightsOut LOL you can't just choose to be "underground". it doesn't really work like that...

I guess Axwell realized that playing commercial house is an insult to integrity of a proper DJ? Or he made enough money and got bored.

Dave Clarke's was perfect!

I like the following answers as well...

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35. JESSE ROSE Where do you see DJ culture right now? In TV ads for washing-up liquid. In your opinion, what is the most disturbing trend? Diplo! How are we going to make the scene better? Stop trying to make everything as big and cheesy as it can be� turn off the lights, take out the tables, don�t sell bottles and invest in sound! 42. JUAN MACLEAN In your opinion, what is the most disturbing trend? I�m wary of ever resurrecting this debate, but as a DJ who mostly plays vinyl, I find the advent of laptop DJing have been a very damaging trend in terms of quality control. I should preface this by stating that I know some amazing laptop DJs, but the fact is the medium lends itself to laziness and has made DJing too accessible. If you take DJing seriously, it is a craft that needs to be learned from more experienced people in the field over time. I played in my living room for two years before I ever dreamed of getting in front of people.

I think Beatport is responsible in very large part for the current state of electronic dance music, good and bad. More so than people realize IMO.

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Originally posted by ChemEnhanced The art of being a DJ is lost in the mainstream world....but people wanted this....how many people on this site alone would say how great it is that EDM was getting mainstream exposure? Sure for the pockets of some it was great....but at what cost

I like how John Digweed answered a similar question a while back: that the mainstream and the underground are equally important, and that the health of one will be good (and is necessary) for the other. More people listening to Swedish House Mafia and Skrillex - more of a market to discover and participate in the more underground stuff (I mean, how many of you here can honestly say that you didn't get into dance music through the likes of 90s eurodance or other such cheese?); more going on in that scene - more original and inventive sounds to influence the mainstream and keep it interesting and continually attracting new people. And then the cycle continues.

While it might just be that I'm more clued today, I nevertheless find the stuff going on in the underground these days way more exciting than anything thats happened in years - that its happening at a time when EDM is more popular then ever is probably no coincidence.

And as a non-DJ, the importance placed on the quality of the tunes themselves far outweighs that of the quality of the DJing, IMO. So if a larger, more exciting, and more diverse range of new music means more mediocre laptop DJs, so be it.

I like this one:

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Where do you see DJ culture right now? A really fascinating place proving that Warhol was correct when he famously proclaimed that everyone would have 15 minutes of fame in the future. That has positive and negative effects on the industry of course but at least the once elitist, shadowy world of production and DJing has now been democratized. - Gavin Herlihy

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Originally posted by DudebuD Tommie Sunshine also has an interesting view..along with a very interesting beard and hair.

+1

"The truth. No more ghost producing, no more pre-recorded sets."

"I hope to see a return to form where the kids who seek out this music want a lot more than paying hundreds of dollars to hear the same ten guys play each others records like a musical circle jerk. It is all in the hands of the kids. Promoters follow them, not the other way around."

- TS

nice article find, kotsy

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Originally posted by Yohan lol. A bit harsh. It would be interesting to see what kind of set guetta/shm etc would play if they could play a set of whatever they want, without any consequences.

I found David Guetta's set at Lot 442 several years ago was him playing what he wanted for the 200 of us there.

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