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| quote: | Originally posted by DJ Reese
We need some dj's to chime in here. There's a lot of talk here about the tracks. You obviously need a good track selection, but as it was said in this thread, we all pretty much go to the same places to get them. As a dj it's about the constuction of a set. The programming of the mixing and tracks to create an experience. Carisma is a great thing, but means nothing if you're music sucks. I wouldn't love someone like Zabs any less if he just stood there. And even someone like Glaude, at least has dj skills and a decent track selection. One of the things we pride ourself on in the EDM scene and especially on this board is having good taste in music and djs...although our opinions may vary. He's done something right to get to where he is...but it's not his musical talent. And his carisma...you can stick a cd in of badly mixed Justice and Boyz Noize remixes and have any drunken asshole in a sparkle shirt jump up and down on stage if you want to be entertained. Fact is anyone with taste would lose interest when the music selection jumps around while being mixed poorly. And the first time he played at Vanguard, he played no less than 4 Justice remixes. I mean come on man. |
See the thing is, what im saying is valid if you want to climb the DJ ladder. You don't have to do the song and dance to be a good DJ or play good music. So i'm not saying you have to do it to be considered good musically at all. What i'm saying, if you want to be fully recognized by the promoter, the club goer who pay your checks by showing up to your shows, because they know you'll entertain them, then you have to make urself unique in a way that is memorable to them ON TOP of the great music. Its something extra that the most successful DJs seem to have. Do you need it to be a great DJ? No. Do you need it to be successful? I think it definately helps.
Steve Aoki is an example, but not the example you or anyone here should follow, he overdoes it, there are others who do it in other ways like Eric Morillo or Carl Cox or Lee Burridge. So do you have to be a monkey? No. All you have to do is show your passion for what you do, and nothing is wrong with that.
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commercial and underground electronic music (house/techno/trance/other) will surpass today's hip hop/pop/rock/country in worldwide interest...if it has'nt already.
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