exactly...i dont spin for teh tiestor "fame". sure if i got famous it would be badass...i would love to play in big clubs full of people all dancing and having a great time cuz of me. but still...nothing beats playing in a little bar with a capacity of 100 and a 5 dollar cover charge. come to Element everyone!

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Originally posted by Nou DJ's should be a passive element in the whole equation... they arnt the focus, the music is.

+1 bro. the DJ is just the medium through which the music is transfered from vinyl to audio and thus to the people. attention-whoring DJs are just plain irresponsible...

Nice post... enjoyed reading that thoroughly... behind the comedy there's definitely some truth...

But I'll tell you this much; I have a real hard time with:

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producer > dj they were right about one thing. you're spinnin other people's music. get a life.

Dude, Production/Producers are great, and every DJ on the planet who doesn't do at least some production of their owes a tremendous debt to the producers who are so poorly compensated for their work...

But I do definitely try to do more with every production I have than just play it out...

I wish I could find that Sanderr K quote I had in my sig for a while... basically sums my feelings about DJ'ing... It's hard to get people to look past the fact that as a DJ you're playing other peoples records and see the set as a whole, or even each transition/sample/cut/whatever other innovation you can come up with as a piece of art...

Peace, Cheers,

RJT

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that guy is a joke! what would they do without dj's? in clubs for example? have a rock band? i dont think so...

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Originally posted by josh4 producer > DJ they were right about one thing. you're spinnin other people's music. get a life.

Without DJs the producers would be nothing.

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Originally posted by zokissima How typical

^seriously. If I hear another bad hip hop dj at a trendy club here in philly I might lose it and kill someone.



and while his afticle is funny, it's just so fucking easy, and so cliche for that matter to bust on someone who is more popular than you for something you can't do. Seriously, how many "witty" articles have you read making fun of Band members, preps, abercrombie kids, tv personalities, etc. etc. etc. ???

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what's also funny is when he says "you're just playing someone else's records". so all hip-hop djs are playing original material? oh yah no they dont they play the same retarded bullshit you hear on the radio

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Great Hip Hop DJ's:

Numark
Cut Chemist
Z-Trip
DJ Shadow

etc.

Just because I felt like hip hop was getting shit on...

Every genre has a ton of ultra bad DJ's... I think it's just more prominent with hip hop b/c it appears to be way easier to get a gig in the states if you play cheesy rap than if you play any kind of dance music...

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Originally posted by DJ RJT Great Hip Hop DJ's: Numark Cut Chemist Z-Trip DJ Shadow etc. Just because I felt like hip hop was getting shit on... Every genre has a ton of ultra bad DJ's... I think it's just more prominent with hip hop b/c it appears to be way easier to get a gig in the states if you play cheesy rap than if you play any kind of dance music...

ah yes...z-trip and shadow are bad ass. but they dont always play hip hop right? they do alot of turntabilist stuff too which is le awesome

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Originally posted by nchs09 j00 beat my team... le ganaron a guate 2-0

AHHAHAHA pos nimodo, lets move on!!...

but yeah, the author of this article has no clue about what a dj means to the scene in either hip hop or edm, or whatever u like...

k nuff said

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Originally posted by dj_bas ah yes...z-trip and shadow are bad ass. but they dont always play hip hop right? they do alot of turntabilist stuff too which is le awesome

Yeah... I guess it's hard to classify them one way or another, but I definitely look on those guys as hip hop, they've definitely produced some of the best beats I've ever heard, and Cut Chemist and Numark have done some pretty amazing things when I've seen J5 live...

Another hip hop DJ / producer I really like: Premiere... Gang Starr baby, real hip hop...

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