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Yeah, you're right about the venus being to blame. Over the past half decade, the biggest change you've probably noticed is due to the venues' laziness in doing their own bookings. I could be very very very wrong but before the 2000s, were there even so many promo groups like People NYC, Basic NYC, myself, etc.? When I started clubbing (and like I said, I could be wrong), when Avalon had Ferry Corsten, it was because Avalon management brought Ferry Corsten. With the laziness of the clubs to do their own bookings, a middle-man like us, the promo groups, was added to make things more complicated. Then, all of a sudden, "bar-guarantees", smaller budgets, and less consistency became part of the game. When a venue did its own booking, and it failed, the venue lost a little money and they could vouch to never do that booking again. When a promo group does its own party and it fails, it could go out of business. The resident DJ is a very very very good idea though, and it's something I've really been trying to nail down (experimenting, at the moment, to see which DJ it is), so we shall see! What I've been doing is trying different *NEW* talent in different *NEW* venues, for better or for worse, but just to see what formula works best, so keep supporting the parties of myself, and the People's and Basic's and Massive's, we all know what's best for the scene, as far as music is concerned, but we just need your support to make things REALLY happen 
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