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| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
It means his incidence with currently popular trends, which is usually an important part of both measuring and maintaining success. Nobody talks about Carl Cox - there's no journalistic features by him, no threads about him, no artists mention him in interviews, he doesn't seem to feature highly on popularity polls, no matter who is being polled. I don't see his records in shops anymore, he doesn't come up on Beatport or Amazon. He seems to be completely irrelevant to everything happening in dance music, which would normally mean his popularity would go down. Certainly if I were just getting into dance music in 2011 Carl Cox would not register as a major DJ.
This was a guy, don't forget, who was once #1 on the DJ Mag poll, who spent so much time on the front cover of Mixmag he took out a mortgage on it, who had cameos in films like Human Traffic and It's All Gone Pete Tong. In the late '90s, you couldn't get away from Carl Cox. Compared to those days, he's totally invisible. How do people know he "he causes large masses of bodies to move non stop" when nobody talks about him? Is he just drawing the same crowd every year? |
That's a great description of all the shit that doesn't matter. All the fluff that people complain about, all the things that the superstar celebrity douchebag djs own these days.
To remain popular and still play all over the world, despite forgoing this nonsense, is an awesome achievement.
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