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From my experiences , a change in 1 BPM is a very slight change and 90% of ppl will never notice it. Now how it affects the crowd in the long term or on a sub-conscious level is a different story.
3+/- BPM for any track is significant and can affect the crowd. 5 +/- BPM and your into almost into a new genre.
But the comments back and forth about the crowd I think is comparing apples to oranges. From what I have seen you really have three categories of people showing up on the dance floor:
A) Experienced EDM lovers who are passionate about the music and are looking for something special from the DJ whether it is on a technical level or creative level.
B) Young or Un-evolved clubbers who don't understand what they are listening too but want to just have fun and a happy experience.
C) People who don't care about the music and are in the club for reasons that are outside the scope of this conversation.
And I think what is being confused here is which category of people in the club we think matter to a DJ.
Musical taste is subjective and that means that thousands will adore Offer Nissim's music and could care less about his technical ability. In fact his dj mixing skill is actually doesn't really matter to most of his fans because they don't pay to watch him perform because of his technical ability , it's because of how his music makes them feel.
Same is true with trance in some cases ( a la Tiesto ), it's a musical trip that attracts thousands to see a DJ perform , how technically amazing the DJ is not always the priority here.
In other genres technical ability is more relevant, such as techno or house. If the DJ can't mix then the set sounds pretty lame. Genres that are percussion centric place higher expectations on the DJ because the mixing has a much bigger role in the set.
I think Creator is speaking about people in the A) and B) category when he says subtle changes in the set can make a difference. Even if it's not obvious to the trained ear or if they don't realize it.
The people who REALLY don't care about good mixing or bad mixing is in category C) , and this isn't an aspect of the club Creator is entertaining in this topic.
It sounds to be Jay keeps referring to category C) , which does represent a percentage of the crowd in a club but isn't going to make a difference to a DJ in the long term.
Jay is right, we aren't splitting the atom here or designing a new rocket, but there is more to just a 4/4 beat and drugs... otherwise EDM would never have evolved as much as it has in the past 20 years.
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