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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J If you stopped engineering every conversation you have on this forum into an opportunity to spew forth bombastic soap-box rants about everything, you'd realise that you're missing the point. Highlighting a characteristic is not necessarily supporting or advocating it. We all know that the voters for the DJ Mag poll are symptomatic of mainstream masses everywhere in their behavior, correct? That's why they are suckers for marketing, for hype and for associating popularity with validity in the first place. One of the characteristics of such people is that they don't go out and search for music: they accept what is put in front of them, like the masses always do. Fact is that DJ Dan is an unknown quantity in mainstream clubbing in Europe, and that's because he doesn't do very much over here. It's fairly obvious that people vote for what they know on this poll, and if they don't know they won't fucking vote. So this poll doesn't prove shit all about American superiority over Europe, or anything like that. It just shows that DJ Dan is marketed to the dullards in America and not in Europe. They're still dullards, there's just less of them. So fuck off with this trans-Atlantic agenda, because to suggest that Americans are less insular and self-obsessed than any other culture on Earth is just fucking stupidity. If a DJ doesn't market himself in a territory, he isn't going to win a popularity contest in that territory.

very well said, couldn't agree more!

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