DJs are defined by the tunes they spin ... i read this somewhere a while ago and it is so very true. I very much disagree with the stardom status of the European DJs ... it is not the DJ who is making of breaking the party, it is the music he plays ... so I'd rather have a small, underground scene with small parties and DJs who play for the pure love of it than a massively commercial scene where every DJ and every set sound the same.

hopefully I'm making sense ... hehe

peace

It's true we do get a lot of exposure over here but there really are more than enough tracks that don't get played by the big name DJs (who obviously try to keep themselves a bit commercial) for there to be a great scene in the smaller clubs.

Also, with the amount of tracks released, there is no excuse for not playing a blinding set every time.

I personally prefer how things are underground here .... as there are many things to discover and explore, including experimentation. However, I believe in a few years time, things might be different, the scene will probably explode big time and head for a more mainstream approach.

I don't agree with skywarp, at least not fully. DJs are not only defined by which music they play.
Most important, if you ask me, is in what way DJs can manipulate the crowd, and how well their dj skills are. These two don't have to coincide...

For example, Tiesto (to name one, duh) isn't technically strong. All he does in essence is putting one record behind another one. His choice of which record when to play and what to do when a crowd doesn't respond well enough however make him a supurb DJ.
On the other hand, scratch artists know exactly what they wanna do, whether the crowd wants that record or not.
The difference is between the two is that people come for specific "entertainment"... they know what to expect from the DJ they're visiting.

Am I making any sense?

grtz, MenTall

Btw, I know this has almost nothing to do with exposure or not... But I think that keeping good traxx underground is a waste of talent. The fact that DJs like Tiesto play more and more traxx, and less traxx are underground, doesn't mean they turned commercial, but more that the crowd is ready for the type of music!

[This message has been edited by MenTall (edited 11-21-2000).]

well with the way things are happening now ..
(in Toronto) .. they're starting to play alotta popularized "trance" tracks on mainstream radio ... so my prediction is :

in 4-5 years .. there will be "commerical" trance and the current "underground" trance... geez i hope i'm making sense to you all ..

:]

wells thatz my 2 pesos ...

My feelings are that eventually ***Hopefully**** world class dj's will make more appearances here in N.A. and can really start something huge here...course i'll always enjoy it as underground..too much exposure can kill something..

Here's my take on the whole dj vs his music situation: I think the greatest dj's are the ones who have a feel for tracks taht go well together, kind of blend in, and at the same time have the energy to make a crowd dance! They have to have an acute sense for what trax are expected of you, but you also must play high quality shit that your audience has never heard! A smooth, precise combo of these two things makes for a world class dj.
Thats the way i see it, anyway
DaNNy

I have no doubt that anyone would have trouble distinguishing a good dj from worse ones, you can feel it, you'll want to move, you'll have a smile on your face, and the dj will take you on a journey .. pretty cheezzzy huh!! I agree with u peepz' opinions on this, things are always better when they're "new" or shared by a smaller crowd, things in toronto are pretty much moving towards whats happening in the UK and europe, I dunno a lot of UK peepz aren't complaining about what's happening there, although trance music might fully go mainstream, there will always be smaller parties, more intimate clubz.. or we might move on to another genre of music, things always progress right... right now we listen to progressive music but who knows what's tommorow's progressive will be..

Ultimately, I think that there will be a positive to whatever happens, I think that going mainstream will drive artists, djs and everybody to be more creative and something totally new and cool might come out of it..it always happens

I'm just excited to see what happens but I'll always love trance music too!!

latez..

Pity all you guys aboard Here in L.A., or California in general, the rave scene is huge, and still blowing up; Not 'cos of the music, but the massive availability of vitamins A to Z. The music is still as underground or rejected by the mainstream as it ever was, ha, which is cool for me. Your stereotypical Hip-Hop and Rap is still the dominant sh*t blairing out of peeps radio.

As for DJ's, like everything else, it's consistency that make or break. That's why big names are, well, big right?